unofficially yours . . .

maybe tennyson got it wrong. maybe, in reality, it's in the *fall* that "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."

i'm counting . . . yeah, i know at least FIVE couples that have made it official over the last four weeks. that's a lot, isn't it?

you're prolly thinking, "so, mara, how do you feel about that?" glad you asked. i'm really happy for each individual couple! it just seems like a lot of people all at once. i mean, i'm with nav on this one, mostly. it's nice when other people are happy. but i don't think i'm quite as content with my singlehood as she is.

in other news, i had a great weekend! flew to toronto on friday afternoon, arriving at 9pm local time. reconnecting with dani after eight years was crazy! wonderful, but strange, you know? so much has changed for all three of us (ah, the dani, mari, cori clan), but so much is the same. still can't believe she flew me out there.

saturday was a whirlwind: we had a late breakfast, went to pick up tickets for a concert, met up with cori's boyfriend (who passed my "yam test"), watched "the neverending story", had sushi (it was pretty bad for me), met up with natalie and biplob and went to a romanian concert. except the concert ended up not working out too well for us, and we left. cori is working on getting us refunds :( ended the evening off at futures, a bakery in toronto that's right near the uni campus. don't know how i went to school there for three years without spending money on those amazing cakes, but we made up for it saturday night. by the time we got home, we were pretty pooped. (yeah, i did say "pooped"! how cool am i?!)

got up at 6:30 sunday and we left for the airport about an hour later. the plane left at 9:10 and - after enjoying "bewitched" as the inflight movie, sleeping, and reading ONE chapter of my history of xnty textbook - landed at 11:15 local time. it took me until 1:15 to get home.

realized i had missed res so much.

bought stuff and made food and got dressed just in time for steve to pick me up for the theology potluck. the diversity within our department is so beautiful to me. it really blows me away to look around at these people: amanda, michelle, kevin, kat, steve, melanie, barron, faith, abel, joyce peasgood, and paul knudtson. they each bring such valuable things to the table. even aside from the food, i mean :) anyway, i really enjoyed the evening.

rocky hockey started last night at 10:30, so we went off to that after the supper. the fan turnout was encouraging :D do you ever feel like you need permission to be loud? that's what i love about watching live sports . . it's totally expected. free at last, free at last. etc. got home at 1:15, which means i'd been up for 21 hours :P i slept on the couch, my room still being a disaster.

and now it's monday. and i need a weekend to recover. wish we could buy weekends and just use them whenever it's convenient. like, every other day.

p.s. some have mentioned that i haven't been really updating. clearly, i've made up for that with this crazy-long post!