So a few of you have said that it is time for and update, and I just looked over it and I guess that you are right.  So much has happened since the my birthday weekend!  I guess that I will start with my birthday.

So I went out to do some shopping with Mary Beth, because I didn't really have a top that I wanted to wear out that night.  I found a really cute one at GAP.  I also loaded up on anti- bac gel at Bath & Body Work because they were having a 5 for $10 sale and I needed a bunch because I live in a dorm with students that are constantly going out to work in schools and hospitals and invariably bring back every virus in the Boston metro area.  It ended up that I got almost $30 worth of stuff for $10. Pretty neat I think!  So then we went down to South Station to meet Lynn.  Mom, Dad, Ben and Kathy met all 3 of us there and we head back to my dorm room.  Mom and dad gave me my pressies:  I new duffel bag w/ wheels to bring all my stuff home in, a new blanket to keep me warm at night and a hat and mittens to keep me warm the rest of the time.  Lynn gave me a new purse; I don't know how she figured out that I wanted it, I didn't tell her exactly what to get me or anything...  So we went to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory!  It was yummy, I had the fish tacos and the chocolate satin cheese cake!  Then we took the T back the dorm and said goodbyes.  Lynn and ended up going out by ourselves b/c Mary Beth got sick and no one on my floor wanted to go.  Suffice to say it was no fun.  We ended up coming back a 12:30.  Slept in the next morning and then I escorted Lynn back to South Station.  I came back to campus and I went to the Prospective Student Overnight Recption and met my Overnighter, Alycia.  She was pretty cute.  We went to the movies and saw Wimbeldon.  On Monday Alycia came to my English but she didn't really want to go to math so she left.

The rest of the week was pretty uneventful until Thursday. I had a paper due on Thursday afternoon and on Wednesday night at 10:00 I had a sentance written.  Needless to say, mom got a paniced phone cal.  After a Diet Pepsi and a little bit of peppy music, I was rolling and I had it done by 1!  Yea!

I went home on Friday.  I had to sit on the floor of the train from Boston to Exeter and an old man fell on me, but I got through it.  Then there was the couple that was making out in the seat across the aisle from Wells to Portland.  I was reading my Human Growth and Development book and I thought that it would have been nice to show them the pictures of the live birth, but I resisted the tempation and just switched seats when there was one available.  I had a good time while I was home.  I hung out with Sara, Christine and Lynn.  I saw 2 movies: Ladder 49 and Without a Paddle.  Both were good in their own ways.  Then I came back to Beantown one Tuesday morning.  The rest of the week has been pretty normal.  Mom will be here today for Family and Friends Weekend so that should be fun.  I'll update on Monday I think so that you know how the weekend went.  Talk to y'all then!

~Julie