*692 - no one is the only one

Remember the last time it was spring? It tried to creep up on us but we noticed every fuzzy green leaf unfurling, every pink flower bud poking its head out at us.

I realize that this year, spring has kind of crept up on me and I haven't been noticing, really. Suddenly, there are full-bloomed purple pansies perched by the road. Yellow tulips. The trees outside have started budding. And since when did the grass decide to turn green again?

Spring is rather ambiguous this year, though. Dried out grey muck next to thriving green leaves. Snow (in April!) one day and 50 degree weather the next. Well, that's Ithaca.

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Rather burned out. Yesterday saw me sprawled across a Statler couch with Chae (development project) and Jenny (service ops project) on either side of me, Inshi (HR) on the phone, on the verge of tears over the sheer amount of work I had to get done in the next 5 hours, 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, 3 weeks, lifetime. And I'm generally pretty chill about deadlines and studying. Understandably, the friends were rather surprised.

Ate monstrously sized onion rings and so many Reeses' Pieces that I almost threw up over my stupid floor plans and HR notes. Headed home to work on an 18-page HR paper till 3 am. Staggered out to the bathroom when I was done and found Jon staggering back home from school. Oh, Hotelies.

Was immensely thankful for friends like Inshi who called me up periodically to check on me. At times like those, in times like these, I just think "uh huh, best girl friends >>> boys". What will I do without her next year?? Boys come and go way too fast (or maybe I push them out way too fast) but whatever it is, your good gal pals are the ones who stick by you without motive, without expectation, without complication.