flying high

Hopefully the stewardesses on my flight this week will be like this!

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mcconaugHEY!

So since school has started so has Tiger Football! To be quite honest, I'm not the rabid fan I was my freshman and sophomore years but I still enjoy going to home games. The first home game was on September 12th against Vanderbilt. I passed up on tailgaiting to study but headed to the stadium about an hour and a half before kickoff to enjoy the pregame show. Guess who was there also enjoying the festivities? Mr. Matthew McConaughey himself! I am not really a fan of his but no one can deny his good looks and Southern charm, and it's always exciting to see famous people even if I tell myself if I ever met one again I would act like I'd never heard of him/her. It was kind of funny that when I was trying to spot him I instantly recognized his stance and then commenced to take a buttload of pictures. Enjoy (Becky and Leena, please stop drooling :P)!Matthew McConaughey and Ronald McDonald in the same shot!
And then LSU's own Shaquille O'Neal came and congratulated the men's basketball team for something. In this shot he is hugging their coach Trent Johnson and the baseball coach, Paul Manieri is looking on (in the gray jacket).
Shaq is one huge dude. Seriously he is massive and frightening and I would not want to meet him unless I was wearing Iron Man's suit.
The game itself wasn't too exciting and it rained almost the whole time. I thought was prepared with the yellow hand-me-down NorthFace rain jacket I brought, but I guess somewhere between passing from Ben to Tim and then from Tim to me it stopped working. So I got soaked anyways and would have been better off without it especially since all of my friends were teasing me about wearing a NorthFace jacket. I had to explain that it was originally my brother's who has actually CLIMBED mountains and therefore has every right to own such an article of clothing, as opposed to the group of people at LSU who wear NorthFace who have never seen snow and only wear it because everyone else in their fraternity/sorority does. But I digress. Despite the rain it was fun to be back in Death Valley surrounded by 92,000 of my closest friends (including Adam and Erica, who I haven't seen since their wedding in August...cough).

roller coaster

A month later, I'm sure you're all glad to finally see something besides me in an afro when you come to my blog. With school starting last week and a series of unfortunate events, I haven't had much time to post. Let's recount all of the crappy things that have happened to me recently:

1. School started on Monday, August 24th
2. I burned my wrist on the oven
3. I dropped my make-up bottle in the bathroom sink and it broke so now it's leaking in the cabinet because I don't plan on buying a new one anytime soon
4. My computer cord stopped working so now I can't use my computer until I buy a new one
5. I got in a minor bike wreck last Friday
6. In that bike wreck, the chain was messed up, I cut my leg with the pedal, and got blood on my brand new beautiful running shoes
7. While draining the water out of my mashed potatoes, they all fell into the kitchen sink
8. I ate most of them anyways
9. There is a boy at church who am not attracted to and never will be who will not leave me alone
10. This past Monday evening I started getting the chills and was achy and feverish
11. I had to stay at work until 1 am
12. On Tuesday I felt worse but had class ALL day and then Institute
13. While removing my bike from the bike rack the pedal hit me on my leg in the EXACT SAME SPOT where I was cut last week (and now I'll have an H-shaped scar)
14. I had to go to class with a bloody leg and achy fever
15. Wednesday I wasn't very achy anymore but now had a sore throat and still had to go to my jogging class
16. Thursday night I had to work because the other girl is sick so I didn't get to go 80's clothes shopping with my friends for the 80's dance tonight
17. Which I guess doesn't matter because I can't GO to the 80's dance tonight because the other girl is still sick so I have to work tonight, too
18. This morning an idiot in a minivan almost ran over me (on my bike)
19. This afternoon an idiot in a truck almost hit me (in my car)
20. And now my ears hurt and my stomach is upset
21. Everyone is teasing me about having swine flu
22. But I can't go to a doctor because I don't have one here in Baton Rouge and the Student Health Center is booked up until who knows when

So yeah. Sometimes life throws a lot onto you. But it hasn't been all bad.

1. I'm from the school of hard knocks so don't really plan on going to the doctor's regardless
2. I was able to get the blood off of my shoes with Oxy-Clean - thank you Billy Mays
3. Lauren let me do laundry at her house once again, saving me $10
4. Joriann and Lauren and I enjoyed warm brownies and 'The Wedding Singer' last Friday
5. Mom and Dad came bearing gifts last Saturday
6. I got my annual Father's blessing
7. I got to stay in a sweet hotel in New Orleans and got $100 to put 5 kids to bed and then sleep for 8 hours
8. The ward dinner I organized after church last Sunday was a huge success
9. I love making smoothies in the mornings
10. I finally have my Institute Council picked out and they are all awesome
11. I LOVE all of my classes
12. Yesterday I learned about nuclear warheads and according to my teacher I now know more about them than most members of Congress (though I'm convinced that's not too impressive)
13. In my music class we had to figure out the time signature and meter of some MUSE songs
14. Listening to the Tchaikovsky station on Pandora while I'm at work makes me happy
15. Picking up an extra evening of work was a blessing because I'm off for Labor Day so that makes up for it
16. I love biking to my classes and running every other day
17. I got my football tickets this week in my inbox
18. While teasing me about having swine flu my friend David recommended this website: http://www.doihaveswineflu.org/
19. Today I finally won a game of BallKnockers at Friday Lunch at the Institute
20. Tomorrow (if I don't feel too crappy) I'm going with Lauren to her dad's for a BBQ/pool party celebrating the first game of the season
21. Labor Day = no school or work
22. UPDATE: I got off of work at 10 so I was able to go to the last half of the 80s dance
23. Afterwards I went to IHOP with Lauren and the Baron boys/Doobie Brothers/Curly & Moe/D-Bear and J-Bear (it is so easy to come up with nicknames for these two) and John paid because he's awesome

So in the end, I guess the good really does outweigh all the bad.