Wow.... what a yesterday it was.
I'll start from Sunday. It was mostly normal and I had the pleasure of seeing The Godfather for the first time. I liked it well enough and it has a fairly well deserved spot on the list of great movies. Church was good as St. Michael's new rector preached his first Sunday as rector. He's a good one and I'm glad the church has a good rector now although Father Neil will be missed. However, on the way back from church my car started to have some serious issues.
Monday I woke up with a cold. Mostly just a stuffy/runny nose. It was a normal Monday as much as I remember and I spent all evening in the library with friends, finding that the library had recently added some books by some favorite authors of mine in continuing a favorite series. So yes, I am now spending my spare time and procrastination time by reading the book. I wasn't feeling as well by the end of the day so off I went to bed because it was to be an early morning.
Tuesday:
I woke up at 7:45, got dressed, and stumbled out of the dorm into the freezing but sunny air to my car. I started it up and grabbed the scraper out of the back to scrape the frost off the windows so I could see. After warming it all up, I drove to the other end of the parking lot to meet up with Josh who was going to follow me to the car repair place and off we went. We made it there fine, left the keys and got some coffee at Promised Grounds since I like to see how Common Grounds compares to the Longview places. I had a mocha. I like C.G. better. We use actual chocolate. They used a chocolate flavoring it tasted like.
We came back since Josh had a 9:30 class. I was feeling very not well so I read in bed until the chaplains meeting where we learned some CPR basics (not certification but at least a general idea). Next was a normal SAGA lunch and than Doctrines which was nice and slow because it was small groups discussing papers. I went back to my room and discovered that my car was ready for pick-up and that all was nice and cheap. The people who did the tune-up didn't get all the wires connected. They now owe me. So Josh and I went off to pick up the car. After having to pay in cash since my credit card was declined for some unknown reason, we started the drive back. I had to make a fast start into traffic and the car acted up a bit with it but I wasn't too terribly concerned. Well, about 3 miles out of the car repair place at a stoplight I noticed that the car was idling at 400 rpm and I was having a lot of trouble getting it to go. So I decided we'd have to go back with it and made a left turn into a parking lot as the engine died during the turn and my power steering went but it was still fine. I tried starting the car and it didn't want to stay started. I called the repair man and he said get it back. Well, the only way to keep the car going was to keep gas on it at all times...including when stopped. I wasn't sure I could handle this so Josh and I traded keys and I followed him back to the repair shop. The repair guy took the keys, checked something in the engine and took it for a ride, came back, fixed what he wanted and all was well. (excepting my frayed nerves from being tired and ill). We got back to campus, had dinner. Than I had cults class and found out that an elder at a local church my parents attended had committed suicide. I knew I'd have to let my parents know so after class (about 9 p.m) I went back to my room and called my parents. They were fairly shocked as has been anyone who knew the man. We also discussed our lives in general and what not and I got off with the idea that i needed to get grading done. However, first I tried to access my credit card account and found that I could not. Finally around 10 I got to the grading, feeling very unwell so I didn't go and join the crew at the library this time. I was still grading at 12:30...far after I had planned to be done when I noticed this strange sound coming from above my head and to the left. It sounded like something was scratching inside the styrofoam cooler I have on my very top shelf. To make sure I wasn't hearing things again, I asked Lily if she heard it and she did too. She climbed to get the box while I held a shoe. Being as how the thought of a roach or something getting into our beds and chasing it around the room was very unpleasant, we took the whole box with lid firmly down into the well-lit and empty hallway. we opened it up, took things out and were baffled as we discovered nothing unusual and the sound had stopped. Well, I was shaking one of the boxes with styrofoam peanuts that had been inside the cooler and very suddenly a two and half inch long roach FLEW out of the box towards Lily who screamed and jumped back. The roach had flown to the inner frame of a door and we had attracted a few other girls who wanted to know what was going on. I took my shoe and hit the thing until it fell down on the carpet with legs wriggling in the air and explained to those who were still sleepy and confused what was going on. Lily finished off the still living roach and deposited it in the trash. I put the cooler back to its home upon the shelf and explained to Wheeler and Josh what had occured because I had been talking to them online before the whole bit. I finally finished the grading an hour later after finding my red pen again and took a shortened shower and crawled into bed a little before 2 a.m.
So I woke up this morning and dragged myself to statistics, chapel, education class which was again interestingly infuriating. Than lunch where Wheeler informed me of the ultimate rat story and than I went back to my room and read myself to sleep until dinner a few hours later. We had a good meal at Bodacious; we went to the library where i did devo prep and doctrines test prep. I had devos which was a very small crowd so we just decided to share all the prayer requests and pray and delay the study until another week. And after cleaning up some of my more in the way clutter and writing a check and washing dishes, I have been sitting here writing my story for your amusement.
I think it's time to read again :-)
Posted by Anna at February 4, 2004 10:47 PM