Just another Blog..

First thing's first, I am recovered from my not so terrible illness. I did end up going to the doctor four days after my previous post because I was beginning to have breathing issues due to excessive chest congestion and I was forever crying due to uncontrollable sinus pressure in my head. I am starting to feel normal again though. In fact, I ran for the first time in over a week (10 days to be exact) this afternoon. I can't even honestly remember the last time I took that many consecutive days off from working out! I crave the endorphin kick and the feeling of accomplishment from it, so it's no wonder that the past week was pretty thoroughly unproductive as far as studies go. In fact, I even missed one of my deadlines for the Moderator, something I don't think I had ever done in the 3 and 1/2 years I've been writing for it. The sad thing was that I wasn't smart enough to figure out that if I was doomed to be unproductive, it would be best to spend the majority of my free time sleeping....so not only was I slacking, I was lacking (in the rest department that is).

New Subject. On Friday night I travelled to Sioux Falls with a group of 8 friends. Our initial plan (something that we had had planned for over a week) was to go out for dinner and then head to Harrisburg for the haunted corn maze. About five minutes before leaving, one of the girls decided to look up directions so we knew for sure where we were going and instead found out that the maze doesn't open until this coming weekend. Haaaa. So much for efficient planning! Undeterred, we made some phone calls and found out about a haunted house at the fairgrounds in Sioux Falls. So, after a scrumptious dinner at a Johnny something (Carina's??) Italian place we headed out to the fairground to pay to have people scare the wits out of us. Ok. Imagine this. Here we are, a group of 8 college kids, at about 9:00 standing in a ridiculously long line of people, 80% of them appearing to be Junior High aged kids and younger. We stood in line for a good hour and 20 minutes to have the privilege of entering and exiting the haunted house, a house "made by volunteers not engineers," in a total of about 8 minutes. Though we did get our share of screaming in, I ended up giggling most of the time. I was towards the back of our group so my biggest scares actually came from the guys in our group behind me jumping at me from behind.

On the return trip home, I drove a good 20 + miles with my low fuel light on, also a new adventure. I thought for sure we would end up stranded on the side of the road and the real scare factor would kick in. Instead, I just kind of ran a red light in fear of having to stop and pulled into a ghetto gas station on Broadway that I didn't even know existed. Despite the obstacles, it was an adventurous and memorable night.

In the meantime, I have passed two choir midterms (one while in a sorry sickly state), aced a medical terminology test, and put off two papers, two poems, and two reading reflections all due on Friday (not to mention the reading itself..I've kind of put that off as well). But, I can't complain. The sun is shining, friends are abundant, and life is good. In fact, I am heading out to the damn to watch the sunset with some friends tonight before this nicer weather hibernates for good. Perhaps when I get back I'll start Operation Productivity! :)