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December 26, 2005

Christmas

We had a very nice Christmas at the Gutwin house. There was a ton of stuff and everyone had fun playing, laughing, eating, and being merry. I must say that the best gift of the day was the "Super Suduko for Kids" puzzle book Becca gave me. Rebecca Collins (on the far left in the photo) was a new, but pleasant, addition to our usual activities. The rest of the people are (L->R): my brother, Karl, my mom, my sister, Becca, and me!

Here's a few side notes: first, there are more pictures for anyone who has access to a facebook account. Second, I forgot to say in my e-mail, but Cris, I did not get your text message :( and lastly, random question, but I was wondering if you still have your textbook for 222.

Posted by agutwin at 06:55 PM | Comments (1)

December 24, 2005

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Greeting cards have all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you

Merry Christmas darling
We're apart that's true
But I can dream and in my dreams
I'm Christmas-ing with you

Holidays are joyful
There's always something new
But every day's a holiday
When I'm near to you
The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it every day
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say

That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you

Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you
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Haha, this song came on and I thought of you, Cris. To all my friends that I'm not able to be with: Merry Christmas, love you lots and cya soon :)

Posted by agutwin at 05:19 PM | Comments (0)

December 22, 2005

Grades!

"Look at the stars
look how they shine for you
and everything you do" - Coldplay

So our grades were posted today, and just to spare a thousand questions about them, here they are:

Course Credit
Descriptive Title Num Hrs Final Grade
ANIMAL NUTRITION 212 4.00 B-
HORSES 265 3.00 B
INTRO TO BEHAVIOR 221 4.00 A-
INTRO EXPER ORGANIC CHEM 251 2.00 B-
ORGANIC CHEM FOR LIFE SCIENCES 357 3.00 B-

GPA: 3.0062

I'm a little dissapointed in some of my courses, but overall I'm happy, at least I have a 3.0....I know I can bring it up next semester too. Cris, I hope you're happy with your grades too, even though I did keep you from studying sometimes ;)

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December 21, 2005

boo

"When we finally kiss good night, how I hate going out in the storm,
but if you really hold me tight all the way home I'll be warm,"

I seem to have come down with sickness. It started last night with a sore throat and headache, and today it's full blown ouchiness. I feel like I have a cat down my throat, I can't swallow very well. I had to go out christmas shopping today with my sister...that was not fun...i felt like i couldn't stand up. I'm not thinking very clearly and hopefully the present i got my dad will be good. OK, i'm going to go lie down...I hope you're safe and sound, Cris, I look forward to talking to you again.

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December 20, 2005

Cris and Anna do NYC

"If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says,
when she says she loves me" - Tonic

I'm actually on the train right now, I'll post this when I get home I guess. The end of school was kind of a blur of library and exams and sleep. I'm not sure how I feel about how well I've done on them, I kinda just had one after the other and not much time to think in-between. It seems so long ago that the semester started. Julie's moved out of the room, and it looks extremely empty. I'm sure going to miss having someone there to talk to, but I'm excited to (cross fingers) have a room to myself. I'm going to loft Julie's bed and put a hammock underneath, as well as rearrange the desks so I have one for my computer and one to do homework on. Well that's the plan for now....

I spent this past weekend at Cris's house in Yorktown and it was the perfect end to a stressful two weeks. On Saturday we walked around the "rich" mall and goofed around. We went into an Apple store and Williams Sinoma and Cris got to see me go nuts over all the stuff (btw, I'd like a new iPod with video, oh and one of those super big screens and a G5....) I also got to see his town and hang-out spots (and we got to go ice skating, haha). On Sunday we went to the city and hung around time square, rokafeller square area. We went into a couple stores (including Orvis, Dad, because I know how much you like it), saw the tree (apparently it's from NJ) and walked around A LOT. Haha, hey Cris, remember that time we went to NYC and walked around for like 20 minutes trying to find the movie theater? and we got a large popcorn and coke and both got sick as we waited an hour for the movie to start :-P The crazy Toys R Us store, and running to catch the train (and when we got there we realized we were actually the first ones there, we even beat the condoctor). Yea, that was fun.... :)

Posted by agutwin at 12:18 AM | Comments (1)

December 09, 2005

:(

Ummmm.....so that thing about going to bed....well I couldn't actually fall asleep - for the whole night! I think i must have slept a little bit, but i was still up at 2, probably 3:30, then at 5:30 I got so fed up I got up, went to the bathroom, got a drink of chocolate milk and tried again. I'm really tired now, but the construction started at 9AM so I doubt I'll be able to fall asleep through that.

It was odd, I actually forgot how to go to sleep...there was one point when i first got in bed, that I was almost there, then julie came back to the room and woke me up again. Then when I tried to go back to sleep, I had chemistry reactions running through my head and I was wondering why I wasn't writting them down. Then I remembered that when you go to sleep, you don't write stuff down and I was really confused....it was a weird time.

The problem is, now I need to be awake and studying. Even if I could fall asleep, I've already wasted so much of my time that I simply can't do it and still have enough time to get all my studying done. I don't know what's going to happen with tomorrow when I need to teach rock climbing at 9AM....hopefully I'll be able to grab a little more tonight....

Posted by agutwin at 09:48 AM | Comments (2)

snow, exams, and buddies

(Sorry about the spelling, I'll too lazy right now to run it through a spell checker...feel free to correct me)

Exams are upons us once again. I had my first one this morning, animal nutrition. I studied a ton for it, and I think i did fairly well, but we'll see. I think exam season is a funny thing, mostly because you see a two fold increase in the number of sorority girls in the librarys. It's also a time of great stress...to say the least.

I've noticed a common theme on the Cornell campus around exam time. It seems that the majority of students cling to eachother like Kismet on Becca. I've seen many couples walking through the cold arm in arm, taking a study break in the lounge while leaning on eachother, or simply cooking dinner with a bunch of friends. The secret to not letting the stress get to you is to have someone who can hold you and tell you it's only school, and that everything will work out.

Speaking of stress, I've got organic chemistry coming up this tuesday. It's going to be one long climb...but after tuesday....I don't think i can think about it at this point. But it's snowing, and that makes me happy. Walking home from the library and knowing i'm going to go to sleep soon is an awesome feeling. So sleep I will, with the snow piling up outside, and my warm comforter inside...mmmm boy! G'night

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