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has it been a long time or what? i guess i went through a bit of a dead spell there, or just got really busy. i was just rereading my posts and wanted to tell you with great excitement that nicky and i got a duplex for next semester! i have a sofa and a kitchen! i am so truly excited that i will get to cook this year and have a place to invite friends to. just as exciting as having my own space thought is feeling as if i’m in the quick of things again. i’ve slid back into that flow of thoughts i’ve talked about before. i am reading a book my future sister-in-law gave me for christmas (but i just now got it) called a woman after God’s own heart by elizabeth george, and there is a chapter called “weaving a tapestry of beauty which is in the homemaking section (i skipped over the husbands and kids section and i’ll go back, since i have a home but no husband or kids) and she talks about choosing what you want your home to be and working to make it like that. it seems pretty simple, but to me it’s like saying choose what you want the world to be like and start between your own two feet. my dear friend shawna is going to help me get cordatus floridus back on it’s feet this next semester and i am so excited to share this with all of my dear brothers and sisters. what i want my home to be like is a lot like a virginia woolf quote that is in the special features of “the hours” — “We were full of experiments and reforms…we were going to paint, to write…everything was going to be new. everything was going to be different. everything was on trial.” the bloomsbury group was a group of artists, writers, philosophers and so on, who basically spent time in their homes together sharing and trying new ideas. i am so excited to make my home. i can’t wait.