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September 2004 - Novermber 2004  

Saturday, November 20th    
In order of appearance: Captain Matt excited to be up since 6am on Saturday | Justin continplating how he can make techno play for endless hours in our room | Danny and bubble gum (I stole this picture) | Kyle and Paul gearing up for our Shrek performance at Songfest | Brian, all braided up for colorgaurd tomorrow | My roomie and my roomie-in-law... gotta love them... | Danny | Spiro (and part of LPS) | Our messy room
                 

    Well, I thought I was feeling so much better yesterday after my flu-bug-thing, and like an idiot I stayed out until 1am hacky-sacking in the rain with the "sleepout for the homeless people".   Way to go, Robin.   Today I got about 1 hour's worth of homework done and basically slept the rest of the day!   I guess I wasn't as healthy as I thought..... (this means marathon homework day tomorrow!)   Whoops.

<----- Tim and Kim being homeless, and Nate


Thursday, November 18th    
Robin Flew.... or Robin has the Floo powder.... or most likely, Robin has the Flu Power.   Ulllggghhhhh (This is me being pathetic online..)   This morning I woke up and was almost delirious because I was so sweaty, and my fever and sore throat just suck.   Sigh.... wine wine wine.   I can't really fill you in on what's new in Alma because all I've been doing is sleeping all day (no meals, only one class I should NOT have gone to, and one painfully long hour working switch but that's it).   I feel like crap and I just want to be sleeping all the time....

In other news, Songfest is tomorrow (kind of this talent show thing we Alma people do), and apparently I'm in it!   The chapel band is playing "I'm a Believer" and yours truely is rocking it on the organ.   Never mind the fact that I have played this song only twice in my life, both times at sound check last night, and that was on piano.   Should be interesting....

Everyone go here!!   Espicially if you can't make it to Songfest tomorrow night.
 

Monday, November 15th   Pay Day!  
Quite the weekend at Alma!   After a whole sports season of no drinking allowed, this weekend was a little nuts for those who eat on the south side of Saga.   For us it was too - Saturday night at Theta Chi was kind of wild, even a little too wild for my tastes (However, I was able to make mice and bring joy to all around us.   (For those of you who have yet to discover what "mice" is, hopefully you will find out soon, because it is soooo fabulous!).
In other news, for my quick wining moment, we helped to put in the floor joists as well as misc. other tasks on Saturday at the local Habitat house, and I jumped into the basement from the ground while carrying a circular saw.   FYI - that's not a good thing to do, even if it is turned off.   Now I am black and blue, and red all over.   Whoops...

Friday, November 12th     This week was actually pretty slow homework-wise, which was very nice.   Apparently I'll have to treasure these precious last few weeks of freedom because starting in January I'm going to have three lab classes: Organic Chem, Human Phisiology, Psychology (my "easy" lab class.... riiiight), and also Devience for a distrib credit.   Sadly, no jazz band yet again because I can only take organic chem at 8:30am.   Yay science...... :S

Morgan is all moved in to her new house!   We went to Alma's performance of the nutcracker Wednesday night, and it was really good, even if it was way past her bedtime on a school night (whoops...).   Also, as another random thought, imagine my surprise when out from behind a curtain came a 11 foot tall grandmother with many dancing children below her.... and she was none other than Dr. Straight, my professor for Chem 115! Also, it was cool that Morgan knew a lot of the elementary kids in it, and I knew a lot of the college kids in it, so between the two of us we could figure out the scoop on just about everyone watcing, dancing, singing, orchestrating, and acting.

"Marc, see how well you can look seductive.... ok...." *click*


Now. 6th    
LIZ is down visiting!   Hooray!   After two straight weeks of studying almost nonstop, we finally catch a break.   Also, Lee (my frog, the orange one) was lost but now is found -- hooray!   Today after our FIRST EVER Habitat build Liz and I went and got fresh dirt from Wright hall and now my frogs are all happy in their new non-moldy cage.  
In other news, tonight is open like night at theta chi and Brian and I are going to do a piano - singing song.   ("She's my girl" by Tom Lehrer or something).   At any rate, it should be fun, and hopefully Liz will not be corrupted too much...   Also, Jimmy Allen left a message on our board today - that kid always seems to randomly appear when I am not around... craziness!  

