I'm back from Spring Break, which was incredibly good, if too short. It's partially my own fault: I stayed in Greensboro until late Saturday afternoon. Destination UNCG was actually a lot of fun; I talked to a fair amount of people, advertising the dorm and the experience, the social and academic aspects of the program, answering questions, and just hanging out with two of the guys from the dorm and the academic advisor.
Most of this week was spent relaxing at home, watching television and movies.
Arrested Development is an amazing show. In between episodes, I did some sleeping, though not nearly as much as I wanted. Also had a couple of doctor appointments that got taken care of. I got new glasses! Unfortunately the axis on the lenses was screwed up, so I don't have the new ones with me. Everything should get fixed this weekend, though, so I'm looking forward to the change.
Friday was hanging out with high school folks at Pullen before heading out with Leo and Natasha for a weekend in the mountains. Reading and Risk and walks.
I got back to Greensboro yesterday afternoon and saw some people before showering and trying to catch up/finish homework that had been neglected for a while. Mostly English and all other classes not Poli Sci.
By the looks of it, this week, even with only four days of classes, will be incredibly interesting. The Student Composers' Concert is tomorrow, and Wednesday I have a midterm, a presentation, and in the evening, one of the information sessions about the donor dinner.
Thursday there's nothing, so I'm going home once classes are over.
Labels: social happenings
Posted by heather at 10:11 AM
I'm in sociology at the moment, at turns ignoring and listening in on the teacher. There really isn't much to say there, other than that this is one of my two lame-classes this semester. The other has ended up being the atomic bomb class. They're not a lot of work so I'll keep them for the hours. I can't drop any more classes if I want to overload ever again.
I'm a little nauseous right now because a girl who smells... strongly just sat down next to me and I'm having trouble breathing. It's bad.
(Lecture: Power vs. Authority)
Just as a thing, I'd like to say sorry for not being around much over the past couple days. I've been doing Merit-y things and dorm things or been in class or in meetings. It was mostly Merit-y stuff, though.
The Merit-y stuff was fun, generally. Tuesday went a lot better than Monday night, and I think it had a lot to do with the prospectives I had. The one from Monday night is probably going to head into a sorority, not that it's a bad thing, but I think that would be a better fit for her than RC. The girl from Tuesday was a lot more relaxed and chill, especially with the group and was more outgoing. Like I said, it's all about fit, and I could definitely see her living here next year.
Tuesday during the day, though, was fun. Being on the interview panel was a cool shift in perspective, just to see what they were looking for last year when I was the one being interviewed. I always wondered how they judged how awesome someone was, and it really is a quantitative assessment of qualitative characteristics. The really interesting thing was that I could kind of guess what my scores were, based on the way the criteria are evaluated.
Comparing myself to the current finalists was kinda cool. For the people my panel interviewed, about half of them had higher test scores and GPAs than me, but all of them had considerably higher ranks. It's such a reinforcement of how different Enloe is from other high schools whenever things like that happen.
(Lecture: MKL, Jr., Ghandi, and Hitler had charismatic authority.)
For the past couple nights, I've been up really late. It's not a good idea to do so many nights in a row, especially since I've had to get up early both mornings. Not cool. And by early, I mean 7:30/8 in the morning. And going to bed at like, 3 or 4am. I took a nap yesterday to mitigate the damage a bit, and I might have time somewhere to take another one today.
On the upside, I have plans for the next couple nights, which will be fun. B-day stuff tonight, a small thing tomorrow for the end of the semester, ice cream on Friday, and then Porter's on Saturday with my family.
According to
The Scent of Desire I should have stopped smelling this girl by now, but because my nose is still burning inside, I know that I haven't. Plus, I'm still smelling the scent, and while it's not as bad as before, it's still highly irritating.
In other news, I'm waiting for
Dr. McNinja and
a softer world to update.
Labels: books, college, sleep trouble, social happenings, websites
Posted by heather at 9:39 AM
"And I guess this is as good a time as any to announce that I’m once again taking applications for a girlfriend. If you’re interested, please email your love resume to me any time in the next two weeks. Also, for bonus points, write a 32 word paragraph describing why you are, in fact, the woman of my dreams making sure to include the following words or phrases: musical road adventures, Amelie, Sigur Ros, cheesecake, dance parties, eskimo kisses, and Gobstoppers."
