Yuck!

Terrible, awful weather all day long! The kind of day where you feel drained of energy just from looking at the sky. Last night, the forecast said high of 39 degrees. And it was wrong- it got all the way up to 44. So, I went to my classes and ran to hasbrouck before the rain started up again, ate, and came back to my dorm. I've been here ever since, a good 3 or 4 hours now, watching movies and showeiring and resting. Tonight, there's a movie being shown in the library on democracy in latin america, and the filmmakers will be there. Extra credit for spanish class!

My paintings are coming along okay. There are currently two on my wall: one of a flower in a bush with a red-orange-yellow background, and one of a woman in a red dress dancing in a blue-green room. It's just been fun to be able to play around with the paint. :)

I saw Hard Candy last week. So good! I was so into it, and the ending was good, which is saying a lot-endings rarely satisfy me. I recommend it; a little scary but great acting and a good plot.

Music reccomendation is Joanna Newsom, a solo artist who sings and plays the harp. Her voice is an acquired taste, but really addictive once you learn to like it.

One teeny-tiny week remains until my generation makes history, one way or another. As my spanish teacher says, Obamanos!

Exciting days are upon us! Yesterday marked just two months since I was a nervous high school graduate, shredding my cocoon and becoming a college student! Hard to believe it was only two months. It feels like years.

Last night, we went to see W at the movie theatre in town. It was okay. I was kind of unimpressed, but oh well. Today I got my voter registration card in the mail, hooray! I can't wait for election day. It should be a very cool experience.

Anyway... Fall is beautiful here, I have not seen trees this color in a really long time. The reds are like stop signs and the oranges are like reflective vests, and there are leaves everywhere! The weather's been murky the last couple days, and it's actually freezing in the mornings, but still so worth every minute of it.

Today we listened to a song in my spanish class HERE that our teacher gave us on our last day of spanish classes IN ECUADOR. Ah, the song gave me the chills, and totally brought me back to us cramped in the little classroom with the tiny foldup chairs, singing and dancing and laughing as Thimo took the solo... What a ridiculous boy. It seems like so long ago but it's been less than a year! Where has the time gone?

The Boys

So the boys just left, and they deserve some mention in here! Sam, Giuliano, and Cameron are three boys from Minerva (My roommate Alice's brother, exchange student, and neighbor, respectively) who came to stay for the weekend! We had fun!! We walked the rail trail, shopped at the Salvation Army, ate ice cream at Stewart's, painted, saw our friend Chelsea's band play, and the three of them went with Emma, our soccer captain and fellow Minervian, to se Huguenot Street, the oldest continuously lived-on street in America. They were kind and funny and unobtrusive, hardly even making their mark, except when our suitemate walked in on Sam changing... The only debacle of the whole weekend! Sam came back to our room looking like he wanted to laugh or hide and couldn't decide which to act on. Very nice kids! They left a note on my whiteboard this morning, and now they're gone and all that's left of them is the empty bag of Sour Patch Kids in the garbage.

October

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted in a week or two... Hard to believe it's been that long! Things have been good, but really busy. I've got tons of work to do for classes, plus my job, plus my friends, boyfriend, family, and peers, plus my room's magnetic pull on clutter, plus the beauty of seeing fall come to be! I'm constantly running- sometimes even literally. This past saturday was a really fun day: I slept in a little, did some reading and hung out, then went and played in the intramural soccer game at 2! It was so much fun! I ran hard, played a mean defense, and even though we lost to the most rotten fraternity on campus, we still had a great time. Plus, the weather was picture perfect; a sunny, breezy 65 degrees. I brought clothes to the game, changed after, and went on to work 3:30-12. I came back to my room and talked to Andrew and Alice for a little bit and proceeded to fall fast asleep. Yesterday was nice, too; I went to mass with Andrew, got tea at The Muddy Cup, and walked back to the dorm. I was laying down for a nap when two of my friends from Colonie sent me a text message saying they were in New Paltz! So I showed them my dorm and intoduced them to some of my friends, and when they left, I had lunch and walked to Manny's Art Supplies and bought string to weave bracelets and a masquerade-esque black eye cover mask for our autumn-themed eveing, and Alice bought paints, Marc bought a fake mustache, etc. We came back to my dorm and went to the kitchen and baked pumpkin pie! While it cooked, Marc read his new book, Alice painted a huge picture, I wove bracelets, Sam and Kevin ran the music, and Emma sewed her quilt. We were all feeling pretty crafty and very fall, and when the pie was done we all took spoons and ate it without plates.


Today is a typical monday. I feel like I don't know where 6 weeks has gone, and already teachers are talking about midterms... I'm feeling competent, though, and had a very productive day today in which I cleaned my room from top to bottom and inside-out. Tomorrow Alice and I are going to see a $4 movie, and Thursday all classes are cancelled for Yom Kippur. It should be a nice week! Hope everyone is well and as warmed as I am by the changing leaves. I missed this color palette last year!