Sunday, Oct. 31st   HAPPY HALLOWEEN!   Well this weekend was pretty good, all and all.   Friday wasn't too eventful, except that I whitnessed a live police arrest for the first time in my life.   Adventures!   Saturday I worked on my paper pretty much all day, and then went to our Cinderella dinner (We put our shoes in a bin, guys in the brother quad pick one out adn they're our date for the evening).   It was basically a bunch of girls in constumes involving fancy dresses, and then me in my camo pajama pants with pipe cleaners sewed to them.   Fun stuff! (no, actually, it was!)   After that I played pool with this random kid Jason from Bruske north, and he absolutely killed me.   Theta chi's "Heven and Hell" was alright, but added emotional difficulties did put a slight damper on the evening.   What can I say... there's honestly not a lot that I can do about it, except stop coming altogether and that would just be no good at all.   At any rate, good times were had by many, and that goes for today, Sunday, as well.   Yup.   Happy Halloween to all....... I bid you goodnight.

Friday, Oct. 29th    

Part of an e-mail from my Dad... I am not kidding; I actually choked on nothing when I read this.   WHAT IN THE WORLD?!?!?!?!

Robin,
I was reading the voting guide in the Petoskey paper last night and noticed that a 19 year old NCMC student was one of three running for mayor. I was wondering if you might know him, and when I looked closer, it was Steve Welsh! I'll save the article for you if you'd like.....




Wednesday, Oct. 27th    

Everyone who has seen my car click here and scroll down to almost the bottom to read about how maybe I am super famous.   Don't question, just do it!!

In other news.... my life is slightly insane right now.   AAAUUUGGHHHH   Not so much that I don't have enought time, just that everything seems to be conflicting.   For example, tomorrow after dinner I have:
- Hospital orientation 7-9pm
- Chem study group for our scary test Friday 7pm
- Amanda Cook is coming to look at Alma and spending the night!
- Chapel band rehersal, 7pm
- A speaker I realllly want to listen to becuase it pertains to my potential career, 7pm
- A Halloween party run by Ten25, 9pm

Four places at once... is it humanly possible???      

Saturday, Oct. 23rd    

Greetings from Sunny Arizona... the weather's beautiful, wish you were here.....

Saturday, Oct. 16th    

Home for the weekend... the weather really couldn't be much worse here (40 degrees, lots of rain and wind) but it's still kind of fun to be home.   Last night was the football game, and who did I see there but Derek??   After talking to me for about 5 minutes he had had enough... what can I say, that's Derek for you.   Anyway, I have been studying like crazy, and it's probably good that I'm not at school because there I would have all sorts of fun distractions and here at least there is absolutely positively NOTHING to do except homework, so it keeps me focused.   Only FOUR days and counting until break........

Thursday, Oct. 14th    

A crazy week, we've had... yesterday all I did all day was go to class/study group/speaches/FOUR HOUR LAB THAT MADE US ALL WANT TO CRY.   I've got three huge tests (midterms) next Monday and Tuesday, so this weekend is going to suck... and figures, it's the weekend I picked to go home, too.   I would stay here except that I haven't been home all year, and it's the HSHS band's last performance.   Plus, I can't go home for fall break because I GET TO GO VISIT ALISON IN SUNNY ARIZONA!!   Yay!!   So, I suppose I'll have to spend family bonding time making Bio notecards.   Such is life...

Sunday, Oct. 10th    

       
Such a great weekend!!   It was homecoming weekend here at ol' Alma College, and we had a great time despite all the ex-boy drama I seem to find myself in the middle of...

Even though our banner didn't win in the banner contest (the wind stripped it of its paint) Habitat for Humanity for FIRST in the float contest!!   Another thing that made this weekend spectacular?   Bill came alllllll the way from Michigan Tech for the weekend!   I saw him in the hall Friday night and I couldn't believe my eyes.   My Dollar Bill - here at last!  

Anyway, the parade was way cool, with our float wowing the crowds like none other.   Afterwards I ate hamburgers at Theta Chi, then hamburgers and hot dogs at the PMA cookout, then after Jen Zernic and I kidnapped Bill (we aprehended him with duct-tape after leaping from the bushes) and hung out with him for a couple of hours.   We debated about not letting him go back to tech, but finally decided that may cause some problems if we stole Bill....

