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I just love my Aunt Donna. 

Last week I was sick in bed for four days. This week Aunt Donna was sick with, we assume, the same virus/flu/touch of death that afflicted me. So today, to cheer her up, I went to her house. I got a cup of coffee, she got a cup of tea, and we sat on their gigantic couch together with the intent of watching Downton Abbey. The movie started, and literally five minutes into it, we paused it so I could go to the bathroom.

Four hours later the movie was still paused at the same spot. We had talked from 2:00 to 6:00, all the while staring at the TV screen that had a lady's dressing maid on it. She had terrible hair too. It looked like some sort of animal had died on top of her head. As much as I love movies, I think I'd take a good conversation over them any day--especially if the person I was talking to was Aunt Donna.

Countdown

SO! I am on my last Spring Break of undergrad. right now.

Our tickets for Italy have been purchased, and I will be on the plane when the rest of my graduating class is sitting in a stuffy auditorium waiting to receive their diplomas. I think I definitely have the upper hand in this situation.

Here is the villa we'll be staying at for part of our time in Italy.

http://www.molinomeocci.com/

 

IMSOPLZD

I was driving on the Interstate to school the other day, and I passed a car with a license plate that read:

MTHRSMLK

I was very confused by this but also incredibly pleased to have come across such a cultural gem. The driver of the car was a black woman who looked to be in her 50s or 60s. What an unexpected surprise!

Just Some Fillers

I suppose you could say that school is in full swing now. 

The Winter term class I was taking is now over, and I got an A (yayyyy for me).

My short story for my fiction class is due in a week, and it's not quite done, but I like where it's going. Here's a preview--the opening line: "If you love me, you'll eat that Skittle." Riveting, no?

The history class I'm taking was (I thought) going to be my easy class this semester, but the professor began our last meeting by saying that, as of this coming Thursday, he will no longer be teaching the class. This means there will be a new professor taking over, and I will have to re-evaluate my strategy for the class. Damnation.

Hannah, you should be pleased. I have started working out for an hour two times a week, and my time at the gym involves some running. However, last Thursday, after I was through with the bodily torture, I went to El Carreton and drank a 24 oz. margarita to congratulate myself on a jog well done. Whoops.

Ohhhhhhh yes, before I forget. My trip to Italy with my aunt has now reached a certainty. We're going the second week in May (two weeks after I graduate college)! Also, my uncle has decided that he's coming with us on this trip that originally was just supposed to be me and Aunt Donna. BUT as a consolation prize, he's going to buy my plane ticket for me! So, all in all, the only things I'm going to have to pay for on this entire vacation to Italy will be souvenirs! Hell to the yes.

Back to Reality

I can't believe that Christmas Break is already over, and I start my last semester of college in two days. What!

Hannah came home for two weeks over break, and I think I walked on a cloud the whole time she was here. I didn't realize I could miss any one person that much--my little ray of sunshine. Believe it or not, with me here in North Carolina, and she in Seattle, Washington, thousands of miles away, we got each other the EXACT same Christmas present--a yellow coffee cup from World Market. I think this makes it official that we are two halves of the same person.

"Au Dessous Du Volcan" by Yann Tiersen

I'm Persuaded that:

Sunrises and sunsets are the earth's heartbeat.

"Sun Hands" by Local Natives

No thanks, Band Wagon

I guess I'm reaching that age where all of my friends from high school are getting married and having kids (not necessarily in that order). Within the past month, perhaps less, no fewer than four girls from my high school class have gotten engaged, and there is nothing funnier than the post-engagement pictures they post. Please note the crazed looks in the girls' eyes.