In the holiday spirit, I dyed my dog's hair red and green. Oh man does it make me giggle every time I look at him. Later I may post a picture of him if I take a good one. It's fairly amusing to watch people stare at Solomon as I take him for a walk around the neighborhood.
So I started work today. I was happy to see everyone and surprised by how enthused my co-workers were to see Jessica and me back in the office. Hmm, with work comes weird sleep schedules. Because of that, I've just hit a wall and can't finish this post. Wow, I'm getting way too short with these things. Sorry but now I'm sleepy.

I'm done with school for the semester! I'm packing up and moving out tomorrow. I'm relieved to have all of my finals over. What a semester! I start work on Monday at the NWS. I'm working full time so I will be busy most of the break, but I'm glad of that. I need to make some money and hopefully Caroline and I will get a place in the apartments for next semester. I want to write more, but now I'm sweeping up the dust in the dorm and then I need to scrub the shower and toilet. Joy. :-\

Oh my goodness, this month has been so busy, I didn't even realize it's almost over. One thing leads to another, and here I am approaching the end of the semester. I officially have eight school days left, and that includes finals.
I'd love to say more, but I've got a test in D.E. tomorrow, and I've got a lot more studying to do.

P.S. The new James Bond movie rocks and I want to see it again!

So we've been reading a bunch of poetry in American Lit. lately.  William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, you know the lot.  I find it interesting what has been defined as modernist American literature, works mostly written between and shortly after the World Wars.  We actually took our test over everything today.  Two 350+ word essays, which isn't that difficult, but there was a lot of material to cover in such a short time.  I hope Dr. Heflin approves of them.  

Thursdays are dollar lunch days at the CCM.  I'm with a group of people that always meet there on these afternoons.  Today we were sitting around tables eating taco soup and waiting for the rain to let up and ended up staying there for two hours with Dr. Anne, Brody, Nick, and Connie. Our times there are always filled with odd conversations and me almost choking on unsweet tea from laughter. (It's also the only place on campus I can find good, real, unsweet tea!)  So advising was last week, so I've already picked out all my classes and gone over them with Dr. Anne.  I of course promptly make my schedule out as soon as the catalogue becomes available, so I was all prepared to sign up for my classes next week when I just realized last night that they are in conflict with dollar lunch!  So I ended up having to move some labs around, but I think it's all under control now.  I was very anxious at the idea of no Thursday dollar lunch though, which made me kind of laugh.  I mean, I just realized how much I like this group of people.  It makes me happy to become closer to my friends here.  Also, I really hate to miss such good, practically free food. :-P  But no, really, we have some good times.  And speaking of good times,

the AMS Halloween Costume Party was fine and fun. Lots of costumes and food and such. It seemed like everyone was late getting there, so at first I was afraid that we weren't going to have a good turn out, but as you can see, it ended up we did.  I won third place in the pumpkin carving contest! I named her Rolly.

Nothing too fancy, but she's a happy jack-o-lantern, and not made with one of those template things.  I like carving pumpkins.  Though after I'm done, my nails are all orange and I really want pie because of the smell of them.  And so speaking of pie and pumpkins, I am reminded that the first best holiday is coming next and surprisingly soon.  Thanksgiving in Memphis!  Good food, good wine, good company.  It's a win win win situation.  Well, almost.  Lack of Sissy at Thanksgiving does bring it down a few to several notches.  Luckily it still has lots of notches.  Good ones. :)

Have a great weekend everyone!

Punkintines

If you didn't know before now, well you probably weren't paying attention, because I have the most awesome aunt ever. Halloween has always been a favorite holiday to me. The whole time of Halloween and Thanksgiving is deemed as "Punkintines" within my family. It's my favorite time of year, filled with pumpkins and spices, cool air and crisp colored leaves, food, family, fun, and of course, Punkintines packages. Every year Lori sends us packages filled with wonderful Punkintines things! See?

