This post was supposed to be about autumn...

'Sup, ladies.

LOOK AT THIS FRAKKING BEAR. LOOK HOW EAGER HE IS TO SAY HELLO. SEE HOW CHEERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL HE IS. I FRAKKING LOVE BEARS.

    I'm a little overtired right now.
    But not too tired to not reply to all of your posts from last week. Which I might have only just read ten minutes ago.

*cries silently*

    Mercy: I love you and your taste in music. That Ed Sheeran song was one I have previously never heard and am now officially addicted to.
    Also, best of luck with Much Ado auditions today!

(in which you are Benedick and Grace, Rose and I are Claudio, Don Pedro and Leonato

    Rose: please write a science textbook directed towards people who are not science-oriented. You would never have to leave the house again because you would make so much money.

I'M SCREAMING

Sorry, kids. This post just got very punny and borderline PG-13.

    Grace: I completely get your individual love for the four seasons, especially the cool brilliance of October. I was actually going to write this entire post about fall, but then I got distracted by Ed Sheeran...HAVE YOU SEEN THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR PHOTOGRAPH? BECAUSE IT MADE ME CRY.

   A lot of things have been making me cry lately, actually. Here's a list:

1. Every Ed Sheeran song ever.

2. Talking about sharing hope and empathy with our patients in my Foundations of Nursing lecture.

3. Shamefully realizing that I am Cady Heron and my life is exactly like the plot of Mean Girls.

4. Apologizing for my horrible misdeeds and hoping for forgiveness from the people that I hurt.

5. Anxiety which eats up my appetite when people are slow to forgive.

6. The love and open arms of my very best friends and the grace I have been shown when I least deserve it.

7. The sweet love of Christ Jesus, which still wraps me up like an accepting blanket even when I have done so much wrong and wandered so far off the narrow road. 

    Ugh. When did I turn into Mercy?

    Anyway, prayers and positive vibes would be appreciated. I'm a little lost at sea in this moment.

    Mercy, I'll hear from you tomorrow.

--Laura :)