Sunday, The Day of Rest or Not

I have spent the entire day working. I did not go to track today because I was too busy working. Tonight I will do some push-ups and crunches and core things to make up for not running today. Last night I was so tired and sore that I went to bed at ten o'clock. I know that may not seem early to any readers who are not or never have been in college, but usual bed time around here is about 12AM to 1AM. I went to bed early, and I slept like a rock. I got up at nine this morning still tired and sore. I tried to do work in my room, but I ended up moving out into the second floor lounge were I have been ever since. I had ramen for breakfast, and then I worked and went to lunch. Hunt lunch today was sloppy joes and sweet potato fries both of which weren't half bad. I came back and sat down to work again. Around two I took a break and watched the most recent episode of The Guild and Tabletop two of my favorite Geek and Sundry shows. Sadly season six of The Guild is over, but the show will continue. I was totally afraid for the end of the show, but the comments below the video assuaged my fears.

Right now I am drinking hot chocolate and working on the explication of a sonnet that I have due on Friday. It is much harder than it may seem. I am good at math. It is easy. English is hard. Luckily I have questions to guide me so I am not just wading into it blind. Much cheering and applause for my textbook. Thank you. I am resisting the urge to snack. It is almost dinner time and I must get back to my homework.

Rest for me.

Love,
Alora

P.S. You know half the time when I sign my name I type so fast that it comes out "Alroa" and I have to try again. Once I even published a post before I noticed that I had spelled my name wrong.

Sore Muscles

So as I told you all this morning I went to track today. We ran about 2 miles. I think. It took about twenty minutes, and then we stretched and talked for a little while. I am really, really sore now. I also have a blister on my foot. I have track tomorrow too. Yeah! Not. I have not gotten any homework done today and I think I am going to go to bed early. By early I do not mean midnight, but rather around 10. I am going to get up early tomorrow and work all day. Nice and fun. I will take a break for track at some point. I am going to be so sore on Monday. Getting in shape is so painful.

It is good though. Getting in shape that is.

Love,
Alora

Errors in my Blog

Mom is on Skype with Brittan and nagging me about errors in my blog. Silly errors. There, their, and they're. Hear and here. I apologize. I really am sorry and I feel quite embarrassed. I make these errors because I write my blogs fast and stream of consciousness. Please feel free to comment any errors that you find. I have a hard time editing my own work. I apologize again.

Go do laundry.

Love,
Alora

Lyrica Falls Down the Stairs. Everyone Dies.

          Yesterday was one of the best days of the week, Friday. I had a busy, but fun day. Once my classes started at ten I wasn't done doing stuff until 11pm. However, I was doing fun stuff. For example I worked from 2-4 which was fun. I got to meet my boss's daughter who is adorable. Her name is Kelsie (spelling?) and she is in fifth grade. I helped her work the TV.
          I left work early to get dressed and run up to the PAC (gym) for track practice at four. I got there about 2 minutes late. We did 200 m relays. Person A (Brittan) ran the first 200m of the track and then tagged person B (me) on the opposite side of the track from where A started. Then while B ran her 200, A crossed over the field in the middle of the track. Each of us did this four times so the team did a mile and the two of us did two laps each. Brittan and I were last. Our time was 7:45 min. I think we did pretty good and Brittan didn't come to track last week and she was having some trouble breathing. After the relay we took a quick break and then split for sprints and stairs (long distance workout). Brittan, Sophia, me and a girl whose name I do not know did sprints. Just so you all know I haven't run since the end of eighth grade -ish. I haven't actually run and practiced for track since seventh grade. I think we did like two days of track, I don't remember why I quit, in eighth grade. Either way I sprinted faster than everyone I was running with and Sophia is the president of the track club. I know that she is more of a long distance person, but nobody else passed her. We sprinted three times and then did some core workout: crunches and planks.
           I had some soreness yesterday during D&D and I was super tired. Now my legs, my but, and my stomach hurt. A lot. I was going to get up at 9 and go to the 10 am track practice, but instead I am going to the 3pm one because I could not get up this morning. I was sore, and I stayed up until two AM watching The Matrix with Mimi. I told you last night was fun.
          Now for the D&D side of the story. Well last week we made new characters. My character is actually cool now (sorry Amanda). She has a cooler back story which makes for a more interesting game. So last week after we made our characters we started our first module which was all of us waking up in a jail cell chained together with about 50 other prisoners wearing potato sacks. Yeah. So we tried and failed to breakout last week. I won't give you the whole run down, but just know that I started last night with ONE HP. ONE! Moira, my character has a maximum of four. So needless to say I got down to 1/4 HP this round. Thank you so much Chibi (Dungeon Master) for not killling me. Yesterday Jessica killed half of a giant worm. I passed out. All of the prisoners, but my group died. It was very eventful.

Three sentences. Rope.

Love,
Alora

College Craft Number One

So last night I was feeling a little stressed so I sat down and made this.

Isn't it adorable!!!! I bought some cute fat quarters at Walmart a while back and so I decided to use my monster one to make a ID holder because my other one broke. Just so all of you know I may shortly blog abut this one joining my other one in broken land because I hand stitched it. It didn't take that long. Only about two or three hours. Although I didn't get much homework done last night. I did watch three more episodes of Torchwood though which was fun. I felt much better after making this and I get to show it to everyone today. Here are some pictures of the back and inside.

As you can see, it fits my phone, ID, and keys. The three most important things in a college students life. All I did was cut out two squares that turned out to be different sizes, hence the flap and then sewed them together. I used up almost all of my small supply of green thread, but I love the finished product. I need to work on the ribbon knot because it keeps coming undone, but that's what happens when you don't bring buttons. This is bored college student for you. I hope that I can share more adorable creations with you.
I may need to get more thread first.

Don't forget your buttons.

Love,
Alora

Homework To-Do List

So I have a To-Do list on Google Docs and it has all of my homework on it. Keep in mind that I have 19 semester hours. There are currently 12 items in my homework list and some due until the end of the month. I love my life. I keep getting super ahead on my homework. I am not stressed about it at all. Super excited. I have an essay in Intro to Literature, and poems to revise and tons of other things to do, but I know that I can do them within reasonable amounts of time. I also know that it will be fun. I have one boring class this semester and it is only kind of boring. I am just taking it because it is required for graduation.

Poetry Class with Weeping Angels

So I just got back from my poetry class. It was super fun. We workshopped my poem and I think people liked it. I had a few iffy things that I am going to fix, but the rough draft that I read to the and they looked at is this one:

The Beginning of All Art

The painter licks his lips and dips

into a brimming pit of thought.

The brush whips over the canvas creating,

Marking out a new form. Will it be

A person, dog, or tree?

Options are open.

Maybe just a pile of purple puzzle pieces

Stacked in such a specific way.

An author primes her pen,

Swirling it over an abyss of idea.

What shall she scribe?

Opportunities are endless.

Construct courtyards

of crying cherubs, tears unexisting

on their rough unmoving cheeks,

Or take a boy on an unexpected adventure.

Now you sit down at a table

venturing into the unknown

Jumping into the pit.

Swimming down into the abyss.

Measuring out thought

adding a pinch of it.

It, that fuels your mind on your wondrous journey.

It, that powers the writer while she furiously clicks away at the keys.

It, that sustains the painter’s muscles when his hand grows heavy.

The father of rhyme and alliteration.

Imagination.

I think it is pretty fun and I know that at least some of them liked it. They thought that it was very original except for the "venturing into the unknown" which is kind of cliche and I think I may take it out. Other than that though my professor quite liked it. Especially the sound devices which I had tons of fun playing with.

Don't Blink

Love,

Alora