We're having our annual AMS Halloween Costume Party on Halloween. I'm super excited about it, seeing as last year's was a blast. I hope it goes as well this time. We've still got some planning to do, but I'm thinking everything will come together well. I'll have more to say about it all afterwards, so keep reading. Thanks so much ^_^

So I'm thinking that pumpkin spice lattes are awesome. Days like this set me in a wonderful mood. Wonderful grey sky, misty rain, cool wind weather, long skirts with rainbow knee-highs, William Carlos Williams poetry in Literature, American Lit being the only class of the day, $1 lunches at the CSM, four big cups of unsweet tea, having my DE test moved back a week, and loosing all my umbrellas but dashing about campus anyways. Yes, these are a favorite kind of day for me.
I recently went to the Red River Revel and purchased a piece of art I've been eying for several years now. It's a huge pen-and-ink drawing of an endless library. The selves span up and out as far as the eye can see. It has always been a favorite of mine and I'm super glad I finally got it. It's now smartly hanging on the wall above my bed here in my dorm. I would love to have a room in my house someday filled with wonderful books. I've always wanted a reasonable home library. I love the idea of books covering the dark wooden walls with soft yellow lights and a few comfy chairs and woolly rugs. The smell of paper and wood polish and patchouli surrounding the room. It's just a thought I suppose, but it is a happy one I keep in my head. I'm still young, so it's something I can look forward to, whether I actually ever have one or not. But for now, I've got the seven story library here at school, and the fully stocked shelves of Books-A-Million. :)

I've been thinking of writing something. I've been ready to place words in this text box. To form coherent thoughts and tell whatever stories flirt about in my head. But the phrases I form on page lately only fall into three line stanzas, and I don't think I'm doing it justice, telling you such short bits of thought. So I'll place those somewhere else and wait to tell you stories when I'm not feeling the burdens of higher education weigh so heavily down upon me. For now, pale hints of autumn approach and tease the night air. I came across a few of the first leaves fallen to the ground, but I know they only try to trick me. Still I can't help but be hopeful Fall is on its way.
Last week we celebrated in Heather and Jeff's long awaited marriage. It was beautiful, and I don't feel I can do justice to telling the happiness and joy surrounding the whole event. Still, to my sister and my new brother, I wish to you the happiest of life and offer my delight in that you can now be together.

"She was a fork and knife kind of girl"

Yeah, that's what I've been told.

Things I like:
Candles
Cinnamon
Wet grass smell

Things I don't like:
Headaches
Fake flowers
Dead batteries

Yep, that's my university...

I come home to flooded bathrooms and cracked toilets that maintenance takes a ridiculous amount of haggling to get them to come fix.

Also, we block broken, hazardous elevators with bulletin board border.

Woot, ULM!

I should blog more
but it just ends up I monologue
and narrate my life
in my head.


It still works.

Classes started yesterday. I moved in last week for Officer Week where we renovated the WRC. Now it has a few new coats of blue paint(Half the walls are "Cloudless" and the upper half is "Atmospheric". I think they picked the colors based solely on the names. :-P ). As for my schedule, Monday's are super long, involving a night class that stretches to 8:45 pm, and then the days get shorter from there. I've got a little job working in the Geosciences computer lab on Tuesday nights(That's where I'm at right now.), so I'll have a trickle of an income over the semester. I'm back in the same room with the same awesome roommate and I'm enjoying being here again. It feels like I never left, as I fall quickly back into place with friends and homework habits. It's rained all day today, and though the campus is flooded between buildings again, it makes me happy as I sit here soggy-shoe'd and smelling of rain and grass.
Mer. In reading this, I know it sounds pretty cut and dry, but it's what I've got for now, so it'll have to do. More updates to come soon!

Ode to Squeak

Sour seated, off-green Squeak
Long loud nights held our laughter and joy.
Filled with forgotten papers and drained water bottles
You kept quiet through my embarrassingly off-key singing.
You held me tight when I hugged your wheel in tears.
You kept me straight when I flew down pavement in frenzy.
You growled along with my frustration,
And hold the soft memories of my friends’ silence.
Thousands of days,
And tens of thousands of miles,
Source of my delight and frustration.
Craisins and ugly pink stained unicorns,
Books, hammers, and discarded bras,
Sweat and scarves,
You’ve held it all.
Crossing many borders before you even came to me
Your life has not been in vain.
Chariot of my earliest years,
Hold tight reminiscences of any number,
And rest yourself now in automotive slumber.

This is it. I’m saying goodbye to Squeak, my 16 year old car. Too many troubles have plagued her for so long now, that we’re finally laying her to rest. Or as close to that as it may come. She’s moving on.

