10.12.04

i've done more work in a concerted, sequential fashion these past four days than i can remember doing at any point in the past. october break is it's own special brand of adversity.

interludes:

ending up in chinaway with jason duane and a funny looking, friendly waitress. he gave me an lego guy and left money for lunch in the trashbag in the car. it's the first time someone's pulled that move and i actually failed to notice. i was pleased.

going for a run with mom yesterday (thought: how many twenty year olds have fifty year old mothers that can keep up with them?) and passing the good buttery brown dog who always winds his leash up around trees. we brought biscuits, one for each way. he looks so hopeful everytime we go by and his people are never home; we had to give him love. it was entirely rewarding.

looking out my windows with a cup of tea and seeing fall outside. grey skies, bare branches peppered with tenacious scraps of yellow.

i have no idea how i'm going to do many things: finish all my work on time this semester, see jon in connecticut pre-scotland, get in enough home time pre-scotland, and get to scotland. all these things must happen.

being home makes me realize i'm waiting for a simpler time.