Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 6 November, 2010

For another class, I was required to attend the production of Julius Caesar put on by the Theatre Department. This was certainly an interesting cultural experience, and although I wasn't a huge fan of the play itself, I thought it was done very well. The staging was very different than what I imagine Shakespeare originally intended it, but there were many things in it that Shakespeare clearly did not intend. For example, there were several Nazi references in the battle dress of some characters and the tiles on the floor of the stage were arranged in a swastika, something that clearly wasn't common in Shakespeare's time. Also, many of the characters were cross-gender cast, so many of the male roles were converted into woman's roles. I didn't really like how this was done as it seemed to detract from the huge masculinity that should have been shown in the roles of the conspirators.

Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior; 5 November, 2010

This time last year, I was running in my last cross country league finals. This was an extremely eventful day in my life as not only did we advance past our league into CIF for the first time since my freshman year, but we also had one of our girls break her leg in the last 400 meters of our race. However, before all of this happened, the varsity girls took almost 100 pictures of each other, and our whole team. During this picture spree, we found this log along the side of the road that looked like it had a heart cut out of the center. So of course, we took many picture of the log itself and of us around it. This is my favorite of those pictures as around the heart, our feet are aligned in a star formation (even though its a little lopsided). I miss my cross country girls tremendously and I'm so proud of how they've been doing this season, on track to place top 5 in State.

Intermural Volleyball; 3 November, 2010

Another great thing about college that was never available to me in high school is intramural sports. So far my hall has had a broomball and volleyball team, and I can't wait for next quarter when we rock indoor soccer. This picture was taken at our last (I think) intramural volleyball game, and since it was right around Halloween, we chose to go dressed up in our fantastic costumes.

All Hallows Eve; 31 October, 2010

Halloween was so much fun this year. I haven't done much for Halloween the past few years, opting to stay home with my sister watching our favorite scary TV show, Supernatural, rather than go out and party or something of the like. So this year was great actually being able to go out and have some fun with my new family. This photograph was from the first night people went out, with these girls (minus our fabulous RA Vanessa) going up to CSU to see old friends from high school. I didn't go with them, so I was photographer for the night before they left.

Pi Lambda Pi for life :)

Pumpkin Carving; 30 October, 2010

In the days leading up to Halloween, the JMac Leadership Team held a pumpkin carving contest. As JMac LT historian, of course I was there snapping photographs of all the pumpkins and their carvers. I really like this picture as it has just about all of the carved pumpkins in it and the orange stands out against the black night outside. All of the pumpkins turned out so good after they were carved, and I'm sure it was difficult to choose the winner. I love being a part of the JMac LT and was glad I was able to participate in this event and help put it on.

Craziest Girls I Know; 27 October, 2010

My absolute favorite class this quarter has definitely been my FSEM, simply because of the fantastic girls in the class (and of course you, Roddy). No matter what's going on, we always have fun together and despite our personalities being very different, we get along so well. We all have a love of photography that comes out when we're together and I will miss this class and these girls so much next quarter when we're not together anymore. I love this "self portrait"so much because it captures all of our crazy personalities, but we're all so close together that we're clearly a united group.

My New Family; 24 October, 2010

In leaving behind my family of 6, I joined a family of 68. My floormates, and fellow PLPers have truly become my family here at DU. Over this weekend, my family had our annual retreat at the Nature Place, and what is a retreat without a bonfire and s'mores? Over this weekend, I got to know my fello PLPers so much better and I love every single one of them to death. As I look forward now to the next 6 weeks away from everyone here, I realize how much I'm really going to miss them while I'm home.

DU Hockey; 22 October 2010

One of my favorite "new" experiences that I've had here at DU has been the hockey games. Even though I have absolutely no clue what is going on during the games, I love being a part of the student section cheering like mad. I wish this picture could accurately capture the excitement and school spirit that is present in the student section of hockey games, but unfortunately it does not do it justice at all.