This week is going to be crazy. I have five finals Tuesday through Thursday.

Today was my last track meet of the season and it was held here in Yankton. I wasn't a conference champ but I sure felt like it because I PR'd in the 4x800... I ran my leg in 2:36. It was 11 seconds faster than last week and 5 seconds faster than my previous fastest time. I was really really excited about it... and still am!

Tomorrow is the spring sports banquet, so I get to go for track. They hand out awards and whatnot.. but I'm not sure if I will get any. Last year I won "Female Newcomer of the Year," but since I'm no longer a "newcomer" I don't know what award I could possibly win. Especially since my indoor season was basically my sophomore slump season.

I don't have any finals on Monday, which is really lucky. But on Tuesday I have my Art Appreciation final exam and my Technical Design project is due. My critical thinking paper is due on Wednesday, but I have it done already so I will probably turn it in on Monday. And on Thursday, I have my Literature of the Holocaust exam and my Video project is due.

I am staying at school until Saturday because I am going to video tape baccalaureate and graduation with the other graphics majors. I get paid for both of them, which is a plus, and I get to hang out with my boyfriend before I have to leave him for the summer.

As for a summer job, I am being considered for a writing position at my hometown newspaper, which I am super excited about. It would only be part-time, but I will definitely be happy with that.

Last night I had my spring band concert and my mom and brothers came down to watch it. I had a piccolo solo in an Irish jig song. We played nine songs and it was a lot of fun.

This week is going to be really busy for me. Tomorrow there is an event called Yankton Against Hunger and we have to help out with it by putting together food packages for the poor. On Wednesday I am going to an appreciation supper for the Moderator staff (school newspaper). Next year besides being a writer, I am also going to be the advertisement designer. On Friday all the graphic design majors are going to Sioux Falls to visit design businesses.

Saturday is my last track meet of the year.. its in Yankton, which will be nice and I will be running the 4x800 meter relay and also hopefully the 800 meter run.

Next week is finals week... I have a video project due Monday, an art appreciation test and a technical design project due Tuesday, a critical thinking paper due Wednesday and a test in my holocaust literature class. So since I only have two tests, it shouldn't be too bad. I am staying at school until graduation on Saturday the 9th because I have to help video it for graphic arts.

And then I get to go home!

At the track meet last week I ran the 1500 in 6:03... which made me the fastest runner for Mount Marty. How exciting.

I'm running the 800 again tomorrow.. I really really hope to run it in 2:35 cuz then I would move up 10 spots in the conference and hopefully qualify in it for conference.. if I don't, I will still be running the 4x800 or hurdles... I need to practice the hurdles if I am though.. I haven't in weeks..

This week seems to be dragging on. And yesterday I had a terrible day, so that didn't help. I did my debate on Monday and I thought it went really well.. turns out I got a D on it.. I was completely crushed when I found that out. My teacher said I had a "weak argument" which can't be true because it was a valid argument and we supported it well, so I don't know how he can say it was weak. Also, we did bad on our "Q and A" section, which is completely unfair because no one in our class asked us any questions, so how can we answer questions when nobody asks them? This D means I will get a C in the class, a B if I am lucky, and I will no longer have my 4.0 GPA.

On the other side of things, I aced my quiz in the holocaust class. Too bad I can't ace everything..

So I guess I have really been slacking on blogging... guess that means I've been busy and should have a lot to tell ;)

Last week on Thursday I had a track meet and I ran the 800.. something I have only done twice in my life.. once on a 4x8 relay in high school and once in indoor last year. But I didn't do too bad.. ran a 2:41.. but I had no idea how to pace myself and was able to sprint hard for the last 100 meters, so I guess I didn't go hard enough for the first 700 meters! I guess now if I do it again, I will know how to pace myself better and hopefully get down to 2:35 or better. Tomorrow I am running the 1500.. I've never ran that far in a track meet before.. I'm so used to doing 100 meter and 400 meter races!

