so last night around 4am, it started to snow here in philly. the snow's pretty much carried on till just an hour or two ago - so maybe a full 20ish hours. it's gotten superthick, and i'll admit, it looks beautiful outside - until you hit the roads, that is (maybe it's because i'm from chicago, but i just don't understand...WHERE ARE THE SNOWPLOWS?? AND SALT???) . anyway, i'm still studying for my last final - stressful thursday is over, though, so i'm just grateful for that.
i ended up just staying up and talking to someone until 5am last night - bad for the both of us, because we both have an accounting final on monday - but the talk was good. we sat in a lounge in the lobby of her dorm. i would say it was probably around 3:45am? actually, i really don't know - but there was always soft music playing in the background, because the security guard just had christmas music playing as she sat at the desk. i don't know why i think this is so cute but all of a sudden she just started singing along to the song - i can't even remember what the song was (seriously...4am = burned out brain) but it was so...cute? simple, but cute.
as the snow continued to fall, it saw me sleep...from 6 am....to 12 pm. gross. anyway, i headed somewhere to study (little did i know how unproductive i would be...) anyway, it was literally like, blizzarding. crazy snow. as i walked in, teh security guard told me, "wipe your feet right there!" at first, for some reason, i thought it was because he didn't want me to get huntsman hall dirty. then he continued, "good, sweetie. i don't want you to slip and fall or anything - be careful walking in!" to which i just...i don't know. greatly appreciate it, i guess.
i feel like some things i write about on this blog are just things that a lot of people just kind of brush by and don't stop to think about. but once you do, you see that not everyone's always going to be that kind, or that considerate. that you can be pleasantly surprised in the littlest of ways. it's less than a week until christmas, and then new year's after that. i should be updating a couple of times between now and then, though.
:) xoxoooooo.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
cookies!
finals season is highly, highly, HIGHLY stressful.
also, seeing people who are done super-early makes me super-jealous.
it's been a really rough semester, but also a really encouraging semester in terms of everyone just trying to encourage each other, whether it's randomly dropping a line on gchat/AIM, or...
people who are done baking cookies, then travelling all around campus to deliver them to those of us who are still studying (and close to passing out/giving up/needing sleep).
thank you for being sunshines in our dark, gloomy, depressing, long, tiring, stressful nights of studying.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxo.
also, seeing people who are done super-early makes me super-jealous.
it's been a really rough semester, but also a really encouraging semester in terms of everyone just trying to encourage each other, whether it's randomly dropping a line on gchat/AIM, or...
people who are done baking cookies, then travelling all around campus to deliver them to those of us who are still studying (and close to passing out/giving up/needing sleep).
thank you for being sunshines in our dark, gloomy, depressing, long, tiring, stressful nights of studying.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxo.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
have a good night
dear security guard on shift at 3:30 a.m. in huntsman hall,
thank you for, as i walked out into the wee hours of the night, looking at me, smiling, and saying, "have a good night!" in such a friendly manner. you made my night more bearable and a little brighter.
xoxo.
thank you for, as i walked out into the wee hours of the night, looking at me, smiling, and saying, "have a good night!" in such a friendly manner. you made my night more bearable and a little brighter.
xoxo.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
arms
so i went to go see a production of the nutcracker by the pennsylvania ballet today. it was good seeing the nutcracker again - i love the music (mainly second half, though...not gonna lie, i'm not a huge fan of the first half) and the ballerinas (and ballerinos...?) were good. a lot of them were kids, so they were SO cute, especially the little boy that played fritz :)
so there was a family sitting next to me, and at first the little boy was seated next to me. but he kept craning his neck and kind of getting out of his seat. i think his dad realized that whenever he did that, i couldn't see, so he kept telling the boy to sit down. finally, they ended up switching seats with each other...haha.
but what was cutest was when, after the dad ended up sitting next to me, the little girl - who must've only been about 2 or 3 years old - ended up sitting in her dad's lap, and as we all watched the sugar plum fairy's dance (the pink people - i think my favorite in today's production), she moved her arms out and waved them around, imitating the dancer on the stage. it was SO. FREAKING. CUTE. and then when that scene was over, she clapped as hard as her little toddler self could.
CUTE.
xoxoooo.
so there was a family sitting next to me, and at first the little boy was seated next to me. but he kept craning his neck and kind of getting out of his seat. i think his dad realized that whenever he did that, i couldn't see, so he kept telling the boy to sit down. finally, they ended up switching seats with each other...haha.
but what was cutest was when, after the dad ended up sitting next to me, the little girl - who must've only been about 2 or 3 years old - ended up sitting in her dad's lap, and as we all watched the sugar plum fairy's dance (the pink people - i think my favorite in today's production), she moved her arms out and waved them around, imitating the dancer on the stage. it was SO. FREAKING. CUTE. and then when that scene was over, she clapped as hard as her little toddler self could.
CUTE.
xoxoooo.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
morning
you know how normally when you get up in the morning - especially for a 9am class, which is mad early because we are college students who don't sleep till 2 - you are so cranky and sleepy and just overall GROGGY?
that's what i was like this morning - half asleep, didn't want to do ANYTHING, was all just tired and groggy. i crankily grabbed my toothbrush, toothpaste, towel and stuff and headed to the bathroom.
so for those of you who don't know, i live in kcech, a mostly freshman dorm, and the nearest bathroom on my floor is co-ed (which can be annoying, but whatever). anyway, as i crankily brushed my teeth and washed my face and stuff, a freshman on my hall, who was also in the bathroom, turned to me and said, "look at my hair." his hair was really funny - it was stuck up in lots of different directions and he looked like a cockatiel. so that made me smile.
