Friday Five
1. Who is your favorite superhero? I don't think I really have one. I liked the Spider-Man movies, and I love Smallville, but I only know those incarnations of Spidey and Superman, so I don't think that counts. Ooh, how about Ghostwriter?
2. If you were a superhero, which one would you be? I don't know. These questions are obviously for a type of nerd that I am not.
3. Justice League or Injustice League? There's an Injustice League?
4. Which supervillain would you be? Mirage, from The Incredibles, was pretty cool. I know, she was just the supervillian's sidekick lady, but I'm doing the best I can here.
5. If you could have superpowers, what would they be? Teleportation, perhaps? Invisibility is cool, but it's not intangibility, and I could see myself forgetting that part.

So I wound up doing nothing last weekend. I'll have to catch up with the twins over winter break. Mom, Ryan, and I went to St. Ignatius on Sunday. Our guest priest was young and gave a good homily. He looked a bit like Guy, actually. It's Advent, so the official color of linens and the chasuble and such is purple, which I love. He was wearing blue, unfortunately, but it was a very pretty blue, so I was good. We went to Cici's for lunch afterward. I will only start the day with lunch when I'm out with my family post church. And their cinnamon buns (made from pizza dough) are really good.

I finished my laundry and packed, and my mom drove me back to campus. We'd brought her Shark sweeper, since Maura ha cleaned a bunch and our floor was all dirty. It de-charged after about a minute, so we went to Target and she bought me a less fancy version. It had exactly one screw, though, so I just charged the base and made a note to ask around for a screwdriver.

I had lunch with Andrew, Scott, Anita (a pleasant surprise) and Age for a bit on Monday. I went over to borrow a screwdriver from Scott (I knew he'd have one), then went over to Jimenez for Spanish. As soon as I got upstairs, I listened to my nervous classmates and realized I didn't have to be there. I'd already done my oral interview, so I had that hour off. I turned right around and came back over to the dorm to put the handle on my sweeper. (Despite the quick usage, I still didn't manage to get that screwdriver back to Scott in any way until yesterday.) I... did some stuff, then went to Comm, which was uneventful, since I don't really remember it.

Dinner was fabulous. It was Maura, Rebecca, Hana, Scott, Andrew, Sara, Seth, and me. We got into this insane conversation. I think I heard the word "testicle" more times than I have in the entire rest of my life. And that is all the detail I'll write here, but if you know of Sara's LJ, she had a great abbreviated transcript. It's hilarious because it's true.

I watched most of 7th Heaven this week. There were two episodes, but I was pretty much gone during the second. Everyone knows about Martin and Sandy's baby now, and Ruthie's still boy-crazy, and so on. I used to like that show so much. I have very little sense of what is "good" and what is "bad" tv sometimes, but I can't help but think 7H is now, indeed, bad. So much for going out on top... or even just above the middle.

I was running so late on Tuesday that, yet again, I stayed in for breakfast. We were discussing Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," which is one of the strangest plays I've ever read. I was so tired during discussion that I was fighting to stay awake. I hate it when that happens. When I did manage to wake up, however, the discussion was suddenly really interesting. Yay for personal connections to literature.

I went to Adele's (my last time this semester, I think) with Rebecca, Sara, and Hana. We had to wait about fifteen minutes, but we had a good time. Good talks. (I love you, Hana!) My burger was rather burnt, though.

Wednesday was such a busy day. I woke up, had a late morning finishing my lesson plans, and went to 280. I missed my post-280 chat with Danielle because I had to high-tail it to Cole Field House for a Scholars meeting. (It just now occurred to me that I don't think I've written about the Scholars Program yet. Remember that job interview I had a while ago? I got it, yay. I will be coteaching a class similar to HONR100 to juniors at Severna Park HS.) They actually started late, which annoyed me because I'd been in such a rush to get there on time. Stupid punctual instinct. My boss loved the lesson plans, which is good. Irene (my coteacher) and I did College Planning, which I think I picked good activities for, and I did Service Learning by myself. I hope this job will be fun, especially since it's firsthand experience at what I want to do for the rest of my life. I also found out that on the 14th, when we go to visit the schools, we'll get to register to become official substitute teachers! So cool! I'm not sure if it's with the state or the county, but I never would have thought of subbing for money over break. Yay for experience!

