...I left school with my car absolutely full to bursting, like a refugee trying to reach some friendly country.
Okay, so I didn't actually post from the new dorm. I was a little busy attending two to three choir functions a day and attempting to scrounge for (or bum) food, since our choir director did not remember to make sure our meal plans were extended after the dining hall closed. Mostly I swiped Krystal and Kristin's extra campus-cafe-dollars, since they, unlike me, hadn't used theirs earlier in the semester, but they were also feeding Tim and, in some cases, Tom (both in the same predicament). So I am really tired of sandwiches.
Am home until Monday, and then...Peru. Ack! This blog will be mighty dry until May the 30th, unless the internet access is as good in Pucallpa as they say.
::mass hug:: I love you all. I say this before every major trip, because I am always worried that the plane is going to crash (I'm mildly phobic of flying, and in this case, it takes three different planes to get there, three to get back, and on the way there, something like an eight-hour flight from Atlanta to Lima, oh my wide-eyed gracious...) or that I'll have some terrible thing befall me. I get morbid with these things. Like maybe if I mention them, they won't happen.
But I will have Tim and John to stick by, at least once I get to LaGuardia Airport, where we meet up for choir. They're the boys; it's their job to not be scared. ::giggles:: No, I am all for gender equality, but I am hoping they are a little less fearful than I am.
I will send everybody postcards who wants them, though. But let me know, and give me your address if I don't have it.
-Laurel
5.11.2004
"Made-for-TV movies are like drinking Pepsi One!" -While watching A Wrinkle in Time last night
Blogger has changed its user interface again, but I like it very much this time. No more lo-fi post-typing for me!
Anyway, yesterday was a pretty crazy day, and today's not much calmer, but I've been having fun. On Sunday my car kinda stopped starting up, so yesterday my parents came down. They brought the minivan (back seat removed) and took home the majority of my crap, and then we got my car to start somehow and brought it to this place that both sells and fixes cars (I think the people who run it are related to the pastor of the church I go to here), and we tried driving a couple other cars in the meantime ('cause come the summer, I really am getting a different car; the one I have isn't worth keeping, with all the things that go wrong on it) and got ice cream (peanut butter and jelly sundaes are cool!).
Turned out there was a problem with the electrical system, which none of my friends who're car-interested had guessed, and the people got it fixed and I drove it back to campus.
Went to dinner not long after, and in the middle of that, a downpour started and wiped out the power to the campus at large--and our town's only traffic light. The dining hall stopped serving while we were there; a couple friends of ours never got in.
After going downtown to gawk at the extinguished traffic light (which wasn't as cool as we hoped, but not bad), Tim and Chris and I hung out in Kristin's room and played Fluxx with Mike and, later, Krystal. Everyone was in there; Kristin was working on a paper, via laptop with battery pack.
At 7:45 the power came back on, and at eight we watched A Wrinkle in Time on The Wonderful World of Disney. I, as a major fan of the book, feel that the movie sucked in various ways, but that's because I'm a purist and got twitchy when they didn't give Meg glasses and made Mrs. Which try to get rid of the children initially. And, you know, when they created an IT representative and threw the book out the window for the entire sequence! The term "based on" gives me cold shivers. Look at the success of the A&E movies, like Pride and Prejudice! Isn't that enough to prove that movies with fidelity to their books succeed? Do they have to try to please everybody and end up pleasing nobody?
That's not to say that I wanted Tom Bombadil in LotR: Fellowship, but I'm naming that as a major exception, based mainly on the fact that he doesn't belong in the book, either. ::promptly gets beaten to an aching pulp by Tolkien mega-purists::
(ow)
But anydangway, I hung 'round with Kristin'n'Evelyn'n'Tim'n'Kate'n'Gabe after that, then ran back to my dorm in the rain, getting myself smacked in the lower eyelid with a small tree branch in the process, which created a small cut and a nice puffy part.
Yeah, so Tim and I're going out now. ::big smile:: As of early yesterday. I know I haven't said a whole lot about him, but I'm sure that's to come.
But right now I've got things to do so I can move into a different dorm tonight, as I'm being kicked out of this one. More from down-and-across-the-street when I get there.
