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November 28, 2003
this is bliss
it was a great thanksgiving. ben and went to his parents house (which is like 3 blocks from school) and spent the day with his extended family on his dad's side. his mom and i laughed and chatted as she cooked (and i helped as needed). it amazes me how well we get along. there was the traditional corned beef lunch. once everyone arrived and settled, there was the traditional thanksgiving football game. the weather was prefect 55 degree clouds (good for the sun not getting in your eyes). though i told him not to, ben chipped the bone in his finger, so him, his dad, and I spent an hour and a half in the er. it was perfect (for me) as we got back with plenty of time for dinner, it is a great story, and i got to spend some quality time with his dad while we were waiting. dinner was yummy (the bird was 29 pounds. it was a giant bird, but came out beautifully). conversation was hilarious. i cried i was laughing so hard. and i got to borrow a book from his mom that i'd been really wanting to read. she likes to read similar things to me, and so she is the perfect library for me.
today we laid on the couch and watch like 6 hours of west wing. like i said, i'm addicted to bravo.
and it snowed today. the first snow of the season. it was v. beautiful.
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Posted by christina at 6:58 PM | Comments (0)
November 26, 2003
and when i feel like there is no one that will ever know me / there you are to show me
i'm a convert.
i didn't know why the world was so in love with cirque du soleil...until last night. parker, ben, and i sat mezmorized in front of the tv. it was on bravo (which i'm addicted to between the nightly west wings and queer eye for the straight guy). it was so beautiful and amazing. wow. though i think it was better on tv just becuase of the closness of the shots. i doubt that one would be able to get a close view in person without mucho money.
i spent the morning with the sem (scanning electron microscope). something is wrong with the apertures, but it took me two hours to realize it wasn't me just not being skilled on the thing. it was so fusterating. i am trying to see really, really small islands (~1 mircron) and everything in SEM land has to be perfect for that kind of resolution.
now i'm being aimless. i am fairly aimless lately and it is driving me kinda crazy.
happy thanksgiving tomorrow.
this has been such a short week for me. i can't concentrate on anything.
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Posted by christina at 12:51 PM | Comments (0)
November 25, 2003
she'll ride this ride as far as it can go
god. i feel so much better today. beautiful mornings involve not being in pain.
liz left this morning. we had a nice dinner out last night and then just chilled at home. She and her friends had been going going all day downtown looking at stuff in the cold, and so she was ready to just chill. and i still didn't feel so hot, so it was the perfect situation. we made cookies and watched some taped must see tv.
i got a random call from a high school friend last night. she was calling to see if i'd be in town for thanksgiving. another friend of ours will be in hot springs this weekend for the first time in 2 years. she is trying organize something. i'm sad i'll have to miss it (as i am not going home). these past days with liz reminds me how much i enjoy the people that i have known me along time. i've know my high school friends since 7th grade. that is 12 years. crazy, crazy. i keep up with one of the regularly (though lately i've been a slacker) and the other i talk to/see a couple times a year.
i am so fusterated with TAing right now. ugh.
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Posted by christina at 5:13 PM | Comments (0)
November 24, 2003
all i want is you
i'm home sick today. it has been a really long time since i was home sick. it is the best idea for me to not go into work, but now i feel much better after my visit to the doctor (i heart antibiotics), and feel like i should go be productive. though if i do start feeling sick again, i do not want to be at school. so home i am. one good thing is i did bring homework home with me on friday and so i can still get done the one thing i absolutely had to get done today. and my magnets came in. yay!
the best thing is that my boy is coming by to give me sympathy after he gets done with school.
in other news. liz is in town (yay!). she came out yesterday. we cooked all afternoon (stuffed shells and carrot cake). and had ben, leta, steve, and jen over for dinner. it was a nice evening of wine, food, good conversation, and great company. i enjoyed having liz meet my closest friends here. i love entertaining and was v. pleased about how well everything turn out.
can i just say again how much i love advil and antibiotics. they are the best. i feel so so so much better than all last night and this morning.
liz is out with her friend daniel today. (cuz i was suppose to be at work, and did spend the morning at the health center, so it worked out.) i am going to meet them for dinner and stuff. i love having liz around. i love that she got to meet ben. i miss having her around. but love how it is like no time has passed since we last saw each other. (we do talk at least an hour a week.)
love actually was really good. though i have a small amount of angst, but i don't want to ruin the movie for anyone by sharing.
we woke up to flurries this morning. falling snow is quite beautiful. it has stopped now, but i am enjoying my warm apartment with the smell of my new candles. and norah jones filling the spaces with music. perfect.
