random...

1. i like to sign my name in lower case letters: charlotte hale.
2. i've had the same quote at the bottom of my email for 2 years: Romans 12:9-13.
3. i don't like to eat soup when i'm alone.
4. i'm terrified about letting people down.
5. i want to move to Oregon
6. i'd never finished a sewing project until 3 weeks ago.
7. when i leave/return to school, i bring only a tenth of my library with me
8. at the moment, my refrigerator is stocked with water, cream cheese, and apple jelly.
9. i like the Bobby Dupea's music
10. when i do laundry at school, i have to have two dryers that are together.
11. i don't like sharp objects.
12. squirrels scare me.
13. i don't mix my food.
14. there's always music playing in my room.
15. when i make to do lists, i put things on there that i've already done, so i can cross them off.
16. i like to drive with barefeet.
17. i have a book of quotes and pictures and drawings that i carry around with me and draw in class.
18. i like old things.
19. i have every paper that i've ever written in folders at home.
20. i'm allergic to cumquats.
21. i don't want to teach.
22. i don't sit in the back of education classes, because i don't want the teacher to call me out.
23. i hate math.
24. when i pull all-nighters, i like to listen to ghetto music.
25. i watch lost, but i really don't like it.
26. i miss pushing daisies.
27. i've never been farther north than south carolina.
28. i can count the number of times i've been to the beach on one hand.
29. i've never seen the pacific ocean.
30, i've never been farther south than st. pete
31. last year was the first time i saw snow white.
32. i've never met anyone with my first name.

2008 (long overdue)

Hello all, it's been a while since I posted. Seeing as how I've not kicked off the new year correctly, allow me to rehash 2008.


Highlights of 2008!


I. Old friends

Lauri
Ammi
Katie
Steve
Rebekah
Elizabeth
Pete
Joel
Erica
John
Meghan

II. New Friends

Joy
Justin
Jeffery
Rebekah
Joel
Jessie
Brittany

III. Adolescent Lit

Our corner (Ammi, Katie, Steve, George, & Meghan)

IV. Sundays

All Saint's 8:50
Covenant 10:30
Outback
Movie/Nap
Nap/Movie

VI. Moe's

Making mad dashes for lunch between classes (American Lit & Advanced Expos).

VII. American Lit

Meghan, Ammi, & Professor Kirk.

VIII. My Advanced Expos. Group

Erica, "Weetsy Bat" Jen, & Elizabeth: bunches of laughs.

IX. Finally watching the Godfather

XI. Nashville

My first official vacation, taking off from work and driving to Nashville (even though I got sick) to see Erica and John.

Discovering the great McKays used books in Nashville, thanks John.

Turkish food!

The tiny Greek Orthodox store, where John, Erica, & I looked at iconoclasts.

High Church at St. David's (John & Erica's church) in Nashville.

Seeing the Ringo Star exhibit in Nashville at the state museum.

XII. Finishing Harry Potter

Rowling, you're wonderful, thank you for expanding my library and making me hunger for fantasy.

XIII. Movies

the great ones:
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
310 to Yuma
Juno
No Country for Old Men
High Fidelity
Breakfast Club
Charley Bartlett

the terrible ones:
27 dresses
Made of Honor
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

the intoxicating ones:
Wanted
Twilight

XIV. Books


Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Blue Like Jazz
Three by Annie Dillard
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Nine Stories
Catcher in the Rye
Ender's Games
Stardust
Walden
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
Blithedale Romance

XV. "Studying" at Mitchell's & Starbucks

XVI. St. Pete trip

Dali Museum & Haslam's books

XVII. The Oracle

XVIII. Bookstore hunting in Winter Haven

XIX. Rooming with Katie

XX. Chinese with Lauri

This is it

Oregon!

no need to say goodbye.

Goodbyes are hard to say, especially among friends. Since we are all good friends, we will always be with each other, so it'll always be see you later, dear one.

shrapnel