Subject: hi mom!


hi mom! how're you doing? i'm pretty good .... a little cold, but it definitely could be worse. i dont know if i told you or not, but maybe a month ago, there was this reeeeeeeally bad gastrointestinal virus going around one of the sorority houses, and they just sent an email out this morning saying it hit ross and schwitzer residence halls .... cross fingers it doesnt get to resco! last time we had a news van parked across from the theta house for a week haha.
well geez i dont even know what i did and didnt remember to tell you .... i signed up for enough credit hours to count as full time now, thats a very good thing .... i'll be taking Contemporary Moral Issues (its a required class) and libby's in my section yaaaaaaay!
we signed the lease for the house on tuesday i think.... so i had to put down $400 for the deposit. i'm not sure exactly what rent is going to come to, but somewhere around $300 a month is a good guess. i hope to walk over and take some pictures of it before thanksgiving break so you can at least see what i've got myself into.
i also took $100 out of the tuition account to buy me some work clothes .... i got a shirt and some pants ... 'cause otherwise i'd only have one shirt and one pair of pants that would match what we have to wear. and they definitely get dirty, so wearing them more than once is a little disgusting, and i really dont want to spend $2 on a load of laundry with two things in it every time i work. anyway the clothes didnt cost the full hundred dollars, but with the rest of it i bought laundry quarters and a little food and bathroom stuff i was out of. (the other day i COMPLETELY ran out contact solution .... i had to throw away the ones i was wearing 'cause not ONE of my suitemates wears contacts grrr) i think i still have some of it left over (the money that is) and i'll probalby give it to maggie for gas
and that brings me to thanksgiving! maggie is still bringing me home, and the plan is to have emily from davenport take me back to butler, although for that to work i'd need someone to take me to davenport. anyway, i thought about driving home myself, but maggie really wanted to come see butler, esp. since this was the only weekend she could make it, and i figure anything to save my poor quickly-aging car a 400 mile trip, is a good thing. its not that there's anything wrong with my car, everything works, it just kind of makes old man noises, as i like to put it.
as for getting around town, i guess i work three days, and emily rod's having a mary kay party, but other than that i'm not sure what else i have to do thats planned. i want to see my friends of course, but i remember last year i felt like i didnt spend enough time at home, and this will pretty much solve that problem. i figure, we've got a pool table, they can come to us!
oh i s'pose this letter's getting long enough, and i really should go eat lunch before dinosaur class (that class always makes me sooo hungry) i'll say everything else real quick. i dont have a busy week ahead, the only big thing i had due this week was my final speech for speech class, and i did it yesterday. i get to work wednesday and friday (i've been promised 20 hours a week normal weeks) (which is good 'cause i need money and i really enjoy working). maggie is coming friday after her last class but she'll get here after i'm off of work. we'll leave the dorm saturday morning for iowaaaaaa (we have to leave by noon, which is when the locks are changed). since i dont have a lot to do this week, expect a phone call later to cover anything i missed in this extensive email.
miss you all!
love
andrea

