waterfalling

the heart is a lonely hunter

So Sandy, Dan and Josie left today after a totally amazing week. Yesterday Sandy and I went to a dance aerobics class with my mom and Lela (it was sooo much fun). Afterwards Sandy and I went and got massages and then to the Korean women's spa where we ate delicious Korean food and lounged around naked. Maybe because it was the day after Christmas, or maybe its something new that they do there, but they suddenly dimmed the lights and set up all these colorful candles around the mineral baths. It was so beautiful! Then we went over to Anika's for tea and cake, then I got to come home to my lovely birthday dinner and some homemade tiramisu! It was the perfect day, that ended with watching some freaks and geeks by the fire. Now they are gone and Randy is in Eastern Washington and I can't get the "Mr. Lonely" song out of my head. And I just realized I may be getting a cold sore so I called the weekend line at my doctors office and they yelled at me saying it was not an emergency and that I should wait until regular business hours. It was only after I hung up that I thought of all the right things that I should have said back to them. I wish I could be rude sometimes. But I refuse to mope. Or at least I'm trying to resist the urge. I should go read by the fire and take advantage of this time by myself, but I just miss everyone now.

By the way, the new Harmony Korrine movie Mr. Lonely is incredible!

Ugandan mosquitoes had it out for me!

Amsterdam!

Accomplished

So although I took off two weeks in the middle of the quarter to go to Uganda, I still got 20 credits and stunning evaluations. Hells fucking yeah! It is Christmas break and I am so ready to have some serious fun! Randy and I got a nice hotel reservations in Seattle next week and I will have 2 and half weeks off of work. My family and I are planning to slide down a mountain on innertubes and then go to the ocean for a few days. Then of course there is my birthday, Christmas and New Years to look forward to, and the gathering of friends from out of state (Kale, Natalia, and James). Life is good, life is grand.

He is having fun making up stories to tell his students about how it happened. Maybe he got in a fight with a bear, or got trampled at Walmart. Or maybe this injury got him in the Guinness Book of Records for the man with the most black eyes in a lifetime and he won a split decision over Rocky Balboa after going the full 15 rounds.