The Heron and Rosanna II

There are stars on my ceiling. I like them.

One of my favorite poems ever was written by Katie M. in elementary school and published in that elementary school literary magazine that came out once a year. I'm just remembering it off the top of my head so I might get it a bit wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is what it was:

Frustrated
by Katie M

Frustrated is like a baby bird
Trying to fly
And not to die
But she doesn't die
She does fly!
But I am still frustrated.


Isn't that great?

15%
by Richard Brautigan

She tries to get things out of men
that she can't get because she's not
15% prettier.

There is darkness on your lantern
by Richard Brautigan

There is darkness on your lantern
and pumpkins in your wind.
and Oh, they clutter up your mind
with their senseless bumping
while your heart is like a sea gull
frozen into a long distance telephone
call.

I'd like to take the darkness
off your lantern and change the pumpkins
into sky fields of ordered comets
and disconnect the refrigerator telephone
that frightens your heart into standing
still.

Color as beginning
by Richard Brautigan

Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow
hair.

The other day we went on a field trip to water and a beach. The beaches here are made out of little gray stones like the beaches in alaska and all the mud is gray. Must be a west coast glacier thing. I saw some great blue herons and some seals and a pair of Canada geese flying together. Canada geese mate for life.

Every time I think of great blue herons I think of the Magic School Bus Hops Home, when Ms. Frizzle says "Ardea herodias! The great blue heron!"

I drew one.


There it is!

I'm so hungry. You don't even know.

This is that night that rolls around once a month or so when I conclude that nobody loves me and I get a little weepy.

Today we finished Avatar season one.

On our way to Ro's mod Be and I saw this cop car SPEEDING down the path that usually no cars go on flashing its lights. But we don't know what was going down. Be and Ro took apart a knife, fixed it, and put it back together.

It was also red white and blue night with Ke's friends from afar.

And then we all sat in the hall for a long time.

Can your science explain how it rains?

I love when everyone is feeling better. I always forget how great everything is when everyone (myself included) is healthy, and then it happens and I'm reamazed.


Gram died today, but she lived a GOOD life. Up until the last year or so when things got kind of dicey, but still she was so loved and taken care of. I hope that when I die I have a granddaughter thinking about how great my life was. And Gram and Grandfather are still #1 on my list of proof of true love.


But in more local news, we watched more Avatar today. And then when avatar was done Be and Bej and I went into Sa's room, only Bej and I got there first cause Be was lagging for some reason, and Bej banged on Sa's door and then we heard To's door open so we ran out, and then To ran out behind us naked only in a robe shouting THEY'VE COME THEY'RE AFTER ME, and all Be sees when he runs up is me and Bej run down the hall one way and To run screaming that the other way, and I just think of how it must have looked to him and crack UP.

And then we were in Sa's room being SO weird and Sa was SO confused. But it was just one of those nights.

Thank god, it's you, baby, this time

EVERYONE IS SICK.
Everyone. EVERYone. Miserably sick. It's like the black death around here.

Mel and Meg and I have started an exchange of letters with To, dropping them out their window down to his, and we wrote him a lovely note and I cannot even tell you what he sent us back, but let me just tell you To is GREAT. Best letter ever.

We watched more avatar yesterday. And then Bej and I tried to set a 1:00 am bedtime to get healthy, but how can one be expected to do that when there are psychadelic toads available for sale on the internet for only $150?

Where we're going you won't NEED pants

Today we began our Avatar marathon. IT'S A REALLY GOOD SHOW.

God it's late.

Everyone is getting sick around here/was tuckered out from the weekend so everyone went to sleep wicked early. Like before 11:45. What.

So it was just Bej and I for a long time, and we went to the computer center and looked at the robots and creepers and cowboys in the big panoramic picture of the inauguration and looked up ribs and fries online and ate some popcorn in the common room and made shadow puppets with our hands on the wall.

They were some neat shadows let me tell you.

That was today.

I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven

These have been an EPIC past two days. Two days? Is today Friday? No it's definitely Saturday because A is leaving tomorrow. So she has been here three days. But I guess only the past two have been epic. So I stand by my original statement.

I haven't blogged in two of them but I'm blogging on this one.

