vegetating...

i'd almost forgotten what it's like to sit around with your friends, cook, eat, and vegetate. i suppose i'm really referring to that thing we call "relaxing." fortunately i cut my thumb in studio much less seriously than tim cut his hand, and it's almost all better (translation: i can almost chop things normally). i am currently sitting in the kitchen with allie, alice, luis, jessica, carrie, austin, and v. luis is making a replica of his coatrack in miniature, using popsicle sticks. we're in the middle of cleaning up from dinner - luis' carnitas and salsa, alice's strawberry salad, some corn with shallots, and some of the zucchini bread that alice made for her grandmother. we had tiny grape juice juiceboxes with dinner, as well as water that had frozen on top despite being on the bottom shelf of the drinks fridge; and before the zucchini bread we had a round of popsicles. now we are planning to make cookies and/or bread pudding (with nai's stale bread that has been on the back table for two or three days), then watch a movie. this is the sort of thing we always tried to do on saturdays during term, but never really managed to do more than once or twice because people inevitably got busy - it really makes you miss freshman year and all the free time we used to have.