The end is near.

This is a tshirt. Isn't is awesome? Don't you want it? I do.

A lot happened this week.

I wrote my first final exam.

I wrote my last two midterms of the semester (and of my undergraduate degree). I wrote the last one today, it is quite nice to think I am done with them.

I went back to yoga after a month of slacking off. It is free yoga week at the studio I go to, so that meant there was a thousand people and the room was 100 degrees hotter than usual. It was pretty brutal, but I think I am going to try to get in as much as I can before I leave Lethbridge.

I thought that this week would be my last week of intramurals, but my thursday night team pulled it together and won tonight. That means we are in the consolation final next week.

I know I keep saying that time is going by extremely fast this semester, but it really is. I have two and half weeks of classes left. Crazy! I still have a huge paper to write though, so I can't get too excited about the end of classes. I actually have more than just that. I have the rather large Pentecostalism paper, a second submission on my Hinduism paper, a presentation on my Pentecostalism research, a monthly report for my applied study, and my applied study project to finish. So I will be busy right up to the end.

Another crazy thing is that I have started receiving PIT applications. There is still two weeks to the deadline for submission, but they are rolling already. It is crazy to think that I am actually going to have to start picking kids and planning the summer. Leading PIT this summer has been my plan for about a year, but it was always something that was quite a ways into the future, so I didn't have to think about it too much. Now it is practically here and I have to crack down. I have to focus on school for the next 3-4 weeks, but then it will be right into camp and PIT. The day I write my last exam I am expected to be at camp for a training weekend. This means I have just that day to write the exam and finish school, move out of my house (for good), and drive to the pass. No turn around time for me.

Update.

Everyone likes a nice update post, right?

My second week of classes is almost done. I am doing an applied study, and I finally have it mostly figured out. In that I mean that I understand what it is I am doing and what my final project/semester work is supposed to look like. I am hoping that it will get less stressful soon, so far it has been more work and stress than it is worth.

The rest of my classes look alright. I have a night class for the first time at the U of L. I have been avoiding them, but I guess one in two years isn't so bad. My classes are as follows: Neuroscience Brain and Behaviour, the Hindu Tradition, the History of Pentecostalism, and Epidemiology. Yup, two religious studies classes, and no kinesiology (except for the applied study, which isn't really a class).

I am playing intramurals two nights a week this semester. We won both our games this week. However, I took quite the elbow to the face today. Right in the nose. Luckily, there was no nose-ring damage. Just a heck of a sore face. I kind of got it right between the nose and the upper lip, you know, that bone right there.

I finally went back to yoga today. I have missed it. It has been five weeks since my two week stint before Christmas. I was shaky as heck today, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. I am excited to get back into it.

I am directing the Sr. reunion at Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp at the end of February/beginning of March. I don't actually know the dates... I should look that up. Anyways, I have a bunch of work and planning to do for that.

The last two weeks have been crazy and stressful. I hope that things settle down. I have had so many things going on. I have double-booked myself without realizing at least once. I didn't even realize that I had missed an appointment until two days later. So many things to do! But I find consolation in the fact that this is my last semester. I will never be an undergraduate student again after April. It makes it a bit easier.

I am listening to this playlist right now. love love

Till I Hear You Sing -- Ramin Karimloo
Bones -- David J Roch
Girlfriend in a Coma -- Joshua Radin
Beyond Words -- Tenth Avenue North
Turn to Stone -- Ingrid Michaelson
Skin & Bones -- David J Roch
When it Rains -- Cover by Michael Henry and Justin Robinett
Elephant in the Room -- Richard Walters


And yes, I do prefer David J Roch songs with 'bones' in the title.

Sigh no more.

I had a great day.

I am now in Lethbridge and sort of moved in. It turns out I forgot to pack hangers, which is annoying and keeps me from being able to unpack a bunch of stuff.

Today I bought new pants. I have been buying my jeans from American Eagle lately. Last spring I was a size six, which was smaller than I had been before. I was pretty stoked. BUT today, I tried on a size six, and they were too big! I'm a size four! What the heck. I can't remember ever having pants that small before. It made me feel good.

I also got some new music. As I type, my computer is syncing some Mumford and Sons, Florence and the Machine and the Decemberists to my iPod. happy happy.

My new house is so close to the University and it is going to be so wonderful.

I got an email today from a guy I played intramurals with last year asking me if I still wanted to play on his team this semester. :)

I got a sweet hat today too. It is a fedora and I really like it. However it could be classified as a hipster hat. Regardless, I am going to try to pull it off.

There is a tv in my new room. I think this may be a bad idea in the long term. But I am quite enjoying it right now. There is a Big Bang Theory marathon on right now.

Finally, there are two flies that somehow managed to get into my room while I was moving in. They are driving me insane and I hope they die soon.

More basketball.

So it seems that lately, I just like to talk about basketball in this blog.

