The Third Week of Classes

I can't believe this is only the third week of the semester. I've already written four papers, read a Shakespeare play, re-vamped an advertisement, learned proper html/php coding, and held the first Best Buddies event- phew! I can only imagine how much I'll be able to recall by the end of the semester...

This year though I'm allowing myself to have a little more fun than during past semesters. You only live once, right? And if I don't do what I want to now, I won't when I start my career either, and that is just too much time to waste. And so, tomorrow night I'm going to the Sox game! Speaking of fun, last Thursday my roommates and I hosted a very successful get-together and on Friday I saw Justin Nozuka in concert at Paradise Rock Club. Saturday was the Best Buddies Annual Friendship dance complete with a buffet lunch, limbo contest (I'm still sore), dancing, and crafts! That evening we tried a new restaurant in the Back Bay called Sasso and saw My Best Friend's Girl. The restaurant was delicious contemporary italian cuisine and the movie was very funny. Sunday I decided I needed to lay low and relax, so I watched a few movies with my boyfriend.

Has anyone been watching "Gossip Girl" on the CW? Well, I have... it's based on a series of seven books of which I read them all, and although Hollywood inevitably altered the characters to make them all beautiful, I love it. It is an addictive storyline with compelling characters and a fabulous designer wardrobe...a perfect guilty pleasure.

The office has been pretty slow lately since very few applications come in before November...and so i write for you.

What a Weekend!

So as I promised in my last entry, the weekend was very eventful! On friday night I went out with my girlfriends; the five of us got dressed up to have dinner and dessert at Finale and saw "The Women" after that. During the movie another viewer (a middle-aged woman who was there alone) was intentionally distracting the rest of us with her loud comments and excessive laughing during scenes that were not intended to be comical at all (such as the scene in which Meg Ryan discovers her husband is cheating on her with the girl from the perfume counter). My gutsy best friend proceeded to tell this lady off while another patron requested an employee kick her out of the theatre. She eventually left toward the end with parting words I am not able to repeat in this blog. That in itself was enough to make my night...

The next day I hung out with my roommates and later went to a party with some other people from Suffolk in the Fenway area. It was a late night and the sleep to compensate lasted well into Sunday. After which, we watched the Coco Chanel movie on Lifetime, ate the best Chicken kabob dinner to be found in Boston for $8.00, and did roughly five hours of homework. That is exactly how Sundays should be though, right?

Today is the Temple St. Fair here at Suffolk. Our lower campus area will be bustling with tables and booths represented by each student club and organization recruiting new students- Get Involved! There is of course free food (as there is at every successful event at Suffolk) and giveaways too! I'm heading down there now actually to work the Best Buddies booth...meet you there!

Holy Moly!

What a long day...It's only 5 O'Clock and I'm already ready for bed. I had an 8:30am class this morning, came straight to work, gave a campus tour, and will be here working until 5:30 this evening. My class, however, was so interesting today that I completely forgot I was tired. In Law, Literature, and History we'll be looking at cases and crime situations within works of writing. As a first attempt, Professor Allison had us analyze the song written by Bob Dylan about "Hurricane" Carter. As a class we brought forth a surprising amount of information left out of both the movie and the song and changed some student's opinions about Carter. I, for one, believe he is innocent. And if he isn't innocent, prosecutor's did a horrible job proving his guilt and therefore deserve to lose this court case. We'll be moving on to a very different time and situation with "Measure for Measure" next week; I only hope it's as interesting as the Carter situation is!

Another highlight of my day was lunch. I'm sure that sounds ridiculous, but seriously, a little place called Viga can work miracles. Viga can be found on Pi Alley (which sounds to me like the name of a magical place in Harry Potter), hidden behind Old City Hall, off of School Street, just a block or two from campus. It is a takeout only establishment that serves fresh and made-to-order foods such as sandwiches, salads, gourmet pizza, and single servings of pasta dinners for an unbelievably cheap price. And, you are offered a free roll with every purchase!

This evening I have little planned. I will write a feature article for Journalism I, prepare a presentation for Advertising, and eat left-overs in front of the television.

My life is more exciting on the weekends, I promise!

Back to the Beginning...

And so it begins- another semester. The smell of autumn air, crisp new back-to-school clothes and notebooks, and the enthusiasm buzzing around campus and throughout this college city are among the many things I love about now. My new roommates (and best friends) have moved into our apartment on Beacon Hill and the place is coming together quite nicely.

My schedule is packed as tightly as the "T" at rushhour, but I'm content because I'm excited about the classes I'm taking this semester. On Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays I have Programming for the World Wide Web, Advertising, and Journalism and on Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm taking a Law, Literature, and History course. I'll be in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions on Tuesdays and Thursdays, have Best Buddies meetings every tuesday at 1pm, and am volunteering at Boston Medical Center on Sunday afternoons. Yikes!

If you're around campus on Saturday, September 20th stop by the Ridgeway Gym for the Annual Dinner/Dance from 1-4!