A couple lovely little finds . . .

unruly things: lovely format and just really neat posts.

also

this is not my work:  i believe it's an extension of her main blog, but i think i like this one better. lots of lovely/delicious little posts.

also

natalie: lovely.

it's finally snowing. i don't say that because i'm actually excited for snow, but because it's been hesitating for a couple of days, i'm glad it just bit the bullet.

i'm watching videos of haiti, along to borodin's symphony in dmajor, and wondering why metamucil gets to stick their fiber nose into these grave reports.

i've been thinking about loads of things (one of those "study it out in your mind' kind of instances) and no conclusions have definitely been made. a few fizzled interviews, and some class switcheroos, all to land me . . . nowhere in fact.

i've done all this reminiscing as well (ah yes, my 20 years have served me well) of freshman year (ooohh so long ago-as jeff likes to say) and of paris (and wishing it didn't feel so long ago.)

my mother sent me a package today (after getting mixed up because apparently i don't know my own address, worrisome) and it had loads of happy goodies. i think college is a rather bouncy time; emotions bound up and down and you have to learn to bounce back. i have nothing (absolutely nothing) to complain of. i've been thinking lately of how blessed i am. sometimes i'm stand in shamed marvel  regarding how i landed such good friends and parents and roommates and living spaces and siblings and siblings-in-law and chances to go to paris . . . all without necessarily feeling like i've earned it.

there is so much goodness in this world, so much truth. the more truth i discover, the more i realize how little i have in my tiny sphere of influence. it's just incredible, and i like the idea of going for it all in one shot. i'm studying reincarnation as a part of hinduism. it's very interesting, but it makes me think of a tidbit i thought about in the fall - enjoy life now, enjoy the moment, because things sometimes don't last as long as you'd like, and if you're just getting by to get to your next life as a brahman, you may miss somethings.

{exactly two months ago today, i was here . . .  incroyable.}

anyway, some things on my mind i suppose. and now to write about marie de france . . . in french.