:: in a mood ::

we are the music-makers

and we are the dreamers of dreams

wandering by lone sea-breakers

and sitting by desolate streams

world-losers and world-forsakers

on whom the pale moon gleams

yet we are the movers and shakers

of the word forever, it seems

:: what to expect from college ::

exhaustion.
stress.
frustration.
panic attacks.

then to look at the cons...

just kidding! it's not nearly so bad. I mean, yes, I have experienced all those things so far (except the panic attacks, hahaha! wouldn't that be just too dramatic), but they really are the downsides. I'm enjoying it so far. for the most part.

anyway, if you want to see what CLASSWORK is like -- and believe me, that was a NEW CONCEPT for this SHELTERED HOMESCHOOLER -- here is a picture of some of mine.

ta-da! and would you believe this is basically extra credit? because it wasn't even assigned!! I am an overachiever.

really, I was waiting for my instructor to show up and I couldn't get that rogue valley song out of my head and I am so excited about the leaves falling and the strikingly blue sky and the crisp air and the apples, so I wrote 'autumn' over and over and some nice little autumnal quotes (mainly keats, but one not keats) and then, inevitably, the first verse of That Rogue Valley Song.

which I will now proceed to show you, because my life is so devoid of other-than-college that I can only supply pictures relating to... college. sorry. I'm trying to read castle rackrent, really I am, but that might have to wait until fall break. when I will be working on my research paper, so... so yeah. my life in a nutshell. or piece of binder paper, whichever you prefer.

:: towards september ::

my current favorite band is this little I suppose indie group called rogue valley.

they have the best feel -- it's like autumn, condensed into acoustic guitar and layered vocals. I seriously can't get enough of them.

I've gone through different favorite songs so far (blackberry moon, rockaway, rutting moon) but right now I think it's mountain laurels.

from the western edge of highway one
to the east of appalachia
I got my ticket baby here I come

following the crows
and colors
towards september... 

it's a beautiful, sad, colored-leaf song about loving but the ever-present reality of death.

when I lay these flowers
on this grave
do the math to find the final age
oh, I think of all the different ways

darling, don't be 
long in waiting
...the darkness
won't be long
in taking
you

and the music video is so reminiscent of our virginia road trips when I was younger that it almost made me cry. this is a beautiful song for autumn, so if you're ready for summer to end and to follow those crows and colors.....