dear world,

today i didn't hear my alarm clock. this happens quite often. this makes me wish that my alarm clock was a very large man named bruce with hairy arms. every morning he would shout my name and i would wake up. and then i would get to hit him on the head.

alas, i only have my phone and my ikea analog clock.

normally this isn't too big of a deal. today wasn't normally. i get a call at 9:49 a.m. from nicole — editor at the daily as well as group member for publication class — asking where i am for our 9:30 a.m. class in which we had a presentation.

SHIT! (excuse the language)

i jumped out of bed, threw on the first thing i found, heard kate moving around and asked if she could drive me to school — she's awesome — as i was peeing on the toilet, putting my hair in an impromptu ponytail. we raced out the door and flew down 17th (safely) in the black ford focus. she pulls into the communications building parking lot and i open the door before the car comes to a complete stop. i race up the steps, taking them two at a time. i rush to the daily where we're having our presentations. i slide in — probably not as stealth as i thought i was being — and asked nicole if they got a chance to print out our project i had e-mailed to them last night. they hadn't. so i ran downstairs to meet up with bjorn — our other group member — in the print center. with some minor difficulties and $13.83 later, we had our project. we both ran back upstairs and i mounted our papers just in time for them to go up on the board. 

phew. 

we presented our redesign of the issaquah press to the class. the editor of the press was there as well. she liked our design and was really excited about it. which made me excited about it.

i love newspapers. i think i'm going to try and get a job designing newspapers in montana on my way to law school. 

today was an up day. almost too much of an up day. but i stank bad all day, so maybe that made up for it? that'll teach me to not shower in the morning because i can't hear alarm clocks apparently. 

looking forward to camping in hope this weekend. way excited. 

no longer pitting out,

colleen