A Girl With a Sword

christmas calm

Back in Nebraska, another semester over, or, almost over. I need to finish up an experiment for one of my classes and get my thesis proposal together, but all the stuff that was giving me hell last week is done. Thank God. And it's so snowy here it's like, oh hello winter. I didn't know you had come. It's nice to have this for Christmas time, but I'm glad I get to go back to Carolina afterwards.

I spent a few days in Columbia after the semester was over and it was nice to see the town settle down for Christmas, USC students left, other people came back into town. The bars were filled with long tables of people who seemed to be reuniting, we figured friends from high school or friends from college who had since dispersed. It was nice and cozy and it felt even more like a small town. I finally joined the local independent theater, The Nickelodeon. My roommate from last spring came back into town and we had to go to all the places she's missed since moving to the D.C. area. And we had to do it all in the afternoon because I really didn't get up before then . . . Then she left Tuesday night and I went to the library to get my traditional Christmas children's fantasy (reason number one I couldn't be an English kid, school gets over and I drop Nabokov and go back to E. Nesbit). I had a nice talk with the children's librarian girl, who is in grad school too and likes the same books as me. She gave me some good recommendations. I'm reading The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale right now, a retelling of the Grimm's fairy tale.

Okay, okay, and now I am really procrastinating about taking a shower. I slept for more than twelve hours last night and I feel like I could go for a little more, but better shower and make mince pies before Mom gets home.