Joie de vivre

Y'know, it's a very nice thing to be able to say "Thy will be done" and leave it at that. No need to worry frantically. No need to lose sleep. Thy will be done. Amen.

Hm. Hannah's picking out our music for the car trip tomorrow. I'm pleased to see several Bryn Terfel CDs among them...should be interesting. =)

That brings me to the Sad Subject of leaving. You'd think after three weeks I'd be ready to go home, no matter how much I like it here. I wish it were so; it would make the leaving much easier! There are some things I'll be happy to be home for--starting on some of the projects I conceived while here, being able to drink coffee again, etc--but there are far more things that make me want to stay here instead.

Oh well. It has been a great time, the extra week was a Marvelous Gift, and everything has to end sometime, huh?

I'll also be very sad to not be able to keep up on all my LJ friend's lives daily, and I'll miss not being able to post often. Perhaps someday not too far away I'll get that more regular job I'm looking at, and then I'll decide to get internet at home. I'm not looking forward to having a monthly bill, lol, but hey. As long as the monthly income exceeds the bill.... =)

I should go finish packing up now. =P Maybe I can post again tonight or tomorrow before we leave...

We just wasted an hour on a History channel program. Well, not wasted, since I'm now utterly and completely convinced that UFOs full of Little Green Men regularly visit earth.

**hopes you know sarcasm when you see it**

Today I saw the Ugly Russian dude again; He *must* be related to Evgeny Plushenko although he is almost surely seven feet tall, which the Rat Squire certainly isn't.

It was much nicer to sit through dinner and watch Prince William feeding his two small sons...oh wait, I guess that means it wasn't really Wills after all. (Unless he has a really complex double life in which he is a Reformed, Presbyterian, and goes by the name of Scott.) (Btw, we [Hannah and I]think it's ridiculous that his name is Scott--she thinks it should be Charlie and I'm convinced he should be a William.) (Hannah just decided we should go tell him to change his name and stop this confusion.)

(I'm beginning to like parenthesies.)

At any rate, the Scott-who-should-be-Charlie-or-William looks almost exactly like the Prince, only with slightly darker hair. His smile is the same, his slightly bashful way of glancing at people, his height and build and even his manner of dress...all made me rather curious if people ever come up to him and ask for his autograph.

(Hannah says I should talk about the church service so people don't get the idea that I went only to Look at People. But I would like to add my own note and let everyone know that she really doesn't try to control my life and anyway, if she did I'd only follow her GOOD suggestions.)

I enjoyed it Muchly, because it was a much more litergical service then my home church (very good) and has a Tall Pastor in Black Robes. **grin** And there were lots of good songs and Loud Organ Music and Communion which my church only has twice a year. (But I didn't have the wine, only juice, because I didn't want to have anyone think I took communion only for the wine experience....maybe next Sunday?)

I saw a lot of weird college students today. One looked like a very Ugly Russian iceskater who's name I won't reveal. Another had gone prematurely (very prematurely) grey, or had just had very bad luck with trying to go blond-from-a-bottle. Or maybe it was intentional, in which case she just had very bad taste.

On the other hand, I saw some very nifty space-saving library shelves that you can trap people between. Sounds fun to me.

Then I met a person who is Like Me in that she's 1)a big Tolkien fan and 2)well...like me. She was wearing an Elvish dress that made me decide to create one myself. Shouldn't be that hard; I just need millions of yards for the sleeves.

Later I visited a place where they push people off of a cliff, and call it hang gliding. You can experience this wonderful thing (falling off a cliff) yourself for only $130. Wowee. Guess what savetheolives and I are going to do tomorrow?

(Push people off cliffs? You got it.)

savetheolives would like you to know that she is officially "horrified" at being put thus into this entry. She begs that you please not think less of her because she has a repressed desire to push people off of High Places.

Eh heh heh.

Life is gooood.

The mountain is amazingly beautiful, also amazingly wet ALL THE TIME.

I'm still my best friend's best friend after a 12 hour car trip.

I'm so happy. =D

I'm on AIM for the first time in almost a year, since my internet at home quit working. (my screen name is FairItalianElf, if anyone wants to chat...although I'll not be on tons since I'm doing stuff with my friend most of the time!)

Life is good.