rain, rain, go away...

it has been pouring buckets since i landed in the atl on saturday. something that irritates me is the news continuing to insist that we are still in some kind of rain deficit that we can never climb out of. well, i'm here to say that if that drama continues after this week, they're full of it. after an entire summer of rain to spoil our trips to the lake and an entire fall battling to keep hold of my giant umbrella in hurricane winds and terrential rain and with this weeks rain, there is no way there can be any kind of shortage for the year.

as for school this week, it was hardly worth going back. anna and i almost didn't get back...and if i didn't have a paper due at 1:25 pm monday afternoon, i wouldn't have cared. my parents dropped me off at tech with becca...she was insisting that she had to get back asap. she didn't even get any studio done anyway before i left. i plunked away at my laptop, trying to crunch time to get my paper done. its amazing how much time i can spend on a paper, and it still be crap. i guess the whole sun and sand thing kinda distracted me. well, eventually hitched a ride with my friend andy, who i know through megan. he was dropping a friend of at tech anyway...perfect! then a two-hour drive through flooded atlanta roads into athens. ended up meeting megan and some of her friends at some kind of Moe's imitator place. wasn't too bad, but i couldn't finish my burrito. afterward, i attempted to get started on my paper, but colette and jo interrupted and wanted me to watch a movie with them. okay, i think this movie sits right up there with somewhere in time and Royal Tennaboms (sp?) on my "that was the worst movie i've ever seen" list. it was called Harold and Maude, and it was quite unsettling. basically, this morbid teenager who has no life falls in love with an 80 year old woman who lives life to the fullest. sounds cute and all, but no thanks. don't worry, i didn't spoil the movie...its not worth the time to see anyway. that was sunday, and the end of the weekend.

i had stat at 9 am. perhaps i would have skipped if i hadn't already missed on friday. oh well. consequences of taking the day off to go to aruba. rushed back (of course, in the rain) and spent the rest of the morning and right up to 1 pm on my paper. i think its one of those that you just don't want to get back. the rest of the day just wasted away until i stepped outside in the same terrential downpour that started three days ago to go to dinner. i'm glad i didn't have to drive last night because i seriously couldn't see two feet infront of me. poor marilyn, who was our ride to bible study, was frustrated. you could see the concentration in her face. last night was our last study of the semester...we'll pick back up again next semester. we've "adopted" a girl from the local projects to get christmas presents for. next monday we're going shopping for everything and then wrapping the gifts. i am so excited about christmas shopping! too bad i don't have a ton of money to spend though...sad. i've got some pretty good gift ideas, though. i won't be out in the black friday madness this year...we're carving the turkey friday afternoon and then jetting up to athens for the game on staturday.

the only class i had today was sociology. we got our papers back and i didn't do great on it. i really need to make an A in this class...since my only other honors class is subjecting me to tourment with the liklihood of a C lingering over my head. crappit. i'll pull it off, though. we got our hall t-shirts today, so i'm excited. they're black with a pink ladies kinda pink font that says "studs". why it says studs, i couldn't tell you. but i guess the ladies of two south are, in fact, now officially studs.

colette and i caught a ride with her friend nikki...we departed at 2. it seemed like a rather long ride because of, what else, the rain. the forecast predicts nothing but rain until friday. then rain again on saturday. perfect. just in time for the game i bet.