A brief bout of cynicism among other things.

So, I've been slightly remiss in updating this.

Everything that's been going on:

Well, not much of anything. My daily routine really hasn't changed overmuch. Wake up. Class. Repeat, lunch, barn, homework, sleep.
Repeat day.

Three weeks ago was mid-terms. I didn't actually have any mid-term tests though. Yay, me. That definitely worked in my favor!
Halloween was last friday, we had a party out at the barn. Joy.

Two weeks ago, tuesday there was a fire alarm. Two days before that, someone went through the dorm building next to mine with a fire extinguisher at 4:20 in the morning. The stuff in the thing set off the fire alarms, so most of my friends got a rude awakening.
I would laugh, but it was so cold that day that they decided to go back to sleep in everyone else's room.
That dorm building (bare) has the same front door lock as mine (fox). My mail box is in their dorm lobby, so we can all get into eachother's lobby.
Unfortunately they thought that waking ME up at 4:40 was a good idea.
:(

Not happy.
No joy.

But that's about the only real 'interesting' thing that happened at school.

Three weekends I went home with a friend of mine, Clarinda. It was... interesting.
She lives north-west, right at the boarder of indiana/ohio/michigan. We actually walked (it was still warm, then!!!) and stood at the 'place' where all three states meet. It's an interesting sensation.
Now I can say I was in multiple places at once, at least!

Real food.
Reallll foooood. I'd go home again with her in a heartbeat. :D There was homemade bread. I'm a sucker for real food, now.. Gasp.
And I ate stuff I didn't know exactly what it was, but it looked strange and there were *horror* touching food groups.
But I ate it and it was good. :D

Hello, real world.

This past week has been fairly uneventful.
We had snow last tuesday. I walked out of wellness at 8:20, and there's little hail/snow things. It was fun. And then on friday there was more snow. Same with this morning.
Over the weekend there was a fundraiser at the barn. "Jumper Jackpot" and "ride-a-buck". The jumper show I just watched, and took some pictures. It looked like a fun time, anyway.
"Ride a buck" was where you got sponsored and for every 25$ you were sponsered, you got a 'buck" (slip of paper). You could stick these pieces of paper anywhere as you rode (not in a pocket/boot, obviously, but like under your knee, thigh, ect) and whoever had a last 'buck' (they would drop as you fell) won.

Instead of riding, I helped with the teachers. We got some of our professors out and sponsored, so I led the horse as they rode. Oh my lord, it was more of a "student torture". We had to jog around and around and a round and hopped over little poles and little rail fences.
It was bad.

I think I was crazy for volunteering for that!!!

But that's what's been going on.

Now for this little breif bout of cynicism.
I walk back from the barn today and someone had shoved a little piece of paper under the door. It was the advertisement for a mardi gras party (?!?!??!). Whooo.
I tend to throw those things away. They just scream 'annoyance' to me.
But then the "1$ for women who come before 12, 2$ if ladies bring their college ID".
And right below that was 2$ margarita, 5$ for a pitcher of beer.

...Are you honestly doing that?
Gee.

Aren't we sending a not so subtle message.
Idiots.

So that's my little cynical moment! I laughed. Probably not a good thing to laugh at, but at least I'm laughing instead of trying to figure out how to get a fake ID?
Who knows.

Eagle's doing really well at the barn. He's not getting too frisky with the weather, which is a bit of a surprise, but it's really nice, too.
This week we're doing lunge lessons. considering Eagle isn't the best on the lunge line I'm working with a partner on a school horse. Meaning we lunge eachother. Yikes.
My partner is Mark, because we're sharing a saddle (his. REALLY nice saddle. I might have to run away with it.) and he and I are the only people remotely tall enough to work together. (he's taller than I am but I have longer legs.)

Our school horse is "Palmer", a big black percheron/clydesdale cross. He's a good guy.
But I'm going on a powertrip. :D Poor Mark today got stuck as the guinea pig. No reins and no stirrups, just a saddle.
And I'm the one with the lungeline and the lunge whip.
Cue the evil laugh..

Though what goes around comes around, and I rather suspect he's going to be paying me back for that tomorrow. He's already hinted at having a 'full lesson plan' scheduled.
Eugh.
Time to find something I've done for him in the past and drag that up into memory so he can't kill me.

It's been an interesting month since I last wrote, though. The leaves have changed colors and dropped, we've passed rain and gone into snow. Sadly, none of it's stuck yet.

Gas was, at one point, at 1.23$ a gallon. Now it's leveled off about 1.72$. But still. I like that price. :D

I have to admit, I cannot wait for thanksgiving! Last week I actually thought that this week was thanksgiving. ;_; Clarinda broke my heart when she pointed out that I had a week and a half, not half a week, to go.
Sigh.

I can't wait to see you all!!!
Love you!
El