Labor Day Weekend

Campus has gotten pretty quiet over the past few hours.  I think a lot of people have begun heading home for Labor Day weekend.  It'll be interesting seeing how quiet campus is when a lot of people are gone.

On Fridays I only have two classes, and they're both early in the morning, but today my second class was cancelled because the teacher had a migraine.  That means I was finished with classes at nine in the morning today.  Since I had a ton of time and I have three whole to get homework done, I decided today would be a good time to go back to the bookstore and get the whole textbook thing sorted out finally.  (I ordered a textbook two weeks ago, and it took forever to come.  I had to buy it from the bookstore and then return the copy I ordered today.  Anyway...)  Luckily I got that taken care of pretty quickly, and I also picked up another book I'm going to need for my history class while I was in there.  I hadn't gotten it yet because we aren't going to need it until the end of the semester, but I thought I might as well pick it up now since I was there and it's only about twenty dollars.

Other than getting some homework done that's just about the only thing I've done today.  Most of the people I've met here are going home, so I'm not sure how many people will still be here.  My roommate thinks she's going home for part of the weekend but not all of it.  (She lives pretty close to campus.)  I'm in my dorm now though, and it's extremely quiet up here.  I can only assume it's because quite a few people have left already. I don't even see anyone walking around campus from out my window, which is rare.  I'm interested to see what campus is like this weekend.

Dreaming

It's extremely rare for me to remember my dreams.  I wish I could remember them more often.  I've heard that if you write down your dreams in a dream journal as soon as you wake up you'll become better at remembering your dreams.  The problem is, I don't even remember my dreams as soon as I wake up, so I have nothing to even begin writing down.  (Plus, most mornings I'm not awake enough to write anything when I first wake up.)

Whenever I am lucky enough to remember my dreams, they're usually quite odd.  I think the oddest dream I've ever had was the one where I was abducted by aliens along with the actors from the Harry Potter movies.  I also had a pretty weird one that involved our lockers in high school becoming really weird shapes. They were basically jungle gyms that you had to climb on to open and the were all different sizes and stuff.  I usually did have a really weird dream related to school the night before I would go back.  That didn't happen starting college this year though.

I also wish I had lucid dreams.  It's such a cool concept, but the closest I've ever got to that is when I'm half-awake in the mornings, which I don't think counts.

LASMU and Labor Day Weekend

Today was the call out meeting for the Literary Arts Society of Marian University (LASMU) which is the creative writing club here.  I was really nervous to go because I'm always scared about people reading my writing.  Jill and Claire (who are twins and basically the only friends I've made so far) went with me though, which made me feel a bit better about going.  It was really hard for me to read my writing out loud, but people said nice things and it was cool hearing everyone else's writing.  I'm definitely going to keep going.  I feel a lot better now that I've joined something.

The rest of my day was just an average day of going to classes and the like.  Since tomorrow's Friday I get out of class really early, and then we don't have classes on Monday thanks to Labor Day.  I think I'm in the minority since I'm staying at school for the weekend.  I think my roommate's going home as well, so I guess I'll be alone in the dorm for the weekend.  It should be interesting being on campus with a lot less people here.

Actually Being Social

Today hasn't been eventful at all.  I've only gone to classes and sat in my dorm.  My roommate makes me feel even worse because she's constantly trying to convince me to leave the dorm, but I have no idea what to do.  Our RA is having a girl's night thing in her room tonight.  It'll probably be incredibly awkward for me, but I'm going to go for at least a little bit.

Tomorrow is the call out meeting for the creative writing club.  I love writing, so it should be the perfect club for me.  The only thing is having people read my writing while I'm there terrifies me, and they want us to take a sample of our writing tomorrow.  I'm way more worried about it than I probably should be.  I know it's good that I'd be getting involved in a club and actually leaving my dorm room, but I'm so worried about them reading what I wrote.  In addition to that, I'm just nervous about the thought of going to the meeting and meeting people there.

Hopefully the meeting will go well, and I'll end up really enjoying it.  Before that though I have to make it through the girl's night thing tonight.

Naruto Ultimate Weapon Arc Review

I can't believe I've now watched all of the original Naruto anime!  It only took more than three years...

I was really excited to watch this arc, far more excited than I had been about any other arc lately.  The biggest reason is because I'm a Temari/Shikamaru shipper, and they were both in this arc.  I was also excited that so many of the characters made appearances too though, and of course, I was excited that I got to start watching Shippuden afterwards.

This was by far my favorite arc since the Sasuke retrieval arc (unless I'm forgetting one I really liked), and it's not just because I loved every single bit of interaction between Temari and Shikamaru.  I think it did a very good job at setting up Shippuden, and I'm incredibly excited to finally get started watching that.  I've actually already seen most of the first arc of Shippuden.  (I watched it a few years ago when it was airing on TV in English.)

I also just recently learned that there's an anime that's a spin-off of Naruto that has Lee as the main character.  I think I'm going to watch those episodes when they aired in comparison to Shippuden other than right away like I considered doing.

I'm really excited to start watching Shippuden!  Hopefully I'll get around to watching the first episode in the next couple of days!