Things About Holly...

Song meme...

Shuffle your itunes and put up the first lines of the first ten songs that come up. Cookies to the people who can guess them. :-)

1. Every finger in the room is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces then I get afraid of what that could bring

2. This is no final solution
No this is just for today.
I'm running from london pollution still cold from the rain.

3. I am an American aquarium drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I'm hiding out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when I let go of you?

4. Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Susanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can’t remember who to send it to

5. You never give me your money
you only give me you funny paper
And in the middle of negotiation you break down

6. Don't get me wrong,
I'm feeling okay,
But when I'm without you
It's just not the same.

7. From the wrinkles on my forehead
To the mud upon my shoe
Everything's a memory
With strings that tie to you

8. I heat up, I can’t cool down
You got me spinnin’
’round and ’round
’round and ’round and ’round it goes
Where it stops nobody knows

9. I met you before the fall of Rome
And I begged you to let me take you home
You were wrong, I was right
You said goodbye, I said goodnight

10. I'm a high school lover, and you're my favorite flavor.
Love is all, all my soul.
You're my Playground Love.

I've decided I'm not going to keep this journal anymore, because I don't think it adds much, and I'd rather do my venting in private. I'll still read my friends page though.

Back in Richmond, which is happy. Ran into Pippa and Emily at the airport, and Chris was nice enough to pick us all up and drive us back, therefore avoiding the shuttle. I have a ton of work this week, but this is offset by at least being back in a setting I'm comfortable in and having bubble bath that Pippa bought me. :-) Sam is coming this weekend, so I'll bring him around to meet you all and we can collectively convince him that Earlham is worth going to.

Home and stuff.

Got in late last night. Got my hair cut this morning and am going out to dinner tonight with my parents. Hopefully you all got to wherever you were going safely. :-)

Tired as all hell, but much less stressed and much happier then earlier today.

Anyway,home tomorrow night through Sunday morning. I'll have my cell phone, so you all should call me and say hi.

Love you all. :-)

Went out and saw Shopgirl last night, which was really good. I feel like I'm the only one who's ever read the novella it's based on, but they did a really good job translating it visually. It was great to get off campus and feel like a real person again. :-) I will be around on campus at some point this weekend, as I am feeling better, but today I'll probably try and work on my poetry paper and stuff. If anyone wants to hang out, give me a call on my phone.

So I've figured out my summer employment stuff, and it turns out I've found a way to stay in the midwest after all. I'm going to be working at my uncle's resturant in Ohio the whole time, which is about four hours away from here. He needs a lunch cook and a pastry chef, so it's perfect. Whether I will get any time off to see anyone else is yet to be determined, but if anyone else is going to be around in this area during the summer, they should let me know. :-)

On a seperate note, if I've seemed bored/annoyed/depressed the last few days, it's just because I'm sick. I'm planning on actually going to student health today about it, even if it's just a virus and they can't do anything.

For the last week, I've been getting up at 8 am every day, eating at least two meals a day, and getting at least seven hours of sleep. This has to be the healthiest I've been in years. I realized that I'd only had one small cup of coffee today, and I felt awake anyway. Now if I can manage to start working out, everything will be perfect.

I've had a surprisingly good morning already. Someone in one of my classes told me they thought I was one of the more intelligent people in the class, and one of the women in SAGA told me I could take a coffee mug with me if I wanted, because I seemed nice enough to bring it back. Considering I feel like I exude tiredness and sulleness most days, this felt like a compliment.

P.S. Is there anyone out there who feels like trying to get to the Ben Folds concert next month in Oxford? He's playing at Miami University, but I don't have a car, and I don't know anyone else who likes him. I figured I'd put it out there just in case.

Nothing really new, actually.

Have a poetry paper due on Friday. Argh. I'm really nervous about it.

Chris is getting a virus. Again. Which probably means I will get sick again.

But things are generally going really well. Which is great-this semester so far has been great.

Valentine's Day is in a couple weeks. For some reason it doesn't seem like such a big deal this year. Is that good or bad?

