10 P.M.: -13-

For those days you just want to stay in bed. Unfortunately, the constant ring of my roommates alarm is forcing me awake from my rather pleasant slumber. Even more unfortunate, it doesn't seem to be waking her up!

Outside there are overcast skies and it's just windy enough that you need a jacket to be comfortable. There are some places where cloudy skies are beautiful, however, the city looks pretty dismal when everything is gray.

I'm generally a morning person, but today I don't want to be. Projects to work on, books to read and possibly a trip to the gym.

But hey, everything could be worse.

I spent the night at Sam's apartment and we ate all the food left over from my mom's photo shoot: spinach salads with cranberries, rosemary, walnuts, gorgonzola cheese and Italian dressing, thin sliced focaccia bread and grilled asparagus, eggplant and zucchini. We topped the meal off with an assortment of dark chocolates, one of which was lavender, (changed my life) different sodas, (Sam had organic rootbeer, and black cherry. I had pomegranate ginger ale and lemon lime) and finally keenwah crackers. It is actually spelled quinoa but people do no know how to pronounce it, so the brand is spelled the way it sounds. We watched Water for Elephants, listened to great music, (I played her all the covers from post 11) and we became completely entranced by the amazing smell of the fresh rainfall coming through her window. Sounds cheesy but it's so nice.