48 Days

Such a relaxing day! The morning started with an initiation ceremony welcoming some new sisters into ADPi. Early morning, but exciting to have new official sisters! The rest of the afternoon has been spent at the pool hanging out with this adorable girl!

I'm seriously obsessed with this puppy! Susie and Graham found her by the side of the road and when she didn't have a microchip they adopted her. She is a total ball of energy and so much fun! Lucy loved digging in that dirt, and she even got in the pool for a swim! I would love a dog just like her. So all in all it was a successful afternoon getting tan, swimming and hanging out with friends.
In other news the AC at my house is getting fixed! For some reason it hasn't been able to cool the house down at all even though it has been on for a week. It was 90 when we got home today and super humid. So we opened some windows, turned the air off and called out landlord. So Monday morning the AC is getting looked at. The house has cooled down a lot since we turned the air off though.

49 Days

The countdown chain keeps getting shorter and shorter.

My roommates made this last week, each day has something written on it and we can rip one off each day until graduation.
Not much eventful going on here. No class on Fridays means I got to sleep in. I spent most of the morning and early afternoon packing some stuff up. The house is starting to look weird with stuff missing. My walls are a lot emptier now. The rest of the afternoon was spent relaxing at the pool with Ellie before an ADPi pre-initiation ceremony.

50 Days!

Wow 50 days until graduation! While a lot of people have used facebook to post a picture a day counting down to graduation I figured I'd use my blog. So the goal is to write each day about what I'm doing my last 50 days before graduating.
So Day 50:
Thursday, which was a school day. I had a test in psychology, went to class and then went to Petco to buy cat and rat food and bedding and ended up with this little guy!

I decided Bailey should have a friend to play with, and so far things are going well. After talking to the Petco guy about how to introduce rats to each other and doing some research online I spent last night slowly introducing Bailey and her new friend. After a successful face to face meeting and a cleaning and rearranging of the cage the two went into their new home.
Other than a relaxing trip to the pool with Emily not a whole lot happened. I hung out with Ellie, Barrett, Sam, Shelby, Chelsea, and Jenn for awhile at night which was fun.

The Job Hunt

Over the past few days I've come to realize that interviewing for jobs is much like going through sorority recruitment (except you usually don't get to go to more than one interview at a time). I mean you spend a lot of time doing your hair, make up and picking out the perfect outfit to impress the company (or sorority) you are interviewing with. The whole process makes you totally nervous because you are competing against a bunch of other people for a limited number of spots. The actual interviews are much like recruitment conversations, they all ask the same thing, and you spend the whole time trying to sell yourself to your interviewer hoping they think you fit in with their group. Why do we put ourselves through things like this?
Because in the end it's (hopefully) worth it. Hopefully you come away with job offer that pays well, is in a good location, and will be challenging and enjoyable.
So here's hoping that all these resume submissions will lead to job interviews which will eventually lead to a job (preferably before May 13).
I did have a job interview today, so hopefully that went well and I make it to the next round because I think the job would be really interesting and fun and it's in Dallas which is nice.


Also, just for fun...
Things you shouldn't name your child
Moo - yes this boys name was seriously moo.
Crystalblue - Do you want your daughter to be a stripper?

Food, Fun, and Armed Robbers

Such an interesting end to a great weekend here on Baylor campus.


Around 11:15 as I'm stepping off the elliptical to leave the SLC my phone rings. It's a 254 number I don't recognize so I don't answer it. I go to the bathroom, my phone alerts me that I have a voicemail, I then get a text. As I'm walking toward the door I check my phone and see a message that says "Two black males, 1 wearing a black shirt & 1 wearing a white shirt, armed and thought to be on campus. Please remain inside until further notice" (voicemail said the same thing).
So naturally I turn around and head toward the computers in the SLC planning to hang out and see if an announcement is made. About 10 minutes later an announcement is made to stay inside the SLC and employees start locking the doors. No other announcements are made, but through others at the SLC we learn that the two men were spotted by memorial and that there are a ton of police cars all over that side of campus. At midnight the SLC closes and the lights go out. We are once again advised to stay in the building. However, a large group of guys announces that they are leaving and a few ask me and the one other girl in the SLC if we want them to walk us to our cars. I say yes, because I live way off campus and can get home without driving on campus, plus I'd rather be at home than on campus with no information about what is happening or where the suspects are worrying that they may walk through the doors.
As a group we all head outside, running to our cars and jumping in once we hit the small parking lot by the SLC. I did make it home fine, the whole time hoping that the armed men weren't looking for a getaway car! We just now (at 12:45) got the official all clear, a little while ago it was announced that the men were arrested outside of Penland.
News Story: http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/UPDATE_Officers_in_Manhunt_for_Suspected_Robbers_of_Local_Stores.html

And now, on a happier note, the good part of the weekend in pictures!
Saturday Morning I headed to Austin, battling the rain and traffic to visit Ryan and his family for the rest of the weekend!  Saturday it was really rainy but we went to The Domain, B&N, ate dinner at Pluckers, and enjoyed wandering around 6th Street.

