christmas?

The weather has finally turned sour here. It's been drizzling all day, and now it is officially raining cats and dogs, according to Ryan. It was 65 degrees and sunny yesterday, so I guess we deserve this. Tonight Ryan spontaneously decided to take me to dinner while we were at the Pru (it's an upscale mall with lots of shops and restaraunts), and we both had rare steaks and shrimp scampi. It was a nice break from dining hall dinners, which are definitely not bad, but not rare-steak-good.

This is a concert-intensive week for me. Tomorrow night Ryan has his Contemporary Wind Orchestra concert (for which he remembered tonight that he needs a black oxford for, that's why we were at the Pru), Saturday the Filipino club at BU is hosting a big Filipino performace, and Ryan's Filipino club at Berklee is performing, and Sunday is the BU dance showcase, in which Step About Boston, my Irish dance group, is dancing. Hopefully we're ready for that, we're a little short on rehearsals and the number of people in the dance has changed like 10 times.

So all of a sudden, everywhere is Christmas. Newbury Street, where I work, is completely decked out; the trees have white lights in them, and all the shops and boutiques have Christmasy window displays. I would like it, but since it's not soon enough to Christmas, not even all the decorations make it feel like Christmas to me. They just seem out of place right now. However, not everyone seems to realize it's not the Christmas season yet. People are coming into Gap in swarms already, and it's not even Thanksgiving. Thank god I'll be at home for the weekend after Thanksgiving, and not at work.

Fall is here

Fall is here at last. On Saturday, Ryan and I went out to lunch and then walked around a bit so I could take pictures of the autumnal city. I posted some of them on gathkinsons.net, but not all of them. They began to get a little repetative. Apparently this season is a lot less spectacular than most New England falls, because of all the weird weather. It snowed like crazy about a week and a half ago, and then was 70 degrees the next day.

I've finally gotten some grades back in my lit class. I got a B on my first paper, and an A on the midterm. The first paper isn't worth that much though, the midterm is worth a lot more and even the next paper that we'll write will be more points. Plus, I participate like crazy in there, and that's worth 10% of the final grade. I was a little disappointed on the paper grade, though, since I've been managing to get As on my papers for my writing class, which I consider much more challenging. Looking back, though, the paper wasn't really that good, but all of the prompts were pretty dry. Speaking of papers, I turned in another one for my writing class today. My life feels like it's measured in paper due dates.

I'm all set to register for spring classes. Freshmen register on November 20th, which is a big day. Registration, my dad's birthday, and I have an Irish dance performance. Anyway, I'm planning on taking an English seminar that takes the place of the second writing class we're all required to take, a Spanish conversation and composition class, a graphic design studio, and Art History. I've been considering also taking a dance class, but as I'm planning on playing in the orchestra next semester, I don't know if I want to take on too much.

This is a three day weekend for us, coming up. Lots of my friends are going places, mainly to New York, it seems. My friend Michelle is from NYC, and one weekend I'd like to take the bus down there with her and explore the city. I've only been there to change planes, and all airports look the same (except the memphis airport, that one sucks). Friday is Ryan's and my one and a half year anniversary, and he's taking me to see Rockapella. Ryan didn't even know they sang the Carmen San Diego song, and that's all anybody else does know about them.

I'm almost famous

If you read today's Get Fuzzy, you'll see I'm mentioned. Well my street is anyway. I'm pretty sure the Publick House he's reffering to is in Beacon Hill, though, which is a ways down from me.
Anyway, I'm off to see "The Weather Man" with Ryan. I've been wanting to see it for about a year, since when I saw the teaser preview to it. The bow and arrow line is great.

I don't know if I'm getting the hang of what to write in a blog.. any suggestions?

I give in

Well I'm giving in, I created a blog. I don't know if anyone will read it or not, but that doesn't matter so much. It seems like a good idea though, if only to use as a diary-type thing. Anyway, right now I'm waiting for my last class of the day, Spanish, and then off to work, The Gap

Halloween

Halloween 

A sample from Halloween. Lots more on www.gathkinsons.net