As for Snowtober

We are currently embroiled in a premature winter vacation - no school through Thursday (and most people think it'll be cancelled on Friday too!). It's positively absurd! And yet, most of us are still sans power, myself included. Last night I was curled in bed watching the seventh Harry Potter...what else would I do? It's kind of odd to for your surroundings to actually coincide with nature - my house is dark when the sun goes down. I rise when the sun rises. Out of all of my wake/sleep patterns over the past six-ish years, this surprisingly has probably been the healthiest! I've been consistently getting precisely nine hours of sleep...who'da thunk it?

Also, I hate snow. I hate winter. Fall is great because it feels like crisp new beginnings and possibilities. Spring feels like a revitalizing awakening. Summer feels like freedom and happiness. Winter feels like solitary depression. Every single winter I just get incredibly restless and bummed out. Seriously, you don't want to be around me. This is the only reason I would ever move to a warmer climate, although I do love me my foliage.

She - Ed Sheeran

I'll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground

Love Me Like A River Does - Melody Gardot

Holocene - Bon Iver

I and Love and You - The Avett Brothers

On My Way Back Home - Band Of Horses

F-Stop Blues - Jack Johnson

Wonderful World (Don't Know Much) - Sam Cooke

A Hazy Shade Of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel

Where We Land - Ed Sheeran

I May Be Young - Dean Friedman

Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks

Winter Song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson

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Last week we turned in our senior quotes...now, this was especially challenging for me since I have an obscenely large Word document in which I've been keeping quotes I like since the seventh grade. Hi, I'm Jess, and I'm a quote obsessive. That being said, I knew that I just had to pick something that was relevant to my current 'life philosophy' if you will, and not just something I  appreciated (in which case we'd end up with some Eleanor Roosevelt quote or the like). So, here it is!

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the only, the yours."   - Henry James

I'm also a little more than mildly annoyed that by now nearly everyone has power back and I don't! Humph. Well, here's to a one day school-week!