* karma - i never really believed in it before, but now i finally understand it. it's not on my side right now, but it'll come back, as is its nature.

* as horrible as it sounds, i think living in the sorority house has dumbed me down a bit. i love the girls, but sometimes our talk around the dinner table is scarcely more than random comments loosely strung together to make a conversation. i need to expand.

* aim is a ruthless vortex that sucks up all my time. and it doesn't even do anything for me, since i rarely end up talking to people on it.

* i've been practicing piano so much lately that sometimes my fingers go into auto-pilot and simply dance over the keys even when i'm half-asleep. i love just fooling around on the piano because the music just overpowers everything and pounding on the keys releases so much tension.

* living with sarah beth is good for many reasons: 1. she teaches me about judaism. 2. she has a rubik's cube and taught me how to finish it. 3. she lets me watch as much of "law & order" and of the food network as i want. 4. she did not think it was weird when i started smelling all of her books because it is one of my favorite smells in the world. 5. she's a big advocate of "the golden rule." 6. she will hate people that she hasn't even met because they're being mean to me. 7. seeing her wear her tiara all the time makes me laugh.

* i love coldplay. rarely do i find a group whose whole repertoire i like.

* one of the animated films we watched in class today used a song that my ballet teacher used in "alice in wonderland." that one song made me kind of sad and nostalgic, even though it brought back horrifying memories of me dressed as the white rabbit in fat pants and 40-year-old white grease paint.