Yesterday was rubix cube bat mitzvah and we went for a bit and then went to To's room and then GOODNESS and Je gave us a grasshopper cookie and then we were in Sa's room

Moon, someone said that you're a piece of paper, a piece of paper just a pasted on the sky
Moon, I have a hunch that you're a giant ball of rock a million miles from me and all the people in my town

Anyway and then we were in Sa's room and OH man and Sa was playing guitar and No was talking to us and Bej was there for a bit and Be was there for a bit and A and I were naming the kitchen appliances on Sa's poster and there was a cauldron and a gas station. And then we were in Pi's room for a while and we were in Meg and Mel's room a bit too and then we were in Bej's room and Be and Bej were recording music. And then I believe we went to sleep.

Today we went for a lovely walk to the beach and I went up in the three story treehouse again and scooted out on a fallen over tree that hadn't died just was horizontal that was hanging over the water, and I scooted out on it and was over the water and it was so nice. And then we hiked back. And then we ate dinner and napped. And then it was coked up ladies of the 80's night, only we didn't do coke we just called it that. We danced to 80's music in Ke's room and it was lovely. And then we went to Sa's room and then we went to the hallway and then we went to Bej's room and then things got REALLY interesting and then I was on the bunk bed with Sa reading that magazine in Meg and Mel's room and then for a bit there we were in Je's room listening to coldplay and watching the visualizer, and it was so intense, and To was defying gravity and we were in the hall with them for a while, and then we were in Meg and Mel's room again and Mel was coughing and it was really funny (how she was coughing not that she was coughing) and then we went into 404's hallway and Be gave us some sandwich, and MAN it's been an EPIC past few days. OH goodness.

BISON!

MY IDOL

I WANT TO BE KEN BALCOMB WHEN I GROW UP
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

Ho fo sho

I don't think much eventful happened today. But that was kind of nice. At lunch Ke and I went to a little table to eat because we thought it was going to be just the two of us, but we ended up cramming so many people there because they just kept on showing up.

And we watched LOST. Je and I dressed up.

And we watched Who's Line.

Andddddd we watched alligators on animal planet.

And there was a fire drill but we all knew beforehand cause the information leaked so we went to the HCC and hung out there as to not be disturbed. It's a good thing they knew about the fire drill, because the plan was to break in Be's new hookah with kava in Pi's room at that time, and if the fire alarm had gone off then...gosh I can only imagine the chaos and fear.

The imagination of Barack Obama

OH. YES.

We finalized the guest list, made and printed SO many invitations, delivered them, and it's going to be GREAT.

Everyone is super pumped. Dude. This is going to go down in my dorm history.

We all woke up at eight today and watched the inauguration together in our pajamas under blankets in the common room. It was beautiful.

This is too much

OKAY!

So last night I was unable to blog so I will recap both days now.

Yesterday we decided to do something CRAZY, so we dressed in all black and Mel straightened my hair (I KNOW RIGHT, I totally let her, and it actually looked nice, my milkshake brought all the boys to the yard I'm just sayin) and we put on our sparkle tights and were READY.

Ke and I throw the best parties. We've become the new Ni and Kr of my dorm. And it's great. And we've planned so many more parties. And our dorm prom, which is going to be GREAT.

I kicked off the night in Pi's room with Pi and Je and Be and Sa, and that is quite the crowd to do kickoff activities with, let me tell you. Then I went down to Ke's room and Ta was cracking me UP wearing Ke's yellow spotty glasses and Ra's 70's hat. And thennnnn I went someplace else? I think I kept on going around between rooms, seeing what was going down. And then Ke was BLASTING 70's music so loud you could hear it in the entire dorm, and RA Vi yelled at her but RA Au just came in and danced, after talking with Meg in the common room for a while (ROMANCE IN THE AIR?) and then we all ended up taking a walk, I went with the boys and the girls went off someplace but we kept on meeting up, but our walk had no destination in the end. And then we went into Bej's room and I drew flying triceratopses on the window while Bej wrote songs about Je and Av and Mel and Sa and a secret song about me. Je's is called Je the Weekend Stoner and it goes:

Je, the Weekend Stoner
Five days of the week he's completely sober
But then on Friday night, from Pi's window you can see a light
That's his piece

