just a little morton salt girl in a big world.

This like one of those inspiration movies. Full of sparking energy and inspiration flowing through veins like the effervescence of fresh champagne bubbles. A tale of triumph. Of charater. Of human strength. A little Morton salt girl in a big world. You may actually not think this is all that enduring. but it is and if you don't well, then something must be wrong with you.

It all started yesterday....
You see she went to this meeting about [[this post was just interupt by a 20 min. FIRE DRILL. Saftey First.]] the Boren Scholarship which is this program that gives lots of money to go study abroad in countires that aren't normally studied abroad in. like south africa. or Brazil. its great and gives great funding. to do great great great things and it got her motivated to do all her shit because you have to have a strong application to win. like a chammp. so she was on a mission from God (dollar goes to the person that can name that movie.) And she decided to put her efforts into her UrbanPol paper by doing hard core research at the Worcester Public Lib. First, she missed the bus by 3 mins. Thats like less than five minutes.* She waited and caught the next. Upon arrival to the WPL, she walked towards the general direction of the post office to mail her dear friend, Ann's package. Picture this: a girl clad bright yellow Morton salt girl rainboots, bright green rain jacket, big backpack, and big map that turns as she positions herself from one street corner to the next walking down sidewalks of the equivence of Colfax-ish. She trudged on not to be trifled with. Stopping for directions from the train station lady and sercurity guards realizing the walk was longer than originally reasoned. Only to be stopped by one kinda creepy guy. He says "Wow, now those rain boots are AH-dorable" She thinks to herself: "Uhhh, really now?". She arrives at the post office--raincoat sticky and stuck to her arms. As she akwardly peels it off hitting the package displays, sending envelopes flying, she is stopped by a somewhat less creepy guy, he says "Your yellow rainboots are so cute". She thinks, "Comme on. Can't you see I don't have time for your still creepy comments at this moment, somewhat less creepy guy". She sends the package. She walks out to see a STARBUCKS which she hasn't seen since August. She buys an iced chai. Relief. She arrives back at the Library and approaches the Refrence desk dripping in rain/sweat belovedly holding her empty chai cup. The lady behind the desk can barely see over the counter, fragile wrinkled and tiny. She says "Okay lemme see what I can find" and bends down below the counter. Morton Salt girl thinks: "Hmm, hopefully she has something if not, maybe I'll go back to Starbucks and get a muffin." The little library lady reutrns with 3 stacks of 4 inch binder above which she can barely see. Morton salt girl quietly munches one ice while reading 8 census reports and flipping though magazine articles dating back to the 1960's. The protagonist returns a hero, and the world bows to her and give her the scholarship and tell her that April Fools, there is no paper.


the end. this took pathetically long to write, I should go write my paper.
*if you've ever seen that SpongeBob SquarePants episode with the bus, it was like that.

SO long farewell adverderstein adeu (totally spelled wrong). I am minutes away from embarking on my epic road trip. I hope everything goes well. I just checked the weather report and it recently snowed, so that means that i am going to freeze my butt off! If you dont hear a peep from me by monday, something went wrong and you should call for help. you will most likely find my body frozen to the ground somewhere in Jackson Hole. Goodbye... for now. Hope you guys have a wonderful halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this week better be better than last

well i held off posting for last week, cause last week sucked. lots of tests, projects, late nights of homework, bad football games, homesick and lots and lots of other stuff, so instead, I am going to look towards the future and the epicness of this week (and yes epicness is now an official word). Well this week is homecoming week, so it is packed full of events, including pant the chant, which is basically stomp the yard in real life, trick-or-treating in aggieville (a district in town) a 5k race, which equals a free t-shirt, and lots and lots of other fun events. So here hoping that your weeks are already beginning great:) skype date soon between the three of us??

connection to fame

highlight of my day/week/whatever. watching the middle tonight (hw break). never really watched the show but it was on hulu and I needed somethin mindless. anyways. the episode: so-so BUT in one of the scenes where the mom and dad were going to sleep, I notice that their quilt was the quilt that I so happened to be laying on the moment. you got it folks, those people up in hollywood choose the same quilt for their set as I choose for my college dorm. ohhhh ya. whoa hey. !

Oh Boy What a Week

Well, I decided to wait until the very end of this week to post to ensure that nothing else super exciting happened in the mean time that would get left out. Basically, I did no homework this week, which yes is very bad, but I also had some fun that way! So, Monday night was my last flag football game, and of course we lost, but we were all so excited that it was finally over that we came back to our floor lobby and had a sleepover where we watched The Last Song (and come on Kaylee back me up on this, it was actually a good movie!!!) and then we just rambled on about girl stuff, it was epic. Moving on to Tuesday, well I was exhausted that day from getting no sleep the night before, so I don't remember. Wednesday brought about another movie night, the hilarious Date Night. Thursday is when the real fun started, filled with a 59-7 K-State football victory over KU and then a massive coloring partying with my floor. Friday was Madness in Manhattan, which was a huge pep rally for the upcoming basketball season, which I am too excited for. The highlight was when the team taught us all how to dougie, it was hilarious! After that we went SWING DANCING!!!! Ah it makes me miss last November so much:) But that was epic as well. Saturday was a giant birthday celebration for my friend, so that brought about dinner, ice cream, cigars, and Shutter Island (which was amazing and not scary, please beleive me when I say the previews are very misleading and the movie is actually really good and NOT scary). Now I am sitting here on Sunday night, stressing out about how much I have to get done and how little I have done. I am such a procrasinator! Well, basically that was my life in a nutshell, and I know I am supposed to pick my favorite thing from each week, but I couldn't choose this week so I gave it all to you:) Have a lovely week ladies!

