Rainy Days

I'm not sure what it is, but there's something about rainy days that makes me want to curl up in a chair with a book and hot chocolate. It's always harder to wake up in the morning when the sun isn't shining through the window, and it's even harder when I've only gone to bed a few hours before. On the other hand, I love the rain. I love listening to it hit the window pane while sitting in complete silence. I love walking to classes without an umbrella or hood, and just letting it fall on me. There's something about the smell of rain, too. It just smells clean (at least here, where there's not too much pollution). I'm looking out the window... and right on cue, it's starting to rain again.

PS:
Just below are some pictures from the colorado swim club trip... the bottom picture is just all of us that went.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes...

I dyed my hair.

It's purdy.

I like it.

Troubles here in Nebraska

I hate room mates.
I hate condescending room mates.
I hate my room mate.
I hate Nebraska.
I want to come home.

<3 Alyx.

Life in Nebraska

It has been determined that I am not the type of person who can keep a blog.
I'm so bad at keeping this thing updated. It's been almost a month since I last posted.
Maybe it's because I just don't have all that much to say - there really isn't much going on here that's worthy of being posted.
I guess I'll just give an update real quick...
Swim club is awesome, I'm really glad that I joined. I've made a lot of friends, and it's great exercise. It motivates me to swim, and I need that because I'm lazy and wouldn't go otherwise. Not this weekend, but the next (Oct 5-7), we got invited to go to Colorado to a relay meet. I'm really excited, it should be fun. (i meant to talk to you about that, mom... :])
Classes are all right, nothing too amazing. I love German, English, and Sociology, but I really don't like my international relations or astronomy classes. They are super lame. It's mostly the professors, but I've decided neither of the subjects interest me.
Overall... everything is OK. Nothing absolutely amazing, but nothing totally terrible either.

Bored in Nebraska

The first two pictures are katrina and i being bored out of our minds. The last one is one of the many pictures that were drawn Friday night.


This is sooo boring. My room mate and I are sitting in our room on a Saturday night. What makes this even worse is the fact that our team won the football game today. In a college town like this there's got to be SOMETHING going on after a victory. Maybe it's just because everyone's gone home for the long weekend, but lately there's been a whole lot of boredom in our room. Last night we were so bored that we watched a movie, then ate some leftover pizza, then drew pictures and listened to ridiculous songs, then stayed up and talked until 5:30 this morning. Today wasn't much better... we woke up around 1:00, went and got some lunch, then worked out until 4-ish, then showered and changed and got some dinner, then came back here and have been here since.

You would think that there'd be more to do on such a big campus. Guess not.

I can't believe how I was Just Rudely Awakened

I never thought there could possibly be a sound more obnoxious than those buzzer alarm clocks. Apparently I was wrong. VERY wrong. This morning, around 11:00, I wake up to something that sounds a lot like the high schools fire alarm. As I'm jumping off my bed (nearly killing myself in the process), Someone comes on the PA and says, "Attention Neihardt residents, we have two cars that are illegally parked..." I was SO MAD!!!! My room mate and I decided that their whole plot was to wake me, Alyx with a Y up.
Mother, you may be wondering why I was still asleep at 11. Well, last night was the Big Red Welcome, and we made the mistake of going to the Movie on the Green. Why was it a mistake? It was by far one of the stupidest movies we have ever seen - Stomp the Yard. I definitely wouldn't recommend it. Of course, the dancing was pretty cool, but so not worth seeing the movie. We pretty much spent the whole time talking amongst our group (I met some pretty awesome people, one of which is double-majoring in Spanish and German Secondary Education) and making fun of the people in the movie. We didn't even get back to the dorm till 1:30, and then we decided to build Katrina's (my room mate) bookshelf. We finally got to sleep around 3.
While I was at the Party at the Rec (which is basically just all the sport clubs giving away candy, shirts, and fliers), I found out that this is the first year for the swimming sport club, and they're going to compete with other D1 schools, and even have a National Championship, which will be held HERE!!!! I'm so excited, because it's going to give me more motivation and other people to work out with, which is what i really need at this point. Plus, dad says it'll help my academics because I'll be physically active.
So far, I'm enjoying this place that we call college. We'll see how I feel as soon as classes start...

NEBRASKA

Well, here I am. I can't believe I'm here. I got a room mate and she's pretty cool, we get along really well. Here are some pictures of the dorm.
To the right are half of the shoes i brought (aunt chauntel would be so proud).
The rest are just pictures of the room itself.