three o' thirty

i'm at panera.
they gave me free coffee and free yogurt. and a coupon for a free coffee next time i'm here.

i don't know if you know this already, but: panera's coffee rocks. give me some half and half with that hazelnut, maybe a dash of honey (yep, honey in my coffee, judge if you want)...and it's great.

my original intention was to highlight more in my screenwriting book while i'm here, but i didn't pack another color highlighter. i have used blue and orange so far, and i wanted to use green next...maybe purple. but i only have blue right now, so i can't do that homework just yet.

so here i am.

the sun is rather warm. i'm sitting next to the window and am sweating. part of it due to the coffee, part of it due to the knee-high socks, mostly due to the sun-through-glass thing.

last night i watched 3 hours of 30 rock
now i have to make goals for my dance classes.

i love my homework.

5 6 7 8

tomorrow i get to wear these in class.

i'm more than excited.

this is the first real week of school. and i'll actually be here all weekend. what a strange concept, to be in one city for more than five days at a time. that hasn't happened since the beginning of december. welcome to laura's life.

my aunt and cousins hung out with me yesterday and it was wonderful. my aunt brought my little starbucks buddies, too. made me smile.

baby ketchup...so precious.

my bamboozle is growing a lot. that make me happy. last friday i got to see two besties in lawrence. so great. i love that codi lives so near to me. makes life a little bit easier.

i do not want to drive to topeka. i want to be there and have our family dinner, but i do not want to be on the highway again.

well, you know, we all wanna change the world.

twenty three

i went to vegas and came home a winner.
$23.
total, if i had not been greedy, i would have brought home $50. but i gambled money i won away before i could cash out. cest la vie.

vegas. it's interesting to think that people stay there longer than a few days at a time. it is truly its own culture. i feel bad for those who make a living there and deal out cards day in and day out in uncomfortable fancy clothes (or bras and skirts, if you're a pcd girl). watching people drink away and gamble away their money...often times simultaneously.

smoke. alcohol. nudity. money. insanity. lights. timeless.

when you are in vegas, time is relative. you can never be quite sure if it is day or night unless you are outside. no one stops gambling, no one stops dancing, no one stops drinking. it's a constant state of escape. i am not surprised at how popular it is for a getaway destination.

i just want everyone there to know that their lives are worth something.

i'm purchasing tights, leotards, and dance shoes this weekend. i am beyond excited about this.

also, i have recently decided that i will be a writer for the rest of my life.

so, good luck with that, self.

mac and cheese wednesday. oh, how i love thee. i only get maybe 8-10 more of them.

gotta make 'em count.

el six es oh nine

bloggin. noggin.

here it goes.

today i found my ipod guy that keeps track of my running. i guess my vaca from running has come to an end. last time i ran? may. hopefully i'll be able to do a lot better this semester with my five roomies on my tail.

moving back into the sorority for the final time. so weird. i'm growing up, growing old, and moving on. no clue for what the future is, and that's fine.

just a little terrifying.

today i realized that i have a lot of shoes. i also am a terrible pack rat. so i also threw away a lot of receipts and random things that i've held on to for apparently some strange reason.

i'm going to color organize my dvds soon, which makes me excited. just like codums and simon have their books in their lovely new home in l-town. which is so very close to me. so much closer than chi-town. and i love that.

las vegas in two days.
new york city in a month and a half.
st. louis and ft. worth this semester, i hope.

good times.

let's get this party started.