oceantheorem: (lorelai coffee girl)
IT'S SNOWING! Sort of. I think it's actually snowing and melting at the same time. If it's not melting, then it's doing some weird sort of snow condensing magic and disappearing. Somehow I doubt it's sublimating.

Earlier, I went to Walgreen's to buy more hair dye, and inside it was jam-packed with red hearthings and candythings and cardthings, and people were EVERYwhere like it was just before a hurricane and they wanted duct tape, except it was singing balloons and giant stuffed animals with words on their stomachs, and I picked up a romance novel and some chocolate-covered coffee ball things--what could be better than coffee covered in chocolate??--along with my hair dye and two packs of hangers (because you can never have enough hangers), and as I checked out I felt a little sad that no one was buying large boxes of sugar for me, but as I walked out into the night, my feet clad in slippers because my toe doesn't like being in shoes, and my body wrapped up in the giant warm furry coat my dad bought for me, a few snowflakes floated down and landed on my arms, and I felt like perhaps the universe was saying that I just needed to take a moment to be happy with what I have. So I did.

I drove home and it wasn't snowing anymore, but ten minutes after I got into the house I went to close the window I'd left open this morning so the apartment could air out, and I could HEAR the snow beginning to fall. It was a very dry snow, coming down very quickly, and at first I thought it was very small hail. I stuck my head and shoulders out the window and found that it was in fact snow, and marveled at the fact that snow can make a noise. I didn't know snow could make a noise.

I covered up the blue spots in my hair. Hopefully the brown spots I got on my face will come off the rest of the way tomorrow morning.

Also, the lj update screen is pink with hearts. I'm not sure how I feel about that. First they take away my option to customize my update screen, and now they force pink hearts on me? I mean, I'm all about pink and hearts, sure. Sometimes even around Valentine's Day. But pink and hearts against my will? Grrrr.

Time to finish (read: start) my reading for tomorrow, and then get to bed.
oceantheorem: (I am volatile chemistry)
Let me preface this by saying that I am drunk, and therefore anything I update about cannot be held against me.

In the last couple of days, a lot has happened. I walked several miles Thursday night, alone, in the cold, and saw the luminaria on the Green and sat in front of a church and thought about my life and where it's going and whether or not I'm happy here. And I'm not. And maybe I'm just not used to New England, and maybe I left the real me behind in Santa Cruz, tipsy on a beach on a May afternoon after a day of climbing and a bit of drinking at the Seabright Brewery. But even so, maybe this just isn't the right place for me. I'm not fitting in here, I don't feel at home here. Would I feel more at home at UCSF? Did I make the wrong decision?

It snowed yesterday. And it was windy and the powder blew straight into my face and stung my cheeks. Maybe I was wrong to be excited for winter?

I also learned how to knit yesterday, and am now on my way to making a scarf. I feel very... domestic.

Anyway. There's an 8-10 page paper for 603 I haven't chosen a topic for yet, and Monday we're getting take-home exams for 602, and 625 has a shit-ton of stuff coming up, so I'm going to go get some sleep and try to think of sunny things. I hadn't realized I liked the sun so much, but damn I miss the temperate nature of California. Right, anyway, I was saying--I'm going to bed.

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