Relief

Great news. Friday morning my CAS number came in an email. Now that I think of it, I haven't thanked them for sending it to me. I should do that. I wrote a little note to the NY Visa Team and sent it to them the same day. They should get it by Tuesday at the latest and I'll be home free for my Visa. Thank God!!! It's such a relief.

Now I'm just running around buying last minute items that I want to take. Today I bought a pair of Sperry's, Topsider Bluefish, from Journey's Kidz. http://www.journeys.com/kidz/product.aspx?id=69966&c=1261&m=SM They're so cute and really comfortable. I have a fake pair that I wore a lot last year, they're brown and pink. I'm worried about what to wear with them though. If I don't wear socks, I know my feet will sweat really badly, because they do with my other boatshoes. But wearing them with socks looks so lame. We'll see how things go in London.

I'm also trying to find a rain coat, but it's not working so well. My dream one is beige, three quarter length, has big buttons, a collar, a belt, and a hood. I haven't been able to find one like that yet. The closest I've found is from H&M, it's so cute http://www.hm.com/us/#/startns/. Also everything is so expensive! The H&M one is $34.95, but today in Macy's I tried on one that was $99.

Yesterday my dad bought me a plane ticket to go to and from school so I can visit everyone after Labor Day. My friends moved in to their awesome new apartments yesterday and they were calling and texting me all night. I miss them a lot! I can't wait to go visit, and I'm really excited to live in the apartments in the spring.

I came across part of The Wasteland the other day and I started reading it again. I wrote a whole paper about the word "violet" in the poem, but I can't even remember which passage I used. Right now I really like this part from A Game of Chess: 

Footsteps shuffled on the stair.
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
  'My nerves are bad to-night.  Yes, bad.  Stay with me.
'Speak to me.  Why do you never speak.  Speak.
  'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking.  Think.'
  I think we are in rats' alley 115
Where the dead men lost their bones.
  'What it that noise?'

 The wind under the door. 118
'What is that noise now?  What is the wind doing?'
 Nothing again nothing. 
   'Do
'You know nothing?  Do you see nothing?  Do you remember
'Nothing?'
 I remember.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'

MB