However, I'm pretty sure no one reads it, so it doesn't really matter. On to the basketball story..

My team won our playoff bracket!!

I am on the individual team, which is made up of a bunch of random single people who didn't have a  team to play on. Individual teams usually suck.

We won both our playoff games. Today we beat the a team that crushed us the last time we played.

I am not sure exactly what winning means. We certainly didn't win first place. Some people were saying that the game was for 5th place.. I don't know if that is true. But there are 12 teams total, so if it is, that is not too shabby. Also, I originally thought that only the team that won first place on each night got their picture on the intramural winning wall. But I also heard tonight that they put up the winner of all three brackets. AND, they did take our picture. I will keep you posted.

In other news, only 4 more days of classes!

And, tomorrow in fencing class we finish our class tournament. I haven't lost yet :) But, I still have most of the boys left to fight, so my winning streak will probably come to an abrupt end.

One of my goals this summer is to drastically reduce the amount of time I spend on my computer.

Moral victory.

I sprained my thumb on tuesday in basketball class. It was unfortunate. I hurt the same thumb over reading week, and it was feeling really good. Then just one stupid hard pass and there it goes again.

I'm not gonna lie though, it was kind of nice to not be able to do the circuit in fencing today. There is a lot of stuff in the circuits he makes us do that requires weight through the hand (like push-ups) which I cannot do. I could still fence, because it is my left hand that is hurt, but I didn't have to do any of the hard stuff. It was nice to have a day off.

And, of course I taped it good and tried to play my basketball game tonight. Which was nice, I got to continue my awful shooting streak. And on top of that, I got to guard this dirty, elbowy, jersey grabbing girl. Seriously, I thought I was done with that stuff when I finished playing high school girls basketball. She had my jersey balled up in her fist for a lot of the game, she rocked the arm pull a bunch under the basket, the box-out with a two handed jersey grab, and I even got a few shots to the face.

Basketball tends to bring out my most competitive side, and I spent the whole game convincing myself that she didn't deserve a swift elbow to the face. The refs knew her I think. They certainly weren't calling much. Anyways, I repeated to myself over and over that she didn't deserve a cheap shot or a hard foul just because she is a dirty player. AND, she left the game untouched. So, even though we lost and I sucked, I'm going to call this night a moral victory.

St. patrick's day.

soo, let me tell you about my wonderful night last night.

I had an intramural basketball game at 9:00. It was embarrassing. I have never shot so many airballs in my life. I know some of the refs, and they were just shaking their heads at me. At least once, I actually hit myself in the face as I was bringing the ball up to shoot, which equalled a HUGE airball. A lot of the force that was supposed to go into the shot, went into my face. They destroyed us. AND, they were pretty much playing 4 on 5. Intramural rules say that you have to have at least one girl on the floor at all times. We have played a few teams now where the whole team is made up of huge, awesome guys, and then the have a girl who pretty much just runs up and down the floor so that they don't get disqualified. This was a team like that. So basically, they only had four people on the floor and they beat us by 30. No one on my team could hit a shot to save their lives.

Earlier yesterday, a friend told me that he would be at the university until 10:30 (he had an intramural hockey game from 9:30 to 10:30) and so if I waited a half an hour after my game ended at 10:00, I could get a ride home with him. So, I sat around the gym/university for half an hour after my game. Then when I saw hockey people coming out of the gym, I texted him and found out that HIS game had actually been cancelled and he was at home. So there I was at the university at 10:30, without a way to get home.

I had some friends who came in shortly after to play their 11 oclock basketball game and they said they could drive me home, but I had to wait through their game. They actually wanted me to play on their team. I was thinking, "sweet, I have a ride home and I get to play two games tonight, maybe I can make up for all those airballs". But, that couldn't work out, could it? Nope. Turns out the team that they were playing had the thursday night intramural basketball organizer on it. Plus, the refs probably would have recognized me. Anyways, you are not technically allowed to play on more than one team on a single night and you can't play for a team unless you are on their official roster.  I thought I might have been able to just sneak in, but there were so many people around who had seen me play earlier. So I got to watch another basketball game. wohoo!

As I was sitting there (the only person "watching" basketball, I mean really, who comes to watch an 11 oclock intramural basketball game), the refs who had been at my game were like, "really, you're still here, don't you have better things to do?" To which I answered, "Yes, yes I really do have better things to do, but just let me tell you about my evening."

At midnight, my friend drove me home. MIDNIGHT. I was so stoked that we finally had the early game. I was gonna be home at 10:30! But that didn't work out. And when I got home at midnight, I still had to shower and get ready for bed. THEN I couldn't fall asleep. Long story short, I got maybe 5 hours of sleep last night and I have no idea how I managed to get up and get to school on time this morning. After my first class, I had an hour break. I definitely took a nap by pool. It was wonderful and I think I am going to take another nap now.

Anyways, that is how I spent my St. Patrick's Day. It was a hoot.