TRAIN!!!!

Someone yells "train" every time the train goes by. And it goes by a lot. Guess what? I love my apartment. I love living with three other girls and cooking and eating together and hanging out together and all that. Oooh tomorrow we are each going to paint a picture to decorate the living room. There are some not-quite nice things about the location (beer bottles in front of my door, crazy people all over the place, a toilet that overflowed) but hey, I can deal with that. Recently my back had been hurting a lot, especially walking around and being the brilliant doctor that I am, I tightened the straps on my backpack and it really helped. Amazing how smart I am sometimes. Speaking of smart, my math class isn't all that bad. Some things are annoying to have to learn, but the teacher has a good method of teaching and actually demonstrates some of the things that I am learning in my education class, and so that is interesting to watch if I get bored with the subject material. I feel really dumb when I don't understand things in that class, though. I think I did all right on the first quiz. (Sample question: A sequence starts 2, 6, ... what is the next term if it is an arithmetic sequence?) Last weekend was fun. I watched Corpse Bride, Just Like Heaven, Pride and Prejudice, and Aviator. I learned how to crochet (it is painful!) I went to a BBQ at Thomas' friends' house. I hiked Bishop's with Sara. Lots of fun. This Saturday I'm going with Marissa to see the elephant seals. Here is a closing thought for you (thanks to linguistics): why do you say "big red balloon" and not "red big balloon"?