AParr728: lem

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Auto response from Lem728: too much monkey business for me to be involved in
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Lem728: dm
Lem728: tell me about the table
AParr728: the boys done it
AParr728: michael albert travis and ben
AParr728: they moved that slate like it was buttah
Lem728: awesome
Lem728: did you get it set up?
AParr728: i got it roughly set up in our basement, but it will take hours to get it set right
Lem728: i see
Lem728: but i wanna play noowww
AParr728: the felt, however, it as good as new
AParr728: i have to take out the bunk bed, so we're getting you a baby mattress to slide under the pool table
Lem728: i see
Lem728: fine
Lem728: but will you save my headboard of stickers?
Lem728: i want that
AParr728: mom wants the bunkbed in michaels room
Lem728: whats michael think about that
AParr728: so all three can sleep together, just like when you were little
AParr728: he says no, he needs his privacy
AParr728: boo ha ha
Lem728: haha
Lem728: so whats going to happen?
AParr728: only the magic 8 ball knows
Lem728: is there going to be a couch in davids room?
AParr728: not determined, try again later
Lem728: michael says he wants to put my futon in the workbench room
AParr728: no way, we sit on it to watch TV in the bird room
AParr728: you can fold out the futon when youre here
Lem728: thats what i said
AParr728: barney will be your rooster
Lem728: kind of
Lem728: yah
Lem728: yay barney
Lem728: i tried to talkt o him ont he phone the other day but he was afraid of the phone
AParr728: i play ed ed n eddy every day for rocco so he'll learn how to whistle
Lem728: haha
Lem728: he already can whistle
Lem728: is there any room left in the bird room?
AParr728: his wings need trimming
Lem728: i mean
Lem728: the pool room
AParr728: there will be room when el bunko goes
AParr728: right now the bunk is intrusive
Lem728: so what are we going to put in there?
Lem728: i see
AParr728: a single bed with a green headboard
AParr728: i think there's one in the attic
Lem728: oh i remember that one
Lem728: it used to be mine when iwas little
AParr728: you're still our baby
AParr728: woo chee woo chee
Lem728: baloha
AParr728: ill get mom, she wants to ask you stuff, I'm sure
Lem728: oky
AParr728: Hi sweetie - this is mom
AParr728: how's your week going?
Lem728: hi mom!
Lem728: oh fine
AParr728: have your test already?
Lem728: yep
Lem728: it was hard, but everyone agreed it was hard, so i think i'll do okay
AParr728: do you get a little break now, or have lots more work?

Lem728: no i have a break
Lem728: fiiiiiiinally
AParr728: march this weekend?
Lem728: no, but we have fraternity
AParr728: michael's done with marching band, hooray
AParr728: too cold
Lem728: boo
Lem728: we have two performances left, but they're on the same day
Lem728: in two weeks
AParr728: the sounds of the stadium concert is thursday, that's always a fun one
Lem728: and loooooong
AParr728: i guess it's 10:00 there already??
Lem728: yep!
AParr728: david's drum line will play at the concert too - he's looking forward to that
Lem728: yay never changing time
Lem728: oh thats exciting!
AParr728: we'll have to fire up the video camera
Lem728: istn that why he joined in the first place
Lem728: i mean as a drummer
Lem728: yah
AParr728: yes - but he plays cymbals which are a little boring
AParr728: but he's glad to finally be doing it
AParr728: there are so many percussion kids that he doesn't get to play much
Lem728: well thats good
AParr728: if he does band next year, both he and michael will want to go to florida
Lem728: yeah, i think thats how it is a lot fo the time
AParr728: probably
Lem728: ooo
Lem728: make micahel get a job
Lem728: michael
AParr728: sell that fruit
Lem728: right
AParr728: too bad he doesn't get paid for debating
Lem728: mmm fruuuuuuit
AParr728: it's always good fruit - nice and fresh in december
AParr728: to change the subject, did you get a costume pulled together?
AParr728: michael is debating on halloween, and i don't think david has plans, so it'll be a quiet halloween i think
Lem728: no
Lem728: i tried to look around but didnt find anything
AParr728: maybe you could do something simpler?
AParr728: does libby have a costume? or andrea?
Lem728: no and no
Lem728: hadnt had a lot of time to work on it yet
Lem728: hopefully now
AParr728: i need to go tuck david in and head for bed myself - i'm running tomorrow early
Lem728: ohhhhhkay
Lem728: how do you do it in such cold weather
Lem728: its been FREEZING here
Lem728: i havent run in forever
AParr728: you just can't think about it - just roll out of bed, pull on clothes and out the door - no thinking
AParr728: you probably couldn't breath anyway
AParr728: are you doing anything in the exercise room?
Lem728: too busy
Lem728: maybe later this week
AParr728: such is life as a college student...
Lem728: right right
AParr728: have a good week now that you are thru your test - miss you!
AParr728: bye!
Lem728: bye mom miss you too!