What are you up to right about now? Not… “I’m eating a bowl of Cherrios (Apple Cinnamon are the bomb diggity, by the way!) in my roommate’s bowl” type of thing. But what are you up to as far as school goes? The first round of tests are behind most of us, although many more await (probably in the foreseeable future), and if you are like me and most of my friends, this week has been/ will be somewhat laid back. However, whether that holds true or not, a 4 day weekend should clear up any hard feelings...

If you look on your calendars, they will tell you that the first day of fall was a couple weeks ago. Well, in my opinion, your calendar is sort of lying. In order for it to be officially fall, a few things have to occur...

• Dreyer's Slow Churned Pumpkin Ice Cream hits the shelves (click here to read more and then go get out of your PJ's and head to the grocery store! Wait, you're in college, so PJ's are acceptable attire, right?).
  
• Celestial Seasoning Sugar Cookie Tea needs to be in my

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There was a Dateline on the other night (I just wrote "nite"...too much texting?) and one of the little stories was about how a lady saves money and lives frugally. Now, before I go any further, I want to point out that I think that I live pretty frugally, myself (clipping coupons, haven't been clothes shopping in quite some time...can't say the same about food shopping though...I love food! ). Anyways, this lady did everything from make her own soap (which they calculated to save her a whopping...

Sorry for the delayed post. I have been working on a paper at the library/in classes half the day. The other half has been spent messing with my computer, trying everything in my might to make it work with this internet, since the IT guys can't come until Monday! Needless to say, I can see my Friday night slowly turning into one of those "Hunker down with a Dr. Pepper, some Almond M&M's and a LifeTime movie in the background" type of nights (which we could all use from time to time...).
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Welcome to the 21st century. It's a time of Nanos, Blackberry's, HD, massive plasma screens and lots of wireless action. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), this means that we all become a bit...attached (shall I say) to these high-tech things. Personally (and I think many college students and bloggers will agree), the internet is the one that I rely on most. Therefore, when I was required to register my computer in order to access the campus internet (why it is asking...