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Sunday Morning

I have three songs in my iTunes titled "Sunday Morning" (Ani Difranco, Maroon 5, No Doubt). Two of them (Ani and Maroon 5) were stuck in my head today, as I had multiple conversations about what Sundays meant to different people.

Some of the cons of Sundays, I have found:
Universal homework day. You realize how much more work you have to do.
Last day of the weekend--school is coming up again, and fast.
Cleaning up/sorting out stupid things you may have done the previous two nights.

Pros of Sundays:
Football. Or so I've been told.
PostSecret goes up for the new week.
Big, fat crossword puzzles you need your friends' help to solve.
Sunday nights can be some of the most relaxing, if you can get your stuff done.

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"Sunday morning, slow beats seething, through the screens in the open windows
Eggs frying, legs shaking, after we stayed lying so long in bed
Sunday morning, both of us reading, and looking up occasionally
Looking up occasionally

Sunday morning, you're doing your thing and I am doing mine
Speaking words, more a formality, cuz we can feel we are of one mind
Sunday morning, sheets still warm, kitties swarming around our feet
Life comes easy, your sweet company, making it so complete

Of all the Monday through Fridays we joined the crusade
Of all the Saturday nights in which we were made
Of all the exorcisms I've done with your ghosts
Still it's Sunday morning--I miss you the most"
--Sunday Morning, Ani Difranco

We hold these truths to be self evident...

...that all men are created equal.

Oh, man...

This is freaky: "A new study has found that one in four children thought it was illegal for women and minorities to hold the office of President"

Never

This is so important to me:

"We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace."

--Peggy Tabor Millin

What a Difference a Day Makes

This morning I was at school, now I am at camp.

It's so weird being here without so many people I love. (Jordan, Matan, Alana, Gilad, Lili, Emily, Evan, etc to name a few). I don't like that part of it at all. I started crying during services today, just overwhelmed with the emotions and stress of this past week, with the emotions of being back up at camp, and with the heavy, heavy weight of the absence of the people I love from this place.

I felt weird coming back to camp for Fall Camp last year, too. I remember, I felt alienated and uncomfortable and just generally like a homesick camper. I wanted to go home, and just counted my way through the hours until I was able to go back to school. (I miss the person who got me through the weirdness of that weekend, I really, really do. But I don't know how to get back to him, or even if I should. Either way, things have changed. It wouldn't, couldn't, the the same).

This, again, is my first time back after the summer, but this time is different. It is compounded by the loss of the people who made this past summer one of the best I have ever had at camp, and also by this overwhelming notion that I am in a very, very different place from where I was this time a year ago. A lot of things have changed, yes, but some good things have also stayed the same. I still appriciate this place and everything it has done for me. (I told RS last night that this place had shaped me and made me who I was more than any school ever had. He was impressed, maybe surprised, but I meant it.) I still thank the people who have made this place what it is for me, who have given me so much out of it.

But I wonder sometimes, whether all these weird feelings are there to tell me that it is time to move on. Maybe this was my last summer, maybe this is my last Fall Camp, but then again, maybe it's not. I know that no summer would be truly complete without camp, and that is has been a huge part of my life for so long, so I am in no way ready to make the choice about whether things are coming to an end or not, but I do know that I can safely say that they are changing. And that, though incredibly scary, might just be a good thing.

Sleep!

I just realized that there is no point in me going to bed late tonight! (The past nights bedtime has been ranging between 2-4 am. Blech!). I'm getting enough sleep, because my classes are pretty late, but why not get more?? :-) SO, tonight I am going to take a shower, answer a question for one of my midterms, watch an episode of The West Wing and be in bed by 1. Yay!

Waterfall

Thanks to Well That's Strange, again, for this crazy, awesome video.

Whoooaaaaah!

You have to check this out. Craziest video ever. Props to my dad for the link.

Interesting...veeerrrrry interesting....

I just read this incredibly interesting article about Jews and their DNA that my dad sent me. If you have a second/any interest in genetic history, Jewish studies, or Biology, you should really check this out.

Hmm

There are a surprising number of lights on in the dorms at four o'clock in the morning.

Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes from my mommy's exhaustive quote collection:

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough"
--George Washington Carver

"This universe, that created the stars, galaxies, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, and the duck-billed platypus, is quite capable of finding someone for you that has the capacity to love you no matter what your situation."

--Jim Carrey, on the Oprah show

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm"
--Willa Cather

"Pugs are living proof that God has a sense of humor."

--Margo Kaufman, American writer

"A Proper Tea is very much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards."

--Winnie the Pooh, speaking for A.A. Milne

"'I can't say no grace like I use' ta say. I'm glad of the holiness of breakfast. I'm glad there's love here. That's all.'"

--Casy the preacher, in "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck

"He who would travel happily, must travel light."

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Choose a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life."

--Confucius

"Remember, the loudest person in the room is the weakest."

--Denzel Washington's character in "American Gangster"

"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think"
--Chirstopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh

This Bouquet

Today, I started asking people for their forgiveness in preparation for Yom Kippur. I have never really done this before, but decided to do it this year because I feel like I am finally mature enough to truly take responsibility for myself, my decisions, and my mistakes. So, in preparation for that I've been doing some reading on Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre, and the whole process in general. Here is an article I really like about it.

A moved up to Seattle today. Good luck, love! You're going to do great things.

I really like this song, This Bouquet by Ani Difranco, and have for pretty much forever. It's been stuck in my head for a while.

got a garden of songs where i grow all my thoughts
wish i could harvest one or two for some small talk
seems like i'm starving for words whenever you're around
nothing on my tongue so much in my ground
nothing on my tongue so much in my ground

half the time i got my gaze trained on your motel door
fourth door from the end
rest of the time my gaze lays like a stain on the carpeted floor
if it weren't for my brain i'd go over and make friends
too bad about my brain 'cause i'd like to make friends

see the little song bird unable to make a sound
even though she follows her words from town to town
we both got gardens of songs; maybe it's okay
that i am speechless because i picked you this bouquet
yep, sure am speechless, but i picked you this bouquet

Nemo

I am getting a fish for my biology class next week. So excited. And, I need to wash my dishes, becaue I have a whole lot of dirty cups lying around...

Schedule

I just realized that by the end of this, my first semester of Sophomore year, I will have completed 8 out of the 15 courses for my joint major requirements. Whoah.

Oops

...I just took a nap. Kind of accidentally. At 8:00 pm. Oy vey!