waxing gibbous 68% of full

hi.
it's pretty outside.
i saw rennie this morning and got invited to a pajama party. but not by rennie. rennie and i are going to lunch on friday. after i turn in my paper. and then i'm going to a chocolate party.
doesn't that sound heavenly?


snow is mostly fun for staying inside and sleeping with lots of blankets and hot chocolate.

kel says: http://cheeseonrye.blogspot.com/2006/11/its-marshmallow-world.html

and i say, goodnight.
(72% of full)

you are invited.

guess what! on Vimeo
i love parties!

and my sister. thanks for guesting on the invite, jen.

, but what if they like it?

today i was happy cause my hair was in a ponytail for the first time in well over a year. and it didn't fall out.
(of course, it was the ugliest stub of a thing as you've ever seen and it took 8-10 bobbypins to even make it look like my hair was pulled back much less actually keep it in place.)

i made it to school, which meant i got to hang out with the lovely linds moff. i don't think i failed the quiz afterall and i took a nice little nap to planet of the apes.

i got to talk to joey, which is always a bright spot in my day.

i carpooled with shannon to work, which means i didn't have to be alone at all.
my classes were fine but the best part was that right at the end of class rennie came in to pick up a check and answer some questions for shannon and GIVE ME A $1 SUNDAE!!! so that was fun.

rennie and j.j. and shannon and i just sat outside the classroom chatting for way too long and it was great fun. it's nice to work with nice people.

the death of a beautiful woman

i keep staying up too late.
today was happy because i got my exam back and she said it was "perfect".
i went to all my classes and ate lunch with the jen.
this might sound like a bad thing to those who aren't in the know, but jenny gave herself a new nickname: a little sack of reject. i promise you it's funny.

then i got to see scott. it's such a rare occasion that i thought i shouldn't go to bed without documenting it.
we talked to shannon for a bit and then made our way to the alumni house for the walter benn michaels lecture.
it was very interesting. i liked it lots.
and scott got to improve his friendship with bess, which is very important.
scott also probably secured his future of becoming walter benn michaels...if a little better dressed.

goodnight!!

moondance

i'm sorry, i can't help myself.
i think this month is one of the moon's best. i love the moon. i always have, i always will. but you know how sometimes when he gets old he kind of just fades aways quietly? and other times he gets a little crotchety? and other times he just seems to disappear in a flash and not come back again til he's practically full again and you miss both waxing and waning?

this month i keep being amazed.
tonight he was playing in the clouds again. not so much out of timidity as out of a cleverness. every time i looked at him he was just peeking out from behind a cloud so that i could hardly tell if he wasn't full. it was artfully done.

on the way to greenland

three words:

watermelon in november.

what we know as buildings

first of all, if the moon was shy on sunday night, he made up for it last night.
he shed all his clouds and inhibitions, let go of the mountains and stood shining, unashamed in all his glory as the sky went from dusky blue to deep black. it's true, as val said, he wasn't as beautiful as he had been, but he made up for it with his confidence. he used the gauzy clouds to his advantage and wore his age well.

second of all, the sunshine is still hot enough to warp a wayward cd case in my car. and to make the dandelions blossom. i like dandelions. i think they're adorable. and they're so free with granting wishes.

third of all, today was not really the best day for happy times, but in other ways it was excellent for happy times. i took the day off. i shouldn't have, but i did. i got up at 7, got to school by 8:30 and had my paper done by 11:30. too bad classes started at 9:10 and the paper was due at 10:45. oh well. just to even things up i skipped my last class and wrote the test for work. it paid off, the students are now taking the test and i have at least started planet of the apes. i mention this little lapse in judgment because it occasioned a number of unusual events. 1- i studied on the first floor of the lib. 2- i used the mac lab in the mbh and it actually printed when i asked it to. 3- i hung out in the lnco (it didn't used to be unusual, but it is lately) 4- i sat in on a class about propaganda. 4- i saw michael colson. 6- i saw katie register and walked her to class. and 5- i got busted by the professor of my first class. "at least now i know you're alive today." oops. but she smiled as she walked away.

