It's Going to be a Bumpy Ride

I do this more often than I would like. I think to myself "I've got nothing to blog this morning" and then I leave my room sans computer. I sit down at McConn and realize I've got tons of things on my mind and no way to empty it. Pencil and paper you say? Peeshaw!!
Actually that's a great idea. Hmm.
Anyway, this morning I got halfway down the hall before I thought "I have things the world must know!" so I turned around and grabbed my computer.

This is a "treat myself" kind of morning partially because I am up earlier than I have been the last few days and partially because I have the points left to do it.

I am a sucker for the cold. I hate it. My very Swedish family would be disappointed but I don't care. When it was cold in our room this morning, the only word my brain could think of was "NO." That's it. Oh, and "Long underwear" which I am currently sporting underneath my jeans. Do you ever get that cold and tired, shaking from the core, kind of feeling? It's weird and it doesn't happen very often but it usually results in me complaining. Sorry about that this morning, Heidi. I recover once I have lots of layers on, but it's pretty childish until then.

Do you listen to The Black Keys? They're kind of modern blues/rock? I don't know how to classify them but they make excellent company when you're getting stuff done. Like background noise but better.

Last night I couldn't fall asleep and as I was drifiting off my brain yelled "Menelaus!" and I thought, "Oh brain, you are silly. He is a character from....dang it."

My world literature exam is this morning and when I was suddenly struck with this name last night, nothing inside of my could get me to flip over and Google the man. He was Helen's husband in the myth about the Trojan war and he appears in The Iliad (Roman, by Homer, literary {not folk} epic).
Heidi and I stayed up and talked for a long time last night because neither of us could sleep. Did you know there's a Christian flag? It looks like this: (the white border is invisible- click and drag to get the whole picture!)

Heidi went to a small, private school and they said the pledge of allegiance to the American flag, a pledge to the Bible, and a pledge to the Christian flag. I didn't know there was anything but the pledge of allegiance. Crazy!

I've been wearing my glasses a lot more often. And by wearing my glasses, I mean squinting and blinking and thinking to myself "Dang, I wish I had my glasses" but that's what I get for switching school bags all the time.

I know this post has pretty much nothing in the way of transitions, but I'm saving all my literary greatness for the essay I have to write with my final this morning.

The Blackhawks are out of the playoffs as of last night and I'm bummed. I would have liked for them to go farther- they're my team! but I'm also bummed because I wanted to watch at least one playoff game with my dad.  As is the Chicago professional sports motto, there's always next year.
One of my friends on Facebook wrote "At least the bandwagoners are gone?" and I laughed. I know practically nothing about the individual players on other teams, but I'm willing to bet we have the best looking team. Patrick Sharp (Sharpie!) was named Most Attractive Chicagoan. Seriously. Even our coach is handsome. Look at this guy!

This was before the loss that ended they're playoff run. I don't know every single thing about every player nor do I understand everything about hockey, but that's okay. I can still support the team by buying merch and watching games and occasionally attending. Seriously, Blackhawks have the best fans. The Chicago Wolves are the semi-pro team and those games are fun too. I've only been to one (or two?) but they were exciting. A lot of those players are hoping to get picked up by NHL teams.


 I also like the Cubs over the White Sox and there's pretty much no such thing as a fair weather Cubs fan because we haven't won it all in over 100 years. No, I'm not kidding. There's an entire culture around Wrigley Field and people go nuts. The Milwaukee Brewers' stadium is way nicer than Wrigley but there's something to be said for tradition and history. I'm a Bears and a Bulls fan but I kind of forget about them when they are out of season. A lot of the Bears players live near my home town because they train nearby so it's pretty common to run into them in public. People will talk about running into Brian Urlacher at Chipotle or Best Buy and word on the street is he's pretty legit. Also, Vince Vaughn goes to Blackhawks games and they always show him. His wife is from my area so people saw him at the mall or whatever when they were planning the wedding.

Ugh I just clicked on a news story on WGN about teens drinking hand sanitzer to get high. BLEGH. That's disgusting. And it sounds like one of those stories to scare parents- there's no way teens are actually doing that. Or like 10 people did it ever in the history of earth. And those people are idiots.

Woo- did I lose you? I hope not :)