So, with that, I’d like you to see my new(er), shiny, red, Mercury Sable, Station Wagon!
I absolutely love it.
A man at work sold him to me at a very nice price. He’s very roomy and much cleaner on the interior than Squeak was.
Upon discovering a seat that folds up and faces backwards, my excitement escalated tenfold. I'm still trying to come up with a name for him.
I can fit eight people in there with seat belts, though a couple should need to be rather thin to fit with extra elbow space.
I’ve got plenty of room to pack my school stuff in when I move. And speaking of such, I’m moving in on the 10^th. Ack! It’s so soon. And it seems to me now that I am always reluctant to leave where I’m at. Once I’m at Monroe, I don’t want to go. Once I’m in Haughton, I don’t want to go. I miss my friends and family on both sides. I have gotten even closer to the people here than I thought I could this summer. I have absolutely loved working at the National Weather Service, and I plan on continuing to do so. Overall, this has been a fantastic summer. Still, school is school, and I will continue to be my nerdy self and be excited about taking new classes. A blessed beginning to everyone. ^_^

Oh my gosh, it is soooo cold in here at work. The air conditioner broke. It broke on. Now it is seriously icy cold in here. :( And of course I forget my jacket of all days...
My toes feel like popsicles!

Naming a dog Human...


Sometimes I freak because I think a bug is crawling down my back while I'm laying here typing. Then I realize it's my hair. But then, what if it really was a grubby bug? Ergh.

Babe, won't it be fine?

My sister laughs at me as I blare Frank Sinatra and sing along in the car, but there is something so pizazz about that music. I just want to swing dance and throw my head back and leg out. My two favorites right now are The Best is Yet to Come, and That's Life. They make me happy.
So Heather's wedding shower was today. I must say, she was showered upon. The abundance and generosity with which people give is heartwarming. It was a fun day, to have many of her friends in town. :]
So, things that have happened:
I bought a charm of a heart and tiny key for my cell phone.
Anthony's birthday. Which we will be celebrating soon.
Batman! ''
I've gotten on a taking-pictures-of-everything kick again.
More writing, though less on here.
Less sleep than is advised, but eh, it's summer. :-)

You know how it goes.

Fruity Pebbles in my bowl,
you turn my milk so pink.

Saturday, in the house all alone, means laundry day, so instead I'm putting it off a bit longer. I liked Saturdays so much as a kid. My parents were home, and we had good Saturday morning cartoons on. Batman, and Spiderman, and X-men! My favorites. Hmm, remember when Cartoon Network came on air? Where did we watch them before there was a channel dedicated to them? I really don't remember.
Eh, I'm going to go turn the music on the surround sound all the way up and be upbeat at I sort out lights and darks. Hah

Road

There is something to about being forced to drive well under the speed limit that does something to my thoughts. I keep the radio off, I don't sing, or speak. I sit and listen to the groaning of my car and narrate my life. It is a simple way home. I'm sure I bother the people stuck behind me, as my car is now refusing to willfully go over 50mph, and I like to keep it at about 40. Squeak is, well, on her last gear I believe. But I'm going to keep driving her 'til she hits the ground. I'm surprised she's actually gone on this long really.
I came in after a long night and the first thing my eyes laid themselves on was a large bottle of Tide and a spiky leaved pineapple resting on the kitchen counter. This struck me as very funny. Perhaps sleep deprivation? I have always believed that with lack of sleep comes ridiculous amounts of giggles. Well, when there isn't ridiculous amounts of grumbles that is....
Summer continues on. I've read three or four more books, kept working, and in between, spent my limited time with my lovely friends. It's nice and windy outside tonight, and I'm covered in mosquito bites because of it. ^_^

Jigs

This evening was filled with my Sissy and I doing Irish jig dances about the living room, trying to learn the steps, and stumbling about over our own feet many times. Now it smells like sweat and tea, and the old furniture in here. My legs are sore, but in that good way, how they've been used and are tired and will probably hurt in the morning from all the stretching I did. Yesterday it was just my mother and I in the house all day. It was a rare thing for us to spend the whole day together, but I enjoyed it. We had muffins in the morning and read tasty recipes out of cook books(most of which we will never make, but it's fun to think about them :] ). We went to dinner at an Indian food restaurant where they played fun Arabic music and served lime soda that tasted a bit more like lime seawater, but the food was great. (I have really started to fancy Indian food. I don't know when I became okay with spicy things.) Then we watched American History X, which was fantastic. Edward Norton is an awesome actor. It has been a surprisingly pleasant and calm weekend. Well, bed and books await me. Horray for working evening shift for the next two weeks!

