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Day One Hundred and Sixty-Five:  It’s a beautiful day!

I feel like spending the entire day outside.  I worked this morning from bed due to a massive headache and lack of sleep, and now I’m cleaning the kitchen in anticipation for some uni friends to arrive.  I’m hoping to spend the rest of the day inbetween on the patio with some friends or helping Riss with prom prep.  I’ve never been one to respond so well to the sunshine, but I think it’s just good for me to be out in the bright.

It’s one of those days that tricks you into thinking that nothing can go wrong.  It’s so frustrating and absorbing and all-consuming that whenever I’m not outside, looking outside, or talking about it I am thinking about the sun and the warm breeze and the green grass.  I want to spend more time outside, since I work inside for most of the time.  Until July atleast when I will be greeted by a handful of kids everyday.  I love my job it keeps me on my toes.

 I long to return to Scotland in the summer as we were told numerous times how much more beautiful the highlands were.  The Isle of Skye was already the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen, and now my new goal is to return in the next five years to horseback ride through the highlands in the summer.  Whale watching, and visit Brian.  How could I ever not visit Brian?  What a lovely man.

What else to speak of on this lovely day?  It is my sister’s prom day!  It reminds me of my prom day, where we had to be ready so early and everything went so well.  Pictures at the Grand, the boat, coming home and waiting for rides on the curb out front of Bluevale until two am when we were back at my place watching Moulin Rouge and drinking the biggest bottle of champagne I had ever seen.  Prom, in all of its glory, is just one day.  A lot of people forget that when it jis happening.  But it is true what they say:  T’s the biggest glam night until your wedding day.  And then that is just another “one day” to remember, I guess.  But you really only get one prom.

So I hope she has a lovely time and everyone else going as well.  I’m spending the evening with good friends and I am looking forward to it.  There’s nothing quite like a quiet summer evening on my back porch talking biology, now is there?

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