it's wednesday night. aka the start of my weekend.
i'm PACKING.
as of now, i only have one week of classes left (which means two days because i only have class two days a week).
this is my last weekend in prescott. i CANNOT believe it. time flies so insanely fast.
emma and i plan to brush up on our beerpong skills before going to the prescott christmas parade on saturday. it should be fun. ((last weekend i went to the prescott LIGHT parade with one of my roommates. there were like 30 floats lit up. but that was only the light parade. the actual christmas parade is this weekend. i have to say, it's a lot different watching a parade in december and not fighting off frostbite by going inside dunkin donuts...))
then we're going bowling on sunday night (shoes are free on sunday after 6pm and this is our last sunday!!!).
then it's classes monday and wednesday, tying up loose ends and doing self-evaluations and passing in portfolios.
then i'm on a plane in phoenix saturday morning at 10.
i think i'm hitting up green mountain either sunday or monday. (i still have to talk to my parents about how long they want me to stick around for, but they're in mexico until saturday.) I CANNOT WAIT to see my wonderful and beautiful vermonsters!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
epic weekend
i had a fantastic weekend. tucson was great.
it started friday morning at 6am when we all met at the van. we were on the road around 630 (after stopping at prescott coffee roasters for some morning pep) for our four hour trip to zoe (my professor)'s mom's house (it's actually zoe's house--she lived in tucson for grad school and time after = 16 years, and when she moved, her mom moved in. it's a duplex and two of zoe's friends live on the other side). we ditched our stuff and got lunch at a really good mexican place. then we went to the tucson community food bank and had a tour of their opperation, then drove about 45 minutes outside of tucson to the food bank's farm and talked to the farm manager there. we got back to zoe's mom's house and had some downtime before dinner. zoe drove a few of us (adam, thiel, and i) to a protest at 5pm downtown (it was to oppose the passing of proposition 8 in california and prop 102 in arizona), where we marched over a pedestrian over-pass into a park area with a gazebo and video projector. we had to be back for dinner at 6 so we weren't there for very long (i think it was supposed to go til like 7 or 730), but it was still cool. after dinner, zoe, thiel, and i went to a bookstore on 4th street (which is like the hub of town--lots of places to eat, some trift stores, glass shops, bars, etc.) to hear col. ann wright, who retired from the army after lilke 27 years of service when we went to iraq, and has since been speaking out against the war. she recently published a book about stories of i think torture victims, so she talked about tourture as well as rape in the army. after that, we went back to zoe's mom's house (some of the class had bought beer--zoe said it was fine if we wanted a beer or two, but to not get shitfaced) and chilled out. a few of us (thiel, julie, adam, and i) were inside looking at facebook pictures and swapping stories, while others played cards and had a couple beers with zoe.
saturday morning we had to leave around 7am, because we had to drive about an hour and a half for our activity (after, of course, stopping to get coffee and tea). we drove down to where we were 12 miles north of the mexican border, to san pedro riparian area. we went on a 1.2 or so mile walk around the river and pond. it was crazy to see, because it was this river sourrounded by cottonwoods and willows with tons of bugs and SOOO many different birds, and it's in the middle of a desert. i mean, there's tall grass leading up to the spot with the trees, but it's this desert landscdape all of a sudden interrupted by this crazily diverse area. after that was done, we headed back to town, where we were going to have pizza at zoe's while we hung out with a guy from the sierra club. after mowing down, we watched a 20 minute video on the border wall and he abuse of power that gets it built, and it's affects on the ecological communities, including the one where we had just been. i got a dvd from him for free, so i'm thinking about having it shown at gmc for something. just to inform people, because it's a big deal.
