It's Christmas?! No Way!!

So about me blogging all the time.... whoops, definitely forgot over these past few weeks! Right now I'm currently home helping my parents get ready for Christmas Dinner at our house tomorrow. A lot has happened in the past few weeks so I'll try and recap it, it'll be the sparknote version since it has been 2 weeks.

Winter ball was AMAZING! I went with a huge group of friends and I couldn't have had a better time. It was on the 35th floor of the State Street building in the Financial District. The views from the ballroom were breathtaking. No lie. You could see all of Boston out the windows and being able to dance right there was great! That Saturday was an "Ugly Sweater Party" at Rachel and Haley's. I wasn't planning on attending because I was supposed to work at night, but that morning my manager called me asking if I could come in early and work. So working early enabled me to go to the party, which was a blast. Everyone had super ugly sweaters which made it really fun.

Then came finals week. Most stressful four days of the semester. Luckily I only had a final on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I felt I did pretty well on my finals and we just got our grades back this past week and it turns out I did. I'm really happy with my grades because this semester was rough changing majors and all. I'm really looking forward to next semester and taking classes I'm interested in. After finals week, I needed some much needed rest.

So Sunday with the snow storm raging outside my apartment, I sat inside and watched footbal, movies, and tv shows all day. It was nice to do absolutely nothing, but I definitely got bored after a while and realized I would never want to live alone. Although I didn't rest much because Tuesday I went up to Bretton Woods in New Hampshire to snowboard with my friend TJ. It was a 3 hour drive which took a lot out of us, but once we got into the mountains and started seeing all the resorts, we got pumped to be there. We spent all day on the mountain and left when it closed. We didn't get back into the city until 7ish and decided to go out to dinner at TGI Friday's with our friends Haley and Rachel. Then the very next day we decided to hit another mountain for a second full day of snowboarding. We ended up going to Wachusett in Princeton, MA, only an hour and a half away. We definitely didn't feel like driving another 3 hours back to New Hampshire or Vermont.

Today I drove home to go to our family Christmas Eve dinner at my Uncle's house. I decided to leave Boston early so I could get home and relax, but my mom had other ideas for me when I walked in the door. Tomorrow everyone in our family comes to my house, and afterwards I'm going to drive back to Boston, but before getting home, I'm going to stop at Wachusett for some night riding. Yes I'm going to snowboard on Christmas day.

Time to get ready to see the family!

-CG

3 Days of Class Left!

Last week flew by and this week is going to fly by just as fast! Well hopefully! Last week I had my Organizational Behavior presentation. My group killed our presentation, we were one of the best in the class I must say. Today I had a presentation in Data Decision and Analysis. It went smoothly but it was kind of awkward because all of the groups came to a consensus outside of class that we all didn't really know what to present. My group was the first one to present today so I guess that was good and bad. Good in being that there were no expectations, bad in that we couldn't change our presentation if we missed something. I have three more days of class and then this semester is over, THANK GOD! This has been by far the worst semester of my college career. Probably because I was so unmotivated at the beginning and switched my major.

On the sports front, Notre Dame's coach Charlie Weis was let go after finishing the season 6-6. Really disappointing because 1) I had much higher expectations for Weis and Notre Dame and 2) Jimmy Clausen declared for the NFL Draft rather than playing in his senior season. Notre Dame also declined a bowl game this season which I thought was unfortunate. Clausen will be one of the top quarterbacks in this years draft, along with Tim Tebow of Florida, Colt McCoy of Texas, and Sam Bradford of Oklahoma.

My UConn Huskies received a bowl game however against South Carolina in the PapaJohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama. UConn had a strong season ending 7-5 but with multiple close losses. They lost to undefeated Cincinnati by 2, Pittsburgh by 3, West Virginia by 4, and North Carolina by 2. Either way, I'm really excited to watch UConn in a bowl game this January.

UConn basketball is coming along, although I have a feeling its not going to be the season I want it to be. They just played Harvard which should have been a blow out and barely won, 79-73. They play Kentucky next which is going to be a tough game. At 6-1 their only loss is to Duke, but it wasn't even a close game and so far UConn has only played easy opponents, besides Duke. Kentucky will definitely test their defense and scoring might be tough. They lost so many players last year that this season might be a rebuilding season, but in UConn Country, we're always looking for a National Championship.

With winter break almost here, I've been thinking about a second job. I won't be working in the admissions office over break, so it will just be Banana Republic and I'm not getting too many hours there. I've been looking for jobs, but right now everything is seasonal and I really want to find a part time job that won't end in January.

Now I need to find something to wear to Winter Ball on Thursday. A Black Tie affair that I probably won't be wearing black to.

-CG