I wish my life was as interesting as my dreams.

I’ve been having lots of strange dreams lately. I’ve had both of them during naps, and I skipped my American Literature class Tuesday in favor of taking a nap, and I’m glad I did. Was totally worth it.

Dream #1: This had to do with Pool Kitty, a young stray kitty that’s been loitering about Tower Park. Well, in my dream I finally caught Pool Kitty. My family (we were all living here for some reason) didn’t have a problem, and neither did Mogget or Coltrane. Then, I had some sort of weird rash all over my arms, so my dad took me to the pharmacy to get medicine and while we were waiting, the pharmacists came out and were like, “It’s your birthday tomorrow, you get ice cream!” So, they gave us ice cream. In a pharmacy. That medicine or ice cream didn’t cure my evil rash, so I said goodbye to my family and the kitties and headed to the hospital, and I ran into Tiffany there. We were both searching for the front desk, but we kept turning up in the same empty lobby no matter which door we went through. We finally got disgusted, and I suggested going to St. Joseph’s because they were awesome during my appendectomy. In the parking garage looking for her car, we couldn’t find it, and the dream ends there.

Dream #2: I was back home at my parent’s house for this one, and I needed to get to my History of England class because I thought we were going to be having the unannounced test that day. My brother Ben and I hop onto our bikes, go a little ways down the county road and there’s a terrible flood. We stand there for awhile, and I’m freaking out because I won’t be able to ride my bike through the flood and make it to class, and I didn’t think that my prof would believe me. My brother and I head back home, and there’s some sort of football game between Old Navy sweaters going on in the front lawn. Just the sweaters, no people in them. Playing football against each other. The end.

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I turned 21 yesterday, and since I’m not really interested in alcohol nearly as much as others my age, it was a pretty uneventful birthday. I did go out to dinner with Karen, and she bought me a drink. It tasted lovely even though the guy put way too much liquor in it, and I got to experience ordering booze at a restaurant. I was left with a terrible headache later, so I’m thinking that maybe my body is trying to tell me to stay away from alcohol. Tonight my friend Meghan and I are doing a small dinner at Olive Garden (her 21st was today!) and I may or may not order a drink. We’ll see.

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I feel proud of myself: I got a 98 on my anthropology test, which was the highest score in the class, and that was without a curve. Boo-yah.

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Tonight I get to see Kit, and tomorrow the Decemberists! Excited!!

A taste of fall, mushroom gardens and a little Southwest grunge.

After saying I’d post pictures of my lovely fall-esque pieces, here they are!

I LOVELOVELOVE these boots. They were my birthday present from Kit, and they weren’t really a surprise since I picked them out (and I got them about a month early!) I’m so ready for it to cool down a little bit more so I can actually wear them out to class. I can tell I’m going to wear these with everything.

Aren’t these fun? I got these on super clearance from Target. They remind me of hot apple cider, warm golden toffees, and the crispness of autumn. All in wearable shoe form, of course.

I promise, this looks a lot better on than it does just hanging off a hanger like this! The dress is a charcoal grey cotton jersey from Simply Vera and is super comfy. The nubby scarf is incredibly soft and warm! Another must for the chillly weather.

This dress is amazing. It was a Christmas gift from my mom last year, and she got it on super sale from Anthropologie. It’s incredibly comfy, and will be lovely in the darker chillier months ahead.

A closer shot of the detailing at the bottom- isn’t it lovely?

This is another one of my lovely fall finds, a plaid scarf on supersuper sale from The Gap. The shirt is my aunt’s vintage Billy Joel concert shirt (totally ancient- over 30 years old!). Note the red chunky hipster glasses: I usually don’t wear glasses, but since I’ve got pink eye I don’t really have much of a choice for the next week.

When I first moved in, I briefly considered putting some lovely pretty little flowers out there on my patio. But now that these dark, gloomy, poisonous looking fellows have moved in, I’ve grown fond of them.

Note how awesome the neon splendor of the Southwest scene on that shirt is. Crazy comfy! The shoes are Seychelles, a Valentine’s gift from Kit. The bracelet came in my goodie prize box from Miriah, the necklace is Urban Outfitters, and the lovely acid wash leggings came from the often disappointing Forever 21.

Oh, how time flies.

