delight in life

everybody, this is jerrell.

Jerrell is one of my coworkers and friends. He is super cool. And he's a really talented photographer. He has a website where you can look at his photos! Go look!

Jerrell's senior photography show is next week, but lucky for me, he's not graduating next week. He's staying for another year to entertain me while we work.

if you've got ten pounds of potato and a five pound bag...

I think summer vacation is a really wonderful invention, especially now that we don't have to go till the fields or harvest the crops.  Honestly, what do people in the real world have to look forward to?  If I had to work as hard as I have been this semester without a long stretch of sunny fun tantalizingly out of reach, I'd be one seriously burned out girl.

As it is, I just keep eating one potato at a time, and counting down the days.

seriously, channel five. WHAT IS THE DEAL.

Today was Office Thursday. I've been looking forward to Office Thursday since Friday.  I woke up this morning and in my excitement over both Office Thursday and finishing my paper last night, I wore something OTHER than a t-shirt today. That is a really big deal.

We went to Molly and Hiram's to watch it and at 7:56 we flipped to channel five. Instead of the tail end of 30 Rock, we were looking at a big ugly Doppler radar screen.  Because it was raining outside.  And THE LOCAL NEWS IN ALL ITS WISDOM decided they needed to stand in the rain and tell us it was raining.

Granted, it was a lot of rain, but come on! We weren't even under a tornado watch!  And if I'm not hiding in the bathroom because of the weather outside, then it is not severe weather.  (I frighten easily when it comes to bad weather.  I cried all the way through The Day After Tomorrow and watched most of it through my fingers.) So seriously. It was NOT WORTH THE FUSS.  It most certainly was not worth the half-hour-plus of fuss.

And now I have to spend tomorrow avoiding The Watercoolers of the Internet so I don't accidentally hear what happens.  At least I don't also have to avoid The Watercoolers of the Real World.  That would be just too much to handle.  Curse you, Channel Five!

there should also be balloons and cupcakes.

I've always thought it would be really nice if there were a little committee that sat nearby while you were writing a paper.  The committee's sole job would be to cheer raucously for you when you finished the paper.  The later at night you finish, the louder they cheer.

That would be real motivation for finishing.  Only one and a quarter pages before people clap for me!

well, obviously.

Six or seven rounds into the silliest game of 20 questions I've ever played:

Hiram: Okay, I got one. It's a thing.
Leah: Is it larger than a breadbox?
Hiram: Yes.
Chris: Does it have a wonder twin named Jan?
Hiram: No.
Chris: Oh, I know. Is it love?

FULL RECOVERY!

be real.

I just read John Mayer's latest blog post, and I think it is something worth sharing.

I'm not the first person to admit we're all self conscious, Kanye was. But what I want to do is to shed a little light on why we're all in the same boat, no matter the shape of the life we lead: because every one of us were told since birth that we were special. We were spoken to by name through a television. We were promised we could be anything that we wanted to be, if only we believed it and then, faster than we saw coming, we were set loose into the world to shake hands with the millions of other people who were told the exact same thing.

...

Act nervous when I'm nervous, puzzled when I don't know what the hell to do, and smile when it all goes my way. And never in any other order than that.

Sounds like a good plan.

[you should read the whole thing here.]

it's good to be still sometimes

After a crazy whirlwind weekend in the whirlwindiest city of all (New York!), which followed a hectic, busy week, it is really fabulous to be sitting on the floor, miraculously without any homework to do, watching some baseball.

And wow, this sure-thing game for the Astros just got really exciting. Love baseball.

it appears i've got spring on the brain.

Just glanced at my recent flickr favorites, and this is what I saw. 9 flower pictures, 10 pictures with lots of yellow, and 6 pictures of yellow flowers.

What can I say? I guess I just know what I like.

1. red, blue and *some* green, 2. hello spring, 3. film.171, 4. yellow flowers, 5. Hoppipolla, 6. January 20, 7. Fresh Blooms, 8. Untitled, 9. yellow :: weeds, 10. Hello Sunshine Necklace, 11. daffodils, 12. sdsunflowers

rabbit, rabbit

This is my Google calendar today. Gotta love a company with a sense of humor. (Hopefully they'll keep it when they do actually succeed in taking over the world.)