move to california, but leave before you get soft

today i left my room at 9 a.m. and didn't come home until just now. at tech, days like that used to make me crazy. here i hardly noticed. in fact, i might never have realized if i hadn't gotten home to two dozen email messages, and realized i hadn't checked it since before i showered this morning. it's funny how relaxed life seems out here, and how accurate the stereotype about laid-back californians is. i have more homework than i've ever had in my life--five assignments due between monday and wednesday--and yet i'm not stressed out. must be something in the air.

i got a package! a surprise package from carter that had pictures, and a cd! i was so excited. i never get surprise packages. the pictures are great--i will scan them this weekend and try to put them here. there is one of me and my sister that i love, taken back at the beginning of september when i went to visit. it is just great. i bought myself a "sisters" picture frame just like the one i sent katie, but i hadn't put a picture in it yet...now i have one! because of the package, carter is definitely my favorite person of the moment.

so i'm wondering if there are any parties scheduled for the weekend. last friday i enjoyed going to the shindig they had over in rains and meeting a bunch of people...i hope i get another chance to do that soon. then let's see, i have decreed that we must go to the movies this weekend or else i'll go into withdrawal, since i haven't been to the movies since i was in atlanta. and then, well, i have a lot of errands to run, and major amounts of laundry to do. i haven't done laundry since i left houston. it's amazing--i never knew i had so much underwear and so many pairs of socks.