 Sunday lunch at Iguana Grill on the lake. Very yummy Mexican food!

 At the Oasis on the lake. We had a really good berry sundae desert here!

View from the Oasis, there are some insanely massive houses out there!

After lunch we visited the Capitol building where they were setting up for the inauguration.

 Ryan and the picture of the Tx president who chartered Baylor

Looking down onto the floor, later we were under the floor in the basement!

 Unfortunately the Senate and House were closed so we couldn't go in there.

The dome!

Back of the capitol. It looks white, but really it's very pink!

Capitol building at night

 We ended Sunday night with delicious white pizza at Home Slice and Mission Impossible.

Sunday afternoon we set out for lunch and adventure!

After crossing the river we saw a place to pull off where you could hike.

This is the awesome view from a cliff we hiked up!

 Me and Ryan on the rocks

What a good way to work up an appetite! 

For lunch we went to this really good burger place called Shady Grove.

Then I headed back to Waco

Last first week of school

Is over! And it went pretty well although I do feel like senioritis is setting in.
This semester I don't have any Friday classes, which is really cool, but also weird. I feel like I need more to do, which I probably won't be saying in a few weeks when I have tests to study for, papers to write and SING practice to go to. Anyway, I'm only taking four classes, only one of which is on M/W. So I guess that gives me lots of time to look for a job. Haha.
I did get all my graduate school applications in the mail this week. It's really nice not to have those to worry about anymore. I also applied for a paid summer internship, because it sounded really interesting, it's full time, paid and if I can't find a job or decide on grad school it would be something to do this summer. I'm not really sure what the internship entails, but it's with a collegiate greek life company that puts out a magazine, directory, discount cards for local businesses and has an online community to connect greeks all over the country. It's a marketing/sales internship, but it sounded interesting and I suppose I'll find out more during my phone interview next week. That's basically it for the job front, not much is posted on the Baylor job listings yet, and nothing I qualify for is on USA jobs in Tx right now but I'll keep looking.
I guess now it's time to describe my classes for anyone out there who is interested.
1.Violence in the American Screen: So far, really interesting. It's weird not having a film background and being in this class because I don't understand everything being discussed (like specific people, editing and shooting techniques). But we have screenings every week, and the books for the class seem interesting. Plus I like movies.
2. Theories in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Sounds more interesting than it is so far. First, I'm not a huge fan of the professor, and her complete lack of knowledge on how to use the electronics in the class room is annoying. Maybe it will get more interesting, I think it might solidify my thoughts that I shouldn't go into private practice counseling later in life.
3. Forensic Science: love, love, love it! Obviously a topic I'm interested in, I'm just sad I didn't have a forensics minor and that I'm graduating and can't take classes like "Blood Spatter" and "Crime Scene Photography" because lets be honest, this is a field I could see myself working in. It's a freshman level class (easy, hopefully!) and the professor is really young and cool, plus the stuff we talk about is interesting.
4. History of Texas: Not looking forward to the 20+ page research paper, but other than that seems interesting. When one of the textbooks is called Lust, Violence, Religion you know the class is going to be interesting. Plus I like Texas, and Baylor has the Texas Collection on campus which means primary source documents and really old maps and stuff we can use. We get to wear gloves too, which makes me feel cool.

Well that's about it for my first week. I'm off to paint a backdrop!

Happy New Year!

Another year has come and gone, and Christmas break with it. Since I'm not one for resolutions I didn't actually make any, except to find a job and have my own apartment. Anyway, since I last posted finals ended and I went home for Christmas break.
Highlights of my break:
-Work: I went back to Studio for the last time this break. Although I love the people I work with, and It's been a fun job I'm glad to be done working there, and ready for a real job!
-Zoo: This break I had multiple zoo days! The second one I'll get to later. Traditional zoo day with Kevin and Jason was awesome. I made friends with an otter, saw Toby, and visited the new African forest! It was awesome, we got stuffed otters and red pandas as souvenirs and ended the day with Chilis.
- Movies: As usual I saw quite a few. Tron, How do you Know, Black Swan, True Grit, Tangled. I think that's it.
- Ryan's visit: Ryan came down from Austin for the Texas Bowl and for New Years.
- Texas Bowl: Was fun, despite the rain and the loss.
- Howl: Ryan and I met Jason and Matt there after the game, and as always it was a good time. We also went to Howl for New Years Eve which was a blast!
 - Feeding Giraffes: On zoo day number two Ryan and I got to feed the giraffes! For $5 you can have three big pieces of lettuce and feed the giraffes in the new African forest. It was really cool to get that close to the animals.

So it's been a pretty good break. Tomorrow is my last day in Houston and then I'm headed back to Waco for recruitment and classes start back the 10th!

 For Christmas Ribbon got a box

 And Jasper played with all the wrappings

 Zoo Day 1

 Pygmy huts in the African Forest

 Funny Masks

 Jumping pictures on my new camera!

 Texas Bowl!

 Matt's first trip to Howl, yay 21st Birthdays!

 Ryan's first time at Howl!

 Zoo day 2

 Feeding giraffes!

 Baylor the elephant

 Happy New Year!