today’s my dad’s birthday! i called to say hi and wish him happiness at 7 am just before i got in the shower and just after i finished my lit paper on shelley & wordsworth. i wish it had at least been a jazz paper in his honor! i wrote his card the first or second week i got to school so i would be prepared to mail it on time no matter how busy i was this week, but i ended up forgetting it and forgetting it and forgetting it anyway, so it didn’t get into the box until about 11:30 last night! so that didn’t go out until this morning. wonder if it will get there on time?
speaking of wordsworth, the guy really had to become a poet, didn’t he? with a moniker like that, he didn’t have much of a choice. but it is tough to get scriptive (that’s not a word, but it should be) and write his name into prose. i don’t think it would be good form to say “wordsworth’s words.” of course, i was tempted several time during the course of my all-nighter to actually write “pardon the pun” in my text. i think “wordsworth’s words” would have been preferable. maybe if i hadn’t thought so darn hard about how to avoid both phrases i wouldn’t have a headache right now!
snack time in commons today was apple cider and donuts. are they trying to rip off M&C’s and play it off as an afternoon thing? well, that’s ok, b/c the donuts here were way better than the mhc ones ever were, even before i tried to eat 15 of them in one night and permanently ruined them for myself!
if my camera weren’t broken, and if it was logically possible, i would take a picture of the weather today. it’s 77 degrees out and the sun in shining, but not beating down, and the breeze is blowing up the hill. but the best thing is the smell. why don’t they bottle it? why can’t my room smell balmy instead of like the chicken soup i ate last week? seriously. it’s like spring, but the air’s a little cooler, not too dry but not too wet, the earth and the pavement are all warm and you can practically smell the sunshine. really, the smell of warm weather is pretty common. happens every spring! but every single day that i smell it i’m just obsessed and i probably inhale 700% more oxygen than i need from sniffing the air around me.
i passed my swim test! well, i had technically already passed it, but not the way i wanted to, holding my nose and floating on my back for four lengths. yesterday i dove into the pool and swam all four laps with my face in the water.
quote of the day: “if i didn’t wake up, i’d still be sleeping. ” – yogi berra
love always, em locke
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