The Twelfth Week

And so we've made it to week twelve. It's amazing to think that I'm about to enter my last week of my freshman year of college, but I am. This week was considered dead week by most of the students, meaning the week before finals when most students don't really get too much work. This wasn't the case for me. My week wasn't necessarily filled with work, but it also wasn't really a dead week. Aside from working on school I spent a lot of time sleeping, plus I came to one big decision regarding my future in college... but you can read about that inside (I love cliffhangers). So here we go.

SUNDAY: Sunday was spent resting up from my "marathon" by sleeping as much as possible. On top of sleeping I also had to work some more on my paper for my film class (I forgot to mention last week that the professor extended the due date for the paper by a week. My bad). Working on the paper was a nice distraction from being sore though. I was actually a lot less sore than I expected to be, not to say I didn't really dread walking all the way down to the caf for my dinner, but I made it. That was unexpected.

MONDAY: I had a little bit of a thrill on Monday. It may sound conceited, but hey, this is a blog about my life. It's bound to come off that way sometimes. A random person came up to me and asked me if I was the marathon guy from the Relay for Life. It was pretty exciting. It is a very rare occasion for me to be recognized by people I don't know. Of course the humbling experience was eating lunch on my own. Humbling, but at the same time quite peaceful. In a school of three thousand people it's good to get some alone time.

TUESDAY: There is a class that I haven't really talked about all that much inside of this here blog. That class would be the Social Science Perspective on Film, better known as, "Tuesday Night at the Movies." We actually watched a pretty interesting film about how Hawaii became a state. I had expected it to be an extremely boring historical film, but it turned out to be much better than I expected. Apparently we Americans were real jerks through the whole ordeal. Shocking.

WEDNESDAY: This was actually the most simple day to get through of all of the days this week. At this point I was basically free of all work until finals week, which means that I had a dead half week, or a half dead week...? No. That can't be right. We'll stick with a dead half week. So this was the start of my dead half week. I spent it watching a few friends of mine giving utopia presentations for their class. It was quite exciting. One group had a utopia in which it was ruled by women. Strangely enough, it was the group that had the highest ratio of guys to girls. Now that's progress.

THURSDAY: So this day brings the resolution to the previous cliffhanger. I'm trying to build this thing up as much as possible (Which isn't very much since this isn't really much of a surprise anyways). On this day I finally did something that I'd been thinking about doing for quite some time. Something that I knew that I was going to do but just couldn't find the time to do it. I declared a major. I am now majoring in film studies. Super exciting stuff. I'm sure most of the world is just shocked by this because of my blatant loathing of all things film. So yeah. That's the big event. I hope it was worth the read. If you're bored at this point (Which most of you probably are) then you could probably just look at the pictures and move on.

FRIDAY: I had no class on Friday, which meant that I got to sleep in a whole lot on Friday. It was very nice. I woke up at around 1:15. I feel like I'm already preparing myself for the summer, but during the summer I'll probably be waking up around 3. Just kidding. I hope to wake up by noon each day. I also had my work barbecue on Friday. I never have anything against free food, especially when it's free.

SATURDAY: Once again on Saturday I savored the chance to sleep in, but this time I woke up by 12:15. Improvement. I went to a friends 21 birthday party almost immediately following waking up. It was very fun. Nothing like waking up and playing Mario Kart. She also made a bunch of food for her party, which meant more free food for me. Once again, no complaints there. It's hard to believe that I've already made it through this much of the year. It's really flown by. Before too long I'll be married with seven children, 23 grandchildren, and 62 great grandchildren. But now the sun has set on this glorious week of ours. Here's to the future that seems like it will never come.