still being unproductive*

*give me a break, ok?

i've been spoiled with packages in the mail the last two days. i'm talking actual packages-- not just envelopes-- and the type that get sent to mail and printing services because they're too big to fit into my mailbox. oh yes, the type i like! yesterday, it was a package of 3 wonderful-looking books and a card from allen (yahoo; mail from canada!). today, it was two packages of books from amazon.com (i'm an addict, guys, but i suppose there are worse things) and... well, something rather unexpected. anybody ever heard of a pajamagram before? i hadn't either. the return address said it was from vermont, yet it wasn't a product of one of my amazon escapades, and although i don't know anybody from vermont, i knew it had to be from somebody i know. opened it up, found a few neat goodies in the box. a potpourri sachet, a fun door hanger that says "relaxation in progress: i'm taking a mini-vacation" and other sayings around the edges, a fabulous peppermint foot scrub/pumice stone, a sewn bookmark that said to: leisha, from: ol shep HPC. hmm... ol shep? hpc? ok, so who do i know that goes by the nickname ol shep (or what deeper meaning might the name have?) from hpc (my church camp), ok, that narrows it down. then i saw a card with a typed message in it: "just a little care for those tired feet and thanks for heartfelt thoughts. wheels on the bus." ah-ha! somebody from service partnership this summer (we sang wheels on the bus only about fifty million times that week)! got to thinking about who it could be, and realized only one person has my school address. oh, man! what the heck did i do to deserve two packages in the mail on two different days from two awesome, different people!? life's funny. and i've been smilin' nonstop.

this evening was the RA picnic and time to hang out at one of the parks in town. instead of driving, a few friends and i walked there-- bare-footed! (it's about 2 miles from campus) i'd tried to get people to join me in a barefooted movement here on campus, and it's caught on with a couple of guy staffers in g/l. heck yeah! got there-- veggie burgers were on the grill for the 2 (wait, now 3! i've converted somebody!!! :)) vegetarians, ate, then went straight to throwing around the frisbee with the guys. oh, man. good times, and as usual, i surprised the heck out of them ("wow, leisha knows how to throw!"). sweated up a nice little storm until everyone had died out but nate and i, and then we moved on to the game of bocce ball that was going on with some others. when we got back to the food area, i had ice shoved down the back of my shirt by deb (director of res life), and i lovingly passed along the favor to others. you can imagine what happened from there. more good times, of course. 5 of us ended up walking back together, talking and joking and enjoying the wonderfully-weathered evening.

another great thing from today: I FINALLY HAVE CARPET!!!!!! a gal put an ad in bvu news saying she wanted to sell hers, and i responded immediately. that was this morning, and it was delivered to me by her tonight. how i'm going to actually get it down onto the floor, i haven't the slightest clue. but at least i've got carpet now. now i won't have to walk in the room and think "ugh, sucky, cold, impersonal tile!" oh, and only $35, too. not too shabby.

more residents are starting to move in, so there's quite a bit more action happening around the res halls. of course the guys on my floor are already breaking me in to their loudness and rowdiness. there's a guitar game that they play with some game system-- not sure which-- but you can basically hear it all throughout the building. how lucky that i get to be on the same floor, right? (and how lucky that i get all the male athletes from liberty. right? :-/) but anyway. loudness and craziness and all, i think it's going to be a great year. a really great year.

ok. maybe time to be productive... maybe time to get some sleep.