Alright, since that is out of the way...I mentioned that I wanted to show you guys some photos of my apartment and all of that stuff. I live in a three bedroom and I have my own bathroom with a double-sink vanity which is all attached to my bedroom..It is pretty nice. The living room and kitchen is also pretty good but I rarely go in there. My roommates bought a pretty big flat screen TV and they just pretty much monopolize that area, which is completely okay because I am honestly never home. I work M-W-F and have class T-R so when I am home, I am studying or laying around in bed and just trying to have some time to myself.
Here are some photos of my room and bathroom..My room looks a little bit different now because I have four of my framed photographs hanging on each wall above my bed. They look awesome but I just haven't had the time to snap a new picture yet, so these will suffice. Oh, and that is Jesse, My half-sister on my bed. She came down from Toledo to help me move in (she was a HUGE help!)
That's my totally sweet Polka Dot Shower Curtain. It's pretty much amazing.
Do I need two sinks? No..but hey, whatever works.
This was taken last year when I signed my lease..but its the outside of the building.
This isn't our kitchen, but ours looks exactly the same (minus decorations and such)
On the school front..class has been going really well actually. I had one midterm this past week and a paper and I also have another midterm tomorrow and one later this week too. My Lit midterm was Thursday and I seriously thought I was going to be lucky to get a 75. It just seemed impossible. My teacher put the 'format' of how it was going to be online and everyone in the class was just freaking out. All short answer, and lots of it. And the material in this class is close to unbearable and boring and I guess that's why we were freaking out so bad. It is so hard to understand the middle/old English that many of the stories are written in and then he wants you to tear them apart and get all of this meaning out of the text and it just seems so insane at times. Anyway, come test day I was just feeling down because I didn't feel prepared and I also had a paper due that day so I felt like I spent more time on that than I did studying. Well, I get to class pretty early and a few other people show up. We start to just talk about it all and it kind of becomes a study session because we are asking each other questions from the study guide. As we all are talking, I really start to feel better. I knew a lot more than I thought I did. When the test was passed out, I honestly felt awesome. My only fault was the last few questions and that was because they were excerpts straight from the stories we have read and we had to identify which one and its relevance, etc..so I am thinking I got at least a 85. I hope. I'll let you all know.
I have a Human Nutrition midterm tomorrow after work, and then a communication one later this week. Luckily we have no final for Comm. but instead we have a speech and a paper. I am not crazy about the speech, I hate public speaking..but I have to do it and even have to take a class on it sometime so oh well.
Hmm.. Oh! This was homecoming week at Ohio State and so we had lots of activities going on..including the football game against Michigan State. This was our first real 'test' to be honest. Up until this game, we hadn't played anyone who was a real threat. We did win, but we had a scare. We were up 24-0 in the 4th and Michigan State managed to get two touchdowns in a row right off two of our turnovers. We were all pretty nervous for a little bit but we pulled it out. Next week is Penn State and I am definitely nervous about going into Happy Valley. They are a tough team to play and a VERY tough team to beat at home.
I also got to a hockey game this weekend, Ohio State's season opener vs. Miami. They are ranked #2 in the nation while we were at #12, it is one of the biggest games of the season. We ended up losing 5-1 but it was just nice being back in the ice rink. I did sit with the Ice Box with is a subsidiary of Block O, but for hockey. I honestly did not have that great of a time simply because I sat with them. They do chants which I think are kind of irritating and lame, and I miss chants from Pilot's games, or ECHL games. They also whined a lot about when certain songs weren't played in the right order over the intercom, etc. I finally just said, 'its a hockey game. Just go with it. You guys are going to make me hate college hockey'. They kind of looked at me..but I was serious. Just watch the game..they focused more on their 'rules' than they did the game itself.
and finalllyyy (sorry this is such an extremely long post), I went to a concert on Thursday..it was Fall Out Boy, Plain White T's, Gym Class Heroes, and Cute is what we aim for. My sister got tickets so we went..overall it was a good show..extremely long. Fall Out Boy played the longest set they have ever played. I was kind of ready to go by the end..everyone sounded good though. My favorite was Gym Class Heroes by far, though..they got everyone on their feet and got a lot of energy out of the crowd.
Till next time,
Case
