Who Me? Have Ethics? What Ethics?

It's a beautiful Monday afternoon here at college. The nicest day yet this whole year in fact...Kind of brutal considering today's the first day back from Spring Break. Kind of rubbing it in our faces, especially since I'll be spending the afternoon not outside enjoying the sunshine and warm temperatures, but rather glued to my computer screen trying to convince my teacher that I can in fact write a decent Ethics paper. Anybody have an ethics paper they feel like selling? Just Kidding! I do have ethics, depending on your definition of course. It's the kind of class you learn a lot from but feel like beating your head against the wall everytime an assignment comes due. I studied 13+ hours for the midterm exam, and garnered myself a B-, which I was very thankful for. Supposedly it's the hardest test you'll ever take here. Anyway, our group project comes due on Thursday (a 30 page paper) and I need to have my 6 pages done by tomorrow morning or risk losing my head to another group member. And since I'm rather attatched to my head, I better get it written. I got called and asked to go into work today, which I promptly had to turn down since I spent Spring Break working on wedding plans instead of writing my paper.

Which is the good news of the week, The Wedding (duh, duh, dun *scary music*) as I'm now calling it, is coming along quite nicely. Seriously, I'm excited, especially since it's only a little over 2 months away. Andy and I managed to pick out tuxes, order flowers, order the cake, and address many invitations over Spring Break, along with a few other random things like applying for a marriage license. This is probably the first time I've ever correctly spelled license, since I finally saw it spelled right as we applied for ours. Anyway, the marriage license story is rather well, comical. We realized we had to apply for it this last week if we were going to do it in Koochiching County, which was the preference, since you have to do it more than 5 business days in advance and this would be the only time we would both be up there together except the 3 days before the wedding. As we went to apply for it we realized we had forgotten to bring a signed specific paper from Mr. Hudson saying that we had received marriage counseling, which makes about a $70 difference in the cost of the marriage license. So we worked it out that we could fill everything out and I could bring that paper back in May. So we signed our names and I got to write my married name for the first time, and I also accidentally checked the yes boxes when it asked if we'd been convicted of any felonies. Oops! Bummer...at least the lady was understanding. It was a bit distracting while we were there because this lady who was either getting married for a large multiple time, or getting a divorce, stood right next to me and kind of laughed the whole time we were doing this. Not sure what that meant...Anyway, it was an adventure for sure. Kind of weird to because the bride (that's me!) has to fill out this section saying that I do intend to marry ____ (Insert Andy's name) and then sign my name. Leftovers from the days of kidnapping and forced marriages? Not sure on that one.

Anyway, wedding plans are coming along and hopefully invitations will go out sometime late next week, depending on how soon I am able to get the maps printed out and if that goes okay. Plus, as I said, huge paper due this week along with tons of stuff to do the next 3 weeks. On a side note, Andy and I did manage to find an apartment to rent in Alex, so we signed the lease and he's set to move in on May 1st. That's exciting, because it's OUR home, Andy's and Mine, which sounds pretty cool. It kind of makes this marriage seem like more of a reality. It's a small apartment, but we'll give it character I hope.

There's only 4 weeks of classes and a week of finals left of this school year, but there's a lot of stuff between now and then to get done. I will say that I'm glad Spring Break was so late this year if only because then April Fool's Day fell during Spring Break so no one could cause problems here. Last year someone put minnows/goldfish in every toilet. Kind of creepy as your rubbing the sleep out of your eyes to see something dart to the back of the toilet. Presumably that same someone also put Easter Egg Dye tablets in every shower head. Thankfully I had later classes so the dye had washed out by the time I took a shower. This sort of thing makes me wonder why people think the average college student is mature. Granted most are, but there are those few that drag us all down. Okay, so I hate pranks, so April Fool's Day is my least favorite day of the year. All I have to say is that great pain will be caused should anyone decide our wedding is a good reason to pull any pranks. I will not be smiling then.

But I digress, the next 3 weeks are the killers, My goal is to make it to April 20th. If I can do that, I just might make it. Andy's not coming to visit until then, so hopefully that will serve to keep me going and not be a distraction. He's trying to not be a distraction so he's not coming, but I wonder if it'll be a bigger distraction to be missing him. We'll see I guess.

So enough procrastinating for me, I need to go see if I have enough ethics in me to do what's right and go write my paper. Happy Spring Everyone! Go enjoy the Sunshine for me!