so it definitely feels like autumn! sweaters and hoodies and pants and turtlenecks and pumpkin spice lattes...

today i'm babysitting for one of my profs for a little while and then i need to start working on a paper for her class. doing hair and tomorrow more work and then going to the art music justice tour with some people from my dept which should be fun.

one of my friends and i are hoping to go mountain biking in the country in a few weeks to celebrate fall. YAY!

...always reminds me of summer 1998 when it would play in Amanda and Alisa's head counselor room in old Riverside. The sound would filter through the walls, drift around the doors and sneak through the (many) cracks down the hallway to my room.

When you're in the kind of phase that I was in that summer (and, let's face it, for a few early teenage years) of searching desperately for who you are and what your place is, the memories come back so vividly.


What will we carry? What will stay with us? What will shine like gold when the story's told?
Alli Rogers' "The Things We Can and Cannot Keep"

So my Uncle Phil was in town yesterday and called me out on never updating the ol' LJ. I will admit that there are a variety of factors, including but not limited to:

1. me being boring
2. me not having reliable internet for the last 2.5 months
3. me being lazy
4. When i'm NOT being lazy I usually apply that energy to my music blog.

The ironic thing is that because I'm in school again you would think my procrastination would be back in full force, I guess I waste time in different ways.

Which sort of segues into the fact that I'm really enjoying school. For the most part I am really enjoying my reading and classes, this is probably why I haven't been procrastinating QUITE as much...

Seriously, the only problem is that I usually leave class still wanting to talk about whatever we've been talking about and I have no Julia, no Jimmy, no Aldridge or Dr. K to relentlessly question and explicate with. So I have found myself leaving messages like, "Kevin! How CAN perfect justice and mercy coexist?! Explain. Call me back."

( more about school )

So the internet people will be here in 45 minutes and I will finally be able to use MY COMPUTER, which isn't a big deal except I CAN'T DOWNLOAD MUSIC ON SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER. I think anyone who knows me know that I have seriously itchy compulsion to get new music I don't have! Okay, that sounds really consumeristic BUT it's not like the "newest and latest" so much as new stuff I've heard of and I've been putting off making a few people mix CDs (I have a mix CD debt like 6 deep!) until I could get a few songs that I don't have right now to put on them.

Catholic Underground tomorrow night with Michael Magree, SJ- friend of Mo's School of Community!

I miss everyone. I love Nikki's new blog about her and Charlotte. Even LIZ has been updating more than me. Although Morgan has been strangely silent although I would like to commend her for updating about Christianity and politics BEFORE the mamma mia singalong. Kudos, Mo. I love you!

It is BEAUTIFUL today. Villanova looking like an archtypical east coast Catholic school. Blue sky slight chill in the air the spires looming overhead.


But I have to spend the day reading 200 pages in the library. (hence LJ)

So, I'm most definitely alive but I've been away from my computer and am about to embark on a four week camping trip so I may seem MIA. Hopefully I'll at least get to check email maybe once a week so if anyone has any roadtrip worthy songs lemme know!


(I took this short clip at Lifest!)

I just looked for (and found!) a chapel with perpetual adoration less than a mile from my abode in Philly!!!! This is tremendously relieving to me. Also has daily morning mass. YAY!

babysat all weekend. kids were fun. i watched like all of house season 2, SO addictive.

so as some of you may know i've recently been attempting to take control of my personal finances and been reading up on how to be fiscally responsible and have financial independence and integrity. The book I'm currently reading is knocking down money myths (free spirits can still keep good financial records) and attempting to coach me to treat my financial life the same way any business would (i.e. not just randomly guessing).

today i worked out my liquid assets, my fixed assets, and my liabilities. it turns out my net worth is somewhere around $12,000. That actually struck me as more than I anticipated. It was sort of funny. It took less than half an hour to (casually) inventory everything I own. I guess that's not TOO surprising seeing as 99% of it fits into the back of my truck...

just found that interesting.


(a year ago i didn't even balance my checkbook)

okay, so that was a lame attempt to make a mock reference to avril lavigne.

