catching up...

Well, I'm not off to a great start here. I've missed a few days due to the conference and such, but I have been keeping track of my blog topics for those days. Let's get you caught up here...


friday, november 6

bless her heart.

Isn't that what folks in the south say when they are trying to be nice when someone makes a move that is, well, rather silly?

The conference I was attending was held in Portland, so in the interest in saving some money we decided not to get hotel rooms the first or last night, rather just make the hour-long drive and sleep in our own beds. (This, by the way, might have been my biggest mistake this semester - we should have just forked over the money and gotten more sleep).

Anyway, I digress.... on Friday morning C and I hop into the university van and head over to pick up K from her residence hall area. Now, K is wonderfully sweet, very (book) smart and a complete joy to be around. She is from the "SoCal" region and very much misses her life there. She hasn't really accepted (in 2 years) that she lives in Oregon and it gets a bit colder here - especially in say, the month of NOVEMBER. She has warm clothes, so that's not the issue here. But she comes out to meet the van on this cold, wet morning wearing flip flops, thin white chino pants and a short-sleeved blue shirt. And, oh yea, her hair was still wet from her shower.

She got in the van and C & I were both laughing and said "K - what are you doing? It's cold out and it's supposed to be cold all weekend!" She replied by saying "what? I brought a jacket!"

About 10 minutes into the trip she informs us that she's cold. [shocking]

We then find out that she's packed shorts for the next day at the conference and defends this choice by reminding us that we're indoors for the conference. [Nevermind the 6 block walk between our hotel and the convention center.]

Needless to say, I wouldn't really care all that much except we got to hear about how cold it was from her all weekend long...