there was no joy, it's just a line i crossed
i ran away today. but i came back.
lauren has new glasses:
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but i push myself up through the dirt and shake my petals free
. . . i'm resolved to being born and so resigned to bravery.
so. let's see. i've been less delinquent than usual about writing; it's only been about 15 days since i last blogged, instead of two months. =) school has continued to be boring, despite the busyness, time-wise. will post my schedule eventually.
college dems is going well, with only the minor difficulties brought on by my being a freak. (obviously there's more to it than just freakishness, but i don't think this is the appropriate forum to discuss my deep and intricate psychological mumblings. that's at least book-length, if not several-volume series length.)
anyway.
i was doing some work on the page -- totally redoing it, actually -- but i am tired of my inescapable amateurity (??) so i may just take it all down. i don't know.
i had a geology midterm the other day and i did well. that is to say, including the three free extra credit points, i got 100%. yay me. i'm good at trivia, and this is an EXTREMELY trivial class. i have another midterm tomorrow in
linguistics, but the class so far has pretty much been review for me. it's called "linguistic principles and second language acquisition," and is intended for non-majors, so we have so far learned about phonetics, morphology, grammar, and syntax. all of which i have been studying for the past 3 years. but it's ok. review is always good for me. especially since i never actually learn anything anyway. and um . . . i have a french film class in which we are watching the strangest movies ever. right now we are watching something called "perceval le gallois" which seems to be an experimental art thing made while on lots of hard drugs in 1978. the sets are like bad elementary school play backdrops. it's awful. but amusing, in a sort of masochistic way. we also watched "lancelot du lac," the most emotionless portrayal of the lancelot-guenivere (guenièvre!) relationship in the world. the most emotionless relationship anywhere ever, for that matter. even including my own past ones.
i am still reading
the feminine mystique, which, despite the fact that it is taking me so long to finish, is really fabulous and i recommend it to everyone. i'm also haphazardly reading
the art of happiness by
the dalai lama, which is also quite good. today (inspired by all the weird arthurian legend going on in my french class and desiring what i consider to be the
real version, the way it
should be) i requested
the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley from the library. it has to come on orbis or the person who has it out past its due date has to bring it back. or both.
robin and shannon and i went to see a band called
be good tanyas. they are a girl bluegrass band from canadia. they were fabulous. it was at sam bond's garage, where they serve the beer in mason jars just like we do here at home, and they have veggie and vegan and organic food. it was pleasing. they were really cool. also this past weekend i saw
dar in portland!! yay! it was a great show. i am going to marry dar. she's awesome. the quote of the day comes from her. sometimes she makes me cry, and sometimes she makes me think that i can be good and cool and smart and creative too, i just have to stop obscuring my own vision of myself with all my issues. and then i cry. so i guess mostly she makes me cry. but anyway, she's awesome.
word of the month:
absquatulate: 1. to die. 2. to argue. 3. to go squat somewhere else.
nicely making way
i am in the computer lab at the EMU right now waiting for a
college dems exec board meeting to start. somehow i have managed to be super busy already even though it is only the third week of school. my schedule doesn't help any -- i have lots of half-hour breaks between classes and work and things, which means it's not enough time to run errands or have meetings or do anything worthwhile; also i have class until 5:20 every day of the week except friday, so i feel like i'm out all day. 'cos i basically am.
i haven't updated this page (or even blogged) in a while because of still-limited internet access and also because of work on the
dems page. i have most of a whole new site prepared for this page, but it's at home, and that computer doesn't have internet yet . . . someday i will either hook that computer up or bring it all here and upload it. oh, and also, when i do have internet access, my new priority is to read
wil wheaton's blog. v. entertaining.
what else? i had lunch at "mcminimum's" (as
karen calls it) a few weeks ago with
bill. school is going ok so far, though none of my classes are particularly interesting. fortunately ellie is in the most boring ones with me, so we sit in the back and try to be quiet when we goof off.
is time for my meeting now. more later. in a couple months, probably. =)
