Oh what a day yesterday and today.....yesterday I woke up and it was bitterly cold. I started longing for snow. Didn't know the weather report or anything, just longed for snow. Big, fluffy flakes floating down, mussing up the atmosphere with their crazy orderliness and patterns and swirls. That's what I wanted and prayed for, just a little, absent-minded prayer I didn't think much of. I saw Zeek in my Rec class, and we had a good time laughing about EVERYTHING, as usual. I told him,"If it snows, I want to come home with you and Phil in the country to play," and he said,"Okay!" Before I said "Bye" I go,"If it snows, call me!" He said alright. I was jokin'. Boy did I have no clue.

I went and ate lunch and then sat in the BS lounge to watch a teeny bit of news. What did I see? Winter Storm watch. Yes! But it was just a watch. Some guy was interviewed about preparing his trucks for salting all the roads. Hmmm......I came to my room and took a small nap, then strapped on the rollerblades and bundled up to see the dentist. I listened to Lifehouse on the way and it was fun, but I fell three times, once right smack on my butt. Ouch. Anyways, while the dentist was doin' his work, the assistant starts talkin' bout how the "watch" has turned to a "warning," and that that means it will happen. With my mouth wide open I said,"Yahhhy" and the dentist looks at me and goes,"What? Why do you say that?" and I go,"aahshhnooaahww" and he goes,"No! If it snows tonight I'm gonna get you!" I only got more excited. I came home and played some worship on guitar and had a great time. I went nuts. Then I went to class and came out to even colder weather. I called Kristin and we went to New Hall for dinner, and I talked to my friend Paul about a ride to Texas. He has some strange rules for the road though: Bruce Springsteen the whole way, with few breaks; bathroom breaks only every four hundred miles, and then only at gas stations on the right side of the road.

I walked to the library to try my hand at getting my paper done a couple nights before it was due, a feat I haven't pulled since the start of college. I got into the zone and completed it at 9:00pm. I decided to reward myself with some Chai from the Mudhouse and study my stuff for my sales presentation for a little while. So I took the shuttle to the Park n Ride and got off, not knowing that the night route goes the ENTIRE way, downtown included. So I ran from there to Kentwood and just missed it pulling out. I sat in Kentwood and waited for the next one. I was the only one on and walked from the drop-off to the Mudhouse in some small hail-like crap. Oh well, I thought. I went in, got some Chai, sat down and then saw my pal Laura and her friend, so I sat with them instead. We talked and did some work, and then Laura goes,"Ah, look, it's snowing." I jumped up out of my seat, yelped, and skipped outside, passing Andy and Sadie on the way out. Laura and I spun around and caught some on our tongues and she told me it's been five years since she's seen snow. We hugged and laughed and I worshipped and thanked God. It looked like a freakin' snow globe, the best kind--the exact kind I'd been longing for that morning. What a sense of wonderment and release I had with my stuff done and nothing to do but enjoy it that night. I called Zeek, and then Phil, looking for Zeek, but Phil didn't know where he was but said I could come, if it was possible. Sadie said she'd take me over there to hang out. Eventually she and I and Andy all left and walked through the loveliness to her truck. We went to the Chi Alpha house first, where I sat and waited for a while in the truck and talked to smell-good Dave, who's goin' to Scotland with me. Then we drove to Phil's and I got out and ran through it to the house. I came back out cause Andy and Sadie hadn't come in yet and Phil was scraping off his car. He soon got tired of it and wrote "no" and "hi" and "zoo" on some ppl's cars and we went in. We all looked at pictures, listened to music, played some music, they played video games, and watched Andy and Wayne run shirtless through the flurries. It was great. I got home at 2am, had a good talk with Arin, came inside, and spent the next two hours alone in my room, watching the snow in the dark out my window and smelling the air and listening to the stillness and praising God. What bliss.

"So, has he acquired any special skills? Like, can he hold his breath for five minutes or anything?"~Lacy, referring to my brother's stint in the Seaborne Challenge program, a half-army half-get-your-GED program for at-risk kids he's about to graduate from

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:
"Hey Kronkie, could you top me off, pal? Be a friend?"~Kuzco