I want to go swimming.
But I have no water.
And I don't float.

I'm thinking of chopping off all my hair. It's heavy and gets all in the way all the time. But every time I say I'm going to call my hair cutter man, I just don't, and then I'm happy I didn't. Yeah, been like that for the last several years though. Perhaps one day I'll follow through. Probably not.

So I was pretty upset yesterday. I got my first filling in my teeth. :( I went so long being cavity-free. It just doesn't seem right getting one now. It didn't hurt like people said it would. Just a bit of a sting when they injected that numbing stuff into my jaw. Still, I don't like the fact that I got one. Harumph, grumble, grumble, grumble!

Anyways, I've been reading several good books. Lamb, the Gosple According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore was absolutely great. I was cracking up the whole time I read it. I'd recommend it, but it is definitely not for anyone too uptight and doesn't have a sense of humor about stuff. I'd also recommend two CD's I purchased recently. The Weepies is the band and I believe it is the name of their first album. It's a very laid back sound, and has a blue whale on the cover. Who wouldn't buy whale-branded music? There was also the self titled album by Vampire Weekend. Good background driving stuff.
So that's what I've been up to for the last month or so. Reading, working, weird music, and the not-so-infrequent movie. Summer passes quickly as it all blends together. I wonder what it will be like when summer is no longer a significant period of time. When the "year" actually begins in January instead of August, and
Well, something.
It is just like expected, and doesn't make that much difference.

On a different note, at work there are all these jun bugs dead on the floor of the building where we fill the weather balloons, and they always get stuck in my shoes. I'm noticing one now. Nasty, crunchy critters. We have the building blown out every few days, but more tend to fly in there and take to dying. True, it is an open building-shed-like thing, but seriously. Eww.

There's some saying...

...about the worth of a picture...



The incredible thing about us
is those silent moments mean the most.


So I guess I left it in the sink.
But I really didn’t remember.

I like being called kid,
When it’s said so affectionately.


When I drive into Shreveport,
I still think about this.


I think I'd call it,
an infatuation.


I still like to pretend.



Night turns to day too quickly around here.


Putting stuff on your head
can make you happy.

Right-oh

Why it strikes my fancy to start typing these things at 2:00 in the morning, I'll never know, but here I am, so I'll just go with it. I skipped the whole birthday extravaganzas, finals stresses, and finishing the whole first year of college thing that I guess I could have written, but I think we'll be able to cope. But lately I've been reminded of a time not too long before school let out...

I've just gotten out of biology class earlier than usual, so the typical bussle of people hasn't quite filled the spaces between classes yet. I'm not in the cheeriest of moods(I really don't like biology :[ ), so I'm walking up to the crosswalk, not paying much attention to the few people I'm passing along the way. I walk up to the corner of the street, passing a tall, older, black man and proceed to slouch there, waiting for the WALK light to pop up. We both cross the street and I begin to pull out my keys, when I hear, "I'm sorry, I apologize." I look around to see who the man is speaking to, but it's just me and him there, so I ask "Sorry?" He said, "I apologize, I didn't speak to you back there. Not even acknowledging your presence. It's a shame we've come to that in this day and age. Going about and ignoring people and all. So, I apologize. And you have a wonderful day." Then he just keeps walking off. Standing there, somewhat surprised, I just have one of those, "Huh...yeah!" moments. No, it wasn't the first time I've heard something like what this man was saying. It's not a foreign or original thought. But it was a nice reminder. It was a hello, acknowledge others thing. It was a talk to store clerks, and people who enter a room, and everyone you know and don't know, cause you really never know, kind of thing to me then. Just a Huh...yeah, kind of moment. It's the type of thing that makes me happy to hear and happier to do. So, yeah. I've been trying to not ignore people so much. It happens all the time, but I'm working on counteracting that.

Summer's fair. I love my job at the NWS. It's good to have my family around. I miss everyone from school super bad, but I'm still happy to see everyone I missed from here when I was in Funroe. I'm looking forward to bunches of stuff and Heather and I need to work on a lot more of her wedding stuffs. ~Cheers everyone!~

I always get a good idea of what I want to write about here whenever I'm at work. The only problem being, I'm at work. Yar, slow days are nowhere near as fun as when the streets are flooding and we've got some good bad weather to handle. Well, that's what was happening yesterday. I'll finish this when I get off work. Good incentive for me.