then, when i was finished washing my face and brushing my teeth and all that jazz, and we were both about to leave the bathroom, he got to the door first and pulled it and held it open for me. i don't know...i mean, i guess that's just something nice to do in general, but at 8:30am in the morning, it definitely would not have occurred to me to open the door for someone else - i would've just rushed out and pushed the door at most. it was such a nice gesture so early in the morning :)
xoxo!
that's what i was like this morning - half asleep, didn't want to do ANYTHING, was all just tired and groggy. i crankily grabbed my toothbrush, toothpaste, towel and stuff and headed to the bathroom.
so for those of you who don't know, i live in kcech, a mostly freshman dorm, and the nearest bathroom on my floor is co-ed (which can be annoying, but whatever). anyway, as i crankily brushed my teeth and washed my face and stuff, a freshman on my hall, who was also in the bathroom, turned to me and said, "look at my hair." his hair was really funny - it was stuck up in lots of different directions and he looked like a cockatiel. so that made me smile.
then, when i was finished washing my face and brushing my teeth and all that jazz, and we were both about to leave the bathroom, he got to the door first and pulled it and held it open for me. i don't know...i mean, i guess that's just something nice to do in general, but at 8:30am in the morning, it definitely would not have occurred to me to open the door for someone else - i would've just rushed out and pushed the door at most. it was such a nice gesture so early in the morning :)
xoxo!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
kindness
today, my friend and i just got off septa and had literally walked maybe two steps on the street when we heard a sound and turned to see that a lady had tripped on the curb going from crossing the road onto the sidewalk, and she just fell an dropped all her stuff.
it was really cool cause two people immediately just dropped their stuff and stopped to help her. so that in itself was nice. but let's go on a blast from the past...today's whole incident really reminded me of this:
7/23/2007
"i had a piano lesson tonight, but on the way there i saw something that was really touching. as we stopped at a red light that was about to turn green, a woman hurried across, her bike alongside her. she wasn't young or middle aged, even; maybe late fifties or sixties. i turned to talk to my mom but right at that second she gasped. i whipped my head around and the lady was on the ground, the bike practically on top of her: she must have tripped or something. as i gaped i saw the guy in the car a lane over from us also with his jaw dropped in a gasp; he quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and started to open his door to get out of the car. by then, however, the lady had gotten up and brushed herself off, and quickly finished crossing the street. the guy, still staring after her, closed his door, and traffic resumed. as we pulled into the left turn, i felt so fuzzy inside that there were people like him out there in the world. just out of the kindness of his heart, he was ready to go and help an older lady who had just fallen; someone who he didn't know. others watched and gasped, of course, and felt sympathetic, yet only one acted. i don't know who he was; probably never will: but it's one of those things where a complete stranger you'll probably never see again in your life impact you in such a big way."
cool right?
xoxo!
it was really cool cause two people immediately just dropped their stuff and stopped to help her. so that in itself was nice. but let's go on a blast from the past...today's whole incident really reminded me of this:
7/23/2007
"i had a piano lesson tonight, but on the way there i saw something that was really touching. as we stopped at a red light that was about to turn green, a woman hurried across, her bike alongside her. she wasn't young or middle aged, even; maybe late fifties or sixties. i turned to talk to my mom but right at that second she gasped. i whipped my head around and the lady was on the ground, the bike practically on top of her: she must have tripped or something. as i gaped i saw the guy in the car a lane over from us also with his jaw dropped in a gasp; he quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and started to open his door to get out of the car. by then, however, the lady had gotten up and brushed herself off, and quickly finished crossing the street. the guy, still staring after her, closed his door, and traffic resumed. as we pulled into the left turn, i felt so fuzzy inside that there were people like him out there in the world. just out of the kindness of his heart, he was ready to go and help an older lady who had just fallen; someone who he didn't know. others watched and gasped, of course, and felt sympathetic, yet only one acted. i don't know who he was; probably never will: but it's one of those things where a complete stranger you'll probably never see again in your life impact you in such a big way."
cool right?
xoxo!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
instrument
wow it's been forEVER since i've written.
it's not that i forgot about this blog,
nor is it that nothing bright has happened...
anyway, i flew in today, back from home (SAD). i happened to sit next to a very nice stewardess (but she wasn't working, she was sitting on the flight). i was trying to transport my guitar, guillermo, and i put him in the overhead compartment.
but people kept trying to jam their suitcases into guillermo's neck (even though there was OBVIOUSLY something there). i looked worriedly, but i didn't really say anything.
then, as the number of people dwindled down, the stewardess next to me looked at me and said, "do you want to switch your instrument with my stuff?" i looked at her for a second, confused. "that is an instrument, right?" she asked. i nodded, then realized what she meant. so she and i both went out into the small aisle of the plane, and she took out all her luggage (she had two or three pieces - albeit small, but still) - and waietd for me as i carefully took out guillermo and traded spots with hers.
ISN'T THAT NICE???
xoxo!
it's not that i forgot about this blog,
nor is it that nothing bright has happened...
anyway, i flew in today, back from home (SAD). i happened to sit next to a very nice stewardess (but she wasn't working, she was sitting on the flight). i was trying to transport my guitar, guillermo, and i put him in the overhead compartment.
but people kept trying to jam their suitcases into guillermo's neck (even though there was OBVIOUSLY something there). i looked worriedly, but i didn't really say anything.
then, as the number of people dwindled down, the stewardess next to me looked at me and said, "do you want to switch your instrument with my stuff?" i looked at her for a second, confused. "that is an instrument, right?" she asked. i nodded, then realized what she meant. so she and i both went out into the small aisle of the plane, and she took out all her luggage (she had two or three pieces - albeit small, but still) - and waietd for me as i carefully took out guillermo and traded spots with hers.
ISN'T THAT NICE???
xoxo!
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