it is beautiful outside today! i sat outside for a few hours and got burned - sweet. i can't remember if i've already blogged all this today. hmmm. i am getting old. my bad if this is a double. my roommates emily and caitlin and i went on this gorgeous two hour walk over to virgina and the jefferson memorial and back to campus . . very nice. but i have odd style tanlines on my back, thanks to my hair and a tag that would not stay down. yee haw. then we had an AMAZING dinner - much thanks to em and mulli.

on a sep note - it looks as if we have had another student death at gw, 5th in 5 months. somehow a freshman guy fell off his 4th floor balcony in hova. as a former hova resident i find it very disturbing . . . i remember living there the CFs used to tell us all the time to keep our sliding doors locked because they didn't want anyone falling or jumping off. we all thought it was funny then, not so much now. it's very odd how fleeting life is. i could go off on one of those "life is short, don't take a day for granted" rants. and i do believe that. and so the lesson i take from this is that i should not ignore people who have been important to me. that if i don't e-mail them soon there may be reasons out of my control preventing me from e-mailing them and so i should be the bigger person and do it. while this may seem like a shallow thing to take away from the loss of a life, i think that each person needs to take what they can, and this is the thing that needs fixing in my life for me to be satisfied. everything else in my life is settled. so take from that what you can. there is too much death in this world.