[Laura Marling - "I Speak Because I Can"]
A week and then I will be at Covenant. A wonderful week at home during which I am anticipating long talks, lots of coffee, drives to Shreveport, movies, etc. Delicious.
And then -- The MOUNTAIN! It's been hovering like a hazy journey's-end all summer. I know I went back for a week after England, but a week is nothing and I am really just ready to get my butt back up there.
I can't wait for:
-My new room. Evaluating, deciding, decorating. Making it rad-awesome, is what I meant.
-Every. single. person.
-Chi Alpha girls. WOAH. Why yes, new party hall on campus, coming right up.
-Jackson Pond.
-Campfires.
-The walking bridge at night with the lights sparkling on the water and the city on both sides and the feeling of summer and freedom and life ahead.
-The river.
-THE YELLOW DELI.
-New things in Chattanooga I have yet to discover.
-Items on my bucket list to be ticked off. (I don't actually have a bucket list yet. I probably won't ever actually make a material one. But . . . hypothetically . . . .)
-O-TEAM! NEW FRESHMEN. I am burning with curiosity.
-Tea breaks. With all them Oxford girls.
-Kate Harrison's house.
-My dearest friends in the world.
-Oh yeah, we take classes at school --- mkay, I'm kinda excited about that, let's be honest. Everyone knows I like school.
-Walking into the Great Hall: the corner-eye glance to strategize where to sit without looking like a friendless fool. The feeling of realizing the PERFECT table of the PERFECT people does, in fact, exist, right there in open view (not behind the freaking pillars -- WHO SITS THERE?? SNEAKY PEOPLE.)
-Yup, even work study. I like the people who work there. :)
-Off-the-wall conversations after midnight.
-Mid-morning naps with Nat.
-Coffee breaks with people at inexplicable times.
-The Psych Commons.
-The oncoming of Autumn. Yeah, I know I'm a loser for already looking forward to it, but YOU CANNOT CRUSH THIS ENTHUSIASM.
-Figuring out how to not stress. (Riiiiiiiiiight.)
-Forcing professors to become my life mentors.
-O-team professor: Huffines. I almost died of happiness.
-Everything about it. How can I be disappointed when it's Covenant? I can't.
