It's Been A While...

As of today I am finished with finals. Boy am I happy about that, let me tell you... It's been a long--enjoyable--term, and it's ending just at the right time. There's nothing like a good long Christmas break.

Christmas break. That has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? There's nothing (and when I say nothing I almost mean it) compared to the Christmas season. Something about all of the lights and cheerful singing, the hot cocoa, sledding, decorating and eating icicles guarantees a nice, big, dorky, Ellie grin. :D Jesus knew what he was doing when he was born in the winter. Haha. That's not to say He wouldn't have known what he was doing if He had been born in the summer...

I'd like to bring up a nice random subject. Mostly because I feel splendidly random at the moment. My head is spinning with little thoughts and quirky ideas that should definitely not find their way out of my head, or they'll wreak havoc like no bodies business. Anyway, meet one of my most loyal friends: Madam Library

Picture this: You step up the solid concrete steps, pull open the door, and are sucked inside by a warm musty air. Inside everything is still and quiet; peaceful. A ceiling stretches with dome-like pride revealing room after room lined with shelves and weighted with thousands of books. Speckled throughout the green carpeted area, are people--they appear short when up next to the rising towers of books. Through the still air you hear a small whisper. At first it seems to be a fluttering of wings. You lean your ear into the sound and look for it's source. And then you remember. The pages are speaking; they're being flipped through, turned, flopped, passed by. A giggle punctures the silence, and though the librarian looks stern at it's source, you give a half smile. How can you not? This place makes you feel warm and secure. Running your hand over title after title you choose a classic. Settling down on a worn couch you begin to read; letting yourself sink into the words; finding your feet not on a rough carpet, but on a stone floor in the middle of a castle, or a wooden plank, wavering over a furious sea.