Rothrock in October

Overall this has been a pretty decent weekend I’d say. I didn’t get as much done as I was hoping to, but that’s not unusual or unexpected. Friday afternoon was reasonably productive, so in the evening Daniel & I headed down to the Sports Cafe to join Frame, Jacob, Stephanie & Victor for some team trivia. Our team, this week named “Daunte Culpepper’s Fantastic Voyage,” managed to finish in 3rd, meaning we got $10, woot. A bit after that a few of us (myself, Daniel, Jacob, Stephanie, Shannon, Petters & P. Allen) went out to Bar Bleu for a Friday night drink. It was a good time, even though the band that was playing pretty much sucked.
On Saturday afternoon a group of us got together up at Walker to work on some Rad Tran homework. Kerrie even brought in some chili in a crock pot, and Caren brought some mini-cupcakes. Ya never know, one of these days we might end up having a potluck supper up there in the TA office, hehe. In the evening I went over to Daniel’s place over in Toftrees to watch the Auburn-LSU football game and cheer on Auburn with him, since he’s a huge Auburn fan (being from Alabama and all). Auburn ended up losing a heartbreaker in OT 20-17, but it was still a more interesting game than Penn State-Illinois, which was on TV at the same time, with the Nittany Lions blasting the Illini 63-10, in a game that wasn’t even as close as the scoreboard might indicate, hehe (PSU led 56-3 at halftime, and didn’t throw a single pass in the 2nd half).
I went to church this morning, and then this afternoon I took a hike up in Rothrock State Forest with some people from Penn State Christian Grads. I wasn’t even sure if I’d go, because I knew that I only had time for potentially either the hike or the Bible study in the evening (or neither), but certainly not both. But I’m really glad I went on the hike, because it was beautiful up there on Tussey Ridge, especially with as beautiful a day as we had today. We hiked parts of the Mid-State Trail as part of a two and a half hour loop a bit outside of nearby Boalsburg. I’d say the fall colours are just about at peak right now, or as close as they’re gonna be anyway. Normally peak would’ve been about a week ago, but the colours are later, duller, and more sporadic than usual because it was rather dry in central Pennsylvania this summer. Then tonight I got a little bit of grading done while staying home from the Bible study, though again probably not quite as much as I was hoping for. But every little bit helps. I need to make sure I’m done with it all by tomorrow night so that I can start studying hard-core for Wednesday’s GFD test. ~whimper~ Wish me luck studying and on the test, I’m gonna need it, along with the rest of us. This test is gonna suck.

And as I watch the Weather Channel right now, I see that Hurricane Wilma’s back up to a Category 3 storm, and about to make landfall in southern Florida in about 6 hours or so, after having ravaged Cozumel, Playa del Carmen & Cancun on Friday & Saturday. Hopefully Wilma will drag Tropical Storm Alpha with it out to the Atlantic, otherwise Florida might get hit again. Will we see a Hurricane Beta or Gamma? With how this year’s going, most likely. All these hurricanes are making it a very interesting time to be spending heaps of time immersed in meteorology and surrounded by other weather weenies. 🙂