emily and sumanth at screen gems studio

em and i on a wilmington beach

long sleeves, here i come

the day after tomorrow, matt and i are heading to wilmington, north carolina for a one tree hill marathon. and i do mean marathon. sumanth, emily, matt and i will be watching 22 episodes of one tree hill season 3 in 1 weekend. it's quite a task, i know, but we're ready. we're willing. and we're able.
we'll take breaks of course...to tour the studio where the show is produced, and we might venture out a few other times. but this will be a focused weekend...we're not leaving until the season is over!

so for one of our classes we have a weekly conference call (monday night 7.30-9.00) with the rest of the class and the professor. imagine matt and i sitting on the couch, both wearing headsets (the 'call' is over the computer) now, i can't even describe to you how awkward these calls are! so many people start talking at the same time, and then there's very long stretches of silence. the worst is when the prof. singles me out and i have to scramble for an answer...every part of my body starts sweating. and the worst part is that the sound for these 'calls' is so bad that every other word goes out. so not only do i sound frantic, but it sounds like i have a speech impediment as well! it is so embarrassing! i am so glad that's over for another week, and only 8 to go....

good day

today i woke up in a flurry because my mom was driving from ocala for a visit, and i realized the toilet seats were disgusting and there was dirty pizza pans in the sink, the list goes on.

when she got here we had pumpkin spice coffee then went out to lunch for my favorite soup in the world: tomato basil at jason's deli. it is perfect.

it was a quick visit, so after my mom left, matt and i went out to buy 2 bistro chairs for the porch. i'm dying to get outside without dying from the heat! getting so excited to go to cooler weather in wilmington next weekend.

tonight we cleaned out our storage places to make room for the rest of our stuff we're moving down in october. its been so long since i've seen some of this stuff, i hope i recognize it! haha.

mmm. what else? youth was awesome last night, we had the kids write down dreams God has given them for their lives - really cool to read over. we've got some amazing people in this group.

watching gilmore girls season 6 and trying to catch up before season 7 premeire. i've got 5 days, and i feel up to the task, so we'll see!