day light savings messes with the lighting so much

Talking to Terri inspired me to go outside and get some natural lighting and air. After studying for the past three hours in a Carpenter Wells study room, it's a nice relief.
I felt like I had so much to say, and now that I'm here, I can't really think of anything.

One of my close friends from high school told me that she is getting married. I found out by her calling and asking me if Catholics let non catholics get married in their chapels. I was like "are you getting married?" And she said yes. She's planning the wedding in July. Holy freaking crap. I have told various people this throughout the day, and no one really seems that surprised. My mom freaked out for awhile, but everyone else said that they had friends who were already married.
July is just so close, and I didn't even know they were engaged. July. Freaking July. I suppose this was bound to happen sooner or later. I mean we are all going to start graduating soon (next year...man) and after that people will probably start getting married. I guess I always thought it would be Kimber and Steffen first. Curious.
And I guess the idea of marriage seems so far off for me that it took me by surprise to have someone be so ready for it now. not that I don't want to spend the rest of my life with Glen. It's just that marriage would ground me, and I don't want to be grounded right now. I'm going to have to start looking for grad schools pretty soon, and the chances of Glen and I finding a college that has a good Computer Science and African studies department isn't great. We'll be lucky if we find one in the same area. And if not, we'll deal. We've agreed that we don't want our relationship to come before our education. Basically, we don't want to settle for an okay college.
Then there is travel. I want to go to Africa. For a long time.
But we all have different paths. Last year at around this time, I wanted to be engaged and married after college. Now it's looking like marriage is several years off. Things change.
And we are all at different points in our lives.

The sun is out! I used to like gray cloudy days, but now not so much. I've been obsessed with light. It's so freaking pretty.
I had a structure for this post. Oh well.
Last week Terri and I were at my aunt's house getting ready to eat pasta. Now Glen and I are getting ready to eat dinner.

Tolkien has taught me that everything happens for a reason. Our lives exist in cycles, and it is easier to go with them than try to oppose them. There are several times in the story when one character does something because he feels that the his actions are part of a larger force. That's why no one kills Gollum. Precious.
I really like that idea, and want to use it in my own writing. It's also helped my life. I'm not sure about this summer right now, how I will make it back for this friend's wedding, grad school, playing oboe, learning spanish, etc, but I feel there is a greater purpose for everything we do, and though we may not ever realize it, nothing is ever done in waste.