Fair.

i've been gone for a while, i'll be back for a while now...

I can be one of those people who will listen to the same song on repeat literally for hours. I'm sorry. For whatever reason I just don't get bored. This can be an issue in the printmaking lab, when I am happy to listen to the same cd for 3 hours, or two weeks...

For whatever reason I find it therapeutic. I kind of get into like a rhythm or a mind set that keeps me on track. When I am cleaning up, I like to listen to the same song until I am done. Almost like a contest for myself, I see how many plays it will take to get the job done. Well, I had some cleaning to get done on Tuesday night, and I just listened to Ben Folds Five: Fair, for the whole time. What a good song. I remember riding in the Monte Carlo with Luke: him driving way too fast, the windows down, the girls in the back seat, and being so happy to exist. It made it OK to exist this week. Finals week

It's the end again, and I only have one more semester to go. I'm trying really hard to not wish away this time.

Mallori and I have been reading "he's just not that into you". I think it's really great to read books out loud. One time Jessica, and I read Oscar and the Lady in Pink, out loud, by the end I could hardly get through it we were both crying so hard. Well, with he's just not that into you, we're crying for different reasons. Just kidding, we aren't crying, but our eyes have been opened. Thanks Greg. We also watched Down With Love. Thanks Ewan.

I'm a little jealous of my dear friend Miranda, because she just got engaged, and not that I am looking to be engaged, but she kept saying the other day how happy she was to never have to date ever again... get asked out by weirdy guys, never the awkward end of the date door thing, weird maybe relationships, blah blah blah... she'll have her own new obstacles, but no more dating. That lucky little devil. I hate dating. Again, trying to be positive and not wish all these great times away...

i'm the little pink one and I am not amused.

Also, Mallori, my roommate, p.a., and best friend moves on August 25. For good. Ouch! I have friends... sort of... it looks like I'm just going to be working a lot. A reclusive textile designer at the precarious age of twenty-three.

songs I currently can listen to on repeat for several hours:

• Ben Folds: Fair
• Feist: Mushaboom, I Feel It All
• Aimee Mann: Deathly
• Jon Brion: Strings that Tie to You
• Mark Mothersbaugh: Zissou Society Blue Star Cadet, Spark-plug Minuet
• Pinback: Good to Sea
• Andrew Bird: Imitosis, Glass Figurine
• The Whitest Boy Alive: Golden Cage
• Sufjan Stevens: The Henney Buggy Band, No Mans Land
• Coldplay: Lost
• Broken Social Scene: Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
• Vince Guaraldi: Thanksgiving Theme
• Devotchka: The Winner Is
• Badly Drawn Boy: I love N.Y.E
• Asher in the Rye: The Knack
• The Shins: Phantom Limb

I'm really happy this week is pretty much over. I'm ready to get some serious work done.