Rain and rambling.

I think that my schedule these days is pretty much ideal. Mornings when I don't have class are spent eating whatever I baked the day before and watching Star Trek. Afternoons have been sunny, so I lie on the grass in the soccer field and read a book or doodle around on my guitar or play baseball. Some evenings I work at my dad's restaurant, as a host/bus person.
Today was gorgeous, so I took my blanket and my Harry Potter out to the field, but after a few minutes it started to rain, so I escaped back to my living room. It's pouring now, but the sun hasn't stopped shining. This may be my favorite weather in the world.

Last night I was thinking about the haircut I gave myself a few weeks ago, and decided to chop a little more off. Now I look a bit like this (only, y'know, not as damp, usually).

My roommate loaned me a CD called The Ploughman's Lunch, and it's just lovely sweet folkiness. I urge everyone reading this to find it somewhere and listen.

Baseball and birthdays

My roommates and I have been playing baseball lately, because the days are beautiful and it's unthinkable to stay inside. None of them are very good, me least of all, but we have lots of fun. On Thursday I was trying to catch a ball, but it went past my glove and hit me on the leg really hard, and now I have a very impressive bruise on the side of my shin.

I've been asked what I want for my birthday, and I always have trouble thinking of things, but some stuff that it would be nice to have is as follows:
+ parts for my skateboard (I got just the board in like November, and I've never gotten around to getting wheels or trucks or anything, which is hampering my ability to learn)
+ an amp for my electric guitar (nothing fancy, just so I can hear what I'm playing)
+ a case for my elecrtic guitar (hard or soft; just something in which to tote it)
+ an external hard drive
+ gift certificates/cards for groceries (unglamorous, I know, but that's mostly where I spend my money. Top Foods and Safeway are the stores near me.)
+ and of course the usual miscellaneous books, movies, and music

I had a conversation a while ago with a friend of mine, and we determined that we needed to have a Teddy Bear Picnic out in the soccer field on campus, wherein everyone brings their favorite stuffed animal, and we eat tiny cakes with our tea. We both thought it was a brilliant plan, but never got around to organizing it, so now I think that this will be the concept behind my birthday. I think that it will be lovely.

Mum's the word

First of all, happy Mother's Day to all of my various female relatives who read this. I'm currently sitting in my father's restaurant taking family photos for customers to take home. It's fun, if a little boring, and I get free food, so I have no objection.

Requests were made for interesting things about my life, so here's what I can think of...I dyed my hair green a couple of weeks ago, as a part of my costume for the Procession of the Species, which is an annual event in my town. I was a part of Samba OlyWa, a local drumming/dance group, and our whole group was dressed as "a country meadow," which basically just meant that we wore a lot of green. The color is mostly faded now, so it just sort of looks like a bleaching job gone horribly wrong.

Classes going well; I just wrote a really stressful paper that's mostly all done, which is quite the relief. I'm not quite clear on what we're doing for the rest of the quarter, but it's possible we're going to do a 30-mile march at the end of the month.

My roommates are all out of town for the weekend, hanging with their parents and girlfriends, so my place is sort of empty at the moment. I considered doing a massive cleaning project at the apartment, but instead I slept in and then went to a friend's house to watch Harry Potter. I think I made the right decision. The rest of them were playing a drinking game we made up, wherein one takes a drink when any of a predetermined set of cliches is onscreen. Nothing like tipsy geeks for entertainment.

I'm still not sure what I'm doing this summer; I'd like to go to Alaska, but I'd also like to take a class that lasts all summer, so I don't know what exactly I'm going to do about that. We shall see, we shall see...