call me when you get this

hey. in about 45 minutes i'm getting in a car to drive to the airport, to get on a plane, to fly me over the atlantic and into frankfurt. whoa. Thomas has my phone now, so if you call you won't get me, and i may or may not have a way to check messages. I'll have on and off email access in eastern europe, mlligget@usc.edu is the best way to reach me. or facebook, I guess. Sometime i'll get internet access in scotland, and figure stuff out. but until then- I'll be m.i.a. for a wee bit, and send me your address if you want a postcard!

polar fleece

ok now i can go to scotland. i got really cute rain boots. i hardly have to pack now. i'm ready to go! here they are: (they look even cuter ON ME)

maybe sparrow

i just got p3wnd. my mom used the phrase "so funny i forgot to laugh" on ME. life is hard, man, LIFE IS HARD.

I'm gonna go console myself by packing for l.a. call me if you want to hang out while i'm there. I'll be down for friday and part of saturday. i gotta hit up: chano's, elegance, office of degree progress.

the needle has landed

HOLY FUNGUS FUDGE-PACKING FUNIONS OF FATE I'M GOING TO FRICKIN ICY COLD FREEZING ACCENTUATED KILT-WEARING I-DON'T-HAVE-ANY-FRIENDS-THERE PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE GOD DON'T LET ME DIE I'VE BEEN SO GOOD I JUST GREW UP IN CALIFORNIA CAN YOU BLAME ME FOR THAT? SCOTLAND

take it or leave it

ok, this might sound wierd but just take it for what it is, not how you may interpret it. I've been sort of ambivalent toward marriage- i'm all for it, yay marriage, but as for me I was just going to take whatever God gives me.

And while that is true, I want to serve God not just make babies.... i REALLY hope it involves getting married. And i'm 20, so I'm in no hurry (see also: year abroad in scotland) and i'm not passing out "would you like to marry me?" surveys. but serious... i want to get married. sometime in my life (for the rest of it once I start) I want to be married!

AND MAKE BABIES! there will be babies to be made. does that sound wierd? because i don't think it should. so there, i said it. I'm not on the market just yet... but some day!

one original thing

do NOT go see snakes on a plane. I know I may be a little biased- i got terrified by the third harry potter. and honestly I didn't watch that much of the movie. I spent most of the time hiding behind a blanket I brought in (which I shared with two of the girls who came with me... we watched about $4 worth or a $10 movie). it was either hiding behind the blanket or silently wondering how eric got me to come with him. or both at the same time. it is VERY GRAPHIC. and that doesn't even begin to describe it.

don't kill me, i'm just the messenger. don't see it.

"Love" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

maybe it's because elizabeth barrett browning is amazing, probably it's because i just got back from a beautiful wedding (my cousin ben's) in a beautiful cathedral (st. matthew's in d.c.) with a beautiful toast by his dad (he's an english professor... eloquence central), but I would like to share this sonnet with you. and trust me, there's a lot more where they came from:

We cannot live, except thus mutually
We alternate, aware or unaware,
The reflex act of life: and when we bear
Our virtue outward most impulsively,
Most full of invocation, and to be
Most instantly compellant, certes, there
We live most life, whoever breathes most air
And counts his dying years by sun and sea.
But when a soul, by choice and conscience, doth
Throw out her full force on another soul,
The conscience and concentration both
Make mere life, Love. For Life in perfect whole
And aim consummated, is Love in sooth,
As nature's magnet-heat rounds pole with pole.



*le sigh* (note: she's also the poet who wrote "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" in another sonnet. she's cash money.)

quiz time!

alrighty, I'm in D.C., and I have a slight predicament. I applied for housing in Edinbugh and received my housing assigment, and it's somewhere I didn't want. It's closer to the science campus (which is farther from downtown... which is where I'd like to live) so I don't want to accept it I want to get different housing. But if I reject it I'm not necessarily guaranteed a place in university housing and given that I don't know anyone there.... I'd really like university housing. What to do?

insight

west lafayette is the setting of my latest adventures. which are not really adventures at all... they're more like lounging and finger-twiddling. i'm going to rushville for the next week and won't have any internet access. that's fun and new... or old and moldy.

actually i'm having a good time. i'm getting a lot of... reading... done.