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Posted by christina at 1:31 PM | Comments (0)
November 21, 2003
but every now and then I get to the kneelin' / to thank Him for it all
chicago weather has been unseasonably warm lately. yesterday it was like 65. of course, i didn't even get to enjoy it with my morning run, as i was v. busy yesterday - mostly with my diffraction take home midterm. i spent much of the week on it. (i've been working 11 hour days all week.) i probably put around 10 hours into it. probably as much as i would have studies for an in class midterm. it was happiness last night as its 10 pages lay stapled on my desk at 7 pm. i then had some time to write my progress report before leaving here ~ 8.
i've worked a lot this week, but i have to admit that i like the cadence of working a lot. i've organized by life where i still get everything. the biggest plus to my life is working with my friends - so i get to hang out with them at work (at lunch and stuff). the enables me to have my nights free for the b/f. and i run first thing in the morning (though this is going to be reevaluated with the impinging cold). now if i only found some huge break through with my research, my life would be perfect. though i have to say just as is, it is perfect.
i responded to an evite with a +1. the e-vite is for a small dinner party. all of the other guest that had responded had +1s (as expected, we were all instructed to bring the SOs). it amused me as well as made me pause. when did everyone i know start to have +1s? The weird thing is that i didn't really notice it when i was single (as well, all, of my nonchicago friends that i talk to on any regular bias are single).
anywho, i am super excited about this week. liz is coming into town for the whole week of thanksgiving. as per our normal tradition, she is spending sunday-tuesday with me. i am so excited for her and ben to meet each other. i am holding a small dinner party on sunday night so she can met steve/jen, leta, and ben. i love entertaining, and have not really done it a lot since i moved here. so i am excited. for a moment i considered making yay-i'm-single pasta, but decided to stick with my orginal stuffed shells as i can make them half with meat (mmmm, meat) and half w/o. but i still laugh about yay-i'm-single pasta. i think when chris comes and visits again, i am going to have him make it. just for the amusement value of it.
it is shaping up to be a busy weekend, though they have been lately. i have a date with my boy tonight (love actually), and a dinner party tomorrow and sunday. dude. and then a three day work week. yaya.
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Posted by christina at 12:05 PM | Comments (0)
November 18, 2003
or that you're just like everybody else in the world / you just got lucky, that's all
mmmm. so this is what normal feels like. well, normal for me.
there is this sound in my lab. well, it is above my lab in the ventilation system. it sounds like a cross between a major thunder storm and smurfs playing soccer. mark and i use to blame the noise on smurfs playing soccer in our ventilation system. we had them fix it a couple of months ago, but it came back this weekend. currently there are more official looking people than usual here. (usually we just get the building facilities people). these people have ladders and monitors and stuff. maybe they are looking for ghosts. hmmm. maybe i should ask them. hmm. maybe they would have to kill me if they told me, so maybe I shouldn’t risk asking them.
anyways, i just hope that they make the noise go away. it gives me a headache.
the weekend was good. I slept a lot. it was nice to have a weekend that didn't involved me traveling or working all day sunday. i just worked ~4 hours sunday grading papers, which is not a bad thing to do. painful sometime as handwriting can be bad and that the prof from this class doesn't give me the solutions. sigh. i am getting paid extra for taing, so i try not to complain so much. (yes, though it is a required thing, we still get paid extra. my job can be very nice, though i would say when it come down to it, i do my taing on my own time (as the time it takes up makes me have to make it up later cuz i do have stuff to do).
it was a good weekend because i got quality hang out time with both friends from school and ben et al. i also got good chill time with saturday afternoon curled up on the couch with ben watching rainman. and sunday, after sleeping in, i was productive with laundry, cleaning, running, chatting, and grading.
this morning i ran in the rain. it was 60 degrees when we walked outside this morning. i couldn't let the rain deter me from running. by the end of the run i was just in a tank and shorts - that is how warm it was - even in the rain. i am enjoying my morning runs. i use to think it was impossible, but when the sun setting at 4 and my morning routine giving me some wake up time before the run, it is working out well. it is strange, though, to have a whole two hours pass from when i get out of bed to when i get to school. it works out well though.
and the best news i’ve heard from the media in a long time - it has long been a burning question in my mind why it is illegal for same sex couples to marry. it isn’t like they are hurting anyone or impinging on some else’s right. good god do i hope that this country finally comes around and let anyone who wants to marry. idiot american culture.