I found that on
a blog a couple minutes ago. I think it's a little pretentious and high-handed, but at the same time kind of a cool, quirky idea. And 32-words is a bit on the short side.
So, new meme: If you were to create an application for a boyfriend/girlfriend, what would be the words or phrases you'd want them to include? And how many words would you let them use?
Labels: memes, websites
Posted by heather at 4:36 PM
So I just finished my paper on sexual fantasies. It's one of the most interesting things I've written recently, and one of the things I'm the most happy with. There are a lot of contractions, but they helped with the pacing, which, for the most part, I feel like I got just right.
Tonight has been ridiculously good, much better than I thought it would be. Classes were the usual slog through today. I think every Wednesday will be like this from now until the semester ends. It's kind of disappointing, but at the same time, I don't know what I'd actually end up changing about it to make things better.
But yeah, the good parts:
The Carolina Film and Video Festival started today, and some of the films were amazing. I was surprised at the quality of what was presented, and it was a very pleasant thing. My favorites were probably
Bolt,
Some Apologies, and
One Hundred Thousand Words. Nest of Spiders was beautiful to look at and the best film, but creepy as shit, so I don't want to see it again. The worst part of tonight's screening was that I gave myself a paper-cut with the program. Going with dorm-people was fun because I got to make comments during the movie and no one made fun of me for falling asleep during the really long one (
China). It was slow and didn't have a lot of action, plus the nap kept me awake through the rest of the films, which I would have been sad about not seeing. I don't consider not seeing the middle of
China to be a great loss.
Choir was awesome tonight. I didn't remember the words, but I picked up on the melodies after a few notes. As a group, we sound freaking awesome, and I'm excited for the coffeehouse in a couple weeks. Afterwards, we went outside and sang some more while trying to watch the lunar eclipse through the gaps in the cloud cover. Every now and then we'd hear other people screaming when the moon came into view, too, so it was a highly encouraging, if cold, endeavor.
Post-choir, I stole someone's
Arrested Development Season 1 DVDs. It was good and I was a ninja. I am so cool.
Also, did my Econ homework, and finished with an hour to spare. It's my worst grade so far, which means that my average on homework is a 97. I'm not terribly worried?
Note:
Shaun of the Dead is an amazing movie.
Also note: It reminded me of how I associate certain movies with certain people. Which I had a conversation with Leo about earlier this evening. It's put me in a weird nostalgic/contemplative mood.
Anyways, yes, the paper is awesome. Thank you to the people who helped me regain words this evening so I could write it. My dorm is freaking amazing.
Posted by heather at 2:31 AM
I am so tired, and yet not at all ready to go to sleep. This is bad since I have class in roughly 6.5 hours, and a long day ahead. Class from 9:30am to 3:15pm and then a bunch of meetings and two papers to write for Thursday. I have a shit ton of things to do and for the most part, don't really want to do anything. It's kind of like senior year all over, except this time I actually am living at school.
I am distracted by more than a few things, some large and some small, but generally, I'm trying to not be as distracted as I was last semester. There's a balance to this whole life thing, and I think I'm getting closer to it. Every now and then, something comes up to throw me off, and that was last week. Last week was too many huge things all at once, this week seems to be a bunch of small things hurtled towards my head.
Updating in here might start being more frequent, or at the very least, less consistently being void of new stuff. As a balance, entries will probably be a lot shorter than what I'm used to. The plan for now is 100-300 words a week, topics as randomly chosen as usual. We'll see how this works out, if at all. It probably will, because I'm back to complaining about a lack of outlets again. That typically prompts more updates and writing, mostly because it's more lax and less time-consuming than photography.
Lastly, there is a bag of blueberry muffins sitting on my desk. I can smell the baked goodness through the plastic. I now crave pastry. And will satiate that blueberry-need. And then go to bed, finally.
Labels: AM ramblings, muffins, writing
Posted by heather at 2:50 AM
