So here I am, 1:34 in the evening, washing dishes and working on a blog post. I love being at school, but I mostly love living in the honors house. I would post pictures of the house, but I just realized I lost the cord to my camera (or rather, it is buried in one of my many bags)–so, pictures will come when I retrieve from whatever location it is currently located in.

Tonight was a fantastic night! I love the weekends at Alfred. It means time to get some work done, but mostly time to rest and rejuvinate. It is also the time for lots and lots of cooking, which is what I did some of today. While it might not seem a very complex or exciting thing to make (mostly because it isn’t), I made a nice pot of black bean soup tonight and shared it with two of my housemates and two guests. It was delicious! I picked up the beans from Kinfolk (a local co-op) and well, pretty much everything else I added into it (including some chipotle powder). Now, everyone seemed to like it well enough, but I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t thicker and spicier. I suppose next time I’ll have to keep that in mind while I am slaving away over the stove for all of the half an hour it took to prepare. (By the by, I am not a domestic person by any stretch of the imagination, so working on a meal for thirty minutes is actually quite a long while in my mind).

Oh! I also finished up a pair of handwarmers this week–I crocheted them. I’ll post a picture of those later too. Other than that I worked awhile on an essay for a class, did some reading, some hanging out watching a movie (bad eighties flick, actually–Lost Boys).

After dinner I went out with some other friends of mine, in particular a friend who was visiting from his internship, which was really fun. We had midnight Chinese take-out, which is always good for the soul. We also went to a concert at the Knight Club in the Campus Center. The band we came in the middle of, I can’t remember the name of, but the band that played after them (and that we stayed for a couple of songs) was named Deer and the Headlights. They weren’t bad. Not my style, particularly, but I enjoyed watching everyone fluttering around and getting jiggy with it.

Well, it is late and I still have some dishes to do, so I think I am going to run. I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend! I’ll be back soon with another entry.

Hello, hello!

I hope everyone is having a fabulous day. I am so far! Of course, it is only 10:18 in the morning, so I could have a complete reversal by the end of the day. I certainly hope I don’t. Yesterday I didn’t feel well, I think I had the beginnings of an ear infection, so that sort of ruined yesterday. Today, I feel much, much better.

So what has been up with me? I have been working on school work, as per usual. I wrote a sonnet this weekend for my Formal Poetry course, and I am still not quite sure I understand iambic pentameter. I am rather awful at poetry and the like, but at least I am trying. I have been slowly moving through Derrida’s “Archive Fever”, which is a really fascinating read, if you like theory (and I do believe, I do!). I’ve also been working on my personal statement for graduate school, which is really rather frightening and exciting all at once. Right now I am not ready to leave Alfred, but I suppose I might be by the end of the year (or more prepared, at the very least).

Well, I am going to run, but for my next entry I’ll bring shiny pictures along with me! I’ll show off the lovely Honors House, where I live.

Tootles, have a wonderful day!
Laura