My how time flies

Woo! We have finally settled our housing for next year! Our original plan to live in the South Campus Commons was foiled last night when we received and e-mail saying they were all full. So instead, we decided to lease an off-campus apartment which is actually less expensive and a little bit bigger I think. We'll be living at the Courtyards, which is conveniently close to both work and my classes. With this apartment complex rent includes all utilities, washer/drier, cable tv, ac, 2 seperate beds with their own bathrooms, an on-site pool, game room and fitness center. Here's our layout! Oh, and guess who are neighbors are? None other than Chris and Brian! The foursome are now only one wall apart! We've decided that we're going to do a once-a-week dinner thing we're we make a nice dinner and eat it together. It's crazy how grown-up I feel! Ha! I wrote a check for a security deposit today and signed a lease, it's crazy! We're all very excited and want to move in as soon as we can, which turns out, is around August 15. Janet and I have already started thinking about how we want to decorate our place!

In other stuff, I've organized a team for Relay for Life at UMD, on April 14, I think it is. So far, I've got about 8 people from work who are going to come and hopefully raise money. I'm looking forward to it, it'll be a lot of fun!

I still haven't heard back about the Emma Powers Award, but hopefully I should hear soon. I'll let you guys know if I hear anything!

That's about it, school, work and this housing thing has been pretty much dominating my life right now, but it's all very exciting!

-Bunga

80 degrees and sunny

I'm on spring break! Woohoo! Because I don't have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and because my classes (myself included) have begged our professors not to hold class on Friday, my Spring Break officially started this afternoon at 4 oclock. Not to mention that the weather was GORGEOUS today. It reached 81 degrees and was sunny for a good portion of the day. I actually broke a sweat walking to my classes. It's nice to have the spring weather back, but unfortunately, it's supposed to dip down into the 40's this weekend. =[

Some more exciting news... I was nominated by one of my managers at work for the Emma Powers award, which is the highest recognition that can be received by a student employee in dining services. It goes to the student who... well, I'll just copy and past what the website said about the last recipient:
"2006 Emma Powers Student Employee of the Year Award: Phillip Vogel, Student Supervisor from Good Tidings was awarded the highest honor we can give a student employee. $500 Terrapin Express and an engraved plaque were presented at the May Awards Banquet. This award is presented to the student recognized as having made the most significant positive contributions to Dining Services and the campus community."
So that's pretty cool. My interview is tomorrow with the big-wigs of dining services, so I hope everything goes well. It feels so awesome to even be nominated. I mean, to think that my superiors think that I'm the most influential student employee in dining services, and at 19, is unreal. Wish me luck!

Come to think of it, this past weekend has been pretty good. Last weekend was Shamrock Fest, which is an event that's held annually in DC by a local rock station. It has different Irish bands, some of the big ones being Flogging Molly, Carbon Leaf, and the Kelly Bell Band. They also have rides and carnival type games and stuff so it was a lot of fun. Some of my friends from UMBC came down to College Park and we took the metro down to DC. Here's a pic! (Because by now you've probably figured out I love showing off pictures =] ) It's not exactly the best picture of me, the person who was taking the picture was in a hurry because his train was coming, so there wasn't much time to prep myself!

For Spring Break, I'm going home to Columbia for the week, but as for this weekend, I'm going to West Virginia with my friend Christina (the blonde in the picture) and my other friend Cara from high school. Lauren is very excited to have us, she just got a single dorm room this semester and is very excited to show it off!

Tomorrow the Terps play in the first round of the NCAA tournament. They should be able to make through the first 2 rounds without problem, but their trip will probably end when most likely, they will face Florida in the sweet 16. Hey Grandpa! I have WSU going until the sweet 16 as well.. you'll be very pleased to hear that I said "Go Cougs" today at work, defending WSU in their projected upset against them by Oral roberts. =]

And I think that's about it for me. All in all, it has been a very lovely week. It's now time for me to go to bed and get some beauty sleep! Love you all.

-Bunga

It's been a while!

I'm back! It's been a busy couple of weeks lately. Between work and school, I've had almost no spare time! This is what's been going for the past couple weeks:

-Work has gotten busy with the continuing success of our basketball team, which has earned itself a bid to the NCAA tournament to play with the big dogs. Game days are a huge money maker for the restaurant and require large amounts of staff and lots and lots of time.

-School is starting to get busy... exams are popping up here and there, along with presentations. I missed a few days of classes because of a bacterial infection of some sort. I had a sore throat for a couple days straight without any improvement so I went to the doctor and they ruled out mono and strep, which was relieving, but she prescribed me penicillin for my throat. Soon after that I developed an ear infection and went back to the doctor and she gave me more medicine because apparently penicillin isn't good for ear infections. As of right now, I have the slightest sore throat, but all in all, I'm feeling tons better, which is good, because it makes everything so much easier.

- The weather had been gorgeous the past couple of days! I spent my free time this morning painting my toe nails so that I could break out my flip flops for the first time this year. Today it reached about 65 degrees and it was sunny, the window in our room was open all day long, too bad I was cooped up inside doing work! Hopefully this weather continues, I would love for an early spring!

-That's about it, nothing too exciting. My friend Lauren from high school is coming home for the weekend from West Virginia University, so I think we're going to go out with another one of our friends, Christina. I'm not quite sure what we're doing yet, but I'm excited for the three of us to hang out again together. Here's a picture, not the best of us, but this is when I went up to WVU to visit Lauren.

So that's about it! Hopefully the next post will be sooner rather than later!

-Bunga