I think I stopped some time after the trip to virginia tech last time. We carved pumpkins and Mom and Amy brought me my car and Rachel and I worked on our costumes. We were fashion icons, as she was Jackie O and I was Audrey Hepburn. The boys were Scottish dudes, which was made funnier by the fact that there were real Scottish dudes there singing some song. Here you go...pictures...
The next week was really long and busy and pictureless. I finally got pictures from the Freshman who isn't a freshman from the time Julie and I frolicked in the empty reflection pond. Here's another picture! For the record, I am currently sitting here, crying over the movie Mona Lisa Smile. It should NOT make me cry. Fall break started with a Third Day concert, followed by Clemson losing to some team not worth remembering. After that was contra dancing with the hippies and men in skirts. Sunday we left for Helen, GA, where we visited the men in liederhosen (sp?) at Octoberfest, then we went on to our cabin at Vogel State Park. We hiked up Blood Mountain, the wrong way (cause we lost our trail). We basically went straight up the north face of the mountain. We froze while we ate lunch, then we hiked back down via the AT and a few other trails. We hung out after that and made s'mores and all that jazz. We hiked around the lake in the dark...such a brilliant idea. We packed up and left on Tuesday and came back to C-Town. I went to Greenville to vote and ended up staying overnight to come back the next morning. Oh, we also played in leaves on the trip. Awesome! The next three days made for an especially long week. Friday was high fiving. A group of us go out on the library bridge on Fridays from about 11 until 1:30 or so and we give high fives to everyone who comes past. I have about 80 pictures of high fiving, so I'll have to put just a few of them up here. That afternoon, Joe and I ran around on campus and took pictures of stuff and goofed off. Thus the picture of me playing in the grass. That night, I felt bad, but I went to the CCC pig picking and line dance. I learned the snowflake shuffle or whatever it's called, so I'm proud of that.
Saturday was the game. Mom, Dad, and Amy came to the game. It was a pretty good game. Very stressful, as there were a lot of close calls. We won. That's good. Julie and Rachel and I made cheesecake on Saturday night. Yum yum. This week is nice and quiet. I have a Thanksgiving dinner that some friends are having on Saturday, and I'm having lunch with a few people. Yesterday had lunch with Dad. Friday I'm going walking with Keeley. No exceptions. She can't get out of it with a crowbar and a saw. I gotta go. I'm working on homework right now and Rachel's coming to have tea with me in a half an hour.



And look! I got all of the pictures to line up in a nice row for me! Picture placement is so hard on this site. Don't know why. Not that it matters to most people, but since I like to tell my life in pictures, this is quite an accomplishment for me.

This is my official apology to those family members who might be cranky with me due to the fact that i am neglecting my blog. Sadly for them, I have to leave for class in two minutes, so yeah, no blog today. Instead, I will add the pictures of Cincinnati that I failed to actually include in the previous post. Not that anyone noticed except for me.
Some other time, cause i can't find the pictures...

Sadly (or happily?) you are not going to get a day by day, blow by blow detail of everything to happen in the last month. Sorry people. Take what you can get. The Friday after my last post, Joe and Julie and I went to G-vegas and stayed with my familia, complete with G-ma and G-pa, because we were running the Race for the Cure on Saturday. The race was fun and I met my goal of running it in under 30 minutes. Joe is crazy and ran the race twice. I got a phone call that night during the football game from a certain crazy uncle of mine who had run a 15k that morning (he's insane too...side note, sorry i didn't call you back! i kept forgetting!). That night was the (i think) Louisiana Tech game. I think. It was a pretty fun game. I mean, we beat them. That's always good. Julie and Britta and I got bored and left after halftime to go watch Pride & Prejudice. That was fun. I slept through most of it, but managed to wake up for all my favorite parts. The next week was probably very busy, but I likely don't remember it. The week of the Wake game is when we had our CSF fall retreat. Way fun. We stayed in a yurt. It was a ropes course. That picture is of me up on the high ropes course. It was a moment where I had to deal with my apparent fear of heights. I have discovered that I have several fears: unsecure heights (if i'm safe, then no big deal), drowning, and crossing without a crosswalk. Yep. The retreat was fun, and I did indeed make it to the next step. What you can't see is me walking on the two parallel wires from that last step, all the way over to the next tree. The following week was also really busy. I accidentally (I'm gonna kill you, Wes) became president of MA (material advantage). That Friday was Joe's and my 6 month, so we went to Fall for Greenville/ Fall over on Greenville/ Fall to Greenville/ Fall in Greenville to hear the bands and eat the food. There was Dr. Pepper Steak Kebobs (mmmmmmmmm). We (myself and several other people who are in CME) went to Cincinnati that weekend and into the next week for the MS&T (material science & technology) convention. It was way fun, informative (that's for mom), different, and it was a pinnacle moment in my life (that's for dad). Have a few pictures of Cincinnati...
The next week only lasted 2 days, but I had a lot of test in those 2 days. It was homecoming weekend, so I went to Tigerama on Friday night with Julie and Holly, then I went to the Gulu Walk with the High Five club at midnight. It was really cold. Ever since, I've been pretty stuffy. ESPN Gameday was in Clemson on Saturday, for those who didn't see it. I walked down to campus and saw that and looked at the floats. I screamed myself hoarse at the football game on Saturday night. We won, of course. Possibly the best football game I've ever been to. I even got my picture with the tiger finally! Except for the Carolina game freshman year, when the fight broke out and I was on the second row. Sunday was a bit quieter. My car went kaput, so Dad came to look at it and we ended up having it towed back to Greenville to the Volvo place. The week was busy busy busy. But, on Thursday, after much stress of trying to get the tickets, I finished my test and got in the car and Julie, Britta, Rachel and I drove to Blacksburg for the football game. Before you think it, I KNOW that we lost. But, it was a fun trip. We drove up and got there just in time to see kickoff. We sat in the middle of their student section, which was so funny. We learned that their guys LOVE Clemson girls. And who wouldn't? But their girls aren't very big fans of us. We got called a few things, but we mostly kept our sarcastic return remarks to ourselves and the guys in front of us who were both sober and nice. One of them had a girlfriend who had graduated from Clemson. They were nice enough to save me from the guy who really liked to play with the pom pom on my hat. He was really drunk and wanted to actually talk to me by the end of the game. We drove back from the game and got home at 5 am. Yes, that's right. 5. I ended up getting to class/work at around 9:30 the next morning. I was really lucky, because Dr. Skaar (my 8 am teacher) said that they just went to get coffee, because he didn't want to teach. Today, I'm doing laundry and stuff, carving a pumpkin with some friends, then finishing off my halloween costume. Tonight is the halloween party. Yay!
That's all I've got for you guys.