today.

is a good day. today is my birthday. i am officially 22. my best friend laura is here, and honestly not much could make it better. woohoo!

rain.

it's raining, it's pouring, i'm in the library without an umbrella!

i'm sitting up in the third floor of the library waiting for a group meeting to take place in the next 15 minutes and i heard this noise and i wasn't sure what it was. then i realized that it could be rain. so i looked out the window and sure enough it was pouring. i love the rain, but not when i have to walk the majority of campus from the library to my house without an umbrella. it wouldn't even be so bad if i didn't have my backpack. oh well. maybe it'll stop before i leave, or i'll see if i can get a friend who lives close to give me a ride to my place. we'll see.

dancing in the rain? not with my computer in my bag.
- corrie

not done yet.

i cannot wait for this semester to be over. it will be such a relief. even though i don't have any plans for after it's over, i'll just be glad to be done with it. with the end of the semester quickly aproaching i've got tons of stuff to do, and i really don't want to do it. thankfully, later this week i will have a little reprie in the form of my friend laura. i am so excited that she is coming and that she will be here for my birthday. it'll be a great way to help round out the semester. also, by the time she gets here i will have almost all of my stuff left to do done and i will be able to relax more.

i'm still waiting. for so much.
- corrie

alone.

each week at track meets we see a variety of different people, and each person brings their own unique thing to the meet. we regularly throw against this one girl who never seems to have a good attitude. after every throw she acts like it was the worst in the world, and looks like she will scratch it. i guess in high school she was a really good thrower, and now she's disappointed that she isn't where she wants to be now. i get that, but it still bothers me. here's the real point that i'm trying to get at: while she may not be throwing where she thinks she should be it is also interesting to note that she is the only female thrower on her team. greenville had 8 women competing in just hammer today. 8 of us. one of her. that is such a hard thing to deal with.

at my community college i was one of a few throwers on a small team. i was never the only female thrower on the team, but i did have instances when i was the only female thrower (or thrower at all) at a meet. it's not something that is easy to do. i was talking with another thrower about this girl's attitude today and he mentioned that she was heavily recruited to come here, but didn't end up coming. he said it in a way that made it seem like it wouldn't have been a good fit for her to be here. i think that greenville may have been a better place for her, and that she would be different now if she had come here then.

most of my life i have been content with being alone. it's something that i've kind of grown up with being an only child and had become part of my nature to be willing to be alone. recently that changed, and i no longer have the desire to be alone and sit alone and do things alone. it's not that i'm not capable of it anymore, but i'm finding it more and more refreshing to be around people. even if it's only one or two others.

so tonight as i sit her alone and sunburned i don't know what to do. i had some possible plans that fell through, and nothing else on my horizon. i suppose that i'll put in a movie (if i can decide on one that i want to watch), and lay on my bean bag chair, all alone. it will be a good thing. i think.

timing is everything.
- corrie

beautiful day in the neighborhood.

today was the first truely nice day that greenville has seen in many weeks. that fact is somewhat surprising since we are halfway through april. no matter how long it took to officially get here, the nice weather is great to have around. it was refreshing to see a group of guys playing ultimate frisbee out on scott field in the evening hours. today has been a crazy (somewhat) and also productive day. i've got so much going on right now, and so much coming up that i'm not really sure what to do, but i know it will all get done. also, i get to throw shot put at the meet this weekend. aren't i lucky? i'm not really sure.

enjoy the weather. sit on the roof!
- corrie

friday the 13th.

my good friends from home, liz & josh matthews, welcomed their first child, zoey gwendolyn, into the world yesterday. she is beautiful. i'm so excited for them and wish that i could have been there. i'm anxious to make it home and see all of them. if you'd like to see a picture of her visit www.flickr.com/photos/nascarjune. that's my mom's flickr page and she has a couple of pictures of her up.

card games.

i've been playing a lot of card games lately and my appreciation for them has grown considerably. i've played everything from multi person solitare, to nerts (or is it nertz? i'm not sure), uno, go fish, skip-bo, and others. i've had so many fun times playing these card games with people that i wouldn't change that in for pretty much anything. so much fun.

everybody should play more card games!
- corrie

boring.

tonight is looking like it's going to be a boring night. i don't have anything to do and at the moment i don't have any friends around to do things with. there aren't even any fun school things going on tonight. blah. recently i've been very social, which has actually been refreshing, but now that there is essentially nothing to do i don't know what to do with myself. i don't want to surf the internet. i don't want to read. i don't want to do homework. i have all my study halls done for track. i don't want to watch tv. after i finish this i will probably continue to stare off into space and listen to music. if my back wasn't hurting again i'd lay on the floor or my bed. also, if the roof wasn't wet from an afternoon of rain i'd go out there.

i'm bummed about tonight.
- corrie

dress.

so... i've begun to come to terms with not having a date to junior senior, and it's made easier by some awesome friends who i will be going with. (and emily, even though she is not going to the event.)

it is also made more enjoyable by the fact that last night i purchased an amazing dress to wear. i absolutely love it, and - i'm not going to lie - it looks great on me. if you want to know what it looks like drop me a line and i will gladly share with you.

getting more excited each day.
- corrie

(note: this is not an april fool's joke. happy april!)