Helllooo? Anybody still out there?

Hey I'm not sure if people are still checking this, but I will be updating it while I'm back up at school. The blog IS titled "Eric at WSU" so I figured posting anything during the summer wouldn't make much sense. Anywho, I move up tomorrow morning into my first apartment and I couldn't be more thrilled. I've already got that jittery excited feeling I usually get on christmas morning or when I'm about to leave on a fun trip. Usually I don't get this excited until the actual day arrives but I guess I'm more excited that I thought. Tonight, falling asleep will most certainly be a challenge.

Okay well I'm going to go, I've got my last day of work ahead of me, which I'm not looking forward to, but I get paid today so that's helpful. I'll be posting pictures of my apartment when I get up there!

Just a thought. If it seems like I didn't update this blog enough during this school year, well keep in mind that this is my 66th post. I'd say I posted quite a bit. I don't feel so bad now! I don't have much to say other than I've taken three finals, and am feeling relatively confident about them all. I've got two more to go so I'm going to go study right now for them. Today is Cinco de Mayo and this is a special day for me. Let me elaborate. I'm not entirely sure if I believe in the whole "reincarnation" thing, but I do feel that if we do have past lives, then my past life was as a mexican. I have all these weird memories of living and walking around a small mexican village, and considering I've never been farther south than Florence, Oregon (or was it Dunes City, OR? It was to see Nick and Megan and Drew back in the day!) anywho, It doesn't make sense for me to have these memories. Amy claims she was a star in her past life, and well I was a Mexican. So naturally since today is the holiday of my people, I must celebrate in some fashion. But it's wednesday during finals week so I'll probably celebrate by studying and watching TV. I am getting subway with my friend Janie today, so that can be my celebration!

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

So I've begun packing for the trek home and it's quite overwhelming. All I can say is, I'm glad I started today. I just pretty much packed all my clothes, which only account for probably 35% of my things. Looking at my desk, it's kind of frightening to think of how much crap I have and how little storage I have for it. I'm probably going to need to go buy a box or something because I just have too much stuff, and nothing to carry it in! How did I get it all up here? I really don't feel like I've accrued that much since moving up here, but perhaps I have.

Anywho, again I can't wait to come home this friday! My freshman year is over!

My goodness it's been ages since my last update! I forgot all about this thing! Well my year is coming to a close and I couldn't be happier. This year has been so incredibly fun, probably the best year of my life. I am so glad I chose WSU over Western. So, so glad. However, there are a number of things I won't miss. For one, I'm done living in the dorms which is really exciting. In fact it's the thing I look forward to most about this year being over. I cannot handle sharing a room with someone I really cannot. I have many stories I look forward to sharing with everyone in person, but it'd just be kind of rude to say them publicly on here. Not that my blog gets a lot of traffic, but still, I'm considerate.

This past few days have been especially stressful. It's called Dead week, I'm sure most of you know what this is: the week before finals. It's the last week of actual class, and most classes are supposed to be just reviewing for the finals, but that's never the case. Usually projects are due, presentations are to be given and a whole bunch of crap that should have happened the week before. Needless to say this week has been the busiest week of the year for me, so much to do and ... well there's plenty of time but hardly and motivation. However the worst of it is over, which would be the speech I had to give yesterday. It was a persuasive speech and it just took forever to prepare and had been weighing on me for some time now and to finally get that off my chest feels great. Today I have another presentation to give for my GenEd class which should be interesting. I'm not really too concerned about that but still I don't want to mess it up. tomorrow I have my french oral interview with my partners Kim and Shea. We had one about two months ago and it was really simple but still, it's a big part of my grade so I can't help but be a little worried about it.

Then it appears that after that oral interview, I'll be done, absolutely done. I have no quizzes, no tests, no other presentations, or anything to do for the rest of the week. All that comes next is the studying for finals which I'm not too stressed about. I never get stressed for tests, which isn't always a good thing. Sometimes I don't take things seriously enough and will under-study, but hopefully I can avoid that. Well I have to go to French now, so I'm going to leave it at that.

I'll hopefully see every body soon! I'll be home in 9 days.

The other weekend I went up to Spokane with Becky, her boyfriend/my friend Gage, and Becky's roommate Chrissy. Chrissy is from spokane, and by spokane I mean far far north spokane. Upon arriving in Spokane, we had another good 40 minutes until we reached her lovely home. She lives way out in the country which inspires me to do the same. They don't live on a farm, but they have lots of land, and a beautiful house. Anywho, I took some photos along the way so I thought why not share them with you all!


The drive up to her house was one of the most beautiful drives of my life. It was drizzling and and sunsetting, which is a beautiful phenomenon.


The photos from the car ride aren't my best, since I had to shoot through a windshield, but I tried.

This picture isn't the best, but it was the best I could do to catch this rainbow. I don't think I've ever seen the end of a rainbow, nor have I seen such a bright rainbow. The photo doesn't show how vivid it was, but you can clearly see where the rainbow ends which was really exciting.



The final stretch to her house was a dirt road.


We took a number of photos that night, but some of them are a wee bit embarrassing, so I just have a few more to share. Here's Becky, Chrissy and me just sitting on a dog bed looking wonderful. This was after the hottub, so my hair looks ridiculous.



The wrap it up, here's a great photo of Chrissy's cat, Bruce, that Gage snapped.




That's all for now folks, but I'm going to try to post more photos on this blog in the future. Now I just have to sit here and listen to my roommate's disgusting eating sounds.... I'm a terrible person.

Here's a photo of our apartment for next year! Ours is the on the top left.

Not great.

Today we're signing the lease for the apartment but are forced to do so in inclement weather. Yesterday Becky and I put in a great work-out at the gym, and were commenting on the amazing weather. Neither of us really needed jackets outside, and there wasn't a cloud to be seen.

This morning it's a different story


The picture doesn't really show the snow very well, but I can assure you it's coming down hard!

It's been like this A LOT lately. One day not only sunny, but warm and beautiful, and then the next day it's freezing and snowing. I checked the weather report, and it's not even cold enough to snow, let alone this heavily. It's around 40 degrees and getting warmer, which would explain why the snow isn't sticking, but why is it even snowing in the first place!

But Becky and I won't let this crazy weather stop us from signing the lease! I couldn't be more ecstatic!