nothing to say

"nothing to say" by andrew peterson pretty much defines how i feel tonight. good song. haven't heard it? well that should change. i dunno... i think it has the greatest impact on me b/c of this crazy obsession i have w/ arizona, and the mountains, and just how GOOD God is. "and the mountains sing your glory, hallelujah. the canyons echo sweet amazing grace.... and i've got nothing to say..." yep. definitely good stuff.

today was a great day. i was stressed to pieces about this test that i had in my night class-- so naturally i had all day, or at least until 5:45, to worry about it, and when taking the test i could have kicked my own butt for studying TOO hard. argh! does that ever happen to you? needless to say, i think i did very well. afterward, i even had the most awesome convo w/ the prof about pc(usa) young adult oportunities, teaching, peace studies, ghost ranch, "living in the Spirit." oh man, it was great. definitely was another one of those convos that left me thinking "yeeeah... there's definitely a reason why i'm here." yep. definitely.

went for a nice walk in the rain tonight. w/ sandals. did i mention that this was cold rain, and leisha about froze her toes off. somehow they're still attached to the feet though... so no worries, friends! all will be okee dokee.

got a buncha books back today from the recent scholastic book order. i got a bum load of 'em! one of them was a spanish book order-- how frickin' cool is that!? needless to say, i got many books. oh i am such a book nerd. i love books though. i can't help it. if i believed in reincarnation i'd say that, in one of my past lives, i was a book. but i don't believe in reincarnation. so i'll just say that... well, i really like books. yep! that pretty much sums it up.

poetry alive! is here this week at bv, and the two performers performed (hmm, who'da thunk on that one!?) in my human relations class this morning. it rocked! the one gal got into poetry alive! from the professional acting side and the one guy got into it from being very active in poetry slams all across the us-of-a. he described to the class what poetry slams were b/c it seemed like nobody knew (i did though! a big ole' thanks to andy for the intro to taylor mali! more to come on that in a second). well, afterward, i asked him if he'd heard of taylor mali, and he said that he actually knew him personally from the diff. slam competitions and other places. wow, small world. so... i finally bought taylor mali's "convictions" album on itunes, and have listened to it not once, not twice, but like three times already. incredible. this guy truly rocks my socks off. i'm showing the "what teachers make" clip in class on wednesday in hopes that it'll inspire ann (great ed prof) to help me push to get taylor here at bv next year (which i know she'll be all for-- she's already excited about my excitement about him, lol). in the meantime i've been researching poetry slam stuff. yeah, definitely something i want to get into someday. at least be an audience for the cool word artists out there. hmmm... not many opps from little storm lake, ia, but maybe someday. yep, definitely someday.

think i'll hit the sack early tonight. wow... before midnight. *leisha pats herself on the back for getting to bed at a halfway decent-ish hour* nighty night to all!