Hey all back for my weekly update, and look i'm actually doing it on the right day this week.
Anyhow, theres probably around a foot of snow on the ground which is awesome. my elbow is really dry and irritated. meh. onto the main topics...
Ok so i actually made a resolution this year. It was about my weight, i've been hovering around 195/200lbs since october, and anyone that knows me, knows thats a super unhealthy weight for my height. ideally i need to be close to 170 or in the upper 160's in poundage. Problem is, its incredibly hard to lose weight here in college i've found. even if you cut way back in terms of what you eat in the cafeteria or when you cook, there's still that constant temptation of food being nto too far away. Of course, you could agrue that it takes a certain level of self control, and i agree it does. for some reason i have very little self control when it comes to eating here at school. After i've had my meal, i'll feel slightly hungry in a couple hours and get a huge snack, or a snack that has more calories than it should. then, someone will have food out in the kitchen and i'll run and grab some, usually more than one piece even if the food (be it cake or whatever) isnt that great.
I'm really annoyed at myself that i cant seem to lose weight at all here. for those you who dont know, i lost 11lbs going into this school year, and while still a bit heavyset, i looked so much healthier. I felt i was good looking and i looked fairly healthy. and now i'm obese, and i've missed my goal in terms of wieght lose for 1 month already and i'm probably gonna miss it for february as well. unless i go super healthy, which i might. Ugh.
Ok, second big thing i wanna cover this week: Everyone on my floor in my dorm got an e-mail from the Area director for my dorm and the one across from it about an apparent issue wiht our shoes and other winter gears (gloves and such that need to dry) being out in the hall against the wall. The area director, who i wont name, said he had been contacted by housekeepping in bundy (my dorm) who was annoyed with this. Are they really? neither of the housekeepers in bundy are so hardcore about every single rule that they will rudely enforce it. in fact, all they'll do is ask you nicely to move your stuff to one side of the door so they can vacuum the otherside and go around it. So I honestly dont know which bundy housekeeper would complain to area director when neither is the complaining type. anyway, i digress. so appareantly us keeping our shoes in the hall on the carpet against the wall keeps housekeeping from cleanign that area, well they dont have to clear every are on the floor, plus like any private houseekeper they can move the stuff, clean and then put it back. We have our shoes and such out there cause we want to keep our rooms clean and not accidentally step in whatever we bring in from outside.
There's also the issue that shoes in the hall are a fire hazard. They're no more a fire hazard than the equipment housekeeping uses, which may i add, they just leave out in the middle of the hall sometimes. If a fire alarma went off while the stuff was in the hall, i guarantee you someone would freak, run into one of the housekeeping carts and hurt themselves a bit. with shoes, all that happens is you trip yourself and stumble. even if you fall you can catch yourself.
Woah, i got way ranty in that second topic. sorry. so yea. lots of snow on the ground here in Indiana which is awesome. This weekend should be very fun in spite of the work i have. i have a bit of a lighter load in one of my classes for the weekend (assuming nothing gets added on) which is nice, considering i have a 5-6 page paper on 12th night by shakespeare and a exam in human development on tuesday. But the fun stuff this weekend is 2 trademark Earlham dances. The valentines day themed one (which is fun even if you're single) and then the swing dance/ salsa dancing one. both cost $$ but the proceeds ffrom the first benefit Haiti and the proceeds forom the 2nd go to united way, so thats a good reason to charge.
The week after early-semester long weekend (a.k.a. we're a quaker college and we want to be nice to out students and give them a long weekend 4 weeks into the semester, so they dont burn out) the student group i help convene, Earlham's branch of Amnesty international is planning a week fo stuff around haiti, includign a dance with haiti related music in comstock at the end of the week. If anyone who has been complainign about the volume of the music at the SAB dances in comstock this year sees this, i'll try and make it so the volume is tolerable.
Other than all that, not much is really new here, jsut the same ol' same ol. there is a meeting for people interested in bein New Student OReintation staff members tonight, and i am totally going. I had a blast doing it goin into this year. Speaking of next year, alot of my freinds in the years below me have started talking about housing and such and alot of the ones that are either off campus now or are not in my current dorm are gonna be moving onto my floor or the one above. In short, i'm incredibly attached to this dorm, and thats gonna make my housing decision (either a single on the floor above or one in the dorm connected to the student center) alot harder.
Aight thats it for this week.
