It begins

I was having such difficulty focussing this last week. I managed to keep it together for our final group project in my capstone class. I also managed to study enough to feel confident about my BIO lab final, but seriously, other than that, it's been pretty embarrassing.

I got 80% on my last quiz and can only hope that I'll do better than that on the final.

But, despite all of the stress with school I was able to relax this week. We had our anniversary two weeks ago and I don't think I mentioned that. It was enjoyable. We went out to a closing social for the automotive department and got a free dinner. Then we rented a couple of books and started reading together. We also went shopping (window shopping that is).

This week's main events included defeating a necromancer and stalking our friends.
(We invited ourselves over to friend's houses several times this week, which was fun.)

The necromancer thing was a blast. We've been working on this adventure for about 6 weeks. Ever week we find a few more clues about who he is and why he's trying to destroy the world.
This time we stumbled upon his location and went to investigate. After expending most of his energy to raise some titan skeletons he was sleeping through the night. He had only a few skeletons guarding his chambers and the rest of his minions out on the surrounding small islands. We came up the canal and Jason used his spell of "spider walk" so that our smallest member could climb the walls and get a good look inside at the hostages (who happened to be the necromancer's family).
She was able to go in and help them unbarricade the door so that they could escape while we cast another spell on the skeletons that were guarding his room and ordered them downstairs.
Meanwhile a large group of Arabian Samarias began a frontal assault on the surrounding islands for a diversion. Once we had safely released the hostages we had our theif pick the lock and our ranger stole inside the room and quickly stabbed the necromancer through the heart. Unfortunately for us this merely ticked him off. The two things that ended up saving our pitiful lives were 1) When he threw a fireball at us Jason cast an amazing spell which changed the fire into smoke. Thus we were all blinded for a minute, but we were not charred, so this was positive. The second thing was that the necromancr had begun the process of turning himself into an undead creature, so when another member of our party with a special weapon stabbed at him it sapped his evil energy as well as his undead lifeforce and in his weakened condition he died. If we had merely killed him he would have simply become undead and we would have been facing a more powerful foe, so this was a really good thing.
After we took care of the necromancer we cleaned out the rest of the house by slaughtering 17 zombies, and washed down the courtyard with holy water. We were specifically instructed not to destroy the house, and so we didn't, however, the owner had quite a mess to clean up anyway. . . at least she still had her life.
All in all it was a good adventure. . . we never should have won against the necromancer which means that we all gained enough experience from that battle to become level five (after just barely leveling up last week).
We also did games at the Walker's house. We played battle of the sexes which turned out to be "stump everyone in the room" and quickly disolved into Sorry. I haven't played that game in forever. We started out by being the first out and the first to return home. Then we were kicked back into start again by another good friend. After that we merely flipped cards while the other two couples moved around the board. We wanted them to feel confident. When they were completely at ease we sprang rushing our way around the board with only a few more setbacks to win the game. It was quite fun. They also had some amazing guacamole dip and salsa.

This week's schedule: 3 finals for me, 1 for Jason. All of this should be compelted by Tuesday. . . Thursday at the latest. We're throwing a going away party for several of our friends who are graduating or transfering after this semester on Wednesday and then that night we're going on our last adventure as a team. After this Franklin will be leaving and we'll be going on vacation . .. :(
that gives us from Thursday to Wednesday to get our house cleaned and in order before we leave for Tucson. (I'm a little excited, I'm not gunna lie.)