laurenisms

I have just turned in my last paper of the summer — well, my last real paper — almost twenty minutes early! Woo!
I have also: been in Shelby’s wedding (cried); got in more arguments with my mother, who is not so good at rationality sometimes (did not cry); cried about a puppy I fell in love with online but who got adopted by someone else (cried); finally tried dirty martinis (rejoiced) and wondered why I have not been drinking them for years (regretted lost time); gotten fancy shiny new flipflops (rejoiced); had job interviews for two (!) different grown-up jobs (fretted, then was optimistic).

Upcoming: wait to hear about jobs; find another puppy; drink more dirty martinis.

(song: “Portland, Oregon,” Loretta Lynn & Jack White)

there is not much news on the three-bean salad front today, except that i am going to make a whole bunch tonight and take it to stephanie’s potluck. i have never actually been to a potluck before, and i am excited to have a yummy thing to take!
even if it is a toga potluck. my sheets have flowers on them. it will be the lamest toga ever.
yesterday a stitch n bitch with andi & stephanie & stephanie’s cute boyfriend devolved into a bar night at rennie’s with half the math department, just like old times. it was made even more nostalgic by the fact that i should have been at home writing a paper which is due tonight at midnight and which is currently only 10% done.
you can tell when i have a lot of crap to do, because i start posting more often …

(song: “our love,” rhett miller. hurry the hell up, new CDs!!!)

in my quest to stop trying to collect things, i have started to collect containers for things. this is partly because i am also interested in making things from other things lately, and partially because i feel like if i could just put the stuff i have into containers and organize it a little better, it would take up less space. this is probably true, actually, because in the process of putting it from one box into another, i would be getting rid of a lot of it.
in theory.
in any case this needs to start happening soon, because i am still planning on going down to eugene for the summer in mid-june. it depends on a lot of variables, of course - it seems like everything does at this point in life - but if all goes as planned, i’ll be starting a paid library internship (for credit, too!) on june 20; i’ll be living in courtney’s super cute apartment while she has fun in africa and visiting shelby’s (well, and eric’s too) new house and andi&quent’s apartment; i’ll be sitting on the balcony drinking rennie’s lemonade in the afternoon just like old times. hooray!

(song: “perfect world,” liz phair. all except the vulnerable part. i want to be less vulnerable, not more.)