fourth of all, i got to eat lunch in tandem with linds. she came home flaunting her thai food so i just had to call in an order of my own.

fifth of all, i got to skip out of work early to vote. that's just the kind of responsible citizen i am.

sixth of all, i got free frosty coupons from my mum. very fun.

and now i'm going to bed.

phone'll jingle, door'll knock: open the latch...

do you like fall?
i like fall.
i always find myself arguing the seasons with people who love fall. i agree with them and tell them that fall is good, but spring is better because while fall just gets colder and colder until it gets swallowed up by winter, spring gets warmer and warmer until it bursts into summer.

they keep arguing, thinking i've said i hate fall. but i don't hate fall. in fact, i love fall.

sometimes i add that i almost hate fall in utah because winter is such a bully. the snow doesn't like to wait it's turn and just pushes the less assertive seasons (spring and fall) around. but the very unassuming nature of the transitional seasons is what makes them great. so much more exciting, you never know what you're going to get each day. spring is hopeful and fall is anticipatory. i love the smokey smell and the crunkly leaves. it's like right before a thunderstorm and you know something's coming soon. it's great for walking. and also for scarves. you always feel like you're walking in a movie. which is terribly allison romantic.

on friday i watched the two most grown up people i know run through an enormous pile of leaves kicking up their feet like irish dancers.
and i thought to myself, thank goodness it's november and it's still fall.

now, winter has it's moments and one of those is Christmas. i like a good heavy snowfall that begins just as we walk out of our thanksgiving movie. snow is romantic until january. after that it just gets old. you need snow. i don't think i'd like a southern hemisphere Christmas. and you need opposition so you can really appreciate warmth and life when it comes back in spring, but once you hit february, things really need to start warming up. i grew up with st. patrick's day being an outside shorts and picnic kind of holiday. but i'm getting off topic so i'll leave my seasonal moralizing for a more appropriate place.

the moon has been beautiful. have you noticed? saturday was amazing. simply amazing. it literally took my breath away. and last night he was coyly climbing up behind the mountains and then played hide-and-seek in the clouds, but came out to walk me to my door.

today was a beautiful fall day. the morning was just crisp enough to make my scarf no longer frivolous, but not too cold for living. the clouds over the mountains as the sun rose were beautiful and as i closed my eyes and waited for the train, i could almost feel warm.
the walk home was equally comfortable temperature-wise and i'm sitting by the front door of my office without even a jacket watching the sun set.

as usual, i find myself without a proper conclusion. but then, maybe it's only just out of reach...

(you can't tell, but i'm singing.)

it's a great idea

my friend suggested to me that thinking positively was a good thing.
i like lists. i make them lots.
i like to make lists of things that make me laugh throughout the week.

and, if we're lucky, we may hear from said friend every now and again.

today:
bagels in the morning. (even though we didn't actually go, it was nice.)
my mom bought a personal library kit and matching "rock on" t-shirts
$2 t-shirts
mintnight snack at coldstone
my dad and i winterized the garden, but mostly my dad
my mom wore a rockin-awesome, hip-out-your-mind outfit to the birthday dinner (coordinated by me: cold-turkey t-shirt, jeans, jen's gola shoes and my orange corduroy jacket.)
i got to see al and esther and emma
i got to see the paul taylor dance company (rather fun, to say the least)
i got to see vivian and becky and erin. i got to meet ben.
i got to see joanna newsom live. AMAZING!
i got to make new friends with an old acquaintance. (or at least try)
i saw jen suflita!!! (it has been ages since i slept in her bed in my sister's dorm room while she was off hiking in the mountains)
i got to talk to my brothers-in-law on the internet
i got to eat my third meal from lunch with the ever enchanting rennie (but that was yesterday... yesterday was fun too.)

goodnight, children.