mikao's world

"there is beauty in the sky…"

slept in this morning much more so than i have for a long time, being languid in the last moments of sleep is ever so lovely. there is something so peaceful about a day that doesn't hurry about you and goes the same pace as you.

worked on yearbook most of the afternoon, then came back to the house just before five to say goodbye to joanne who left for Christmas break… it is hard to believe it is here already. i don't have plans to leave until sometime next week when i have my homework completed. all my roommates will have left by saturday morning, it will be strange being all alone. and, living in a town that exists solely because there is a college here, there won't be many people about either.

tonight i went and read poetry in the library for a bit… and took a little walk and looked at the stars. also went to the dorm to say goodbye to leanne who is leaving tomorrow morning for the holidays, she was my roommate last year.

jodi's birthday is tomorrow and her older sister kaci is coming out from Montana for a couple of days. she was a friend of mine from my first two years of college. It will be nice to see her, she's been in Mozambique for a year as a full time missionary, and i haven't seen her since last december.

Restless and vague as a gray wind
Her heart had grown, she knew not why.
But hurrying to the open door,
Against the verge of western sky

I saw retreating on the hills,
Looming and sinister and black,
The stealthy figure swift and huge
Of One who strode and looked not back.
- Bliss Carman, "The Eavesdropper"