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there is sunlight in my room, finally. i had just about decided that there was never going to be any direct sunlight when, all of a sudden, it comes bursting in horizontally across the soccer fields. today has been an astonishingly beautiful day, but i seem to have spent most of it inside. and now my back wall has tree-silhouettes, and if i look through the fan and out the window everything is green and gold, including, apparently, the air. it's just humid enough to create a tiny haze for the light to shine in. yay!

i ate a bowl of overly sweet granola alone at sharples this morning and then headed to mccabe, where i camped out until after 4, emailing all the recommendation-writers, finally choosing a version of the rhodes essay, and finishing it. made good progress on the marshall plan of study too, actually. in any case, i was productive, which felt good. managed to eat dinner with a nice group, and then headed home, where keetje complimented my room. it really *is* nice, isn't it?

we talked about randomness until she noticed the jamaica picture of her and sarah, at which point we talked about relationships. again i realized that i'm really extremely single, in the scheme of things. which is not all bad: i wouldn't want to be in all that many of the relationships i see around me at the moment, although there are a few that i wouldn't mind spectating at. awww...

this is nice: having done good work today, i feel sooooo justified in noticing the sun over the crum (and on my back), appreciating the way the colors in the van gogh and the kandinsky work together, admiring my little computer nook...all those little things that i somehow hadn't felt justified in noticing for the past few weeks. i still feel as if i'm older than i should be, but that positively-ancient, no-time-for-details phase is wearing away. last night i had french toast and hot chocolate, watched lilo and stitch on kt's computer, and painted my toenails pink. it was indeed the correct friday night.

...and now the sun has sunk far enough that it's no longer in my room, just pinking up the sky behind the crum. i think i'm going to church tomorrow.