Out of an Orange-Colored Sky

I wish I had more originality and did not have to depend on lines from songs to use as titles, but that's all I've got, so that's all you get.

I'm up to my arched eyebrows in paperwork for studying abroad next semester and very afraid that I won't make all my deadlines. :-( I'm waiting for letters of recommendation, transcripts and tomorrow I managed to get two advising appointments. A lot of the people who read this know exactly what I'm going through. Send me happy thoughts.

The game on Saturday was absolutely depressing, but it was funny to watch football with Lulu. While the rest of us are just screaming triumphantly or groaning indignantly, Lulu lost her voice during the 1st quarter shouting very specific instructions at the players as to how they should be playing the game. It was really amusing. She thinks we should all try to join the team next year, as we may be an improvement on the current players. I'm thinking of trying for quarterback since I won all the arm-wrestling matches. What do you think?

I miss a lot of people. But I get to go home Thursday for fall break, so at least I'll get to see my parents and Henry and Duke and Matthew. Whenever we say his name, he thinks we're saying "Matt-you" so he always responds "Matt-me!" He's so instinctively grammatical, he's definitely going to be a Classics major when he grows up. He likes to talk on the phone with me, and last time he told me that he had drawn a picture of a duck in his room, and another duck, and another duck. Yellow is his favorite color. The time before that he said that the "neow," which is his word for Henry, had scratched him.

I like cute people.