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First off, we had a high in the fifties today. It was cold and windy. I think I will miss the sun. I recently realized that my three biggest projects of the quad (half semester) are due next week: a wellness research paper on the effects of extraversion on happiness is due Tuesday, my first big Physics test is Friday and my paper for the Honey Rock Passage / Intro to Spiritual Formation class is due Saturday, so I might not have time to post next week. The last few days have been pretty exciting. Homecoming was this weekend, so there have been a lot of alumni and their families on campus. Friday, after Physics and chapel I spent some time on Fischer’s lawn for chill day. The weather was great yesterday, and everyone just played volleyball and read and played with Legos. I couldn’t stay for very long though because I had to go directly from lunch to Microecon to the Wade Center to a reception for Dr. Hopper (the Glee Club director) who received the 2010 award for alumni who have contributed to Wheaton. Today (Saturday) I sang the  national anthem with the Glee Club at the homecoming football game against Illinois Wesleyan (we won). Then at 7:00 I got dressed in a tuxedo for the first time and went over to Edman chapel for the homecoming concert. During the first half, the orchestra played a Haydn symphony and two other pieces. After intermission, the choirs came out and sang two movements of Brahm’s requiem. I don’t know if they are going to post the video online. I’ll let you know if they do.

About the poll on the left side, I reset it because I wanted to change a few things. For one thing it looked like everyone was voting for all but three, which really doesn’t help me decide what kinds of things to write. But I do want to know what you all want to know about. Otherwise I’ll just keep rambling about anything. So I would appreciate it if you just take a quick look at the poll and tell me what you think would be interesting to see.

I thought it might be good to let you know about some of the people I spend my time with.The guys in these pictures are Bryce and Drew. The second day I was here they asked me for some help setting up their bunks and desks. Ever since I’ve just ended up hanging out with them a lot. I can’t say that there’s any particular reason except that they’re both really friendly and their room is perfect for hanging out in. You can see why. I eat breakfast and occasionally other meals with them. Drew is knitting. Bryce is wearing glasses. Notice the couch and the posters on the wall. Those are Bryce’s. In their room they have that couch, a big black chair, a little green folding chair that is used for a footstool, a “ghetto” chair, which is the most comfortable, and a thick wooden table with Taj Mahal like shapes around the outside. Bryce got them all for forty five dollars. The couch they’re on in the picture was forty dollars. You can do the math. The posters all over the wall were free. If you couldn’t tell already, Bryce is a bargain hunter. He is from California, a little south of L.A. I think.

Drew started knitting yesterday. One of the first few weeks he bought a big bag of balloons just because they are fun. I think it had a hundred balloons. We didn’t really know what to do with them. One of them was used for the spoons game I told you about to hid the last spoon in. Bryce was actually the runner up in that game. We filled the elevator with them and then threw some in the air and shot them with Nerf darts that had thumb tacks in the end for a sort of slow motion skeet shooting (I feel like I should put some sort of “kids don’t try this at home” disclaimer here…) Drew and I are in the same Wellness class, so when I lost my backpack he was the one who helped me study for the test, and he ran with me to Glen Ellyn once. He also plays guitar and piano and both Drew and Bryce are on our floor’s Ultimate Frisbee team. They live across the hall and two doors down.

It is late now, and I found out this morning that my internal clock does not like me sleeping past 7 AM now. That along with some advice from Dr. Walters has convinced me that I need to go to bed early if I want to sleep, so on that note, farewell.