Wow, I haven't said a word all month... Sorry everyone, I'm alive!

The most remarkable thing about October was Halloween. I loved my costume, and had so much fun singing and bonding with my new friends in Chamber Singers. My make-up was so amazing that a mom asked if something was wrong with me. Fun night. ^^

Five days later, in addition to Guy Fawkes Day, it was my 18th birthday. Nothing much happened on the actual day, but the day after, I got to see Rent with my mom. It wasn't a truely professional theater group doing it so of course there were little flaws, but it was a lot of fun. Thank you Sam for getting those tickets! ^^

My dad has promised to take me sky-diving when it gets warmer. I used to be terrified of roller coasters, and now I'm such an adrenalin junkie that I want to jump willingly out of a plane.

In other news, I took a trip to Augustana today with my mom to check out the campus. It's gorgeous, all the trees and rivers and old buildings... When we first got there, there were directions to a tiny 16-space parking lot, only 12 of which were for visiters. We wandered around and got to talk to a science professor one-on-one, which was pretty cool. He was actually good friends with my Anatomy teacher! Then we got a personal tour of the whole place, complete with lunch, from a very nice senior named Josh. And now to come to the title...

The wildlife. I don't know if any of you have black squirrels by you, but I've never seen one before. They were EVERYWHERE. Josh called them ninja squirrels, he swears he's seen one do a back-flip. It was so cool! Unfortunately, it was only after the tour that I realized we hadn't taken any pictures of them. So, me and mom walked around searching for one of the millions we had seen- and they had vanished! Truely ninja! It took forever, but eventually we happened upon 3 different ones. Two of them were too far away to get pictures of, and the third either would run up a tree, not stand still, of stay in shadow where he wouldn't show up. Damn his fierce ninja powers. We got pictures, but you can't even really see him!

Oh well. You have won the battle this time, squirrel...

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