Current mood:	happy
Current music:	Fistful of Love, by Antony and the Johnsons

I haven't spent Senior Week in quite the same way that I'd intended, but it has been good. Last night I finally got around to sleeping outside. I took my blanket and settled down in the tall grass by the edge of the pond near my house. It felt so peaceful and therapeutic to fall asleep listening to the noisy cries of the mating bullfrogs, and even more of a joy to wake up early due to the rising sun and one particularly territorial red-winged blackbird who kept flying a few feet over my head while emitting piercing chirps every few minutes. I couldn't be resentful of it though, because I love the red-winged blackbirds for being so dapper and beautiful with their shiny black bodies and sprightly stripes of red and sometimes a tinge of yellow on their wings. I sat up and delightedly gazed at the pink, orange, yellow, white and purple flowers blooming around me and the birds fluttering around the pond. The red-winged blackbirds are so cute, and I am always endeared when I witness their ability to carefully perch at the top of a single stem of the swaying grass which grows out of the pond.

I really want to sleep outdoors more often. If I did, my Circadian rhythm wouldn't be messed up because it's so easy to wake up early and gradually as the light slowly pours in as opposed to being wrenched from sleep by some blaring jangly noise. One of the nicest things about my semester abroad last fall was that I couldn't figure out how to get the alarm clock purchased in Carrefour (Thailand's version of Walmart) to work and instead ended up just putting my bed by the window and leaving the shades up so that the sun would wake me up in time to take a shower and have breakfast before class every day. And this was even better.

Signing out now.