Av's song goes:

THIS IS TOO MUCH, THIS IS WAY TOO MUCH RIGHT NOW, THIS IS TOO MUCH THIS IS WAY TOO MUCH
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS, IT'S OUTRAGEOUS! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!
THIS IS TOO MUCH, THIS IS WAY TOO MUCH RIGHT NOW, THIS IS TOO MUCH THIS IS WAY TOO MUCH

Mel's song goes:

Ayyo, I ain't seen you in a minute
Girl you lookin right
You trippin, step off
Don't yuck someone's yum, this is the Mel song

I totally just got the Mel song wrong. Oh well. I'll get it right later.

I was totally going to bed early when I started this blog post at one, but then Be came into my room and just left now after lovely conversation and dinosaur action and eating cheerios out of hands with proboscises. So there goes my going to sleep early. Dangit.

What else from last night? Mel and Be and Sa and I all went to the 10th floor of the dorm across from us loft and were very sneaky.

Tonight we had a hot chocolate party and now I'm going to sleep.

SAVE THE WHALES>!>!!>!>!!!

OKAY I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT MY RESEARCH PROJECT!

I'm just sayin.

Just sayin

Jean-Michel Cousteau is a plaintiff in the court settlement I'm researching for my killer whale project.

And you KNOW how I feel about Jean-Michel Cousteau.

I'm just sayin.

Part of a Complete Breakfast

We accomplished all this today:


Av's room is going to have the water dinosaurs, my room has the land dinosaurs, Bej's room will have the air dinosaurs, and Sa's room will have the space dinosaurs.

Oh heck yes.

It took a LOT of coloring. Luckily I had Sa as an assistant.

I have not blogged in DAYS. Crazy I know. LET'S RECAP!

On Thursday I was introduced to the wondrous world of smoking kava, which I can even admit to on this blog since it is legal and everything. And mans. Wondrous does not even begin to describe it.

Then on Friday I woke up and went on a field trip to see the senate and the house of representatives in action. Which was actually pretty neat. But the best part was before we even went in Ke and I found the heated bench, which is this big square of planks laid over a vent that blows warm air. So. Nice. And big enough for both of us to lie down comfortably on and look up at the sky making the whole world gray and warm.

Then at night we went to a Bar Mitzvah in sketchtown Olympia with the Ad guys and it was pretty wild but also fun. This one girl was on SOMETHING sketch on the dance floor and she was creeping me out, undulating around with her mouth gaping open and her head thrown back and her eyes rolling around, like...yeah. And then these two boys got in a fight and one pushed one into the pillar of the porch and it like broke and swung out.

And then we walked back to downtown (I was walking around at one am wearing no jacket, just a long sleeved shirt. SUCK ON THAT, EAST COASTERS) and went to New Moon Cafe and drew in the little notebooks on the table and it was fun.

Today we woke up, ate brownies for breakfast, got some stuff from the library, hung out and chatted, and went to the greenery. And then after dinner we drew on my window and then No had heart pain and went to the hospital (he's fine it was nothing) and Be and Ra and Je and Li and Meg went with him. But Bej and Sa and Mel and Ta and Av and I ended up having a really fun evening anyway. Bej has learned the art of my personal awkward silence game, and after Sa lost we explained it to him, and then we ended up in an EPIC awkward silence game. And then we watched Footloose in utter silence, just laughing a lot at the absurdity of it all. Em did not understand what was happening when she walked in. But it was so quality. And then we watched the DVD thing bounce around the screen once the movie was over. And then we watched the TV Frontin' after the DVD thing was done bouncing. We also made cookie dough and ate it. And just spend a LOT of time doing not much in the common room.

Good stuff.

I think I'm cute. I know I'm sexy. I've got the looks that drive the girls wild.

So classy

Okay. Last night.

Ke and I had been planning Classy Ladies of the 70's night for a while, and we pulled it off greater than I even imagined. That concept map I tell you. Works like a charm.

We (Ke, Ra, me) got our 70's dresses on, put on the mood lighting, put on the 70's music, and settled in for our evening, and then lo and behold RA Ni showed up, even though he hadn't RSVP'd to our facebook invite. Which was great.

