Updates

I'm afraid I have very little to report. Life goes on. I am settling in back at school and am now almost caught up in all my classes. I still need to make up an O-chem lab, but I won't do that until next week.

Next week is going to be very busy. Physics exam on Monday, paper due on Wednesday, and o-chem exam on Friday. Plus Friday is Halloween and my school is having a dance that I will be going to. I won't be doing any dancing as I am still on crutches. I believe I will go as a pirate as the other things I have considered do not lend themselves well to crutches.

The really odd thing about going to school in southern California is the heat. When I was home on break it was nice and cool. What I would consider Autumn weather. But here it is still in the 80s. I hope that by thanksgiving it will have cooled off a little. I just doesn't seem like fall with out the weather change. And it certainly won't seem like the holiday season if it is still the high 70s low 80s.

Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.


Amendment 1: If you want to know how stressed you are just multiply your elastic modulus by your strain.

Amendment 2: that was physics by the way.

Amendment 3: A practical joke I want to try at some point: put a spinning fly wheel in a suitcase and tell someone to walk around a corner.

Knees, news, and no more home cooked meals

Well, I am very sorry that I haven't updated in so long. I have been a little distracted being at home and dealing with my knee. So before I get to anything else here is an update about my knee.

I have Patella Femoral Syndrome. This basically means that my knee cap doesn't track correctly when I bend my knee. The hill here at school made it flair up. The good thing about this is that I don't need surgery; I can't do any permanent damage by using it. The bad thing is that I am going to have trouble with this for the rest of my life. A rather sad thought for someone that has nearly three years of climbing hills every school day. However, there are somethings that I can do to manage it. I will be on crutches for the next few weeks to settle this flair-up down. I will have to do PT and exercises on my own for a while. (Well, I will have to do exercises for the rest of my life). As soon as I can, I will be getting a bike to help me get up the hill. I would also recommend buying stock in Motrin, as I can guarantee that they will never go bankrupt as long as I am alive.

I have to say that it was so much fun to see everyone at home. It was the perfect birthday present to be able to come home, see my friends and go to church. I miss you all terribly when I am away.

Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.


Amendment 1: I have a new CD to listen to (my birthday present from Indy), As I Am by Kristin Chenoweth.

Amendment 2: And wonderful new stationary (from The Stomach) to write letters on.

Amendment 3: Does anyone still care that I ended that last amendment with a preposition?

Anecdotes

well, I injured my knee again, but I don't really feel like writing about that right now, so here are some funny stories about my life here at school.

My physics professor is very smart. He knows exactly what the people in the back of the room on laptops are really doing. So he sometimes will pull out the router on the way to class. He says that everyone in the back row looks "very grumpy" on those days.

doing your own laundry is not as easy as it sounds. I have yet to have any problems because I don't wear fancy clothes. The other girls in my suite have not been so lucky. yesterday someone finished her laundry with an extra shirt and one less sun dress.

It was raining for the first time since I have been here yesterday. It wasn't really raining just misting. But the item of dress that most people had in common (usually it is sun dresses for the girls, and shorts for the boys): rain boots. Who wears rain boots for a light rain?

I am now sure that the dining hall serves the same chicken everyday. Only they call it something different.

Right before I came here I switched shampoo bottles so a brand that I had never heard of so i wouldn't get it confused with other people who used the common brands. Five out of the seven girls in my suite use the exact same brand. So much for no confusion.

we get to listen to music during O-chem lab. It turns out my professor is a music lover with a huge knowledge and passion for oldies. You learn something new and random everyday about your professors.

My comp. professor has sever hearing loss. They way he got it: driving race cars. How many people drag race in their twenties and then decided to get their doctorate in English?


Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.


Amendment 1: p=mv. Momentum equals mass times velocity, and is always conserved.

Amendment 2: If you do want to know what happened to my knee, check out my church website in the prayer request section or my HSA blog.

A video

A friend posted this on his HSA blog. Please watch all the way to the end. Honestly, I don't care what your personal political views are. But this man is right, all people deserve the freedom that we have in this country.




Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.

Updates and WWII Wall Pictures

Well, I promised a friend that I would put up a picture of my latest addition to the wall. So here it is.


