Deluges of Books and Water-- A.K.A Welcome to Winter Term

       Hello, all. Its Monday. The beginning of the third week of winter term, and I am completely overloaded with assignments. And we all know what that means! A new blog from me to you while I procrastinate. (I'm doing laundry while I write, so that makes it okay, right? Right? Guys?) Not to mention, I needed a coffee cure to the monday blues, so I'll be up all night anyway. And trust me when I say I needed the coffee.. it wasn't a desire, it was a need. You try sitting through six solid hours of 400 level linguistics classes and let me know how your brain feels. Moral of the story- Mondays suck.
       While I still have your attention, I'll apologize for the inordinately long previous post. Obviously, I get a little excited about the Peace Corps. Long story short: I finally got to start my application, I still won't even know if I'm accepted for about another year, and, oh yeah.. I'm really freaking excited. Thats pretty much it. =)
       So, the last few weeks have been a blur. I can only hope the rest of winter term goes by this fast. Unfortunately, this has resulted in my room looking like a class five tornado just ripped through it. There is laundry everywhere (though hopefully that gets taken care of tonight), jewelry and shoes scattered everywhere, and books covering every conceivable surface. I kid you not. You remember this scene from the Beauty and the Beast?

Yeah. My room is like that. But less organized. And with more clothes on the floor.
      Now, I'm not above admitting that I always dreamed of one day having a library like that. I just had always imagined that the books would be... ones I actually enjoyed reading. I mean, like the ones that you go back and read again and again. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Diary of Anne Frank. And sure, maybe I would throw in Paradise Lost or Dante's Inferno just to be pedantic, (I love that word, by the way. I also love pairing it with "pontificate" and "prodigious". Alliteration is the shit, and words are fascinating) but it wouldn't matter, because I wouldn't actually have to spend hours trudging through it unless I wanted to.

In other news, I almost died a couple days ago. Okay, so I didn't really almost die.. but my town did flood.

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 Finally, it has stopped raining. The river is receding, and so far as I've heard the damage was really pretty minimal. But living across the street from a river during a flood is.. a little terrifying. Especially when you hear about nearby towns evacuating. But no worries. We're all fine here. Unless you count the 20 extra minutes that it takes me to get to Salem until all the roads open back up.
     Anyway.. just a short update for you all. Time to get back to work. =(     I've got the start of another blog in my head, so I'm sure I'll be back here before long.
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