sara

the next time i find myself in a new situation - i'm going to go by sara. see how it fits. i think its too late to try this out at home community.

scented

sometimes, if i'm lucky, the air smells like doughnuts when i get off the bus on my way home from work. a happy consequence of living near voodoo doughnuts. and then on other days when i'm driving home from school late at night the air smells of fresh baked bread. how did i get so lucky?

One to go

last week i found out that my LOMA courses transferred in as more credits than i thought they would. because of this, i was able to drop one of my last classes. i only have ONE more class. how crazy is that?! and i'll be done with school at the beginning of April now, instead of the end of April like i had planned. Graduation is May 9th. mark your calendars. hee hee!!

be my eyes

a blind man got on the bus today with his companion. this made me start thinking about how i would describe each situation if i were such a companion. i would tell him how every time the bus gains speed my hair would be blown everywhere because i was sitting in front of the only open window on the bus. i would tell about how the tattooed woman across from me surprised me when she pulled out a small paperback C.S. Lewis. i would tell about how intent her eyes were as she was reading, like she was also struggling through the problem of pain. i would tell about her furry boots, which she tucked her cargo pants into. and how, as she got up to leave, she revealed that she had a use for every one of her cargo pockets. returning C.S. Lewis to her back pocket, and retrieving her glasses case from a pocket near her knee. i would tell about how the middle-aged bus driver would greet each passenger as they got on, grinning widely, showing his braces. i would tell him how some people squish themselves into their small seat. how they have to raise their shoulders and squeeze their arms together to even fit between the two people next to them. i would tell about all this and more.

how much more i would see if i were a companion of someone without sight.

the flood

i came home from work last friday to find that that there was a waterfall in my bedroom closet. seriously?! the week before i move? the waterheater in the apartment upstairs broke. so i spent the weekend dealing with that. argh. well, the good part is that i got all my packing done early. the people said that it would be okay for me to sleep there still. but after a couple of nights i realized that was not at all the case. so, i broke down my bed and am now sleeping on my matress in my neighbor's living room. they are so nice to let me stay with them. and now there are 7 fans in my room and my dresser is the only thing left in there (its a little too heavy for me to move - hopefully it wont get affected by the situation). anyway - i wont go into all the details, but this is one rediculous send off party. i'm SOOOO glad that i am moving next weekend.

Completion

its finally done!! i did my final edit on my thesis paper a few days ago. comes in just under 40 pages. holy cow. i didnt know i had that much to say about standard insurance.

mind games

i think i've hit a wall. i gave my professor a rough draft of my thesis paper last week so he could give me his feedback - and ever since then i havent been able to get myself to keep working on it. maybe my mind doesnt realize that its only a rough draft that i turned in, not the real thing. i just opened up the file a few minutes ago and i ended up just staring at it. couldnt get my fingers to type anything productive. so - i guess i am going to take a little break from my paper right now. its already 27 pages (not including all the appendices he's requesting). i think subconsciously i'm waiting to get the paper back from him before i clean it up. but honestly, i have no idea how long it is going to take him to get back to me. hopefully he wont wait until the week the paper is due and then send it back with a bunch of big revisions that i need to take care of.