The past week has been extremely stressful with all of my classes. I have been really sick so that has kind of been the icing on my cake. It seems that things aren't slowing down either, it's so hard to keep up. I thought I was doing pretty well with all of my classes and staying on track with all of my homework, but everything just sort of seemed to hit me all at once. I have literally spent the entire day doing homework assignment after homework assignment. So I am really hoping that all of my work eventually pays off.

This past weekend it was Halloween and my birthday. It was a pretty fun weekend all in all! I spent Halloween at MSU with two of my best friends, which as first was sort of a disaster, but it ended up to be a really fun time. Then Sunday was my birthday and my family drove two hours here from Milford to surprise me and take me out to eat. It was nice to see everyone and I am really lucky it was such a good weekend. It definitely made going to back to class Monday a little harder than usual, but it was nice.

I thought the assignment we did in class last Friday was also super interesting, just like the one two Fridays ago. I will admit I definitely liked the movie assessment better, but I thought the song one was super interesting. I've never read that much into song lyrics or even a music video before so I was curious to hear everyone's perspectives on the songs we did. For example, the Weeknd song we did, I never even thought about it being about drugs, so I found that really interesting.

This past weekend, I went to Ann Arbor for the Michigan vs Michigan State game. I can happily say I was super excited about the outcome of the game. It definitely seemed like Michigan had it up until the very end. But all in all, the weekend was a blast. Michigan's campus was so insanely big I never really knew exactly where I was. But it was a fun weekend and the atmosphere was great. I will admit I like Western's campus size better because everything was so confusing there, but it was a great time for sure.

So I really liked the assignment we did in class on Friday. I liked watching a movie and then doing an analysis on it. It's interesting to me how much depth is in a movie, or even a movie character that you don't even realize unless you ask specific questions. It's also interesting to me that you can have two totally different outlooks on the movie. And you can also have two completely different views on a person. Looking at them in one way, they could be a good person. However, looking at them in a different way, they could be a total villain.

The other day, my friend Madi and I got a bunny. We had been wanting one for while, but just hadn't actually gone out and got one. So the other day when we found one, we were beyond excited. He was only a couple months old, and so tiny. He was brown and adorable. We named him Benji. Unfortunately, it turns out Madi is allergic. We were already attached to the little guy so we were trying to figure out a way around the allergies, but it got so bad that we had to take him back today. It was extremely sad for sure.

I've been working on my second narrative for this class and I am beyond stuck. I already wrote my personal one and somehow that came pretty easily to me, but this one is definitely going to be harder. I can be creative when it comes to some things, but writing is not really one of them. So coming up with an entire new fictional narrative is going to be pretty difficult for me. I do think that the one page dialogue we had to write in class a couple weeks ago will help with the rest of my story though.