currently

surfing the 'net to find my dream home (ahem.... dream arizona home) while wearing hot pink banananana socks. oh, while doing laundry, as well.

so here's a play-by-play of what my "spring break" has looked like so far.

• lots of duty phone-answering and running up and down the stairs to open the doors for people whose id cards were not activated for some silly reason or another. great exercise.
• got a call from a guy who lives in pierce (why he called the swope phone, i have nooooo idea) so i got to walk over there and open the door. gosh, this ra thing... there's a lot of power in this id card, let me tell you.
• watched "13 going on 30" which is an absolutely adorable movie. (we'll forget about me trying to hit "open" numerous times on the vcr... when the movie was actually a dvd and i really wanted to open the dvd thingajig. geesh.)
• my knee went out while trying to stand up last night. didn't feel too purdy.
• woke up at 7:30am on a saturday morning for no reason at all. had a phone call from a resident needing to be let into the building at 9:30, so it was just as well.
• semi-shaved my legs. did a really pathetic job of it though so it's really nothing to get too worked up about.
• went to subway, ate (which is typically what people do at subway, unless they're working, which i have done a number of times, but sometime during the course of working at least some eating is involved), went to wally world, got lots and lots of food w/ the fabulous $ given to me for being on break duty. got tons of fruit, a thing of milk, more fruit, yogurt, cottage cheese, more fruit, a bag of light chips (i plan to make this bean dip stuff so i figured i may as well have some semi-healthy chips to eat w/ it), more fruit, and applesauce (fruity). gosh i am such a fruity gal.
• prior to wally world, we (jodes and i) drove by two young men dressed in black dress clothes. "why don't we pick them up?" i asked jodes. jodes basically ended up saying that they were jehovah's witnesses and i, facetiously, said something along the lines of "yeah jody, but they're cute jehovah's witnesses." not exactly within my nature to say something like that, but the idea of the two of us picking up two jehovah's witnesses (let alone young male ones) sort of cracked me up. wonder where those conversations would end up.
• went to salt & light and looked around for a little while. gosh i looooooooooove christian bookstores-- there's nothing like them. it's a refuge and a ministry and just a home away from home.
• got busy doin' laundry.

oh and it's warm outside today. yes, a blizzard yesterday, and warmth today. for some reason i am just not surprised. it's almost like being in mexico. speaking of mexico, on tv last night (yes, i actually had the tv on for a little while!!!-- watched one of the spanish stations, mostly, *smiles*) there was a spring break in cancun dealybob on... made me want to sort of be there... well, not necessarily at cancun, but perhaps acupulco, or playa del carmen, or isla de mujeres (it's right by cancun, but is a little more quiet and definitely cheaper but still w/ a great oceanside view!), or... i'm probably forgetting a million places. mexico in general sounds good. some of my japanese friends will be going to tijuana for a day (they're staying in san diego) over break which sounds so wonderful to me. i taught them how to say "i don't speak spanish" en español just in case anybody would think otherwise. (haha!) who would've ever thought that i'd love tijuana!? but i'm so glad i went on the trip last easter w/ the bv group. gosh. mexico. hmph. want...to...travel. would also like some money with which to travel but i can't have it all at once, now can i. oh well. that's what an imagination is for. i shall walk outside and imagine that i am in mexico on a beach. which really wouldnt be too far from the truth considering storm lake is 50% hispanic and there's a lake w/ a semi-itty-bitty-quasi-beach right by campus and all along town. but that'd be pretty optimistic to think of, methinks.

well now that i've updated you on my exciting spring break so far. back to working on this religion & culture quiz. oh, memories of shields' ap english class junior year of high school... talking about transcendentalism... shields encouraging us all to drop out of school and go live out in nature for the rest of our lives. we'd be much better off that way. gosh that was a great class, and definitely the greatest teacher i've ever had and, i think, will ever have... memories...