drizzly day dabbling

So, today, I slept in late - I needed it. I dragged around work until I just couldn't be next to my office mate/ex-boyfriend and just had to escape

(For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church like a dirty old biscuit, dirty and inedible. - Maya Angelou, from Sister Flowers - worth the read)

I came home to watch a movie for one of my classes and cried for the first time in a while. Oddly fulfilling... and after that the day kind of started to look up

- - well, minus the whole waking toward Diffenbaugh and seeing a carbon copy of Gem and then in French class, where the teacher told me... in English in front of the class, that I basically had little to no business being in there... then I responded in French and she decided that maybe I wasn't a total loss. - -

Toward the end of class I had decided that I would take a walk when I got home. It was fantastic. I walked the outer perimeter of campus at a leisurely speed listening to the mix I made for Twin and something about it made me feel liberated and revived. The music was just as therapeutic as the hour and a half of vacuous sidewalk following. I didn't have to make any decisions or think about anyone or anything. I did think about the words and the melodies of the music a lot... a lot of it speaks to where I am right now in life and in large part is mostly very soothing. I returned home and finished Inch'Allah Dimanche -(The cliff notes version: Zouina, the protagonist, struggles the entire movie and finally succeeds in the end her self-assertion etc brings us to the end of the movie - yay happy ending) the movie for my class and ruminated in the peace that came over me from the walk and the journey of Zouina who succeeded against much more difficult odds.

The cool drizzle made for great sound effects and perfect cyber surfing weather. - I found/rediscovered fabulous things from DwellStudio and Urban Oufitters. I love these two graphic and marvelous patterns. The first, Gio Aqua, is something I am seriously considering for my bedroom at my parent's house. I think it might be time to paint over the hunter green walls with this fantastic color "coconut shell" that I recently used in my room at my house.

Boring post, I know, but catharsis can't always be exciting.

Love to you all,
-AA