wi-fi, jai alai, thigh high, oh my...

So, this is my new place.  Thanks, Prenna!  

I'm posting from the library courtesy of wi-fi and my shiny new laptop.  The library here is gargantuan, 3 stories with escalators and walls of glass.  I am reifying my long-ignored library addiction.  I only wish I had the time read a book that IS NOT for school.  I like it here and the library cards are by far the coolest variety I have ever obtained- it has Max and some monsters dangling from trees out of the Wild Things by Maurice Sendak.  Did I mention I'm currently plugged INTO my laptop and listening to music?  

I'm such self contained unit.    

Tonight there is a party being thrown by another SW kid, he's billing it as a "Disaster Relief Dance Party."  That's just the way he rolls, I guess.  He's kind of a meat head, which I find totally incongruent with social work but we've hung out a few times and dig the same music, so okay.  

I keep seeing more and more things that I want to label and file away in my head as little shreds of South Carolina life that I treasure.  Sub-category: grad school delights.  It's been stupid hot in these here parts lately, hotter even than Florida, and walking to class results in a pinker, sweatier and more rumpled you.  There are quite a few Asian students in some of my classes and one girl from Japan totally busted out an actual Japanese Fan in class for which to cool herself.  I love this place. 

Prison is going well, they tend to cry a lot whenever I work them.  I think that's a good thing.  I have to say I've never encountered a population who is divided so clearly as those hardcore committed to working on their problems and those so resistant to change. 

I wore a skirt the other day and boy was that an experience.  I am at women's prison, wearing a full circle skirt that comes below my knees but geez.  I've never felt my fashion choices so... appreciated?  And the inmates?  They sure are some fans of the Dansko maryjane clogs.  These are like the least sexy, most comfy shoes ever and apparently they are really appealing to women who are incarcerated.  I wonder what will happen if I show up in some pointy-toe slingbacks?  Dare I? 

I dyed my hair.  Red.  Imagine less auburn and more Run, Lola, Run.  I think I like it a lot and may have found the inspiration for the Halloween costume I was hedging on.  I had friend put hi-lites in it last weekend and those are more hot-pinkish magenta now.  Color me the punk rock kid of the College of SW.  Something like that. 

Tomorrow I turn 26 and my week has been pretty awesome, kicking off with a package from my mom and the rest of the days have been inundated with presents from friends and I got flowers delivered yesterday from a girlfriend!  Big Van Gogh sunflowers that I put by my bed.  

26, I think you just might be all right.   

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