tWo

Back two years. Gone by so fast. It's strange how things work out.

I look the same as I did when leaving. Except my hair isn't blue lol. Just white.


Um, yah that's it.

Quiet

It gets so cold when it's quiet.

I'm freezing.

So fast fast fast!

This year is flying by and I'm not even paying attention anymore. I look forward to my weekends at the Dharma Center, dinners with Enam, and clay class on Mondays and Wednesdays. And, of course, going in to clay class on Tuesdays and Thursdays when no one else is there.

It feels like it should only be the beginning of October.

Phew!

Prospects

I'm loving going to the Dharma Center every week now. It feels so homey and peaceful, and people don't look at you critically out of the corner of their eyes, like at so many other religious centers.

KTC is awesomeness and I'm eternally grateful for it, and for finding it.

o mani peme hung

ooooh yeah!

ship shape

I had such a strange dream last night. My sister told me that I was using too much toilet paper when I went to the bathroom. She said I was being wasteful. It reminded me of when I was a little kid and an uncle told me that when I went potty at his house, I was to use only four squares of toilet paper; any more and I would get in trouble for wasting.

So strange.

Ten cannonballs

So, I was at clay class night and had to go potty. I'm walking down the halls of the college I'm at, (read that, college, oh yes) and coming out of the men's bathroom is a professor, maybe mid 40s age. With his belt unbuckled and his pants unzipped. He takes a quick glance at me and immediately grabs his nether region, knowing that he didn't finish up on his potty break.

The funnier part of this was that his shirt and hair were all disheveled. Like, he had just gotten some in the bathroom from a student. Fellow professor. Or janitor. Whatever.

It's only the second week of school, but I guess some people are already in bad need of better grades.

nine oh nien danka

So I watched the Republican National Convention last night, just as I watched the Democratic one last week.

It was like watching a dog and pony show at a PTA meeting. I mean, are you serious?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check

Eight

I always wonder about reading. Why do I read so much? Why not more tv or video games or computer games?
Eh.
It's getting to where I read 2 books a week. Like, 400 page books. The ladies at the library are looking at me funny. And I doubt it's because I have henna on my arms, and when it has faded some, it looks like I have a skin disease. I come back the next day and it's fresh, once again!

Now I'm reading The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne. I'm really into British writers right now. Next I'm off to The Dowry Wife.

Ooooh, fascinating, I know!

Seven

It's so strange getting set up on a date with someone that you don't even know, that doesn't even speak the same language as yourself.

That happened to me on Sunday. A friend of my mother's married an Arab from Jordan. He has three sons, of which she adopted right after the marriage. Myself, mom, and mom's friend were all having lunch this past Sunday. The friend told me that she had just gotten the approval from immigration for the adoption, which she applied for years and years ago. Now it is her duty to find wives for her new three sons, of which has been given to her from her husband.

She told me that her oldest son and I would be perfect together. But he doesn't speak English. And I'm 5 years older than him.

I told her that I'd corrupt him. Somehow. Oh yeah.

Six

I finally got my gift card to Barnes & Noble in the mail. I should have gotten it about two months ago. It came from one of those point reward systems that I have through my AmEx. I had to call and put in about a month ago to complain, stating that I had not received it yet.

Crappy part about them, however, is that the number they have stated ONLINE, is to a mortgage company. AHAHHA. Seriously now? And the lady at the mortgage said that she gets calls all the time asking for AmEx. When I finally did get in touch with them, I told them that the number they have online is incorrect and they said they'd look into it.

I wonder how long that is going to take them.