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Posted by christina at 12:17 PM | Comments (0)
November 13, 2003
you're better than any rainbow / you're brighter than the sun
when life is perfect, it makes me skittish. i am wondering what is going to jump out from behind the bushes. but in the end i know it would be okay. things always, always are.
but in this moment, life is truly perfect. i would not change a thing.
though i had typed this whole saga about my return home sunday, but it was lost to the program crashing gods.
i think i am going to fail my quiz this afternoon, but i don’t care so much.
fams are funny – both his and mine. we both had random conversations with the fam. jenny is probably going to come and visit. yay. it actually works out well as during the week she is here, ben will be in seattle for half of it – but will be back so we can all hang. it will be nice as i have met all (and i mean alllllllll) of his fam, but he’s met none of mine. (well, if my grandma got married a month into this relationship, then he would have met all my family also.)
i love when my advisor responsed favorably to my progress report. which, by the way i think set the record in earliness of submittal. i usually am sending it like between 7 and 8 on thursdays- because i usually send it right before i go home, but i know i’m not going to have anything more to tell him before then as i have class and then colloqium and then a quiz. this whole not stress thing is really nice. and strange. but nice, and disconcerting. hmmmmm. i forget what it is like to have lesirely days at work. i’ll get busy soon enough (like tomorrow), so i am enjoying these days. yay for tomorrow being friday. the weeks flew by fast. soon it will be thanksgiving and then christmas, and then it will be a whole other year.
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Posted by christina at 1:32 PM | Comments (0)
November 12, 2003
you step a little closer each day / so close that i can't see what's going on
it is wednesday.
now you know. ; )
i actually ran this morning. it was warm enough for me to run around my neighborhood. i forgot how much i enjoy a good run. i am going to try to start working out in the morning as it is really the most efficient time. i wish it would stay warm enough that i could keep running around my neighborhood. it is really my favorite course. but soon it is going to get too cold to even breath outside, so i'll be forced inside. (though i must admit this fall has been particularly mild, and for that i am thankful.)
i like knowing i've already worked out for the day. though i had been a week since i ran last and probably 2 weeks before that. hopefully now that work has calmed down some, i'll get in my regularly scheduled workouts. i am trying to settle my life down into a regualer routine. the past two months have been a mix of living in really busy at work and starting a relationship, both of which made me deconstruct my cadence. i'm squirming a little as i settle, but i'm sure it is going to be okay. i am just being, uh, restless i guess.
i have a long to do list for work, but none of it pressing, so i watch the time pass by as i work on crossing things off. amazingly (and strangely) things have taken less time than expected - which freaks me out a little.
i ate waaayyyyy too much at lunch. but leta and i had lots of days to caught up on, so it was nice to have a long lunch chatting. and now i still remember things i meant to talk to her about.
and i'm also off to dinner tonight with jon. we always go to this thai place around the corner from his apartment. leta and i had Chinese for lunch. yum. this is now the day o' the orient. but i also still feel full from lunch. though we aren't eating for a while, so i think i'll be okay.
i'm tired. only getting 5 hours of sleep and then running this morning has wiped me out.
i think i forgot what not stress feels like. it is strange. maybe that is what is bothering me. i have been running stressed for so long that to exist not stressed feels like this huge change and leaves me discombobulated.
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Posted by christina at 5:11 PM | Comments (0)
November 11, 2003
midnight moon shines through it all
ah. it is nice to be home. there are so many things that make it nice to be home.
1. ben
2. izzy
3. people who don't make fun of izzy
4. ben
5. not being in baltimore
6. feeling productive again
7. my apartment
8. my desk (i guess my own space in general)
9. ben
10. izzy
i am taking a couple of days to catch up on my school work and stuff.
my ears hurt. bad sign. it might just be the weather. it might be the fact that i was trapped on a plane with lots of strangers for 2 hours all breathing the same air. (though it hadn't occured to me until my dad just said, wednesday, you are going to be sick. now i am annoyed that my body tooks his suggestion). i am still hoping for the best. it could just be the getting use to the cold. (not that it is cold today, but it was cold this weekend.)
this weekend was great. i enjoyed hanging with kent and carter. lunch with becca et al was mucho entertaining and the food was very yummy.
it was extermely hard to get out of bed this morning. i had planned on sleeping in a little, but ended up having x-ray training scheduled for 9 am this morning. not early by my usual standards, but early in i was hoping to sleep until 9 this morning, but still got up at 7. and it is some people's day off. which made it extra extra hard to go to work this morning.
i really want to go home. sigh. the one day where i just want to (and my work allows me to) go home, and my advisor is running around.