Anyway, my point is that IT IS SO FRICKING HOT HERE. Like I am sitting in my room with the fan on SWEATING. The good news is that in about an hour it will be MUCH MUCH better and will feel AWESOME with my window and fan on. I guess it's worse inside too because the sun here is hot. Maybe that doesn't make sense but to me it does. :)

I was sad today because I feel like my life as of recent has been v. unexamined and I think having such an excess of activity post- alumni retreat kind of didn't allow space for me to process the retreat.

And, dreads tentatively scheduled for Tuesday.

I'm freaking out and blogging about the Khrusty brothers at www.lindsaylovesmusic.blogspot.com just so you know what you're being spared. :)

just finished the book- the movie is NOTHING like the book, in fact I was like, "why did they even decide to call it "last of the mohicans"? I feel like the movie would have done well anyway, it's a good story on its own, it just happens to bear little to no resemblance of james fenimore cooper's book. Liz mentioned that she thinks NIkki read it for school and that reminded me that Nikki took a class on Western Lit which now sounds very interesting to me.


So i liked the book. And because it was nothing like the movie parts of the ending DID indeed shock me- really, I gasped out loud twice.


And then I bought the movie soundtrack. :)

Nick: don't worry, it will work out, are you excited about school, nervous?

me: haven't had a ton of time to think about it
probably nervous
because like
i started reading a book about theology
to sort of dip my toe in
and instead i'm reading other books
watching last of the mohicans as many times as humanly possible

Nick: whatever, your the most academic person I know, seriously, why last of the mohicans?

me: 'cause claire and i were talking about it
and then i was like i don't think i've ever seen it
so i got it to watch
then the book came up in ANOTHER book i was reading
so i decided to reread the BOOK
and then of course want to watch the movie to compare
then found out that one of the girls i just went cmaping with has never seen it
so she's coming over to watch too
:-D

Nick: that sounds pretty academic to me

i love my clairey!!!! we actually got dressed and put on actual makeup to go out for dinner and drinks

me and my TENT!!!!

claire and i hiked here the other day, apparently it snowed in the mountains today so i bet it looks different...

alec swam in the state prelims today- didn't make finals but did swim a best time. I'm really proud of him. :)

got my ipod shuffle in the mail today, going to try it out at the gym tomorrow!

was recced Misty Edwards' music via Joia via Matt Maher and she's really good.

which got me thinking- I think that when I drive to Philly I will try to stay at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City the first night. That divides my drive into an 8.5 hour first day, 10ish hour second day, and then third day with Mo from Columbus. I've wanted to check out this REAL ihop for a while now, should be interesting.

also, i think I'm going to dread my hair. so far the response has been positive. i'm going to ask my manager if it's within dress code tomorrow and if she says it is I'll probably do it as soon as I can find someone to. If not I'll probably wait and get KT and helpers to do it. woooo!

Ever since I found out they were being published I have REALLY wanted to read her diary.

I need to go track down a copy...

okay, so let's make that a total of six zahn books in five days. but now i'm done. his other star wars books are prequel-esque: outbound flight and then "allegiance" (which I feel like I might have read but can't remember, just checked, yes Morgan sent it to me when it was published so I have in fact read it) and I don't feel any need to read those.

so now i'm at the smoky hill library listening to john mayer (although I listened to kelly on my way over here which was AWESOME) and attempting to write letters of recommendation for TomNeal. MUCHO privilege but that doesn't mean I know how to write the damn thing! grrrr. Here is where not getting to read your letters of rec kind of sucks, I have no idea what they are supposed to say!

After not getting my hair to do anything this morning I gave up and put a bandana on. That's right, doo rag style. I am awesome.

between reading FIVE of timothy zahn's books in the past week (the thrawn trilogy and the hand of thrawn duology, SQUEE!), seeing Superchic[k] on Friday night, watching Lord of the Rings, and now listening to John Mayer I just feel a sense of my own retrospection.

I never thought I would miss those days, and in some ways I vehemently DON'T but I mean in hindsight my crushes and sports and grades...what *nice* things to be worried about...