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January 3
It's snowing! Vive la niege! (I know I've spent the past two months building up to Christmas School, and I really ought to give a decent account of that, but I'll do that tomorrow.) They were calling for some snow last night, but I didn't really believe it until I woke up and there were four inches on the ground. Now it's lunch time and there are five or six. Bridget called earlier to see if we could go sledding, so maybe that'll happen. (Mom was still asleep and tried to answer the radio when the phone started ringing. She says it didn't work well until she tried the other side of the bed and answered the telephone.) And I'm hoping to get together with Christine, too. It's a nice day, full of such nice possibilities. I have so many things I want to do – I make a list of what I’ve accomplished at the end of each season, but now think I’ll make a list of things I want to accomplish. I don't really like New Year's resolutions, since people mostly just seem to feel bad when they break them, but I've been wanting to make a list of things I want to do. Some of them I’d like to do soon, but others will take years, so I won’t put any time limit on them. I’ll put them into categories.
Things, in general:
Songs I want to learn:
Things I want to learn to do:
Movies I want to see:
Books I want to read:
Then there are things I'd like to do that I probably won’t: There, that was fun.
"As my life spills into yours, changing with the hours I'm on a Judy Collins kick. I was trying to find something to listen to this morning as I was working on chemistry homework, because it was interesting homework and I wanted something nice to listen to while I waited for the rest of the house to get up. I wanted Dixie Chicks, since my sister got me hooked on them over the break, but the CD was in her room and she was still asleep. So I went through my records and ended up with Wildflowers by Judy Collins, and I've been listening to it all day.
"They'll splash home to suppers in wallpapered kitchens
I love that song. It's just right.
Feeling: quite happy. I like snow days because I don't expect them and don't have anything planned for them, so I get to do little happy things I rarely get to do like listening to the radio. Wearing: a sweater and the purple-and-black striped socks I got for Christmas Song in my head: "Michael From Mountains" by Joni Mitchell Reading: The Awakening by Kate Chopin. It's for lit class, but I've actually been enjoying it. It's short, too. It's the first book we've read this year with a woman as a major character, unless you count that automaton in The Fountainhead. Link for today: YourDictionary.com It has dictionaries for more languages than I knew existed. You can also sign up to get a word of the day, which sends you the definition, usage, and complete etymology of an obscure word. I only read it for the etymology, really, but I suppose it'll be good for my vocabulary as well. Highlight of my day: doing my chem and listening to Wildflowers with the snow whirling down outside January 10 
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