Well, I guess there's no point denying it any longer. It's finally winter. Ugh. It was snowing pretty heavily here this morning but seems to have stopped already (fine by me). As much as I'll bitch about it (and, oh yes, I will bitch about it) there's still something sort of magical about the first few snowfalls of the year. Sure, it can be a huge pain, and, unfortunately, with the snow comes the cold (I think that's what I dislike the most, the bitter cold), but right now snow gets me thinking of Thanksgiving, which, in turn, gets me thinking about Christmas. I love the holidays, I love the fact that my brother and his wife will be over for Thanksgiving. I love giving people presents. I love our little Chirstmas rituals like having coffee and eggs benedict on Christmas morning, going to mass on Christmas Eve, squirrling away presents so people won't find them early...yeah, I may hate the snow once January rolls around, but right now there is still a little something fun about it. I can't help it, I guess it's the kid in me or something:)
As far as fun news goes, I bought a ticket to go to DC for the second weekend in December. I'm really psyched to see Shannon, I can't believe I haven't seen her since April. I hope I'll get to see some of the other few people I miss (Alcarwen, do you think you'll be around that weekend or will you be up to your eyeballs in papers??) It'll be nice to get away for a few days, not so much from Ann Arbor (still happy to be back) but to have a little space from the parents. Yay, I hope it's as fun as I anticipate!
Guitar continues to go well, I've definitely gotten a lot better at "Good Riddance" and my teacher is now having me learn"I Should Have Known Better" by The Beatles. What's also cool is that he told me to start thinking about what songs I want to learn and it can be anything I like! Fun! Of course I need to find stuff that I know almost all the chords for (I imagine if there's one chord I don't know he'll teach it to me) and that aren't too horribly complicated, but I really like the fact that he's letting me have a say in some things. My old piano teacher never let me pick stuff to learn, so this makes me really happy.
One other thing, Spin magazine is having a cool contest right now that you iPod folks should check out. It's connected with Ultragrrrl's book The Pocket DJ and the gist of it is that Spin wants you to submit any playlist you've created for your iPod and the winner gets a 30gb video iPod. I never win anything but it was still kinda fun to post one of my many playlists:) Check iout the details here. Go on, you know you want to!
Stay warm,
Ciao,
Sasha
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I'll be here and eyeball deep in papers but I can always use a break:) (really. really really really could use a break. i've hit panic mode this week b/c i realized that two of my papers are due BEFORE finals when i thought they were due DURING. oops.)
glad to hear you're going to be in town:):) let me know details when you've got 'em and i'll make myself available:)
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