There has been a request for more pictures

Okay, so first, here are some just snapshots I took while out walking in the snow on Sunday.  It was lovely.

^ That reminds me SOOOO much of Amsterdam, London, and Slovenian skylines

Don’t they look powdered?

It’s me!  Not yet as COVERED in snow as I was by the end of my walk.  It’s fun  . ..  as long as you’re walking WITH the wind.

AND NOW THE FLOWERS!!

okay, so I decided I wanted some flowers in my room.  Went to TJ’s and they had them for $2.49 each.  So I bought an iris pot (four plants so far) and a daffodil pot (five plants so far). 

This is what they looked like when I first bought them:

Notice that the iris has two blossoms, and the daffodil is lagging.  It has one little yellow bud trying to open.

Then my heater broke and they didn’t change.

Then my heater got fixed this morning and the daffodils EXPLODED.

This is them at 5pm

6pm:

And 8pm:

Notice that now there are two fully opened blossoms and one trying to open.

On the tragic side, one iris bud withered and was buried with great wailing:

But so to be honest, I’ll go get pots for them some time this weekend, but how big of pots do I get?  How big are these suckers gonna get?  The iris has four sprouts thus far, and the daffodil has five.  Am I going to have to sacrifice some?!?!

The good and the bad

Bad: The heater in our suite broke last night.  And our room is on the North-East side of the building.  So I LITERALLY slept in an icebox last night.  It was soooo disgustingly cold that if I had realized earlier the heater was broken, I would have spent the night with a friend.

Good: I got out of bed alive.

Bad: The only pair of jeans I have that fit right now are getting a hole.

Good: The maintenence guys came really fast and fixed our heater AND my window.  One of them, Tom, was really sweet; we talked for a good twenty minutes.  I love hearing people’s life stories.

Bad: I overslept (meant to get up at 8, got up at 9:30).

Good: The camera store that I had to go to in Kenmore Sq. to buy some film and negative sheets was wicked easy to find.

Bad: I went by work to see why I hadn’t been scheduled, and it turned out Joanna DID schedule me.  For a four hour shift.  Turns out she doesn’t have the labor to give me the kind of hours I asked for, but instead of telling me this three weeks ago when I started talking to her, she thought four would be just as good as thirty.

Good: When I went by 62 Boylston Starbucks (the one that is literally two doors down from my building; it takes me 25 seconds to walk there during traffic) was extremely excited when I walked in and asked if they could use a transfer.  Kyle, the manager, said he’s needing to hire some people to work weekends and mornings which just so happens to be my availability.  AND he went ahead and transferred me in so that I’ll be making Boston wages, not Texas wages (although I still need to go change my address).  I start next week.  So basically, Joanna cots me like $150 dollars this week, but I’m going to try and look on the bright side and instead get LOTS of homework done, work out a lot, adn spend time on:

Bad: I’m not enjoying, nor looking forward to forensics.  I decided I don’t like my prose piece and I don’t think it’ll do well, which means I’m back to square one.  I’m just frustrated with all of it, and considering we don’t have any away tournaments this semester, there isn’t even the fun reward of travel.  I don’t feel like I can quit . . . but I really kinda want to.

Good: I went to the gym tonight.

Bad: I’ve procrastinated some of my homework until tonight when I should have gotten it all done Friday.

Good: My daffodils are blooming!!  I’ll post pictures tomorrow; I literally got to watch my daffodils (three so far) bloom before my eyes today, as well as a new bud on my purple iris.

Bad: I’ma go do homework now.  Yuck.