pea-can pie and other things

Today is my last day at home before I head back to Luther and kick off the Christmas at Luther Week From Hell festivities. Three hour rehearsal tomorrow night............... Yay.
Anyway, Thanksgiving was lovely. We had less people at the house than we normally do, but the food was spectacular, as usual, and the pies... Oh, the pies. I think I must have eaten half my weight in pie on Thursday night.
Saw some old friends, went to my high school football game (undefeated!), took a few late night trips to Kroger for bagel bites and movies, annual Christ our Shepherd chili supper, TCBY, Mike and C's, Tech/UGA football, Brenda and Alex. Good break. :-)

Musings about being home:

I stood in the Minneapolis airport waiting to catch a flight (On the F concourse, thankfully. None of that B-concourse Narnia nonsense.) and texted Dan Fernelius, "Is it weird that I miss Luther already and haven't even gotten on the plane yet?"
For the first time in a long time, it was weird to walk in my house. As soon as I stepped in, it smelled like summer and it absolutely scared the shit out of me. I contemplated running away that night.
But thankfully, I survived the first day of being home for the first time in 3 months, and remembered how awesome it is to be spoiled by showers with excellent water pressure, fridges full of delicious food, and my mother's debit card.
I don't know, you know? It was weird being home, but at least I got this visit first awkward visit out of the way and so when I come home again in December, I'll know what to expect. I am a lot stronger than I think I am - I guess this summer and the first couple months at school toughened me up for onslaught of emotions that awaited me when I got back to Atlanta. It's all good, though. I am alive and well and looking forward to going back to Luther for another couple of weeks. Anyway, lots of things to look forward to for December. There's Christmas at the Dietmeyer's which is always lovely, and Laura's getting married on New Year's Day (I'm the MOH). Then after the wedding? One word, baby: Vienna.

My list of things to be thankful for:

Home and family and friends
Green Bean casserole
Pianos
the Windham Hill Thanksgiving album
Hot Chocolate
Debit cards
candle light
hair cuts
email
birthday cards
you


Me and the short hair.



Happy Thanksgiving, ya'll. :-)

lexical morphology in agrammatism

Linguistics and I are just not getting along very well these days.
We have a giant project due Tuesday... it's 7:37pm on Saturday, November 20th, and I have nothing done. Well, that's not entirely true. I do have two articles and a vague hypothesis, as well as 80 minutes left in the library to get something done.


That code of conduct link that I posted from Stumbleupon in the last post? Love it. Especially #19: You will always succeed in trying. The past two weeks have been ______ (I can't think of the right word)- trying to get work done, trying take care of myself, trying to keep people happy, trying to be a leader for an hour and half every day and give 1000% each time even when I don't even have 50% to give. Add in trying to get 8 hours of sleep every night and trying to see my friends every once in awhile, and it's just a recipe for heartache and exhaustion. That's where I am right now.

And yet, in the midst of this mess, I can still come up with a list of wonderful things:

1. Harry Potter premiere
2. Maroon 5
3. www.rockyourday.com
4. getting homework done 12 hours before class :-)
5. high of 48°F and the first (unofficial) snow
6. Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
7. Dan Fernelius
8. pumpkin pie in the caf
9. checking things off my super long to-do list
10. COFFEE
11. singing and dancing the Berries & Creme song with Mara
12. StumbleUpon
13. aerobics
14. getting my sister's wedding invitation in the mail


I'm so ready for a break in 3 days. Not sure how I feel about going home, but I will be excited to listen to the Windham Hill Thanksgiving album with my dad, play Nancy Drew computer games, see my awesome cousin Erik Johnson when he comes home from West Point, should I just start another list? :-)
It will be nice to jam out to tunes in my mom's giant blue van while I drive to CFA or Kroger. Looking forward to real pumpkin pie and my real ginormously (enormous + giant + Level 1 suffix -ly = [A]) wonderful bed. I'll get to see Brenda and continue our epic Bitchin' & Wine Club while we watch the Home Shopping Network and make paper roses. Golf cart rides and arguing with my sister about who's going to take the kiddos for a ride. Gah I love Thanksgiving.

