the end is near...

as i was walking outside today i noticed the puddles have frozen over. and as i looked in the mirror today i noticed i'm now vampire-white. all vestiges of the tan i had accumulated over summer are now but a distant memory. it's the beginning of end.

sanrio eraser tea

the local cvs carries 2 types of tea: celestial seasonings sleepytime (ick) and standard liptons (double ick.) luckily i found cardullo's (which in addition to a wide variety of teas also carries a wide variety of chocolates. score!) i made my selection of celestial seasonings perfectly pear white tea based on the following: 1. it was a white tea, which is supposed to be higher in antioxidants, 2. it didn't cost $20/pack like the republic of tea's white tea, and 3. it sounded kind of yummy. so i tried it for the first time today and while it smelled quite good, the smell was exactly that of the pink little twin stars eraser i had when i was 9 years old. it brought back some happy memories, but i don't think i'll be buying this again.

an o.c. moment

i had an o.c. moment this saturday when i went to the joint grad school geekfest they called a "dance" (so high school.) not because there were pretty people there. but rather, they hired a band (for free, i later discovered. so i guess it wasn't so much "hired" as "the band volunteered") that sounded like the crappy bands the o.c. always manages to feature via the bait shop.
in other news, i just ate a whole pouch of milano cookies and now am feeling quite ill. ugh.

the leaves scared me today

since it's autumn, there're giant leaves from giant trees all over the ground. as i neared my dorm today, this enormous gust of wind whooshed in my direction and the seemingly innocuous leaves on the path in front of me flew up, forming a formidable leaf wall. as this wall rushed toward me, i wasn't sure what to do. i briefly considered protecting my face with my arms but ditched the idea since that would make me look lame-ass to the other pedestrians. thankfully, the need for a decision suddenly died as the leaf wall leveled out before it hit me. i was left trembling and considering the what-if''s. i'm still unsure how to interpret this experience. is this a warning from above?....