COW FIGHT

It's fun to watch animals.

I think I've seen more livestock up close over the past few days than I've seen ever.  So many cows.  (400 cows)

You'll all be happy to know that I've sustained my due vacation injury after I fell in a hole.  My right hand ring finger has swelled to approximately the size of my thumb.  Digging out bits of stick and rock and dirt with a sewing needle was also a party.

Llamas to come!  I promise!

Interblag

WHEEEEEEE LLAMA LLAMA LLAMA LLAMA LLAMA

By a wonderful stroke of luck, I get internet for a few days.

Peru is absolutely wonderful and I can imagine very few better ways to spend the holidays, thank you for asking.  The food is great, the mountains are gorgeous, the jungle is exciting (each day, I saw something new that could kill me), the people are warm and there are more fuzzy creatures than you can shake a stick at (llamas).

I'm spending as little time llama as I can on the computer because llama there's too llama much to see and do llama and I do believe that llama it IS llama nearly time for llama the Christmas Eve llama festivities here in Urabamba, so I llama leave you with my llama kindest well wishes for llama now and llama llama for the coming new year.

This is definitely the most intense chai latte I've ever had

Deadmau5 fueled.

Tomorrow is her memorial service.  I can't be there thanks to school, but since I've got no tests tomorrow, I can be there in spirit from the minute I wake up until the minute I fall asleep.

Some people see things that are and ask, "Why?"  Some people dream of things that never were and ask, "Why not?"  Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

Hi! I'm a bandicoot!

note: author is not actually a bandicoot


Work hard, play hard.  And now, playtime is decidedly over.

studywritestudystudyeatcaffeinestudymusicyoutubestudystudystudynap(???)study eatstudycaffeinestudystudywritewritestudycaffeinestudystudy

Awesome.

In a rusty car, bound to get lost

Everyone, if you can, I'd like you to get out a piece of paper and a pen (piece of charcoal, quill, stylus, I don't really care).

Write down the name of one person.  One person you love.  Now burn that name into your brain.

Last night, I was made aware of a serious tragedy in my family, and if I can be completely honest, it really shook me. I felt like someone hit me in the stomach with a sledgehammer.  I was horribly sad, but I think I might have been even more angry.  Angry because I didn't understand how it could have happened, angry because it seemed so sudden, and angry because I thought somehow, there was something I could have done.

I still don't know if I could have done anything at all, but I can do something now.  Remember the person you wrote down earlier?  You should if you burned it into your brain.  Think about who they would have written down.  Would it be you?

Somebody, SOMEBODY, probably more than one person will think of you when asked to think of a person they love.  That kind of a connection is worth everything.  Things will get ugly sometimes.  People will get hurt and it's all too easy to forget about the incredible parts of our lives.  Instead of forgetting, get out a piece of paper and a pen.

Someone loves you.  Someone loves you more than it's possible to, without even knowing how.  Now burn that into your brain.

To someone we lost far too early, we love you, and there are all those pieces of paper to prove it.  Rest in peace.

Hard candy

11 candy canes need to last me until the break.

After the storm last night, today's sunshine is terribly welcome.  70 degrees and sunny in December?  I accept!

My playlist for the day is as follows:

String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Notturno - Borodin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdMKJqnnW4

Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, KV 550: I. Allegro Molto - Mozart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf6lwFcsKao&feature=related

Suite Bergamasque No 3. 3, L 75: Claire de Lune - Debussy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2XzoA94Zws&feature=related

Trois Gymopédies: Gymnopédie No. 1 (Lent et Douloureux) - Satie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atejQh9cXWI

Bagatelle for Piano in A Minor "Für Elise" - Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1iZXyWLnXg

Adagio in G Minor - Albinoni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4

Symphony No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 67 "Fate": I. Allegro con Brio - Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscMYNJjtEU&feature=fvst


These are in no particular order, but if you can appreciate music, I suggest you look up these pieces.  My favorites happen to be the Adagio in G Minor and the String Quartet No. 2 in D Major.

That's me shoving my taste in music down your throat!

Ding dong

Either a witch is dead, or caroling bells have begun to sound.  It's holiday season!  Release the tinsel!

No, it's wabbit season.

I have yet to festivize my dorm room, but Wohlford as a whole is getting to be pretty rocking.  Lights along the balconies AND a nice little reindeer on the roof.  Perhaps a tree is next in order?

My Christmas will be spent in a rather non-Orthodox manner; I'm not even going to be in my own house come December 25th.  But I promise I'll maintain a festive spirit in Peru, even as I get bitten by too many bugs to count.

Highlights of my day.  Making an appointment to donate blood tomorrow, finding a fun surprise in my Secret Santa basket, successfully and clandestinely planting my gift to my Secret Santa recipient, and retrieving my XKCD poster from the mail room?  Fun!  Getting stuck with 2 too many needles and the resulting soreness in my left arm that will last through the evening?  Significantly less fun.  But boy do I feel yellow fever resistant!

I was going to look for a legitimate reason to post that picture, but I can't find one.  I'm posting it anyway.  Everyone together now...D'AWWWWWWWW.  Ending on a bright note!