HOW

Did I never read the Jurassic Park books until now???

THEY ARE SO GOOD. THEY WENT BY SO FAST.

That's the bad thing about reading fast. I find a really good book (LIKE JURASSIC PARK, WHAT A BOOK, AND THEN THE LOST WORLD, A SEQUEL EVEN BETTER THAN THE FIRST) and then I can't put it down and then it is over so fast. Now what am I supposed to read?

Actually, I hear that in the book version of Fried Green Tomatoes they are actually lesbians. So that answers that question.

What if there was a book about old time Southern lesbians exploring a jungle full of dinosaurs. Oh wow.

It's weird that I'm always me.

Maybe one of these days I'll have my First Legal Drink In A Bar In The United States.

Maybe I will go out for Mel's birthday on Thursday. Or maybe I will have too much homework. Either way, I have my first day of my internship the next morning anyway, so it's not like I could really party the night away.

HEY LOOK, I CAN WRITE ABOUT DRINKING ON THE INTERNET AND IT'S LEGAL.



Peekaboo.

Winter quarter

Is coming to an end. How weird. Soon there will be no more map making class, no more 15 hours per week of babies, no more winter. When I come back from spring break it will actually be spring. Spring here is great. I am looking forward to it. Spring here will be less homework, internship, volunteering at the elementary school. Spring here will be having to bus to my destinations, TWO buses when I am going to the elementary school. The last time I tried to take those two buses I ended up sunk into mud up to my ankles on the side of the busiest intersection in town (with no crosswalks, which matters a lot because crosswalks are a big deal around here) as the bus I was supposed to get on drove by. And then I took another bus and ended up in the wrong place thinking I was in a different wrong place with three minutes until the bus I wanted to get on left the transit center. So I took off at a run, not even knowing where I was going, just knowing that I had to get there fast, and saw a bus stop after a few blocks of running and ran towards it, only to find it was the wrong one, and then I looked across the street and there was the bus I wanted going to another stop, so I ran across in front of traffic and by golly I MADE that bus. Here is the thing: whenever I run, I make the bus. And it's a good thing too, because goodness knows I don't want to run for no reason.

Spring quarter should be pretty great. Maybe I'll even find a house to move in to.

Last night me and my future roommates sat around and told each other things about how much we like one another. And all my future roommates are guys so they don't get emotional about each other as often as we do. That will be funny, me and three guys living together. But also normal, because they're the ones over at my house the most often. I mean, one of them is here all the time. So that's normal. And the others almost all the time. Just still after having been friends with girls most of my life it is a little silly that I hang out with all guys so often. Maybe my girl friends will get less busy next quarter. But that isn't actually at all likely. I am friends with some insanely busy girls.

I always have my A though to sleep in my bed and bring a little girl energy around here. And that's good, because without her who are we supposed to have threesomes with?

I have had to accept that I really do not have time for sheep club anymore. I am just TOO BUSY. Maybe sometime I will get back to it because I really do like that club. But like, I have so much time.

Time to write evaluations.

Here is what everyone should go do right now

1. Read Jurassic Park the book
2. Watch Jurassic Park the movie
3. Watch Fried Green Tomatoes

YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!

Birthday Party

It is the morning of my 21st birthday party and I woke up early with butterflies in my stomach as if it was the morning of my 7th birthday party or something. This is no longer appropriate behavior.

Valentine's Day

is more depressing than ever this year. Valentine's day is not a love holiday. Valentine's day is a sweets holiday. And I cannot have sweets, no no no I cannot have sweets. Valentine's day sweets are all over the place, in the stores and on the internet and everyone is talking about them, and oh I cannot have sweets.

And I follow that rule.

i have

The MOST BEAUTIFUL toaster oven in ALLLLLLL of Olympia

I got it from the free store back in September and it was ugly as all get out, all dirty and stained and scribbled on, but then I got a seed catalog and decoupaged it up with pictures of vegetables and melons and now it is beautiful.

there was an old woman who lived in a shoe
she was sometimes so Olympia she didn't know what to do

We've gotten into this new thing, well its not so new by now because we've kind of been doing it for a while, but anyway the thing is watching documentaries or historical movies before bed (and after toothbrush party + playing with the new toy I got myself for my 21st birthday) and it is great. We finished Apocalypse Now last night, oh man that was intense.

I'm really excited about my mapping class. Making maps is super cool.

Dude. Free laptop. How cool is that. I've been telling everyone I know, which is a little obnoxious I know but I just can't believe it, that I would enter something and then get a knock on the door and a free laptop, especially since my old laptop is falling to bits.

Pretty cool, man.

We're house hunting right now, looking for a nice three bedroom place with garden space and a washer and dryer and a short walk to the bus.

I just got into cooking amaranth as of last night. I want to try popping it and see what happens. YumUniverse says popping amaranth is "one of the cutest kitchen activities one can participate in," so I say let's do it.

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS IT'S ALMOST MY BIRTHDAY

Snuggles and Sheep

It's weird how much the smell of baby sheep on my hands reminds me of last year. If I get sheep of my own someday I wonder if the baby sheep smell will remind me of college. It brought me right back to last year. It would be pretty cool to smell my hands and be like, whoa man, my college years. Plus I'd have sheep of our own. That'll be great.