i’ve been reading outside (wearing spf, of course) for most of the afternoon and now the sun has sidled off the deck and into the yard and i have come inside where it’s chilly and the shadows trick my eyes because my skin looks darker than it ever will be. my dad finished mowing the lawn and the scent of cut grass mixed with motor fuel and the rumbling and humming that played white noise on my ears while i finished my book is fading and i’m wondering where the summer came from. suddenly everyone is home from school and the library is closed on sundays and the bedroom doors blow open and shut all night when the breeze comes through the upstairs windows. and posts dated in february are still recent in my index because i’ve had nothing to write about!
i just finished blessings, which had such a good flow that i read it all in three days, but i feel like i skipped through it too quickly. i don’t have a very good picture of the characters in my mind, like i sketched them together without paying attention. but i have three more books to get to, since amazon rocks and my super saver shipping order arrived six days before it was scheduled to be shipped! next i’m starting reading lolita in tehran, which happens to be the common reading for mount holyoke‘s class of 2008. i don’t know if that makes me want to read it more or less.
last night everyone went out to dinner and to see troy in norwalk for lindsay’s birthday, which is officially on monday. i missed out on the dinner/movie sector of the evening because i was working until 7, of course, but i went to the gym and met up with lauren, emily and jess at the birthday girl’s house around 11. i stayed for an hour and a half and we compared and contrasted schools and talked about “breathign with positions” and then i came home and crashed so hard i don’t even remember putting my pajamas on.
quote of the day: “sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep” the smiths
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