charms for the easy life
having taken all the tests i can stand, read my english homework, and done the two sociology online lab assignments marked "late" in my web-ct page (the man doesn't remind us that they're there, how in the world am i supposed to remember them, i ask you that.), i felt the urge to use my newly accquired free time to update in a timely fashion.
just finished reading kaye gibbons' "charms for the easy life", which is as wonderful as the title makes it sound, although i forgot that it makes me cry. gps folk, you remember "ellen foster", and maybe even this one too (it's better). most of the time, i find, college does not afford you the time to read something because it's interesting, and not as an assignment. however, now that it's two days before spring break and i took my last test this morning, i just sat on the couch while tap wrote her paper about huck finn, and read, and it was nice.
one of my favorite things would be to sit in a hammock under a tree and read a book like this one, and maybe drink some tea, and then lay out in the sun for a while. the latter of which i did today, and now have a nicely burnt back. which is very fine with me, after a long winter of discontent with the lack of sunshine. i had a sudden urge smack in the middle of taking my geology test this morning to be in eleuthera (bahammas), which was kind of a stinker, since i was instead taking a geology test. nevertheless it reminded me (incidentally, is that supposed to be all one word? i feel like it is, since you say it that way, but it is awfully long to look at.) that i am ready for summer.
claire and i leave for boston day after tomorrow, which i am, of course, excited about. especially because we get to fly, and out of the atlanta airport, which is my favorite airport of all. i love flying, it makes me feel very cosmopolitan, which i am not. i do not agree with the people who fly in casual clothing. i hold to the out-of-date aesthetic that one should dress for travel. so if you see me at the airport,i may be wearing a skirt, and i might even have on heels. i buy a people magazine and a new book everytime, and usually only read the magazine. it is a time like this that reminds me of the void present in my life that can only be filled by an ipod, which i feel completely tragic without. while we're in boston we might get to follow a boat race (containing a friend of mine) down the river in a chaser boat piloted by another friend who rows for harvard, HOW COOL would that be.
and THEN we get to go to the beach to make spring break complete, because, after all, what is spring break without a sunburn, and seeing everyone you know in a different place? destin becomes auburn for this coming week, and as there are people i will miss while in boston, we will finish the week out by regrouping (although tragically, my grandmother chose now to be getting the floors refinished in the beach house, so at the moment claire and i plan on sleeping in the car for a couple days. that's ok, right?)
i'm watching krisan's screen saver as i type this, and speculations regarding why i always tilt my chin up in pictures are being accepted.
not that this pertains to anything else, but i've randomly been listening to it and i just think it's good...
"there's a loyalty that is deeper than mere sentiment
and a music higher than the songs that i can sing
the stuff of earth competes for the allegiance
i owe only to the giver of all good things.
so if i stand let me stand on the promise that You will pull me through
and if i can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to you
if i sing let me sing for the joy that is born in me these songs
and if i weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home"
:: rich mullins
just finished reading kaye gibbons' "charms for the easy life", which is as wonderful as the title makes it sound, although i forgot that it makes me cry. gps folk, you remember "ellen foster", and maybe even this one too (it's better). most of the time, i find, college does not afford you the time to read something because it's interesting, and not as an assignment. however, now that it's two days before spring break and i took my last test this morning, i just sat on the couch while tap wrote her paper about huck finn, and read, and it was nice.
one of my favorite things would be to sit in a hammock under a tree and read a book like this one, and maybe drink some tea, and then lay out in the sun for a while. the latter of which i did today, and now have a nicely burnt back. which is very fine with me, after a long winter of discontent with the lack of sunshine. i had a sudden urge smack in the middle of taking my geology test this morning to be in eleuthera (bahammas), which was kind of a stinker, since i was instead taking a geology test. nevertheless it reminded me (incidentally, is that supposed to be all one word? i feel like it is, since you say it that way, but it is awfully long to look at.) that i am ready for summer.
claire and i leave for boston day after tomorrow, which i am, of course, excited about. especially because we get to fly, and out of the atlanta airport, which is my favorite airport of all. i love flying, it makes me feel very cosmopolitan, which i am not. i do not agree with the people who fly in casual clothing. i hold to the out-of-date aesthetic that one should dress for travel. so if you see me at the airport,i may be wearing a skirt, and i might even have on heels. i buy a people magazine and a new book everytime, and usually only read the magazine. it is a time like this that reminds me of the void present in my life that can only be filled by an ipod, which i feel completely tragic without. while we're in boston we might get to follow a boat race (containing a friend of mine) down the river in a chaser boat piloted by another friend who rows for harvard, HOW COOL would that be.
and THEN we get to go to the beach to make spring break complete, because, after all, what is spring break without a sunburn, and seeing everyone you know in a different place? destin becomes auburn for this coming week, and as there are people i will miss while in boston, we will finish the week out by regrouping (although tragically, my grandmother chose now to be getting the floors refinished in the beach house, so at the moment claire and i plan on sleeping in the car for a couple days. that's ok, right?)
i'm watching krisan's screen saver as i type this, and speculations regarding why i always tilt my chin up in pictures are being accepted.
not that this pertains to anything else, but i've randomly been listening to it and i just think it's good...
"there's a loyalty that is deeper than mere sentiment
and a music higher than the songs that i can sing
the stuff of earth competes for the allegiance
i owe only to the giver of all good things.
so if i stand let me stand on the promise that You will pull me through
and if i can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to you
if i sing let me sing for the joy that is born in me these songs
and if i weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home"
:: rich mullins