"this is not a laughing matter. it's a onesie!"

wow.  this weekend was EPIC!  it was so incredible and it reminded me of all the reasons why i love college!

so lets start with friday.  it was already a good day because my statistics class was cancelled so that meant that i only had one 50 minute class that day! chicka chicka yeah!  i also go to this discussion group thing on fridays called "doctrine and dialogue", which i love, so that was awesome too. 

now, friday night deserves a paragraph or two of its own.  it also deserves a few pictures.  friday night i went out with my friends to michaels to purchase paint and supplies to paint a mural in my friend josh's room.  we also went to yogurt story and got froyo (always a win) and then we just sat and chatted outside for an hour or so.  now this all seems boring, but im getting to the good part.  we then went to target.  target has to be one of, if not the best department store i have ever encountered.  its just so good.  i don't even need a reason to go to target.  its just reason enough that it is, in fact, target.  so yeah, we went to target and pretty soon we found some onesies in the kids department.  when you come across something that good how can you help but try them on?  i know my friends and i couldn't.  so i will say no more about that and let you see the pictures for yourself.

Wes and Josh

 You know you want one

 Josh

 Beautiful Caitlin

 Sooooo good, right?

we were cracking up the whole time and this one lady walked past and saw us and burst out laughing and she was still laughing like 5 minutes later in her dressing room.  glad we brought sunshine to someone's day!  after all that we romped around target for a little while and then came back to campus and watched Fight Club...sooooo good.  but very graphic.

saturday was fun too!  we started on the mural for josh's room.  its a huge mural of the dallas skyline.  we did it on butcher paper and with acryllic paint.  it took most of the day to get as far as we did and we're still not done, but it looks awesome already.

i worked mainly on the orange and blue building and also the sky and water.  we still need to add more reflections like the one thats already there but it looks so good!  ill be sure to post another picture when its finished :)  that night we also started putting together a really hard puzzle and we watched SNL.  i love my friends so much!

this brings me to sunday.  i got up and went to church and then lunch.  the day was pretty boring except for the "step" class that i went to at the rec center.  it pretty much kicked my butt...and my calves and my back.  im already sore.  then later i went back to josh's room with the same friends and we started a game of risk, which is like this world domination game.  its so fun and we got so into it. 

all this to say that i had a pretty amazing weekend, which only makes me more excited for next weekend when my friends from home are coming to visit me!  ahhhhhhh i am so excited i can hardly contain myself!!!!!  anyway, i dont have anything clever to add to the end of this blog like i usually do except i would advise you to not spread your men thin when you play risk.  just sayin'.

dating advice with dr. boals

kind of like life and boxes of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get when you go to dr. boals' intro to psychology course.  today we discussed operant learning and dating. operant learning is bascially a fancy way of saying that behavior can be learned or modified through a series of punishments and reinforcements.  all that was a fancy way of saying that we change what we do based on the continuous response of others.  this is important to know, i promise...at least for the purposes of this blog.

like i said, we were discussing operant learning and dr. boals asked the class to give examples from our own lives about how we reinforce negative behavior even if we don't really mean to.  so this guy sitting right in front of me raises his hand and begins to tell the class about how he is pathetic when it comes to girls because even when girls blow him off for something else he will still call them a few days later and ask to hang out again.  (for those of you who are wondering why this is an example of operant learning this guy continued to explain that by doing this he is making the girls think that they can get away with blowing him off and doing what they want) poor guy.  at this point i was shaking my head in pity. 

well, dr. boals thought this was an excellent example.  he then proceeded to tell us that it might be a good idea to purposely use operant learning in our own dating lives to get our significant others to do what we want.  it makes sense.  through a series of well executed reinforcements you could make someone change just about any behavior.  sounds like i have a new hobby!

just kidding!  not too much of the rest of the day has happened since then because that was only 3 1/2 hours ago but if something worth reporting occurs then maybe i'll share it.  or maybe not.  my blog is kinda like a box of chocolates too; you never know what you're gonna get!




here is some more dating advice from dr. boals.  this is a topic that actually comes up quite a bit in that class!  i'll be sure to add to the list as more comes.
* (for the guys) invest in a 2-person umbrella, or better yet just a regular sized one, and stand outside buildings on rainy days waiting for cute, umbrella-less girls to walk out.  offer to walk her to class under your umbrella

* (for the girls) avoid creepy men that stand outside buildings waiting for cute, umbrella-less girls so that he can walk them to class.

cookies, cups, and cickboxing...?

so i realize that "kickboxing" begins with a "k" and not a "c" but i wanted alliteration :)  so lets just m
                o
                   v
                      e
                         along.  yesterday was pretty A-OK.  i had a statistics test that i completely beasted in only about 20 minutes time.  bam!  that meant that i got to leave class early.  this is one of the many things that i love about college.  anyway, i got out of class early and headed over to the bapstist student ministry to help set up for FLOW (free lunch on wednesdays).  i was deemed the "cookie nazi" which meant that i was in charge of ensuring that every person received exactly 2 cookies.  i had a few people who tried to mouth off and give me lip but i set em straight.  dont mess with the cookie nazi.

