too much reading material!

and i've made a good dent in the 18 books that i got for christmas too. add a subscription to the new yorker onto that, and you get the overload of stuff i need to be reading. i used to dedicate my lunch hours to reading the new yorker, but since the weather has been nice i've been walking around university city during lunch and visiting my favorite fruit truck, leaving my new yorkers to pile up on both my desk at work and at home. i'm glad this is the only thing i really have to worry about at this point in my life.

i attempted to get through the bill bryson book about english that nick gave me, but after about three weeks of falling asleep on the train within 10 minutes of reading it, i decided to give it up and put it on the "already read" shelves of my bookcase. it's alright, nick knows and is not insulted. so now i'm on to the best nonrequired reading of 2005 (that nick also gave me (over four years together has taught him to shower me in books and not flowers (actually he figured this out within like 6 months). although he does realize that i will accept chocolate anytime, or salt, although i have been lectured to repeatedly after my blood test results came back and (surprisingly) i am at the upper end of normal for sodium content in my blood. i am fully aware that this is due to my undying love for salt on all things (and also from eating the salt at the bottom of every pretzel bag i have ever finished since i was six. however, i must say that i truly thought i was counteracting the extra salt by drinking an obscene amount of water afterwards, thinking it would absorb the extra salt and all would be good. apparently this is not how the human body works)). i LOVED the best nonrequired reading of 2004, so getting the 2005 edition for christmas was awesome. i'm only about four stories in, but so far, excellent.

also i started grad school a few weeks ago, and so far have gotten out about an hour early every time. playing with quark and learning the difference between and em dash, en dash, and hyphen (which i already knew actually) is certainly very fun and exciting. next week we start with illustrator and apparently we will all be very frustrated and it will be great (this is exactly what my prof said). grad school is actually just a reassurance that i am a huge nerd (since i also knew a font that had lower case numbers (georgia, which is actually the font i'm using now! yes!). ahhh fonts.

freckle season has commenced

at my funeral, i insist that someone play a killer version of whiter shade of pale on an organ. not only would it be fitting, but would also set a nice mood.

on a related (irish) note, thanks to the frisbee game on sunday and sitting outside during lunch today, freckle season has officially begun.

now i'm not really lying when i use my drexel id for a student discount

i just looked at that picture i have of beans sitting in my bathroom sink from a few posts ago and he looks really evil. ha wow. so today was our second frisbee game of the spring league, and to my surprise, i didn't feel like falling asleep on the couch as soon as i walked in the door. however it must be sad for my teammates that after playing defensive positions in sports all of my life, i have very little ability to even pretend like i know how to play offensively and cut and all of that. sorry team a6 and summer league team yet to be named (although if we get ed on our team, i'm sure he'll just tell me (and everyone else for that matter, because we need it) where and when to run and cut). i'm really just excited for my tshirt and frisbee that come along with the fee.

so grad school started this week and i actually had a really good time. and no homework like ever (except for a few announced quizzes and one project that we work on in class for the whole quarter (i'm still getting used to this weird quarter system at drexel. i think i call it something different every day - quarters, terms, semesters. whatever)). the first class we just played with quark for like two hours and then he let us go about 45 minutes early. yesssss. i am also blessed that stephi has a night class on thursdays too and she is graciously driving me home so i don't have to wait around for the 9:40pm train and ride home with the lunatics of the world.

it needs to start getting warmer out so i can sit outside at lunch and read on a bench. that or walk to the yummy fruit truck by penn hospital. it's only $2 for a small fruit salad (which is actually huge) and the woman throws in a free banana. and the fruit is delicious! it's so fresh. ahh lunch trucks, i love you.