Drive Back

I talked to SEK once about driving back to school from home (or a home-like place...aka R&Js). We agreed it's one of the hardest things to do....EVER. For one thing, you just left home, a place where you KNOW you're loved and cared for and you have concrete evidence that SOMEONE cares what happens to you. And you're going to a place where everything's an uncertainty, and everything's not as clean, and you have to make an effort and care what people are thinking, and the list just goes on and on! Anyways, I drove back to school last night, listening to a mix made for me by HL, and this song came on...one that always makes me unbelievably sad, but heartened and strengthened at the same time... mostly focus on the chorus:

Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds...
But I'm holding on underneath this shroud
Praying.



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Immediately after this song, on the mix, is this one. And for the first time, I appreciated the position of the songs, and realized that the world is funny like that sometimes, whether on purpose or not. and you've just gotta take the shitty with the hilarious, and make your own happy. what a revelation huh?! haha

Hoppy Easter!

What a fantastic weekend.

I made a spontaneous decision to go up to see Kels instead of heading to FC, and while I'm sure I would've loved that too...it was so great to see Kels and I had the greatest Easter. We had a 10 course gourmet dinner at her friend's house, I got to sleep in til 10:35 and not be woken up by slamming doors and obnoxious yelling, I got a little bit of Chem done of Saturday, got to hang out with Kels again Saturday night, went to Easter vigil (which was awesome!), then church again this morning! Sorry that was basically one huge run on sentence, but I thought just listing stuff off would be faster than writing it all out!

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The church service this morning was really awesome. Kels found this ELCA church in Glenwood, and the people there truly amazed me with how welcoming and kind they all were to both of us. The music was good, the pastor had a funny, entertaining, AND thought-provoking Easter sermon involving Monty Python and Cookie-Monster and Jesus "gettin' up in your grill."

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Kels and I both commented on how this was our first time not having Easter with the whole family. No big Easter brunch, with delicious food and lots of people. Just the two of us, at McDonalds, with small coffees, hashbrowns, and McMuffins. It's going to be one of my most favorite Easters ever, I think.

Granny

I realized today that I think I'm going to be a great grandma/granny. I mean really, I already like all the things grandma's supposedly do. For example, I like:

-Books and talking about them
-Reading the newspaper
-Crocheting/Knitting
-Sending people cards in the mail
-Spoiling little kids rotten
-Visiting with family
-Sewing
-Cardigans and sweaters
-House shoes

The only thing I really don't like that most granny's like is cooking.But I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before I like doing that too! A shout-out to my Grannys/Grandmas, for being so fantastic!

Insurance

I had strep throat a while ago and went to the student health clinic on campus for some drugs. I just got the insurance paperwork in the mail the other day. On the front it says:

Important Papers Enclosed:
1. Open Immediately
2. Read
3. Send Home To Parents

I laughed out loud. Opened it, read it, and fully intend on bringing it home with me and sending it over to my parents. I wish all of my papers could be handled (and instructed) so perfectly. I'm guessing after college they stop putting that on your insurance paperwork though. That's too bad.

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I have an iGoogle homepage, and a little part of it has 3 quotes of the day. All three of them today made me laugh and/or appreciate their wittiness.

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
- Anonymous
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
- Joe Theismann
Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
- Gallagher

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I love Ray Charles. He calms me down like nothing else when I'm feeling anxious or stressed or generally upset.
One of my favorite songs--
This is a great video. The caption reads: A very rare 1963 performance by Ray Charles in São Paulo, Brazil, recorded one day before his 33rd birthday. This set is a remarkable find. Beyond its historical significance, the video provides enormous pleasure: We get to see and hear Ray, The Genius at his absolute best, exactly as it was show then...



this one too:


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I'm reading Ahab's Wife right now...and MAN is it EPIC. I'm not going to divulge details, cuz I think if you have some free brain cells and a bit of time, you should read it. But it's been 400 pages of swash-buckling, Kentucky-wintering, lighthouse-climbing epicness. It's exhaustive. But a good read.

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MT introduced me to this comedian and I think he's just awesome. He just kills me, and I think I was in the right goofy mood to appreciate the first time I watched it, so it was all especially hilarious. Enjoy the one liners and nice background music--

Gen Chem

I switched my class this block from Environmental Sociology to General Chemistry 107. yay...

No, actually, I'm really excited about it. the yay was for dramatic effect. I went to my sociology class first, and got the whole shpeel about syllabus and course work and how 80% of our grade was participation (in class, with 27 other people...not exactly my strength) and decided it was not going to be a super ton of fun and what I need right now.SO! I went down to registration. Figured out where Chem 1 is, and proceeded promptly to Olin Rm. 185 (which is freaking hard to find.) I need a class with some answers right now. before diving into Intro to Psych next block. and it turns out Chemistry has LOTS of answers. hooray! and also lots of Labs, and quizzes, and exams, and problems, and yikes! no social life for 3 weeks!

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www.isittuesday.com

genius.

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Adjectives for Spring Break: exhausting, rejuvenating, warm, sunny, nostalgic, friendly, snowy and slushy, loving, short, full, interesting, and illuminating

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heads up. F-bomb....

www.thefuckingweather.com

useful genius.

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I love my family.

Streamside

I went up to see R,J,C,J & C this weekend, and had an absolute blast. We did nothing in particular, besides go to the infamous Rio and watch copious amounts of movies(4 for me!) and sit around and visit, and I was the happiest and most content I've been in 3 weeks. 2 months, if you don't count my little jaunt to Aspen when I got to see KLS, my lovely primhermana for 3 days.

I was the happiest I've been in 2 months. Unbelievably more happy than I have been at school. There's something simultaneously very wonderful and very sad about that fact.

And now I have to go study, because spring break starts in 1 day, 15 hours, 30 minutes and 42 seconds, and I need to study for that final I have to take before I can go home.