I am happy. It's a sunny day, and Patrick and I had a very good visit. We went bowling, had some good talks, played Zoombinis (!!!) and went out to eat a bunch (it was a very nice reprieve from school food). Visiting with Patrick is one of my very favorite things to do ( Read more... )

I have a lot of required books for this coming semester, it seems... I need 16 total. Five of these are textbook-type books, but the other ones seem more common ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night where I became a pirate. It was actually pretty lonely... being the new kid on the ship, not knowing how to row a lifeboat when everyone else was totally badass and pirate-y. Plus I missed my friends and parents. I guess I'm just not cut out to be a pirate.

Man, now I have to come up with a new career goal...

I AM SO HAPPY. AHHHHHH ( Read more... )

Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc ( Read more... )

Whoa. I just played Dungeons and Dragons for six and a half hours straight. I get less sleep than that some nights.

Mmm... roll a d20 to see if I stay awake. Nope, looks like I fall asleep on Cecil's lap again. Oh well, I managed to draw half of a curly moustache with an inkpen on his face before I failed the check... mission accomplished.

Description of my day, in a single sentence: I am outrageously clumsy ( Read more... )

Why do we keep shrieking when we mean soft things? We should be whispering all the time.

Have you ever had one of those mornings where you wake up, and you realize that you're a little bit different than you were yesterday? It might be the result of an odd dream, or something you did or said yesterday. I had a dream about the Holocaust last night, undoubtedly due to the production of The Diary of Anne Frank that I saw last night (and ( Read more... )

Why is it so hard for me to make close friends here at college? Is it hard for everyone? It probably is... but it's a little disconcerting when a lot of people have already found good friends and "groups", and I am sitting alone in the basement, laptop on the table, watching my laundry spin around in the dryer. Hmm ( Read more... )