oh, hella.

i am back from appalachia, hopefully never to return again.

i dunno. we arrived after dark, so i didn't really get to see where we were. but in the daytime, when we drove to another town to visit art galleries [my uncle was fooled by a glamorous brochure], it was really depressing. abandoned houses & peeling paint & poverty poverty poverty.

i felt bad thinking about the kids growing up there. they don't get a choice. and probably most of them won't get a chance to leave, either.

i know lauren doesn't believe in circumstances [graduation speech, am i rite?], but i definitely would not be who i am today if i had grown up in a certain part of southeast ohio. it's just weird to think about. the world's an unfair place, i guess.

BUT. what i forgot to mention in the last entry is that on the way there we saw the most gorgeous sunset. ril very kind.

also HAPPY NEW YEAR. i slept for 13 hours last night, although i did wake up at mabby 1:30 to read some taxts from allison berry.

and i've been remembering my dreams remarkably consistently recently adverbly. it's fun. and i wonder why it doesn't happen at school. too busy with other things?

i am excited for 2007. and more so to return to mitty on the seventh.