after that, the rest of the day was ours. it was about 2:30, and the four of us in our little group from the night before (thiel, julie, adam, and i) decided to go to fourth street and see what that was all about. i think it was the first store we went in that was a huuuuge thrift store. i found apair of SIQ overalls. we went in a bunch of stores including a vintage clothing store, glass shop, hippie gypsy, just a bunch of different places. we had dinner at a cool place and discussed going to a bar after. i said i was too young to go, but would go back to the house and do some reading if they wanted to go out, but they said we'd just hit up the liquor store so i could have fun, too! so julie and adam went in for wine and tequila while thiel and i walked around the block. when we got back to zoe's mom's house, there were just two people around, and zoe had gone out with her friends from tucson (her mom had gone on a date the night before and wasn't back yet!). adam found two limes in the refridgerator and he, theil, and i had shots. thiel only had like 2 or 3, adam had 7, and i had 6. we played cards on the front porch with dean (another guy from class). i had to be at a church at 7:30 to meet my peace studies class, but they got to sleep in and not leave until 10. incredibly, i didn't have a hangover at all. i guess that's what happens when you don't drink cheap tequila...
so i met up with the peace studies class on sunday morning. we stopped at a cafe to get breakfast and drinks before heading south for our event. they had come up the day before and had done peacekeeping workshops all day. i was disappointed that i missed out, but had a blast with the environmental politics crew. so we drove down to sierra vista (which is right down by where i had been the day before), to protest at ft. huachuca. the event started at 10:30, with speakers and music and such to get folks riled up before the march at 1. during that time, i made a sign: "teach peace, not torture." about 200 people walked the 2.3 miles from where we were to in front of the fort. at the end, we were faced with counter demonstrators that were yelling things like "support our troops," "read your history. take a shower. get an education," "bend over for obama," and tons of way more graphic stuff. it made me really mad that a lot of what they were saying was a. pesonal and b. not even relevant to why we were there and the message we were trying to get across. i mean, i support our troops to the fullest, but i don't support the war, and i don't support them being taught torture. two or three people crossed the street to try to deliver a letter and were handcuffed, but then released. we then walked a little further to the caci building before ending the demonstration. then we drove back to tucson to grab some dinner before departing for the 4 hour drive. we got back to prescott around 11:15ish.
it was a great weekend. really long, though. i have pictures, but my camera died at the protest (so i missed out on some good pictures) and i can't get them from it until i get some more batteries...
it's times like this when i'm reeeeaaaaalllllly gonna miss this place.
i can't wait to come back though!!!!!!!!!!!
stay kind xoxo
it started friday morning at 6am when we all met at the van. we were on the road around 630 (after stopping at prescott coffee roasters for some morning pep) for our four hour trip to zoe (my professor)'s mom's house (it's actually zoe's house--she lived in tucson for grad school and time after = 16 years, and when she moved, her mom moved in. it's a duplex and two of zoe's friends live on the other side). we ditched our stuff and got lunch at a really good mexican place. then we went to the tucson community food bank and had a tour of their opperation, then drove about 45 minutes outside of tucson to the food bank's farm and talked to the farm manager there. we got back to zoe's mom's house and had some downtime before dinner. zoe drove a few of us (adam, thiel, and i) to a protest at 5pm downtown (it was to oppose the passing of proposition 8 in california and prop 102 in arizona), where we marched over a pedestrian over-pass into a park area with a gazebo and video projector. we had to be back for dinner at 6 so we weren't there for very long (i think it was supposed to go til like 7 or 730), but it was still cool. after dinner, zoe, thiel, and i went to a bookstore on 4th street (which is like the hub of town--lots of places to eat, some trift stores, glass shops, bars, etc.) to hear col. ann wright, who retired from the army after lilke 27 years of service when we went to iraq, and has since been speaking out against the war. she recently published a book about stories of i think torture victims, so she talked about tourture as well as rape in the army. after that, we went back to zoe's mom's house (some of the class had bought beer--zoe said it was fine if we wanted a beer or two, but to not get shitfaced) and chilled out. a few of us (thiel, julie, adam, and i) were inside looking at facebook pictures and swapping stories, while others played cards and had a couple beers with zoe.
