Fetch & Monuments

Alright boys, cute Danser—excellent friends: generous, helpful, intelligent.  Just kindly listen.  My name often precedes quite raunchy, sensual things, unlike very white xylophones…  Yell, “zenith!”

That doesn’t make much sense but it’s alphabetical anyway.  I couldn’t fix that y, z at the end but whatever.

I’m in lit class and we’re talking about Shakespeare and Milton.  Who of you know Milton’s first name without looking it up?  I always like when we ask these kinds of trivia questions, especially when I know the answer.

Evening, friends.  Do you ever find yourself missing the smallest things?  I miss bike rides; characterized by simultaneous feelings of fear, exhilaration and awe of the beauty that surrounds you, a good mountain bike ride is unmatched by any other activity.  I miss the boba at the bottom of a cha drink, those delightful black chewy balls, representing how versatile a sweet potato really is.  Oh!  Having a room to myself… Wednesday night I was woken up at 3:30 in the morning.  My roommate was clipping her toenails…. With.  My.  Clippers.  I’m not that mad; just another bizarre roommate story, I suppose.

This weekend it parents’ weekend at AU, so my mom and Dave, her boyfriend, are here to visit.  It’s the first time I’ve seen anyone from back home since August.  Sort of shocking; the East Coast for me is a separate world from the West, so someone crossing into this sphere from that is unsettling but welcome.  I can’t wait for Thanksgiving when I get to snuggle into bed and enjoy the phenomena previously mentioned.  And see you guys and my dad and Maggie and Devin <3 and visit CdM again of course.

Tonight we went monument scoping.  Saw the Washington, World War II, Vietnam, Lincoln, Korean, and the new MLK, Jr. (and the Jefferson from far away… Rich, you have a Jefferson Memorial elevator story, right?).  I had fun but I was really tired by the end and now I’m really sore.  I am an old woman.  I really am.  I can’t understand how people were LEAVING campus at 12 am when I was getting home, ready to crash.  Devin told me if he were here I’d get a foot rub and this is why I happily continue my long distance relationship.  He always knows just what to say to make me miss him.  Today was our nine months, actually, and I accept all congratulations.  Hurrah.

This week was Big-Little week and my big decorated my room like crazy all week.  At the end I got a beta fish.  There’s a tradition in my family, I was told, that on the last night of Big Little week you get a beta fish and you have to name it after something out of Mean Girls.  Someone suggested Fetch.  So his name is Fetch.  I love him, I’m just worried about all the breaks when I go home.  I will have to find someone to care for him, because I don’t think I could keep him in less than 3.2 oz for the plane ride home (that was a TSA joke.  Laugh.)  In actuality, my room is so cluttered with decorations, especially balloons, that I feel like a hoarder.  It’s actually quite miserable.  I will fix it in the morning.

Love you guys.  I just don’t have energy for anything more.  I will put this song Dev showed me here though, because Rich did that also and this song is awesome.  Give it a chance it’s cute.

Night time night time night time <3

Update: I added a "Follow by Email" tab on our right hand column because I thought it would look cool.  Also, I reordered the colleges in the "About" space so it would be us in order.  I'm still last so it was for logical, not selfish, reasons.