Well, things are certainly getting exciting on the political front. This coming Tuesday, February 5th, will be the election days for upwards of 20 states this year. Though it wont be officailly over, the race will pretty much be decided then. The Wheaton Democrats are collaborating with the College Conservatives to hold a bipartisan Poll Party to watch the results come in. It will be very exciting, and hopefully stay friendly. We also had two minor events over the past week. We got together to watch the State of the Union Adress, and we also held a little party last night to watch the Democratic Debate. I unfortunately had to miss the debate, but heard was fantastic.

Things in the house are going well. We haven’t been over to the Cupboard of Kindness just yet, but hopefully we’ll get over there this Monday. As I mentioned in my last post I believe, we are planning, in conjunction with the Office of Service, Spirituality, and Social Responsability, a Hunger Banquet on the 28th of February. It will hopefully raise a good amount of money to be donated, and inspire a lot of students to get active in the combat of hunger issues.

Some friends and I went to the loft last night, and they had a really excellent band playing. I cant remember the name, which is shameful because I bought thei CD, but it was somehting like Lightwings or Lightwave. They did some great covers like Sweet Caroline, Baby Got Back (which was both surprising and funny), as well as a few others. It was awesome.

Classes are going well, though I am always surprised at how bust things get so quickly. But it really is better than being bored, and when I go to bed at night, I know that I haven’t wasted my time at college.

A lot has been going on in the past week or so. In our house, we started attending the handouts at the Cupboard of Kindness again. They said they were very pleased to have us back. Things have been busy on the political front as well. We have been planning a number of things, including a panel of speakers on Health Care, in which we hope to collaborate with the Office of Service, Spirituality, and Social Responsibility and the College Conservatives on. We have been following the primary election results and the other night we held a meeting to do some campaigning and phone banking for Obama. We are also planning our Iraq War Memorial project, which will be hung in the Atrium again this year. Last year we folded somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,100 cranes, one for every American soldier killed in Iraq. This year we will have some 3,960 cranes to hang.

Classes are going well. In Graphic Design, we just finished a monogram project, in which we had to create a logo from our initials, and then create our own ID package using it. What was great about this project is that we can actually use our monogram and ID package if and when we need to advertise ourselves.

This past week in Drawing we drew from a nude figure. We had a female model this week and will have a male model this coming week. It’s always slightly awkward for me, but I really do enjoy it and I feel as it is one of my stronger suits.

This weekend is the Big Event, an alcohol free weekend with tons of events going on. There was a comedian last night which I could not make it too, unfortunately, but I heard he was very funny. They also had a late-night breakfast last night, and an Open-mike to go along with it. Tonight there will be a huge carnival in Beard Field House in Haas. It is always tons of fun. They have things like giant inflatable slides, wrestling sumo suits, toilet seat go-carts, bucking bull rides, and a really cool one where you try to stick yourself to a wall of Velcro. They also had a laser tag arena last year. There is also free food. It’s always tons of fun!

Well, that’s just about ti for now. Next time I’ll tell you all how it goes!