Le French Purrito

This is our very own attempted le french purrito. The two above are Toulouse in a bag, and then we tried to put Toulouse in a sleeve, but it didn't work so well. BUT STILL IT WAS VAIR FUNNY.

It's finally started snowing!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELLLLLLLLO from the land of the Rock Hall of Fame, Buckeyes, and the Amish!!!!
I've been home since last Thursday and it has been wonderful so far!

This morning I did all my last-minute shopping with my friend Brian (see around, somewhere....)and we went to the mall and ate Chic Fil-A.  Chic Fil-A is Brian's fave fast-ish food, and we got sandwhiches and waffle-fries!!!!!! It was yummy! And...all the shopping was done with little collateral damage.  We got up supah' early, because it was the last Saturday before Christmas, and guess what!? We beat the crowds! It was pretty much awesome as we drove away from the mall, shopping finished, and there was a huge line of cars headed to the mall, backing up traffic. After shopping we just went to Brian's house and watched the movie version of "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. I think that's one of his favorite books, and it is quite good, but also very sad. It was a very sad movie, but it had a yummmmmmmy soundtrack mmmmm.
I got home Thursday afternoon, Sarah that night. It was SO COLD when I got off the plane, but it was wonderful and refreshing!! And FINALLY, the next Sunday, it has snowed! Just a tiny bit, nothing compared, apparently, to what's going on east of here, but a tiny bit! It has made me quite happy!!
It has been quite fun just hanging out with my family, although Stacy isn't home and Shann & Josiah are in NC. And seeing Lauren and Rachel for the first time in many months was pretty much awesome. They came over for dinner on Thursday before Rachel left for PA and it was really fun to catch up with them.
EUGH two nights ago, I think, for the game of the night my dad suggested Risk. WORST GAME EVER. I lost....so badly. And it takes forever. I hate that game! My dad and Sarah battled it out to the end, however, with my dad reigning victorious as world dominator. (Surprise, surprise.) Also on the games front (I do love a good game...) I taught Brian this game called "James Bond" which is a super-speedy card game that Chris taught to me, and it is sooooooo fuuuuun.
WHOA....we have been playing Beatles' Rockband SO MUCH since I've been home, it's basically awesome.
That's all.
Bye!

This if from Christmas tree shopping!!!!!!!!!

The countdown begins....T minus 16 hours until boarding time!

THAT'S RIGHT: I have officially completed an entire semester of college. And the next time I write to you I shall be in the O-H-I-O! Woooooo! HOMESKIS AT LAST! It has been FOUR months of shower shoes, caf food, skype, and  having independence and zero privacy, haha. HEY it's also been AWESOME. Like that time I went pipefish collecting with FRP, just generally making some awesome friends, going kayaking and the like. It's been awesome. I really feel like I've such a great transition into college, I feel incredibly lucky for that. 
WOOO!
This past weekend, the weekend before finals, the Gamma fire alarm kept going off! It went off twice between five and seven on Sunday morning/saturday night.  I want to know how many more times I will wake up to that WRETCHED fire alarm noise? I think not once more during the remaining fifteen hours of my semester here....Tuesday afternoon our fire alarm went off again in our house, and the hallway sprinklers went off, flooding the  hallways, and causing a general brouhaha. It was QUITE the fiasco, let me tell you. So everyone in our house had to be evacuated, six of us stayed at another dorm ALL the way across campus away from EVERYTHING. The others stayed at the Holiday Inn in St. Pete. It was quite streesfull, but our awesome people here got the dorm fixed up by five o'clock the next day and VOILA I am sitting in my bed, blogging to you! 
ALSO This weekend, before the fire alarms, we had a WHGC study group and we were SO ALL STUDIED OUT, so we decided to go to IHOP and get some yummy pancakes. Chris, Laura and I went to IHOP and then went and roamed around WAlmart. It was super fun but the best part was it was FREEZING and windy and RAINY that night and when we got back to campus, Laura and I had went puddle jumping. The puddle jumping turned into a puddle war and we got absolutely SOAKED THROUGH. It was super fun. Later that weekend my friend Paul and I hung out and watched some of the Office on my laptop. Overall it was a generally wonderful last weekend of the semester!
Here's a picture of the IHOP/WALMART/PUDDLE JUMPING Lollapallooza:

Wish me safe travels, and see you all soonskis!

--Sydney.

Five Rounds of Sardines Later....

Hellllllo it is Friday night slash Saturday morning and it has been a good night. This week hasn't been that great but I've finally turned in most of my final assignments (like papers and compositions and such) and today was the last day of classes for Fall Term. Which is VERY EXCITING. I have no more classes, four exams and an interview left before Thursday....which means I better get preparing. AFAP.
After dinner-ish time Grace, Laura, Chris and I and partly Ethan had a study group in the libs. We got SO much done but to me it felt like we made a very minor dent in the work there is to do overall, which is frustrating.  But it was very fun to work with them, and they are all vair intelligent, so we got through a lot of material. For a break in said studying, when everyone was getting a little bit loopy and distracted we played this game "Sardines."  In Sardines, one person hides while the others wait, like inverse hide and seek.  Then the others search for the hide-er and the last person to find the hide-er must be the next hide-er.  And the others must hide in the same space as the hide-er (hence the name Sardines) until the last person is left seeking. It is VERY FUN. We played on the entire second floor of the library.
Then we went back to studying for a bit. After the study group Laura, and Chris and I went to IHOP and got pancakes/french toast which was DELICIOUS. Laura and I shared regular pancakes.. Mmmmmm. When I get home I reallly want homemade pancakes and also breakkie sandwhiches. MMM. After IHOP we went to Wally world for "kicks and giggles" and oh boy was it. Hahahahahhahaha. We just romped around and acted like crazy college students and Chris had to buy some Oxyclean but ended up buying Oreos too.
So we drove back to EC, and on our JOURNEY/voyage/trek back to the dorms from accross campus, Laura and I (we basically had to) had a puddle jumping fight. AND IT WAS AWESOME. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. It was dark and FREEZING and misting like in the fine Ohio weather, precipitating steadily with a 15 mph winds. In 59 degrees I was freezing. Chris took some pictures, which I will post later.
Basically, it was a really fun night and after all of that I came back to my dorm and took a really long hot shower and now I am bundled up in bed...
and now....
Goodnight!
....zzzzzzzz.

Here's the "more to come."

Weeeooohweeeeooohweeeee.
Thanksgiving break was so. SO. so much fun! Shannon and I had such a great time!  Unfortunately it is now over.
And I must get to work on finals and papers and studying and all that jazz.
Dear readers, do you want to hear the most ridiculous thing ever? For a math test last week I had to label a diagram of the unit circle, which I knew BY HEART. He gave us the diagram on the back of the test questions. SO I was going along doing th eproblems, on a separate piece of paper, mind you, and it took me FOREVER! So finally i finished and I went to turn in my test, but I forgot to turn in the diagram which was stabled to my test questions, because we never turn in our questions!!! Can you believe that!? I was SO MAD at myself!!
Luckily I emailed my professor and he said I could stay after a little later after class on thursday and draw it from memory again for some credit. WHEW. But other than that question I got full credit on every question!
Whew that's all I can think of right now even though there has been at LEAST three weeks since I last wrote............hmmmmm mysterious. Oh well.
Later chums!

Check this out, yo'

I saw somewhere on facebook this website that has these jersey-tees for literary characters!
They are quite awesome:
http://www.novel-t.com/ordering.htm
Enjoy!