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Good idea: going to bed at a decent hour when you have classes the next morning.

Bad idea: drinking "Tazo: Awake" tea at around 23:30 and not starting your laundry until midnight.

Guess which one Raynita did? :D

Moving on:

I had an interesting experience right after dinner this evening: Kate needed to move her car into lot 26 across campus and asked someone to go with her. I wasn't too enthused about it, but after Hannah and Caitlin both refused I agreed to go because I didn't want Kate walking across campus by herself in the dark.

So we get to the "splitting point" and Kate and I turn to go down the short flight of stairs into the parking lot while Hannah and C-Crazy continue on to the Knowlton main entrance. I take the first step down the stairs, chit-chatting with Kate all the while and, just as I'm about to plant my sandal on step number two, I can't help but notice what looks like a piece of tree bark sitting there. My foot continues to descend and then I notice something terribly amiss about this piece of bark--it walks.

That's when I realized what it was: a cockroach, and a particularly large one. At that moment, I let out the most pathetic, terrified squeek you've ever heard and launched myself off of step #1 with my left foot and, skipping steps 2-8, hit the landing at the bottom, swinging my arms slightly to regain my balance. Of course, I feel Kate grab the hood of my sweatshirt in a desperate (and perhaps false) attempt to help stabilize me.

She asked if I was alright; If I had just almost stumbled down the stairs or something. I explained to her that, no, I had jumped because there was a cockroach lurking in the shadows, just waiting to crawl on me. She laughed. I turned around to look my harasser in the eyes (how many do they have, anyway?). I got a chill up my spine and started alternately bouncing on each of my feet, trying to shake off my disgust while chanting the obligatory "eww, eww, eww, eww, eww, ewwww!"

Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear: I. hate. cockroaches. If there is one phobia that I've never been able to get over, it's this one. Give me spiders, snakes, vicious dogs, sharks, and I'm fine. But bring roaches into the picture and it's game over.

What does this all mean? Kate has made sure to inform everyone on K:3 that The Unsinkable Raynita is afraid of roaches. I can just see C-Crazy going out and catching some in a jar and putting it somewhere conspicuous just to psych me out. Peachy.

New subject:

Hannah has an Israeli friend that she talks to via skype!! I said hi to him today; He seems like a pretty cool guy (Yaniv, I think his name was). I maintain that my Israeli friends are far cuter, though! ;D

Okay.. It's really late, or early (depending on how you look at it) and I need to be up in a few hours to go to class. So I should really fight my terrible insomnia and get some sleep.

Wait, wait! I just want to say how much the song "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones amuses me:

Make me explode, although you know
The route to go to sex me slow
And yes I must react to claims of those
Who say that you are not all that

Sex bomb, sex bomb
You're a sex bomb
And you can give it to me
When I need to come alone
Sex bomb, sex bomb
You're my sex bomb
And baby you can turn me on

Liz and I should make this our theme song. :P

oh, sad.

I can't sleep, so I decided to watch a movie.

The choice? Titanic. Bad idea, in retrospect of course. Obviously, I cried like an idiot because that's what I do when I watch big-budget girly tearjerkers.

I really, really, really need a snuggle-guy right now. My big, body-length pillow is just not cutting it anymore.

So, because I'm plagued with nightmares, I tend to think of things that are bothering me while I'm awake (in between attempts at sleeping).

One of such things is the investigation into Beverly's murder. They still don't have any leads and it's been some months since her death. I find it hard to believe no one saw anything suspicious that night... I don't want this case to go cold--she deserves justice now. This is sooooooo frustrating; I feel just terrible for her mother and brothers and what they still must be going through with all of this.

Speaking of her mother, maybe I should give Nelly a call, just to say "hi." Or maybe not. UGH. I don't know!!

Ha!

New blog layout! Fun times!

So what has actually been going on in my life.. hmm..

I got an email from papa telling me that our flight is booked to India. I'm wicked excited. This means that I have to get my passport, though--and soon. So I guess I'll be stopping at the post office tomorrow to get that done since all of my friends are leaving for the weekend anyway. .. I sound so pathetic.

I went to the gym with Lia and Liz today and ran 5 miles. When I work out, I get really energized and happy after I finish. Liz and Lia, umm, don't. After I got off the machine, I skipped over to the two of them and said "I feel like running back to Knowlton. Who's my running buddyyyy?" They looked at me like I had gone mad. I can't imagine not being euphoric after a work-out; I would never want to exercise!

Another thing I love about working out: when you walk up stairs and your quads are like "Ha! yeah, right! I'm done working for today!" That feeling is so.. gratifying. Hopefully I'll wake up sore tomorrow :D :D!! (I was running on an incline today so I used muscles that probably don't get much play otherwise)

Okay.. my attention span is non-existant right now, so I'll post more when I can actually sit still. :)

My theme song right now: http://media.putfile.com/One-Girl-Revolution-61

Lullaby my mom sang to me..

I was feeling really stressed and dismal today.

So what do I do? Call mi madre and have her sing me a lullaby. Is it juvenille? Probably, but it always makes me feel better. Some of the most soothing memories I have of my childhood involve my mother singing to me.

The song she chose to sing was so fitting, too. I have no idea where it's from, but she also used to sing it to me when I was little. Lyrics time!

Don't lose your way with each passing day
You've come so far, don't throw it away
Live believing dreams are for weaving
Wonders are waiting to start
Live your story: faith, hope, and glory
Hold to the truth in your heart

If we hold on together
I know our dreams will never die
Dreams see us through to forever
Where clouds roll by for you and I

Souls in the wind must learn how to bend
Seek out a star, hold on 'till the end
Valley, mountain.. there is a fountain
That washes our tears all away
Words are swaying, someone is praying
Please let us come home to stay

If we hold on together
I know our dreams will never die
Dreams see us through to forever
Where clouds roll by for you and I

When we are out there in the dark
We'll dream about the sun
In the dark we'll feel the light
Warm our hearts, everyone

If we hold on together
I know our dreams will never die
Dreams see us through to forever..

As high as souls can fly
The clouds roll by
For you and I

Definitely a song that I will remember and sing to my children when they get to feeling like I am right now. Because I'm an emotional girl, I started sniffling and tears started to well in my eyes when she was singing it to me. Not because I was sad, though.. I miss mi mami. :(