Dear Life

Dear Life,

I finally got a picture of Mara:

It's Aaron's 19th birthday today (see photos of FHE group). Mara's been hard at work drawing him a picture of a "floating cake island" with crayons as a present. And I just got a call from his roommate inviting me, Mara, and Jill over for cake. Mm.

Mara finally did her dishes. There were a lot of them. (She usually waits until there's a small mountain in the sink.) I should've taken "before" and "after" pictures.

Neither Mara or I have done laundry yet.

Jill and I had a spontaneous party (aka "rave"- see Mara, I'm learning) last night which basically consisted of turning on her music really loud, closing all the blinds, turning off the lights and dancing like there was no tomorrow (she did most of the dancing).

I got a 93 on my Music 101 test yesterday. I was very happy; that's 17 percent up from my last test score.

Sent off a total of 4 letters since I got here. None of them addressed to home. (Sorry, Mom.) I feel accomplished. :)

Still sawing steadily away at the stack of home-cooked frozen dinners I received at the beginning of the semester from my lovely mother. I'm starting to worry if I don't eat them faster, frozen solid or not, they're going to go bad. Eating a (real) hamburger tonight. Yummy!

Sort of at a lull at work- today I interviewed a professor about Y Chem for a story I'm writing about them and then worked for a while on the story- it probably won't be finished for a week or so, but I made lots of progress. Looking forward to covering the alumni dinner Friday (though I'm still bummed I have to miss the hockey game)!