we have a peeper.

there have been several occasions when people driving by or coming home have seen a man standing in our yard trying to look in the windows. various neighbors have mentioned him to us, too.

but i’m not scared.
i’ll just tell him about jesus and then kick his A.

oh please
can we leave town?

1. i spent a good 10 minutes yesterday waiting for the bus, watching unsuspecting people walk straight into an ankle deep puddle of glacial temperature.

and i loved every minute.

am i a terrible person?

2. my stomach muscles (abs? yeah? clearly, i work out. a lot.) are getting a good workout from this cough i have. i'm actually sore.

3. do you ever wonder what vocalists like iron and wine or ray lamontagne sound like when they speak? because their singing voices are lovely, but MAN. if they talked like that, it'd get annoying real fast.

4. i just searched for "iron and wine interviews" on youtube and the only result was a finnish video of disembodied hands against a black background doing card tricks, to what sounded like the soundtrack of Pirates of the Caribbean. WTF??

5. so i was starting to get nervous, because nowhere on the internet could i find a video of an interview with sam beam (iron and wine). i thought that perhaps he was passing through the music world, mute except for when he sings to hide his scourge of a speaking voice. however, in a clip from a live show, he introduces the song in what is actually a very typical male voice. what a relief! or maybe not...i was kind of hoping he'd be just a little bit of a freak of nature.

6. speaking of freaks of nature, though...how bout that beard, huh? huh?

i forgot it was halloween today
so i was a little confused to see a giant chicken walking across campus
followed by a nurse serving me my coffee.

by the time minnie mouse walked up, though, i had caught on.
what a great day.

if i'm lucky, maybe i'll run into "brother jed" again with his "confrontational evangelism". you know, if christians really believed that the greatest commandment was to love God and the second was to love our neighbor as ourselves, i think the gospel would be presented much differently than it generally is. lord have mercy...

so i had a first yesterday. i actually saw a spider that bit me.

i was thinking about that a few days ago...how it's kind of creepy to think of all the spiders that have been crawling on me and biting me, but that i never see.

so yesterday i felt a sharp pinch-ish on my leg and looked down and there it was...the not-so-sneaky arachnid.

i killed it.

also i got less than three hours of sleep last night.
also there is delicious apple bread in the office today, which makes the worst-coffee-in-the-world which they brew in here taste a little better.

also this is going to be a great day.

here are few things i've been considering, in this sleep-deprived-fog i'm in.

1. it's interesting to me that something can either be the best or the worst thing ever...specifically, in this instance, male-female duets. the kind where the man and woman are conversing. they are my favorite or i hate them. here are a few examples of both categories.

LOVE: the decemberists, postal service.

HATE: from this moment, a country version of "i will always love you" that i just heard, virtually any pop country duet.

2. also i think it's interesting how fascinated we are by evil. all of those serial killer movies, real life murder victims...we are engrossed by every little detail. why is that?

3. i think it's funny how a memory can be triggered by a smell. i just flashed back to this house we stayed at on a trip i took in highschool because of the perfume this lady was wearing at work today. i don't remember anything specific. just that smell and the overall color of the scene in my head. isn't that weird?