what a life...

i don't even know where to begin. my world is spinning so fast. i just try to hold on to a corner with all my might so i don't get left behind in yesterday...

two weeks ago i was in the middle of a river lounging in a canoe under the warmish utah sun. thirteen friends and i went on a trip down the green river for spring break and it was phenomenal. the company was more than i could have ever asked for. it is weird how the strength of a friendship multiplies when you have to shit in a box next to them all the time. dylan, peter, and tyler serenaded us with our own private concerts each day. on the first night we discovered that the two burner stove that we had brought was missing an attachment and was completely useless. so, we cooked over meticulously designed fires each night. lebn even created an oven out of stones over the coals to cook calzones! each day we travelled in a "party barge" with all of the canoes laced together with lazy knots. the floating was slow and we generally moved in cartwheels, bouncing off the shore. i really loved it and coming home was just bizarre. all i had seen for 8 days were rocks, shrubs, and water, so the grocery store was extremely overwhelming.

we came back to whitman 5 days before school started and i started the next vicious cycle of goddamn lab reports. they are awful and tedious and painful. each one was about 10 pages single spaced and i finished at 7:30 am the day they were due. it was the first "all-nighter" i have pulled in years. i would never have imagined that one redbull and one starbucks doubleshot drink would have kept me awake for that long. in fact, the double shot kept we buzzing about from about 4:30 until 11 the next day. it was amazing. energy drinks rock my world. i feel like they have very dangerous potential though...

now the week is over and i have a moment to take a deep breath. a super long and lovely deep breath...

i hope that your day is fantastic too.