Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love

Real quick update since it's after midnight on a rush school night and I'm falling asleep as I type. I'm back at school for recruitment things, so if i missed seeing you in Valencia, I'm sorry and I hope that we can visit soon. Come and visit me after the 27th if you are around. Rush school is a strange time. I feel like I'm living in a vortex where I don't really keep track of days or times. Like today, I had no idea that it was saturday until I talked to my dad on the phone tonight. I don't really talk to anyone either, not because I don't want to. I just don't have any free time. Brigitte called to ask if I wanted to go clubbing and images of me falling asleep on the dancefloor came to mind. I'm having fun being back and seeing everyone, though I wish I could live in my apartment. We're allowed to move in on the 17th so until then I'm homeless. Luckily, my suitemate from freshman year, Angie, is in RA training in one of the dorms and she's nice enough to let me crash in her room until I can go to my apartment. I can't believe she's an RA already, it feels like we were just moving into Parkside as freshmen. I hate this feeling of being unsettled and living out of a suitcase. I've pretty much taken over her room. Rush things usually run from 9am to 9pm each day and there's a lot involved. I'm not going to go into detail right now, but I'm very busy during the day and come home exhausted. I miss my multiple cups of really delicious coffee a day and caffeine in general because I could definitely use some. Today, I resorted to drinking the instant coffee at the house that had some coffee grinds floating in it and then i poured a shitload of that dry creamer on top. I've hit a new low which is probably a sign that I should never try any form of drugs because I'd be addicted in a heartbeat. I think my voice will be gone before the time actual rush starts in a week.

I'm looking forward to the time a few weeks into the semester when you get into the swing of your classes but you're not so burned out as you are at the end of the semester. I just noticed that I have to buy about $200 worth of books which is depressing. I know some people get charged in the $400 range, but $200 is still a lot to swallow for books that I probably will realize later that I never needed to purchase.

Our sorority president just announced that she got engaged last night! She had been with her boyfriend for a long time, but I can't imagine being a senior in college and being engaged. By the same time frame, that would be next year for me. But that's probably because I don't date very much. Personally I probably will get married on the older side, but I was so happy for her that I almost started crying and I think she'll be really happy.

I think there was something else I was going to say, but my blowup mattress bed is about a foot away and I'm going to roll off my chair and onto it now, so goodnight.