Who is winning the World Series? Yeah. That's what I thought.

It is quite interesting watching baseball at a place like OWU when you have so many students from New England and Ohio. Let me tell you, I thought there was going to be a turf war during the Indians-Sox games. And when the Sox were finally victorious, come Monday, the New England students gloated happily with Varitek jerseys and Bo-sox hats (I was one of those gloating fans, not going to lie!). A lot of people ask me why I am a Boston Red Soxs fan since I was born in upstate New York and raised in Indiana. I ask you this, why is Lebron James a Yankees fan? Do I need to justify my fanaticism? I think not.
Oh and Jacoby Ellsbury, if we're ever both single, give me a call sometime.
I will leave you with some personal family pictures of the lovely Red Sox and their stadium.

Global Warming, a mixed blessing.

It has been ridiculously nice outside almost too warm for my taste and my irish kleenex skin. I should owe my gratitude to good ole global warming for this one. Then again, the weather in Ohio is fickle so one never does know.
The past two weeks has been filled with great excitement. Thomas Homer-Dixon and Strobe Talbott came to OWU to give lectures as part of the annual lecture series Sagan National Colloquim. As an International Studies majors, I have read extensively about them and articles written by them. I was really impressed by their presentations but most importantly devestated. A lot of what they had to say involved the horrible mess and dire straits of the current global situation. Everything from climate change to the huge refugee displacement caused by the Iraq invasion. They inspired me and made me realize that I am definately in the right major!
I also found out that I have the opportunity to go to Memphis, TN to visit St. Jude's Children's hospital on behalf of our Tri-Delta chapter! I am able to see where the thousands of dollars each year that our chapter raises go. I will make sure to post pictures, but I don't go to Memphis until November.
Other than that, I am just dealing with the regular college woes: time management, exams, and applications for Graduate School. This weekend was our fall break so it was nice to have an extra day off, I really needed it to catch up on some z's.
Attached is a picture of a bat that has been calling my bedroom window screen home for a while. Perfect example of global warming-he/she/it hasn't migrated south yet. The other picture is a group of friends at the Cheesecake Factory for Jessica's birthday (Happy Birthday, Kleinman!)