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I drive a 1997 Land Rover Discovery. While it is an awesome vehicle and really fun for off-roading, the price it takes to fill up at the pump these days really hurts! The last time I filled up my 21 gallon tank, it cost $71.00! I’m not the best at math, but I certainly know that if I had to fill up regularly, I would not be able to afford it.

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Although I’ve made it through almost 3 years of college without a TV in my room, I finally folded and bought a TV over Christmas break.   I have a pretty short attention span so I usually just flip through the channels looking for commercials.  A few nights ago, I saw the AT&T commercial which shows a grandma, mom, and 2 daughters (I think) playing Scrabble.   They don’t put down typical phrases but play tiles that spell out texting lingo, like ROTFL and things like that.  And the whole time that the girls are playing, they are all (except for the mom) texting on their cell phones.

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Although I cannot claim to be good at it, I love to swim. So I was very excited to hear when I was a prospective student that Lyon has an Olympic-sized pool. When I arrived on campus, however, I was astounded to figure out that there was no swim team.

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It’s about time for the Lyon website to get a little makeover.  I’m on a committee that’s evaluating the current website and considering different proposals for the re-design.  Here’s a few questions for you:  What do you think of the current website, http://www.lyon.edu/?  What aspects do you like?  Are there things that you absolutely hate?  What types of elements would you enjoy seeing incorporated into the re-design?

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So this is my first ever time to write in a blog. Yay! I’m sure it’ll be fun…I just haven’t ever done it before. But I guess that’s what college is all about: new experiences and learning to do things you wouldn’t have thought of before. I wonder what else is going to come my way that I’m not expecting to learn…who knows! So I’m sure that in the future I will have much more interesting things to write about other than being unexeperienced, but for now, this will have to do. Ciao!

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No not really.  I actually hate mohawk haircuts, and it seems that a lot of people are starting to get them again.  I say a lot, but just a few of them seems like a lot.  So just because I had never had one before and wanted to officially be able to say that I didn’t really like them, I got one.  Yep…see I have had a buzzed hair cut pretty reguarly lately, so it didn’t start out weird, but then there is the fin thing that sticks up.  It was just gonna be a joke, but I’ve gotten some pretty funny reactions to it.  The first response from one of my professors was, “What? Are you getting ready for your debut in the World Wrestling Federation?”  Don’t ask me what that means, it’s just funny to hear a professor say this.  So actually, it is kinda fun to have a mohawk, but I would only caution one per lifetime.  It’s fun for maybe a week, but for some reason people just get really uncomfortable around them.

This coming weekend will be one of the busiest weekends of the year, second only to Scottish Fest in the spring; it’s Homecoming here at Lyon!  The actual Homecoming activities don’t begin until Friday afternoon, but we’ve had Homecoming stuff going on all week.  The annual Window Painting Contest in Ed’s went well as usual….if you haven’t checked it out, you definitely should.  Today at lunch, I caught a glimpse of the ogre from Shrek and the pumpkin carriage from Cinderella…very interesting stuff.  Also, the ever-popular “Hoop Dreams” will be held tonight in the gym.  The Scots and Pipers Basketball team will play some scrimmage games; there are drawings for all sorts of prizes and opportunities for quite a bit of audience participation.

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Well Fall Break has come and with it came what has become my annual trip to Fayetteville.  The drive is actually alright once you get past the whole 4 and a half hour thing.  The Ozarks are really beautiful to drive through, especially in the fall.  The point of the trip though is to hang out with all my friends that are going to school up there.  It was even better this year because we’re all old enough to actually enjoy all of Dixon now.  My only complaint though was the football game.  It wasn’t really Arkansas losing that bothered me, it was how boring the game was.  Seriously, one touchdown the whole game?  Anyway the break went by was too fast, but it was a good one once again.  Time to knuckle up and grind out the rest of the semester.

Monday Night Football was amzing this week; if you didn’t see it, you missed what is gonna be one of the best games of the year.  It’s not very often that a team can comeback from 6 turnovers, especially all by the quarterback because you expect his confidence to be shot, but it happened.  Tony Romo led the Cowboys to 10 unanswered points in the last 2 minutes of the game, the last 3 points as a game winning field goal after an onside kick to beat the Buffalo Bills.  What a Monday night!

So, when I arrived (a little late, as always) for Molecular Bio lab last week , there was a sticky note on the lab door that said, “Katee, we have gone to the chapel to climb to the top.  Meet us there.”  I wasn’t exactly sure what Dr. Ong was thinking, but anything was better than beginning the paper presentation we were supposed to be doing.  I was assuming that we were going to climb to “The Room” in the Brown Chapel, so I was a little excited because I had never been up there.  You hear lots of rumors about that room….it’s one of those locked places that you’re not suppose to go into and technically shouldn’t be able to get into, but everyone does it anyway.

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