the future.

i've started to think that maybe one day i will have a dog. in fact, i'm getting really excited to think that one day i will have a permanent address that's not my parents', but my own permanent address...my own home, a place where i will live for more than 10 months.

after some thought, i'm thinking that i would love to have...

a brittany spaniel...



....or a cavalier king charles spaniel...



...we'll see.

my mantra...

When peace like a river attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

early.

this song is rattling around in my brain tonight...

i walked the long way to see if maybe i'd run into you.
it was the wrong way, because baby i should be running from you.
running hard the other way...cuz if i don't then i might stay.

please, don't come around no more. please, don't call me.

it continues...

Oh, I live in...um, oh...wait..uh. Oh! Boston.

Seriously, I do sometime forget that I live in Boston because I spend so much time in my room doing homework.

Although this morning, because of the WONDERFUL SPRING weather (!!) I chose to get off the T in a slightly different part of town and walk the rest of the way home. It was stunning. I'm looking forward to this new spring weather because it means I can go on long walks! Not just the daily walk to school (which, by the way, I love)...but actual walks through the Back Bay Fens...through the Common...oh, spring come! Spring break, come, so I can take friends on these walks too! (oh yes! i wanted to say hi to the secret-reader of my blog, christye)

future.

i'm trying to fall asleep, but can't get this image out of my mind, so i thought i'd blog about it.

seattle. a beautiful day. coming home from work (hopefully at children's hospital or boyer children's clinic or something like that). a small, cute house in queen anne. a house where i live with a few friends. having a porch. plopping down on that porch swing with someone i care about (preferably janae...though i could definitely think of a few other people i'd like to sit with as well.) making myself some coffee with amazing caffe fiore beans and sipping it from one of my various mugs that reminds me of someone special or someplace i've been. watching the afternoon shift into evening.

i so look forward to this. one day, it will come again.

9 days to go.

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer."

And the sun will shine out the clearer...and spring break WILL come.

a true west coast versus east coast moment

tonight i was walking past REI and happened to overhear the following conversation:

boy 1: yeah, REI usually has pretty good stuff.
boy 2: wait, what's that store called?
boy 1: REI.
boy 2: oh, never heard of it.

i hope all west coast (and specifically seattle-ites) will laugh at that.