it's never rained like it has tonight before...

professor scott explained my life to me today: to be southern is to be inconsistent.

it all makes so much more sense now.

i just found $500. in my mailbox that is.

i should probably start my first homework of the year now...now that i've already put it off all day.

nights without cornerstones are weird.

in coffee city, we borrowed hea-ven...

so you know when you have a fight with mom about the location of a gas station maybe it's time to head on out. that's not really true though...i mean, it is, but it's not like i'm dying to get out of here. really kind of the opposite; i guess i wish i'd had more time at home because i love my home, and it's pretty nice to kind of be a recluse for a couple weeks, although it's probably not very good for me to do that too long because i feel like i start to rot from lack of productivity after a while. but it is nice, oh so nice, to just be on my own schedule. although that, of course, is never as easy at home as you anticipate. alright. off to eat some food and spend my last two days.....uhhh....rotting...i mean....reading, right. love to all.

oh atlanta, i hear you calling...

thanks to fred, charlotte, mick, sarah, and dude for a truly unforgettable summer: market runs, golf cart/van races, movie nights, porch harrassment, making fun of me cause i'm just so funny, late night runs to wendys and such because josh and i are hungry, constant euchre and smear, arguing over cards, stealing the deal, denny "that's a spade", pink shirts, sarah and i matching, prom, water fights, getting hit with the golfcart--"i can't BELIEVE he HIT you with the GOLF cart!!", getting scared out of our minds at the haunted house, jam sessions with the dude, mick "you look like you need a hug!"--the boss man, fred "hahahahahaha" (that's what i'll remember him doing most), i'm THIS MANY ( 1 2 3 4 5!!), psychiatrist, my "friend" and all that drama, lance and george, charlotte " my "FAHVER"", "you're WEI-IRD", "you're fireDUH!", "you're weird AND fired!", mick's battlejuice, owing josh money except not, taking josh's trash every time, the fish puzzle and the ball throwy-catchy thing that takes me a year, summer conference queens for life, and all the one liners i let out without thinking so of course now i can't really remember-- "mick, you're sooo STRONG!", "oh my GOSH!", "let's just put it diagonal, diagonals fix everything", "but there's a piece missing", "i want them all!!", "WAIT...did we take both??", "i could really go both ways", "time for L&G!", "maybe i want to be taken", "not much of a lake," and anything else i can't remember right now. i love you all and again, thanks for everything.

mama i'm coming home...

it's been beautiful though. it's been a beautiful blessing.

so we snuck into the library at about 1 AM to have our final euchre tournament and caught ourselves a security guard "nabbing popcorn." so much for him catching us.

i guess that summer magic must always come to an end; this one was truly magical. i had been so convinced that i was supposed to be somewhere else only to find that i was right where i should be. plans. they're funny things. silly, and powerless in the end, and yet we continue to make them. how grateful i am that my plans never seem to pan out.

it's been a beautiful blessing.

we made our warm bed out of blankets in the meadow way up high...

a more appropriate title probably would have been "swing your partner." oh well. i'm so tired after staying up til 2 i think every night this week, but i wanted to remember this too. josh left today, and with his leaving the reality of the end has begun to sink in. it's been such a wonderful summer, and i am somewhat reluctant to let it go, knowing that it won't be quite the same when we get back to school and it's no longer the fantastic four but everyone, all together again. not that that doesn't have it's own benefits. anyway, we had a lovely night of skyline chili, square dancing and star gazing (oooh, alliteration!--sort of). made even more exciting by sarah's and my cartoon character costumes (yes, we're proud [ooh, more alliteration {hey look at my awesome brackets}]) and topped off with a close game of smear; guess who came out victorious? Mick and I left Big House happy, let's just say. alright...................bed sounds soooooooooooo good, even though it's not in the library. goodnight y'all <3

i'm just a little tiny fish...

it's the beginning of the end. we're all starting to paick up and i'm getting restless; ready to go home, but always a little squeamish at the thought of approaching transitions. tonight we relaxed in front of the campfire, attempting to make pizza pies, which turned out interestingly, and hot dogs and s'mores. it was a good time.

it was brought to my attention tonight how cute goldfish are ;0). fiesty, sure, maybe a little gullible, i'll have to concede, but cute no matter what they're doing--even if that happens to be not much of anything.

i feel honored. not a silverfish, but a goldfish.
goodnight <3

don't you shiver...

ASHLEY'S HERE!! YAY!!!
so exciting as today has been (our favorite monsignor, getting a tan in the rovers truck, icecream, warm coke from glass bottles, rock paper scissors, dinner at the inn, ashley surprise) yesterday has pictures:

now what reason would josh have to look so suspicious? it's not like i tried to stick him with the bouttoniere...

or maybe that's not what he's doing, according to mick...

ahhh my pictures aren't uploading...

alright, as thrilling as it is to stare at my computer screen and try to put on more funny pictures, and as incomplete as this blog is with just the one, i think i will have to pause for now and try it later. it's time to play with the rest of the fantastic 4 plus ash.

yay for the last day of july.