Monday Musings During Hoarders Finals Edition

It is practically Christmas! 

Hi. Remember me? I am Lauren. The girl who used to make entries on this lovely little blog.
Well kids, I'm back.

I am so close to being done with 1/3 of my masters! I only have one exam left this week and a couple of meetings and parties I will attend. Pretty nice. I have spent this evening watching TV and wrapping presents. Amazing. And of course, now that Hoarders is on, I am blogging.

I have been crazy busy. Shoot I'm pretty sure that anyone attending school is pretty busy. I had three large papers to write, a performance of a random Ibsen play to participate in, and a show to house manage for. I was no busier than anyone else, and actually thanks to professors making benchmarks along the way I wasn't too swamped with work. Thats one thing I really appreciated about my professors this semester, they were reasonable and realistic. What a novel idea!?

I wrote one paper on the French play Le Cid, a historiography of nineteenth-century melodrama, and an analysis of the villain-ization of Mormons in the nineteenth century. The last two will directly impact my thesis which looks at The American Myth, Mormons, and popular culture. Its still in the process. Keep posted.

I survived the snow. I drove in the snow. I now live in a place that when it frosts the world does not shut down. The guy who delivered my pizza was wearing shorts. I need to get used to it. Not exciting.

I am really getting excited to be in Des Moines this weekend. Erin and Chase will arrive on Thursday and spend some time recovering from driving through West Virginia. I will be fun to explore the city that I will be living in this time next year. And I am excited to have both of my families in one place. My Mommy and Daddy and my new Family the McCools! We are also having an engagement party while we're there which of course is going to be fun. I got a great bride-to-be suggestion that once Christmas is over to go buy some super-low priced Christmas decor that way the next year when we're newlyweds we don't have to spend lots of money on that stuff. I think its a great idea.

I am  going to end here... my brain is a little fried! Its been on overdrive lately. I'll try to blog before two weeks passes again. :)