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Posted by christina at 3:29 PM | Comments (0)
November 7, 2003
8:09 am good morning world.
8:09 am
good morning world. it is a great day. okay. i am tired (stayed up a little too late last night talking to my boy). but it is the last day of conference (yay!). i have my laptop out as i present this morning. the next to last session. i am hoping for a small audience. i shall probably get my wish. not that i actually care. i have now sat through many many hours of these presentations and now know that people (1) aren't mean and (2) won't ask impossible questions. this morning presentation is the research i've been working on, so i am a lot more able to answer questions. tuesday's presentation was not my research (but has become mine). la la la. i have way way too many projects. especially when all i really want is to take a couple days off of school. i think that i might take it easy for a couple of days. monday afternoon i have meetings all afternoon for stu pub board. tuesday someone has the day off (not me), but it makes me want to take the day off. i probably will at least take the morning off, baring any surprise X-ray midterms that are hanging over my head. yeah. i need to definitely get caught up in my classwork. my advisor is just going to have to understand that i am just not doing an research this week.
yay for thin films. this should be a really interesting morning. though as par for course for my interesting session this week, i am the only girl. i see women walking around this conference, but i think they are here for the much more chemistry/bio stuff. ooo, i spoke too soon. the other thin films chick just showed up. la la la. i should network more, but i just don't care. i still have many a year left in grad school. not to mention i don't yet know what i want to do. i do enjoy my research. i would actually like to work in my research. but i think that i shall be much happier in sci policy.
10:10 am
ah, it is the last half of the morning, which is stu presentation. i have seem surprisingly few student presentations. many one a session. i am all amused as the guy that i have been seeing in most of the sessions on monday and tuesday is going to be presenting. finally i find out who this guy is. i have been surprised that i am have not seen him present before. he is cute. german from sweden. i love that he is not wearing a tie. i have presented in khakis and a button down. most people have presented in at least ties, if not suits. i'm little dressed down, but i am totally refusing to wear a skirt or suit, so there. mostly as long as i am not in jeans or a tank top, i think i am good. i also think i totally get away with it becuase i am a girl. la la la. this does make me think that i could probably work anywhere in the thin films world. i had a funny conversation with this guy from a company out in CA that is also trying to deposit the same oxide system that i am depositing - but for optical applications, instead of superhard coatings. he wants to send me samples to nanoindent. (i forgot that this is a fairly expensive and specialize tool that not many people have.) he asked what year i was and if i was a phd canadiate. i told him a 2nd year, and that i haven't qualified, but i am planning on it. he laughed and said that i will definitely qualify. i'm glad that he has so much confidence in my abilities. oooo, (we are on break right now) and all of these people are showing up. no. people. go away. though i am amused that the hysitron guy is sitting in front of me. oh, he just recognized me and we made a little small talk about how my group has a lot of people out here. i laughed and said just two of us, we just talk a lot. (we've had three talks and one poster.) i guess he was more talking about my advisor being around and harassing there vendor booth. the funny thing is the guy was life, your presenting? i didn't see your name. i'm like, yep, at 11:20. la la la.
11:52 am
whew. that is done. though i got more questions that i really couldn't answer this time. i expected it. though i think that other grad student types should not ask a million questions to me. i am much more nervous now than i was before the talk. so it goes. i guess i more worry about what people think of me, then actually presenting. live and learn, i will from now on remember to figure out the physical picture to explain to random people asking me questions. it is strange to think this conference is over. it was been such a strange journey. it was so stressed about this work for the 2 months preceding it. made peace with the fact i wasn't going to be at a place i wanted to be at(becuase of the glove box, and the boron carbide fastso). then last friday came when i got my advisor okay with the presentation and i've been free ever since. this week has been much more about survival than about presenting. passing time until i get to see kent and carter and ultimately ben. it has taken me by surprise how hard it has been to be away from him. dude.
