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Finally! The weather has shown its chilly face!

I'm such a huge sucker for colder weather. Mainly because I can turn my heat on in my apartment and feel all snug and... warm. I dunno -- there's just something about the cold, frigid (snow-filled, hopefully) air blowing against my windows while I'm inside the glow of my third-floor apartment that makes me smile. Maybe it's a testament that I feel accomplished in being able to have an apartment with bills and food costs while juggling work and school and life and all that.

I'm so sososo ready for winter.
I'm at my parent's house right now -- and being called to help make some green-bean dish! I'll write more later. It's been awhile y'all -- how are things?

Home-fries, I'm going back to Livejournal.

http://pingly.livejournal.com

Hit me up there! Add me, also, and I'll add you back.

So, I may have mentioned before how I wanted to screen-print a design onto a t-shirt?

Well, my mom sent me some of her clean panty-hose yesterday (yeah, really -- she even wrote on the envelope that they were clean), so they could act as the screen for this little endeavor. So I decided that instead of studying I would do it. The process took awhile, man.

I'm a dumb-ass because I purchased BLOCK PRINTING INK and not the ink for FABRIC. What was I thinking -- I think I was blinded by the brand and instantly thought 'oh this is what I need' when perusing Art Mart. So after my labors, and the design is on the shirt, I will never ever be able to wash it because the ink comes right off, and I'm not exactly happy with the placement of the bird.

Thankfully this weekend I'm heading to Columbia and picking up some proper ink, and a new white t-shirt and I'll do it again. Correctly this time, and maybe with a stencil instead of panty-hose because I feel that that was unneccesary to use and overly complicated. Next time I'll take pictures so I can show you all.

I like the colors in this theme.

So I took about a twenty minute nap, and don't really feel refreshed even though I also took a twenty minute shower when I woke up. Maybe having dinner in a half hour will help. I'm hoping this is the case because I need to get a bunch done tonight, but all I want to do is sleep. I'm hoping that as a result of this week being so busy my thanksgiving break will be nice and relaxing. Please let this be so! Ahh!

I put up some calligraphy  on my wall that my sister did last year--I should really look up what each thing means because people will probably ask, but oh well. They're special to me regardless of their meaning. I've become very social with people all of the sudden in that I've been making plans for lunch and dinner all week, and then am traveling with people to Columbia (Missouri) to shop and such this Saturday. I think this is a both good and bad thing. I'm fine with being social, but I like being alone as well. Right now I'm kind of foggy from my lack of sleep and too short nap, so I need to go walk around outside for fifteen minutes and then meet a friend for dinner. Mmm.

So I'm cross-posting stuff to my livejournal now, so people over there know I'm still alive.

That's all -- this week is going to be horrendously busy. Update later because I have class now!

I can't really fall asleep right now. I've been reading for awhile--I really like how James Baldwin writes.

let's take off
all our bobbles and pretenses
and flicker around
our shrouded rooms
filled with morning dew and soft sighs

we'll fall asleep
tugging on fantasy
and funneling
queer views

throughout the interm
sighing
all over

(Not a product of James Baldwin, but of me... on this early Sunday morning when I should be sleeping since I have to drive back to college tomorrow).

Her divine coffee-colored hair
Her blaring, confidant laughs ricocheting off the classroom walls
Her supple skin—
There she relaxes in front of me.

Her prinked rosy face,
With her quick, unexpected winks
Her vivacious spirit
Like soda foam tickling my mouth

Her smooth revealing skirts showing
Flesh, pink and peeking,
Her form-fitting shirt emblazoned—Lightning.
Will this hour not end?

I wrote this last year for creative-writing. We had to incorporate lightning somehow. I wanted to post some poetry since I haven't in awhile, and I think one of the original purposes for this bloggity blog was to put my writing out there for general critiques and constructive opinions because I'm all about improvement and people are more honest when they can't see the person they're critiquing (that and they don't know them as well).

So I was on a walk tonight, and my ipod died. You know, the little sad ipod face came up and everything, which basically means it's hopeless and needs to be replaced. This blows hardcore because now I won't have my music with me wherever I go until I get it fixed. And I can't get it fixed until Thanksgiving because I would really rather not go home until then.

This'll be a good experiment to see how this unburdening of ear-buds and constant music affects my day-to-day. I'm apprehensive, but trying to look at the bright side. Maybe I've been too distracted by my music while moving around through the day, and this will be a good reprieve. Yes. This is how I must think about such events.

ARRIGHT. Let's start the count-down until Thanksgiving break!