BORDERS WAITING

Yesterday afternoon some of the girls on our floor, Jenna, and I figured out the bus system and took the bus to see Twilight at the movie theater across town. Town's not huge but it's big enough that it would be a long walk or a nice bike ride. We opted for the bus because it had been threatening to rain all day (like that's anything new).
We saw the movie (I'm a fan) and then went back outside to catch the bus back. We've missed it by five minutes and the next one doesn't come for another 50 minutes. So we get food to kill time. It's a little unclear why we just don't start walking now. It would take more time to wait for the bus and take that home then it would to walk home at this point. We get back to the bus stop 40 minutes later (just to be on the safe side) and wait and wait and wait. By this time it's dark and gotten colder. and the bus is nowhere in site. We wait 35 mins having debates every 5 minutes if we should walking but somehow convincing ourselves that, "no, it's just around the corner." It's not until an hour and a half since we got out the movie that we decide to walk home. After about half an hour of walking we run into a Borders. Jenna and I get sidetracked.
We then spent the next 3.5 hours sitting in Borders reading. My friend Emily, the cross country runner, showed up and the three of sat in a line leaning against some far back corner shelf and read our respective books. It was a nice salvage of the night.
Oh and the Bevs won! One more game then Rose Bowl. (knock on wood)

LIVING IN NO RAIN CLOUDS

I'm getting used to the gray.
It hasn't rained since last Thursday and has been sunny up until today. The combination of hot air up high and cold air down low and no rain has created this giant blanket of fog pretty much all the time. It's very bizarre feeling. Walking across the field the only reason I know which direction the dorms are are the lights. Whenever I fly I always wonder what it feels like to be in a cloud. Now I know. Cold. A sharp cold. Not like Chicago cold that gets into your bones. But a cold that just sits on your skin. It also looks like I need glasses because everything more then 10 yards in front of me is a hazy blur.
This morning though the grayness was back and we're all just sitting ducks waiting for it to start dumping for days on end again. Early today I wanted to curl up and go back to bed (this being after weights when my body was sore and mad at me for moving) BUT I have overcome that feeling and am now finding the gray almost pretty.

GRAHAM CRACKER DADS

The thing about Dad's Weekend without a dad isn't the fact that my dad isn't here, it's the fact that everyone else's dad IS. The students suddenly don't necessarily have to be grown up all the time anymore. The dad's have cars, wallets, hugs, and common sense.
I talked to my Daddy last night. It was very nice. It was almost like we were having a conversation me sitting on the kitchen counter, him leaning against it, late in the evening. Eating graham crackers.

Cleaning the Pit

I'm in the middle of a mass cleaning of my room. My roommate, Jenna, is in bed napping because she's not feeling well and I have time to kill before the football game (35 mins to go, against UCLA). So far it's been very productive:
Step 1: separate dirty from clean clothes in my closet while at the same time organize the closet
Step 2: Laundry!
Step 3: Move all the big furniture out of the room, into the hallway. Comfy chairs, desk chairs, trashcans, recycling bin, mini tables, the works.
Step 4: Anything on the floor toss into the middle of the carpet in a giant heap.
Step 5: While tossing pull and put away anything that is Leslie's. (I am proud to say of all the crud living on our floor under and around everything only about 10% of it was mine. See, the ranch DID teach me something
Step 6: SWEEP!
Step 7: Sweep again
Step 8: Sweep once more just for good measure.
Step 9: Dust everything and anything that collects dust.
Step 10: Sit down to organize desk
Step 11: Get Jenna to come organize the now giant pile of stuff in the middle of the floor.
Step 12: Vacuum!
Step 13: Watch football