i've spent a lot of alone time this week. by the evenings i'm really chatty - either to jahn or to chris and to ben. i have not spent this amount of alone time in a really, really long time. it is reminiscent of my journey out west. the days spent wrapped up in one's one thoughts. meals with my books. just myself. good thing i like myself, you know. i feel like i should have appreciated this change in routine more. i remember much of the summer being restless in my routine. but alas, i am so happy in my routine now that i didn't really want a break. it has also annoyed me this week to be so idle. i am never idle. i am looking forward to going back to a routine that is not based in idleness.
la la la. i should go get some lunch and then make my way to dc (yay!). i am so excited to be seeing kent and carter. yay yay yay yay yay.
4:30 pm
dude. i love traveling with the laptop. you should too as you get major updates. i'm at national outside of cinnabun waiting for kenty. we love cinnabun. when we lived in the same city, we would have kent and christina mondays where we would get food and watch ally mcbeal. sometimes it would be mall food and we would get cinnabun. and it was oh so excellent. so we are meeting and getting cinnabun. yummers. i love national airport. the main terminal is glass with yellow beams. it is beautiful. i am currently sitting and looking out the window. you can watch the beautiful planes will with people or take off or the coast guard boats patrol the water.
i got to ride a big train to dc from baltimore. i napped, so it was good. i love arriving at union station. catching the metro. memories of the summer i spent here haunt my mind with every stop. though the ghosts are very dim. i don't really feel like the same person. that person is part of me, and that summer was one of those life defining experiences. so yeah. it would seem like it should be more haunting, but not really.
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Posted by christina at 7:32 PM | Comments (0)
November 6, 2003
and as i float along this ocean / i can feel you like a notion that won't seem to let me go
i walked back in the rain this afternoon, for the second afternoon in a row. it was the perfect amount of rain. rain, but not soaking rain. and it was warm. it was nice to wander around. i walked just enjoying the feeling of being alive.
the rain fell in the light of the streetlamps. the buildings looked so beautiful in the afternoon rain. i walked.
i ended up running this morning. it was beautiful to run with the city fairly quiet.
i then took a nap after i read some thin films.
i spent the afternoon in sustainable technologies. it was interesting, but i am conferenced out.
tomorrow is the last morning. a morning full of interesting presentations (including mine) and then off to dc to play with kent and carter. yay. so excited.
and so much closer to sunday.
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Posted by christina at 7:13 PM | Comments (0)
so it is like a
so it is like a million degrees in my room, so here i am up at 6 in the morning playing spider solitaire. i didn't exactly get to bed early last night as jahn and i went out for a couple beers. it is nice that i am friends with my exs. ben finds this amazing that i do this. i just explain to him that i date reasonably sane people and have adult relationships (and break ups). i wouldn't have really said this before, but as i learn more about people's break up stories i realize in the grand scheme of things, i had pretty sane breakups.
i am debating trying to go back to bed or to wait for the sunrise and go running. i think going back to bed is going to win out.
it is thrusday. yay! tomorrow i start my holiday with kent and carter and sunday i get to go home. i had no idea how hard it was going to be to be away. on one hand, i feel like i should be enjoying the break in routine. but in reality, i was really enjoying my routine. though i hope when i get back to not be working so damn much. but a conversation with my advisor yesterday reminded me of the projects i currently have on hold for the sulfur work. we want to change the way my oxygen pressure is fed into my dual cathode chamber. it seems quite complex and make me kinda afraid, but on some level i know that i could figure it out.
as mark said once, i know the answer, i'm just not confident. this is true. i usually know the answer - i just am not confident in it.
sigh, i wish i was in chicago right now. i am missing waking up to XRT. okay, i miss waking up to xrt in an hour and a half.
okay, so i've put on some music. i'm going to go back and lay down. hopefully sleep for a little bit. watch the day go by. (btw i am tired of conference life.) i am ready to go back to my real life.
