All alone and pumped and primed to work...if I don't fall asleep

Dearerst faithful blog readers.

Well I am EXCITED. It's officially reading week. I can work (yes, I still have to do TONS of homework due to my plethora of lengthy papers due in the few days after I get back to school) at my own leisure...and I'm actually ready to get to work. Funny, isn't it? I don't experience this feeling much. Maybe it's due to the fact that in one of my classes we're done studying one of our many novels in particular and I'm only half done reading it for myself. Oops. I guess it's good that I'm finally getting motivated. Better uh...late than never--haha.

Operating on: 6 hours of sleep. Got home at 1:30-ish but am convinced the clock is playing tricks on me b/c the next time I looked at it the clock read 3:00. How does time slip away SO quickly? Then my mom called me at 9 asking me to go to Grandma's for Dad's famous omelets at 10. Hence the 6 hours of sleep.

Glad, though: When I got to Grandma's Mom and Dad met me at the door and looked really excited and said, "Guess what?" Immediately I knew. Their offer on the house they're really interested in was accepted. MY PARENTS ARE MOVING TO REGINA FOR SURE!!! Possession is March 18th which is AWESOME. Did I mention I can't wait for them to get here? They're swell. And having them around means less expense for me :)

Slowly Going Blind: So when I say "less expense for me," I have a good example. So I'm slowly going blind due to the fact that this is month four for my one-month-disposable contacts and my eyes are frequently a little red or "dull" looking b/c of the grossness that tends to accumulate over 4 months of irresponsible contact-wearing. My dad took one look at me yesterday and said, "What's wrong with your eyes?" I snapped and said, "It's because I can't afford new contacts!" He snapped back and said, "You're ruining your eyes! I'll pay for new contacts. Go order some new ones!" I replied politely, "Thanks. I'll do that!" haha. I love my Dad.

All Alone: Trisha left about 1/2 an hour ago until next Sunday. That's over a week w/o her! And Amie's never around b/c, well, she's getting married. Nuff said. haha.

Left with my Books: So I'm reading Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It's a pretty trippy book. It's about a guy named Toru Okada who---well it's a 600 page book, so there's a lot I could say about him. But in general, it's weird but cool b/c there's so much that he experiences in the space of liminality--ex) in his dreams--that other people, when he's awake, have experienced as well. For example, Toru goes to think about life and reality and what it means to him in a well across the back alley from his house in Tokyo. When he's in the well he falls asleep and in his dream, passes through the seemingly gelatinous (sp?) wall of the well into some hotel room where a woman tries to protect him from somebody that's chasing him. Throughout the course of the novel after he's out of the well and is fully awake, Toru meets the woman that was in the hotel room with him and they discuss the happenings as though they actually happened. WEIRD.

Also this week I'm going to be reading another translated book, except this one is translated from Portugese. It's by Jose Saramago and it's called Blindness. It's trippy too. It's about a guy who, for some unexplained reason, wakes up blind one morning. He fumbles to the phone to call people in a panicked state and he goes and feels his way to the doctor's office down the street, etc. to try and get to the bottom of this weird phenomenon. He tries to no avail, and goes home at night to sleep. He wakes up the next morning and he's still blind. Not only is he just blind now, though, but so is everybody else whom he came into contact with the previous day. WOW...I can't wait. Should be good.

I also have to read a book this week for my Shakespeare class: Henry V. I really have to do this one well b/c I have to role-play Henry V in a debate in front of the whole class when I get back to class in a couple of weeks. Eek! My prof begged me to do it and I reluctantly accepted b/c I didn't want to let her down. MAN I'm a pushover.

Not to mention the books I'm reading for "fun." The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Eliot, and The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin (very interesting reading about JWs, Mormons, Eastern Rel'ns, etc.).

LAST NIGHT...was a blast. Lots of screaming, tho...haha...something to do with marshmallows and "Guess That Song"? Do you know anything about that Steph? haha... Got some great pictures of wet bums due to some most excellent glow-frisbee, and "Chug and Crush," the game that Kat has so affectionately named. haha...

Listening to...:The only two songs that I ever listen to these days...tres magnifique: "The Book of Love" by Peter Gabriel, and "All I Need" by Shawn McDonald. AHHH...now that's quality, folks!

Loving: LIFE! GOD! FRIENDS!

SO...I've officially done a REALLY good job of wasting my motivation for homework.

Here's Hoping...that I don't fall asleep in my REALLY comfy reading chair. AND I'm COUNTING ON hanging out with lots of you this week! 525-4284...use it!!! Looking forward to some good karaoke this week, and possibly some DDR at Ruckers or the Golden Mile?? Maybe for my birthday Wednesday? haha....we'll figure it out, ladies.

~Ciao!