2 weeks have gone by already? Seriously?! I’m having a hard time believing I’ve been in school for two weeks. It’s just gone by so fast. Well, with that said I’ll start off with what I usually do with the start of every semester, which is talk about my classes. So, here goes:

Social Anthropology: Pretty interesting. I like the prof. That’s really all I can think to say on that.

History of England: I like this class. A lot. I don’t know if it’s because I love the professor (I’ve had him before), or just because the subject matter is so interesting to me, or because of both.

History of the Iberian World: Another awesome class- today I got to hold a 350 year old book. Pretty amazing, right? The professor is pretty nifty too. She just moved here from Maryland, so it can be quite amusing when she becomes baffled or humored by Texan and/or Aggie traditions. Which is pretty often.

Spanish: Spanish is spanish, and I’m ready to be done with my languages. But I seem to have gotten very lucky as far as getting a good teacher. He’s a graduate student, but he’s very competent and very patient, both of which are useful when teaching a language course.

American Literature: I didn’t think I would like this class because I didn’t understand how a professor could effectively teach literature to 300 people. Yet somehow he manages to do it, and do it very, very well. Fun fact: before he came to A&M, he taught Martha Stewart’s daughter.

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Come on autumn, hurry up! I’m tired of the hot, sweaty, muggy weather, and ready to wear scarves and stunning red boots that I have recently acquired. Summer was nice, but please. Enough. When the weather clears up and it cools off, I may post pictures of some of my favorite things. That may not be for awhile though, since it’s supposed to rain here for quite awhile. I keep saying that I’m going to do this, and I actually need to do it! Gah.

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President Obama is coming to the George Bush Library to speak with Bush Sr. in October. I think I may look into going- seems like it could be a very interesting thing to experience.

Of course I forget my camera!

Much has happened since the last time I blogged (which was quite a while ago), so I’m just going to go through everything in the manner in which I remember it. Not necessarily in any sort of order, just so you know!

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Tuesday evening, Kit and I returned from a wonderful trip to Kansas to spend a few days with Miriah, Russ, Everett, and his mom- and the beautiful Miss Beatrice who made her arrival in the middle of our visit.

We flew in to Kansas City at about noon, and met up with Kit’s mom to rent a car and make the drive to Clay Center, Kansas. Not even ten minutes after we had left Thrifty with our atrocious rental car, a Dodge Journey dubbed the “Boogermobile”, Kit got pulled over for speeding. Unfortunately, this Missouri officer wasn’t feeling too kind or generous, so Kit gets to make a $100 donation to the Missouri education system.

A few hours later, we arrived at Russ and Miriah’s place (which is absolutely fantastic!!). A gorgeous 100 year old farmhouse with tons of charm and character and so many little nooks and crannies to explore- I wish I had remembered my camera!

Saturday was full of more fun- another blur full of visits to folks in Manhattan and other fun things. At about 2 or 3 in the morning- I’m not really too sure, I was pretty out of it from lack of sleep, but sometime around then, Kit’s mom came to let us know that they were heading out to the hospital, and we were in charge of Mr. Everett. Our alarm clock (Everett) went off at about 7:30, and after realizing his mom and dad were gone, he shed some tears, but was ready to hang out with us a few minutes later. We had a jam-packed day full of movies, train tracks, parks, and lots of exhaustive playtime before we headed to the hospital that afternoon to meet baby Bea. Kit and I were so excited to meet his little niece, but Everett wasn’t too interested in his baby sister, just the little dinosaur figures she brought for him. Luckily, Kit’s mom left the hospital with us to help out with Everett, giving us a little more of a break (but not really). Our day was brilliant, but definitely showed us that kids will not be in the picture anytime in the near future. Props to you Miriah- you do it everyday, all day!

Kansas was definitely a blast.

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My summer semester finished up very nicely- I got a 4.0 for the term! I’m amazed I managed to pull off an A in theatre history, especially since I made a C on the second exam. Try taking a test with appendicitis; it’ll definitely throw off your concentration. Regardless of that, I did great on the last two tests and managed an A even after she gave us lots of bonus points!

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For the past few hours or so, it’s been raining and thundering nonstop. It’s been so hot, dry, and dusty- rainstorms are definitely welcome. The heat has been a little too much lately- yesterday Kit and I hiked around Brazos Bend for a few hours and after we were done I was left with a dizzying headache from the heat. I’m really ready for autumn to be here- whenever it decides to arrive in south Texas.

