So...it's been a long time...

Of COURSE I'll start my latest blog with a picture slideshow:

Warning: Not reading the entirety of the blog may cause an individual to spazz frequently until the whole blog has been read. :)




Yes Yes...yes it has been a long time since I've bloggd.. And why is that? It's because at UIS I pretty much don't have time to do the things I need to do, like blog! I can't believe how quickly time is passing by! To all you freshman reading this (and anyone else new to college in general) DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! Enjoy it while you can. And when I say enjoy, by no means am I endorsing you all to throw your homework away and dance all night...(although dancing is quite fun..and I encourage you all to dance when can, even if you're in your room all by yourself..it's very freeing...and yes I dance in my room by myself.)

Back to my blog...ENJOY COLLEGE. Meet new people. Stay in contact with all the ones you do meet, but just spread yourself out a little bit :)! I can't tell you how crazy it is to think that a simple smile to someone passing you by out on the quad or in the food emporium can lead to a new friendship! It's pretty sweet =P. Plus, if you grumble all your days away, what are you left with at the end of the semester? You'll be left this heavy feeling of regret for not enjoying the "happier" times at college. You'll realize that even though you had to stay up all of sunday night to finish that essay due at 10am the next morning, you and your roommate were able to sit and talk about your fun weekend. (However, it does get a bit tiring having to write an essay every sunday night...I encourse you all to get that time management thing down..because I still haven't! Oops =P!)

So, what have I, Liz, the seemingly uninvolved blogger, been up to? Since, let's say...the last weekend in October?

Well, my pictures tell it all! Of course that last weekend of October was Halloween! ooo spookiness! :) But not all of it was spooky =P.

I went to the fall music showcase that friday on the 27th, and listened to the choir belt some funky Africa geography piece, heard some crazy tune by the "celluba" group (a quartet of 2 cellos and 2 tubas..that's the name they came up for themselves!) And saw some friends sing and play their hearts out!! To everyone involved in that showcase, fantastic job! It was a fun night and I got a good laugh trying to take some pics of you all! :)

An old friend of mine came up from Carbondale to visit all of us UIS folk (he used to go to LLCC but pretty much was a UISer.) After the fall music concert we all hung out at our friend's apartment and then had some coldstone in downtown springfield! Although it was the night everyone was watching the Cardinals game..we were a little delayed waiting for the results for the world series..so we had like 30 mins or so to make it to downtown and get some ice cream. But we definately made it! After ice cream, had some fun times rendevouzing around the city...it's so beautiful (and creepy!) walking around late at night, since the streets are so empty.

Saturday--I vaguely remember what happened during the day, but I'm pretty sure I did alot of homework (haha, I probably tried to block it from my memory) and lots of laundry. and then the YAY SATURDAY NIGHT! Our friend Lincoln, and a close group of us went out to Red Lobster for a dinner celebration...which almost turned into a nightmare! Never in my life have I waited so long to be seated at a table. There were not available tables for 7 people...and we pretty much waited a good 2 hours (or close to it!) But hey, when in you're in the presence of good company, good food, and great conversation...maybe that 'little' wait was worth it, huh? Yeah, in retrospect I can easily laugh and be positive about it..but I think we were about ready to walk on over to Cici's pizza..but thank goodness we stayed...I love seafood and don't get it enough. So that was a fun adventure..then we had a movie night at one of the guys' apartments with a nice big group of us and watched the Amityville Horror-not a good movie to watch when you're friends know that you're terrified of movies like that and they randomly "jump" you! And you scream like a little kid and everyone just kind of stares at you for a good 5 seconds or so and then burst into laughter...

yeah, it's not fun being that person. =P

So anyway, Sunday, lincoln had to leave for carbondale--so we all just hung out in our dorm room and took pictures, listened to music, and had some crazy brownies that Brian's mom made--haha. Man, it was some good times with an old friend :).