-Laurel
Anyway, yesterday was a pretty crazy day, and today's not much calmer, but I've been having fun. On Sunday my car kinda stopped starting up, so yesterday my parents came down. They brought the minivan (back seat removed) and took home the majority of my crap, and then we got my car to start somehow and brought it to this place that both sells and fixes cars (I think the people who run it are related to the pastor of the church I go to here), and we tried driving a couple other cars in the meantime ('cause come the summer, I really am getting a different car; the one I have isn't worth keeping, with all the things that go wrong on it) and got ice cream (peanut butter and jelly sundaes are cool!).
Turned out there was a problem with the electrical system, which none of my friends who're car-interested had guessed, and the people got it fixed and I drove it back to campus.
Went to dinner not long after, and in the middle of that, a downpour started and wiped out the power to the campus at large--and our town's only traffic light. The dining hall stopped serving while we were there; a couple friends of ours never got in.
After going downtown to gawk at the extinguished traffic light (which wasn't as cool as we hoped, but not bad), Tim and Chris and I hung out in Kristin's room and played Fluxx with Mike and, later, Krystal. Everyone was in there; Kristin was working on a paper, via laptop with battery pack.
At 7:45 the power came back on, and at eight we watched A Wrinkle in Time on The Wonderful World of Disney. I, as a major fan of the book, feel that the movie sucked in various ways, but that's because I'm a purist and got twitchy when they didn't give Meg glasses and made Mrs. Which try to get rid of the children initially. And, you know, when they created an IT representative and threw the book out the window for the entire sequence! The term "based on" gives me cold shivers. Look at the success of the A&E movies, like Pride and Prejudice! Isn't that enough to prove that movies with fidelity to their books succeed? Do they have to try to please everybody and end up pleasing nobody?
That's not to say that I wanted Tom Bombadil in LotR: Fellowship, but I'm naming that as a major exception, based mainly on the fact that he doesn't belong in the book, either. ::promptly gets beaten to an aching pulp by Tolkien mega-purists::
(ow)
But anydangway, I hung 'round with Kristin'n'Evelyn'n'Tim'n'Kate'n'Gabe after that, then ran back to my dorm in the rain, getting myself smacked in the lower eyelid with a small tree branch in the process, which created a small cut and a nice puffy part.
Yeah, so Tim and I're going out now. ::big smile:: As of early yesterday. I know I haven't said a whole lot about him, but I'm sure that's to come.
But right now I've got things to do so I can move into a different dorm tonight, as I'm being kicked out of this one. More from down-and-across-the-street when I get there.
-Laurel
5.09.2004
Finals left: zero. Drawers cleaned out: one. Loads of laundry done: zero.
All assignments and finals are over :), Lily is gone :( .
Today I went to bed very early-slash-late, slept in very late, got up, had lunch, and spent about four hours hanging round with Erica from high school. Her older sister goes here, and since today was her senior art show, Erica was here.
We walked round looking at the other shows--there were so many--and eating lots of the lovely food everyone had for the passersby. Then I taught her to play Fluxx, and we played for about an hour. She won most of the beginning games, but by the end I'd made it about half-and-half.
Got dinner down at the coffee shop, 'cause I'd missed the dining hall hours (no real loss there, as the food's been especially sucky lately), and then went to a blues concert with Krystal (and, sort of, Kate'n'Evelyn'n'Gabe'n'Mike), a guy who used to be associate dean here. Parts of the concert bored me, but there were two definite highlights: a brilliant mishmash on acoustic guitar of the Batman theme and the oldie song "Wipeout", and a blues version of our school's alma mater (random enough to be hysterical).
Read old entries of this blog, and now am going to bed.
Has been a very nice day.
-Laurel
Today I went to bed very early-slash-late, slept in very late, got up, had lunch, and spent about four hours hanging round with Erica from high school. Her older sister goes here, and since today was her senior art show, Erica was here.
We walked round looking at the other shows--there were so many--and eating lots of the lovely food everyone had for the passersby. Then I taught her to play Fluxx, and we played for about an hour. She won most of the beginning games, but by the end I'd made it about half-and-half.
