Herald to the gaudy spring

To-day my dad got an unexpected little present in the mail from the USC Business school. He got his MBA there and so we are used to being occasionally hit up for donations, however we have no real connection at all. He usually has to be reminded who the mascot is, and the alumni notices tend to go straight into the trash. However this was in a little package and being the incurably curious person that I am (lets leave the cat out of this one entirely, thank you!) I announced that there was a present in the mail and that i was going to open it. Now, I know that this is going to sound like a lot of buildup for a tiny little thing, but I adore getting packages and even better if they are free and unexpected is best of all. So I tore into the tiny water-resistant envelope and reached in for ...a pack of gum? A keychain? A pill-keeper for the keychain? How old do they think he...! Mais non! It is a tiny little smaller-than-a-pack-of-the-smaller-gum-packs-you-know-the-50-cent-ones 128mb flash drive! Itis shorter than the aforementioned cheap gum packs and very rounded and it is apple red and has the USC business school logo on it and I loved it. It was the highlight of my day except for the tiny red coupe convertible british type car that I saw at the PO to-day. A very large man came out of it but i have no idea how. I love tiny convertibles, especially when they are older and less roundly plastic that most of the cars seem to be now. I've been going mad all over the internet to try and find it, but all I know is that it is British. And it was red. And tiny. And not very round, but shapely. For once in my life I was too sheepish to hang around and examine the finer details of a stranger's possessions. I don't say car, because I am rarely interested in cars. However this car and this other car are two that I have seen over the years that I managed to capture.
In other news it seems like my reading has started slipping. I'm not nearly as far along as I was last year I think. I have been reading some sonnets as well though, thanks to Tam Lin. That book reminded me of all the Shakespere I've been missing, the sonnets, Twelfth Night, Tristan and Isolde (Don't say it! Don't you dare say it!).... Anyway there are a lot of classic texts that I am completely missing out on. Despite my utter failure to properly immerse myself, I am proud that the sonnets (when I remember to read them once in awhile) seem to be posing no problems. He was a funny guy, you know.
Hopefully I will finish the Ender series before the year's end. And by "the year" I mean before July 4th. That is my little "anniversary" at least as far as bookage goes. P'raps I should make resolutions? Okay, let's see: (in no particular order)
1. Finish Ender Series
2. Finish Dune Series
3. Read one play
4. Read poetry by someone other than Will or Donne
5. Buy 2 Cds
6. Finish Quicken Entries
7. Stop being so mean to people, without actually dropping my sarastic wit
8. Eat less tuna
9. Eat more fruit/veggies
10. Resist the urge to stay up until tomorrow chatting
11. Wear hair in more interesting ways
12. Stop buying clothes/books
13. Clean. Your. Room.

This is going to be long. I was going to add, "do not succumb to moody food habits" but it would never have worked. Sometimes I just am in the mood for something and I shan't be denied. To-day I didn't eat much, a hamburger and a salad was it for the day, but then I got home after school and had three bowls of applesauce! I don't even like applesauce. The taste is fine, but the texture and little specks in it sort of freak me out. Okay, I'll leave this at that.

-- G 'Bye, Sonya --

. ( 17.1.06 ) .