Unfortunately, it's been interrupted with the third day of having a sore throat. My energy is back, and the fever broke sometime in the middle of the night last night. But this sore throat has yet to go away. It's getting better, but I just wish it was gone. It's hard to swallow my food and even drinking any kind of liquid hurts. Ice cream on the other hand is a different story - that not only taste good, but it doesn't hurt to swallow, bahahaha.
As for today, it for the most part was pretty uneventful ... woke up around 10ish, and took me about 3 hours to finally get myself up to go over to the Health Center and see if I had strep throat or anything. LUCKILY for me, a runny nose does not indicate strep throat. According to the nurse practitioner, i just ended up getting a cold that ended up traveling down into my throat and chest area.
While Melanie was in open lab, I just stayed in her dorm and watched Season Three of How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) - I'm almost caught up!! Keenan then came over and we watched a few more episodes of HIMYM and then we ended up watching the Season Finale of Glee!! (Matt, I LOVE MY GLEE!! My addiction for it is even worse than my addiction to Ke$ha :P!!)
Afterwards, Melanie and I went to Trader Joe's to get some food so we could make dinner tonight. We had Asian Food, bahaha. I found vegan hot dogs there (so excited!!). FYI - that was the first time I'd ever gone to Trader Joe's, so that was exciting, just wish I wasn't so sick, bahaha.
As for tonight, Melanie and I have decided to watch two movies: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and I Love You Beth Cooper. Let's hope that my sore throat will either be better tomorrow or gone completely!
Lo and behold ... The next place my friends and I went was - Oak Harbor! I'm so glad that we're here.
The initial reason why we came up to here was because I needed to get my other DSLR, ha. Long story short - ask me :)
So when we got here we first ended up playing some Mario Kart after we all took our showers, separately. I also surprised Steven by being his birthday present! It was actually a lot of fun playing Mario Kart with more than just Melanie. Although the thing is, having the TV divided into 4 parts was kind of confusing and a little different.
After that Keenan, Melanie, and I went out to 1-2-3 Thai (saw some old band-mates there) to get some lunch food because we were obviously hungry. Then I took them to a park that I grew up playing on as well as taking them on a tour around my elementary school. Memories man! It was a lot of fun just filling them in on the 5-10 year old Rick!! :D
Then we went to my middle school which happened to be right next to Blockbuster where I rented the last two discs of Glee. While at Blockbuster I also bought three movies: I Love You Beth Cooper, 500 Days of Summer, and UP! I took them on a tour of my middle school too.
If you're wondering - I didn't take them to my high school because we just went to my house seeing as my brother was going to take us out to eat. Seeing as we ate though, we were kind of still full, so we all just got dessert because the three of us weren't all that hungry from the Thai.
Afterwards, I dropped my brother off at the house so that the three of us could go out and take some pictures of the sky at West Beach. If there is one thing I miss for sure about living in Oak Harbor is that the sunsets are just amazing. I then decided to go visit a friend on a surprise visit :)
I haven't seen Kristen since Christmas break, so it was a lot of fun getting to see her and just catching up for that little bit we were there. I'll definitely be needing to catch up with her when I'm home for the summer ... for good!
Now the three of us are catching me up on episodes 9-13 of Glee!! YIPEE!!
If you find the fact that I had classes today exciting, well I guess you're excited, haha. Classes resumed today after the 4-day weekend. It was a nice weekend if you can't tell from my previous posts. That's not the point though, what is the point is what I did today.
Amongst having BibTrad and Modern US today, I did something that I never thought I'd do in a million ... no a BILLION years. Before I get to that though, let's do a short and quick recap of the day!
With what I'm about to tell you, I kid you not. It is true. Anyways this morning in BibTrad my professor, Dr. Butkus, managed to tell us (with a straight face) that our papers were stolen out of his unlocked truck. Again, I kid you not, our papers were really stolen from his truck. He said it might have been because he kept the papers in a case that looked like it housed a laptop. Jokes on the guy who stole our papers though, haha. I still need to email him my paper, seeing as that's what he wants us to do. I'll do that after I post :)
As for history today - dry like usual. I was expecting we'd get our exams back today seeing as we had a 4-day weekend (an extra day for my professor to grade). But alas, we didn't get them back today because of the 4-day weekend. I don't know about you, but how long does it take to grade 9 exams? I'll cut Dr. Els some slack though because he does have a life outside of teaching.
ANYWAYS! To what I did today that I never thought I'd do in a million ... no a BILLIONyears. I gave blood. That's it; I gave blood. I'm quite proud of myself though. That's because if you don't know me all that well ... I HATE NEEDLES. I'm AFRAID of needles. Yet, I want a tattoo and I want to go into dentistry, haha.
Needless to say, the overall process was not as bad as I thought it'd be. There was definitely a little sting in my arm when the needle went in (I was told before hand that it would happen), but other than that I was fine. I mean I'm here writing this blog now! I also didn't faint when the needle went in (that's a plus). I didn't cry nor did I hyperventilate. Again, I'm proud of myself :)
What I'm most excited about from this whole event is finding out my blood type once I get my donor card! Oh yeah ... BLOOD TYPE!! I can find out if I'm adopted or the wrong Asian baby X)
As for the rest of the afternoon/prevening (reference to Big Bang Theory) I spent most of it in the library doing some research for BibTrad and starting to read for History. Tarra wasn't kidding when she said that BibTrad requires time spent in the library. Luckily for me, I have some experience in spending time in the library. haha
For the rest of the evening I finished up some research/note-taking, homework, and watched Glee! Only one more week until the end of the first season :(
At this point I'm determined to get the full Season 1 on DVD. I'm hooked. I'm a Gleek!
I'll have to wait until the new season starts up before I get to watch any new episodes. Man, that'll seem like FOR-EV-ER!
Night guys :)
P.S. If any of you guys are doing "Project 365" let me know how it's going. I'm following a few people and it's quite interesting to see how different our projects are! I know right now it's been difficult to really know what to take pictures of or even choose a photo. Let me know how things are going
P.P.S. If any of you are planning to start a "Project 365" let me know that too! Let me know how you plan on getting the general public to see it. Are you going to journal like myself and others are? Or are you just going to upload the photos somewhere (Flickr, Picasa, or Facebook) and add a short caption describing the photo? Let me know your ideas? I'm really interested in this project/challenge and want to see what others plan to do.
So, I went to Little Red with my friend Sam Riofta (I'll definitely have to be going back to Little Red before they close on June 22nd). While we were having our flat tire's and messenger boy's she decided to tell me this cool project that our friend Colin Dorwart got her into. It's called Project 365. (Check this guys project out!) The thing is, I thought it was a cool idea and I thought I'd give it a try. Anyways, after wards I went to go see Sam's apartment because I wanted to see it and check it out. It was tons of fun! Sam, Alli, Colin, and I ended up watching theme songs to 90s shows and we also listened to some Regina Spektor. Sam and Colin took me back to campus because I was quite tired by then (it was about 3:00 when they took me back).
I then hung out with Melanie in her room before we traveled over to YoCream to go have some frozen yogurt. It was our first time there. Unfortunately, I can't put that picture up :( because the whole idea is posting one picture a day. We ate at YoCream for dinner because we really weren't all that hungry to begin with. When we got back to campus she studied/worked on Anatomy while I caught myself up on the first half of Glee! Now we're watching Definitely Maybe after a disaster of trying to watch Final Destination, bahaha.
TWO WEEKS TO ME :)!!
