Tuesday, April 22, 2008

SPANKEY MEETS THE BROAD MARES

The weather here is ridiculous. It will snow a foot in a couple of hours and then 24 hrs later it will be 80 degrees without any snow anywhere on the ground. This has been the pattern for the past two weeks.

I taught my roommate Mary Ellen how to "mountain bike." As in I taught her how to use her gears on non-paved roads.

Hannah and I went biking down to the Jail today and ran into all the wranglers bringing the stallion, Spankey, down to the broad mares to mate. Hannah and I decided to tag along. Spankey was VERY excited to see those mares and lets just say all hell broke loose. It was basically a horse soap opera/porn. Very bizarre. Made all the better with all our peanut gallery commentary.

A bunch of us who have tomorrow off are going to the Cubs vs Rockies baseball game tomorrow. Only me, Moose, and Ali are Cubs fans everyone else is going to be cheering for the losing team. Poor them.

Friday, April 11, 2008

J S in N

I now have a roommate. Hannah and Jordan have been my bunkhouse mates but I've had my own room room. Now a girl named Mary Ellen sleeps in the bed next to me. She just talks and talks and talks. It's actually insane how much she talks. There are moments where I don't say anything for a good hour because she's just chattering and chattering and chattering. She's also very very ADD so if I zone out for even ten seconds I'm completely lost. I can't figure out what to think of her yet.

In other news: It's been snowing perpetually since yesterday morning. We now live in Narnia. If only Mr. Tumnus would offer us some tea or Aslan would breathe on our frozen toes to bring them back to life.

I've started playing guitar. As of a week ago. I know how to play G, D, C, Em, B, A chords. Which basically means I can play any praise song ever written.
Hannah, Biff, and I had a jam session the other night up in the Roundup Room. Biff played the piano like it was what he was born to do and Hannah belted out song after song like she was Christina Aguilera or Carrie Underwood while I strummed along on the guitar. It was pretty sweet.

Hannah, Biff, and I have started talking in abbreviations to each other. So instead of saying, "We're having mac and cheese with creamed spinach" We say, "We're having M&C with C S." It gets pretty fun when you have NO idea what they're talking about.
Can anyone figure out what the title of this post is, then?
Hint: It's something from the third paragraph and then the second paragraph.

It's just 9 o'clock but my bed is calling my name.