i love only yeats.

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

i have yet to leave the house today. things that happened to me anyway:

- was accosted by two small girls named jade and jasna. i helped them type their mom a letter, since they were quite enamored with my computer. they also went through my cds and made me try on numerous pairs of earrings. i am so tired.

- blushed four times in three minutes. the word loser comes to mind... damn him! go away!

- a large bowl of chocolate ice-cream and a piece of marbled cheesecake JUMPED right into my mouth. i don't know how that happened.

- my parents called. dad discovered a guesthouse on fu xian lake. mom is not coming in august, after all. garrett and rosemary were wrestling. garrett told them to say hi from him, but rosemary did not. i will forever feel snubbed.

- my friend josh finished his last day of apartment-hunting, and he'll head back to kentucky tomorrow. he also wants to walk around campus tonight to get to know it, since he'll be here in the fall for his masters in english. i love that my friends are so smart. i will follow the ever-wise claudia's advice, and wear sneakers. i still don't want to go, though. do you KNOW how bleeding hot it's been here? but maybe it's cooled off. after all, how would i know?

here's to my new novel: my life as an urban hermit.

I have tried many new things this past week or two.

Number 1 - salsa dancing! I know, you're all collectively dying of shock. I had an offer I couldn't resist, though. ;) I was terrible - what's my famous quote again? Carol wrote it down, hold on...
"I look like a corpse on strings when I dance! or like a rhinoceros having a seizure!"
Still had a good time, though.

Number 2 - taking the driver's test! Not only taking the driver's test, but PASSING! Yeah, baby. Looking at the 17-day anniversary this afternoon. So, yes, I braved the evil DMV priestess and returned victorious.

Number 3 - sliding down a rain-slick hill on a trash bag. Okay, so this one wasn't quite as successful as the last two. After grinding to a halt a couple of times in the grass (and getting blades stuck up my nose), we decided to have roll-down-the-hill-as-fast-as-you-can-wearing-the-trash-bags-like-in-Garden-State races, instead. I lost.

Number 4 - not skinny dipping at New Smyrna Beach. I'm not sure how we could have forgotten, but we did...

Number 5 - tonight, all-you-can-eat sushi. Yes, of course, like any good Asian, I have had sushi on numerous occasions. I have not, however, been to the raw fish free-for-all that tonight promises to be. Wish me luck.

That's all for now, but I hope and pray that the list will lengthen with every passing day. It's dull not to learn new things.

Danielle tagged me, dagnabit.

Post five things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play. what lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? post it to your journal, and then tag 5 friends and ask them to post it to theirs.

1. writing something descriptive with a good pen, one that doesn't scratch. or reading it aloud - to myself.

2. listening to the ocean (and seashells don't count).

3. making a little kid laugh.

4. going fast with the windows down

5. playing my music AS LOUD AS I WANT!!!

Now i tag:
kate
katrina
tegan
star
asciiskull