Average Tuesday

Tonight after symphony rehearsal, Valerie and Denali came home with 5 pizzas (one pizza for each roommate, plus Justin) from GAPCo, because it was Customer Appreciation Day which meant pizzas were $5 today. And we all ate most of an entire pizza ourselves at 9:30 p.m.

And at midnight, we walked to broomball, and Celie and Valerie ran ahead of Denali and I, and they slid down the hill between MBS and the SRC on their butts as per usual (Celie butt-slid her way to the SRC so much last semester, she wore out the butt of her snowpants). But because it's been so warm lately, the hill was icy and they crashed into each other at the bottom. Since I am a wimp and I was wearing pretty thin pants, I waddled my way down the hill in the Merrell hiking boots I found at the dump that have literally the most excellent traction I have ever encountered, which is important when your entire life exists on an icy hill.

Anyway, when we got to to the ice rink, Josh Hovis had several boxes of Capri Sun and it was like one of those parties you got to go to if you had perfect attendance in fifth grade and it was the best. And during our game, I completely ate it on the ice, and it was pretty rad, and I think I bruised my elbow decently (which was completely different than Monday morning, when I ate it sprinting down the hallway in the basement of Bunnell trying to catch the door to 122 before it closed and locked and I would have had to knock and everyone would stare at me. Suffice to say, I didn't make it. Also, I fell spectacularly and made the loudest of cacophonies, so everyone was already staring).

You guys, sunset was at 4:23 today and it was 15 degrees above zero and I'm not really sure anymore, but I think that counts as summer.

The weather

Ok, I don't want to be one of those people who blogs about the weather,

BUT

It's so warm, I haven't worn a hat in a week.
It's so warm, I can wear my thinnest tights with no other layers.
It's so warm, I CAN WEAR HAREM PANTS TO CLASS.
It's so warm, I broke out my stylish-but-with-no-actual-coat-qualities coat today.
It's so warm, we can't use our porch as a freezer anymore.

It's so warm, it rained this morning. And things are melting. And people are getting stylish (if xtratuffs and dresses are stylish, I guess) because you don't need to be concerned about being practical when it's 36 degrees and this is weird, you guys. Do I live in Southeast or do I live in the interior? I CAN'T REALLY TELL ANYMORE.

It's weird that the sun is setting so early and it's so warm.
It's weird that I walked to my first week of spring semester classes in melting snow.
It's weird that I had to put my hood up because of the rain this morning, not because my ears were cold.

And I know everyone has something witty to say about how bizarre all of this is/how funny it's warm in Alaska and cold everywhere else/how thrilled they are that summer is literally here. But these are puzzle pieces that shouldn't fit together, and it's catching all of us off guard here.

Someone start the countdown clock

I remember coming back from winter break three years ago and dejectedly dropping my plate down on the table in the Tilly and announcing "guys, there are over 1,000 days until we graduate." The table full of people (almost all of whom will take significantly more days to graduate than that--go UAF! woo!) brushed off my melodrama in stride. "College is great!" they said, "stop counting down!"

So I stopped and did other things--leaving home, coming home, baking over 3,000 cookies to name a few activities. And during that time with the countdown widget turned off on my laptop, I grew up and became the slightly disastrous but generally accomplished and efficient individual who continues to update this blog.

But is it appropriate to start my countdown again? Let's just say that I've just about had it with school, and I'm ready to wrap things up. Especially since I'm not even staring into a void of utter nothingness and crippling job-hunting insecurity after graduation.

Somebody start the countdown clock, because this girl's only got 116 days of school left EVER.