Trip to NC State for the game this weekend.

It began inauspiciously with a forty minute late start from the Coliseum. It continued on even more inauspiciously when our bus broke down half an hour outside of Atlanta. One cool thing was that now I have in an in with the drum majors (Graham) I always know what's going on. The other bus (containing Kim and Chad while Becky and Graham were on my bus) pulled into a Walmart and waited around an hour until our bus driver got our bus to start (it seemed to involve turning the key really hard, it didn't seem like he did anything to get it to start besides that) and limped it to the Walmart where we waited another hour until the replacement bus showed up. Once the new bus they took us about fifteen minutes down the highway to some restaurants so we could get dinner.

After all that it was another five hours to wherever in North Carolina NC State is. A total of 11 hours on a bus. They played movies - Pulp Fiction (which I'd never seen before and which is really screwed up), Indiana Jones, and something else loud and obnoxious. When we were waiting on the side of some side street, blocking traffic when the bus had broken down, Graham and I started playing cards with another guy named David and Amanda's drum major boyfriend Michael. We played Egyptian Ratscrew, BS, and after they game we played Hearts. It was lots of fun and made the bus ride quite bearable.

So anyway, by the time we got to the hotel at 2 in the morning after 11 hours on a bus we all just fell into bed. Then we got up at 9, took turns showering, ate breakfast at the coffee shop in the hotel, and got on the bus for another hour to get to the stadium. We never actually saw the school because, in the best arrangement ever-sarcasm-, their stadium is fifteen minutes away from their campus. That has got to be the pits for their students.

The game was depressing for a while because we were losing and our team was being pretty bad but they got better and we won.

After that we got right back on the buses and spent nine hours getting home.

Meaning out of the 34 hours of the trip 21 hours (62%) were on the bus, 7 hours were sleeping, 5 hours were at the game, and the last hour was that showering and eating part.

In other news, we decorated our apartment preschool style. Our door is covered with construction-paper hand turkeys and cornucopias, and the living room we have seven stockings, a Santa hat on the stuffed fish on the TV, a Christmas tree with lights (Karen went a bit crazy at Walmart), plus Christmas lights above both sets of bay windows and snowflakes on all the windows.

It's kind of scaring our non-"us" roommates (Laura and Kimberley) but I think it's festive. We've been making all our friends come and make turkeys and snowflakes. Graham refused to make a snowflake because it wasn't cold enough yet.

Tomorrow I have a horrible Thermo test, followed by a Transport test on Wednesday. It's going to bite a big one. However by 10 am on Wednesday I'll have nothing more due all week, which will be lovely.

I'm very much looking forward to next semester, when I'm only taking thirteen hours and there is no lab. I swear, Synth Lab counts for two credit hours, but it's four hours of lab, one hour of lecture, and at least 10 to 12 hours of homework per week. It's crazy.