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Posted by christina at 6:00 AM | Comments (0)
November 4, 2003
there’s still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
11:15 am
here i am in baltimore at the american vacuum society conference. yes laugh. people always laugh. i laugh. it is amusing. this is the first time i've had my laptop out and about with me (as i present today). i am really enjoying the laptop. little did i know how necessary it is for conferences. they aren't good like school and have computers in every room, but do have projectors - overhead and computer. it is actually the conference center that provides them i think. i am fairly impressed with baltimore's conference center. they also have water things in each room and lasar pointers. it is also huge. this conference is also huge (people, event, talk, etc wise), so it should be. it is amazing how many different talks on different things are being given. of course, i have been living so far in the thin films room, and will for the rest of the afternoon. this is my last day that is full of talks. tomorrow there is few things that interest me. actually, i should rephrase that. there are lots of things that interest me, but at this point it is all my energy and concentration to sit through the presentations that are at least kinda applicable to my research. i just don't have any to spare for the stuff that kinda interests me. and i'll have a little adventure in the ventor exhibit tomorrow as i have been assigned to find out how much it will cost us to outfit my dual cathode chamber with an partial pressure oxide control instead of flow control, which is what i use now for the oxide films. my advisor amuses me so much as he is like try to get them to do it as cheaply as possible - like ~ 20,000. but it might not be possible to get it cheaper than $50,000. we have the 20,000, we might could get the 50,000.
dude that is a lot of money. and i think the bill for this week is a lot. it amazes me how much money we spend on stuff. and i try to not spend extraneously on random stuff.
though i did make it to the nanotechonology + policy presentation yesterday from the white house office of science and technology policy. it was my PRy and a complete waste of my time. i don't know what i expected, but something a little less stupid than we got.
the weather has absolutely been amazing. yesterday it was a record high of 83. i think it is suppose to be repeated today. the conference center is right next to the inner harbor, baltimore very touristy tourist attraction. it has be absolutely beautiful the past two days to spend lunch break sitting by the water eating, people watching, and listening to the music drifting up from the walkway. and yesterday at noon they shot a cannon. it was very random (and completely took me by surprise). i am totally enjoying the warm, especially since ben tells me that it is cold and rainy in chicago. paurve ben. ha ha ha.
i got to hang out with Jahn last night. we had yummy shusi (what is starting to become the food we get when we get together) and then ice cream. i love his sweet tooth that matches mine. i also love that he also worries about the amount of white flour and sugar he consumes. but not as much as i love how he was a vegetarian (well, starchatarian) for 4 years (including the time we were dating) and then one day he went to dinner at outback and just broke down and got a rack of ribs. ha ha ha. he also has the cutest cat. well, more like a crackhead cat (that is what he calls her). she is sooooo skinning. i bet that she is 2/5 the size of izzy. (who is doing spectacular i hear from my amazing catsitter, who made fun of me on the phone last night cuz physics today came in my mail. i tried to explain that i don't actually read it, it just comes with my AVS membership. i don't think he believed me. (though it is true, i've never read it.) i told him he could break up with me, but he declined as he is still recovering from our thirty second break up friday night when at the party we were out, the random guy had this mix on the stereo and we were dancing. he wanted to see the power of the mix to bring people together, so he made us break up during margaritaville so that here comes the sun could bring us back together. it was quite random, and v. amusing to a not quite sober ben and christina. la la la. i think it might have also been this party that i was telling people that ben was just some guy i met that night and that we'd probably hook up. ha ha ha. i amuse myself so much.)
anyway, as usual i get lost in the parentheses. i totally should be practicing my talk, but i've practiced and am bored of practicing. plus, i'm not worried. i'm hoping not a lot of people are going to be there, and dr. chung will definitely be to help me answer questions as i am presenting kitty's research and not my own. la la la. i am off to the student lunch on job opportunitites - ie acedemia, industry, national labs and something else. i'm sure i'll write more later.
1:45 PM
i just had a very amusing conversation the moderator of my session. during lunch he bought some redskins hats from a random street vendor. he is an english guy and v. amusing.
6:30 pm
so my oxide talk went well. it was on the shortside, but i knew it would be. i probably could have talked slower. i only got two questions and could answer them both (with a form of yeah, we didn't do that). my advisor gave me a good job. i am quite happy. i also ate way too much for dinner. i feel so gross. today was the last day of all day lectures. the first talk i am interested in isn't until 10 tomorrow, so i hope to get up an run tomorrow. for the first time in weeks. though it is hilly here. i forgot what hills were. ;-) '
i love the color of the sky at dusk. i love looking up and see the lights of the buildings against the soft purple sky.
life is fabulous. though i miss my boy very much. 5 days.
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Posted by christina at 6:45 PM | Comments (0)