Got dinner down at the coffee shop, 'cause I'd missed the dining hall hours (no real loss there, as the food's been especially sucky lately), and then went to a blues concert with Krystal (and, sort of, Kate'n'Evelyn'n'Gabe'n'Mike), a guy who used to be associate dean here. Parts of the concert bored me, but there were two definite highlights: a brilliant mishmash on acoustic guitar of the Batman theme and the oldie song "Wipeout", and a blues version of our school's alma mater (random enough to be hysterical).
Read old entries of this blog, and now am going to bed.
Has been a very nice day.
-Laurel
5.07.2004
Well, that last entry was sort of disappointing.
Still working hard to finish stuff for the year. My finals are done, but there are still assignments. Acting got done today and handed in; honors I finished about an hour ago; Am-Lit, due tomorrow at noon, will be started around eight-thirty. Good thing it's only a two-page-or-so assignment.
I realized last night that I called the transcendentalist movement the Enlightenment on my Am-Lit final. I may hear from McDonough about that one.
In twelve hours I will be free from all school-related assignments. I should submit one final student journal, pay my phone bill, and go shorts-shopping. I should also write CB a thank-you note for the Peru money, because it is ten days to the trip and I was given the money in December.
I am a generally horrible person. ::blows raspberry at self::
Jodi leaves tomorrow and I am sad. :( I hung out with John today, though, and that was fun. Other than that, I mostly slept and worked.
I think I will sleep now, unless I'm doing more American Lit.
-Laurel
I realized last night that I called the transcendentalist movement the Enlightenment on my Am-Lit final. I may hear from McDonough about that one.
In twelve hours I will be free from all school-related assignments. I should submit one final student journal, pay my phone bill, and go shorts-shopping. I should also write CB a thank-you note for the Peru money, because it is ten days to the trip and I was given the money in December.
I am a generally horrible person. ::blows raspberry at self::
Jodi leaves tomorrow and I am sad. :( I hung out with John today, though, and that was fun. Other than that, I mostly slept and worked.
I think I will sleep now, unless I'm doing more American Lit.
-Laurel
5.01.2004
One good game deserves a copy...
Skeeving this from Megs's livejournal:
On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first ten songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.
Songs marked with ** have been correctly identified. :)
A couple of these are a little obscure, but mostly they're not too bad, so do your best. Here we go...
1. **"A flower for your vanity, a penny for your thoughts..." [Lily, over AIM]
2. "Despite the waning moon, despite the ebbing tide of how we think this world should be..."
3. **"Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees..." [Melly, via comment box]
4. **"They say 'eh' instead of 'what' or 'duh'!" [also Melly]
5. "One day you’ll meet a stranger, and all the noise is silenced in the room..."
6. "Of all the songs sung from the dawn of creation, some were meant to persist..."
7. "Can you still hear raging guns, ending dreams of precious ones?"
8. **"When your day is night alone, hold on, hold on..." [Erik, over AIM]
9. **"He's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain..." [Melissa R. via comment box, Lily over AIM]
10. **"I dream of rain, I dream of gardens in the desert sand..." [Melly, over AIM]
-Laurel
On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first ten songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.
Songs marked with ** have been correctly identified. :)
A couple of these are a little obscure, but mostly they're not too bad, so do your best. Here we go...
1. **"A flower for your vanity, a penny for your thoughts..." [Lily, over AIM]
2. "Despite the waning moon, despite the ebbing tide of how we think this world should be..."
3. **"Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees..." [Melly, via comment box]
4. **"They say 'eh' instead of 'what' or 'duh'!" [also Melly]
5. "One day you’ll meet a stranger, and all the noise is silenced in the room..."
6. "Of all the songs sung from the dawn of creation, some were meant to persist..."
7. "Can you still hear raging guns, ending dreams of precious ones?"
8. **"When your day is night alone, hold on, hold on..." [Erik, over AIM]
9. **"He's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain..." [Melissa R. via comment box, Lily over AIM]
10. **"I dream of rain, I dream of gardens in the desert sand..." [Melly, over AIM]
-Laurel