My anti-Valentine's party went perfectly. Being shy, paranoid, messy, and cheap, I haven't hosted a party in a few years. It was great. Even more people came by than I had hoped, and everyone ate ALL my cookies! I was worried they were overdone. We had so much fun just randomly chatting, and drinking wine. Most of them had never been in my room before, and they were impressed with it's cuteness. XD

So it's finally happened. I graduated! After three days of ceremony, I'm home at last. After such an elaborate weekend, you'd think I'd have something to write about, but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.





I still can't believe that it's all over. It hasn't sunk in at all. I never cried or really felt like it, at least not in the right way. It's probably impossible to get an adequate sense of closure for something like this when you're still stuck thinking you're going back. I'm home now. We almost missed our flight home from JFK, which was a bit stressful, but now I have a whole month to sort out my life.  ^_^

What beautiful weather we're having here in Connecticut!  At last.

Yesterday I went to the park / beach with my friends Elaine and Claire, and Elaine's guitar.  I made a fool of myself attempting to play the guitar.  We sang mostly folk music.  It was fantastic. The sun was out and the flowers were in full bloom and the ocean was as blue as heaven. I felt so overwhelmed by the richness of the colors and the softness of the sun, I wanted to melt into the grass or maybe the water and get carried down the long white afternoon towards sweet nothing/evening, or a land without school. As soon as I set foot on campus again I had a headache and an overpowering desire to sleep.  Ah, mood swings.  D: But that's not important. 


I gave up coffee on Tuesday and am STILL in withdrawal.  But I'm finally able to sleep again, so I know it's doing me some good.

ONE WEEK LEFT.

Because I'm procrastinating, and inspired by other people's recent picture posts, and because I just discovered how fun my laptop camera is, and some of you are new and don't know what I look like, here are a bunch of pictures of me I took five minutes ago. ^_^;



All of my angsting about my life post-graduation has come to an end.  I'm officially going to Harvard next year.  This still feels a little bit crazy and dreamlike for me, because as recently as three weeks ago I had been certain that I was going to be in California.  Everything has happened so quickly, and I've been floating on a cloud of joy ever since.  The only thing that hurt a little was notifying the UCLA professor, whom I had befriended and told in January that I would come if admitted, that I was going east.  But other than that, every time I think about it I smile.

Yesterday I was walking into the dining hall and a huge clod of snow dislodged itself from the eave above and fell on my head.  I took it as a punishment for choosing Harvard, a smirking reminder from the weather gods that I will now have to endure six more years of New England winters.  Serves me right.  I'm still happy.

So Halloween is over and done with, and my dead camera battery didn't allow for very much of it to be immortalized, but I do have some pictures. My roommate and I went as "cats" to the senior dance Friday night, but we didn't decide to go out until it was already too late to bother making ears or tails. So we just wore black and drew whiskers.  Lame, I know, but it was fun. On the actual day of Halloween I just wore black and lots of eyeliner all day and all night.  It was fun.   My other roommates carved a pumpkin for our suite.  All in all it was a great time!


I'm alternating between being horribly stressed and angry and confused, and being very happy because I'm putting off my painful obligations. I was delighted that my FAVORITE room of the library, which has been under construciton, is now open again. And I have a quasi-date tomorrow. O_O

On an entirely unrelated note, I descended even deeper into moral bankruptcy last week by writing Uchihacest smut. I posted it in the relevant communities already, but I thought I should post it here for safekeeping. Yeah, I know it's pretty wrong, so don't judge me ;)

I thought about this a lot after writing the fic, and ended up writing a little blurb about the appeal of ItaSasu as a pairing:




Here's a link to the actual fic, for the brave.
Title: "Just Like You Imagined"
Pairing: ItaSasu
Genre: Angsty smutty one-shot
Rating: NC-17
Words:  960
Disclaimer: All your Uchiha are belong to Kishimoto.
Warnings:  La la la...yaoi, incest, non-con, bdsm, and other such delicious unpleasantries.

Now I have to write a grad school essay.

I used the hummingbird from the Nasca Lines as a model.

( The Nasca Hummingbird )

The design really spoke to me since I want to do Peruvian archaeology, and I love the result. It was hardly painful at all. I went with my friend Laura, who got a beautiful Egyptian eye of Horus on her shoulder. It was a wonderful day.