Unexpected, but pleasant, surprises.

If you're noticing a late-night blogging trend, do not be alarmed. I am a night owl. It's probably going to happen a lot, so deal with it. But I'm also tired after staying up late last night, so I'll try not to make this terribly long.

Well, I finished my 7 page Sociology paper last night at roughly 2 a.m. And dang it, it was good. I was very proud of how it turned out, flowed together, etc. I slipped into bed around 2:30, utterly exhausted yet content, and off to Dreamland I went.

Guess who forgot to set their alarm clock?

Yours truly :( AND my first class today was Sociology, in which our papers were due. I woke up an hour after class had started and it about done anyway, so it wasn't worth it for me to even attempt to go. I sighed loudly. Rubbed my sleep-encrusted eyes. And flipped open my laptop to check my email, then compose some sort of email telling my professor why I was absent. Which, by the way, I hate doing. I always feel so lame.

Note my surprise, when I read the subject title of an email that had arrived at 7 am this morning: SOC-275: NO CLASS TODAY

I nearly broke out into song, then tentatively clicked on the email in case it was some sort of sick joke my subconscious had conjured up. But, indeed, class was canceled this morning. Apparently the professor's house had flooded due to the heavy rains over the weekend, and she was busy trying to clean up the mess.

Remember how I had criticized the rain on Sunday? Well, I take that back. Thank you, rain, for pouring your bounteous goodness upon us so that my ass was saved after all. Now, the good part is that we don't have to hand in our papers until Thursday. And the bad part is that we don't have to hand our papers in until Thursday. After I had worked so hard and stayed up so late last night to get it done. Don't you hate when that happens?? Oh well, I shouldn't complain. Sleeping in this morning was a glorious thing.

The rest of my day went alright, I suppose. I only had one class. But I had two accompanying lessons, piano colloquium, and a piano lesson. I picked out some new repertoire for this semester that I'm pretty excited about. A Bach Toccata and Fugue, and Ravel's "Miroirs". Crazy cool pieces, and challenging, too.

For dinner tonight the roomies and I went out to Friday's to celebrate Brianne's birthday. It was HOMGZ delicious. Better yet, we had brought along some coupons I snipped out of the Sunday paper, one for a FREE appetizer (highly recommend the Spinach/Artichoke dip with tortilla chips), and the other one for $5.00 off an entree! So I got a whole bunch of delicious food, and we each only ended up paying $5.50 for our own meals. That totally made my day. I love coupons. Can I just say that one more time? I love coupons.

Spent the rest of the evening in the library with Mark. We had homework to do, but needless to say, we were having more fun goofing around. I had been feeling down about a few things, so I told him and we talked. He always makes me feel so much better. I love being with him, especially at the end of the day, because it's just so incredibly peaceful and natural. We talk about how our days went, anything that happened, and just general chit-chat. Then we spend a while hugging, snuggling, kissing, you know, all that lovey-dovey stuff. So no matter how bad my day has been, by the end of it, I am in the arms of the man I love, and all is right in the world again.

Goodnight--

Rachel