well folks...

i'm off for the summer. MAINE HERE I COME! i can't wait to get there but i have a nine hour drive ahead of me. it's so worth it.

i hope everyone has a great summer full of adventure, learning, and fun fun fun!

the rare moments when i'm going to have internet access, i'll try and update. i know it will happen at least once a month because i have to pay my bills...

see you in september!

note to american idol

i'm very upset.
i don't want to talk to you right now.

this is what i do when i'm packing

as i was putting my books in a box, i found my old poetry journal. i haven't written in it for over two years. but i thought it would be interesting to go back and read some of the old stuff. i am often quite embarrassed at some of the things i wrote. but i figure if i felt it at one point, if it was truth at one moment, it shouldn't be thrown away. i also remembered my days as a member of the dead poet's society at southwestern. one of the last themes of the group when i was a member was to write something about your name. so, i looked up the different meanings of 'kyle' and infused some insights to make my poem. i thought it would be fun (or funny) to share it here. feel free to mock if you think it's simplistic and/or mundane or any other adjective. i do actually like this one (at least i'm not terribly embarrassed by it ... those will forever stay in that journal i found and never be shared!). hmm, i wonder if it's a bit of egocentrism coming out in that the poem i chose to share was all about my own name. could be. could also be the other non-embarrassing poems are too personal or written about other people and too intimate to share or explain.


kyle

a handsome name
not entirely feminine
source of confusion
for those who don't know the subject

not only a label
but also an identity
narrow, sylvan and sacred
not always victorious

seeker of new things
of laurel crowns
and recognition of womanhood
don't be deceived ... for what's truly in a name?

haha, okay, so maybe it is a little embarrassing but i've already written too much about it so i'm going to leave it!

a good feeling

today is going to be my last day working at the papery for a long while. i might go back in september but i don't know yet. depends on if i find a church. and if i think i can stand working for the manager again. don't get me wrong, i love it there. the owner and my co-workers are super great. just have a hard time with the management. but this is not why i'm writing this post. i'm writing because it's going to be nice to not have to work for two and a half weeks. and the next job i'm going to i absolutely love ... so exciting things are in my future. this summer is going to be good for me. i can just tell.

Big Blues signify the beginning of the big blues

we went out for the blue margaritas tonight. Big Blues. our friend ann's favorite. this was a kind of last hoo-rah before the departure for the summer. but the sad thing is that i don't get to go to school with ann again until the year after next year. and even sadder, a lot of people don't get to go to school with her any more. sad. the other kind of blues. big time.

note to self

you cannot lock yourself out of the dorm any more.
the people who let you in are mostly gone.
and the others might be m.i.a.
so, just don't do it.
take your card.

my favorite clever moment of the day (perhaps my only one)

friend says: when are your finals

i say: right now; this paper on evil is my last thing and then i'm done

friend says: so you're solving the big problem of evil finals

i say: oh, solving the evil of finals is too big for me. i can only do theodicy of evil in the world, not in academia.

i laughed at least.

the answers (cause i don't think anyone else is going to guess)

if you do still want to play,
don't read this post.
scroll down to the one before and guess!

1. such great heights - iron and wine (good job emily!)
2. i will follow - u2
3. only hope - caedmon's call
4. amazed - lonestar (good effort nicole!)
5. the first time - u2
6. wonderful king - david crowder
7. where the blacktop ends - keith urban
*the real number seven was supposed to be "belle" by jack johnson*
8. eight days a week - the beatles
9. down home - alabama (sorry jenny, not johnny cash)
10. magic - ben folds five

i do have to admit that i probably would have only gotten half of these if i played...

in other news, i got second place in the train game! CHOO CHOO!