we had a pretty successful lunch and we served lots of students but pretty much everone was done around 12:30.  so what do college students do when they have 20 minutes to kill before class starts?  they play the cup game, of course!  now if you dont know what the cup game is, #1 that is very sad and i pity you.  but #2 its too hard to explain so you should watch this video and then keep reading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCX_lgF4inI

so yeah there's not much else to say about that except that we played it...

now fastforward to around 5:15 yesterday evening.  i was at dinner with friends and 3 of us decided to go to a turbo kickboxing class at the rec center later that night.  turbo kickboxing is "one of the highest intensity classes offered" at my rec center.  its 45 minutes of intense cardio doing punches and kicks and, of course, kicking.  its a really great workout but so fun.  the only thing is that it is a very popular class and you have to get there super early to get a spot.  this is where we ran into a problem.

my friend corbin is a hoot.  he loves getting laughs and he's totally not afraid to be eccentric and out there, so it was nothing to me when he asked to borrow my soffe shorts to wear to kickboxing.  the class started at 7:15 so i figured that we needed to be on our way to the rec center around 6:40 so that we could get there in time to get a spot.  i arrive at corbin's room with my shorts and wait for him to change, in which time his roommates (my other really good friends) decide it would be a good idea for a photo shoot.  so they proceed to take pictures of corbin in the very short shorts, at all different angles and with a few different people.  thats all fine and dandy but we were running out of time!

we finally got on our way later than i had intended.  we speed walked all the way to the rec center only to be turned away from the class be cause the girl right in front of me in line took the last spot. ahhhhhh! i was so upset, corbin was frustrated and hannah, the other friend that came with us, got to kickbox because she got there early.  no good.

i spent the next hour running on the treadmill, using weight machines and stretching, all the while thinking of all the fun i could have been having in the kickboxing class.  the moral of the story?  men should never wear soffe shorts.

due dates

so yesterday, in contrast to monday, started off as a huge pile of fail.  i got up and worked out and all that jazz and everything was dandy until aproximately 11:34 when i got a text from a classmate.

him: hey! our project is due at noon. have you submitted it on blackboard yet?
me: no...is it really due at noon?
him: yeah i think so. actually blackboard says its due at 11:59 a.m.

in my head i was screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! This cannot be happening!!!!!" but since i was in public i kept it together and calmly raced to edit the stupid political science paper that my entire group thought was due thursday at midnight but was now due that very day at noon...actually 11:59.

this event would not have been as stressful if a few things had been different.  first of all, i like to be in charge, so i usually put myself in charge, like i did with this project.  i had all 10 other people in my group send me their parts to this 5 page paper for me to edit...partly because i don't trust anyone else and partly because i'm an english major and i'm good at editing.  second, i had put off this paper the night before because we all thought it was due on thursday and i had other homework to take care of.  and besides, what teacher makes a project due at noon instead of midnight?!  i just didn't understand.

so by now its about 11:57 and i'm rushing to get this thing posted online, but i was not in my own room at this time, i was in the university union.  there's something you need to know about the union.  the internet sucks there.  like really sucks.  it sucks in the dorms too but not quite as much.  anyway, its 11:57 and i've copied and pasted, i've edited, i've cited and annotated and all i have to do is click "submit".  i click the button and i get a notice from UNT that pops up on my computer.  and what does it say? "your internet connection has timed out.  please sign in through eaglenet."   what?!  are you kidding me?  so i rush to get signed in again but of course is doesnt work and it wont let me sign in for another 10 minutes and class is at 12:30 and i'm so frustrated i could pull my hair out!!!

so i get to class intending to meet up with my classmates to tell them that i had to submit the assignment late when my very spunky political science professor says:

the TAs and i are stupid.  the project is not due until midnight!  our bad!  but good job to those of you who already have it submitted!

 

there was an audible sigh of relief eminating from the 400+ students in the lecture hall.  i could not believe my ears.  i was safe and so happy. 

 

the rest of the day was spent studying, going to a Glee season premier party (don't judge) and helping some friends with statistics homework.  i may or may not have also done some therapy shopping at target and old navy where they had v-necks on sale for $3 and long sleeves for $4, but that's not important.  what is important is due dates.  babies have due dates, milk and dairy products have due dates, and group projects have due dates too.  my suggestion as a college student and an new 19 year old: keep up with them!  otherwise you end up with a stinky fridge and late grades.

19 candles

so yesterday was my 19th birthday. fun. don't get me wrong! i had an absolutely amazing day, but i feel like turning 19 isn't anything special except that it means that i didn't die while i was 18.  there are some birthdays that we attach a lot of significance to, like sweet 16, and the big 1-8 and 21 and we're even over the hill at 40, but 19 is kind of a "no big deal" age.  i feel older, but i still don't necessarily feel like an adult.  i'll keep you updated about that as i spend more time actually being 19, cause right now it's only been a few hours.

another new thing for me is that i started college recently.  on the 22nd i will have been here for exactly 1 month, which is crazy! it doesn't seem like a whole month has gone by at all.  time is going by so quickly and i don't want to miss anything!  college is so different than anything i could have imagined and i'm still trying to get the hang of things. 

well i expected this post to be pretty lame and pretty short, so i'll just end it here and let you get on with your life.  i'm hoping to make this a pretty consistant thing and not put it off but i can't make any promises.  i'm also hoping that my posts are less lame in the future.  that depends on how lame my actual life is though.  again, no promises.