We’re in the homestretch! Three days until my Spanish final and my last day of work, and four days until my theatre final and move-in to my new apartment! I couldn’t be more thrilled that summer school is finally coming to a close. Then on to enjoying my two and a half week summer.

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Friday, the El Dorado warehouse out on Hwy 21 caught on fire. It was filled with fertilizer, so lots of fun stuff like ammonium nitrate and various other chemicals were burning and filling the air with toxic fumes. A mandatory evacuation was issued, and my apartment was included in that zone. I was considering just packing up my junk and heading home for the weekend ( I did pack, just in case the fire somehow got out of control and burned down the whole town) when my temporary roommate got home. She said that the traffic on Hwy 6 was pretty heavy, and the lane just get on the highway was insanely long.

So, after placing our bags right by the door just in case we actually did need to go, we walked to Albertson’s and got groceries, and made tacos for dinner. The evacuation was cancelled about an hour later.

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I just noticed that grades are being put in for the music class that I dropped earlier this semester. Duh, of course I’m getting a 0 on all the quizzes. I DROPPED the class. It says so, right by the section.

Oh well.

The past 24 hours have been packed full of action.

Well, this morning I had an emergency appendectomy. Not the most fun thing to have happen, but luckily it was caught early. That means my appendix didn’t rupture, and I am having a pretty painless recovery. Or maybe the lack of pain is due to the vicodin and morphine, but who knows.

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I also had a theatre test yesterday while being sick, loopy, and full of appendicitis. Probably why I got a 78 on it. I am going to be so embarrassed if I get a B in this class! But so it goes- sometimes circumstances that are beyond our control make us do not so well on tests. Ohhh well.

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Less than two weeks of classes left, and I get to move into my new apartment and see Kit!

Is it sad that I didn’t tell my mom that I missed work three days because I’ve been really sick? Because I know what the response will be: I should have sucked it up, and I better work twice as much next week to make up for those lost hours.

Being sickly really isn’t all that great.

I have no idea why, but it seems that I’ve been a lot more sickly/prone to illness in my college years than previously. I’m currently sick as a dawg, and currently on my period. Probably more information than anyone wanted to know, but that’s okay. I’ve missed work 3 days this week, but I’m planning on making it all up next week by working 5 or possibly more hours per day. Oy. But anyways, I’m sick and I’m seriously craving junk food right now.

So, if anyone would like to bring me some Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food and a pepperoni pizza from Mr. G’s, I would love you forever.

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This past weekend, I went to Albuquerque to see Kit! Before I get into the details of what we did, I’ll have to tell you about my seatmate on the flight over. I refuse to give out his name, just in case he decides to google his own name, but I will tell you a little bit about what I now know about this man:

• He owns a mining company and is a personal bodyguard for some wrestler guy.
• He has a wife and two girlfriends. It used to be three girlfriends, but one of them is now married to a girl. But it’s okay, they all get together sometimes.
• His youngest girlfriend is
• He is 53 years old.
• He is a big cheesy Italian guy.
• A certain part of his anatomy is curved, and is “like a natural g-spot hitter”.

And that is where our plane ride ended, and I hauled it out of there, far, far away from the most awkward conversation I’ve ever had with a complete stranger.

I honestly don’t know how I can follow that up, but I’ll try anyway. I had a great time with Kit, and I wished the weekend could have kept going on and on and on. We rode bikes (I got to meet Bianca, my lovely vintage bike!) in Tingley park, went to Old Town where we experienced great food, awesome shops, and hilariously awkward wedding #2, and to the Science museum afterwards. We were planning on riding the tram to the top of the Sandias, but we ended up taking a nice nap instead. After grabbing a huge and delicious calzone, we took a pretty long walk around the UNM campus and I’ll say this:

I loved it. It was gorgeous. Plus, they had THREE anthropology buildings: an annex, a museum plus more offices, and an enormous archeology research center. It was great. I’m pretty sure UNM is going to be on my list of grad schools.

Sunday morning came entirely too quickly, and went by just as fast. It doesn’t really seem fair that it was so short, but I’m just happy that we even got to see each other at all.

