Haven’t posted in a long while, mostly because I’ve been way busy over the last two weekends.

Two Fridays ago, I hopped on a bus with my MUN club heading to Chicago. Besides the actual conference, which was slightly different from the ones in high school (more structured in some areas, less structured in others), we were able to mess around in downtown Chicago a lot. The conference was held in the Sheraton on the Chicago River, so it was at a prime location. Then when we had free time, part of my group was able to go to Pier W and the Shedd Aquarium, both of which were a lot of fun. In fact, at the Shedd we saw four girls, all probably ten or younger, doing the “Soulja Boy”…something I never thought I’d ever see but was just so funny at the time.

Eventually we had to come back though, and we got back to Witt that Tuesday morning…at which time I caught my ride and headed home for break. Now my Thanksgiving itself wasn’t all that great, but the ability to go home and see a lot of my old friends every night was just too much fun. In fact, Thanksgiving night at about 1 a.m. (which would have actually been Friday), we went to Denny’s and convinced my buddy to take the “Double Dog Dare.” That is where you eat an appetizer sampler, a lumberjack slam, a banana split, and a beverage in 30 minutes to get it all for free. Well it was roughly six hours after his Thanksgiving meal, so he didn’t come close to finishing. It was really nice to be home though.

Now I’m back on campus and getting ready for the home stretch. I have a few big papers to write and of course a final or two all within the next three weeks. It’s going to be rough.

So while nothing big happened in my current classes last week, I did get to pick my classes for next semester. As a freshman, and picking classes in one of the last time slots, I was worried I wasn’t going to get any of my first picks. That was not a problem at all, as I literally got every one of them. Sociology of Deviance, Understanding Psych., Mysteries of Self & Soul, and English 101 (with a rumored fantastic professor)…they all sound so interesting, but I have a really good feeling I am going to be writing a ton of papers. Oh well.

Saturday was my father’s, my aunt’s, and my friend’s (from down the hall) birthdays. What are the odds, huh? Friday night we waited for my friend to leave and snuck in and TPed her entire side of the room. Her reaction in the morning was great and it was just a blast to do.

After that on Saturday I prepared for something big…the opportunity to win a Wii. Delta Tau Delta, a frat. here at Witt, was throwing this big charity event for Bleed Purple, which helps kids with cancer go to college. They had a bunch of people sign up for a contest to win a Wii - the contestants had to hold onto their giant greek letters made out of wood. Only five people showed up so I was feeling alright. We started around 11 a.m., and at 4 p.m. we were down to the final three. It was evident that the other two guys weren’t giving up anytime soon, so around 9:30 p.m. I dropped so I could help celebrate my friend’s birthday for real. I had planned on this from the beginning since I already have a Wii and the entry fee was purely for charity. Rumor is it ended around 6 a.m. after some rule technicalities and the same Billy Joel song being played for three hours straight.

So that was my weekend and now I prepare for my last week before break. I’m in Chicago this weekend for MUN and that gets me excused absences in all my Monday classes, so I come home midday on Tuesday. I’m so excited.

So, last Wednesday was Halloween which was pretty awesome.  Luckily I don’t have classes on Thursday so my bedtime is really late.  I went as a guy from one of the iPod commercials; I was wearing black shoes, black socks, black pants, black t-shirt, black hoodie, black gloves, black face-paint, black hairspray, and carried around a white iPod and white headphones.  Whenever anyone asked me what I was, I just started dancing very flamboyantly.  I didn’t make it to the costume contest where I was planning to go, but oh well, I still had a great time.

This weekend was kind of slow, but thats alright.  I am getting ready to go to Chicago the weekend before Thanksgiving for Model United Nations (MUN) which is pretty exciting.  I have a few papers to write and a whole bunch of research to do, but I love MUN.  MUN is where you go to a conference pretending to be the delegates from a designated country talking about certain topics, just like in the real United Nations.  It’s something I did all throughout high school and my senior year I got top honors, so I’m really excited to try it at the college level.

Anyway, not too much to talk about because of the weekend.  Hopefully more eventful things will happen this time around.  But ooh, the Olive Garden a few minutes away opens today!