s(a)tu(r)d(a)y

so my today was eventful...not. ha, sorry, i was feeling pretty nineties today.

(all the small things - blink-182)

it started with breakfast. breakfast, in this case, took place around noon and involved a quick trip to the drive-thru starbucks in ashburn. in my hot pink, hello kitty pajamas. unfortunately the drive-thru was closed and i had to get out of the car to get my caffeine fix. in my hot pink, hello kitty pajamas.

listen, kids, this is why you should just say no when someone offers you coffee. addiction is not the way, it leads to all sorts of unspeakable horrors and humiliations. also, you spend a lot of time on the treadmill working off those darn empty calories.

(a funny thing - penguin prison)

anyway, after that we went to the post office and sent some stuff off to various relatives with birthdays this month and to the momster's mysterious work-related people. while leaving the parking lot, i had time to realize my dog really is the cutest creature in existence. just look at his little face! and his smooshy little nose!

(come save - sarah reeves)

after that i got down to work. i've made a good dent in my giant AP lit exam review packet and made some calc formula flashcards. luckily we're getting a formula sheet for the physics test, so i don't have to worry about that. i finally printed out the eleventy billion and one pages of review packets my english teacher put online, too, and started reading them over. it was pretty boring, so i was pretty happy when the momster brought down the lovely bowl of chopped cherries and cookie dough ice cream pictured above as a mid-studying snack. clearly that whole 'get fit in the new year' resolution can be deferred to february.

(breakin' - the all-american rejects)

i snacked, then studied a little more, and finally gave up and started rereading the poisonwood bible again. i know, i know. it's probably not necessary. i rationalized it to myself by figuring that i'd be so familiar with this book come exam time that all the essays would be a breeze. i'll just write about nothing but poisonwood, who needs those other three books?

anyway, by now my copy of the book looks like one giant block of highlighting. see, on the first few rereads, i just highlighted the parts that made me laugh or seemed important. since then i've been highlighting the bits that talk about colonialism or adah's character, but it's all been with the same highlighter, so you get pages that look like the one in the picture. one of these days i'll learn to color code.

at least it was fun to go through and see all the things i highlighted on my first reread. here's one of my favorites:

"With all due respect," my father said, "this is not the time or the place for that kind of business. Why don't you sit down now, and announce your plans after I've finished with the sermon? Church is not the place to vote anyone in or out of public office."

"Church is the place for it," said Tata Ndu. "Ici, maintenant, we are making a vote for Jesus Christ in the office of personal God, Kilanga village."

Father did not move for several seconds. 

Tata Ndu looked at him quizzically. "Forgive me, I wonder if I have paralyzed you?"

- Leah Price, The Poisonwood Bible