The summer has ended. Tallahassee has once again been taken over by throngs of college students. Monday, August 25 was the first day of classes at FSU for the fall 2008 semester. I’m amazed at how much can change in a year. Last year at this time I was beginning my first year on staff with the FSU Navigators. I have intentionally kept quiet on my blog about my plans for this fall and beyond, but I’m finally ready to start talking.
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Yesterday we had our Kellum family photos taken at Walmart. They turned out pretty good. Here, have a look at them.
Last Friday I saw The Sentinel, the movie with Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland. I was expecting great things. I did get things, just none of them were great. They were actually pretty lame. I’m disappointed. I think it could have been a great movie with two leading men like that.
It’s finals week! Today I have a paper due in Multicultural Film and on Friday I have an exam in Christianity in Antiquity. But that’s it. Everything else is done. Well, everything else for school is done. I still have to move out of my room sometime between now and Saturday.
That’s pretty much all that’s going on here. If you’re in the Tallahassee area and want to hang out this week you’d better give me a call. My time is limited, especially as graduation nears.
First, before I say anything else I must congratulate Matthew Day and Nicole Kelley, who combined have taught me four classes in my major, on the birth of their first child, a son named Henry Oliver Day. He’s here quite a bit earlier than expected but he and his mom are both doing fine. The comment was made in my Christianity in Antiquity class that with a name like that he sounds like he’ll be president someday. So remember the name folks.
Speaking of Christianity in Antiquity, I just got out of that class for the last time a little while ago. That was, in fact, the last real class I’ll have in my undergrad career. It still really hasn’t sunk in. All that’s left for me now are finals: two tests and a paper. One of those tests is today at 2 PM in Article & Essay Workshop. I don’t have a final in my Business Law class, so that’s all done already. I have a final paper due in Multicultural Film next Monday and a final test in Christianity in Antiquity next Friday. Yes, the same Friday I walk. I don’t like it either. But did you see that list? Did you note that there’s almost nothing on it? I dig that.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been two weeks since I’ve last posted an entry. A lot has happened since then, and it begins with the story of how I got back to Florida.
Everything was going according to plan. I was in the Atlanta airport waiting for my connecting flight to Tallahassee. It was Sunday night. My first class wasn’t until 8 AM Tuesday morning, so I wasn’t worried about being tired the next day. As I’m sitting at the gate watch an NFL playoff game a voice over the intercom says that the flight is oversold and if anyone would be willing to give up their ticket they would be compensated. This was the first time in my life when I haven’t had to be back at my destination right away and they have needed people to give up their seat. They were offering $400 towards a Delta flight, a night in a Sheraton hotel, and two meals. I was sold. I turned in my ticket and made my way to the hotel shuttle. I get back to the airport early the next morning and it turns out that even that early morning flight had been oversold. I asked the woman at the counter if I could turn in my ticket a second time and I was told that I could. Would I really walk out of Atlanta $800 richer? No. As it turned out they needed four people to give up their seat, and I was the fifth person to turn in a ticket. Oh well. I still made out like a bandit as far as I’m concerned.
I looked at the date of my last post and I’m just now starting to realize how much happened since then. Hopefully I can do it justice.
But before I launch into all of that let me first say this: my sister has gotten into two schools already! Woo hoo! Auburn and Texas have both recognized greatness. I’ll continue to keep you posted on this. I’m really excited to see where she ends up (as I’m sure you all are).
Since that last post I have taken five tests and I am about to take a sixth. My finals week started early. Last week I had an oral test in Spanish and finals in Career Development, Risk Management and After The New Testament. This past Tuesday I took a written Spanish test and this afternoon I’ll be taking a final in Speech. Then I’ll be done. It’ll be t-minus one semester and counting.
Another loss. That’s good. I am known for looking at the worst possible outcomes in life, so here’s what the FSU football team and its fans could be looking at:
1) We could have a 7-6 season. This would happen if we lose to Florida, Miami/VT in the ACC championship game, and our bowl game. This after being 7-1 at one point. Right now that’s difficult to call mostly because our bowl opponent is unknown, but a strong case can be made for why we will be 7-5 going into that bowl game.
2) We could qualify for a BCS bowl as an unranked team. After today’s loss to Clemson we will probably be unranked, having come into the game ranked #17. A loss to Florida would give us even fewer votes. If by some miracle we win the ACC championship game we would go to a BCS bowl, but might not earn enough points by virtue of that single victory to make it back into the Top 25. I would request to play the winner of the Big East, who undoubtedly will also be a team that does not deserve a BCS bid.
I have become that guy who consistently updates a mere three times each month. How the mighty have fallen. So what’s been happening?
A week ago Monday I gave a speech in my speech class that, I learned today, I got an A on. It had to be an informative speech, so I chose “How to be an RSO President” as my topic. I barely prepared and faked it pretty well. The whole thing was recorded and put on a mini DVD. If you all want (and by ‘you all’ I mean ‘both of you’) I could put that video up on my site. It’s not exciting, but hey, new site content is new site content.
It has been a very long time since I’ve posted an update of substance. For that I apologize. Between being busy and being sick I have not had the time or motivation to sit down and chronicle the first three weeks of the semester. But here we are, already staring at September 18, and I haven’t posted even one real update since classes started on August 29. It’s a shame, I know. I think the best way to do this, rather than try to reconstruct all the events in chronological order, is to sort events by type.
The worship team meeting this past Sunday went very well. Four of the seven people interested showed up, and I’ve since been able to talk to the other three. I’m excited about the talents that they all have and I can’t wait to hear us all together. Only a few short months away!
So I’ve taken 1.5 out of 5 final exams as of right now. What? Well my Organizational behavior exam is split up over two days. I take the other half tomorrow (open notes, cakewalk). This morning I took my Spanish oral exam. I conjugated a couple of verbs incorrectly and I completely forgot the verb tomar (the guy needed to take some aspirin, what can I say). Friday I have an exam in Christian Tradition which technically is optional. If I choose not to take it my grade overall will be a B. But I think I can pull up my grade by taking it so I’m going for it. Next week, the real exam week, I’ll have tests on Wednesday (3 PM - 5 PM, Spanish written) and Thursday (7:30 AM - 9:30 AM, Religion & Science). I usually get pretty nervous about this time of year. So much is riding on a single test of each class. But this semester a combination of confidence, cockiness, and good grades has taken all the pain out of the process.
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything, but there hasn’t been too much to report. I do have one outrage to pass along. Remember university housing? Yeah, they’re idiots. Freshman year they made me attend a second orientation (costing me $1300 in travel fees) just to sign a paper. Sophomore year I tried to live with three other guys in the same Salley Hall; the other three were put in Kellum, I was put in Deviney and it took a total of eight separate switches to get two of us in the same room in Salley. Junior year I tried to live with three other guys in the same McCollum Hall room; two of us got in (including me), one got put in Smith, and one didn’t make it on campus at all. As a result Scott and I moved over to Rogers Hall. This year I’m thinking that with my senior priority number nothing can stop me. All three of my potential roommates are coming from on campus unlike the year before. We’re all trying to get into an upperclassmen dorm (McCollum) which is easier than getting four people into a freshmen dorm. So what could go wrong?