saturday morning we had to leave around 7am, because we had to drive about an hour and a half for our activity (after, of course, stopping to get coffee and tea). we drove down to where we were 12 miles north of the mexican border, to san pedro riparian area. we went on a 1.2 or so mile walk around the river and pond. it was crazy to see, because it was this river sourrounded by cottonwoods and willows with tons of bugs and SOOO many different birds, and it's in the middle of a desert. i mean, there's tall grass leading up to the spot with the trees, but it's this desert landscdape all of a sudden interrupted by this crazily diverse area. after that was done, we headed back to town, where we were going to have pizza at zoe's while we hung out with a guy from the sierra club. after mowing down, we watched a 20 minute video on the border wall and he abuse of power that gets it built, and it's affects on the ecological communities, including the one where we had just been. i got a dvd from him for free, so i'm thinking about having it shown at gmc for something. just to inform people, because it's a big deal.
after that, the rest of the day was ours. it was about 2:30, and the four of us in our little group from the night before (thiel, julie, adam, and i) decided to go to fourth street and see what that was all about. i think it was the first store we went in that was a huuuuge thrift store. i found apair of SIQ overalls. we went in a bunch of stores including a vintage clothing store, glass shop, hippie gypsy, just a bunch of different places. we had dinner at a cool place and discussed going to a bar after. i said i was too young to go, but would go back to the house and do some reading if they wanted to go out, but they said we'd just hit up the liquor store so i could have fun, too! so julie and adam went in for wine and tequila while thiel and i walked around the block. when we got back to zoe's mom's house, there were just two people around, and zoe had gone out with her friends from tucson (her mom had gone on a date the night before and wasn't back yet!). adam found two limes in the refridgerator and he, theil, and i had shots. thiel only had like 2 or 3, adam had 7, and i had 6. we played cards on the front porch with dean (another guy from class). i had to be at a church at 7:30 to meet my peace studies class, but they got to sleep in and not leave until 10. incredibly, i didn't have a hangover at all. i guess that's what happens when you don't drink cheap tequila...
so i met up with the peace studies class on sunday morning. we stopped at a cafe to get breakfast and drinks before heading south for our event. they had come up the day before and had done peacekeeping workshops all day. i was disappointed that i missed out, but had a blast with the environmental politics crew. so we drove down to sierra vista (which is right down by where i had been the day before), to protest at ft. huachuca. the event started at 10:30, with speakers and music and such to get folks riled up before the march at 1. during that time, i made a sign: "teach peace, not torture." about 200 people walked the 2.3 miles from where we were to in front of the fort. at the end, we were faced with counter demonstrators that were yelling things like "support our troops," "read your history. take a shower. get an education," "bend over for obama," and tons of way more graphic stuff. it made me really mad that a lot of what they were saying was a. pesonal and b. not even relevant to why we were there and the message we were trying to get across. i mean, i support our troops to the fullest, but i don't support the war, and i don't support them being taught torture. two or three people crossed the street to try to deliver a letter and were handcuffed, but then released. we then walked a little further to the caci building before ending the demonstration. then we drove back to tucson to grab some dinner before departing for the 4 hour drive. we got back to prescott around 11:15ish.
it was a great weekend. really long, though. i have pictures, but my camera died at the protest (so i missed out on some good pictures) and i can't get them from it until i get some more batteries...
it's times like this when i'm reeeeaaaaalllllly gonna miss this place.
i can't wait to come back though!!!!!!!!!!!
stay kind xoxo
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
i'm getting closer to my home...
i'm your captain, i'm your captain
it's wednesday, aka hump day. (the first time i heard that term, you know, hump day, i was probably in like 6th grade and my mom said it. we have one of those relationships where we don't talk about sex, so i had to stifle my laughter. it was hard and she noticed. "what?" she said. "nothing," i replied back. obviously i was laughing because i was like 12 years old and my mom said it was hump day. pretty sure i haven't gotten any more mature...)
it's getting colder here (and by colder, i mean like 50s and 60s during the day, 30s at night) and i'm not liking it too much. pretty sure in a month from tomorrow (!!!) when i return to new england, my ass will be frozen off. not even joking. luckily, this weekend i'll be in tucson for my field trips (!!!), and i hear it should be in the 70s down there. exciting! (we depart prescott at 6am friday morning, though. boooo)
also exciting, a plan that i have. not really a plan, but an idea that has plan potential. maybe.
