It's that time of the year again...fall semester brings forth excitement for football games, and ridiculous expenses. I hate how much books cost, and tuition is so pricey it makes me sick. I'm so thankful that God provided my parents with the finances to pay for my Florida Pre-Paid when I was four years old because without it, I wouldn't be here.
Also, it's been kind of a rough week. Eli left to go back home to Ormond last Friday, so he's been gone for over a week now and it's really starting to wear on me. To make me feel better, some things I have been doing is hanging out with people I haven't been able to see much of this summer. My friend Nicole moved back to Tampa into her cute new apartment this week so Katie and I have been shopping and eating with her, both of which I love to do. I got these ADORABLE wall decorations from Target and I adore them. I feel like my room is complete :) I bought some artificial orange orchids to go in one of my many empty vases. One of the wall decorations is in a square frame and it has a gray background with white dandelions drawn on the gray, pillow-like picture. I can't really describe it in any other way. The other wall decoration is a tiny shadow box with a purple bird on a silver tree...once again, adorable.
If you know me at all, you know I love free stuff. Chipotle had this amazing deal for tax-free weekend and basically if you bought a meal from them on Tues. or Weds. of this past week, you could get a free meal either Friday, Sat, or Sunday. After working all day today, free Chipotle was VERY nice.
That's all I have to write about right now so until next time,
xo Rach
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Sounds, they make me feel....
The new Chrysler commercial made me want to watch an old movie. It had the classical piano going on in the background and it had a beautiful landscape view of a huge oak tree and children running around in the field. I now want to watch something like "Emma", or "Pride and Prejudice".
This is a short entry.
<3 rach
This is a short entry.
<3 rach
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
"Plenitude"
I wrote out most of this blog only to have it erased by stupid facebook chat interrupting...THAT'S WHY I ALWAYS HAVE IT OFF. Does anyone know why (or how) it can stop me in mid type to address that someone facebook chatted me even when I'm in a different window? I don't like that.
I'd like to post a poem that I like alot. It's called "Plenitude" and was written by Paul Guest. We read his book, "Notes for My Body Double" in my poetry class and this poem was my favorite out of the whole book, if I remember correctly.
Here it is,
"That boy in the snowy late light\
midnight TV gives the skin, blue then\
dark blue, is me. With my mind\
shaped like a finger, I point\
him out. This is before he will point\
a borrowed bike downhill\
and touch me in return. This, too, is before\
rushing home in rain, through\
woods, stopping in a clearing of clouds\
and canopy to note moon\
like milk on my skin, in the water white\
and pebbled, for the first time\
in my life. I called it home, the apartment\
we would love in after class\
and there she waited while I drowned\
in my clothes, in that light\
bouncing earthward from the sun a world\
away. This is before I fell.\
This is before I swallowed back\
a new species of emotion\
I'd never known to live within\
my chest, before I said\
not a word to her that suggested I might\
go away and go unmissed.\
This is before I fled. This is before\
I hung in the elevator's throat\
and waited for the world\
to catch back up, for the world to spit back\
lost time. This is before\
I lost a friend to the vacuum of his blood,\
the blown veins leading\
back to his heart. This is before\
I loved three times. This is before\
I feared all day to lose\
the last, my heart pulsing like a lead cloud.\
This is before. Curled\
and in a clot, before long he'll sleep.\
He'll rehearse another\
life. All night long I wait and I watch.\
One by one I write down\
what he dreams."
**editor/writer's note: the backslashes [ \ ] are where the line breaks are in the poem. Unfortunately, my margins for the blog are too small for it to occur naturally when I space in between.**
Awesome. I love the sense of loss and nostalgia in this poem, and the images are to die for. My favorite line is, "I hung in the elevator's throat". I have that line underlined in my book actually. Anyways, if you like that poem at all, you should check out Paul Guest's book...the rest of it is just as rich.
<3 rach
I'd like to post a poem that I like alot. It's called "Plenitude" and was written by Paul Guest. We read his book, "Notes for My Body Double" in my poetry class and this poem was my favorite out of the whole book, if I remember correctly.
