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Spring is in the air. It's been peaking above 10C (and sometimes 15C!) these past few days, and I can smell the sunlight on the pavement and the frozen ground rotting and becoming fertile. The plums are coming--one tree in front of my school even has some blooms ( Read more... ) -
Reading
First, there came the Kindle. Then, there came the ebooks. Then, for I am a giant nerd and it really was inevitable, came A Song of Ice and Fire.
It's a rare thing for me to get so thoroughly book-hooked that I put off things like eating. I didn't read much at all until 8th grade, when I discovered Garth Nix's Sabriel and read through a math quiz ( ( Read more... ) -
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I've been planning on doing lots of reading and writing this coming summer. It's like exactly what I'm doing right this very minute, except without deadlines and graduate or don't graduate consequences ( Read more... ) -
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It's absolutely gorgeous in Portland in the spring, and the blue sky and flowers everywhere make the world seem limitless. I want to work in a nursery again--it's impossible to be sad. It can be boring, but it's impossible to be sad ( Read more... ) -
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The days are getting longer, the air is getting warmer, and sometimes I can feel sunlight on my skin. Could it be an early spring in Minnesota, where it is always winter but never Christmas ( Read more... ) -
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I watch House because it's funny and it's the last place I expect to find the White Guy Saves Africa from Genocide and/or Child Soldiers trope ( Read more... ) -
so, um...
...who's still around?
What were your New Year celebrations like? Where will you be through this January, and where do you want to be at the start of the next one? -
so, posting
I'm kinda alive, but my honors project is hovering in my not-too-distant future and casting a pall over my existence...mostly because the other honors candidates are way, way ahead of me. I think. Who am I kidding? I'm excited to write it, even if I am in over my head ( Read more... )