And then the birthday boy showed up, and Je, and Meg and Mel, and like...all these people. I don't even remember who was in and out of there. Em, Ma, Ta, Ro, people, all sorts of people. And we had a dance party to 70's tunes. And it was GREAT.

Andddd thennnnn....then I guess we went up to the 4th floor? And sat in Bej's room with him and Av and I think Je? And talked about how great we are?

OH and we went down to the second floor, and I talked to that kid Gr and he was all saying how he's like seen me around but been too shy to talk to me. Too shy to talk to me? Psh mans just talk to me I'm not scary.

And then? Then what? I guess then is when Ra and I decided to go explore the other three dorms to see what was going down.

We didn't find much.

But we did find this room full of people playing some sort of board game in a VERY well decorated common room in the quiet dorm. And they like...knew me. They knew my name, and knew that I was from the third floor of my dorm, and that I had a dinosaur. And it was weird, cause I had never seen any of those kids before in my life.

And then Ra and I didn't find any other kids until the 8th floor of the tall dorm, where we found ANOTHER room full of kids who I didn't know who knew me. WEIRD right? Apparently one of the kids was in my class. I did not know that. Oops.

And then we went to the 10th floor of the tall dorm to the loft, and nobody was around so we climbed up the ladder into it, cause the last time those girls had told us we weren't allowed cause we weren't from the 9th or 10th floor of the tall dorm, but they were not there to stop us. And then this weird kid came out who thought he like owned the loft and talked to us for a bit from below.

AND THEN we came back to our dorm. And then we sat in the halls? And I talked to Au about camp and all the people we both knew. And then Au and To and Mel and Meg and El and....I think that's it went into El's room for a bit more recreation.

And THEN I went up to the common room and found Bej and Ra and Meg watching a movie so I went to watch with them, but Bej and I found that the commercials were much more interesting than the movie and that the movie was impossible to follow, so once Ra and Meg had gone to sleep we went to get crackers during the movie time and planned to get back to watch the commercials but then got distracted by how jumping is not a crime and creepin on El's room and trying to guess the code for the bike so we could maybe ride it a little.

And then I went to sleep.

Knowing Me Knowing You

Tonight was Classy Ladies of the 70s Night.

It was great.

I'll blog more later.

Aren't you going to wait for the surprise?

Today was a success.
I don't know how it's three am. It's just so HARD to go to sleep early in these parts.

Today I went to class. And then had SUCH a good nap after, oh my goodness. I slept, and I slept deep. We didn't have seminar because of our nighttime field trip so nap time was extended. Mmmmm. Sleep.

But I had to set my alarm for four because we had places to go! Places being the Olympia City Council meeting. Which was a LOT more interesting than I expected it to be. A lot of interesting characters spoke out in the public forum time. And the mayor is really cool. And Co tried to creep on our concept map that Ke and I were making to plan our Classy Ladies of the 70's night. It's tomorrow and it's going to be good.

Vi had her yelling at the 4th and 5th floor meeting today. But that was when we were out on the town. We were out from 5 to like 8 45.

Be's birthday is today (the 14th) but he didn't tell anyone, so we had the extra surprise factor of him not even knowing we knew it was his birthday. We decorated his door and slid reese's cups under his door after we thought he had gone to sleep, but he was totes awake cause we saw his light go on and off. But whatever. It was still technically his birthday cause it was at like one am.

When we were getting RA Au to get us paper to make Be's decorations he was resisting, and then Ke and Ra went over and were banging on his door, and then he yelled at them, and then they were walking away and he said, "Aren't you going to wait for the surprise?" And Ke and Ra turn around and he says, "It's in my pants," and he pulls out balloons, but we are NEVER letting him live down that quote.

And then Bej and I had to discuss that thing that NEVER HAPPENED last night. I think No is convinced we like had wild sex or something.

And then I cleaned my sink because Ra unclogged the toilet. Talk about walking where angels fear to tread.

AND THEN I DID THE DUMBEST THING.
Okay so I look in the mirror and see a bit of food in my teeth, so I try to get it out with a piece of paper, but instead I end up jamming the paper between my two front teeth where I have those permanent retainers so I can't get it out. And it's still in there. And it's uncomfortable. And I tried EVERYTHING.

