new haunts

the smell of henna and the sound of calm spanish music fills my room....
we are back.
the halls are different, the rooms are smaller (but have less closet space, so they feel bigger) but we are the same. with my group of friends, it feels almost like a home again. as a TCK, home is a pretty fluid concept for me. i remember last year people looked at me funny for saying i was going "home," meaning my dorm. they didn't realize that "home" to me pretty much means wherever my current bed happens to be.
so, here, i have a bed, i have a family of sorts, and i have my computer.
welcome home.

last night the school hosted the movie Star Trek (which is awesome, and if you haven't seen it, there is no excuse for you, go rent the DVD!) on a huge screen- we're talking at least 3m^2, if not more. It was held on the pool deck, and it was AMAZING! The night was cool, the ground was warm from being irradiated by the sun all day long, and the stars were out (ok, so they were blocked by the lamps to the tennis courts, but the point is they were THERE and we were UNDER them, watching STAR TREK). There were people swimming in the pool, but we did not join them (having generally decided earlier that we were too prickly, and didn't want to bother going back to find our bathing suits anyway), but instead laughed and talked about the movie from our comfy pool-side chairs (of course, we carried them back to their original places afterward- what kind of college event would it be without a little mandatory cleanup?). There was a general air of bonhomie and geekiness, and we discovered, to much hilarity, that G can't do the Spock salutation. Then we came back here and started henna, which is looking surprisingly dark. =)
It's been a good night.
that's all for now, folks.
E.O.