winter sucks the energy right out of me. i'm very very very ready for spring. in fact, it just started snowing. snow makes it a little better.

in other news, my nipple piercings are healing nicely. they aren't sore anymore unless i bump my boob into something, which would hurt anyways.

classes are going pretty well. i'm doing an internship with The Missouri Review and so that takes up a lot of my time. I go in for the internship on Tuesday afternoons as well as office hours on tuesday and thursday mornings. I have to read a lot of manuscripts, like 20 a week..i've never been good at pacing myself but i sort of have forced myself to since waiting to read 20 stories the night before would be living hell. i'm trying my best to not procrastinate and go to class, but old habits die hard. I've missed 3 days of French, but hopefully my professor didn't take note. in addition to French, i have literary friendships in 18th century British literature, personal finance, and intermediate creative writing. As always, my writing class is my favorite. We're reading Aimee Bender's "Willful Creatures" which is really amazing...my favorite is a story about a woman with potato children. i've written some really good responses to prompts which i hope will turn into full fledged stories.

the snow is really pretty. i don't have much to say.

i am a cynic of the highest degree, but some things melt my heart even when i don't want them to.