The Color of Heather

Julian: It’s like it’s raining, but instead of water the sky is throwing tiny, fluffy bits of ice at me. What is this sorcery?!

*Getting ready to trick or treat. Julian is not wearing a shirt, but only has a leather jacket. He is very pale.

Alisha: We have some spray glitter. You can be Edward Cullen!

Julian: We used that last year. I inhaled so much I think my lungs still sparkle from that ****.

Alisha: So you’re a vampire on the inside!

The Rest of Us: Vampires don’t sparkle!

Christy: Not even on the inside!

Two wrongs make a threesome.

It’s gotten a little rough recently. Last week was insane, but some aspects of it was a blast! I will note, that although it was amazing, I will NOT be going to see rocky horror picture show in the theatre ever again. At least, not without a helmet. The movie itself was amazing. Since I had already seen it twice because me and some friends watched it a few weekends ago, I knew most of the lyrics to the songs and of course the dance to ‘time warp’. I caught on to where people were yelling and when to throw various items. However, after the movie some genius decided to throw a water gun. Not meaning to hit anyone, he somehow actually clipped me in the face (still have a chunk of skin missing right below my eye and somewhat of a bruise around said eye). Hence the need for a helmet, plus trying to wash all the rice, oatmeal, toast and confetti out of my hair was nearly impossible. I ended up scrubbing my hair so much that my scalp hurt later.

That was last weekend. Starting Monday, I had midterm after exam after test in ever class (and even multiples in one class ugh). Luckily my bio exam got postponed from the Wednesday before fall break to the Friday after so when I was on the train I could study. I think I did pretty well on it. I had a midterm in history that I THOUGHT would kick my butt, but luckily since I went to a couple of tutor sessions for that class, I think I actually did pretty well! That makes me happy. So, so far, I am passing all my classes with a C or higher ^__^

Fall break was fun, getting to go back home I got to see my family again, and as soon as I walked through the door I got tackled to the ground by two of the shrimps. Courtney reluctantly gave me a hug =P William spent the night with me which we haven’t done in so long. I was pooped. I miss having a double bed honestly. I went and saw one of my best friends, Yuko, at the mall. We got matching Adam Lambert shirts. I half expected to have been made to sand some ceiling or something to the house… luckily I got out of that. Riding the train was a lot of fun, but I slept most of the way back because I forgot to take motion sickness medicine and I wasn’t feeling good.

Not going to talk much about this because of how depressed I was. Me and Derek broke up. Long distance wasn’t working for us and communication on both our ends failed.

Well, I definitely had the flu last week. While in the middle of building trick or treat street, I got really sick, and had to ditch everyone to go to the girls bathroom. I love bathrooms while I’m sick. I can sleep on bathroom floors… when they’re not college dorm bathrooms. I had to go take a shower and disinfect myself after being on that floor for twenty minutes not being able to move out of that stall without puking. That was disgusting. Bryan made me ramen and tea <3

I worked the trick or treat street on Halloween. I was toto cause I already had a cat costume that didn’t take much to alter into a dog. After that was done me, Julian, Clayton, Bryan, Tommy, Matt, Alisha, Sam, Cristy, Shylo, Stephen, Spencer, Ashley and Brandon went trick or treating. I stayed over with Alisha and Ashley and Brandon at Christy and Sam’s house. Sam was a gypsy and she drove us nuts with her jingling coins on her skirt. We watched a couple of horror movies. Of course, being the easily scared person I am, I jumped a lot.

The picture will finish this.

Pink hair

Clayton: I’m not sure whats scarier… Julian in the morning or Heather after a monster.

My first reaction today, when I went to the caf for dinner was… why is there a sign saying the caf closes at 430 when it opens at 500? The answer: Tailgating. That promptly made me go why would driving really close to the person infront of you effect dinner? Nope, they made us go to a tailgate party for the first football game of the year. And the party was aparently just like our football team… there wasn’t much of it. You can’t say it was a party or a tailgate seeing that there were no cars and there were no balloons. On top of that, all my friends were either playing in the pepband, working, or actually serving the food because they were on a sport team… that or they were Julian playing League of Legends and not coming out of his room anytime soon. Therefore, not only was it not tailgating and not a party and for a sport I don’t like to play OR watch, I was there alone! I wasn’t too happy about that. On the plus side, I did get to see a dude playing catch with some of his friends go after a long toss and ran right into the wubben science building. I’m not quite sure where the football went…

~”Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.“~ Duffy Daugherty

~”Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.“~ Joe Theismann

Well, since I’m off starting a new life, I might as well start blogging about it.
For those of you who do not know, I have moved on to Colorado Mesa University. It’s located in Grand Junction, conveniently highlighted by the green star here. I am about 4:30 -5:00 hours away from Castle Rock, half way between Denver and Colorado Springs for those of you who are wondering… not so conveniently highlighted or labeled anywhere.

