Pizza, Fondue, Shrews, Movies, Teas, & Craziness

Yikes! I'm sorry I've been so sporadic about keeping up with this blog-- my life (both academically and socially) has been very busy and crazy. While I'm not sure how entertaining hearing about my life right now will be, I'll let you read about it and judge for yourselves.

Last weekend, in addition to the mound of schoolwork on my desk, I managed to have a very crazy and jam-packed weekend. On Friday night, I went to our second Guild meeting. The Guild is our version of the Inklings, a small group of writers dedicated to reading, writing, loving God, and enjoying each other's company. Not that that's our motto or anything. My good friend Sarah started it, and it is comprised mostly of students from RUF. We've been meeting at Memorial Union, which is the closest thing we have to the Bird and the Baby. Unfortunately, the little coffee (and hot chocolate!) place was closed, so we had to do without. On the bright side, Mizzou After Dark (fun events on friday nights) was setting up for a Valentine-making party, and after our meeting we got free pizza, soda, and chocolate fondue (and yes, for college students those go together very well).

On Saturday, I met Jason, Marcus, and Mike for dinner at Plaza (the "nice" dining hall), and we debated on what to do that night. Mike wanted to go to Stephen College's production of The Taming of the Shrew, and Jason and Marcus were all for renting a movie. After some vacillating, I threw in my lot with Mike, and we all ended up going to the play, and then afterwards going to rent movies. The play was awesome; very top notch and enjoyable. The actors (all students!) were amazing, and they made every part seem clear and accessible. They started out in modern times wearing modern clothes, and Kate gets knocked out by bullies and wakes up in the production. As the play progresses, the outfits slowly morph into medieval garments. There were some very clever scenes too, like when Petruccio is "courting" Kate for the first time, they are in a boxing ring, literally swinging and jumping at each other as they deliver their verbal punches. After the play, we watched "Entrapment (Sean Connery, Katherine Zeta-Jones). I got back to my dorm after midnight, and couldn't fall asleep because people were bouncing a basketball in the hall and being obscenely loud (and I'm on a quiet floor!) So at two, when I still couldn't sleep, this short and silly poem came to me called "Kate's Revenge" and I got up (for once) and wrote it down.

Sunday I dragged myself to church, and since Lukas was at home with the car, I went to church on campus. Unfortunately, I didn’t plan ahead, and realized that I had no stockings or knee-highs to wear (and it was freezing out!). When I got to church, I realized that the dressy shoes were rubbing my ankles raw, and one was bleeding. Just great! Of course I had no band-aids. So after church I got a ride with Jason back to Mike’s, were eventually we ended up making omelets (the boys did, that is) and watching 10 Things I Hate About You. Mike was nice enough to give me a ride to the Jane Austen Tea I was going to at 2:00. My Write about Lit teacher (who’s awesome, by the way) heard that the Columbia Jane Austen Society was having this event, and invited anyone in the class who was interested. It was at the Kayotea tearoom downtown, and everybody got their own little pot of tea (over forty choices)! I picked Wild Strawberry. There were also chocolate chip scones (yum!). It was funny, because my teacher (who’s a PhD student) and I were the closest in age, and we were sitting next to each other, so when we were introduced to people it was like, “yes, we’re both students at Mizzou.” And then I would laugh and say “But she’s actually my teacher, too.” Anyhow, a lot of fun. That night, I had to watch Battlestar Galactica (Lukas and I are finally caught up!).

So you can see why my life is crazy. Add 18 credit hours of class to that, and you have a good idea of why I'm sleep deprived.