i love being warm

it is a glorious day. the weather is gorgeous - sunny and warm - and i love it. everybody else keeps complaining about how they're ready for cold weather, but not me. i can't imagine wanting it to get cold. for me, cold weather = being miserable and depressed. my one consolation in the cold weather is that the leaves will start to turn. i think grove city is definitely prettiest in the fall, though it always makes me want to go to marion. nothing compares to the blue ridge mountains in the fall.

speaking of which, i was really bummed all weekend that i couldn't go to granddaddy's 80th birthday party. on thursday quinn and anna were both asking if i was going to be there. mama said it went really well, which is good considering there were 28 people there. i have a lot of relatives. even scott and heather managed to show up. the one i'd really like to see, though, is jennifer. i need to find out if she has a screen name.

homecoming weekend was fairly enjoyable. the dance was freezing, but i think it was worth it to see the wolverine dancing. whoever is stuck in the mascot suit this year is really good at it - i find him highly entertaining. the day of homecoming was madness, but i absolutely adored my old people. i ate lunch with a group who graduated in '46-'49 and i loved them. they told me some great stories. two of them, glenn and alice, had been in the outing club together and were still friends 60 years later. (glenn was the one who had on about three different name tags, because, as he said, you can never have too many.) they were telling me about how somebody would always get hurt when they went to the outing club cabin. or really, anytime the outing club got together. i quote, "do you remember the time betty planted the axe in her thigh when we were chopping down trees behind rockwell?" alice was also the one who told me about climbing on the roof of colonial dorm to smoke, and that the dean would sniff them when they came in at night, to see if she could smell alcohol or cigarette smoke. then there was peg. we became good friends. she was the one who told me about all the livestock that got set loose in south lobby, such as a cow and a flock of chickens (though not at the same time, unfortunately). it was also amusing to find out that people have been sleeping through vespers for over sixty years. the cutest one, by far, was harriet. harriet is 86 and an absolute doll. she was telling me how her husband used to flick the lights on and off in his dorm room in ketler to let her know he was on his way over, so she could meet him in the lobby. she also got real excited when she found out i had had a class in the room she and her husband donated in memory of their daughter.

the rest of the day was fine, except i got a migraine at the football game from the sun. needless to say, i crashed afterwards and slept until 9:30. then i got up and went out with theatre alumni. it was really good to see everybody. on the whole, i'd say that homecoming was a pretty good success.

now midterms are beginning. hooray.