I can't believe how weird of a week it has been! So I'll just recap it in a short little ditty 'cuz I know you've prolly heard it all before.

So, Saturday I came back to school and hung out with my friends Kristy and John and then Kristy spent the night. Then Sunday, it seemed just like a windy day. Little did I know it was Hurricane Ike. Go figure. Ohio would have a hurricane! Geez... I heard this story from one of my professors that he had a friend who had a tree fall on his house and the insurance company wouldn't cover him because he didn't have hurricane insurance! Who needs it though!? You live in OHIO! We don't have hurricanes! So why would you ever even consider buying that...! Wow...

Then of course, about 2 PM at school the power went out. I drifted about and found some friends still here and we went and hung out in the west lobby of 6th floor. We were playing pool and Uno and some were doing homework. Then Tim Bessler and Rayshawn Eastman (our Asst. Dean of Students and our Hall Coordinator, respectively) told us to go back to our rooms and that the lobbies would be closed until the storm was over. See, the lobbies have two walls of windows across from each other. Apparently the wind was actually breaking some of the windows (West and East dorms have proof of that) and Tim and Rayshawn didn't want us to be anywhere where the wind could blow in one window and come out the other and possibly break the windows... Wow... talk about scary. The school really did suffer more damage other than just the broken windows. The roof ripped off of the top of Seton West and the rooms in the that corner had to be 'evacuated' to the 4th floor because since their room didn't have a roof and rain was predicted, they didn't want the room's contents to be ruined but thankfully it never rained and the roof is being fixed. The roof also came off the top of the 6th Floor Chapel but again that's being repaired. Also we have wires come down in the West parking lot and some trees come down, like one of the bigs in the Quad came down but thankfully did not land on the library. It was pretty awful to spend all day Sunday without power.

Sudnay night we all got texts and calls saying school was cancelled on Monday so when I found out my house had power, I left school at about 11 AM and went home where I had power and water. Oh! The water! Ya, the water had to be shut off during the night because a pipe broke above Seton Lobby and was leaking down through the panels and into the lobby itself. It was not good but that's been repaired. I spent Monday at home and then got another text on Monday night saying school was cancelled again for Tuesday so I obviously stayed where I was. Then I got an email on Tuesday saying everything was being repaired and there was only minor damage and that school would resume on Wednesday. I ended up spending my Tuesday hanging with my friend and saw "Tropic Thunder" in theaters- freaking hilarious movie btw!!! :)

Then school resumed Wednesday but felt like a Monday unfortunately, then Thursday felt like Tuesday, but luckily Friday was really Friday to me and I was so happy the weekend was here. Even though I love 3 day weeks, I did not like how we went about getting that 3 day week. All my classes were screwed up because of the change in schedules and now because of that, this coming week will be screwed up until the professors can reassess our situations and progress and fix the syllabi to follow the new schedule accordingly.

But Friday was good. I got to help my friend Sam get her car fixed (she had a flat tire but the tire place couldn't fix it so she ended up buying a new tire) and then she and I went to the Reds game v. Milwaukee Brewers. We witnessed 7 Reds' Home Runs!!! It was awesome!!! But because the Reds were doing so well the game became kind of a bore and actually one of our other friends, Eric, was so bored he went down to the Build-A-Bear shop inside the stadium and made a puppy dog. lol :) So Sam and I ended up leaving during the 8th inning and the Reds were winning 11-2. She and I hung out all night and didn't go to bed until 2 AM but I'm going home on Saturday.Sam is also going home with me because she has an interior design project that requires making a 3D model in a computer program of someone's house and she asked that she use mine so she'll be photographing my house for her project. That should be quite interesting... :) I'll also be hanging out with Kristy again (she goes to UC in the DAAP program so she doesn't start school until Wednesday, Sept. 24th... lucky... lol). On Sunday is my grandma's 85th birthday party in Columbus so I'll be joining my dad's family to celebrate another year with my grandma! :) Exciting! (My uncle Doug is excited about this party because then he can go to the OSU game on Saturday and then the party on Sunday and he'll just have a blast!)

This past week has been crazy and it's not over yet... We'll see if we can't get back to normal this coming week... But what is normal? "To be normal is to be abnormal. And to be abnormal is to be normal." So what are we to do in this cunundrum? Go figure... :)

Pic 1 is me and Sam at the Reds' game. Pic 2 is the first 6 home runs we saw (we saw a total of 7). Pic 3 is Eric and the puppy he made at the Build-A-Bear workshop inside the stadium. And Pic 4 is Sam, Me, Natalie (Ryan's girlfriend), and Ryan in the stadium but infront of the Cincinnati skyline.