And so it is...

just like you said it should be.
We'll both forget the breeze
most of the time.

I am back from Colorado sitting in my apartment recovering from the first day back to school. The snowboarding/skiing trip was incredible! Everyone that went was fun to be around and I made a few new friends. While I was in Colorado I realized how much I take warmth for granted. In Texas, when I walk outside and it's 50 degrees I automatically want a jacket of some kind. In Colorado, when I walked outside and it was 12 degrees three layers were not enough and I automatically wanted to seek shelter. Call me weak, but I blame it on the fact that in Texas we do not typically experience harsh winters and crazy snowstorms, so how are we to be prepared? The Starbucks in Breckenridge became my Mecca of sorts; when I saw it in the distance I knew there were warm drinks and a heater on inside and I did everything but sprint down the icy sidewalks to get to it. As for the rest of the trip, I will be posting photographs from the Christmas break sometime in the near future.

Classes this semester seem great so far. I know I will be learning quite a bit of new information in fields I am not well-acquainted with, and for us nerds that is always exciting! Today I had The American Novel and 17th Century Literature. My class times on Mondays are kind of overwhelming right now. I am only taking two lit. classes and I have them back to back from 4:15-5:30 and then from 6:00-8:45. That is a lot of literature to comprehend and keep straight, and a whole lot of reading. I should have spread my lit. classes out more, but I left class tonight excited. I do not just sit down and read 17th century lit. for fun, so I already feel like I am learning a lot and that's the primary goal, right?

Nothing grand to speak of. School, work, everyday chaos and confusion, but it keeps us all on our toes. I figure, as long as I have good music to listen to in my car with the windows down, everything feels (even though it may not be) a-okay.

Currently listening to "Bottom Shelf" by Damien Rice

I take myself from the bottom shelf
and I reel my troubles in,
and I put them up on a higher hill
to a place I've never been.

And I'll wait for you if you want me to.
Am I just wasting my time?
And I'll wait for you if you ask me to.
Am I just losing my mind?

And I'm always hanging on
And I'm always closing doors
And I'm always saying no
No, when I really really want it all.
When I really really want it all.
When I really really want it all.
When I really really want you.

And I'll take myself from the bottom shelf
and I'm on the street again,
but it's the newer town, and the rain comes down
in a place I've never been.

And I'll play for you if you ask me to.
Am I just wasting my time?
Yeah I'll play for you if you want me to.
Am I just losing my mind?

'Cause I'm always hanging on
And I'm always closing doors
And I'm always saying no
When I really really want it all.
When I really really want you.

When I really really want it all.
I really really really want...
Yeah, I really really want it all.
When I really really wanted you.

I take myself from the bottom shelf
and I reel my troubles in,
and I put them up on a higher hill
to a place I've never been.

And I'll play for you if you want me to.
Am I just wasting my time?
And I'll play for you if you ask me to.
Am I just losing my mind?

Am I just losing my mind?
Am I just losing my mind?
Am I just losing?