i leave for arizona a week from tomorrow, and i am so torn.  these past few weeks have been wonderful; and although i am excited to see some ASU people, i don't believe seeing them will make up for the sadness i will feel when i start giving good-byes to people and places i hold so dear.  

enough of that. 

 counting the days will only make them go faster.

on another note, abby's back from mexico!  she was supposed to fly in to lincoln last wednesday, and i drove from axtell to lincoln that night to surprise her.  i got to the airport, waited, waited...no abby.  i didn't know her flight number because the lincoln airport only has four gates so i was sure i couldn't miss her.  but after awhile i thought she must have slipped by and called home to get the flight number.  mom answers and tells me abby called an hour and a half ago and said that her flight'd been cancelled--that they were stuck in chicago.   anyone who disses cell phones...let me tell you, it sucks not having one.  i got back in my car and drove right back.  boo united airlines!  she made it home though, and thanks to crappy pool weather, i was able to go to lincoln and spend all weekend with her.

i gave blood this morning.  it was great to see familiar mindy faces, but the lady who took my blood kind of made me mad.  when she was prepping my arm, she gave me this big speech on sun damage and how my skin was "very tough."  bah.  people are obsessed with commenting on how dark i am.  probably every other day someone says something to the effect of, "anne, you're such a mexican."  today at the bloodmobile it was, "i saw your feet, and i thought we had a black girl here with us today."  dummys.

mom gets back from arizona tomorrow night.   yay!  time with dad's been good, but he's always so tired and busy.  think twice before loving a farmer--it quite often sucks.  so does res life.  i don't want to live in manzy.  don't ask.