Danger, Ice!

Hello All!

Last week, we had a FIERCE ice storm. It was kind of interesting to get rain dumped on me walking to my 8 am class, but walk into jazz band with a head covered in ice pellets around 2:30. I'm pretty sure Iowa is Mother Nature's petrie dish.

Mother Nature: Hmmmm...I wonder what happens to the global climate when you mix rain, ice, and freezing temperatures? Looks like I'll be making a visit to Iowa. Wow, its the third time this week? Ha ha ha ha, how time flies. I'm sure they missed me!

My biggest tiff is that the ice is still here. There is about an inch still covering most of the non-sidewalk areas and it is SLICK. Now, you, the reader, being a normal person, may ask "what's the problem? If the sidewalks are clear, then there's nothing to worry about...right?" WRONG. While doing my daily shortcut across the campus lawn this morning I fell. It wasn't a graceful fall either. It was a full out, arms flailing, bags and books flying, cartoon-type fall. And of course, my first thought is that it was Luther's fault. Of course, it's the college's fault for not...salting...the....lawn. After I got over the embarrassment of falling, I made the connection with the lesson I probably should have learned a long time ago: on the 9th day, God made sidewalks for people to walk on and not fall.

I've been complaining about being sick for the last several weeks. Well, after a nice visit to the doctor (again) today and getting more blood drawn than I'd like to remember, I found out I have mono. WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO! Partay.

I'd just like to interject that it will be interesting to get a call from my mother when she reads that last line. Note to self: tell parents of ailments before publishing them online.

But anyways, I've never had mono before, but it just feels like a cold now. I attributed the fatigue to just being a college student and pulling all-nighters every weekend, but looking back, I realize that that may have been a very large CAUSE of my current health status.

I also just had my first ever art history exam today. Boy oh boy is that stuff hard. For this class, we had to memorize 48 paintings or other works of art, the artist, the date, the period, and why each one was significant. I am not a memorizer, so the least I can say is studying for this test was a beast. In all honesty, this was the first time I legitimately studied for anything in my life, and I liked it. I liked the feeling of confidence when I was met with a particularly difficult question. I liked not having to wrack my brain for an answer. Dare I say it, studying was worth my time.

Well, that's all I've got, I hope the college search is going well!

Later~
Jake