So I spent the first part of this week with the stomach flu. And then my chronic fatigue syndrome decided to start kicking my butt. It's delightful. All I do now is get my work done, and sleep. I need to put some better(read as non-SAGA food) in me, but I'm too tired to go to the store, or cook.

Blah. *whines*

On a totally nice note though, Chris found last.fm radio for me! Free streaming radio, with personalized stations. This was clearly invented for music nuts like me(Jason, you should check this site out too. They have an Elliott playlist which involves him and lots of Nick Drake).

I also cleaned today, so we have a very nice looking floor. The fact that we have a floor at all is kind of impressive though, considering how messy we both normally are.

More news later, when I feel better.

So Chris and I were talking about study habits earlier, which really frustrates me, as he does half the work I do and gets better grades. He explained it like this:

"I am the ninja of academics. I figure out the fastest way to do it, and then get it done as quickly and efficently as possible. You study on principle, so you see an A, and you decide to go batter down whatever is in your way until you get it. You're the rape and pillage kind of academic." :-)

I'm leaving this entry for Jason, if he reads this, which I'm not sure about. In any case:

Thank you for the flower e-mail! It was wonderful, and made me feel a lot less miserable with the flu. *lots of hugs*

Back to Earlham tomorrow. I'll be getting in around 7 pm, if everything goes well. See you guys soon!

I actually had a lot of fun. I ended up hanging out at Sam's house, which was nice. I got to see some people from highschool I hadn't seen for a long time who I had remembered being very cool, like Diane. And seeing Sam is always good. I really miss having him around; he really is like the brother I never got, and I miss having someone to talk to who is family-close. Hopefully I'll get to see him on Saturday as well, and he might come visit at school. All of these things would be nice.

Overall, this year has been good. I have good friends at school, people who really care about me. I'm glad to be going back to school, as I miss my Earlham friends a lot.

I'll see you guys in a week!

I finished my Christmas shopping, which is the earliest I think I've ever been done. My mom and I took on the crowds at the mall tonight, and I finished getting all the stuff I wanted for people. I'm going to get all the stuff for the Earlham people after break, since I won't see you all until January 9th.

Home is not as bad as I remembered. I've been sleeping until noon each day, so my body(and my chronic fatigue syndrome) is happier with me than usual. I haven't felt well rested in awhile. I have to go to the doctor again next week, but other than some routine bloodwork and muscle tests, it shouldn't be bad.

My family gets here tomorrow, but apparently they all leave on Monday, which means at least they won't be here for two weeks.

I haven't called my computer in to Dell yet, but at some point I'll get up the patience to deal with them on the phone for a few hours and get my computer mailed in so it can get fixed.

So, in short, surviving the holidays okay so far. I miss Earlham, my friends, and Chris, but I'll be back there soon enough.

So I've actually been home for a few days, but I haven't gotten a chance to update before we had to go to New York with 20 other family members. Too much family is a bad thing, I have decided. Eric ended up coming to the Messiah performance with me, which was fun, and then crashed at my house overnight and took a train back to MA. My family comes back on Thursday, so I"m trying to get as much fun in before then as possible. If you would like to help me accomplish this, and you live in the area, call me and we can get together.

I am skipping my doctor's appointment today due to my awful migraine and neckache. My mother is going to throw a fit when she finds out I didn't go, but I really can't drive when my head hurts like this, and I'd rather go and sleep until I have to go to dinner in Philly. Tomorrow is my last day to relax, because my family gets here tomorrow night, and then I'll be cooking until Saturday. My parents are taking me out for a birthday dinner tonight, which will be nice though, and it means I get to wear my new fancy dress my mom bought me.

Off to clean the kitchen and sleep now...

5 Things That Make Me Happy:

-Chris
-the fact that I am feeling much less sick this week
-my kitty back home, because he is super cute.
-My friends, because I'd forgotten how cool they were
-My parents, who despite their awkwardness sometimes, really do love me.

So I will be home about 10:30 tomorrow night, and I'll be leaving next Sunday afternoon, the 27th(also the day of my birthday. All of the Delaware people should call me so I can see you during my week there! Right now, I am going back to packing...:-)