why my roommate is the best in the world.

she wakes me up in time for class every morning.  by any means necessary.

including stealing my pillows and bribing me with chocolate. 

today she stole my blanket.  my blanket that was protecting me from the unbearable cold of our room.

but i wasn't giving up without a fight.  i held onto that blanket like my life depended on it.

of course, this ended up with me on the floor,

still with a death grip on my blanket, wide awake.

and some very amused roommates.

perpetual perpetual hunger.

i have been using "perpetual hunger" as a synonym for "college"

i now realize i will be in college until i am 85

so now i have perpetual perpetual hunger.

and all i will be doing for all those years is reading.

reading textbooks.

probably this delightful book will come in handy.

this one will never get old. promise.

jane eyre. jane eyre. jane eyre.

i love jane eyre.

and today i added my second copy of this to my collection.

unabridged, of course.

i love my book collection.  it will be my best friend during my perpetual perpetual hunger.

yay for being literate.

yay for deciding i want my master's degree.

things that made me smile today that are probably stupid. except the inspirational happy ones. those aren't stupid.

the reason: i waste too much time on pinterest.

i want this so much.

my roommate can tell you this is true.

this is ridiculously cute and i want two of them.

i love michel.  probably because he's french.

the real reason we can.

zombie apocalypse.

and now the inspirational ones:

^

dear paris,

just wait for me. we're going to meet.

i promise.

love,

jane.

(love letters to paris, not men.)

life is too short...

to be anything but happy.

(remember this, jane.)

how to be happy (today)

sleep late because i stayed out too late because sleep is my true love.

wear your cuddling hoodie and curl up in a blanket mom gave you.

watch the big bang theory. or the halloween episode of boy meets world.

get a free t-shirt from the student center. just because.

visit C2.  realize how much you've missed it and be happy you're back.  sit in the middle of the hall with smith, trevor, your roommates, and ridiculously cool ex-boyfriend.

have a big dinner with your neighbors, roommates, your family, and your roommate's family.

take someone's free t-shirt from earlier and put it on your head.  when it falls off, put it on the next person's head.  when it falls off, have them put it on the next person's head until it goes all the way around the room.

we're weird. don'tworryaboutit.

have your dinner party of 14 get locked inside your tiny college-kid apartment.  yell out your window for your neighbor who you've hardly met to help you.

have a roommate date.  talk about everything.

go to sleep wearing dinosaur socks.

someday, it's all going to work out for the best.

and someday i won't get broken up with the first week of school.

my marius is somewhere out there waiting for me.

oh darn.

looks like paris is just as pretty in the winter as it is in the summer.
i guess i'll have to go twice.
or just stay there for a year so i can see what it looks like all the time.


darn it.

college: a state of perpetual hunger.

i said goodbye to my parents
i unpacked all my pretty socks

behold the pretty socks (guest starring my feet)

...

our air conditioning got fixed

and with a few sheets as improvised couch covers, a rug, decorative pillows, a keyboard, and a thrift-store found photo of the eiffel tower,

our dingy living room was transformed into a comfortable, colorful room of awesome.

i walked to a bookstore and found no copies of les miserables.  i'll try again tomorrow.

and since i arrived, i've been in a state of perpetual hunger.

i guess college does that to me.

to combat it, i made pizza and cookies for dinner tonight.

i'm home.