Noting on my new life, I now live in a dorm (pictures available on my facebook page) named Rait hall. It’s about a five minute walk to each end of the campus. To make it easier on you, I have a map. Cyan are the buildings of which my five classes are in, Pink is my dorm, and purple is where I eat my food, but sometimes I eat in pink and my classes might go into purple or other buildings, so I’m actually all over the place.

Beyond classes, there’s some people I’ve been hanging out with (since I’ve had the lack of homework I’ve been expecting). Geez, I have to much free time TT__TT hopefully that’ll change once my work study kicks in. My roommate’s pretty sweet, her name’s Krista and she’s majoring in musical theater. She wants to be a Disney performer! Like on cruises or Broadway type of thing. There my buddies Geneva and Jakoby that I sometimes sit with during meal times. Then there’s my AMAZING neighbor, Ashley, who is majoring in Physical Therapy (ironic seeing that she’s in a boot from torn ligaments). There’s the most epicest RA ever, Autumn, who’ve I been known to appear in her room every so often cause she’s that amazing. The sad thing about my dorm is that I finally got my ethernet working, but wifi doesn’t work on the girls’ side of the dorm TT__TT so off to the guys side! There’s a good sized lounge in between the two sides with the computer lab which is what I’ve been using for homework. but there’s some epic rooms I’d rather hang out in. Clayton is a music education major and we’ve become bestest buds. He’s pretty cool but over uses the term “boss”. He’s pretty boss. His roommate is Braunson, whom is a good friend of Ashley’s so the four of us do stuff together (wandering halls, going to campus events, etc.) Their neighbor on the right is Brandon, the guy’s RA, whose pretty cool, and his girlfriend Ashley (who we call Chibi… and is not my neighbor) is awesome as well. On the other side of Clayton we have Kevin, who looks like he walked out of a california surfer’s magazine… but he’s not from cali and he’s never been surfing aparently O.o Donno his roommate. Then in the back corner there’s Julian and Marcus. They’re amazing, to put it in simple terms. There’s always five or six of us in that room XD Steven and Shylo (twins) live off campus but come and hang out. And every so often Quail (he lives on the second floor somewhere) shows up. They’ve taught me how to play magic out of boredom on the weekends XD Interesting fact about guys (and me); they like to sit around just watching ONE play a video game. And all of these people (excluding Ashley, Braunson and possibly Marcus) play League of Legends, a real time stradegy MMO that gives me a headache cause theres too much stuff going on! I don’t understand that game! ACK! *brainsplosion*

To sum up my first two and a half weeks of class, I’ve already been sick, I’ve already trashed, cleaned and trashed my dorm… In process of cleaning it again, I just have to do another trash dump and wash the dishes (MOM! Those dishes were the worst idea ever! I’m debating shoving them away and buying plastic and paper stuff from now on. There’s nowhere to clean them! But good news, there’s a water fountain/bottle filler thing here, but it’s over on the opposite side of the guy’s dorms TT__TT so the coffee maker is easy to fill, so I kept that gallon jug. The faucet is just slow as all get out and takes me five minutes to fill it). Julian plays racquetball so we’ve play twice already (duck! there’s yet another rogue ball heading towards my face!), and I have yet to go swimming. Kevin gave me a blink-182 poster so I drew him a rainbow raccoon for his door =D My guitar is collecting dust until I figure out how to read TAB again. I hate twin beds. I LOVE POPCORN hehe. And with being here for two weeks, I’ve actually lost four pounds O.o… but I’m attributing that to being sick and not eating real food for two days. I need more Ramen… and tea… and jello TT__TT  My self defense class is pretty cool, and the professor is hilarious. He relates each technique to a real life scenario, which some are very frightening… considering “dark alley, big guy attacking with gun”. Geez!

Well, I have class in an hour and my stomach is growling… see ya later aligator!

~”Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income–which he then spends sending his son to college”~