awake?

i'd like to take this moment of silence and darkness to announce two things.

1. i am awake. completely unaided by alarm clocks or roommate. this is a fact that needs to be documented or it will not be believed by most. i've been this way since almost exactly six o'clock a.m. and you know what? i'm not tired. given i did get in bed at 9:45 last night, which doesn't seem to be a habit i'll be capable of preserving for long. however, i may be able to get away with it once more tonight if i'm lucky. don't ask me to explain this shift in character. that's would be like trying to explain why on earth i allowed kori to buy a box of a dozen cookies from paradise bakery and then leave them in our room last night. don't get me wrong, i am a sucker for a good cookie like anyone else, but that was the last thing i needed after stuffing my face at pei wei (a glorious occasion of which i will spare you the details so you don't get too envious). i think i was caught in shock after hearing that it was buy six get six free. or i was trying to live by my fortune cookie which said to "go along with others' ideas." tell me that's not the suckiest fortune ever? every time, without fail, i happen to open the stupidest fortune cookies alive. but anyway...

2. i am awake. figuratively as well. with the chilled breezes, the days have brought me bright eyes, a clear mind, and a smile. it's all i can do to contain my praises of the cold when everyone around me is cursing it. a small bit of my excitement faltered yesterday morning when there was not snow on the ground (after all i'd spent an hour the night before digging my fall clothes out from underneath my bed), but the cold pinch on my nose on the walk to school reminded me that it will come soon enough. hate on it all you want, it just makes me more excited. as my mother's bathroom counter proclaims, i'm doing my best to "bloom where i'm planted," even if the temperatures in october are strangely similar to a vegas january, and the flowers will be dying shortly. which reminds me, today i must drag jlev up provo canyon for a scenic drive to see the trees or i think i will fall down dead. fall...get it? i'm weird in the mornings, anyone will testify of that.

now i'm about to go secret agent style down to the vending machine in my pajamas because there is nothing this morning needs more than an apple and some raspberry yogurt to put my granola in! then it's on with productivity! i'm hoping to get in lots of reading and a bike ride before my 10:00 class.

i love thursdays. always have always will.

"oh it's good to be aliiiiiiiiiiiive!"