People don't know how to drive in the rain....

Why do people always change their driving when it's raining?
Today I went home and it was pouring the whole time I was driving (a good two hours worth of rain :))
Everytime I hit traffic there was a new accident.
I hit traffic about three times.
I usually don't hit any traffic when I drive home (then again I don't go home often)
I normally don't have a problem with cars coming into my line meaning it never happens but today I almost got hit by like 5 cars.
Every so often a car would swerve into my lane and then I would have to swerve and it was just craziness.
Cars were going about 45 miles per hour on the highway which I feel is unsafe when the speed limit is 65 and there are some people driving 85 -90 miles per hour that sped past me which were probably the accidents that I then saw later.
The trucks were the scariest part.
They would spray so much water up from their tires into the windshield of my car and would blind me even with my wipers on.
What I thought was the craziest was that the trucks were probably going faster than most of the cars.
Highway craziness thankfully kept me awake for the drive.

Observation #1 - The Agora

I observed the students within the Granville Towers Agora last night during dinner. The Agora is set up with separate cafeteria lines that contain different types of food and a table area where there are large tables for about 10 people and small tables for about 4 or 5 people. There is a lot of open space between tables. One thing I observed was that there were many individuals that were sitting by themselves. A lot of these people either had something to do or a computer or book in front of them. In the corner of the Agora there is a big screen T.V. that always plays some type of sporting game. 3 or 4 tables surround the T.V. Each of these tables had a group of guys at it, all of them eating and watching T.V. at the same time. There were very few tables that included girls and guys. Many of the girls interacted with other girls and many of the guys interacted with other guys. The girls sat in tables of around 3 or 4 and the guys either sat in a large group of around 5 or 6 or sat alone. The norm of the Agora seems to be that guys control and watch the T.V. while girls leave the guys alone for the most part and converse among themselves.

Cheesecake Factory = yumlicious

So I was saving this blog until tonight because I knew I was going to the Cheesecake factory.
Can I please just say that the Cheesecake Factory is amazing!!!!!!
The menu is like 50 pages long and has a bigillion different things to choose from on it, which all sound like they could make any depressed person happy.
I got the cajun chicken fingers with mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese --- p.s. I love carbs!
That entree could have fed a family reunion.
There were about 12 chicken fingers on my plate, two handfuls of mashed potatoes, and a whole bowl full of the most delicious macaroni and cheese ever.
There was no way that I could eat it all so I immediately asked for a to go box.
I ate probably 4 chicken fingers, a third of my mashed potatoes, and about 10 bites of my macaroni and cheese.
My to go box will last me a good couple days worth of meals --- delicious meals.
To finish off my amazing meal I had to get some cheesecake so I shared a white chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake with my boyfriend. ----- mmm mmm good!!
I had dinner about two hours ago and I still feel full.
I feel like I'm going into hibernation.

----I LOVE FOOD!! :)

Went to Duke

So today I had the wonderful experience of going to Duke. My friend had surgery done at the Duke hospital and my roommate and I went to go visit him and his family. As soon as I pull onto campus I immediately think that I am part of the movie Hunchback of Notre Dame and that their should be talking gargoyles surrounding me. It was a very gothic looking school and very stony and gray, unlike the campus of Carolina which is any kind of brick invented. As I'm pulling into the parking garage to park my roommate begins to tell me about the time that her Dad took her car to Duke. Her car is lined with Carolina stickers and clearly someone in the family either went or goes to Carolina. Her dad was at Duke for a business meeting and parks in a parking deck. He comes out of the business meeting to find the car keyed all the way down the drivers side. Meanwhile I'm in the parking deck with my car covered in Carolina stickers and I'm thinking "omg, my car is surely going to get keyed."
I step out of the car and realize I have my Carolina Cheerleading jacket on with the carolina symbol on the front and "The University of North Carolina" written across the back. No joke, 3 separate cars honked at me and gave me the nastiest stares. It's safe to say though that nothing was thrown at me and when I returned to my car it was not keyed!!! As I pulled out of the parking deck though, creeper of the day, the parking deck ticket taker upper, was creepily staring at me and my carolina symbol on my jacket and asked me if I cheered for the school. When I said yes all he had to say in reply with was "I like"
AHHHH!!!

