The LAST post from my laptop for the summer...:(

Well...it's been a nice ride, but tomorrow I have to have this thing turned in by 5pm. I'm a little sad to see it go, even though there are computers at home and even though this thing is a piece of crap...I still want to have it plugged in all the time so I can talk to people...

oh well, all things have to come to and end at some point, right? (totally stolen out of my closing story from my senior yearbook)

With my high school graduation coming up I cant help but think back on the past year...hm...okay I'm done :) I'm so looking forward to the next year and years of my life, I cant wait to see what is in store for me here at UIS!!! I have some pics to post from my last few days in LRH, but I took the cable that goes from my camera to my laptop home...so that will have to wait until I have some free time at home :) which my be a while :)

SO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THE MOST AWESOME STORY OF MY LIFE!!!!

ok so last night we had some really bad thunderstorms come through springfield right? okay so I fell asleep (finally) at about 1:30 or 2. I was startled from my slumber at around 5am with some MASSIVE thunder and lightning. I layed there for about an hour and by the time about 6:15 rolled around I was just getting back to sleep. About 10 minutes later, I was kinda half-looking out my window when I saw this HUGE brightness in my room...so yes, lightning, no big deal. well I heard a crack and really loud thunder right after i saw it and all of a sudden, I hear this beeping coming from the hall. I grabbed my keys and my cell phone and met Rachel in the suite foyer. I was like is that the tornado siren? and then I thought for a second and I was like dangit! thats the gosh darn fire alarm. So I told Rachel, 'okay i have my keys and my purse' which i clearly did not, and that reminded me I needed my purse so I went back in my room and got my purse and shockingly enough I was clear-headed enough to put some shoes on. Well we got downstairs and outside (we stood right outside the doors) and then after we were let back inside I fell asleep until my Dad got here at 9:30ish. I got back from lunch with Dad and had just finished packing the Nav and sending Dad off, I walked inside and heard Hannah talking at the front desk. I heard her say that she was talking to one of the maintenance guys and he said that lightning really did strike LRH last night and that it blew a piece of Limestone off the side of the building! They were up there covering it up today in preparation for the storms we had tonight!

I KNOW, GREATEST STORY OF MY LIFE, RIGHT?

Okay seriously, I know its my last night in LRH but it has been one of the longest nights of my life, hopefully my speech goes okay tomorrow and I can keep my A in the class. I just want to pack up my car and head home! That's all I'm lookin to do now and hopefully I'll get up early tomorrow and pack my car and then get ready for my speech and then after class I can stop by Jim and Bob's and drop some stuff off and then get the heck home!

See Ya!

Shelly