Before I leave Bellingham, I want to climb to the top of the Herald Building and take a picture of their neon sign.

sick + paper + finals looming = no good.

Current Mood: sick

I miss my snow. Yesterday was a sledding, snowball fighting awesome adventure fraught with beer, bottle rockets, cocoa and live music.

I made amazing cookies today, but sadly they were consumed in the rain.

Current Mood: sad

hooray for a holiday! I think I would have imploded without this break. This is the first time in weeks were I've had (almost) nothing to do for a whole weekend. It was nice to recharge and relax.

Thanksgiving was awesome. My brother and Adrianne and Tim were over and things felt sufficiently thanksgiving-y. I cooked a relatively good meal, no major disasters, lots of beer was consumed and everyone went to bed stuffed so I'd call it a success. Plus, for the first time ever, I am the proud owner of ALL of the thanksgiving left-overs which there never seem to be enough of. Though I forsee the remaining 15 pounds of turkey becoming more of a curse than a blessing by the end of the week.

The rest of my brother's visit was good too. It was kind of hard finding things to do with him, but thai food, hiking, american gangster and drunk bowling seemed to keep him pretty entertainted. Last night we went out with a bunch of my friends and drank beer, bowled and then went for russian dumpling which, as David declared this morning, are "the best things ever, I don't even feel hungover at all!" I'm a little sad he didn't get to spend more time with my friends since bellingham seems like such a ghost town without them. But overall, I think he had a pretty good time and liked bellingham a lot.

Now, back to real life. Which really isn't such a bad thing right now. Things have been going a lot better for me this week. Once I got over the stress of that fight with Casey and having two tests my week got a whole lot bettter. Tuesday night I finally got to spend time with Csey and I think things are going to be good. I'm really excited for him to come back tonight so I can tell him all about thanksgving and getting a B on my o-chem test!!! I can't believe I got a B, but I am super super excited because that relieves a lot of pressure for the final and I don't feel like a total idiot anymore. But, whoah, finals are in three weeks which is kind of scary but also cool because it means I'm a lot closer to going home and having a long break. In the meantime, I guess I'll have to start studying and write some papers.

Current Location: my very warm bed
Current Mood: content
Current Music: the long winters

so nine weeks without journaling and just under eight weeks since school started... I see a correlation.

so good stuff:
- I applied and got into my schools environmental science program.
- I'm doing well in 2 of my classes.
- The roommate situation is extremely harmonious and involve lots of cookies.
- I've been doing a lot of reading for pleasure.
- David's coming to visit.
- I am going to be cooking thanksgiving dinner and spending turkey day with my brother, Adrianne and Cory. (and anyone else who wants to come!)
- Spending more time than usual in Tacoma and Seattle. Getting out of Bellingham more often seems to make me a little more sane.
- Rilo Kiley, Brother Ali and Cat Power.
- things with Casey were going very well.

bad stuff:
- Things with Casey suddenly not being ok.
- Having so many tests, projects and papers to do that I can't believe I'll ever see the end of it.
- Having really vivid dreams that are not really scary, but really stressful.
- I am not passing organic chemistry right now.
- I have an o-chem and bio midterm on the monday before thanksgiving and an 8 page paper due the wednesday before thanksgiving.

Current Location: Library
Current Mood: I don't even know.
Current Music: Rilo Kiley

at Tori's birthday party friday night:

Random stranger bro-ish guy: "so are you guys dating or in a relationship or what?"

me: "um...."

casey: "we're in a relationship."

me to casey: "oh cool!"

A Few Minutes later:

casey: "is it cool that I said we're in a relationship?"

me; "yeah, it's a hell of a lot easier to say than 'this really cool guy I was dating till he went to alaska' yes, it's very cool."

Casey: "cool."

Ignoring the parts were I was super awkward and the overuse of the word cool, I'd say that was a pretty cute story. Next time I see that random Bro I must thank him. Also, thus far, being home is awesome!

Current Mood: content
Current Music: crickets

Your Boobies' Names Are...

Bert and Ernie

my god, I have been enjoying social distortion so much lately. good thingd they're playing seattle in september!!!!!!

So I had a really fun and exciting weekend, but all of the pirate-yelling and staying out late has made my voice start to disappear. I'm kind of enjoying it though because it sounds really cool when I sing.