i fly into nh on december 13th. i still need a place to live when i return to gmc (i really don't want to be in a dorm, unless it is with one of the followers of this blog. and i really don't want to go back to the meal plan, but i feel as though that will be what will happen if i have to live on campus without an oven...). i need to talk to people/look for places in town (anybody have any ideas for places?). so anyway, i was thinking that i could come to poultney sometime in the week after i get back. the thing is, though, that you all at gmc have finals (hahaha prescott doesn't!!!!), so i don't know how intoxicated everybody would be willing to get. but i wanna be. and i want to see everybody!!! i mean, i can wait an additional month, but it's just been soooo looooong!!! i think i'm having severe withdrawls!
what does everybody think of this? I NEED FEEDBACK ON THIS IDEA!!!
ok, well, i'm pretty into watching all the episodes of the office online (loveeeee that show!!!), so i'm gonna enjoy some soy "ice cream" (this shit's not the sameeeee) and indulge.
stay kind, folks ! xo
ps vote for rustic overtones for spring concert and spread the word--they're SOOOOO good and put on one hell of a live show!!!!
it's wednesday, aka hump day. (the first time i heard that term, you know, hump day, i was probably in like 6th grade and my mom said it. we have one of those relationships where we don't talk about sex, so i had to stifle my laughter. it was hard and she noticed. "what?" she said. "nothing," i replied back. obviously i was laughing because i was like 12 years old and my mom said it was hump day. pretty sure i haven't gotten any more mature...)
it's getting colder here (and by colder, i mean like 50s and 60s during the day, 30s at night) and i'm not liking it too much. pretty sure in a month from tomorrow (!!!) when i return to new england, my ass will be frozen off. not even joking. luckily, this weekend i'll be in tucson for my field trips (!!!), and i hear it should be in the 70s down there. exciting! (we depart prescott at 6am friday morning, though. boooo)
also exciting, a plan that i have. not really a plan, but an idea that has plan potential. maybe.
i fly into nh on december 13th. i still need a place to live when i return to gmc (i really don't want to be in a dorm, unless it is with one of the followers of this blog. and i really don't want to go back to the meal plan, but i feel as though that will be what will happen if i have to live on campus without an oven...). i need to talk to people/look for places in town (anybody have any ideas for places?). so anyway, i was thinking that i could come to poultney sometime in the week after i get back. the thing is, though, that you all at gmc have finals (hahaha prescott doesn't!!!!), so i don't know how intoxicated everybody would be willing to get. but i wanna be. and i want to see everybody!!! i mean, i can wait an additional month, but it's just been soooo looooong!!! i think i'm having severe withdrawls!
what does everybody think of this? I NEED FEEDBACK ON THIS IDEA!!!
ok, well, i'm pretty into watching all the episodes of the office online (loveeeee that show!!!), so i'm gonna enjoy some soy "ice cream" (this shit's not the sameeeee) and indulge.
stay kind, folks ! xo
ps vote for rustic overtones for spring concert and spread the word--they're SOOOOO good and put on one hell of a live show!!!!
Friday, November 7, 2008
wowsah
woooooooh eeeeee
halloween was fun. we carved pumpkins (the day after, actually, because they only cost 1$!). i carved a jack-o-lantern looking face, you know, with the triangle eyes and nose and teeth missing from the smiling mouth... then carved dreads all around it... heh. emma dressed up as a giant lego and it was such an amazing work of fine craftsmanship. she made it from styrofoam and the body from cardboard. she had to put eyeholes so she could see (and could only see directly in front of her) and a hole for a straw through which she had to drink her beer. i was a german tourist. fairly last minute decision. story of my life...
