i wanted to share with you all my favorite poem:

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.

Women and men (both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed (but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then) they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain


e. e. cummings


now you all enjoyed that, right? ;-)

the weather in buckhannon is messed UP! sweltering heat for days on end, followed by monsoon season. now it's cold again. you can't win with this place...

tis the season for farewells at wesleyan. graduation is a bitch, especially when you're in a close knit organization like alpha gamma delta and kappa phi. everyone makes me cry with all their goodbyes, so i'm all emotional. i'll be glad to be done with that, but i'm not ready to leave yet. i feel like i lost part of my semester, with all the time spent pledging and with our semester ending at the beginning of may and all. *sigh* oh well...

do you ever just sit in class and wonder why you're there? i'm in anthropology right now, and it is a pile of worthless crap. our teacher is very old, dr. peterson, and he loves computers. he puts together these 100+ slide power points and just cycles through them during class while he talks out his ass about completely irrelevant things. he puts in such ridiculous pictures and things that i just shake my head... today, he's talking about change. he put in a picture titled "what the cast of friends might look like in 25 years." it was a digital picture in which each cast member had been ballooned up to about 300 pounds. funny, yes, but relevant and/or appropriate for anthropology class, no. thank goodness i only have one more week of classes. yes, my school lets out the first week of may this year, for some insane reason or another. i'll be home after about the 4th of may, so give me a call... i'll be 21 then ;-)

well, last week was greek week here at wesleyan. that's when the sororitys and fraterneties compete in athletic events and otherwise for the title of greek week champs. alpha gamma delta sure as hell didn't win, in fact, we were fourth of four sororities, but we still kicked butt in several events. we won bowling, billiards, water polo, tug of war (the event i participated in) and SPING SING! spring sing is our best event, a competition including props, moves, and all sorts of stuff. this years theme was wesley days, the 50's. we rocked that place (without my clumsy butt on stage, of course). did you notice that all but one of the events we won were nonathletic? go gams!

two weeks of school left before exams. i'm anxious, because i'm behind in my minorities course without the chance of really bringing my grade back up. it's just been such a busy semester that i can't believe it's over so soon. it really stresses me. i have soooo much junk and nowhere to put it. looks like i should start shopping for a storage unit. again.

room selection is tonight. lauran howard and i are rooming together, and we have lottery number 67. not too bad, but i'm afraid we aren't going to get a good room. cross your fingers for us!

i was initiated last night! finally! sleep, you will be mine... hopefully. well, my pledge class is in a lot of trouble for some practical jokes the other night (much tp was distributed around the frats) so we've been trying to help neighbors clean up what blew into their yards. it would have been a lot easier to have just slept that night and forgotten the whole ordeal, but it was fun. nothing like 3:30 am in the yard of a frat house to get your blood pumping. other than that, i'm doing ok. i'm about 25 essays behind in global minorities, but the man is insane. he expects like 8 essays a week in there, and it's nearly impossible to keep up. it's greek week, but the only event i'm in is tug of war, because i'm the least athletic person i know. oh well, wish me luck!

ugh. the day from hell following the week from hell. several bad things happened last week, the most interesting of which was the night my ferret tried to eat my gerbil. he somehow knocked the gerbil's play tubes off of his cage, leaving an open hole in the side. the gerbil then jumped down into the ferret's cage (yes, i now see that the gerbil should not have been sitting on the ferret's cage, but it's too late now). the ferret began to chase the gerbil around the cage, squeaking loudly the whole time. the raquet woke me up, and i ran to see what was wrong. when i grabbed ricky, my ferret, the gerbil tried to escape through the side of the cage and got stuck. when i tried to grab him and save his life, he bit me with all he had in him. blood ran down my hand while the gerbil escaped into my room. after wrapping my finger to stauch the flow, i threw a trash can over him and pinned him. i finally got him in his cage and got to bed.

flash forward to today. nick and i were driving 3 of his siblings from chicago to buckhannon in his car when, 45 miles west of columbus OH, the exhaust system broke in half behind the catalytic converter. it was terrible, with the noise, and the cold from having the windows rolled down. we had to stop at a garage to have the pipe wired up so it wouldn't drag the ground. the whole ordeal set us back nearly 2 hours or more, so i just got back to school a little over an hour ago. i can hardly hear, and my body is nearly humming. i wouldnt' recommend driving without anything attached in the exhaust system.

so now you know why if you see me and i seem kinda tired/pissy/rude that i just haven't recovered. a little weekend off wasn't going to do it for me wesleyan, thanks but no thanks.