i think i spent 5 hours straight on my problem set tonight. good lord. thank god for c.chiou--if i weren't working with her, i would have been weak and gone to sleep. yes, sleep is for the weak! except i almost typed, "weak is for the sleep" just now. crap.

life's kicking into "busier" gear. i think that's why my blogs are slow and slightly down these days. i need some time with my dimmer thoughts, you know? the life you allow others to see can be so blinding sometimes.

oh, i posted some of my birthday and reno pictures i jacked from deb on my xanga. take a peek if you'd like.

pledge welcome was tonight--super rowdy. they're too cute. =) and san diego tomorrow night...or later today. wish i could visit longer =\ give me a call, cher!

c.chiou's roomie, nina, was playing this tonight. still one of my favorite songs...it just makes you all nostalgic/yearning/wistful:

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"All I Want" -Toad the Wet Sprocket

nothing's so loud
as hearing when we lie
the truth is not kind
and you've said neither am i
but the air outside so soft
is saying everything
everything

all i want is to feel this way
to be this close, to feel the same
all i want is to feel this way
the evening speaks, i feel it say...

nothing's so cold
as closing the heart when all we need
is to free the soul
but we wouldn't be that brave i know
and the air outside so soft
confessing everything
everything

and it won't matter now
whatever happens to me
though the air speaks of all we'll never be
it won't trouble me

and it feels so close
let it take me in
let it hold me so
i can feel it say...