More hot dogs were at the Service Learning House for a dollar, AND randomly in the middle of the lawn across from Zeta Sig for free.... TBF confuses me, they really do.   Who sits outside on a freezing night in the middle of a random lawn to give away hotdogs???   Well, they do, apparently.   At any rate, good times were had by all, espicially since Dustin's hammock is finally up in the chapter room!!   At last!   That made my day - it really did.   Now I have something to play on that the drunk people are incapable of using effectively.   Also, lots of alumni were back for the party-that-wasn't-really-a-party, which was cool.   It's so weird that they are out working 8-5 jobs now, like real adults.   It's scary how most of them wish they were still in school... is the world really that mundane once you leave college???   It's a depressing thought.

In other news, it sounds like the Harbor Springs world had a good homecoming as well.   I am excited to see the band next weekend, when I am going home for the first time all year.   Mostly because the next weekend after that is October Break and I get to go to Arizona State for 4 days!!!!!   There is a life after mid-terms -- go figure!

Today I sat in "switch" for waaaay too many hours (4) and got little homework done, but lots of chatting.   Still, $22 richer, and I really did nothing but talk to people and make frogs out of sticky notes.   It's a rough job, but someone has to do it.

Wednesday, Oct. 6th    

No one should be subjected to Chemistry lab that lasts 4 hours.   (Espicially when it involves HNO3 that spills all over everything....)

Sunday, Oct. 3rd    

Well today I was doing the AIDS walk with a bunch of Alma people in Lansing.   We started the walk, and who do I see up 20 feet ahead of me but BRIAN FAIRBAIRN?!?!?! (For you Alma people - he's from my high school class)   He and his golf fraturnity were leading the AIDS walk... of all odds!   Anyways, we walked together and I got the whole scoop on MSU life.   The differences in our colleges still never fails to amaze me... there are more people in Brian's major than in our entire school!!   Craziness... at any rate, it was incredibly random but fun nevertheless.

In other news, this weekend was absolutely nuts for me... I had Habitat stuff and Theta chi stuff Saturday, and the AIDS walk and chapel band today.   Basically, no time for homework whatsoever.   Sigh.   To make matters worse, I have been sick for over two weeks now, and I have made absolutely no improvement... this is a bad thing, right?   Sigh.   Living the hectic life I lead does not help things.  

A fun night last night at Theta Chi... oh how I have missed it!!   Great times, if only I hadn't been deathly ill.....
         

Friday, Oct. 1st    

I hearby dub thee "www.robinthegreat.net" henceforth...

Namezero apparently decided that they wanted to charge me $75 for the next two years of www.robinthegreat.com ... I don't think so!   Anyway, now I am using domain forwarding through YAHOO, which should be more dependable anyways.  

Who gets sick not once, but TWICE over the course of 2 weeks??   No one.   No one, that is, except me.   Sigh... at least I actually have the time to sleep all day and night.  

Our Habitat float is going to blow all yours away... victory will be OURS!

Sunday, September 26th   Happy Birthday yesterday to my FAVORITE brother!  

I got frogs yesterday!!!   Morgan and I went out to the Forest Hills nature center for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters picnic, and caught TONS of frogs.... we ended up keeping 3 little tree frogs that are about the size of pennies, but they can go about 2 feet in one jump.   I have already been injured twice by them, slicing my finger while trying to poke air holes in the wal-mart bin.   Last night we had a grand time playing with them (while I unfortunately steared clear of theta chi, but oh well) and they are such good frogs!

My whole family came here for dinner yesterday as well... on their way home from marching band in Grand Rapids.   Yay for not eating dorm food... excititng stuff.   Also, it was John's birthday, so that was way cool.   We even still had our decorations up from Margan/Sarah's birthday, so it was a party!
         

Wednesday, September 22nd   Happy 11th Birthday yesterday to MORGAN and Happy 19th today to Sarah!  


Yesirree... lots of birthdays -- it's out of control!   Yesterday Morgan came over for a little while, and afterwards, I took her home only to find her grandparents --- and a new base guitar --- waiting for her!   How cool is that?!   Morgan is going to be one of those cool girls all the others girls are jealous of because all the boys will love her since she plays the base guitar.   She's already pretty good, just from playing her grandma's.  

