This is us loving Nicole the night of Oktoberfest. She's the fifth member of Da Quad (with her, we're the Penthouse). Me keeling, Kate above me, Michelle with her head back, Nicole getting love, and Kim taking the picture. Great days. Father Charlie said mass today. I'm so glad. I don't know why MoJo didn't, but maybe it's because he just announced he's retiring as president of the university. It's all right, though, because I loooooooooove Fr. Charlie. My roommates took a collective nap today. Kim always does on Sundays before she works, and the other two just fell like flies. I don't know--I just can't sleep for long when I know it's light outside. It just feels like I'm wasting the day. There's so much to do and so much to see that I don't want to waste any of my daylight hours sleeping. But then again, the only thing I do all day is stay in my room and study. Sometimes I wish I were home where there's space to run and breathe clean air and see the stars at night. Places where I can be alone and think about things and talk to myself. And dream about the future. I can't do that here because I'm always so busy and there's always people here or expected to be here--there's always something I should be doing. I just want to go outside and have it cool and dry and sunny, so that I can lay in the smell-good grass and fall asleep with my face to the sun, thinking about what my life will be like, what I want my life to be like. I'm an outdoors person trapped. But I'm not really and outdoors person, I just love God's created nature. And I'm restless.