Fall Friday

More than textbooks and homework, fall semester at college inevitably means a new year of dorm life. Where else but a girls' college dorm would you...

• Get ready for an 8:00 or 9:00 AM class to the sounds of Air 1 playing in the hall bathroom?

• Eat chips and salsa on a Tuesday night listening to others' testimonies?

• Hear a knock at your door, call "Come in," and are offered a chocolate cake ball?

• Do a work-out video (played on your laptop) with your roommate?

• Get startled out of your homework-induced coma by the sounds of a fire alarm (set off by popcorn burnt in the microwave)?

• Go to bed to the tune of slamming doors and conversations filtering in through your open window?

• Meet a bunch of wonderful girls, make great new friends, and have an opportunity to learn more about communication and cooperation through living with other people (both similar to and different from you)?

I realize that a lot of the blessings of dorm life I've experienced have to do with the fact that I go to an amazing Christian school called Corban University. =) I love it here! There are some challenges to living in a dorm, for sure, but overall it's a fun and memorable experience - one that will be over all too quickly. So for now, I'll take the burnt popcorn incidents with the chocolate cake balls. Here's to the fall semester of my senior year!!

Wanted: Your Opinions!

According to my planned autumn schedule, I'm supposed to be sharing a "Moved by a Movie" post with you tomorrow. As it is, I watched a couple of movies recently that I could have posted about, but I've been kind of busy and I wasn't overly motivated. (Although the two I was contemplating were great ones, which I've posted reviews for already!)

So, you get this random post instead. I hope you don't mind!

Included in this post is a question, a schedule, and a discussion.

A Question

Which would you prefer for my Friday posts - "Moved by a Movie" posts or "Fall Friday" posts? Or maybe book discussions? (See third topic below.)

I'm thinking about maybe doing fall/autumn themed posts on Fridays (like I somewhat did last year) and doing some "Moved by a Movie" posts every once in a while (I guess when I'm actually "moved"...). Sorry for the indecisiveness! If you have a preference or any other suggestions, please share your thoughts!

A Schedule

Since it's been several months since I've shared my fall semester 2011 schedule with you, I thought I'd share it officially today so you can see what I'll be studying. Maybe I'll be inspired during my mid-week days to write posts about them sometime!

• Civil War Era (History) (M, W,F)

• History of Modern Africa (M, W, F)

• Pilates/Cardio (M, W)

• Shakespeare (M, W, F)

• Women of Faith (T, TH)

• Personality Theory (T, TH)

A Discussion

As for the discussion, I guess this is more a question of whether you would like to do a discussion or not. ;) If you could vote on the poll below, that would be great! Thank you!

Snow in Salem!

Yes, as hard as it is to believe, it has snowed in Salem, Oregon! I heard it was coming, and it had snowed off and on yesterday without sticking. But what a pleasure to wake up to a winter wonderland outside my window this morning! Here are some pictures:

This is the scene right outside the back door of the second floor of my dorm. So pristine and beautiful!

I guess I wasn't the first one up this morning, judging by those footprints! ;) I slept in until almost 9:00 AM because I don't have class until the afternoon today.

And here's my bed and the window--such a lovely view! And yes, my roommate and I had so much fun decorating for Valentine's Day, we haven't had the heart to take our decorations down!

Hope your day is beautiful, whether you have snow or blue skies!

Oh, and tomorrow I'm hoping to have that Courting Morrow Little book discussion here, so I hope to see you then!