a few things worth noting, i suppose...

- the fire alarm:  went off at 11 or so last night... so we went and stood in a rainy cloud of cigarrette smoke while we waited to come back in the building.  oh, fire alarms.

- airplanes:  i could hear them start in the morning.. and then a huge one went over head -- like a building sized one.  the building ( Read more... )

this morning randie and i had our usual wednesday breakfast in the dining hall... during which we filled out a survey about the dining hall service/food. the survey was in bubble sheet form, so we pretended it was a test. naturally, we cheated (but only on number 13, and we really just checking our answers ( Read more... )

                                   "sunshine, i'm beginning to like this"  - matt nathanson

- sunshine:  it's been sunny and beautiful this weekend, and it makes me incredibly happy.  even though the sun has gone back to his old habbits of inviting himself into my bed in the morning... it's okay, because sun in the morning means a sunny day, and ( Read more... )

remember the good old halloween style chorus song...

down in the forrest late at night
under the ... and pale moonlight
shadows appear and quickly fade...

what was it called? / how does it go!?

this morning i had understanding israel...or, the land of israel, as it's really called... or the land of canaan, palestine... so many names ( Read more... )

- waking up: for some reason, the season is entirely not indicative of the temperature in one's bedroom around here. thus, when i woke up this morning, i felt as though i was in florida and had forgotten to turn on the air conditioning. alas, i was in purchase and while there was snow directly outside my window, my bed was 99.9 degrees. i ( Read more... )

I am nineteen years old.  I'm in college.  I have responsibilities.  I am in a writing program that one would think would contain professional people.  I am, I guess, supposed to be sophistocated.

Today I built a snowman.  And I ran in the snow.  I climbed a mountain of snow.  And, I loved it.

While Monique was working at the Learning Center (which ( Read more... )

dear purchase college ( Read more... )

random thoughts seem most appropriate...

- the air:  sometimes i feel as though it is so cold outside that my ears have actually fallen off.  i can't feel my skin, and i am certain that my nose would flee if it could.  but i have my mittens and my coat and the scarves that my grandmother made for me and i guess there isn't much else to do.  but, ( Read more... )

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY
1) Lauren
2) Laur
3) George.  (i feel like george is the kind of name that deserves a period [full stop?] after it)

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD
1) vedette159
2) vedette509 (phased out when we cancelled AOL and adopted AIM screennames)
3) sparklzblu (which a random guy liked so much he created "sparklzboy".  awkward?)

THREE ( Read more... )