Edit:
Oh em gee, they've got The View on the tv here. ahahaha

Forums, Oozeball, and Opera, OH MY!

Note to self: Don't microwave pop tarts for longer than 15 seconds, they explode!

Two more weeks of classes, then finals week and I'm done for the semester. The Global Warming Forum was Tuesday and all went over well. What a relief! Well over two months of planning went into putting our forum together. I was so nervous when it was about to start, because I really wanted it to run smoothly, and it did. The panelists all presented their different views, the audience had a consistent amount of legitimate questions, and we had a solid number of people show up. I was overall pleased, and I have already started thinking about next year's forum.
Last week was Spring Fever here at ULM. This includes various activities spread out across the week, including everything from loud concerts and Guitar Hero showdowns, to mind readers and free caricatures. Most of the activities I didn't participate in, but I did attend oozeball on Friday. Get this, it's pretty much volleyball in huge mud pits. It's sounds trashy, but it is pretty much awesome. The AMS had two teams. I wasn't actually playing this time but I had a great time watching our people play. And of course, seeing as I didn't participate in the game, everyone was sure to give me lots of muddy wet hugs...and a mud mustache at one point. :-P I am definitely going to play next spring.
My last day at Simmons' was yesterday. Whew, my amount of camo exposure will be going down now. Haha, but really, I did enjoy working there for the most part. The girls in the front were super nice, and I can always use the extra income. Summer will be here soon though, and I'll be working a whole lot back home. So, all's well.
Last night Jacob and I went to a production by the visual and performing arts students here. It was two opera's, one a tragedy, Suor Angelica, sung entirely in Italian, and one a comedy, Gianni Schicchi, which was very fun. Both were shockingly excellent. We have some incredible singers here at ULM and they put on a much better show than I would have expected from this place. I was most pleased.
Well, registration starts tomorrow for Fall classes. I'm sillily excited about this, like the super nerd I am. :] My classes were planned out as soon as they posted we would start advising last week. Next semester is going to be hard. Hands down. But I think I'll like it. Is it wrong to be giddy over new classes when I haven't even taken this semester's finals yet? Ah, well. What are you looking forward to for this summer?

Hair 'n plants

I get irresistible and inexplicable urges to wash my hair at the oddest times of the day sometimes, even when it's really clean and all. I'd been sitting in my bowl chair, reading Anansi Boys by Niel Gaiman, for about an hour when I looked at my clock, thought "4:30, Time to wash my hair!" and jumped in the shower before I had even really considered it odd.
School started back today. It was very much a Monday-after-a-holiday kind of day. But it's back to usual now. My ivy actually wilted over the break. I came home and much to my surprise, it was shriveled all up. In fact, it's still sitting pathetically on my window sill. I watered it in a vain attempt to bring it back, but I believe it's out for the count. Still, I can't really bring myself to throw it out, so I think it'll have to remain there for the time being. Who knows, perhaps it will revive yet? Ah, now that's got me thinking of some cheesy, B-movie about zombie plants. "The Undergrowth Arises!" "Attack of the Shriveled Leaf!" Dun-Dun-Duuuuunnn....No? Okay then, going a bit far there I guess. I'm off to do calc homework now.

Spring and Baton Rouge

I have again been utterly surprised by the greenness of spring. Driving down to Baton Rouge on Monday(more on that in a minute), I kept wondering, What's different around here? Then, coming down a huge sloping hill I realized, Ah, everything is so bright and green! Brilliant purple and yellow flowers grew all along the sides of the road, and it was a very pleasant drive. But I am also ever surprised at spring about how much allergies suck. Pollen piles on pavement and cars and finds it's way right into my nose and eyes. So there is the good and bad of spring.

More good to spring though is definitely spring break. Monday Caroline, Leslie, and I went down to Baton Rouge to watch the LSU women's basketball playoffs game. We had awesome front row seats and had a great time. We even happened to be there at the same time Anthony was visiting the college, so we got to have lunch together, which pleased me greatly. :] It was quite the adventure driving about BR and all. I got to see my lovely Mr. Darby when we were there and stayed at Adam's house. Tuesday we drove back to Leslie's house and played Guitar Hero and such. And now I'm back home for the rest of the week. It's good to be home. I've got two new books and I've been reading like I used to. I love it. ^_^ Peace, everyone.