Today was Sarah's birthday!   Our room looks way cool, covered in crape paper and balloons and everything.   She also got to giant sheet cakes, from her mom and the color gaurd, so we have cake galore!   A bunch of people came over tonight to try and help us finish it off, but it's not even halfway gone.... aaauughhh....

Sunday, September 19th    

To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose under heaven

A time of war, a time of peace
A time of love, a time of hate
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing


Friday, September 17th    
               
And back at the ranch....
         

Monday, September 13th    
Another day in the 'ol cornfield... I am still overjoyed due to the fact that my computer functions just like it used to, although it sucks for Sarah because now her's is acting up.   It's just like the flu!   At any rate, today I had no Bio lab, so I spent the afternoon across the river at the park reading about the Articles of Confederation and the various research methods of Sociologists.   Yep...Wow, are you bored reading this, or what??   About the only thing exciting was that tonight I found my hot pink flamingo puppet in my car, and he walked up the stairs and visited various rooms with me into late hours of the night.   Oooooo...         Still... no news is better than bad news I suppose.

Sunday, September 12th    
Suddenly, life is so much better!   I admit, this weekend has not been one of my favorites, but it's all okay now!   Why?   Because Jesse Russel is the coolest RCC ever and he made my computer all better!   Things were looking pretty bleak there for a while... my computer was freezing up about every 5 minutes, and barely opening anything even as simple as windows explorer.   After working yesterday from 9:30 to dinner (non-stop except for working switch 2 hrs!) I finally had almost everything backed up.   Today I was about ready to re-format everything (with no recovery CDs) and then in walked Jesse, to save the day!
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In other news, last night we went bowling, and of course, since Sarah was there, we had constant entertainment.   :)   She had us bowling between our legs, behind our backs, and even on our stomaches....   fun times.   It was worth it along just to watch the faces of the people next to us who were super-bowlers.   Also, I have discovered two guys who live right below me who are from Petoskey!   Exciting stuff.   This world is quite small, some days.

Wednesday, September 8th   Happy 20th b-day to Kim and Mary(the card-swiping lady at Saga)!  
So, another semester at Alma has begun!   My classes are going pretty well, so far (I've only had each one once though, so it's hard to tell).   It's weird, but it seems like this year may be easier than last year!   ...probably because last year I was in physics with all those crazily smart people.   At any rate, it should be an interesting year.   It's weird this year without Tyler Briggs and and seniors, and with all these new freshmen like Andy Sawin and my cousin Eli.   Also, as most of you are aware, Shawn is here, and yesterday was the first time we'd seen eachother since we broke up in July.   It's going to be a rough road, I think, but we will pull through.   This is a very hard thing for both of us... we can only hope that things will improve in time.   Time is our only refuge; no one with any heart at all finds joy in breaking other hearts. I swear, this has been right up there in the hardest two days of my life.   Not to be emotional or anything.   It's just an observation.  

In other news, Sarah and Marc are as cute as ever, and it's interesting because Marc's room is only about 20 steps from ours... I figure that if they can survive this year living that close, they'll be up for anything.   Sarah's been super busy with Color Gaurd stuff (her middle name is "gaurd" - I decided) as well as finishing up with OC stuff.   This girl is out of control, I tell ya.   She makes me exhausted just watching her run around.

Yesterday I started back at the 'ol "switch".   Yay for getting paid to do homework and talk to people.   I basically just sit at the mail desk at our dorm and give people their mail.   ...and do homework...

Morgan and I went rollerblading today!   It was really exciting to see her again... and we came to the conclusiont that the city of Alma definetely needs to invest in some new sidewalks.   Usually I just go in the street and watch for cars (I know - I'm one of those people we all hate, but don't worry, I get out of the way for cars).   Still, you can't really take a 10 (almost 11) year old out on the bumpy busy street on rollerblades.   Not so much.

In conclusion, Sarah and I are having a grand old time in 2nd South Bruske... and we are oh so anxiously awaiting mail if any of you feel so inclined... here's how to find us:
Robin O'Neill (or Sarah DeYoung)
219 Bruske
Alma, MI   48801

(989) 466-8279
07rconei@alma.edu or banananibor@hotmail.com


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