the high today was like 37.. and it's only October.

I know that it has been a long time since I’ve updated this, but there hasn’t been that much excitement and with midterms I was focused on studying a lot  I’m pleased with my midterm grades, and so far my classes haven’t proved to be too difficult. It’s really hard to believe that I’m more than halfway through my semester already, I’ll be home for Christmas before I know it! We had Fall Break the weekend before last which signaled the halfway point of my first semester of college and let me tell you- everyone goes home for that even though it’s only a four day weekend. The only people left on my floor were me, the RA Sandy, and a couple of girls on the swim team since they had a meet that weekend. I was invited to go home with a couple of my friends but since the dorms were still open there had to be people working the front desk, and since I didn’t have family to visit and everyone else did, I figured it’d be easy to make a few extra bucks. It meant a lot of movies and time to myself, which was actually pretty nice. It’s hard to get that around here most of the time- there are people everywhere. I was really glad when my friends came back though, I was getting a little stir crazy. I even crocheted myself a scarf since it’s going to get colder than cold here in the next few months. We had our first snowfall on the Thursday of Fall Break, and since then it’s stayed pretty cold. I think today’s high was like 37. Mom sent me some boots and a down coat she found on sale at the Columbia outlet, and then came just at the right time. She also arranged to have a cake delivered to me during fall break- yellow cake with chocolate frosting, my favorite. Thanks mom, it was delicious!

I’ve talked to Nate a lot recently since we were excited to cheer our A’s on into the second round of the ALCS, only to see them get swept by the Tigers. This World Series has proved to be interesting just because there are quite a few students from the Saint Louis and Detroit areas, so people get pretty heated while watching the games on the big screen in the lounge downstairs. I haven’t decided who I want to win yet, but I’m leaning a little more toward the Tigers I guess. To be honest I’m just glad to be watching good baseball. Lizzy has sent me a couple of different dress ideas for the wedding and I’ll be out there to visit her for Thanksgiving in a little less than a month which is hard to believe. I’m excited to see Maryland and the life she has made for herself out there and to meet the rest of Billy’s family so I can say I’ve met them at least once before the wedding. I’m also looking forward to just seeing some of my own family- three months is a long time to go without a fellow Chambers around.

I have a feeling that the next few weeks will fly by. I’m hoping to make it out to Notre Dame on Saturday for my friend Lisa’s birthday. She and I worked together at Cold Stone this summer and she’s totally a fun person to be around, so that should be highly amusing. I’m also headed to Chicago for the first time on Sunday to catch the Mat Kearney concert at the Chicago House of Blues, and I’m really excited for that. I love his music, it’ll be a small taste of home, and I’ve been itching to get into Chicago for weeks. Valpo only satisfies me for so long. Next weekend I’m headed down to Indy to see RENT! on stage. I watched the movie for the first time this last weekend and fell in love with the story- I’d already memorized the soundtrack. I checked it out online and it’s playing Indy on November 4-5, so Katie, Beth and I are going to make a day trip out of it. Thanks to Gramma Kingston for helping me with the tickets- I’m really excited about seeing more of this beautiful state. (ok so that was sarcasm.. it’s pretty ugly out here, but I’m excited to see Indy.) Other than that, school is moving on as usual.