nice segue
because not so much the story of my life anymore. so the course catalogues came out for next semster and i've been trying to do all the figuring out from so far away and it consumed my life for a few days. it concluded with an advising session over the phone that was over half an hour long. and i now have like, an established life plan for the next six years!! my major is es with the policy concentration, and i've now decided to add the sustainable agriculture concentration, too. this summer, i'll have a siq internship somewhere (if not peta then somewhere else--i was searching for like three hours today), then come back for my final year at gmc. then after graduation, i'm going to join the peace corps, something with which i can help implement sustainable food systems in communities or something like that. then i'll come back, and, because of my experience in the peace corps and academic ass-kicking, i'll be able to get into law school, particularly vermont law school, one of the top two environmental law schools in the country. IT FEELS SO GOOD to have like... goals! i so excited for my future!!! except that i'm not going to be able to hang out with my good friend maryjane for like two years while i'm in the peace corps... i'll have to try to figure out a way around that....
and how about Obama?!
November 3rd, there was a McCain rally. They started letting people into the gates they had set up in the courthouse square in the heart of prescott at 9. there were people EVERYWHERE. Hank Williams Jr. (country singer) played for a while. it was the last stop of the campaigning, and mccain was coming at midnight. (he wasn't there until 12:30) we had a group of PC students supporting obama. quite the experience.
big things are going to be happening....
my flight home is on saturday, december 13th, and i'm coming into manchester. exciting!!!!!
stay kind, folks.
halloween was fun. we carved pumpkins (the day after, actually, because they only cost 1$!). i carved a jack-o-lantern looking face, you know, with the triangle eyes and nose and teeth missing from the smiling mouth... then carved dreads all around it... heh. emma dressed up as a giant lego and it was such an amazing work of fine craftsmanship. she made it from styrofoam and the body from cardboard. she had to put eyeholes so she could see (and could only see directly in front of her) and a hole for a straw through which she had to drink her beer. i was a german tourist. fairly last minute decision. story of my life...
nice segue
because not so much the story of my life anymore. so the course catalogues came out for next semster and i've been trying to do all the figuring out from so far away and it consumed my life for a few days. it concluded with an advising session over the phone that was over half an hour long. and i now have like, an established life plan for the next six years!! my major is es with the policy concentration, and i've now decided to add the sustainable agriculture concentration, too. this summer, i'll have a siq internship somewhere (if not peta then somewhere else--i was searching for like three hours today), then come back for my final year at gmc. then after graduation, i'm going to join the peace corps, something with which i can help implement sustainable food systems in communities or something like that. then i'll come back, and, because of my experience in the peace corps and academic ass-kicking, i'll be able to get into law school, particularly vermont law school, one of the top two environmental law schools in the country. IT FEELS SO GOOD to have like... goals! i so excited for my future!!! except that i'm not going to be able to hang out with my good friend maryjane for like two years while i'm in the peace corps... i'll have to try to figure out a way around that....
and how about Obama?!
November 3rd, there was a McCain rally. They started letting people into the gates they had set up in the courthouse square in the heart of prescott at 9. there were people EVERYWHERE. Hank Williams Jr. (country singer) played for a while. it was the last stop of the campaigning, and mccain was coming at midnight. (he wasn't there until 12:30) we had a group of PC students supporting obama. quite the experience.
big things are going to be happening....
my flight home is on saturday, december 13th, and i'm coming into manchester. exciting!!!!!
stay kind, folks.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
my usual four-day weekend has begun
i had a field trip last sunday (not this past one, the one before) with my intro to peace studies class. we went to tucson for a peacekeeper training workshop, in preperation for a demonstration in a weekend in November (15th?) that is happening at fort huachuca (wa-choo-ka). over 500 people rallied against the establishment last year, and there were about 50 counterdemonstrators, too. it would be our roles as peacekeepers to make sure that hostilities between the groups don't get out of control and remind the oath the demonstrators took to do this nonviolently (and then on breaks we could take our stance). so we drove a total of eight ours to tucson and back in one day for this workshop. it was cool, too, because our group of like 12 almost doubled the group of people (older folks as well as youngins). ANYWAY it was a great day and i am (was) REALLLLY looking forward to going.
