http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/alison12 Richmond, Virginia • Biology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:14:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Remember how I told you that I loved rainy days? Are you also familiar with the expression “too much of a good thing”? Last week, a hurricane drenched Richmond with day after day of freezing rain. This wasn’t just any rain. Forget the lazy rain that falls in fat dollops, ... http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/alison12/2009/11/18/soaked-2/ It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are, or who you’re with. Everybody wants to fit, at least on some level. I consider myself a fairly self-confident individual, but even when I’m going my own way (which is more or less always), there’s a big piece of me that ... http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/alison12/2009/11/18/thoughts-to-consider/ I spent this past Halloween with my friend Rae at Virginia Tech. While we were officially dressed as members of the six teams from Legends of the Hidden Temple, our entire group could have easily been mistaken for a pack of drowned rats. When I first stepped out of the ... http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/alison12/2009/11/08/halloween/ ___My Saturday started much earlier than usual this weekend. I rolled out of bed at 7:45, then got in the car and headed towards my first actual 5k road race (often called a "fun run"...oxymoron?) with Kaarin and Sarah from Sprinting Spiders. Kaarin’s high school hosted the 5k, called Sprint ... http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/alison12/2009/10/26/fun-run-number-one/ ____In terms of workload, this has quite possibly been the easiest week of my entire college career. My Spanish class, Peoples and Cultures of Latin America, was canceled because the professor is unable to return for the rest of the semester. We were given the option to chose between taking ... http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/alison12/2009/10/23/riving-it-up/