almost there!

i can't believe that i'll be done in 5 days. it is really insane. despite the crazy work, these last four days have been awesome. sunday night a plethora of dear friends came over to my apartment for a random holiday-ish gathering. haha i'm still a bit in shock that we actually pulled it off, considering how little planning and how much baking went into it. so the 10th i think, dawn and i were sitting in the cafe being stressed out little college kids when she remembered that she'd won a pie in a raffle. soo we decided to collaborate on a holiday gathering (because she couldn't eat the whole pie herself, after all...) i had soo much fun making stuff for it - thumbprint cookies and macaroons, cheese, crackers (i didn't make those, but still... i got to lay out all the little crackers on top of eachother) dawn&kelly got wine and it was altogether awesome. haha erica and heather dressed up, which was sweet. little snowflakes.
that same day, mr barrett came over for dinner. it was so nice to see him again! kent island seems like so long ago, and yet talking about petrels and redstarts, sketchy resident scientists and the beatles made me feel like i was actually there. :) haha i'm just going to keep talking about all the wonderful non-academic things i've been up to. it really makes me sound like quite the slacker. i promise i've been furiously typing in most of the minutes where i'm not baking/hanging out with lovely friends. teehee. actually, i've been having a great deal of difficulty concentrating for any extended period of time, which has made writing term papers a bit of a challenge. hopefully that'll change soon.
yesterday was quite possibly one of the best days this semester. not only was i relatively productive work-wise, but i (finally!) washed my laundry. haha. klingle and connie had their baby, which is so wonderful and so sweet (made me happy). i guess lots of lovely things happened yesterday. the best part for me though was cooking dinner with john. i can't really express how happy he makes me. i guess the warbling ant of happiness says it all. :-)

"precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness."
-nietzsche :-)

(cartoons = http://www.lastlemon.com/dailydose/daily.htm ... amazing!!!)