Dangit.

Take that towel OFF

I learned a lot about killer whales today.

It's a little obscene how much I enjoy things around here.

What happened today?

woke up
cleaned my room
fixed my fridge
microwaved my leftover burrito and ate it with a mug of hot cocoa
did my laundry
hung up my old calendar as posters
did my reading
did some researching of killer whales
ordered some books from the library exchange thing
took some notes
ate SUCH A GOOD DINNER TORTELLINI IN CREAM SAUCE AND SPINACH SALAD WITH GRAPES AND ALMONDS
i will take a moment here to comment on how much i like spinach leaf/nut/fruit/cheese salads. OH MY GOD. SO DELICIOUS.
and i've been waiting for that tortellini since before break
hung out with people
talked to RA Au
To went through the portal
lent Al my lamp cause she broke both of hers
heard people trip over that metal thing Ra brought into our hallway
staged blackmail pictures
discussed what if everyone in my dorm died mysteriously with Ta and Bej
played the Be tries to grab my knees from the bottom bunk and I try to evade on the top bunk game
Ra got penguin pants like my penguin pants
said goodbye to suitemate Li
did something TOP SECRET with Bej after everyone else had gone to sleep
it was hilarious
and clever
and weirder than we probably will ever understand
we MAY get yelled at for it
which is why i can't say what it is
Ke is freakin awesome. that girl cracks me up

LIFE PLAN

I am going to live on a little houseboat and follow around an orca population and study it and get to know all the killer whales and track their behavior for research and sustainability purposes. porpoises!

It's going to be great. I'm learning so much about killer whales. It's a heck of a lot more interesting than salmon.

But I did have to understand the salmon crisis to understand the orca situation. IT'S ALL CONNECTED!!!

Tom Waits Fan Club

Finland loves me. Yesterday somebody from Finland found my blog searching for eudimorphodon and today somebody from Finland found my blog searching for heron and rosanna. Finland! Who knew?

Today was such a wonderful day.

I woke up and went to Meg and Mel's room and got into Meg's bed under her fuzzy blanket so I was so warm and cozy under the blanket but their window was open so I felt cool air blowing on my face and it was such a lovely combination of temperatures and comfort. I've been groovin on Meg's bed the past few days. But that was one of the best times. No not even. They've all been great. Great! Right now it's too hot in my room though. Wait I'm wearing clothes! Therein lies the problem.

But all is well that ends well. That is what Ma always says. And it has ended well.

I went on a walk through the woods today with Je and Bej and Pi and Em. And it was FANTASTIC. Oh my goodness. We found this one bigleaf maple that had grown around this big old red ceder stump and it was gnarled like a goat skull with a real face and everything nursing off that other trees nutrients. We went to both the gnome treehouse and the three story treehouse and I went in both of them. The three story treehouse was SO high up on its highest level. I could see through the forest to the water. It's crazy how the forest is still green in the winter here. I try to tell people from here how it isn't green in the winter back home and they don't understand the concept. I was a bit scared of the three story treehouse but I held on to the huge tree holding it up and felt safe. The bark was so cool too with all these mosses and stuff growing out of it. I also love that around here nobody is phased by it raining or being wet since we're in the RAINFOREST and all, and nature hikes just continue in the damp raininess of it all.

I love that at Mycollege we literally go off into the woods and spend the afternoon looking at cool trees and stuff.

And then we got to the water and the tide was SO high (probably related to all this rain and record flooding and such) and the entire world was gray, gray water, gray raindrops, gray fog, gray other side of the water, gray sky, gray mountains, gray rocky beach glacial till. I waded into the water in my rainboots and watched the rain hit the sound, and it was so foggy and gray it made a soft gray background with these dark gray splotches. And they didn't look like raining raindrops because I was doing that thing that the lady in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek does, where you don't see the world with real depth and form, you just see it as flat splotches of color. And these flat splotches of color were changing like a kaleidoscope or a light show. And it was great.

And then El broke up with Mel, which sucks cause she had gotten attached, apparently he had another girlfriend back home the entire time.
That sucks.