This week I only had two days of classes because we had Monday off for Easter break and we were on choir tour on Wednesday and Thursday. Tour was a blast... we sang at five high schools in South Dakota and stayed over night in Madison. A friend of mine goes to Dakota State, so she stopped by the hotel to say hi on her study break.

Tonight was our "home from tour" concert. The jazz band also played on tour with us and played at the concert as well.. it was so much fun.

This week is flying by.. probably because break starts on Thursday! We get Thursday thru Monday off for Easter break, but my break starts on Friday because I have another track meet on Thursday. This time I'm running the 800.. coach thinks he can still turn me into distance runner.. who knows.. maybe I'm doing so bad this year at mid-distance and hurdles because I should be doing distance running.

Last week submissions for Paddlefish were due. Paddlefish is a publication by the college of poetry, fiction and nonfiction writings, as well media arts. I submitted a poem that was recommended to be submitted and some projects from my graphic arts classes. Last year I submitted some photography and they made it on the Paddlefish website, so hopefully this year some of my stuff gets picked again.

On Saturday, since our track meet was moved to Friday because of the pending snowstorm, I was able to watch the Wakefield Mysteries. Its a play about the life and death of Jesus. My boyfriend played a centurion and I was excited to see him.

We were supposed to get a foot of snow on Saturday and Sunday, but we ended up getting a couple inches and a lot of wind. Most of it is melted now anyways because it was 45 degrees and sunny today!

This weekend, I am shooting my promotional video project for my video class at home. I am doing my brother and his friend's band, Bace Line 22. It is supposed to be 50 or 60 degrees and sunny so hopefully I can film them performing outside.. I think that will be a lot of fun and they are all really excited to be in my video.

I didn't have a whole lot of homework this past week and I think this week might prove to be the same. It's nice to have a lull in that department, but it scares me because I'm sure it means I will be swamped in the weeks to come.

In critical thinking, I have two small papers due in the next week and a half and a revision for a big paper due on Wednesday, so that may be a bit stressful. However, my next technical design and video projects aren't due until after Easter break. I finished my projects for Art Appreciation and the Holocaust so I don't have to worry about them anymore.

Yesterday was our first outdoor track meet. It was kind of cold and windy, which didn't help my performance. I ran the 4x100, 4x400, and 10o hurdles. I did terrible in the hurdles, which I predicted. I wasn't even going to run that race because it was half an hour after the 4x1 and I didn't think I would be recovered enough, but at the last minute I decided to do it just for the heck of it. I got dead last with a time of 19.4. Last year I ran 16s and 17s so I am VERY far behind that this year. I don't know what happened between then and now, but I wish I could get my skills and speed back. I guess I'm just getting old and last year was my peak ;)

Last week I picked my classes for next semester.. Sound, Intro to Christianity, The Short Story, Writing and the Visual Arts, and Motion Graphics. Should be a busy one, yet again.

Tonight it is supposed to snow... up to a foot! I don't really believe it since it is almost April and I just want it to be beautiful warm weather. But, I wouldn't be opposed to a snow day!

It's been a long week and weekend. I procastinated my homework all week because I was busy with track and other various activities. This weekend we had a soccer tournament here on campus and we ended up playing four games. We made it to the semifinals and lost there, so we got 3rd place in the tournament. I had to work on my commercials for video, my brochure for tech design, and my paper for critical thinking this weekend too. It was crazy busy.

And now its another Monday. Its supposed to storm today.. hopefully it doesn't interfere with my track practice. I am very sore from soccer yesterday.. my back, hips, ankles, and arms hurt so bad! But I need to keeping running because our first outdoor track meet is on Saturday!

On Thursday I went with my boyfriend to his house for supper and to see his youngest brother. He just got out of a half-body cast. They were so excited to see each other.. it was so cute.

I practiced hurdles last week too for the first time in probably a month. And it made me so sore! I'm still having trouble three-stepping and I don't know why.. its something I've been doing for years. But, I tried four-stepping and I actually ran faster than I did all of indoor season.