exit, pursued by a bear

I don't really have much to say tonight.
except that I'm really excited because I bought a huge Disney princess coloring book for the plane trip today!!! I already colored the first picture, of Cinderella and Jaq and Gus-Gus. I'm very very very very excited to color it more on the plane!

we spent almost the entire afternoon shopping. but I'm almost completely packed. a few more clothes to pull together (including a trip to Goodwill tomorrow), and those last-minute things like toilettries and whatnot. but I'm feeling a lot better. I found a classroom clock and Bingo cards that focus on colors and shapes. The Oreos and goldfish crackers are bubble-wrapped and in my suitcase. I'm set. just five or six more lesson plans to write over the next two days, and dozens of flashcards to print, and Bingo number cards to make. easy as pie.



I made my mom help me decide which books to take. between my Bible, Hindi books, and pleasure books, I had way too many. and I wanted to take like five in my carry on. which obviously doesn't work so well.
ultimately she forced me to give up a Tale of Two Cities in favor of Nicholas Nickleby. she said I couldn't have both. it was one or the other.
talk about an ultimatum.

so I grabbed the ToTC bookmark and stuck it in NN. if I can't have the book, at least I can have my picture of Sydney Carton looking like an absolute hero with the guillotine in the background. I can dream about him. :P *sigh*

I swear, I'm getting so mushy lately. so middle-school-HSM-girl-ish. today we went and got our blood pressure taken (my mom and I) at the fire station. by a big, buff, really cute fireman. it was very nice. I told my mom "we should do this more often."
but I am convinced (in my perfectly-ordered, optimistic, fairy-tale mind) that there is a Sydney Carton out there for me. I may never find a Mr. Darcy. I'm resigned to the fact that such a perfect man does not exist outside of Austen (this is why we re-read Pride and Prejudice so many times). so I've discovered, all men have their flaws. okay, fine.
so now my solution is to find the most screwed up man there is (aka Sydney Carton), have him fall desperately and irrevocably in love with me, and when I blow him off without realizing what I'm missing (in order to marry Mr. Prince Charming with absolutely no depth of character), he will completely reform and end up dying for my happiness, thus acquitting himself of all past sins.


good solution?
bah. I think I shall end an old maid, and teach all of your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.









this morning my dad took me out for breakfast, to Denny's. it was pretty awesome. Denny's is where we used to go when I was little, and we haven't been in years. every now and then, when I went in to work with him, he would take me to Denny's as a surprise. it was kind of our own special place to go.
so it was nice that nowadays, even though I'm being a stupid 17-year old and he's been a teenager's father (who by rule knows absolutely nothing), we could go and have a date and make jokes like old times. and it wasn't even awkward. talking is a good thing, though increasingly rare these days.



afterwards, we went to the school to have a meeting with some person in running start about my books and blah blah blah. not important. except that we got my booklist, and some of my books. for Shakespeare we're reading Titus Andronicus and Winter's Tale. I'm happy about that because those are practically the only ones I really don't know anything about.
though by the end of the quarter I may not like them one bit, knowing how college teachers can sap the magic right out of just about anything.
in Intro to Novels, we have like seven books. it's ridiculous. Two are short ones by Dostoyevsky; those should be good. and we're doing Persuasion, which I'm unbelievably excited about! then a bunch of other random ones that really look no good at all. today I wasted a good $14 on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. killed my Barnes and Noble gift card. *sadface* I read the intro and that alone used some pretty awful language and seemed to be taking the story line absolutely nowhere. one of the other books - a nice long one, of course - looks equally uninteresting and inappropriate. there's a couple of others I've never heard of that I haven't had a chance to look up yet. I'm thinking though, that SparksNotes may become my new best friend for a couple of these books. bleh........



anyway, on to happier subjects. after that meeting, Cosi called and we talked for a good hour and a half, between me and my mom. it'll be the last time I talk to her before she comes, since I leave Saturday. she's really excited to come, but she told me it still doesn't seem real. she's going to school every day with her friends (in Germany summer break is already over) and she can't believe that in a week's time she'll be in New York. crazy.
but we're all very excited for her to get here. and I'm constantly reminding her not to eat all the Nutella while I'm gone, or I'll be very upset.




*sigh* I'm ready for bed. so, so, so ready for bed. tonight there will be no alarm clock, and the curtains shall be closed. the last thing I need to do is exhaust myself and get sick right before I leave. there is some stupid cold/flu bug going around that I really don't want. I'm hoping that barricading myself indoors for the next two days will do the trick. I'll take one of those nasty Airborne tablets before I leave Saturday morning.




*another sigh* goodnight, world!