Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Beauty and the Procrastinator

Why am I procrastinator?? I guess it is because I just don't work well until there is pressure. I have a 10 page paper on a Global Health issue due day after tomorrow and I just now printed out articles to read in order to write the paper. We've known about it since the first day of class.

It isn't like I've been sitting around not doing anything. I have been pretty darn busy over the past several weeks.

Katie's visit was a successful vacation and tour of "Winterland". She loved Ann Arbor and loved meeting all of my friends, along with experiencing the snow and cold. She's a trooper. We had a little gathering of friends on Friday night and I think everyone had a good time.....I drank too much wine on an empty stomach, so I'm hoping everyone had a good time because some things are a little fuzzy. Comments or complaints are gladly accepted :)

I was sitting at the bus stop today and it was lightly snowing, the flakes falling slowly and swirling around in the air. A few would drift onto my black down jacket and for the first time in my life I noticed the beauty of a single snowflake. Usually they all huddle together and create the nice fat flakes that I love--you know, the "pretty snow". I was amazed by the intricacy and detail and at the accuracy of the typical depictions of a snowflake seen this time of year in store windows and cut out of white paper. I just thought people were getting fancy. Mother nature is truly good.

This is my snowflake. Pretty, isn't it?


Pics from the "Katie Visit":

Party People

Me and Katie

Jess, Josh, and Me

Scared Katie : )

1 comment:

cate said...

It's 9:38 pm, I have 3 pages written, two papers to read yet... and i am reading and commenting on your post...

i have long been a fan of the snowflake (growing up in wisconsin, i was exposed to every type of flake there is at a very young age)