My mom sent me some WWII pictures that I had up on my wall at the farm. I never got the chance to put them up at our new house, but I really love them and I thought they would make a nice addition to my dorm room. The upper right and upper left photos are of General Eisenhower talking to some men from the 101st Airborne division before D-Day (I'm a big fan of the Screaming Eagles, in case you didn't know). The center picture is of a little girl in France placing flowers on an American soldier's grave after D-Day. All of the other pictures were taken in the Pacific at places I'm not sure exactly where.

I haven't been very good about doing email updates so I thought I would add a little one in here. I was lying out on the front lawn last night with my section mates. And I realized how odd it was that I was here at this school. For as long as I can remember I have told my family that I would never go to school in Southern California. Here I am. I wanted to go some place with snow and cold weather. The average temp. here all year round is 75 degrees. I had my top two schools already chosen since I was 16. But I'm not at either one. I only really came to visit because we got to stop at Disneyland. But I'm here now. God really is amazing! I had my college life all planned out until He got in the way. And I'm so glad He did, because I know this is where He wanted me.


Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.


Amendment 1: Power equals force times velocity.

Amendment 2: I will be going to Mexico for a short weekend mission trip at the end of October. I can't wait to go!

Amendment 3: the 101st Airborne Division is what Easy Company (band of brothers) was a part of. I wrote a blog entry about them a while back you can reread it here: http://literary-junkophile.blogspot.com/2008/07/band-of-love.html

News, Next weeks, and Newton

Well, I am almost done with my fourth week of classes. Next week I will have my first physics exam and probably a paper due for my composition class. So this weekend is going to be a little busy for me. As those of you that know me well know, I am very interesting in politics and news in general, so I thought it would be fun for me to write a blog post about my news sources. Over that past year I have found a number of websites that combine give a well rounded information net. So here are my news sources and the reasons I use them.

Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/
I read this because in general it is more conservative than the other big news sources. They also have a great collection of different kinds of news. I always check out the health and science sections.

Klove News http://www.klove.com/news/
I read this news site because it is great for finding things of Christian interest. It is basically just a bunch of links to other sites, but they pull out things that maybe hidden on the back page but have special interest to the Christian world.

IMDB's news from Wenn http://www.imdb.com/news/
I read this news site because I know that this is the news that so many people my age care about. Many people don't care about politics, but the most recent Hollywood scandal. So I try to keep up on what other people know about. There are also some strange things that occasionally come up about politics, world views, and Christianity.

The Drudge Report http://www.drudgereport.com/
If you haven't found this news source you don't know what you are missing. This is my first stop in the morning before classes. It has everything from politics, the economy, to the latest science technology. Did I mention it is extremely conservative. I usually check Drudge Report three to four times per day.

I also read what my dad fondly calls "the local rag". Even at school I like to keep up with what is going on at home. This is also the only Newspaper I have ever been published in (letters of the editor), so it will always have a special place in my heart. Not, I really only read this to keep up with the news at home, since the NR is strongly left leaning.


Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.


Amendment 1: F=ma is the mathematical representation of Newton's Second Law.

Amendment 2: 15 days!

A month ago I was home...

Wow, I can't believe it has been a month since I left home. In some ways the time has gone so fast, but I feel like I have been here forever. The time really has flown, which is nice for me because I know that I will be home before I know it. But I also feel like I know everyone so well (at least in my section), that I couldn't have only known them for a month.

I miss you all terribly, and can't wait to see you. On that note: I will be home for a weekend in October (the 10th-14th). I will be at church, so those of you that are New Hope-ers will get to say hi. But if you don't go to my church you are welcome to stop by my house and say hi. Just let me or my mom know. I'm excited to be home for my birthday and to see my family.

My classes are going great. I had my first organic chemistry exam last Friday, and I did well on it. As of yesterday, I remember why I am a chemistry major. Up to this point we hadn't done anything new, but Monday we finally did something fun and exciting. (Well, exciting if you are a chemistry major). So, sorry physics and engineering majors that were trying to convert me, I am happy as a chem. major.

I just love going to a Christian school. I love being able to share that bond with fellow students and my professors. I can sit out on the lawn with a group of friends and sing praise songs and not be looked at strangely, or have a spontaneous prayer meeting without feeling odd.


Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.

Amendment 1: I mostly wrote this post because I didn't get a chance to write an email update this weekend (computer trouble). So if it seemed a bit odd, that is why.

Amendment 2: My interesting fact today is actually a questions. How do you win a tug-of-war game? If you have taken physics you will know that it isn't as simple as it sounds. Let me know what you think the answer is.