TP

How awesome is my roommate? So awesome she buys me green toilet paper when she goes to the store. Haha, thanks sweet Caroline. My greenness is almost complete now. :P
What's been going on, eh? Lots of school. Loathing of chemistry and particularly Dr. Grumpy Mcevilpants. My research work for Emerging Scholars is taking up huge chunks of my time, and I'm busy with stuff in the AMS. My list of ridiculous camo-stuff from Simmons' now also includes camo air vent covers and telephones. Walking outside while chatting and trip and drop your phone? Don't worry, nobody, including yourself, will be able to find it! I'm surprised my plants are still alive our window sill. I like apples again. Parts of Texas got seven inches of snow yesterday. And I washed all my clothes for the first time in almost a month last week. That brought two thoughts. The first being, Daaaaaaang, and the second being, I've got a lot of underwear! My excuse?.....No quarters lying about.... So yeah, I've been up to stuff and I feel kinda bad that I haven't gotten to write anything in a while. But so it goes.
Caroline and I signed up for housing for next semester today. We decided to stay in our same room again next semester. We may look into an apartment for the semester after that, but we're in the same place for now. We like it here. Earlier on in the semester we hung a white board on our door to write messages on. Sometimes it's just got funny pictures or where we're at, or messages from people down the hall saying hello. I walked up upon a couple of girls putting sprinkles on the slice of cheesecake I had drawn today. It makes me happy that random people will leave their messages there. And somewhat closer to people in a way. It's like, community through a door sign? I don't know. It's just a feeling I get. Somewhat silly, but I love seeing what people write in response to things we put up there. I guess it's somewhat like writing a blog. Informative of our actions at times, occasionally(hopefully) amusing or at least entertaining, and wanting any form of input from other people. I wish more people would put signs up so we could leave messages there for them too.
Well, Jacob and I are driving home today for the weekend. It's been so long since I've been back, I'm eager to see my family and friends. This is the only time I'll have for a long time to go home so I'm taking advantage of it. Hopefully I'll get to see you. Tell me if you're free. :]

School and a Hunting Store.

So I've been reading a whole lot more and obviously writing a whole lot less lately. Which hasn't really bothered me until today. I've been back in school for a couple of weeks now. I enjoyed coming back and seeing everybody, being excited and asking how people's holidays went, and what they did. But now it's all back to the normal flow of things. All science classes and calc. 2 are what I'm taking. I'd really like to be taking a literature class right now, but that's next year.
Anyways, like I said. I've been reading more. I just finished Diary by Chuck Palahniuk. He's the dude who wrote Fight Club and Choke. Anthony gave me the book for Christmas, and he continues to have good taste in such materials. As soon as I can make it to the bookstore I'm going to buy Brave New World. And probably a couple others as well. And speaking of going places, there's a good chance that my car is terminally ill. Something is very wrong. Most likely the transmission. And if that goes, then I'll be getting to know my bike again quite well. But, it hasn't killed me or died yet, so I'm hoping it will keep kicking for now.

I've got this weekend job at a hunting store... (Okay sometimes there's no way to transition into these things. So blah.) I work as a cashier at this place called Simmons' Sporting Goods. It's where Caroline works, so we switch off weekends. The people are generally very nice, and it's not a hard job at all. This is a very big store, with guns and knifes and clothes and gloves and waders and kill-things-with-these and process-the-dead-things-with-that. And all the people that shop there think of camo as EVERY DAY wear. Like okay, if you're going hunting, or in the military, or hiding out, sure it makes since to wear camouflage, but oh God. Almost every person who goes in there could go back outside, and I would not be able to see them! They even sell camouflage night gowns. And couches. But I guess that's just their thing. And it's definitely not mine. So I shouldn't be hating on them. Just most people around here don't get what I'm saying when I point this out. Reh...hahaha. I'm just totally used to something entirely different I guess. The patrons of Simmons' could say the same type of thing for something about me, I'm sure.
Enough of this for now. I mostly wanted you to know I've got an occasional job. And I do enjoy it for the most part. The people I work with are great, so I have fun usually.
School keeps me busy, my friends keep me entirely happy and entertained, and I'm about to go make a cup of this Irish breakfast tea I've been eyeing for the last half hour. So tell me, how's your schooling and work, life and such? I like to know what you've been up to as well. :]

Oh Green Chair

I get in these moods...where I don't want to write for a long time, then I feel like righting a whole lot, no matter what it's about. And I'm in the latter one again.
Tonight Anthony and Troy and I hung out together again. It'd been a long time since just the three of us did that. It was typical, and comfortable with the wind blowing, music blaring, gas burning, and miles flying by. I don't know why we always end up just going nowhere for a really long time, but I've had some of my best times doing just that. If only we weren't in such a situation where driving cars wasn't so un-ecofriendly...

