And I'm Back

After a lovely weekend visiting boys at Swarthmore with Marissa, I return to Hanover to write a paper and do other sorts of homework I don't really feel like doing. However, I haven't told you about my trip, and I'm sure you're all dying to know.
It was superfun. Highlights included:
1. Seeing Mikio's performances with Marissa and Manoli, and sitting next to Marissa joking about things you can only joke about with your sorority sisters and select other close girlfriends. The concert on Sunday night was hi-larious. I'm not really sure why. I just couldn't stop laughing. Sitting between Marissa and Manoli certainly didn't help.
2. Learning how to tell the difference between bad feta and worse feta from a real Greek person. Unfortunately, Swarthmore Pennsylvania is lacking in any feta that is better than bad feta.
3. Lovely weather, and sitting outside on the (non-muddy!) grass in the sunshine, pretending to do reading but really just talking.
4. Donuts on weekday mornings from the construction people. Dartmouth students need to learn to negotiate better; I spent an entire year living in a building that shook next to a construction site where they started work at 7 a.m., and I never got a single donut. Or anything at all. Except woken up by a shaking building and loud construction. I don't even like donuts that much. I just like the idea.
And that was my weekend. It was fun. Now I shall go write my paper.
p.s. Happy Birthday to my Favorite Child in the Whole World! I can't believe she's five today!

Yaaaaaaay!

I have to write a paper!
It's about a play!
I haven't started it yet!
It's due in eight hours and twenty minutes!
I want to do a good job!
That's unlikely!
Luckily, I'm in the 1902 Room, which never closes, and I have coffee and two granny smith apples and one kozy shack tapioca pudding and a fake nalgene full of water and one little bag of ruffles potato chips that I just finished.
I think I'll be okay.

Special

I totally inhaled a snowflake through my nose while walking to the new math building just now.

Also, I have a brilliant post brewing about how I got to tell my favorite story in class yesterday. But right now I have a paper and a midterm tomorrow, so I must get back to work.

I Must Really Hate My Homework

Last night, instead of reading about traditional African theater, I did my laundry. So far, we're good. Nothing out of the ordinary. I do this all the time. This time, however, I needed to bring in EXTRA procrastination tools. That's right, I brought out the iron.
Ironing is great. Fantastic, especially if you're not the most dishevelled person in the world, rendering even the most perfectly ironed skirt or shirt a big ball of wrinkles within five seconds of putting it on your dishevelled body. Unfortunately, I am that person. Thus, I spent two hours yesterday preparing my clothes to be more perfectly wrinkled by me. I want to do the whole job. Let the washer and dryer take any credit for wrinkling my clothes? I THINK NOT. That is my job. And so I need to start with a clean, wrinkle-free canvas. Apparently. Or maybe I just didn't want to do my homework.

Also, aren't you all ridiculously jealous of my socks? You know what will make you even more jealous? The fact that I wore them to bed with boxers and a t-shirt from the farm where I used to work. That's right. I am just that fashionable.

They Really Do

Kids really do say some pretty amazing things. Today at daycare with the little guy, one of his classmates was looking at the belly of a very pregnant woman. She then announced, "Mommy said that she and Daddy are working on making me a baby brother!"
It was special.
On a different note, the little guy was awesome today. As soon as we got outside in the snow, he started making all sorts of sounds and just being really verbal. It was exciting.

What the Hell?

I took this picture from my window less than a minute ago:



What's going on? It's April, yet outside, it looks like a veritable winter wonderland.

Delicious Food

This required another post because food and bodily functions should not be written about at the same time.
I have discovered the most perfect food Dartmouth College has to offer: chicken pita melts with guacamole from the Hop.
It starts with a pita. Not the kind with the pocket; the other kind. The round kind that's a little bit sweet. (Maybe this is just a pita that hasn't been cut in half, thus revealing the pocket, but I don't think so. It's more like the bread the gyros at Greek Corner , the most amazing restaurant in the world, come on.) On top of that are placed refried beans, followed by shredded taco-style chicken, followed by cheese. This is then placed in the toaster-melty machine, where it is heated and the cheese reaches the most perfect state of meltiness. It is then topped with shredded iceberg lettuce, red onion, sour cream and guacamole. You eat it with a fork and a knife, and it is amazing. Many thanks to Marissa for introducing me to it.