Trip Up the Mountain

This weekend was a resting one...!!! It was so nice to hang out and only study 1/5 of the time instead of every waking moment!

Today Tara and I took a walk up Kennesaw Battlefield National Park. Here are some pics from the walk:

Cha Ching!

I am so excited that Midterms are over!!! My initial hypothesis proved to be correct, Midterms do not cause physical, mental or emotional harm... 

What they do cause are the following:

headaches, bloodshot eyes, coughing, sneezing, petty arguments with your roommate and the desire to want to forget all that you have learned in the past 6 weeks as soon as you pass your exam so you can make room in your brain for the next BIG exam!

Top 5 things I'm looking forward to in the coming weeks: Drum roll, please...

1.) A few more hours of shut eye

2.) Celebration of several Birthdays 

(hhhhuh hmmm... I accept gifts in all forms,  I will be 26 after all!!...Just Kidding of course;)

3.) Retreat to the Blue Ridge Mountains!!! Excited to leave the Apt for more than 24 hours

4.) My Australian Friend Max's visit to Atlanta... he's not really coming to see me, but I at least get to see him!

5.) The O'Highland's Jig & Jog ...  pub crawl to follow!!! ... that's right, I'll be jiggin! 

*All of which I hope to provide plenty of pictures for ya'll to see ... excluding the sleep part, of course!*

Close Call!

Yesterday was a very exciting day! It was my first tornado scare!... Go figure it kicked off midterms week.  A group of us were studying at the apt and heard a loud train-like whistle coming from outside.  Our friend Erica - who is from Florida and has lived through plenty of hurricanes, but not yet a tornado - informed us that this was what a tornado apparently sounds like.... Our immediate thought:   

"Jump into the bathtub, Desperate Housewives style and cover ourselves with a mattress." One major flaw in our plan...  We don't have mattresses!!!

We turned on the tv and found out the sound was an alarm generated by the City of Marietta, for no apparent reason ... but I must say, it was quite alarming to think of a tornado a comin'. I felt a bit like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Except my plan is to take the aerobed and float on down the river with my bottle of Coppola in hand! I realize this isn't a joking matter, it was quite scary to think of what could have happened after seeing the tornado damage in N.C.! Life is full of surprises, none of which we can control. I'm just thankful everyone here is safe and sound!

Sleepless in Marietta

I am seeing more of 5 am - 12 am days (5 hrs of sleep, oh my)! But, I'm undeniably lovin'  the experience despite the long days and intense work load! We keep passing 2nd quarter students who not so subtly mumble "you think this is tough, just wait!"  Of course, I pay them no mind!

Interesting factoid I found out about myself yesterday... I'm Amiable! My entire life I have thought of myself as purely analytical when low and behold I'm really an amiable driver... don't know how that works! I don't know if it's all that accurate, but that's what Meyer's Brigg assessed;) I'm sure most of you are laughing right now because you have always known this about me, but I was truly convinced that I was entirely analytical!  

I'm fixin' to post pictures for ya'll real soon! "Southern Speak," as Dr. B phrased it, is so charming, I can't help but want to incorporate it into my vocabulary! 

Word of the Week: INTEGRITY ... Do you live with it or without it?