-I think the early darkness here makes me want dinner way earlier than it's appropriate to make it. It's 4:30 here right now, pitch black, and has been for an hour. I've been hungry for dinner since about 3:30, and this is a reoccuring thing. I feel silly making dinner at 4:30, but maybe I should and have "fourthmeal" later. I do have a good amount of food to get rid of before Friday.

-It's snowed at home twice in the last week. It's consistently been about 50 degrees F here every day. There are still traces of the heart-breaking fake snow on the ground. IT BETTER SNOW WHEN I'M IN AMERICA, AND IT BETTER BE FRICKING FREEZING.

-I think it's nearly official that Dickinson will require me to finish the Humanities 310 course. This means I will have a doubly-overloaded schedule next semester. Dickinson would never allow me to do that on their campus, but for some reason they're making me do it here, even though they get their absurd amounts of money either way. I'm starting to seriously stress about next semester, and this one hasn't even ended yet.

-Half of the time, I think packing to go home for break will be a breeze, because all I really need are my clothes and DVDs and gifts. The other half of the time, I eye the size of my smaller suitcase and the amount of clothes/gifts in my closet and get a bit worried. We're going to have to see how this will go.

-The lead singer of Sigur Rós, Jónsi, is coming out with a solo album in March. Usually I'm not a huge fan of solo albums: There's always something obviously missing, and that something is the collaboration and variation that comes from working in a band. However, Jónsi's single is awesome:

And it's in English! It's strange to hear him speak English. I think he takes the principles of Volenska into the lyrics here, though: some of the words don't really fit next to each other, and he doesn't enunciate at all towards the end. That's fine with me. I can't wait til March 22.