peru baby

it's settled. as long as the course schedule doesn't change, i'll be spending around 8 weeks in south america next fall. peru, specifically. october and november, specifically. it becomes more realistic every day, as applications for volunteer positions get accepted and payments are made. now it's a matter of flights and leisure time. my mom will come too, for two weeks or so, and we'll live in luxury because she is not necessarily a roughin'it kinda gal. but we will spend two weeks there and it will be the best time ever. i'm sure of it.

i want to see ecuador too, but 8 weeks is not long enough to know even a city, let alone two countries. but i would like to see ecuador. i really have had an obsession with ecuador for my whole life. i love that it is named for the equator, that the equator runs through it and that if i go there i can stand right on it. i can't really explain to you how long it took me to get over my excitement at the fact that the equator runs through ecuador! i'm still not fully over it. so i should probably go, since i'll be so close.

people say "what if they only offer a course in the fall?" and i say "well, then i can't go" like it's the most casual and natural thing. actually i am terrified. i'm the summer schedule away from embarking on the biggest adventure of my life and it could all go south based on an admin decision. but it will be okay. the courses will stay the same, they never change anyway. and i will be all alone in peru, with the leanmeanfightingmachine body that pete says i have to get if i want to go. aha. what a guy.

so that's where things stand. that's my main project right now. i have others, volunteer work and school and amassing fortunes, but this is the one i'm most excited about. if you want to buy me presents i'm interested in spanish lessons, guidebooks, and tevas.

influenza?

man, the stomach flu is an unrelenting bitch. it started creeping up on me during my seminar wednesday night. then it spent all day thursday blossoming, until i was folded over the toilet at pete's aunt & uncle's house at around 8:30 puking my guts out. but it couldn't be satisfied, no. it had to linger through friday and saturday, just enough to make my stomach churn in the face of food and to make me all lightheaded during the critical moment of my attack on bowser.

i got a nintendo wii for christmas. there goes my gpa.
my parents should know better.

repeat

i believe in the sand beneath my toes
the beach gives a feeling
an earthy feeling
i believe in the faith that grows
and the four right chords can make me cry

when i'm with you i feel like i could die
and that would be all right

[third eye blind, semi-charmed life]

a little broken hearted

i keep imagining this time when i'll just pack up and move away. a job offer in a faraway city, surrounded by nothing familiar and nobody i know. to be with him. or an impulse. a romantic idea of fall on the east coast. something i read in a book.

i heard somewhere
"there are no denouements in dreams."

but i don't do lonely well.

oh yeahh

Puppy Chow

3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup butter
8 cups Crispix cereal
2 cups powdered sugar

Melt the peanut butter, chocolate chips, and butter together. Pour over the cereal in a large kettle or bowl and stir well. Pour the powdered sugar into a large brown paper bag and add the cereal. Fold the bag to seal and shake well to coat evenly.