Mother and I went rug shopping today, but didn't find any we liked for Caroline and me to put in our room. We did however find a very comfy chair that I think we'll get. Can you guess what color it is? Green of course! The big thick cushion is great. When you sit in it, it fits closely to your body, like it is giving you a strong but gentle hug. The fabric is slick and soft that turns light and dark shades depending on which way you rub your fingers across it and it is big enough to be entirely comfortable in, but still reasonable to fit in our dorm. I like how I can pull my legs up and curl up like a cat in it. In fact, I believe it's the same chair I fell asleep in at the store many years ago while Christmas shopping with my Mum. I had just sat down in it for a moment when I awoke to a mother, sister, and daughter all kinda staring down at me and asking, "Well I wonder how much it is," and "Where's the tag?" I was most confused until I realized they were talking about the chair I was sleeping in, instead of me. Then I was embarrassed because I was asleep in a store and they had been standing right over me... But yeah, anyways, I like it. Happy Green Chair! ^_^

Tomorrow the plan is Me, Anthony, V for Vendetta. Such an awesome movie! Everybody should watch it.

Late For Holidays

I've tried a few times now, and I couldn't seem to get anything right out of the posts I was writing for New Year's and Christmas and such. They were either too wordy or too vague. But I'll try again, but with the basics only.

1-Christmas was excellent with the family and friends and such. We had a fun party with the family and my parent's friends. Tasty food, constant singing and playing of musical instruments(My family has been blessed with a fine talent and so they always make music when they're together.), lots of laughing and warm feelings going around. All that sentimental stuff that seems typical for the time of year. I love all the mushy stuff with everyone giving hugs and grinning and surprises and giving people gifts and watching the reactions they have when they open them. Yeah, so it was a fun Christmas.

2-New Year's was different from ones in the past as I got to spend it with Jacob, meeting his family and friends. We got to eat good gumbo around a fire while hanging out with Indian bikers who played the guitar and could talk your ear off. We also went to some fancy house way outside of Baton Rouge where the stars were so much brighter. Several seemed to shine brighter than the fireworks that sparkled across the night sky. It was a fun party. I like Jacob's family and really enjoyed meeting his friend Adam. He's a pleasant guy to know. Overall, I had an excellent time in Baton Rouge and hope to be able to go again.

3-I think New Year's celebrations are weird and a good bit silly. I'm glad I got to spend New Year's Eve with my boyfriend, but I've been doing some thinking about this whole celebratory thing we do at the ending/beginning of each year, and I'm still not sure what I think of it. I don't know what exactly it is. I tried writing about it, but it didn't work. I remember last year struggling with the same thoughts and attempting to put it down, but I just ended up deleting what I had on it, just as I have done now. I've been trying hard to pin down why exactly I think it is so odd how we celebrate new years. I don't know why I just always think, "Huh," as people stand around at midnight, cracking crystal champagne glasses and whopping and hugging and kissing, and lighting fireworks when the calendar date changes. I mean, I really like all the champagne and hugs and kisses, and the sparkleworks, but for me it just doesn't seem fitting. Well, not entirely. I'm all happy with revelry in the light of a new bright year. I like that welcoming. But, I don't like how we forget to close the old year. It just seems to me like we forget about reflection. About what we did and what we changed and what the really good and bad things were. Things don't get closed off. I just see it as head-diving into some uncharted territory without standing back, seeing where you just came from in order to judge where you're headed next. Maybe this came out correctly. Or maybe I'm looking way too far into things and people just want to enjoy a good party and tradition. It's probably the latter one. I am fairly found of festivities, so I guess I should probably go with that.
Hrmm, looks like I ended up doing it again, but I really just want to put a post up, so I think I'll leave it at this for now.

In other news, I've really enjoyed my work at the NWS, I'm excited about starting the new semester(I move back in a week.), and I finally got my new eye glasses. I was most pleased about that. This holiday I got to read books, watch movies, and hangout with my dear friends I hardly ever see during the semester. I'm happy I was here, and I'm happy I'll be back to school soon. So yeah, I guess I'm happy all around most of the time. :]