back at home for the first time since i left for class saturday morning. sapna was astonished: 'where have you been?' heh heh. that's RIGHT. ... oh lord, did i just call this place 'home'? wow.

the events that kept me away aren't that exciting though they did keep me happy. andrea's adorable. after planning day after day to spend more time together i'm glad we finally made that happen. sometimes she laughs at my jokes and sometimes she makes the perfect deadpan responses. she's also supernice, like the other girls i've been with recently, but i hesitate to judge based on this semester's co�motion experience: initially i was turned off by how eye-rollingly sensitive and careful everyone seemed. i now have a better sense of what they truly are (MONSTERS) and in the spirit of contrition for being too hasty then, i am waiting to form concrete opinions now.

we hung out and told more boystories in drea's room. heather and estelle joined us and heather, a dyedredhead from georgia, did drea's makeup. around 12:30 we decided to head over to the party, even paid the cover. but dark ... smoky ... pulsing .... yeah, it just wasn't what any of us was in the mood for. so sam drea and i cycled out again purty quick, opting instead to put on pajamas, hang out in drea's communal kitchen drinking hot chocolate and eating cereal, discussing the danish political situation.
to wit, what is people's incentive to work? does the population, as i remember the charrows told me months ago, grow lazy when they aren't pushed by the desire to earn as much money as possible? socialism of this sort slices off the extremes on both ends of the spectrum. it wouldn't work in america partly because i think the danish feel better taking care of their own than americans would feel taking care of millions of differently looking people to whom they're not related and with whom they don't share history. drea, who volunteers in a hospital back in green bay, sees firsthand what happens to folks who can't afford health care and she's staunchly for this system, whatever the drawbacks.

finally slept, with drea's purple frog as a pillow. made it by ten for a walking history-through-paintings tour of fredericksburg castle and a folk high skool which served us an excellent hot lunch. i hadn't signed up to go but as there was room i shrugged and boarded. in the castle, gorgeous and freezing of course, kong grabbed me and told me to pose with a realredhead named tony. he took our picture. then tony and i introduced ourselves. i had four subsequent conversations with him ('why doesn't your name match your complexion?') in which he told me rambling, creative, impossible stories about his life. at any rate it was entertaining.