OH! And so many more good things happened tonight! This isn't even the end of the post!

Okay. So RA Ni left and was replaced by RA Au. And Ke and Ra have been ding dong diching him because that's what they do, and then a few days ago Meg told him it was Ra and Ke who were doing it, and only Ra was there and he told her that if she did it again she would get an IR, and he was very serious and she asked what if it was somebody else, and he said he didn't care he was blaming her.

So fast forward to today, when we're like okay Je you need to ding dong ditch Au and get caught so he knows it not just Ra and Ke doing it. Except that boy does NOT let himself get caught, he goes and hides in the elevator, and then when Ke sticks her head out to see him catching Je he just sees her, and then he comes over to the door, and I know the exact script of what followed because we've acted it out so many times.

Au: *bangs on door*
Ke: I'm in the shower!
Au: *bangs on door*
Me, Je, Ra: *hide*
Ke: ^opens door* Hello?
Au: *stands in doorway staring angrily not talking. long awkward pause*
Ke: Can I help you? *throughout this entire shebang she keeps on closing the door halfway and cracking up looking at us hiding and being like WHAT??, then going back and acting serious*
Au: Yes. *long awkward pause*
Ke: Would you like to come in?
Au: No. *long awkward pause* Do you know who has been knocking on my door?
Ke: *long awkward pause* Yes.
Au: *long awkward pause* Who?
Ke: Us. It's an initiation thing.
Au: *long awkward pause* All of you?
Ke: Some of us.
Au: *long awkward pause* Some of you?
Ke: Just me.
Au: *long awkward pause* Nobody else?
Ke: *long awkward pause* Yeah
Au: *long awkward pause* *walks away*

IT WAS JUST
SO AWKWARD
AND
SO FUNNY
AND
SO INTENSE.

And then (Yeah this night isn't even OVER yet, things are still happening) we're standing in the hallway with Meg and Mel and Ke and Ra talking about what just went down, and then I'm not sure exactly what happened actually but what I think at the time happened is that Au was coming out of his room to yell, so I run away into 304, where I never really go ever. And then I'm in there being quiet and hiding when I hear a like me love fest going down in Ja and Er's room. I'm literally listening through the door and they have no idea I'm outside because all I did was run into their bathroom all stealth cause I was hiding, and I hear all these people saying all these great things about me, that I'm really cool and pretty and all sorts of things, so I go in and am like YOU GUYS ARE SO NICE and then I tell them the story of why I was hiding in their bathroom, and it was just such a nice surprise. I didn't know they thought all those nice things about me. We concluded that it was the positive energy about me they were putting out into the world that attracted me into there.

And then Je rubbed his mouth on Bej's neck and it was SO funny because he did it by mistake because his face itched and he was too close to Bej. And then we went to the pyramids and then to the computer center and all facebook chatted because it is open until 2 am. And I was trying to write on Je's wall, but instead I wrote this on another kid named Je's wall:

i'm planning my other costume RIGHT now
its so good
this is what it is
the brown shirt im wearing right now
over a brown shirt
with brown pants
and then i smear mud on my face
and wear a fake beard
and an eye patch
WHO'S PUMPED
I AM

He must think I'm CRASY.

And then what? We came back I guess.

It was
a very nice day.

I'm not saying we should sleep together, but we totally could

Today we went to Quality Burrito. And my table got its food last, and I was SO HUNGRY I was going insane cause I hadn't had any food. But then luckily the table that had food shared.

After we came back everyone napped in Meg and Mel's room. It was such a good nap. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Nap.

So little happened today. But it was so nice because we all did so little as a family.

Sleepy pterodactyl in Sa's room

Jumping is not a crime

Today was beautiful.

I woke up at 7:30 to go on our field trip into downtown Olympia and we were walking down the docks in the early morning, and I LOVE docks and water and boats, and it was just so beautiful. A bit of residual effects plus the stillness of the morning and the water was rushing extra because of all the rain and hardxcore flooding (I just wrote flooding as fludding....whoops) that's going down around here. And I saw this little houseboat docked and it was built like a little wooden shingled house, and I want that to be my life. Can I live on a little houseboat that looks like a little house when I grow up? And just float around? That would be GREAT.

And then I napped from noon to five.

