labor day weekend

so the weekend was without a labor day cookout, but it was certainly a good weekend. friday trevor came to town and we had dinner at vino's with ashley and joel after seeing ashley's new apartment (less than half a mile away). then it was to joel's sister's house to toast their brother andy for having passing "the bar". next to pizza d's where i suddenly didn't feel so well. but trevor had a good time and it was really funny watching him try to put sheets on the bed while a wee bit drunk. saturday we headed to perryville and hung out with some ranch kids. sunday we helped benjamin and stephanie with chickin' choppin' (see picture below), went swimming at the iron horse watershed, back for pizza lunch, then to two other watersheds for swimming adventure. the day was followed by a dinner get-together at jacob's new house. we were supposed to go camping but were scared off by tales of creepy seed ticks. yikes!
monday was spent trying to rid the apartment of fleas (gross!), only for me to find a few more this morning. out of desperation i threw out my prized bamboo floor mat because that seemed to be harboring the majority of the little buggers. i figure the mat is replacable, but my sanity is not!
school is still plugging along. by the end of the 11 hour school day i'm pretty desperate to get out. i mean, desperate...it's really hard being bored to death by 2 of the 3 classes i'm taking.
alright. i've got to go to bed now. internship in the morning and i'm prone to sleepiness.

so the picture is from last year's chickin choppin, but this is the general idea of what i do in the whole process. yes, the pictures sure can get more intense...