Now that I am 23, I of course have no such thing for such trivial things as keeping in touch through our lovely website… just kidding.

Things have been crazy here. My classes picked up speed so suddenly. I’ve spent more hours in the CSU library in the last two weeks than I did in the WOU library in my first two years there! My classes are okay, but not great, I’m a little disappointed to be honest, I had such high hopes. Short Story is a pretty frivolous in class and Chekhov is making me harbor thoughts of melancholy, melodramatic suicide. Research is a LOT of painful busy work, but I know it’s good for me – kind of like spinach, I imagine, but more expensive. Critical theory is like having a really, really, really, smart person talk to you in a language you don’t understand and without oxygen breaks for 50 minutes straight. yeah.

But, I have made fantastic new friends and recurring acquaintances, so Matt and I aren’t spending quite as much time alone in the house with the dogs. I’ve hosted two non-movie nights so far, where the only movie watching accomplished were on youtube, but they were so much fun. And, Matt and I have been frequently Emily’s to play Rock Band. I can do respectably not awful on the easy setting while she and matt play on expert and medium/hard, respectively. I am not envious – I just want to beat them up a little. But my ‘star power’ is screaming at the microphone which I think then gives me extra points and sparkles on the screen, so I just amuse myself with that while they kick my butt…

Now, as for my birthday, that was pretty awesome. I had a crappy day in school doing library busy work but after all that Matt made us reservations and I got marginally dressed up and we went out to dinner at The Melting Pot, which I guess is a whole change of fondue restaurants. Well, it was fantastic. We had yummy bread, veggies and apples in cheese fondue to start, then numerous random meats that we cooked “coq au vin,” followed by chocolate s’mores fondue with fruit, cheesecake and random goodies to finish. Gotta say, that was one of the neatest restaurant experiences ever, it was a lot of fun. And, with that I magically became 23 and a grown-up. Or not.

Anyways, I must leave the computer now or I wont be able to ignore the paper I need to write anymore.

yours,

Alaina