fun video

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1RL3pC/www.johnnolanfilms.com/films/nolans-cheddar/video-player720x435.swf

Re: Frances Rambling on Civil Rights (what's new?)

so here's another thing. i've got the need to ramble. a little late night rambling. a dabble so to speak. i'm a little jumbled in my head about this idea and where better to ramble on and on andonandon...I just saw this film about the Rwandan genocide. it was poignant. and quite provoking. it was talking about how these program was enacted in order to help the victims cope with their suffering. they told stories of brother killed before mothers. sacrifice for survival. thetradgedyandturmoilofgenocide. each talked about things that were universal--grief, despair, family unity, strive for peace. peace among people. peace among people. this stuck with me. it reminded my of this quote by martin luther king, he says (in his almighty and deeply pervading voice): "when our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born"

but ask, is that enough? enough to know that we suffer, those of the genocides suffer so that a civilization, o great society, can be born? so that this may turn around to happen again? are we just creatures of our own demise? creative turmoil? this i ask, you Dr. King.


this is my liberal education.

ROAD TRIPPIN

So, the highlight of my week is that some friends and I are beginning to plan for our next block break, which occurs the week of Halloween. We are going on an EPIC road trip to Yellowstone in just four days! The drive is 10 hrs. On our first day we will travel for 7 hrs and stop in a town called Pinedale, where we have reserved as spot for ourselves in a TP. Now don't be too jealous, but yes, we will be rocking it Cowboy and Indian style. Then we will proceed to Jackson Hole, WY, only a few hrs away, where we will frolic in the mountains and admire the town. We will stay in Jackson Hole for the night and in the morning drive 2 hrs to Yellowstone where we will spend the entirety of the day taking in the beautiful natural park. When the sun begins to set we will retreat back to Jackson Hole. sleep. then drive back down to Fort Collins where we will spend the night and spend half the day on Halloween touring the city. I am soooooooooo excited. Now I just have to wait 2 freaking weeks!!!! Can this block go any slower?!

Well Frances, you are not the only bored one of the wolfpack. I too have been facing epic boredom. I have a terrible sore throat, in fact it is so sore that I am unable to speak. I am desperate to cure this terrible illness so while all of my friends go and do things I quarantine myself to my room and drink tea, emergenC and sleep and sleep and sleep. When I am not sleeping I am bored. I too have been aimlessly surfing the internet, just because it is something to do. Actually, last night I stumbled upon a really cool t-shirt website and came extremely close to buying 3 shirts. Luckily, I stopped myself just before checkout, there's 40 dollars saved. If only we were in the same city, then we could be bored together. Possibly make some awesome collages or another blog or something.

Other than being bored, I have been working on registering for classes for the rest of the year. TALK ABOUT STRESS! Not only are there like a gazillion classes I have to filter my way through but I also have to decide how many points to put on each class. Registering here is based on a lottery system so you pretty much have to bet to get into your classes. It is terrible because I actually have to make decisions now! Which, as the two of you know, I absolutely suck at.

So that is my life at this very moment . sore throat. boredom. stress. fantastic.

blackhole boredom

so its fall break and its eeempty here. deserted, practically man vs. wild. iwas going to go explore the woo but the consortium is unbenownst to me, not in service to day due to the observance of the thou, Christopher Colombus. so, stuck in the blackhole of boredom. nothing to do. what shall I do? learn guitar, without a guitar, maybe so. have a dance party by myself, maybe so. read a book on jazz, maybe so. bored. browse the internet, yes, probably so. hmmmm, and its only ten o'clock. o'clock de ten.
look up : she wolf cover by Danielle Ate the Sandwich. good stuff. love that folkyy music.

kaylee--go to the top and sign in. You have to have an email password so hopefully you can remember what that was.

ann-congratulation on the default wins--why does this not suprise me. just kidding. but seriously.

Resurection of the Blog!

Oh hey! so I am definetly the last to catch onto this ha ha! way to go me:) but i love that we are starting this back up because I miss you both so much and mostly miss hearing about your crazy stories and your lives. well lets see the best part of my week was tailgating before the nebraska game on thursday. it was super fun, we had a blast! ranking right up there is how my floor's flag football team made the playoffs officially today because for two weeks in a row the other team didn't show up...ha ha so we made it in by default. I thought that was pretty funny! I am so glad you got to see your sister kaylee, I already creeped on some pictures on facebook from the trip. I know I am still just as creepy as before. Well, other than that I have mostly been running, studying, working and just hanging out, overall its been so much fun:) can't wait to hear back from everyone....(and that includes our one and only follower)