Wow. I do some really stupid stuff sometimes, like accidentally posting something on one blog when it should have been on another... oh well, at least I can have a good laugh at myself...

Things are crazy busy as usual... I can tell that I really should be getting more sleep because coffee isn't working anymore. Maybe I'll be able to catch up this weekend.

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
~Carl Sagan

So it's been a while... but what can I say? Things have been busy. Classes are the norm, my apartment rocks and I love my gals. I won't bore you with the boring tedium of everyday acitivites, but things are going well. I have probably overcommitted myself this semester... again... but what else is new?

As my thought for the moment, I love walking through the basement of Aidekman and hearing music all around me. It makes my happy to hear all of the creativity and talent of some of the people at Tufts. Music is one of those things in the world that is truely beautiful and makes everything wonderful. It's everywhere... you just have to listen for it...

FOCUS recap
thursday (25th) Freshmen arrived!
Arrival day went well. We were all super hyper as usual. Played some games, ate some pizza, the norm. That night we stayed awake to "gaurd" the frosh. Or at least I did. I probably got about 1 hour of sleep total. Garen and Dana slept for about 4. I was just so cold and uncomfortable that I couldn't fall asleep (I didn't have my sleeping bag). Wilderness did streak us this year though. It was awsome! We waited up for them, and I saw them, comming so I ran outside and said "their in Gantcher!" Then I ran back in and we opened the gantcher doors for them. They did this little call and response song/dance number instead of just running around. It was pretty hilarious. Yay for upholding traditions.

friday
We (DiGiT & SS) basically spent the entire day shleping bags and food to people's churches. It sucked. Actually that's an understatement. It was absolutely terrible. Considering that we were functioning on such little sleep and some people overpack like it's their job... yeah. Enough said. So Friday was pretty miserable. I had to run around and fix a mix up with Giving Camp, but it all worked out. That night, the SS cooked dinner for us (coordinators), and it was really nice. Megan, Amaya, Frances and Skippy made rice with chicken and veg stirfry. It was very yum. Then we did choco fondu with strawberries, cake, marshmallow treats, and other yum. It was so delicious.
There was also some drama about about staffing the showers and regretting FOCUS and what not. Tempers were high, and people were stressed, it was really bad. :Shrug: That was a looooooong 48 hours.

Saturday
Woke up early (7am) to pick up the LIH groups so we could caravan them over to Lawrence so they could work at a habitat site. It was fun, I had a nice chat with the kids in my car. The frosh sitting shotgun was really nice and fun to talk to, and also sorta cute (I know that's a skeevy thing to say, but anyway), so it was a nice drive. After getting back from that, we went to the office for a bit. Then Skippy (a really really cool SS) and I went to go take pictures of the two environemtn groups who were volunteering with the Charles River Conservency. We messed around in a kids fountain for a bit and took some pictures and helped to bag some cut invasive plants, so it was fun times. An ice cream guy also gave me and skip 2 icecream bars for 1 buck... it was very exciting. Swung by the Catholic Center to take some pictures of Giving Camp, vegged out in the office for a bit, and then went back to Lawrence to pick up the LIH groups. Haha, on the way back I felt like a female pimp... driving with 4 hot and sweaty boys in my car, it was funny. Dana and I ended up "racing" the last few miles back. I totally won, although she would say otherwise.
Oh, I also met with Stacey, Seth, Matt and Mike for three hours and night to start working out PSF stuff. I ended up being a little short because I was tired, and they were being silly as usual. Oh well. Let the stress with PSF begin.

Sunday
Woke up early to go to Church over at Trinity. It was lovely as usual. After that, I walked to the Commons, where I spent the next five or so hours hanging out with FOCUS groups and taking pictures. I got some awsome group pictures. We played in the frog pond a bit, sabatoging people and getting them wet, it was good times. After most of the groups left, I spent about two hours hanging out with Giving Camp (GC). The kids in that group are so awsome, and we had a nice chat. It made me feel a little bit better about not leading a group this year. It was also more time spent with Dan Taylor (he's a leader for GC), so more cuteness. Haha, we were riding the T and the cars were really full, so at one point we all had to grab onto eachother to keep balance, and we help hands for a quick bit. He let go so quickly though, you would have thought I had cooties.
After checking up on a group volunteering at the Cambridge Carnival, I met LIH 1 (Tim and Hannah's group) at Dick's Last Resort for dinner. It was fun... definitely an experience. One of the kids in the group is really nice and I had fun chatting with him. After that we went to Mike's Pastries in the North End, where we ended up meeting with a few other groups. I walked back to the T stop with Emily (one of my focusers from last year who is now a leader), and we had such a good time gossipping about boys and what not. She's so sweet and I'm glad I'm getting a chance to talk with her again. Steve-o (Emily's coleader for Env 2) and I took a girl to the ER at MGH.... she thought she might be having an allergic reaction from a bite or something, but it ended up being an infection. Sitting in the ER for a couple of hours was boring though.

update: I recently rediscovered the draft of this post. This was meant to be completed, but I am going to publish it just as i found it.