Poker and Ivanhoe

It has been a busy time for me. As I get closer into midterms and Ivanhoe, I realize how much more I need to study to get the grades that I desperately need for this semester. So far I am rather optimistic, it is hard to say for sure, but I really think that I am actually making progress. The marks so far seem to be better than average, so hopefully I can keep it up. Ivanhoe has started now as well, which is definitely a distractor. I am hoping that our floor can make a good showing in it. Last year, with a lot more motivated people, we came in 2nd place. I have little hope we will get that high this year, but we will try. For those of you who are not Listerites, Ivanhoe is an annual hall competition, which is probably the best of its kind in Lister. It's a lot of fun, but today's Capture the Flag event out in the snow didn't go too well. It was -20° C out there, so we lost our flag and froze. I am thinking the rest of the competitions will go better though. A chunk of the floor came in to play poker, but I took off to work on my Microbiology lab report, which is due at 2 PM tomorrow. This is the 150th post, I would have liked to have gotten this some time in October, but my posting frequeny has admittedly been rather poor of late. In explanation, I have a lot of things on my mind lately, and so posting has taken a back seat to some more pressing matters.