The Science of Sleep

Yeah, I took a 5 hour nap yesterday..... Accidentally of course.

I stayed up really late doing homework the night before.. I woke up the next day extremely exhausted. It's actually a miracle that I went to both of my morning classes. After class, I ate a quick lunch, and immediately went up to my room for a nap... and I set my alarm for 1:15 so i could wake up and get ready for spanish.

Unfortunately I slept through my alarm and woke up 5 hours later.

I think my sleep schedule is completely thrown off.

Not only that, but finals are coming up. And it's stressful. I have a film due, a powerpoint presentation, and a test... things aren't going to be fun the next week. 

Tonight I have to go downtown and film some scenes for my movie... at 9:30 at night.. I won't get back until late again.... grrrr..

Let's Get Down to Business

Today I had a meeting with Peggy Cerrito, a business teacher here at Augsburg.

I came to Augsburg knowing that I would be a film major, and I knew that I wanted to double major in something to fall back on... I'm still not sure what I'm going to do.

But when I talked to my R.A., Avery, and told him that I was interested in majoring in business, he told me that he would set up a meeting with Peggy. He said that he was an assistant for Peggy (or something like that), delivered her mail and stuff, and that she was a very nice woman. So today, he brought me up to her office and introduced me to her.

I ended up talking with Peggy about the Augsburg Business program for about 30 minutes... and she really sold it to me (like a real business woman, i guess). It actually made me pretty excited; she told me exactly what i was looking for.

I'm on the right track so far... I'm taking Marketing and Microeconomics next semester, and I really don't have to pick my Business emphasis for a while yet, but she definitely narrowed down my search.

I'm thinking of a business major with an emphasis in either: Economics, Management, Marketing, and possibly Financing (which I doubt).

Basically, it comes down to whatever emphasis i think will help me the most as a film maker.. I'm either leaning towards management or marketing, but I have a while to decide. Today definitely made me feel a lot better about the entire situation though... Peggy even gave me a free Augsburg mug as a kind of "welcome to the business program" gesture. She seems sooooo very nice.

I really can't wait until next semester now... ya, my classes will be much harder, but i'm just ready for my finals to be over...

I'm pretty stressed out right now.

On Eagles Wings

There was a special service during chapel today for an Augsburg student that passed away this weekend:

It was really a sad day for members of the Augsburg community... over thanksgiving break, an Augsburg student was killed in a car accident. The chapel service held today was a chance for everyone to come together and grieve, but ultimately, to celebrate her life.

She was a well-known student... She was in honors and was my teachers assistant for the honors play that all first years put together... Katie and Claire knew her well from the school of americas protest in Georgia... she was also an orientation leader, Augsem leader, and a member of the Riverside Singers.

At chapel today, it really hit me when i realized how close of a community Augsburg College is... there were a lot of people that were affected by this death.. I can only imagine being a student at the University of Minnesota and a death happening.. an organized chapel service attended by many members of the college would be unlikely.

I'm glad to be a member of such a close-knit community.

All my thoughts and prayers go out to Katie's family.

Black Friday

shopping was pretty crazy on friday.

I had some friends stay over at my house on thursday night... we stayed up pretty late, expecting to pull an all nighter (which didn't happen)... we went to bed and then woke up and left at 5 in the morning.

unfortunately, (or fortunately, whatever way you decide to look at it), best buy opened at 5 in the morning... we were about 30 min. late. We did run into one of our friends from high school though. he said he was in line at 4:15 (45 min before best buy opened) and the line was still 200 people deep. So there were a lot of people there at 5:30, just not as many people as we expected.. of course, it was still crazy though. the line wrapped more than half way around the store.

all i needed to buy though was a 1 terabyte hard drive for 150 bucks.. pretty good deal. and i need something to store all my videos on.

heres a good tip though: check amazon.com for christmas deals. i was pretty excited to have my list complete, go shopping on friday, and then be done shopping... however, the night before i looked at amazon.com and everything on my list was the exact same price on amazon.. they even had free shipping... which means not having to get up early (unless you like to people-watch like my friends and i)

target however, was a different story. it was crazy. imagine hundreds of moms with shopping carts, willing to kill for a deal. wow. we walked to the electronics department, decided nothing was worth standing in line for 45 minutes, and then left.

which reminds me... a walmart worker was killed after being trampled to death in a new york walmart... which i think is pathetic. i don't know how people can be in that situation and not try and prevent a death... do people really care about getting their plasma tvs that much?

here's the youtube video about the incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6UKRaM5fA

Cause I'm a Window Shopper.

