Summertime Sadness

Actually, that title really has nothing to do with this post, I was just thinking of summer-y things and I thought of the Lana Del Ray song, so there ya have it.

I'm listening to Ed Sheeran right now.

I love his voice, and I love how his songs are all stories. In Joel's words, who would've thought that a song about a drug-addicted prostitute could be beautiful? But it is. And Give Me Love... ever since I watched the music video, this song gives me goosebumps. I feel like part of my love for it is just the raw beauty of Ed Sheeran's music, and the other part is that I feel like one of the greatest human longings is love. And even though in the song, and in most of life, people tend to look in the wrong places for this love, it's still something everyone connects to and understands.

I have listened to music obsessively lately. Spotify has become my most used app. Ben Howard, Jack Johnson, The Piano Guys, Lewis Watson, James Conner, and, obviously, Ed Sheeran, have been singing/playing in my ear constantly.

The learning bug came back today.

I don't know how or why, but I suddenly want to know a lot more than I do. This feeling kinda comes and goes, but it's been gone since like March.

And now I suddenly want to know what's going on in the world, and I want to learn about history, and God, and science (See, I like knowing stuff, I don't like being forced to know stuff. Huge difference), and I just want to know stuff.

So I'll probably be reading and/or watching Crash Course videos for the next week.

Adios.

P.S. Lol I fail at taking pictures.

P.P.S. Oakley is now huge. I need to take a picture of him, but he is no longer the tiny, helpless puppy he was.

Photo A Day?

We'll see if it happens...
Here's one from yesterday, and maybe I'll post one for today, later.

Last night was a perfect summer-y night. We had a good-bye party for Jahn, a German/Asian foreign exchange student. I say German/Asian, because he's from Germany... but he's Chinese.

See?

Lol, I just noticed my teacher in the background. Oops.

Anyway, the party was super fun. Bonfire, s'mores, a hammock, a water balloon fight, stars, deep talks with the thespians...

It was good.

I'll miss Jahn. He gave me book recommendations that I LOVED, so he obviously won a place in my heart. ;D Plus he's hilarious, although incredibly stubborn. We had a three hour argument over whether articles (a, an, and the) were adjectives or not (they are).

And I'm really not exaggerating about the three hour part.

Oh Sweet Freedom

I survived Chemistry. Hallelujah.
And now I'm going to read. Adios, amigos.