THE SAME WEEKEND I have a field trip to tucson with my FAVORITE class here, environmental politics. we're going to be going ot a feedlot (which i proposed to my professor we do--she loved the idea and said that i can find one on the way to tuscon and we'll stop... so we're going to) and then to a native seed organization and something else which sounded exciting to me.
so i'm forced to decide between these two INCREDIBLE opportunities. and i like the people in my peace studies class better, too. LAMEEEE./
lots of typing is due to my recent hang out with my friend maryjane...
the phillies won today. i hope they kick the shit out of tampa bay.
I MISS GREEN MOUNTAIN. i want to have gone to the welsh harvest fest because they all get so into it and jim caserino (sp?) in his little welsh-loving ways gets so excited over the event and the fact that he can showcase the choir's ability to sing in the language. rightfully so. i want to go to the farm. i've been here for officially over two months!! loving it, but missing the mountain.
stay kind
i had a field trip last sunday (not this past one, the one before) with my intro to peace studies class. we went to tucson for a peacekeeper training workshop, in preperation for a demonstration in a weekend in November (15th?) that is happening at fort huachuca (wa-choo-ka). over 500 people rallied against the establishment last year, and there were about 50 counterdemonstrators, too. it would be our roles as peacekeepers to make sure that hostilities between the groups don't get out of control and remind the oath the demonstrators took to do this nonviolently (and then on breaks we could take our stance). so we drove a total of eight ours to tucson and back in one day for this workshop. it was cool, too, because our group of like 12 almost doubled the group of people (older folks as well as youngins). ANYWAY it was a great day and i am (was) REALLLLY looking forward to going.
THE SAME WEEKEND I have a field trip to tucson with my FAVORITE class here, environmental politics. we're going to be going ot a feedlot (which i proposed to my professor we do--she loved the idea and said that i can find one on the way to tuscon and we'll stop... so we're going to) and then to a native seed organization and something else which sounded exciting to me.
so i'm forced to decide between these two INCREDIBLE opportunities. and i like the people in my peace studies class better, too. LAMEEEE./
lots of typing is due to my recent hang out with my friend maryjane...
the phillies won today. i hope they kick the shit out of tampa bay.
I MISS GREEN MOUNTAIN. i want to have gone to the welsh harvest fest because they all get so into it and jim caserino (sp?) in his little welsh-loving ways gets so excited over the event and the fact that he can showcase the choir's ability to sing in the language. rightfully so. i want to go to the farm. i've been here for officially over two months!! loving it, but missing the mountain.
stay kind
Monday, October 6, 2008
soxtober
so this is a blog...
i have to be honest, it's little overwhelming...
i wasn't sure what to name it, and i've been wanting a potato burrito (from maya's--best mexican food in prescott) for a couple days now, so i figured that potato burrito would suffice. also, i thought it was a nice mixing-up from little taco. which i thought i put, but maybe that was for something else. clearly, this is too technologically advanced for me to fathom...
i am ecstatic.
tonight the red sox game was on at 5:37 my time (8:37 eastern), and I have class from 6-8:15, so I have to depart for the walk to school around 5:40. i would have skipped class, but it's my favorite class, so i decided to suck it up and learn stuff. aka, i was not going to see the game. at all. BUT i decided to bring my computer to class and sit in the back and check the scores on mlb.com. of course, the building in which i have class is one of the two buildings that does not have wireless. luckily, my mum understands the dire need to know what happens in a red sox playoff game, so she texted me updates while i was in class. AND THEY WON!!!!!!
then i had to walk home alone in the dark. jacie's phone charger is broken, so i pretended to talk to her while i walked and clenched my knife in my sweatshirt pocket. i don't fuck around.
this past saturday night i went to a 90s party. while deciding what to wear, we realized that it's a fine line between late 80s and early 90s. Side ponies, stirrup pants, scrunchies... FINE line. i decided to go for the grunge look (yeah, seattle!) and sported leggings with socks and hiking boots (as i left my metalic silver boots in new hampshire...), topped off with a flannel shirt tied under my breasts. it was not until our walk over to the house that it occured to me that i had worn the exact same outfit hiking on one of our class backpacking trips, except different socks. and the flannel wasn't tied under my breasts. throughout the party, there were movies projected on a giant screen (clueless, wayne's world, cool runnings) and great music (baby got back, spice girls, hanson, salt n peppa). I MISS MIDDLE SCHOOL DANCES.
