Last night was at Cedar Point was a lot of fun, though it got off to a shaky start due to some rain. Apparently, even if it's raining very lightly, which it was, all of the roller coasters must shut down until the rain stops completely, or at least that's what one park employee told me. Another girl said it was until they were able to check their brakes in the rain. I'm not sure which one was correct because it quit raining shortly thereafter. We got on 7 rides last night, and 2 we rode twice for a total of 9 rides, which effectivly tripled our ride total from our last visit. After the rain passed, the weater was quite nice actually. We were expecting temperatures in the 40s, and I don't believe it dropped below 55 at any point. We actually didn't get out of the park until 12:30am, which has to be a record for Virginia. She doesn't usually want to stay past 9 or so. She's the one that had to convince me to jump on the last ride just at midnight. Usually I'm the one that would have convince her. Well, time to head back to the park for another full day. Hopefully it won't be too crowded.

wuick update before I take Perhaps for a walk and then head to bed.

Tomorrow we are leaving right when I get out of class on Friday and we are going up to Cedar Point. the park opens at 6, we are going to stay there until it closes at midnight, then we are going back on Saturday for the full day and headed back to Lexington on Sunday. we're both really excited about going.

I was trying to get a bunch done this week to get ready for it, but I wasn't too sucessful. that makes me sad. but, there is always next week and maybe I will be able to get stuff done on the car ride. most likely not, but a girl can hope right?

Last Thursday was an Adventure. I was invited to be a guest of my librarian at the Librarian's Fall Dinner at Kingfish on the River in the meeting room on the second floor. The view was really good in spite of looking like rain. The buffet was great and I even had lemon pie. But then the excitement started. The sirens started going off and the TV said a severe storm was heading our way. The waitress said we needed to go to safety and led us down a ramp into the part of the restaurant normally only employees go in. We had to duck our heads twice because of pipes and go down narrow steps into the very lowest level of the restaurant where the supplies were stored-huge cans of vegetables, salad dressing, soft drinks and the like. Of course being a storage area there was no place to sit and it was crowded and on the warm side. After about 10 minutes we were told it looked like the storm was going to stay at the other side of the river and went back upstairs. Outside across the river was lightening and I could see the effect of the wind on the clouds and trees. It was awesome in an unreal kind of way. The speaker Candyce Clifft from channel 41 started her speech. She said broadcast journalists will survive the Blog explosion because they are story tellers. To be a successful journalist, you must know how to read and write a story and how to prepare questions. You must also listen to the answers people give and follow up with questions related to what they say instead of always sticking with your prepared list. You must always remember you are asking questions for your viewers so even if the answer wouldn't interest you personally...
Then I had to go to the restroom and as I was getting ready open the door back into the restaurant, THE LIGHTS WENT OUT. I decided to open the door anyway and luckily there were two emergency lights that made it possible for me to get back to the table and my stuff. It wouldn't have been a good time to leave because the storm was at it's worst.The wait staff brought candles and the speaker went right on. I was impressed by her professionalism as well as her stories about stories she had reported. Next more sirens and the radio said a tornado was thought to be heading toward the VA hospital which was just down the street from where we were. It would have been close to impossible to have gone back down where we were before. However, there are two brick walls with a hall between them separating parts of the downstairs with the hall ending with walls on either end. The entire wait staff stood on the two sets of stairs with candles so we could see to get down safely. We sat on chairs against the walls when we got downstairs until there was a break between storms. There were no street lights until I almost reached I-65. There also wasn't much traffic. The wind was briskly blowing debris everywhere but it had stopped raining by then. I was so glad to get home. John wasn't aware of the drama since it wasn't as bad out by our house. Later that night, another storm came and woke me up but since I was safe in my own bed I just went back to sleep. All the time most of this was happening, I thought what a good story to tell. But Christy was sleeping when I called and wasn't impressed and nobody else has been home.

Jeremy is up at South Bend visiting tim.

I had to work yesterday, today and I have to go back in tomorrow.

Today was a wonderful day. I kept smiling all day. I got up this morning early and went to do my OSCE. THen I knocked out two quizzes that were due, went to workout and kciked butt, then went to the library for a bit to study. Then I headed over to Kroger to do some immunizations and that I was cool. Of course the first guy I did I hit bone, so that wasn't cool.

Then I came home and met Jeremy and we went and got him two new suits and 3 tie/shirt combos. Then off to petsmart to get dog food. Perhaps has been having some bowel issues, so we got the regular Science Diet instead of the lite because hopefully it won't have an much filler.

Then Meijer to get a pumpkin and some other food. Jeremy is cooking this 15 bean soup, so hopefully that will turn out good.

what a good day. I've been needing a good day.

hello all.
Have you missed me?

I've been busy. I've spent some long nights at the library this past week. A test Thursday, 2 on Friday and 1 this morning. I'm tired.

I'm glad I can take a breather for awhile, at least a day.

This weekend I went to my second class on cosmology. The matter that makes up us has been around since the beginning and we are made of the stuff of stars as is all the earth. We belong to the universe. Isn't that cool?
It was really hot when we went to the Lewis and Clark re-inactment across the river in Clarksville. At first we went to the Falls. The actual Falls and bank didn't seem changed from when I went there with Rebecca and Virginia with scouts but they have a paved ramp down close to where the fossils begin. The fossils are still sort of neat. There was a nice breeze.We didn't see anything about Lewis and Clark pobably because I didn't read far enough in the paper about it. On the door of the Visitors' center there were directions how to get to the re-inactment so we left. Mostly it was just keep turning left. You could see the Falls from a different angle. It was really interesting seeing the artifacts from back then and the reconstuction of the boats they used on their voyage. They seemed small for all those people. The Clark cabin seemed small for people to live in. I guess they didn't need as much privacy as we do. They must have been really short according to how short the bed was. All the windows were up really high so it would be hard to attack through them. We found out something we didn't know about tea. During colonial days and later, tea was ground up and made into slabs for shipping. That's the kind of tea they threw into the harbour at the Boston Tea party. The slab we saw was the size of a slender hard back book. We could see where someone had scrapped tea off to make some. While in the house someone fired off a cannon. It was loud. We saw old weapons and a man start fire without a match. John said he should have learned from a Hawaiian who make fire much faster. A little boy laughed at a kid goat drink milk from the moma goat.
I hope Virginia had as good a week-end as I did.

this weekend was not a good weekend. it was a bad weekend. I am glad that it is over.

I shrugged and it will not happen again.