What else...

Tomorrow starts my mega awesome 3-day marathon of work. Here's what tomorrow looks like:

8am: Wake up, coffee, shower
9am: German homework, Linguistics poster, theory composition
10:45am: Joe Carey rehearsal
12pm: Jazz Orchestra lunch
1pm: Chamber Orchestra call time
2pm: LCCO concert
4pm: Jazz Orchestra concert
6pm: Dinner with the grandparents
8pm: change, homework
10pm: Joe Carey recording
12am: sleep.

Want to see Monday? I don't think you do. Tuesday? Ha.

Wish me luck.

harry, sally, and staying in bed all day

Today is a Sunday. It is also the second consecutive day that I have spent in bed due to illness. Just kinda sitting here, waiting for it to go away. It's the worst kind of illness, the kind that when you're laying down or sitting somewhere you feel fine and you think that you can get up and do stuff. But as soon as you stand up and move around, you're forced to sit back down cause the wooziness is too much to handle. I'm supposed to have 2 rehearsals today, too. This is The Suck.

So what is new with me...

I feel like I'm finally embracing my "projectness." I'm in a place where I am absolutely forced to take care of myself totally on my own, and it's good. It sucks, but... it's really good for me. All of my attachments are transforming themselves into fond memories, at least for right now. I can't say how things will be in a month or two, but right now I am glad for more Fond Memories and less Attachments.

I've been throwing myself into school and violin in the past couple of weeks. Kinda seems like me being sick is the outcome of overextending myself, but that's okay. I've hit both extremes on the Productivity Spectrum this semester, and hopefully I will find my way to a balance. SAC Spotlight had its final event this Friday night - Battle of the Bands! It went really well, I think. Six bands and about 350 people in the audience, Top Banana, a fabulous committee. All in all a good event. Theo and I were supposed to have an Eval Party today to finish all of our event evaluations, but we can't cause I'm stuck here in bed.

What else...

Oh man. A good friend just dropped off a giant carton of OJ and a sandwich from the co-op. Life is good.


I'm addicted to Stumbleupon. Some of my favorites:

love this

life hacks

orgasmic

:-)

life code of conduct


Happy Daylight Savings Time! :-)

level-ordering in lexical development

I'm in Oneota, participating in one of my favorite past times:
Drinking coffee and writing a paper.
I have approximately one hour to finish it, and I will be so happy if I can actually achieve that.
So why am I on Blogger?
Wanted to get a head start on this caffeine high I feel coming on and do some random writing. Also, I wanted to point out the large cup of coffee in the background of my blog. I think it's fabulous.

I just recently started drinking coffee on occasions other than Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I don't know how I made it through my 20 years of living with out it. My 16 oz Breakfast blend that's sitting in front of me reminds me of this one time at handbell rehearsal when I was a freshman in high school, and Davis Grisham was telling my sister that she was going to have back problems and stay super short if she kept drinking as much coffee as she did. I used to agree with him because I hated the taste of coffee. Seems my mind has been changed, though. Perhaps it is an acquired taste, like olives. Still haven't managed to get over my fear of olives - mostly because my father once told me they tasted like chocolate, and when I tried one, I discovered that he was very, very wrong.

It is starting to get very chilly here in Decorah, and I am glad to say that I have all the appropriate Fall/Winter gear now, so I'm not suffering as much as I did last year. I remember the cold being one of the reasons I wanted to transfer... Silly Karla. Just put more clothes on. Suck it up. :-)

One more random digression, and then I have to power out this essay.

Growing up sucks. I think I've finally come to terms with the fact that there will always be emotional inconsistencies, and it's my job to handle them with grace and zero drama as much as I can, no matter how much it hurts. Just have to keep on keeping on.

Shout out to Theo Adwng and Erika Lord... Thanks for being my comic relief. :-)

Linguistics paper.... Ready go!