12/20

It could be a week or more until I get my new laptop, so I might as well stop using that as an excuse to not post

So I'm in Miami,

but it's chilly.. and I have no laptop... so it's just a little hard to pass the time.

Add to that, the fact that I've felt incredibly sluggish, have the darkest circles under my eyes, and could be awake or asleep at any hour of the day.

I've read a bit of a Japanese novel, in hopes of making up for my lack of progress in the language this Fall (oh..will sensei be mad at me? )

And I've painted cards and things...

But unfortunately, I don't feel comfortable going out to jog, in my kind of neighborhood. Wish I had a treadmill..!

Oh, me...

I was looking back on some old notebooks that I'd doodle in when I was pretending to study, and on one page from about a year ago, I was planning out my future. There were all sorts of strange and conflicting things, and I won't mention it all, but one line I really appreciated was this:

"Sometimes I'll eat muffins."

Yes. That's right. I've got occasional muffins planned for my future.

12/14

For the past month or so, all I have are nightmares.

Ducking to avoid bullets and frantically trying to shut windows, or discreetly dialing 911 in a room with some creep,

or sitting in a car on the beach in a storm, with the tide quickly coming to drown me,

being locked and stranded in a closed shopping mall,

or watching someone fall to the floor from 4 stories up.

By the time I'm awake, I'm totally exhausted!

12/13

Is there anything in the adult world as satisfying as putting an old semester behind you, for good?

12/12

A day in the life of Kaley!

Go to sleep at 9 AM.

Wake up at 5 PM.

Time to start writing more of my paper!

Freak out.

Go run 3 miles.

Drink 2 cups of coffee.

Start writing more.

Get too many weird texts.

Freak out.

Drink a cup of tea.

Go to the Sweetbay, to buy more tea.

Come back.

Drink another cup of tea.

Write, for real this time.

But then, actually, no, because someone interesting came online.

Wait, I haven't eaten today.

Eat toast.

Write some nonsense.

Write more nonsense.

Happy holidays!