Water Enveloped by Latex or How the Presence of Water Changed my Opinion of the Day

Dear Blog,

Today was a wonderfully split day. I woke up on time, went to class and learned about the various extraneous variables that could influence experiments, and proceeded to eat lunch. Class wasn't incredibly exciting, nor was lunch incredibly appetizing. I picked up my laptop from ResNet to find that my keyboard doesn't work at all and that I needed to purchase a replacement. I waited for 15 minutes in the hot sun for a BearLine shuttle (I think one of the shuttles skipped my street entirely). I then had the "joy" of trying to arrange my desktop to hold this huge RA monitor, my laptop, cooling unit, external hard drive, and keyboard (in front of my laptop so that I could use it in lieu of my junked keyboard, mind you) and then plug everything in the correct spot without getting tangled. Not a bad day, but far from a fun one.

Then came our staff meeting, the start of the other half of my day. It was by the pool and I joined the rest of the RAs in kicking off my shoes and resting my feet in the cool water throughout our meeting. As I've said before, the summer school RAs are pretty much awesome. Lots of fun and all around good people. I learned of some upcoming events, my group tentatively planned next month's activities/programs, and I heard about everyone's highs and lows. We went to dinner where I met up with Sarah and she talked about her. Day she seemed to need the release and I'm more than happy to listen. I can't write her lesson plans, but I can sure sympathize (and slightly empathize, too).

An hour later, my RA group prepared for our water balloon fight program. It took over an hour (and I still smell like latex balloon), but we made quite a few balloons. Credit to Blaire and Bridgette for tying all of them up. We had fun while making the balloons. Some would burst, others leaked. But our conversations were amusing (high amounts of "that's what she said" were included). The turnout for the program was low, but we still managed to have a great time. Nick pushed Blaire into the pool, Blaire doused myself and Bridgette, and I avenged Blaire by dumping a huge amount of water on Nick. So much fun! An important side note: Phones were not harmed in this battle of H2O.

After the program, I went to Walmart and purchased four CDs. To be fair, one CD was just a single, and another contained only seven songs.
"Can't Be Tamed" - Miley Cyrus
"Now That's What I Call Music 34" - Various Artists
"Suddenly" - Allstar Weekend (for my sister)
"California Gurls" - Katy Perry Feat. Snoop Dogg (only $1.98 at Walmart)

I plan to import them into iTunes and my newly updated iPhone (yay for iOS 4! boo for Victoria not being able to use the multitask feature on her iPod Touch) tonight as I watch a new Doctor Who episode. Yay for the Doctor! :D

Until next time!
-Daniel