aparently something that people like to do out here when they're ragin it is croud surf people. it starts with a couple people talking about who they're gonna get next. then it quickly and quietly spreads to the group, and all of a sudden, they come from behind and lift the unexpecting person up. lucy is a well-known and respected party person out here, so i'm in with the cool kids. she said that they were gonna get me. they did. i got surfed. BEST THING EVER!!! (totally going to bring this to green mountain...)
i only have classes on mondays and wednesdays. this upcoming monday is indigenous people's day (that's what they call colombus day out here...), so i don't have class thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, or tuesday. that is correct. six day weekend. I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! there's an optional field trip on sunday, though. i'm going. it's a peacekeeper workshop in tuscon, where i've never been. i'm gonna learn how to keep the peace. just doing my work as a hippie i gues....
it's almost 1 am east coast time, but only almost 10 here. it's crazy how much of a difference three hours can make. when you guys all turn the clocks it'll only be two hours, though. yeah, there's not daylight savings time here. arizona is kind of different...
stay kind. xo
i have to be honest, it's little overwhelming...
i wasn't sure what to name it, and i've been wanting a potato burrito (from maya's--best mexican food in prescott) for a couple days now, so i figured that potato burrito would suffice. also, i thought it was a nice mixing-up from little taco. which i thought i put, but maybe that was for something else. clearly, this is too technologically advanced for me to fathom...
i am ecstatic.
tonight the red sox game was on at 5:37 my time (8:37 eastern), and I have class from 6-8:15, so I have to depart for the walk to school around 5:40. i would have skipped class, but it's my favorite class, so i decided to suck it up and learn stuff. aka, i was not going to see the game. at all. BUT i decided to bring my computer to class and sit in the back and check the scores on mlb.com. of course, the building in which i have class is one of the two buildings that does not have wireless. luckily, my mum understands the dire need to know what happens in a red sox playoff game, so she texted me updates while i was in class. AND THEY WON!!!!!!
then i had to walk home alone in the dark. jacie's phone charger is broken, so i pretended to talk to her while i walked and clenched my knife in my sweatshirt pocket. i don't fuck around.
this past saturday night i went to a 90s party. while deciding what to wear, we realized that it's a fine line between late 80s and early 90s. Side ponies, stirrup pants, scrunchies... FINE line. i decided to go for the grunge look (yeah, seattle!) and sported leggings with socks and hiking boots (as i left my metalic silver boots in new hampshire...), topped off with a flannel shirt tied under my breasts. it was not until our walk over to the house that it occured to me that i had worn the exact same outfit hiking on one of our class backpacking trips, except different socks. and the flannel wasn't tied under my breasts. throughout the party, there were movies projected on a giant screen (clueless, wayne's world, cool runnings) and great music (baby got back, spice girls, hanson, salt n peppa). I MISS MIDDLE SCHOOL DANCES.
aparently something that people like to do out here when they're ragin it is croud surf people. it starts with a couple people talking about who they're gonna get next. then it quickly and quietly spreads to the group, and all of a sudden, they come from behind and lift the unexpecting person up. lucy is a well-known and respected party person out here, so i'm in with the cool kids. she said that they were gonna get me. they did. i got surfed. BEST THING EVER!!! (totally going to bring this to green mountain...)
i only have classes on mondays and wednesdays. this upcoming monday is indigenous people's day (that's what they call colombus day out here...), so i don't have class thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, or tuesday. that is correct. six day weekend. I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! there's an optional field trip on sunday, though. i'm going. it's a peacekeeper workshop in tuscon, where i've never been. i'm gonna learn how to keep the peace. just doing my work as a hippie i gues....
it's almost 1 am east coast time, but only almost 10 here. it's crazy how much of a difference three hours can make. when you guys all turn the clocks it'll only be two hours, though. yeah, there's not daylight savings time here. arizona is kind of different...
stay kind. xo
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