antelope

ugh what a morning. i slept in until i had to hurry to get to my lab monitor shift, where i am right now. plus, i have to go to this dumb mandatory training meeting at 1.30 and i can't find anyone to cover that hour of my shift. goddamnit. now what am i supposed to do?
on the other hand, fashionista.com continues to wow me. they posted on how to make the new louis vuitton spring necklace for like 10 dollars here,
so awesome. plus the proenza schouler line for target came out yesterday and i need to get some of that. i'm sure it will be like viktor and rolf for h&m though, gone to hoards of legginged maniacs within two hours.
katie and i played squash again last night, we played great. we're already making quick headway towards winning the championship end-all tournament on the 20th. actually the last time i checked it was just a tournament, but END ALL CHAMPIONSHIP sounds better. we're going to play again tonight before our soph-fest.
i walked over to academic computing to get the WACOM tablet to use, but when i got back i realized they hadn't given me the pen. WTF!!!!!!!!! also, during the first two hours of this shift forte's "archi/texts" first year studies class is going on... it's so nice to walk by outside and hear that class going on. i miss it so much. i still think i learned more in that first year studies than in all my other classes combined. it's the basis on which i do everything else now. i want to just stand outside and listen to it, but i'm worried joe or one of the freshman will walk outside and see me crouched down outside with an ipod recorder. it'd be embarassing for me.
today i'm wearing some tights, which i haven't worn in a while, but honestly my pants need to be washed. i felt kind of lame, but then i looked around and saw a rainbow spectrum of tight colors prancing all around me across campus. sarah lawrence, always a bastion of diversity and self expression. in fact now my gray tights feel a little matronly. maybe someone could lend me some tye-dye.
i talked to my parents last night - they were up at the bar at the top floor of the hilton anatole in dallas, where they were having a drink with anne because it was her birthday, and jim was out of town....when we went there for mom and dad's anniversary this summer, it was really good. i had roasted antelope with carmelized bananas and peanut sauce, and the best amuse bouche (hahahah that ones for you annicka) - it was like, some type of brie with crystalized apricot and carmelized onions. delish. also where i accidentally said "the texas book suppository" rather than "depository." the anatole (i forget the name of the actual restaurant - nana?) is one of those places where every time you get up to go to the bathroom, etc.etc., the guy comes back and re-places your napkin on your lap. kind of irrelvantly snooty, but the greatest views of dallas EVER. you get to watch all the planes coming down to love field airport (only a few miles from our house). i really began to love dallas this summer when my parents left me alone in the townhouse for a few days - i'd sit out on their 3rd floor balcony and watch the southwest airplanes come in - one every 3-4 minutes in the early evening. southwest planes are red and blue, they'd look so cool in that kind of texas light - red and orange and blue, with the tops of the trees turning that kind of amber green color and blowing around in the wind. and it was 105 degrees but beautiful. that's when i started thinking, hey, maybe this is a better place than i thought. maybe there's something to be said for living somewhere beautiful?