Snuggling Honey

How do nights keep getting away from me? I had such a productive day, and then I got back to my room at 8:00 (two hours ago now) with the intent of reading more of The Aeneid... and somehow I haven't done anything in the meantime. Except submit a story to the school literary magazine. I guess that's something.

I am tired. Not sleep-deprivation tired, just exhausted. I've been sick for a few days - well, since Saturday night, really - and it just has knocked life out of me. I've had to resort to drinking tea. This is how you know I'm in pain.

Also, okay, slight detour to rant: I bought some day-time cold medicine at the student store today, and it cost $8.50! What?! There's no way it should be that expensive. They extort us poor dying students with no cars and nowhere else to go. Bah, I say. BAH.

(Because colds evidently turn me into an angry sheep. We are not surprised.)

[... an angry sheep who refers to herself by the Royal We.]

Okay. Enough parentheticals.

Anyway. My goals for the weekend were to get more sleep and do a lot of homework. I kind of failed at both. But it was a good weekend, at any rate. I spent Saturday in the set-shop, learning how to use power-tools and saws and things. It will be empowering, I think, once I learn how to not be afraid of everything. That said, it was a fabulous time. The crew is made up of a bunch of really fun people and we had a blast. I can't really remember what I did on Saturday night; possibly some homework, possibly some procrastination. Sunday followed its regular routine with church and brunch. I came back to my room at around 2, did some homework, and then fell asleep for three hours. I really don't remember much after that; yesterday was not my best day, health- and conscious-wise. Oh! I do remember that I went to the floor Bible study last night. My RA started one, and only four or five of us go... but it's really nice. I look forward to it all Sunday.

Today I knocked out quite a few things on my daily to-do list (I fill a page with bullet-points every day - only about half of them get crossed off by the time I go to bed. But the knowledge of that inevitability doesn't stop me from writing them all out, anyway.). Not anything fascinating enough to write about; I just wanted you to know that I worked hard. ;) I did do a pretty cool project for my Theater Survey class, however. Our assignment was "create a visual response to Trojan Women", so I made a collage comprised of images of Oxnard and Troy together. Under the torn edges of these pictures, I put a picture of my face that someone took during a mime presentation - it's a very dramatic, anguished sort of face. (I thought this was appropriate because, first of all, it's a very dramatic, anguishing sort of play; but also because in class we've been talking about how masks were used in traditional Greek theater, because the Greeks felt that masks were actually more expressive than a naked human face.) And along the side, looking very stern and shadowy, is Athena - whom the Trojans were not particularly fond of. Anyway... I like it. ;)

The weather has gotten a bit warmer - today it was about 70 degrees. Or so they said. It felt much cooler than that, but I think that's due to the breeze. In any case, it's been sunny, which is nice. And I can see the stars at night again. The moon is also coming back around - in a few nights, I should be able to see her from my window again.

Time for more tea. I wish I had honey... hm. I'll have to think of a way to smuggle some out of the cafeteria. (The first time I wrote "snuggle". I like honey but I don't think I'd like to snuggle with it.)

Alright. Tea and reading. Goodnight.