Someone Should Punch This Chilly Air!

Good riddance! I nearly forgot about leaving you a post this week. I'm blaming this near crisis on the new H1N1 blurb that has shunted my blogging shortcut off of Mount Marty's homepage. H1N1...yikes. I'm hoping none of us will have to really concern ourselves with that new little shortcut in the next few months.

School is trudging on. I think I'm already suffering from the changing weather. I could probably correctly diagnose myself with a mild form of seasonal depressive disorder. I have yet to find a winter exercise method that is as refreshing and exhilarating as summer adventures under the sun. Odd that I've lived in this area my whole life and I still find the need to get sad about the coming of cold weather. Maybe I'll have to head south one of these days...

When I say I'm suffering, I mean that I feel as though my energy level is down and I'm not quite as apt to be unusually chipper in the mornings. I am completely unmotivated in the homework area, but I have very few legitimate excuses to explain why it's not getting done. Yes, I do work a couple of nights a week and have work study and tutoring besides and other random time commitments, but I have been spending my precious free hours during the mornings and afternoons between classes contemplating taking naps but never doing it, staring at my planner with all sorts of good intentions at plugging away on the lists, but not starting anything, and opening textbooks simply to read a page or two only to nod off and get up to eat food or consume caffeine in a last ditch effort to fire up some motivation. .....you know, on second thought, beings it is midterm week in two weeks, this apathetic attitude could be in fact attributed to that slump time of year as I'm seeing similar symptoms from my peers. HAVE NO FEAR, however. I will push through this lackadaisical attitude with the help of my piano playing practice (I am now halfway through level 1B) and other sorts of whimsical adventures. :)

AHHHH! I almost forgot to mention that this past weekend I did zero homework because I was in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, NE watching the good 'ol Huskers dominate in a 55-0 homecoming victory. It also happened to be the 300th consecutive sellout in that divine stadium and throughout the game, they played clips on Husker vision (the big screen) from other coaches in the conference, from Husker past coaches and players, and from NCAA officials congratulating us on the record. We are such a great, loyal crowd and I had goosebumps multiple times. THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA!

And that my friends, is a good note to leave you with. Bundle up and prep for the frosty air. It's creeping up.... :)