I'm still here.

Lot's of things have been going on lately.

Classes have taken over all of my time, or so it seems. I'm taking 15 hours and all of my classes are upper level (300/400). I bought 22 (or was it 23?) books for my classes this semester. And by the end of the semester will have read front to back in all but 2 of them. Which is good, because one of those is an anthology I have to have for one of my Art History classes and it's 1,258 pages. One of my classes is a writing class too, so I've been slowly working on my final paper for that class. If the teacher would ever give us our paper proposals back I'd be doing more work on it. As it is, I don't know if my proposed subject will be approved.

Good news though - I applied for graduation on Wednesday! After this semester, I will be finished with my major and minor and will only need 6 more hours to have the required 120 hours to graduate. It's pretty awesome! :) It's amazing that I'll be graduating on time, within four years, given how my first two years went here. It's wonderful how it all works out.

Other good news - how 'bout dem Bama boys?! I wish I was going to the game today, but I've been sick this past week, and then I woke up today with a killer migraine. The migraine has gone away some, it's just sitting at the back of my head right now like a low-level headache, but I don't think it'd be a good idea to go sit outside in Bryant-Denny for four to five hours (you gotta get there when gates open to get good seats) with no shade feeling like this. It's wonderful that we're playing this well though. It's a completely different team than the one we had last season. I hope we continue it, and that the boys don't let it all get to their heads. ROLL TIDE!! #2 in the nation! Hopefully, we stay up there. It would be amazing to be in the National Championship game my senior year. At this point though, I just want us to beat LSU, Tennessee, and Auburn my senior year. We haven't beaten Auburn at all in the past three years, I don't want that to continue. Let's hope for a Big-12 upset (especially next week at the Red River Shootout - it won't be against Baylor judging by the game play so far) and not an SEC one for us.

I got my absentee ballot in the mail yesterday. Which is an interesting thing all in itself. When I filled out the application I checked to send it to my out-of-county address. They sent it to the house in Paris. Mom sent it to me so that I could actually vote. They sent my application to Tuscaloosa, my Tuscaloosa address was on the application three times, and they still sent the ballot to Paris. They also did the same thing to my roommate, so her mom is having to forward it to her too. But I was looking at everything they sent, and there is an approved list of write-in candidates who have met the Texas Electoral Code to be able to be written-in on the ballot. I thought it was interesting that they had to be approved to be written-in. And the Railroad Commissioner? Deals with the oil and gas industry. I looked it up last night because I had no idea and neither did Mom.

Time to curl back up in bed, enjoy some football on TV, and work on homework/test reviews.

GO BAMA! ROLL TIDE!