And then tonight we were all lounging about in Meg and Mel's room for a long time, singing songs and playing music and cuddling and just being a family, it was BEAUTIFUL! People weren't all out scattered at parties and such, we were all together and connected and the lights were off and the christmas lights were on and we were all together. And it was so nice.

Tomorrow we are going to quality burrito. I'M SO EXCITED!

Mounting

Today Av made vegan cranberry oatmeal cookies.
Oh. My god.

I cannot believe I just remembered this story I'm about to tell you. Okay. So earlier we're creepin on the dorm across from us in the windows in Sa's room like we do, and Ja is insisting he sees people having sex in the shadows on a window through a shade, and he keeps on saying I see mounting that was definite mounting and Sa says, whenever you say mounting I think of mounting [something geeky here sa wrote it down i will make him tell me what it was tomorrow it had to do with linux]. I hope you did not have to be there to get it. You do have to know Sa, though

Today the man was talking to anxiously it was making me jittery and anxious. In class because when he would talk he would make these little jittery arm movements and he just talked so fast. Unpleasant.

It's too bad no of you are awake. NO OF YOU ARE AWAKE!

I'm listening to music. It is the strangest song I think I have ever heard. I don't think I have ever heard it before. It is "En Gallop" - Joanna Newsom. It's SO WEIRD.

Whoever invented chocolate oranges was genius. Those things come in little orange shapes. Genius! Plus its orangy flavored chocolate.

Today Mel and me did not watch accepted. Instead we found Av on the way back from the mods and went back to C dorm. And then we sat on Mel's beg and talked about our feelings. And then we ate popcorn and Mel's hands were glowing. If Mel were an antelope she would eat popcorn.

I just ate the inside part out of the chocolate orange, not because I wanted just orange sections but because it looked like a nice big slab of chocolate.

Other things that happened today? We lost and found Ta a bunch of times. The water bottle tasted like berries and they watched a movie.

Tomorrow we are going on a walking tour of Olympia. I suppose I will talk about that tomorrow then.

Then we hung out in Sa's room until it was time to sleep.

This is my LIFE

WHO KNEW???

Mans. My life.

I think I've forgotten how to blog since being back. How does one blog? What does one talk about?

Today Ke and I had combined nap time in her room. And then I did some homework. And then everyone was in my room coloring on each other and it was great. And we read Goodnight Moon (well No read it to us). And then we were in Meg and Mel's room living it up. And then Ta and Ra and I had a deep conversation about romance. And then Meg and Av and I had a GREAT conversation about how great Ourcollege is. And it was so much.

HOW DO I BLOG? I will have to reread old blogs later to remember how. Goodnight.

Ask me how do I feel

I had a dream that I had such a good singing voice I auditioned on a whim to be Sarah from Guys and Dolls and got the part. And then I was SO happy. And then it was just a dream.

Quiet Hours

I really do like it here.

Ke and I are in the same seminar group this term, meaning we will be next term as well.
YES.
Also her roommate Sar dropped out, so now she has a room that used to be a common room all to herself. She might get a new roommate next week though.

Today was a nice day. We played the game where you put an envelope on the ground and have to pick it up with your teeth with only your feet touching the floor. You can bend all you want as long as you follow those rules. Sa is surprisingly good at it. It is surprisingly difficult. But I did it.

We also hung out with new suitemate Li today. I like her. She seems like a good one.

What else. We had a Who's Line session, we hung out a lot in Meg and Mel's room, it was a kind of low key day but still of quality.

It rained those nice big intense raindrops today (because of that large high pressure system in the middle of the Pacific). I'm listening to them now and they are lovely. I wish I had a better listening to rain room. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm rain.

Back to Jamaica

It's nice to be home. Not much happened today, but I got to see everybody and I missed everybody and now we're all together again (EXCEPT A FEW WHO AREN'T RETURNING TT.TT) but really though it's very nice to be home.

The plane ride here SUCKED. Just cause it was too long. But there was a Planet Earth marathon on, and if you have not played Time to Pretend (and like, other songs too but that's the best one) and watched Planet Earth with the volume down then you are missing out. I did that for four hours.

I HATE TRANSPORTATION

that is all