Little Things

I felt like blogging today, mainly to put off studying again - I haven't had any crazy adventures in the past 5 days :) This morning I did a bit of photography which was fun - a gorgeous day for it too! I read a photo blog by a guy in Austin, which was a bad idea because now I want to buy two new lenses (both cost about the same as my camera :\ ), and it made me a bit homesick as all the examples were from around Austin, even the 37th st lights :P So I went and took some pictures of my own and played with HDR, hopefully I'll get better at it with practice.

Trinity Ball was last night, I failed on the picture front as we were running late when getting ready and then I kept forgetting to take my camera out at the ball. It was a lot of fun though, they put up 5 different stages around campus, which is completely enclosed, and have bands playing from 10-5am. It's apparently the largest private party in Europe, woo! I went with my room mates but then hooked up with a couple frisbee kids (Sam, Jen, and Kevin) and we wandered around, running into Finola and Dave and then met Niall and several others for a 2am throwing session in the midst of the crowd. Good times :)

I also made pumpkin pie yesterday because several of my room mates had never had it and I felt like baking. I ended up buying a cheesecake in order to get a pie pan, and so now we have cheese cake and pumpkin pie in our fridge. Pie turned out surprisingly well considering it was baked in a deep-dish 6 or 7" pan rather than normal 9". I've decided I've definitely made too many pies in my life as I didn't even bother looking up a recipe for pie crust and could still make it. I guess there are worse things to know by heart.

Other news in my life: We found out that we have a place to live in Germany this summer, which is always good. The four of us going will be sharing a house outside of Würzburg, it'll be interesting and a bit far, but at least we don't have to pay for 6 months of housing. One of the girls is going in less than two weeks so I'll get info from her about it, as well as figure out what I'm actually going to be doing :P And I decided to go ahead and register for Windmill Windup, an ultimate tournament in Amsterdam the weekend I get back to Europe. It's kind of expensive but including airfair will end up being cheaper (and easier to get to) than Jestival (the other tournament I was thinking about, same weekend. Yes, frisbee has taken over my life) And finally, I'm actually starting to be productive - yay! Classes are done and my exams don't start until the 18th, so I have quite a while to buckle down and learn everything. Jealous of everyone who is already done!!

And with that, back to the studying! Wish me luck :)