I'm going shopping tomorrow. Just decided.

I don't know what I'm in for... My mom told me I won't survive.

But I think that Black Friday shopping is something that everyone should experience... I'm not sure what kind of benefit that would have on someone... But I'm sure it would be entertaining.

I don't even know if I need anything. I spent a little bit of time today looking at ads and trying to determine if I really need anything (I don't). And then I looked at amazon.com and most of the things I was looking at are the same price online anyway... so i'll buy them online... But i'm still going tomorrow with some friends just to experience it.

Speaking of which, one of the kids in my film class was talking about black friday shopping yesterday. He said that he would most likely be outside of a best buy at 5 pm today, waiting in line already with a chair that he will set up right in front of the door. (5 pm... really?) Oh, and did i mention that he takes a loan out of the bank in order to buy as much stuff as possible... and then he sells it all on Ebay and makes a few hundred bucks.

I sometimes wish i was that hardcore. ;)

Thanksgiving

It's good to be home.

Sleeping in my own bed is the best feeling in the world. And in the spirit of thanksgiving, I had pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning. That's right, for breakfast. (speaking of pumpkin pie, don't you love all those seasonal foods that they have at restaraunts right now? aka pumpkin pie blizzard at Dairy Queen... it sounds gross, which was my first thought, but it is A-mazing!)

I'm trying to avoid eating a lot now though... I plan on eating at least 3 plate fulls at my grandma's house. My grandma is the best cook in the world. I love eating her meals. I can not wait.

The rest of the day will involve relaxing, taking a nap, watching some football. Speaking of which, I bet that the Lions will lose to Tennessee by more than 21 points.. for sure. The Lions suck. I think it's almost as impossible to go undefeated as it is to win every single game, but the Lions have a shot of going 0-16 this year... And I'm not sure why... Just last year Kitna predicted winning 10 games. And they were decent... what happened?

Anyway, It would have been nice to not have class yesterday.. Most of my other friends from high school didn't have class and were home tuesday night already. But 2 out of my 3 classes were cancelled and i got out of Minneapolis by 2 yesterday afternoon. Traffic still sucked.

either way, Augsburg ends school pretty early... I think the last week of April, but i'm not sure. It's definitely earlier than a lot of other schools. Which is nice.

But I'm going to go eat some turkey.

And SCENE!

Hon 120 Scholar Citizen Theater Lab is officially over.

It is a sad, sad day.

Our play went excellent by the way. Nearly perfect. And the crowd loved it.

Professor Crockett sent us an e-mail the next day too:

Cheryl and I thoroughly enjoyed the play last evening. I am very proud of you!

We will do some reviewing before the quiz. See you tomorrow.

Larry Crockett

So I figured he would give us a break the next day and make the quiz kind of easy.. Not true.

Anyway... Despite our play making fun of Crockett, everyone was pretty excited that he enjoyed it. The honors play has been going on for 4 years now, and one of the seniors said that it was the best play (as a whole) that they've had in all 4 years. I dare you to try and beat our play.. I'm still amazed that we pulled it off in such a short time.

and after the play: PARTY TIME.

Yeah, that's right. An Honors Party.

complete with food and drinks, a d.j. and the craziest game of Catch Phrase i've ever played.

On Monday night, we all got together again and watched the video that Erica (our director) put together for us. It was funny to see all of us at the beginning of school (she recorded pretty much everything form the beginning to the end of the whole semester). We all looked so awkward as we were trying to learn everyone's names and fit in. Erica made a DVD for everyone of us too.

The play has brought us all so close together. So sad that it's over... I'll miss those monday nights.