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As midterms start to sneak up on me...I have been spending more time on campus. and on a side note i got an awesome parking spot tonight between davis and hamilton. anyway, I just have been so busy that I hadn't been enjoying chapel hill and carrboro as much as i know i usually do. so tonight after i left the library, i went for a walk around campus by myself. I LOVE the smell of campus (and yes, I associate it with a very specific smell). I love the smell of fall, and I love the sense of crispness that comes with fall. I really like walking on the brick pathways...I always say this to my friends, but I just think it is amazing how old unc chapel hill is - and that these pathways, and especially their surrounding trees, were the very pathways and the very trees that were there when the university was founded. that just boggles my mind, it blows me away.

If I'm feeling extra Chapel Hill-ish, I might go to The Skylight Exchange tomorrow and get a milkshake. I feel like not a lot of students at unc even know that skylight exists. well guess what kiddos, it does...and they have awesome sandwiches and milkshakes. It's kind of like the Chelsea movie theater - I know that the Varsity has many independent films too - but the Chelsea is your best bet for independent and foreign if you don't want to go to durham or raleigh. I love this place (this does not change that I might want to move, haha).

Also, I had an awesome conversation with the woman who cut my hair today. She is one of the owner's of syds that I hadn't met. Which we both laughed at, considering that's ridiculous since I've been getting my hair cut there for 4 years. Anyway, she kind of reminded me that I'm awesome. Is that weird to write? haha, I guess cutting, coloring, styling people's hair, you get into pretty lengthy conversations with people...and you get to sort of see into their lives. so she saw into my life a little...and we talked about my new house and my job and all the things i do. if you are close with me at all, you know that i am EXTREMELY HARD on myself. extremely. and you know that I get ridiculously stressed out at things that don't matter. at all. so a lot of the time, I don't even think about how much I enjoy doing the things I'm doing and I'm not proud of my accomplishments because I unrealistically expect better than my best. (i know, i know, it's an issue, i'm working on it). so anyway, my hairdresser Erin, made me feel awesome about my life. She even told me some, what she called "inspiring" stories about friends shes had that have been in similar situations as me. and she was like, think of it like this, "you can travel whenever you want, with whoever you want or no one at all...I'm jealous." Ha, I know right? And I am doing just that. So Erin, thanks for the inspiration and the validation. Not only did I get a new haircut, but I got a fantastic life lesson! Erin is another reason I love chapel hill...people like her can be found here.

and one more issue. if you are easily spooked, or freaked out, stop reading now. ok, well earlier this afternoon, the remote on my coffee table started shaking back and forth, and i put my hand on the table to see if it was vibrating, but it wasn't...then at school, a book on the shelf started like shaking kind of while it was just leaning upright(my coworker saw this too), then just a little bit ago, the touch lamp that has three settings, it randomly started going from 1-2-3-1-2-3 without anything touching it, like i even went over to see if there was like a bug or something that was hopping on it - nope, no bug. no mouse. no velociraptor. just a ghost.

It's easy to forget, sometimes we just forget
And being on this road is anything but sure
Maybe we'll forget, I hope we don't forget
- Yellowcard