The rest of sunday: some homework here and there and then.....PARTY NIGHT! haha, oh yes, by party night, I mean, dressing up like some crazies for Halloween and going to the Monster Bash! I think the best part of the night was the dressing up and putting on crazy make-up and just dancing around. They had it in the PAC in conference room c/d I think. Even though we got there a little late and left (to get some food) and then came back--only a couple of hours to dance! it was still pretty fun! good food over there too. :) Sigh, I wish I could dress up and put on crazy make-up like that all the time. =P

Monday Night: I think I did some homework...but the night we had all been waiting for..yes...it was the HAUNTED TRAIL!!!

Fantastic job to the EastSide R.A.s for a great job! You scared the bejeezuz out of me!

Even though my cool group of four people: Brian, Christie, and Grace were all clinging to each other, I was still terrified. Of course Brian wasn't scared, Grace was JUST as scared..or even more so scared than I was, and poor Christie kept getting left behind and getting smacked by trees!

First of all, getting out to those words is already pretty scary, but then having to walk through it w/ just one tiny little glow stick and hearing rustling in the bushes..of course you have to be scared. The first person that came out and screamed at us made me so scared that I kicked my shoe off!! And it pretty funny, cuz it was like we called a time out or something so we could find it. And I'm pretty sure one of those guys helping us out was Jeremy. haha! Chad scared the crap out of me the most though...we saw him laying on the ground..and I was really too afraid to look..and and he jumped up right in our faces and we ran screaming.

Oh, and just a note to my group: THanks for telling me that Chad was right behind me afterwards!!! PSH. All the sudden I hear breathing..and he's like right there! That was some good scary stuff. Everyone did a really good job of being creepy and stealth..and we lucked out on the chainsaw guy..cuz we ran right by him cuz his chainsaw wasn't working just then! Lucky! Anyway, it was a good night, and Jorgie (my roommate--and 05-06 UIS blogger) tried to go back later on that night w/ Christie, but they had just finished. So it was kind of disappointing cuz we ran all the way over there..and at the stroke of midnight they finished...

:) But it was fantastic!

So that pretty much sums up October.

November so far? (I can't believe I'm writing this and it's already the 13th...)

The spirit team got to perform for the first men's basketball game of the season on Nov. 1st! We won, big time, all I can remember is me feeling extremely nervous, and wanting to be out in the crowd...but I'm glad I wasn't! Our teams have been doing pretty well this season, both girls and guys! :) Keep the UIS BLue spirit up guys!!

The first weekend of November had been planned for a girls weekend out w/ my roommate and suitemates! Unfortunately one of them couldn't go, but Taylor, our lovely host and suitemate, was so kind to open her home to us (Geneseo, IL! ) Oh what fun we had there...never have I watched so many movies in one weekend and met cool parents..and oh goodness was the food good =P! Of course we watched scary movies, and Jorgie and I are pretty horrible w/ flicks like that. But we also saw The Mighty, good movie, I'll just throw that movie suggestion out there. Hot tubbin in the middle of fall was fantastic--but so horribly cold when we had to run from the tub to back up the deck and inside the house! =P But a very sweet weekend to run away from homework.

BUT, since I didn't get much homework done over that weekend...it felt like I was behind in homework for a couple of days. And I realized that I should start doing my homework as soon as I get it, so as to not worry about it later like I did that one week.

Classes have been crazy this month. It feels as if I've been reading/writing all the time now. Not that I didn't before, but it just seems so intense. I felt like I was constantly studying for quizzes/tests and looking for quotes and making citations for a paper that due in a couple of days.

I'm ready for a break! Thank goodness it's Thanksgiving! ;) I'll have something to be thankful about =P!

Anyway, it's getting late...to be continued....


Next time on liZ's blog: more late night rendevouzing??!? the watching of Home Alone and Home Alone III, killer plants, the little princess, Bible study, CSF crazies, and card game extraveganzas!!! =P




:) It's gonna be a good month :)