just wanted to give you guys a quick update
so...yesterday was
a crazy day, but it was fun. i got up in the morning and wrote a couple
of really, really long emails (one to my uncle in maryland and the
other to susi) and then i started to work on some homework that had
been piling up. i finished answering my questions for foundations of
buddhism that are due today and then i worked on my group facilitation
project for the sangha house class (i have to lead an activity for the
group on wednesday night during the community meeting). after all that
i was really exhausted and didn't feel like i could concentrate at all,
so i wandered upstairs to find some distractions. i talked to katie and
then felt bad because she was working on the reading for our seminar
class and i hadn't even started it yet. so, after a few minutes i
trudged back downstairs to my room, determined to read the 130 assigned
pages of the Invisible Man.
needless to say, as soon as i sat down with the book in my hand i heard
a knock on my door. it was hadley-- inviting me to go out to
lunch with her, so of course, i accepted. i walked down to pearl with
her and marlon and ted and we roamed around for awhile and then got
food and ate outside. it was great-- having time to just space out and
talk a little. then we walked to wild oats and bought some food before
heading back home to sangha. got back a little after 6. so i started
right back in on the homework, fell asleep, stained my comforter with
green highlighter and had a crazy, crazy dream. ask me about it
sometime. then i went upstairs shared my dream with a couple people
until i felt better and then katie and i made our way to leanne's room
where we spent the next couple of hours talking and looking at pictures
and watching leanne build a really cool quote wall. katie was in and
out and then nathan came and it was fun-- we swapped stories and jokes
and quotes and talked about random things as nathan carved
"interesting" shapes out of the carrots he was eating...then i went
back to my room with leanne and we shared milk and cookies (okay, well
not really. more like vanilla rice milk and dairy-free, egg-free, fruit
juice-sweetened cookies, but they were really good) and raspberries.
then i headed back upstairs to the community room and watched the end
of Love Actually with a bunch of people, had some random conversations
in the kitchen afterwards, and then i headed back down to my room,
wrote a couple of emails and made it to bed around 2 a.m.
it was a good day, though. a really good day.
it was a good day, though. a really good day.