Here it is,
"That boy in the snowy late light\
midnight TV gives the skin, blue then\
dark blue, is me. With my mind\
shaped like a finger, I point\
him out. This is before he will point\
a borrowed bike downhill\
and touch me in return. This, too, is before\
rushing home in rain, through\
woods, stopping in a clearing of clouds\
and canopy to note moon\
like milk on my skin, in the water white\
and pebbled, for the first time\
in my life. I called it home, the apartment\
we would love in after class\
and there she waited while I drowned\
in my clothes, in that light\
bouncing earthward from the sun a world\
away. This is before I fell.\
This is before I swallowed back\
a new species of emotion\
I'd never known to live within\
my chest, before I said\
not a word to her that suggested I might\
go away and go unmissed.\
This is before I fled. This is before\
I hung in the elevator's throat\
and waited for the world\
to catch back up, for the world to spit back\
lost time. This is before\
I lost a friend to the vacuum of his blood,\
the blown veins leading\
back to his heart. This is before\
I loved three times. This is before\
I feared all day to lose\
the last, my heart pulsing like a lead cloud.\
This is before. Curled\
and in a clot, before long he'll sleep.\
He'll rehearse another\
life. All night long I wait and I watch.\
One by one I write down\
what he dreams."
**editor/writer's note: the backslashes [ \ ] are where the line breaks are in the poem. Unfortunately, my margins for the blog are too small for it to occur naturally when I space in between.**
Awesome. I love the sense of loss and nostalgia in this poem, and the images are to die for. My favorite line is, "I hung in the elevator's throat". I have that line underlined in my book actually. Anyways, if you like that poem at all, you should check out Paul Guest's book...the rest of it is just as rich.
<3 rach
Monday, August 2, 2010
Mr. Empanada
Today was an exceptional Monday. I woke up late, always a great feeling...met up with Jeff Lee at Panera and had a pleasant chat about RUF coming up this fall. I'm so excited about this semester. My one concern is the amount of hours I'll be working and if they'll give me any of the days off I ask for when it comes to RUF events. I feel like I have the rest of my life to work, but only two semesters of RUF left.
After that, Eli and I went to Mr. Empanada and ate a late lunch/dinner. No, I'm not a piggy. I actually didn't get anything from Panera when I was there, so I was legitimately hungry at 3pm when we went to get our delicious empanada's. I ordered the beef and cheese and then the guava with cream cheese...mmmmm. I'm afraid that the business won't be around for long though because I never see anybody in there and they're getting stingier on their meal deals (so they probably can't afford to give us good deals anymore).
One a completely different topic of my choosing, I look like a burn victim as of late. I don't know what the heck is going on with my skin, but the skin around the inside of my elbows is drastically lighter than the rest of my arms and it looks like I was severely burned there or something but I definitely wasn't...I look weird and I found this cool sparkle make-up stuff that covers it well but I don't know why it's happening.
Another random topic: I really hate complainers. I vent....a lot. But some people only find the negative things to talk about and it gets on my nerves, especially when these people are Christians. DO YOU REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR??? I catch myself often getting upset about my work schedule at Wal-Mart, but hello Rachel, you were begging for God to provide you with work just over 3 months ago. So right now, I think you and I both should think about how God has provided for us, continually...even in ways that we didn't see coming.
I am now going to hit the hay and wake up for an awesome 8 hour shift tomorrow.
:)
<3 rach
After that, Eli and I went to Mr. Empanada and ate a late lunch/dinner. No, I'm not a piggy. I actually didn't get anything from Panera when I was there, so I was legitimately hungry at 3pm when we went to get our delicious empanada's. I ordered the beef and cheese and then the guava with cream cheese...mmmmm. I'm afraid that the business won't be around for long though because I never see anybody in there and they're getting stingier on their meal deals (so they probably can't afford to give us good deals anymore).
One a completely different topic of my choosing, I look like a burn victim as of late. I don't know what the heck is going on with my skin, but the skin around the inside of my elbows is drastically lighter than the rest of my arms and it looks like I was severely burned there or something but I definitely wasn't...I look weird and I found this cool sparkle make-up stuff that covers it well but I don't know why it's happening.
Another random topic: I really hate complainers. I vent....a lot. But some people only find the negative things to talk about and it gets on my nerves, especially when these people are Christians. DO YOU REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR??? I catch myself often getting upset about my work schedule at Wal-Mart, but hello Rachel, you were begging for God to provide you with work just over 3 months ago. So right now, I think you and I both should think about how God has provided for us, continually...even in ways that we didn't see coming.
I am now going to hit the hay and wake up for an awesome 8 hour shift tomorrow.
:)
<3 rach
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