October nights
Well, there is good news and there is bad news.
The Good News
1. October is definitely in full swing. Chilly days, golden sunsets, and happy bright leaves. Halloween is literally just around the corner. If you don't have your costume picked out yet, then you better hop to it.
2. I love being an RA. I knew I would, but this exceeds any expectations I had in the past. My girls are wonderful and even the other residents in the building are great. I have ideas coming out of my head left and right. I just hope we get to actually see all of them come to fruition before the end of the semester.
3. My weekends are full to bursting with exciting stuff. This weekend is my first weekend home of the semester. My mom is having a Home and Garden party that I get to help out with. It's Halloween themed so I get to wear my costume, yay! Next weekend is Family Weekend here in Edinboro so I get to meet alot of my resident's parents. The weekend after that is going to be very hectic. The 28th is Ippy's program for his residents and I get to guard the gate as well as evaluate it. The 29th we are taking a bunch of residents to Finney's Pumpkin Farm. They have a scary corn maze plus other activities, pumpkins, wonderful treats, and hot drinks.
4. I am so in love with Evan, there really aren't words for it. I could try here but it would just be an insult to what I am truly feeling inside.
5. I'm doing very well in class. The few grades I was worried about (because they were Cs and not As) are no longer that big of a deal. I have made alot of progress in them and improved 2 of the classes to from C+ and B to A-. My other classes are going fantastically. I really do enjoy them this semester.
The Bad News
1. We had two RAs fired yesterday. They weren't in our building but one just down the street. This caused our Area Coordinator to come to each of our staff meetings and scare us shitless. Honestly, even though I know I'm not doing anything that might remotely get me fired, it still scared me enough to never even want to think about slacking.
2. There had been a situation on my floor for some time. The worst thing in the world is to hear a homeless person ask where the nearest shelter is when you are the one that caused them to be in search of one. Long story and lots of confidentiality laws I can't break, but sufficed to say, that sucked more than I have ever experienced, but it had to be done.
3. They are screwing with the meal plans yet again and I am madder than ever before. It feels like Dining Services keeps trying to revert us back to elementary school years. One lady told me certain things weren't allowed to go on meal plans (so you have to use flex) because parents were complaining that their kids weren't eating healthy. The healthy things we WANT to eat go over a meal every frickin time so what's the point in having meals anyway. The only things that go on meal without going over are the unhealthy things.
4. For Dearborn and Earp only that have instituted a new rule that there can no longer be anything (not even marker boards) on the front nor back of every door in the building. I am infuriated by this. They say it's because they don't want the new doors to be damaged. Sorry I didn't spend hours of time, staying up til 3am working on "wall" decs. They are frickin door decs and I am going to fight this with everything I can. My floor just decided to have a door dec contest for Halloween and they do this to us. It's not right.
5. For feminine reasons I am in such pain as I have never felt before. Damn it hurts.
The Good News
1. October is definitely in full swing. Chilly days, golden sunsets, and happy bright leaves. Halloween is literally just around the corner. If you don't have your costume picked out yet, then you better hop to it.
2. I love being an RA. I knew I would, but this exceeds any expectations I had in the past. My girls are wonderful and even the other residents in the building are great. I have ideas coming out of my head left and right. I just hope we get to actually see all of them come to fruition before the end of the semester.
3. My weekends are full to bursting with exciting stuff. This weekend is my first weekend home of the semester. My mom is having a Home and Garden party that I get to help out with. It's Halloween themed so I get to wear my costume, yay! Next weekend is Family Weekend here in Edinboro so I get to meet alot of my resident's parents. The weekend after that is going to be very hectic. The 28th is Ippy's program for his residents and I get to guard the gate as well as evaluate it. The 29th we are taking a bunch of residents to Finney's Pumpkin Farm. They have a scary corn maze plus other activities, pumpkins, wonderful treats, and hot drinks.
4. I am so in love with Evan, there really aren't words for it. I could try here but it would just be an insult to what I am truly feeling inside.
5. I'm doing very well in class. The few grades I was worried about (because they were Cs and not As) are no longer that big of a deal. I have made alot of progress in them and improved 2 of the classes to from C+ and B to A-. My other classes are going fantastically. I really do enjoy them this semester.
The Bad News
1. We had two RAs fired yesterday. They weren't in our building but one just down the street. This caused our Area Coordinator to come to each of our staff meetings and scare us shitless. Honestly, even though I know I'm not doing anything that might remotely get me fired, it still scared me enough to never even want to think about slacking.
2. There had been a situation on my floor for some time. The worst thing in the world is to hear a homeless person ask where the nearest shelter is when you are the one that caused them to be in search of one. Long story and lots of confidentiality laws I can't break, but sufficed to say, that sucked more than I have ever experienced, but it had to be done.
3. They are screwing with the meal plans yet again and I am madder than ever before. It feels like Dining Services keeps trying to revert us back to elementary school years. One lady told me certain things weren't allowed to go on meal plans (so you have to use flex) because parents were complaining that their kids weren't eating healthy. The healthy things we WANT to eat go over a meal every frickin time so what's the point in having meals anyway. The only things that go on meal without going over are the unhealthy things.
4. For Dearborn and Earp only that have instituted a new rule that there can no longer be anything (not even marker boards) on the front nor back of every door in the building. I am infuriated by this. They say it's because they don't want the new doors to be damaged. Sorry I didn't spend hours of time, staying up til 3am working on "wall" decs. They are frickin door decs and I am going to fight this with everything I can. My floor just decided to have a door dec contest for Halloween and they do this to us. It's not right.
5. For feminine reasons I am in such pain as I have never felt before. Damn it hurts.