After the meeting, I dashed over to Jimenez for Spanish class, then to Plant Science for Comm (don't ask me why it's there; it just is.) We're doing persuasive speeches in Comm now, so we actually got out around 2:45. I hadn't had lunch, so I went over to the Union to use my free Chik-Fil-A coupon from Dining Services. Yay for free food. I ate, then walked over to Woods for my required Comm study. It was just a survey, so it was really boring, but I finally got that out of the way.

Maura and I went to Mass after I got back. It was the feast of St. Andrew, so when Fr. Bill was like, "We pray for the gift of St. Andrew the apostle and all the other people named Andrew," Maura got all excited. And then I got all excited and couldn't concentrate. I was like, "Focus, Lindsay!" Dinner afterward was pretty good. I enjoy pasta and free food, especially when they meet. Michelle (our pastoral assistant) volunteered us all to help decorate the CSC's enormous Christmas tree. Maura climbed up the ladder to hang ornaments on the very top. I stuck with the middley parts, except when people kept breaking ornaments and I picked up the pieces because I'm just like that. We stayed pretty late, but it was so much fun.

I came back and wrote another story for ARHU. I don't like that one very much. I think I've exhausted this semester's creativity.

I was so proud of myself Thursday morning. I was so on time, I got to have breakfast with Julia, and we talked about our 301 projects on Frankenstein. We met with our groups through the class period, and mine finished early, so I got out of class fifteen minutes early. I wandered back to the dorm and thought about working on ARHU, but didn't. I went to Mass and read, then to lunch with Hana, Rebecca, and Sara. I yielded to ARHU and left lunch fairly early to skim the readings and try to write another story. I only got the story half-finished, and barely skimmed the readings. I don't know what it is about ARHU that doesn't make me nauseous when I don't finish the work, but it just doesn't bother me somehow. I gave up long ago.

The class itself wasn't horrible. It was art history week, so we had lots of pretty pictures to look at, though my neck got tired of twisting so far for so long. I went to dinner with Maura, Scott, and Andrew, but Scott and Maura got separated from us, so Andrew and I just sat together for most of the time. We went over to their room so Maura could sell them tickets to her music sorority formal in a few weeks. We met everyone in the basement for Bible study, but there were people in all the rooms we could find, so we wound up coming upstairs to use the lounge on our floor. Ali was there this week, so it was super cool being around so many people I know and am getting to know. We also discussed whether Jesus ever went on a date, which is very interesting. I mean, there's a lot of important time between twelve and thirty years old. Were there some nice Nazorean girls that went out with the Messiah?

Today was an okay day. I got up early to do my laundry. My 280 teacher got laryngitis, so class was cancelled. It gave me time to take while getting ready this morning. I met Andrew for lunch, where Dan later joined us, then went to Spanish and Comm. Comm was so short, the speeches only took thirty minutes, so I got to start the weekend a little early. I chose to celebrate by spending an extra half-hour parked in front of my computer.

I went to dinner with Hana, Dan, and Hana's exchange student friend Joyin, then Seth and Andrew showed up later. After maybe twenty minutes of our usual crazy mealtime conversation, I asked Joyin if she wished she'd found less crazy American friends. She replied, "No, it's like watching a show." I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Hana and I went to see Just Like Heaven for free after dinner. It was really cute. So very chick-flicky, but a very good chick-flick. She stuck around to karaoke with me, in the tagging along for moral support kind of way. I sang three times, then finally left. It wasn't as much fun as last time, but I do enjoy singing, so all is well.

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