Moving starts tomorrow, yay. I loathe this crappy apartment more and more every day. At some point in the past week both of my roommates seem to have come to the conclusion that there's no point in cleaning up after themselves or putting anything away anymore, it's gross. I have that sentiment too, but I think I've been pretty courteous by limiting my abominable messes to my room and closet. Also, I think the shower is leaking because there was a sizeable puddle yesterday and the plaster is cracking a bunch more than it was before. all I can do is sigh and hope we get our deposit back.

The only thing I am more excited about in life right now is summer school being done next wednesday. I spent 4 hours working on 4 ridiculous problems last night and still didn't get them done so I had to get up early this morning to finish before class. (and by "ridiculous" I mean unreasonably hard and completely dissimilar to what we've been doing. NO ONE got the same answer on the last problem, not a single person.) I'm still pretty worried about not getting a high enough grade, but at this point I am just so sick and tired of getting up early, studying and homework that it's difficult to care. Still, I know I have to buckle down this week/weekend and study my ass off.

Next Wednesday I will be celebrating!
I don't know how just yet, but I have an inkling it will involve a lot of new clothing since I currently hate everything I own and had a list of things I want/need that's about a mile long:
-new sandals since all of mine are almost worn through
-snseakers that don't smell like dirty feet
-2 new pairs of nice jeans so I don't have to wear the same ones work all the time.
-blouses, again so I don't have to wear the same 3 shirts to work all the time
-Cardigans, again see above
-a black tank top, the one I have now is unraveling
-a zip hoody that actually fits
-a flat iron, I've never actually owned one before, I've just been using other peoples for two years
-sunglasses, mine got really scratched from getting dropped so many times
-bras, the underwires popped out of two this summer
-some sort of speakers for my ipod, just because that would be oh so nice to have
-a haircut

Current Location: mi casa
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: ray lamontagne

so friday night, driving down to olympia, I'm in my car thinking "god, I hate Everett so much" when, suddenly, an eagle swoops down next to me and lands in the trees between the north and southbound side of I-5. washington is so awesome!!!!

I think the eagle was an omen of sorts because the rest of the weekend was really awesome too. Friday night I drove to Shelton to stay with Leah and was able to get through seattle and tacoma with no hassles and ended up headed west on a 2-lane highway through the peninsula just as the sun was setting, it was gorgeous. I got to Leah kinda late so we just watched the rest of the Mariners game and went to bed. Then saturday, her mom made us an awesome breakfast and then we went to hang out with Caleb at work and watch Indians play softball. (yes "indians", because thats what everybody kept referring to the Native Americans as, apparently you don't have to be p.c. out here...) After the Indian softball extravaganza, I got the grand tour of Shelton which was not too exciting in itself but I had a really good time talking to Leah and getting to know her better. It was the first time I've spent with her without Caleb and it turns out she is even more awesome than I thought. And her parents are hilarious too! Dinner with them and Caleb was a riot (and the food was good too!). Saturday night was pretty uneventful, we watched a movie at Calebs house, but he lives 2 blocks from the Capitol building and it was really impressive to see at night when it was all lit up.

Sunday I left Leah's around 2 and went to Tacoma to see Valerie! It was really exciting to see all of her pictures from her trip to China and hear all of the stories about drinking with communists and lecherous old guys from ethnic minorities. I also got to meet her best friend Tony from Colorado and he was a super nice guy (not to mention cute.) Then we went on a ridiculous trip to Ikea and ended up getting lost in kent/renton but it was a good adventure. Sadly, Winston and Alex were nowhere to be found when I stopped by so, sadly, I had to head back to Bellingham without seeing them. Soon enough though, since I'll be headed back down there in 2 weeks.

It was a great weekend indeed. And to top it off, I talked to Casey for a really long time on Sunday night and I'm starting to get excited for him to come back. It's been nice being single all summer but I think I'm ready to settle down a bit. Not just into a relationship, but into life in general. This summer has been such a whirlwind and the next few weeks will only get busier with school, work, moving and going out of town. I'm really looking forward to the start of September when I'll be settled into my house, finally get to see adrianne again and get to go home and see my family in albuquerque.

Current Location: my bed
Current Mood: tired