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*points to icon* Hee! I love spockette! We're sharing Marina & Gwendal icons, since we're the only two people on LJ who have them listed as an interest. (Speaking of which, I'm about to make a page for the A/P icons I made a while back, so you can take as many of those as you want, Kim.)

I get to play elf today. Hee. There's a free beginning archery lesson at the Environmental Center (about a fifteen-minute walk away from campus) this afternoon, and Chandra, Ellen and I are going. Of course, the only other times I've tried archery have been at RenFairs, and I was a miserable failure, but hey, so what if I have no upper body strength? It's all good.

And with a jarring change of subject, we go to last night, and how I ended up climbing trees at almost two in the morning. So us Pezzers were watching The Dead Poets' Society in Whitney's room, which is at the complete opposite end of campus from Mather and Caples (Chandra and Ellen's dorm). Since Pez is rather a lot like the DPS, except that we tend to read our own work and don't smoke or look at pinups, we thought it should be the Pez mascot movie, or that we should at least watch it. If Centre and Kenyon had a love-child, it would look like Welton. (Which I thought was "Helton" for the entire first half of the movie, and I was like, hey, it's my name! But no.) The architecture, at least; not so much the draconic administration.

Anyway. You know the "barbaric yawp" scene? We decided to do our own yawping. In trees. (Away from dorms; no one who wasn't already awake would hear us.) Hey, it's from Whitman, Kenyon's chock-full of English majors and professors; it would fit. So first we climbed around in the upside-down tree and yawped. Then we attempted another tree near the church, but ended up having to lift each other up to barely hang on to a branch. And finally we tried this giant tree out in the middle of the church's front lawn. It has this huge branch that extends out several yards beyond the rest of the tree. It's held up by a wire, which we decided was secretly providing cable TV for the moss and lichen growing on the branch. Anyway, it looks pretty low from far away, but it's not so low when you get there. Everyone else managed to get up there in various ways, but I'm not a big tree-climber, so I stayed on the ground. Oh, and somewhere alogn the way, Ellen and Chandra stepped in a giant mudfield and ended up looking like hobbits with muddy feet. Ellen completely lost her sandals in the mud. Ooops. ;)

I think "mellow" is one of my favorite mood choices. It's like the non-apathetic-and-cynical version of "meh."

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By the way, replyage to e-mails and comments will happen soon. Really. Promise.

I am Legolas!

Went to the archery thing. It was almost exclusively little kids, with the exception of me, Chandra, Ellen, a freshperson named Amanda (who is very nice and gave us a ride back from the BFEC in her car), and two other guys. But it was fun--the five targets were a little odd, though. There was a deer with his butt facing you, a ram with his butt facing you, a cougar, a turkey whose paint was almost completely rubbed off, and a very small bear. But hey, we got to shoot thirty times at them, and I got the arrows into my target almost every shot, so yay. And we got to wear really cool arm guards and finger guards. (Yes, I admit that I am shallow and was just as into the gear as I was the actual archery.) I got pictures of everyone, and Ellen got pictures of me with my camera, so hopefully if I can snag some time alone with the scanner in the library, I'll scan them.

However, I have none of the grace that Legolas, whom I was imitating, possesses. I continued my love affair with the ground on the walk down to the environmental center, and scraped up the side of my right leg pretty bad 'cause I fell on the really tiny gravel at the edge of the road. Sigh. It looks nasty, and hurts somewhat, but it'll heal. Eventually. And probably without bandaids, which entails shorts for the next few days--good thing it's warm out.

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As spockette points out in her LJ, I have redeisgned the splash and index pages for my website with an actual ice-and-stars theme, and lots of quotations. Unfortunately, the mousover for my main image map will not work in any browser I try. Dammit. I'm working on it, and it may be slightly redone, but it will work. Yes. Soon.

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Am completely in love with October Project at the moment. "Return to Me" and "Something More Than This" are definitely my favorite songs. They could be read without the music and still be beautiful. It's a lot like some of my own poetry that I was writing in senior year, when I was on my find-new-and-interesting-ways-to-say things kick that Mr. Brown always encouraged.