a college update

so i honestly thought i was going to die or something.

here i was-- lynn, her mother, and i -- on my way up to visit bates & bowdoin (disliked + loved, respectively) when all of the sudden i was woken up because we had trouble with the toll. there was no one to pay, i think we got in the wrong line, and we had an e-zee pass or whatever, so i told lynn's mom to just drive.

she drove... but the alarm went off? and then she stopped.

in the middle of the highway.

well, not really, but it was like one of this parts where nobody drives there because it's just there to merge two lanes. she stopped on it. i was like O_O omg.

anyways. colleges. fun. yes.

i should go to bed now.

i have to actually do things tomorrow. like pack for utah.

toodlehs.

-- love fu ping

nobody would've known--

so we're driving up to middlebury college, right? and we're on this scenic windy road and i'm being all sarcastic-like and whenever we see signs of life; i.e., we see a car and i freak out. or we see a person and i'm all like "we have to pull over and say hi!" 

y'know, stuff like that. but when i notice that we have no signal on the phone, i also realize... we could easily die and nobody would know for a loonngg time. my mom thought it would be a good time to mention that she cancelled onstar...

so we also went to this nice chinese restaurant in middlebury, which is this awesome, quaint little town that i am officially in love with. i was convinced that the restaurant, from my hazy summer memories, was in one place, but my when we asked for directions, it was totally somewhere else. then i realized that we parked in one place, and walked to that totally somewhere else place. it all made sense...

so here i am, sitting in this lovely little inn in a giant room on the pull-out bed, typing up a post.

and because i saw zoe's poem, i decided to share one of mine.

just a jog

the rhythmic pounding of your feet becomes the backdrop

to a new scene, a new world, a new time

and all around things slow to a stop

full reign is handed over to The Mind

it calls upon the imagination

to see what it can find

a word becomes a new creation –

you keep running