Right now I'm missin a certain place. Also this week was very productive.

I miss my river. And my woods. And my dirt roads. And even those tricky little fellas you see here on aforementioned dirt roads, who cause alignment annihilation and train you in the ways of the pothole-dodging ninja when you're behind the wheel. I miss Maple Valley. And I get to be there in less than five weeks. Excited? YEAHPRETTYMUCH.

Also. It's Friday. My thinking-about-the-past-week day. And today I'm thinking about all the progress I've made in life this week. You know, the stuff I'm really proud of. The life-changing lessons. The character-building experiences. I'm speaking of the items I checked off my "Do these things if you don't want to look really smooth" list {yeah I have one, don't you?} this week. For some reason there were a whole lot of them. It was pretty great. Check it out.

1) Trying to pour dressing on my salad at lunch - right-handed. No. It just doesn't work, fellow lefties. Unless, of course, you were actually planning on decorating the counter & having your salad be 92% raspberry vinaigrette. Dee-lish-iss.

2) Letting everyone in the entire JSB lounge know that I had fallen asleep in my seat by performing a full-body twitch to wake myself up. Thanks, subconscious. Nothing better than waking up to 30 strangers staring at you.

3) Biffing it hardcore on the stairs while walking to class with some friends. Good thing I caught myself on the railing before I went down all the way! Oh that's right, I actually didn't, cause I had my stinking thumbs hooked in my backpack straps. Face-to-the-pavement self-inflicted bodyslam on the stairs ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, it's okay to be jealous.

4) Having a Korean student ask me to explain the concept of a "buffer zone" for her history assignment but totally thinking she's asking me where the "bathroom zone" is. But only for like ten seconds, then I got it, no worries! I assure you that after the initial awkwardness there was a happy ending & I felt accomplished, though she probably walked away rolling her eyes and muttering "Stupid American" or something along those lines. 

5) Catching a cute guy in the library watching me in the middle of my hugest, surely most unattractive yawn ever. Yes. I impress people that way.

Pretty productive week, if I do say so myself! On the less embarrassing side, I did beast my Environmental Biology exam on Wednesday. That felt nice. And now my bestest girl friend from home is HERE in the same CITY as me and we are about to have a girls weekend just like old times.

Life is good.