I just don't know what to do with myself

Hey everyone. I’ve been a bad blogger, and I apologize. Things have been very busy around here. I won’t bore you with the specifics, but Friday alone, I attended a talk on HIV/AIDS in India, Charlie Cook came by to talk about political polls and the 2008 election, and I received a step by step timeline of what happened during Hurricane Katrina by the captain of the TAC police squad there. By the way, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is on the 29^th. I think most of you remember how it still is down there. Boo! Boo! Boo! (and I’m not referring to an affectionate rapper term!)

In other news, Ashur apparently speaks Spanish.

So, one of my new friends from school, Julie, noted that she has seen a picture of me in 3 different Halloween Costumes and she doesn’t really know me, which brings me to a good point. HALLOWEEN IS CLOSE! I DON’T HAVE A COSTUME YET!!! Since everyone keeps teasing me about saving the world, maybe I should be Mother Teresa or something. Personally I think that’s a little too politically incorrect, so I could always wear a red sweatsuit, draw a smiley face on it and be Mr. Koolaid, only saying “OhYeah!,” the entire night. What a weird thing to say.

So now it’s time for a list

Things I love (I wish I were Oprah, because then people would care about what I love, and I would be god to millions of stay-at-home moms:

David Sedaris on NPR

The movie “All the Real Girls”

Grey’s Anatomy is about to start

My Analysis class (I know, it’s weird to like statistics)

Katie’s dog Gator, who is crazy and jumps on and off the couch in a fast, rabid manner…. which makes me laugh

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

A cougar named Karen (you know who I’m talking about)

This bird thing I made at the iron pour, picture will follow

Chandle has left her social life

Remember those days where I could blog 2 sometimes 3 times a week. I'm afraid those might be over. I've been exceedingly busy with school, and I haven't even officially started yet. Working out is the only thing that seems to keep me sane and that takes up the other hour I have in the day. The school is wonderful and I really enjoy my classmates. I'm going to be spoiled rotten with seminars and education. I will not be spoiled with free-time. It's probably a good thing David is gone, I might drive him nuts. Soon enough, things will settle down and I'll get moved and figure out how to manage this workload. I wish I had some pictures. My parents are coming down to help me move this weekend, so maybe I can catch up. Hope your lives are as exciting (and not as insane) as mine!

Petit Jean

I'm back in Little Rock and have already started Camp Clinton. The fish fry went great Friday and everyone in my class is nice and amazing. It's going to be so wonderful to bounce ideas off each other. We are staying at the Winthrop Rockefeller Center at Petit Jean. It is so beautiful up here. I think it would be a perfect place for the wedding. It would be a great place to come and stay for a weekend too. I have a room all to myself, and new laptop, and people keep providing me with massive amounts of food, beer and wine. It's pretty much the best orientation EVER! We are heading over to the Heifer Ranch tomorrow to do a ropes course. That should be interesting. I know this post is particularly boring, so I'll tell you something cool. One of my classmates, Dustin, was struck, in the face, by lighting which then also struck his dad in the face, and both of them were totally fine, besides the obvious shock of being struck in the face with lightning. On that note, here are some pictures of my fabulous room and new school-computer Which I must say could never be even close to as amazing as the computer my parents got me for Christmas. I love you Mom and Dad!!!!!!!!!:

Using molten iron to light a barrel fire hanging in a tepee is more fun than a regular barrel fire

Fun at franconia

Here is the church and here is the steeple, we sure are cute for 2 ugly people

Things are pretty easy-going here. David and I have been spending a lot of time together, which is something we don't get to do too often. I am having a great time. He works all day and I make cookies, clean and look at dishes and things to register for on the internet. I am a domestic goddess. I'll be home on Friday and moving in with Katie soon. We are staying in the basement of the new house, and the windows have holes dug around them so you can see the sunshine. Unfortunately, animals sometimes fall into them and can't get out, so they starve to death. There were approximately 40 frogs and one starving crazy prairie dog in these window-holes. I felt bad for them, so I proceeded to catch them in a cup, put them in a trashcan and set them free in the swamp. The stressfulness of this project was unbeknownst to me, until they started jumping towards my face with killer speed. I would scream about every 2 seconds. I managed to catch all of them and put the lid on the trash can. I picked it up, the lid slipped off and the trashcan crashed to the floor. The scream I let out was probably heard for 3 miles. I pointed and made indistinguishable noised until I finally yelled "DAAAAVIIIIID, get it get it get it get it. Thank god he was right there too, paralyzed by the fear of 40 crazy frogs being let loose in the new house rendered me incapable of resolving the issue and David picked it up just in time. Next was the prairie dog. David put on full leathers, scooped it up in a shovel, dumped in the trashcan and threw the trashcan out. We ran up stairs and had to dump the poor thing out it was so weak. It ran into the bushes and we through a spoon of peanut butter at it. That's the most exciting thing that happened all week. P.S. Go see Talladega Nights and Little Miss Sunshine, funniest movies since movies were funny.

Leah is Martha Stewart

I went to the wonderful welcome home me/ Leah and Blue housewarming party Saturday. The food was amazing and talking to everyone again was so fun. It's like I never left, except now I have 10 rolls of film for everyone to look at. We were all sitting around talking about houses and weddings, and I aged 10 years, right there on the patio. Wedding plans are still at a halt. I'm going to look at petit jean mountain when I go camping with school. I go see David on Thursday, and I'm sure I'll take lots of pictures of crazy art people. Staying with David's parents is great. I'll post again soon.