SNOW?! Whatever. I Live in Minnesota.

Today I woke up to a bunch of white stuff floating in the air, hanging out on the trees in our front yard, and covering the ground.  It is October 12, 2009.  Usually I would prefer the snow to stay away at least until the end of October, but apparently it decided to come a little too early this year.  But seriously people, we live in the upper Midwest.  If you can't handle crazy extremes in weather, you probably shouldn't be living here. 

I used to be someone, and sometimes still am depending on the day, who complains about the weather; but for whatever reason, I'm not too upset about the weather outside.  Today would have been a great day to go to somewhere that has a lot of windows and is cosy, maybe even has a fireplace and watch the snow fall, have a hot cocoa and read a book or magazine. 

I am at work though, which in a way is kind of cool because the clouds are so low right now, that I am among them.  I have written about this before, and it never ceases to amaze me how awesome it is when I look out the windows.  Unfortunately my office is an interior office, but I take every opportunity I can to go walk around and check out the view.  Someday I'll remember to bring my camera and take a picture so you all can really see what I'm talking about. 

I'm still thinking about going somewhere after work to finish up the reading for my class tomorrow.  I wouldn't have much time though because HOUSE is on tonight at 7pm and frankly, besides cleaning the snow off my car, if it hasn't already melted, I don't really want to drive anywhere.  So it looks like I'll be staying home tonight, curling up in Jason's chair he is letting me use while he's on internship this year, and reading as much of Paul Tillich on God in vol. 1 of his Systematic Theology as I can.  Who knows?  We might actually have a 30 minute discussion again tomorrow before the mind-numbing lecture begins.  Here's to hoping. 

In the meantime, I'm going to go hang out in the lobby for a little bit, watch some CNN which is on the TV in there, and stare out the window for a bit at the snow.  Because come on... SNOW?!  Whatever.  I live in Minnesota!

What I Should Really Be Doing Right Now...

Instead of doing what I should really be doing right now, which is to read for my Tuesday class, I am blogging, and just hanging out at Borders in the cafe area.  I forgot how much fun it is to just go sit somewhere and read or putz online for a while.  For the longest time, my wireless internet was being funky and would not work anywhere I went.  For whatever reason, I figured out what was wrong (at least this time) and it is working now.  It is a needed distraction from the craptastically mind-numbing reading I have to do for Tuesday.  Reading Systematic Theology, even Paul Tillich's systematic theology straight, with no buffer reading like the last two weeks, is like watching paint dry; no it's even worse.  It's like sitting in the most boring class ever with nothing to do but listen to the lecture because your damn wireless doesn't usually work for whatever reason, so you stopped bringing your computer to class with you, so you can't putz online to distract yourself for the tedious rambling in the front of the room.  (Wink, Wink...not that I would know what that's like or anything ;))

Instead of staying home today and being distracted by the Vikings game (although I am slightly sad I missed most of it) I decided to go somewhere and work on reading for class/finally write something for my history blog.  The blog didn't go as well as I thought it would, but I didn't want it to be so long that no one would read it.  So I ended up summarizing a lot and pointing out only a few things out of the many I would have liked to.  Oh well, it is only the first one.  It will get better the more I do it. 

Right now I should be reading for class, like I stated before.  I don't know what my problem is.  I really just need to get offline and force myself to read the God section of Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology, vol. 1.  So that is what I'm going to do.  I'm going to get offline and start doing what I should be doing right now.

Busy, Busy, Busy...

You'd think with only one class this semester that I wouldn't be so busy.  Not true.  With one class, work, hip-hop dancing classes, which I start on Tuesday, working on German, and the general business of life, I have few moments of solitude.  It is hard to find time, and sometimes the motivation to sit down and update my blog, let alone necessary things that need to get done like laundry, grocery shopping, etc... and still have time to myself at the end of the day.

So today, I am going to attempt to relax and take advantage of the few moments of solitude I am blessed to have at this moment.  I have a laundry list of things I should do, like thoroughly clean my room and dust the office, grocery shopping, upload pictures from my trip to visit Jason last weekend, and on and on and on....  But today, I am probably just going to watch some football, read some for Tuesday's class, do a load of laundry and call it a day.

This week is going to be super busy and very fun.  Tomorrow I am going to see the movie FAME again with Karen, Tuesday I start hip-hop dancing class, Wednesday is the SYTYCD live tour with Karen and Erica, Thursday is German study group and Friday is Oktoberfest at Gastof's.  BOOYAH!!!  I am looking forward to it.  I better stockpile my energy today so I am fully charged for this week!  :)

Oh and I found out last night that Jason is coming to visit at the end of the month!!!  So excited! 
T minus 24 days in counting!