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Last night at Petsmart, I’m pretty sure there was this hipster DB thinking about breaking into my car. He was standing right next to the driver’s side door, and staring into it. As soon as he saw me coming, he turned tail and headed into the store.

Uhh, yeah. If he really wanted to steal my old junk mail and half-empty waterbottles, then he was by all means welcome to. Probably the most expensive thing I have in my car is the window shade thing to block out the sun. It was $11.

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Three more weeks of class and work, and three more weeks until I get to see Kit again. I’m pretty ready for August 6th.

Schedule swaps and what-not.

After much deliberation, I decided to swap around a few things in my summer session schedule. I hadn’t been too impressed with my spanish teacher’s (well, former spanish teacher) teaching, so I figured that I should look into another section of spanish to take. After much annoyances involving trying to get the classes I wanted (when I tried to drop both classes for this session and start from scratch, it told me I would have to withdraw from the university to do that. Uhh, no thanks.) I’m finally enrolled in a new section of spanish and a theater history class. Should be fun. Regardless of what I’m taking, I’m just ready to be done with it and have those few short weeks as some major down time before the fall semester starts.

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Speaking of classes that I just enrolled in, when I showed up for my theater class, I was a little confused to find a dark room and nobody there.  Luckily, on my way out, I ran into a guy that was going there as well. Turns out he’s in my class, and he was just checking to make sure we really didn’t have class today. He was very nice- giving me all the notes and letting me take down important information from the syllabus. I’m very glad to have run into him.

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I know I’ve probably said this before, and I’m just going to sound redundant and whiny, but at this point I don’t really care. I’m so sick of school right now. I’m feeling incredibly burnt out, and I’m hoping I can force myself to care enough to make decent grades. We’ll see!

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On a happier note, I get to see Kit this weekend! I’m very happy about that. It will be a nice little break from everything here.

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So, roughly a month, maybe a tad bit longer, until I move out into my new apartment aaaannnd….I’m totally not ready. Well, as far as packing everything up goes. Ehh. I definitely need to get that taken care of soon. Very, very soon. Otherwise I’ll just be throwing crap into random boxes and trashbags at the last minute. I would not like to repeat that.

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I know I said I would post some pictures of my favorite outfits for this summer, but that will probably have to wait. Next week, maybe. Who knows.

All in all, a good weekend.

Yesterday, Karen and Caitlyn came over for Mogget’s “birthday party” since my little kitty was turning a year old. Mogget got a few cans of fancy food along with a few little balls filled with bells from Caitlyn. She loves her fancy food and her little toys- I had to take them away from her last night so I could get some sleep!

Mogget’s birthday was mostly an excuse for us ladies to hang out, grill steaks, and lounge out by the pool. We grilled steaks, veggie kabobs, and some corn. It was absolutely delicious, and I have plenty of leftover roasted corn. Mmmm.

After we finished eating and cleaning everything up, the three of us lounged out by the pool for a little while, and then swam around with some of the awesome pool noodles (Karen didn’t buy one when we were at Wal-Mart earlier, and she was super jealous of us later on) and then laid out in the sun to dry off, and hopefully tan, before we called it a day.

Karen ended up going home right after that, but Caitlyn and I continued to hang out, and had an absolutely delightful time watching MTV- a whole two hours of 16 and Pregnant and Is She Really Going out With Him? If you haven’t watched the latter, watch it. It’s frightening to see that guys like that actually exist. Terrifying.

We were intending to soak up the sun when we were out by the pool, but I think most of my sun intake came from when we were grilling. None of us put on sunscreen for that, even though it was in the hottest part of the day, and I know for a fact Caitlyn and I got pretty sunburned. Hopefully it won’t peel and it will turn into a nice golden brown instead. It would be awesome to rid of my farmer’s tan!

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I definitely need to work on cleaning up my apartment. I’ve been so busy these last few weeks that I haven’t even thought about it, but it’s in dire need of a thorough scrubbing. I have crap everywhere, and it looks terrible. I think I posted a picture of what my desk looked like in a previous recent entry.

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There are 9 days left (7 not including test days) left in summer session one. I’m hoping and praying that I pull off some more awesome grades in statistics. That would be absolutely amazing- especially since I’m totally not a math person at all. But 9 days! I think I can handle that.