I posted this yesterday but it never showed up...round 2

On Friday the all girl cheerleading team leaves for Cheersport Nationals in Atlanta, GA, which if you didn't know is a major competition in the cheerleading world. This last weekend we did amazing at our competition which only pumped me up more for this weekend. We have worked so hard at practices and have accomplished so much in the last two weeks that we deserve to win a nationals. I have never felt so close to a team before in all of the years that I have cheered (which is coming up on 8) and I have never felt that my team has put their full potential on the floor till this year. This weekend is going to be stressful though. 800 teams from around the world come to compete at the World Congress Center on 8 different floors. If you think the Dean Dome is overwhelming you seriously have no idea. My team is competing against six other all girl teams from various colleges along the east coast, including NC State. The bus ride on Friday is seven hours long (i'm catching up on my naps) and then right when we get to Atlanta we have practice. Saturday we compete at 9:07 in the morning and Sunday we compete at 8:33 a.m. (these people must be crazy putting college teams that early).
I'M SO PUMPED!! Go tar heels!

Event #1 - Clemson vs. Carolina Game.

This was the highlight of my freshman year. My roommate gets tickets to every home game and invites me to them all but this was the only one that i HAD to go to. Clemson was my second choice school and I had always dreamed of going to a Clemson Carolina game (I didn't really care who won). Clemson was playing fairly well at the start of the game either staying ahead or keeping up with Carolina. When Carolina stayed on top and shot ahead in points I was ecstatic. Clemson has a very decent basketball team, but obviously we are better. Another thing that stood out to me at the game were the advertisements on the billboards (I know, so random). The advertisements really reached out to the student body along with the fans advertising food around campus, concession stand food, and awesome prizes that any fan could win.

This game made me realize that I belonged to the right school. As a university we are so united and have such outstanding traditions at games that I wouldn't trade those things for any other school in the country. I knew I was a Carolina girl not a "tiger" when we won that game. I always struggled with where I wanted to go to school out of the two but for some reason at that game I had just figured out that I was getting the better education and saving my parents money. It's pretty ironic that it took a basketball game for me to realize that. Also, if I didn't enjoy basketball at least I could try and win some prizes. With my luck, I might want to stick with enjoying basketball.

Verizon...so much fun!

So today I got my my third phone in a span of 29 days. It's safe to say that technology hates me. I originally had the Blackberry Storm and then my lock button wouldn't work for my key pad so I got it replaced with another Blackberry Storm. Then today (and the past week) my phone decided to restart on me 5 times. The blackberry is like a computer so it takes five minutes or so for it to "boot up". This is definitely not convenient when I'm trying to get a hold of my mom for some money!
I go to the Verizon store tonight and I get my phone replaced with the Blackberry Curve.... I definitely already love this phone much more than the Storm.
Anyway, I'm getting my new phone and the store closes because apparently they close at 8:30 p.m. on Friday nights....lame. It's my friend and I and the rest of the store employees left in the store and we are just joking around talking about the Carolina - Duke game (CAROLINA WILL WIN!). So I use my girlish ways (p.s. I looked like a bum) and the guy helping me gave me a refund for my Storm and a $70 rebate for the Curve. I LOVE VERIZON AND VERIZON EMPLOYEES.

p.s. my Friday night is lame....I HATE BIO!!

The Library...fun times

So I never go to the library and I decided to make a trip tonight to maybe actually get some work done. I have got to say, it's probably the most entertaining place on this whole campus. I walk in to the upper part of the UL to a guy just sprawled out on a table sleeping with his mouth open and drooling all over what looks to be some important papers. Then as I'm walking to my little cubby hole of studiousness I see someone just staring at the wall. I hope there's is something on that wall that's going to help him with his test or homework.
I'm pretty sure my room is more quiet than this library too. Everyone is sniffling because of the negative 2 degree weather outside and hurricane winds. Someone fell out of their chair and knocked over all their stuff (just kidding that didn't really happen but I may start coming to library more often to hopefully catch that happen). I was interrupted by like 50 people that I knew who were just saying hi and now I'm doing my blog and not what I exactly intended to do here at the library tonight haha. (atleast I'm getting something constructive done).

p.s. I have officially decided I need to go to an easier school.....this is stressing me out. I'm in need of a massage!