sorry for the recent lack of updates; it's just been really difficult to sort things out, put words to all these incomprehensible thoughts colliding across my mind, much less find the energy to post...
thursday i just stayed home. there was school. i did not attend it. my head was just pounding, i didn't even want to lift it from my pillow. i slept until 230 in the afternoon. it was glorious, and very much needed/deserved. i had a myriad of bizarre dreams... among them the driving-off-a-bridge dream, the getting-shot-in-the-back dream, and also one in which i explored antarctica. tres cool.
i spent the afternoon lost in borders, and walked out eventually with atonement by ian mcewan. i havent been able to put it down - it just absorbs you right into the text - and this is not good because i'm supposed to read heart of darkness this weekend for english. that books depresses the hell out of me for some reason.
friday there was no school so i went to work for the day.
i was fortunate enough to spend friday night with lauren and corey!! fabulous company, we dined at fresh city and dished about the college search. afterwards it was back to laurens where we spend some quality time with her brother (on spring break from brown) and his friend (on spring break from providence college) as well as her mom, dad, and three dogs. we sat lazily on the couch and watched BodyFit, some 1980's fitness video i found in the darker recesses of a basement closet (they are currently in the midst of installing a home theatre) starring a 50 year old version of twiggy in a pink spandex body suit and a mane of blond hair. it was FUCKING HILARIOUS. especially lauren's imitations and word for word citations!
this afternoon we planned our summer trip. we're leaving the 17th of june. we're going to spend 4 days in london, then fly to madrid (where we'll spend 5 days) then taking a train to seville and barcelona for 2 days, then heading back up north to valladolid (ines' town) for 2 days, then my family is heading back to madrid and i'm staying with ines until it's time to come back on the 7th. all of this works out wonderfully because i'll be home for the dave matthews shows in massachusetts on the 9th and 10th.
oh, sweet summer.
this afternoon ryan and i walked around the pc campus for a little over an hour. i don't really have much of a choice - looks like i'm starting there in the fall. the students are currently on spring break, and it was a gorgeous day, so we seized the moment and just meandered between the old and new brick buildings aimlessly... bumped into a man and woman (early 30's?) who we discovered were alums. they had met each other in the library and married a few years after graduating. he spent his junior year studying at oxford and later returned to england and received two masters. he now is a tenured professor. his wife went on to law school. i was pleased to hear that the guy had attended high school at classical, also in providence, and said that living at pc was like living a world away from home. which is good.
remind me that this is for the best, okay?
afterwards we saw our homeless friends (robert and brian), so we made them a nice lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cookies, chocolate, yoo-hoo's, grahm crackers, and marshmallow peeps. brian was out asking for some dough by the exit ramp, but robert was very grateful, i could see it in his eyes. poor things. "vaya con dios."
tomorrow we're having easter at my house but my mom is letting me escape to galilee and spend the afternoon at rye's beach house, which is sure to be jolly good. i haven't been to the beach in too long. i need to breath the salty air.
also last week i got into boston college.
kbye.