I suppose that the warm weather is influencing my mood but I am perfectly fine with this.
Today is a Monday and I wasn't expecting it to be any different from any other day but something today is. I woke up this morning from a really entrancing dream and I couldn't ignore my alarm clock well enough to get to the end. So I did get out of bed. I spent the first few 15 minutes of my day reading first Samuel and praying that I could enjoy whatever God had planned for me and also that I could learn something from him.
I wasted my time getting ready because I knew that I needed to go practice piano for my lesson today. I've been a very bad student and have not practiced at all in the past week... so I carefully arranged my backpack and debated for several extra minutes whether I wanted to truly wear flip flops. Finally I made it out into the practice room and there further angered myself. I tried to better understand a piece that is new to me and it is in a new book.
New books are my bane. I don't mind learning new music, I simply get exponentially more frustrated as each second that I play the book slowly starts to close. First by inches then by pages. I got so frustrated at the end of an hour that I bent the entire book harshly and ended up pulling a few pages halfway out of their binding because of my anger. I decided that was the time to quit playing piano.
I walked across campus taking my time and the weather just hit me. The grass curled over onto my feet (for I did choose to wear flip flops) and the wind brought that wonderful feeling of being weightless. It was like a day to remember had just started. A group of my friends were standing across campus making faces at me as I walked up and we all laughed and joked until we were late for class. So, we sauntered in late and then "casually" brought up the fact to the prof that we need to go outside for class. (A common argument) She said yes!
We spent the class making up half thought out answers and then we just discussed the hour away. One of my friends makes movie references every chance she gets and I wasn't disappointed today. The most common reference being from the not-too-old movie Tangled where she sings "just feel the grass, the dirt, the way I'd dreamed they'd be." We have plans for lunch and another class with the same prof, hopefully that class will be outside too!
I can't help but smile as the day just promises to get better and better. I have laughed often today and I have enjoyed the sun already more than the entire semester combined.
"Who could ask for anything more?"
