heat wave in iowa!

could somebody please tell me why i can leave swope w/ a light long-sleeve shirt and flipflops on and not freeeeeze to death? it's december 8th, and it's northwest iowa, for heaven's sake. what the heck!?! it's a heat wave in iowa!!! go away, heat wave! bring snow! but not bad traffic conditions-- don't bring those until after i go home! :)

so... i got about 9 hours of sleep last night. how did this happen? well, amidst my snoozing for about 20 minutes... i must've been really comfortable there on the futon... so when i woke up, those 20 minutes of snoozing had turned into about an hour and a half and had cut into about 20 minutes of my first class. and it's the last week of class! who would've thought!? so i got up, brushed my teeth, threw on comfy pants and a t-shirt and hoodie, boots (w/o socks-- didn't have time for those!) and grabbed my glasses and took off for class. you should've just seen the look on my face as i walked in. :-S thank goodness i didnt miss too much... but... gosh darn snooze button.

i have had a great week so far- not too much stress- am taking things in stride, especially schoolwork. things are going great along those lines. but... i've been really upset about my residents. not necessarily upset- and not necessarily ticked off-- but let's just say that if half of them dropped off the face of the planet within the next week, i wouldn't mind it a bit. (well, i might mind, but... it sure sounds good to me right now.) i have felt extremely disrespected for no reason by more than a few specific gals and i've basically narrowed it down to this: freshman attitude. a few of them like me when things go their way. they ask me to do something, i do it, and they like me. but then they want me to do something that i can't do as an ra-- or i tell them they need to be quiet b/c it's quiet hours-- and they suddenly think i'm the world's biggest witch. and they gather together and talk about it. and then... as if that isnt bad enough... my bulletin board that i've had up-- the one where people can write things they're thankful for-- somebody wrote on it something that wasn't so nice (directed toward me) and i just thought-- wow-- talk about mature (insert sarcasm here). i was doing my job on monday and had to confront a resident who had behaved wrongly. i haven't even seen her since, but i can just sense the hatred she has for me now. i've been nothing but decent, respectful toward them. yet i feel like every little thing i do-- unlock their door-- clean up somebody else's vomit-- bulletin boards i put up-- community builders i plan (which so many people just don't attend)-- nobody is appreciative; it is all just ridiculed. i sure hope these girls grow up a little w/in this next semester......... but such is the life of an ra-- life in a fishbowl. have to just keep moving along and being an example! they will have to learn for themselves.

on a more positive note, i'm now the secretary/treasurer for alpha mu gamma (a national foreign language honor society) here at bv. wheeeee! the greatest part about it? i'm not even officially inducted into amg yet. lol... gotta love it! this will be great. amg is a big honor! these a's in my spanish classes have paid off in more ways than one!

only two more days of classes. can't believe it!

had better get on homework. there's an all-campus ra inservice tonight. gotta be ready to have some fun then! am listening to point of grace's "not that far to bethlehem" repeatedly. a perfect opp to get some stuff done. until later............