The song that summer sings, the chill that autumn brings

So, life has been fairly uneventful.
The past week has been 'blah', and this week has been equally 'blah'. There is nothing interesting going on. How quickly I've fallen into the rote of, "How was your day?"
"normal."

Surprise, surprise.
Tuesdays are still my least favorite day of all time. It's an 8 AM to an 8:20 PM day, and it drives me crazy! Food? Definitely optional. Oh, well.

Today, I had to present a 10 page paper on respect. Random people were drawn at the barn to write papers on various topics. I went fourth, hoping that everyone would be slightly asleep by that time. I apparently, had that all planned out, but what I didn't plan was that people were actually paying attention to me.
Guh.

Karma, oh, how I hate you. I can stand infront of a class of sixty people and read off a paper, no problem. I can even do a presentation on it, without issue. But when every single one of them is actually paying attention me? Oh, yeah.
Houstan, we have a problem.
Mayday, Mayday.

Oh, well. Apparently I had the 'most interesting paper'. Go, me?

This weekend was.. interesting.
No word is so loaded as 'interesting'. Okay, well, maybe 'unique'.
But we had the strangest weather going on. From wed-fri, it was cool and breezy. It was absolutely beautiful. Then again, that's just me (and Dad!) speaking. I, for one, love the fall and the weather it brings.
For a few days there, it felt like fall.

Then the weekend hits, and BAM, rain BAM humidity BAM heat. It's like chicago in August. It was gross. And the barn was all squishy and mushy, and everything was (slightly) flooded. No damage to anything, but the wind blew water in. Ugh.

But I'd been fighting off a cold and felt the need to sleep a majority of my weekend away. I would love to have it back to sleep it away, again! But that's just me. I'm feeling better now (yay!) but I need to restock on musinex. Oh, boy. For such vile stuff as it is, it really DOES work.
Note to self -- Lesson to be learned, here?!?!?

Beyond that, this week has been fairly uneventful. I chose to sleep through sunday night, instead of going out to Outback for a friend's party. Sleep & getting better > hanging out and doing god knows what.
Call me crazy. I like sleep.

New conclusion:
Some of the most interesting conversations I'll ever have, are going to be when I'm half asleep with my roommate.
The other night at about 1, I woke up coughing. I got up to take my inhaler and get a drink of water.. earlier that day (It was sunday) the power had gone out *-more on this later-* and my iHome had gone off and then on again. It has a really bright LED light that I normally put to 'dim', but before I went to sleep I hadn't done it.
So I'm up and around in my big white T-shirt, and the water bottle crackles.

Kristen BOLTS up in bed and says "INTRUDER!" really loudly. Scared the bejesus out of me!
The night before that, she said "No! I won't! You can't make me do it!" I tease her that she's having nightmares about her speech class....
But yeah. Fun times.

**Back to weather!
Apparently those of you in Illinois are getting rained off the map. My sympathies. However, here, we really haven't had much beyond wind. Huge gusts on Sunday, saturday, the power was knocked out for a bit (while I was in the shower. Go figure.) and then Sunday it was out for about five minutes and then on again.
Oh, yay.

But the seasons almost feel like they're changing. The air in the morning is cool, if not downright cold and there's a crisp to it that wakens me every time I can manage to drag myself out of the room.
It's truly lovely. I can't wait to see what it's like with the leaves changing colours.

Hope the rain hasn't gotten to any of you too badly!
-El