Day 299

Tuesday wasn't quite as full as Monday but it still was very full. I woke up at 6:45 to shower and then hiked all of the way to the Mercer Police lot to get to my car, I was at field work for 2 hours, then I came back and had 3 full classes back to back to back, then I went to work because it was the only other day I could go in when everybody would be in the office, then I went to party city with Alex to look for Halloween stuff (which eventually failed), met up with Korin & Daryl at Party City who we ate with in the caf for supper, then I went to Rebekah's apartment where we watched Glee put on a Rocky Horror Glee Show. I then had to complete my laundry. After folding my clothes, I was able to go to bed at midnight. A full but very successful day, if I do say so myself. :)

Day 298

Monday was quite the full day. I woke up and showered before my 8:00, had breakfast with my group after my 8:00, ran away from the rain walking back to my dorm after breakfast, had photography where I sat for 45 minutes making a negative (which did turn out, thankfully), had lunch with the boyfriend, went to scientific inquiry, went to work until 5:30, went to Mikata's for my Dad's birthday dinner, made it back to campus in time to quickly go to my dorm before QuadWorks board at 7:30, went over to Alex's to ready psychology but really ended up watching TV, and going to bed probably about 11:30. Wow. Can you say full??

PS - Happy Birthday Dad!! :) Hope you had a great day.

Day 297

Sunday was a good day. CSF was taking a group to my home church and I was in charge! Rebekah, Meghyn, & I headed out at 9:00 to go to Sunday school and Alan and Bonnie met us at the church for the main service. We all enjoyed a very yummy lunch at church and headed back to campus. I tried to be productive, I had planned on it, really. What happened though was I sat on my butt watching TV and videos on my computer until supper time. Haha oh well...I do love procrastinating! :)

Day 296

I slept until 11 and after I got ready, I headed upstairs to find Alex & his mom just getting home from the doctor's - perfect timing! His mom made us bacon sandwiches and we watched some soccer on tv. Alex proceeded to fall asleep but his Mom and I had good conversation. His Dad and brother were at Stone Mountain and we were thinking about going but we ended up not. Later, Alex and I were driven around town by his mom doing some sight seeing. Forsyth county is muuch bigger than my Forsyth haha. We went back to his house and ate chili and rice before heading back to Mercer. :)

Day 295

Friday came and I was happy to see it. I had classes to attend and field work to observe. But after I went home with Alex. He had a doctor's appointment and invited me to go with him. We were only to stay until Saturday night but I was excited anyways. We had a nice evening with his family and I was ready for bed when the time came for it. :)

Day 294

Thursday was another Bear Brigade full day. After field work and classes, the distribution of Homecoming Tickets was to take place. The first 2 hours were for those who received priority tickets and from then on we would distribute the remainder of the tickets until they ran out. We went a little crazy in that tiny office waiting for the hour to arrive, apparently the Mercer campus was too because people lined up about 2 hours in advance. After a good time of distribution, the line finished and we still had tickets left over! This surprised us (especially since we're playing Harvard) but maybe people didn't want to waste time in line if they thought they wouldn't get a ticket. Oh well, the leftovers are going to be given out to more students on another distribution day.

Day 293

Wednesday was an extremely full and hectic day but it went very well. I had classes like normal but as soon as they were finished, I was absorbed by QuadWorks. Wednesday was our annual Mercer Madness - where we kick off basketball season. This year it was mine & Katie's responsibility to plan. It was our first event so we were nervous but excited about it all coming together. Last minute our band cancelled and our t-shirt printers decided to delay our order longer than we could handle. Very lucky for us, a Mercer employee helping with the logistics of the event was in a band so he said he'd bring everybody in so they could play for us. My boss set a deadline for our shirt order to be completed and when we arrived to pick them up, they were just being completed - perfect timing. The carnival equipment was being set up and was looking quite awesome. The s'more station was looking yummy and the cornhole tournament was setting up, too. Katie and I were breathing a sigh of relief as it all came together, that's for sure. Volunteers arrived and we all got at our separate stations and Mercer Madness began! Porter Patch was packed with people and everyone seemed excited about the event. The carnival games were lots of fun and the DJ & Band sounded great. We introduced the cheerleaders and basketball teams while the pep band played and hopefully Mercer students were getting excited about the upcoming basketball season. We then gave out Mercer t-shirts which was complete chaos...people really do love t-shirts for some reason. Katie had ordered more shirts than we thought we needed and it turns out we actually needed more! We ordered 425 shirts and we ran out...that means we probably had almost 500 in attendance! That is so great. Katie and I were so happy with how things turned out. Our first event was a complete success!! :)