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November 29, 2002 on 11:35 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

This morning I woke up around 10a, did some reading. Then we went out to eat at Quizno’s, which is this divine sub place over near the Super K, I think. Then we picked out a Christmas tree. Then I did some math. Then we had dinner.

We were going to go to a starparty, but it was sort-of raining. So, we went over to Dennis Weaver and then attempted to play croquet. But, it was raining hard by the time we all met. So, we headed over to Coffee XChange and brought a Risk boardgame with us. Then we rounded up a good game of Risk. It was especially exciting towards the end, when it was just Freddie, me, and Joey (I think Joey would had won though). The people working there kept looking at our board, and then they were going to close at 11p, but said if we’d be another 15 minutes, they wanted to watch us. However, we said no, it would be more than that, and it was time we went home anyway, so we left it at that.

The people there were Sean, Davie, Freddie, Stephanie, Leeann, me, Rob, Alyssa, Joey, Trevor, Andy, Brian, and Jessie, though she and Sean left early. I also ran into an old Palantir bud, Lauren, and an old math bud, Cassandra, who were both back in Tucson, fresh from ASU! They’re having a great time, it’s wonderful to hear it, too! They were a bit high because ASU beat UA tonight. Sundevils crack me up.

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November 28, 2002 on 10:38 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

Thanksgiving was so much fun! I got up at 8 today; helped Mom cook a bit. I also cleaned, waited for company to come. Angela and Brian and Mark and Michelle came, that was jolly. We feasted and had a good meal, of course. Then the kids (Joey, Jimmy, Mark, Michelle, me) went in Jimmy’s room to watch Army of Darkness. Then we had pumpkin pie. Then we played Risk. Jimmy and I became allies and were trying to take over the world. We had all of Asia and Australia, plus half of North America, by the time everyone left. Though I think Joey would had won had we continued since he had a REALLY tough handle on Africa and Europe; I mean like an average of 4 armies per country deal.

Time to sleep!

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November 27, 2002 on 11:37 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

It feels so weird to be back home.

No, really. I mean, I usually don’t think about things like where home is, because I always considered it Tucson. But now that I’m here, it’s like, “WHERE’S KELLY???? WHERE’S MY DORM???? WHERE ARE THE GARDENS AND WHERE’S MY GANG????”

Not that being home is a bad thing. I mean, I came in my room today, took one look, and started crying because this room is more or less the same place I left it, except there’s a rug and Mom’s stuff is on the desk. Last time I left this room, I was crying nonstop about having to leave it. Now I’m here again.

Originally while blogging, I was planning to use the old PC I had, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it—I had to use my iBook. It just—wouldn’t feel right to be using the PC.

My room smells like my dog, it’s funny.

Earlier this morning, I went to Core but Professor Roberts was not there, so I went over to Aisenberg’s section next door. What a great guy. I didn’t realize Katie contributed so much to discussions, but she’s really good!!! She’s got a bright mind that she actually utilizes during class.

Straight over to math for me!!! Professor Chaderjian had candy for all of us who went to math today (I love her!!).

Then I had lunch.

Then I started packing. It took me a while ’cause I wasn’t sure what to take and what to leave behind, but I think I got it all just fine. I had about two hours to kill, so I biked over to the Village and deposited a few bank checks and stopped at the toy store to buy Joey something. Then I headed over to the Scripps store, got Mom and Dad some stuff. For Jimmy I burned him a copy of the FFX soundtrack, except I only got two discs burned, so he’s holding it against me now since he only got “half his gift” (I do have all the mp3’s imported right now, it’s just a matter of me getting them on to disc).

So, then Camille got back to class and Sarra drove Alanna, Camille, and I to to the airport (Camille concluded Sarra was a goddess for making three trips to Ontario today—we were her third trip).

Camille helped me get through security. She was Person Number 10 who got searched on the first check, we had a good laugh because she said she’s ALWAYS Person Number 10.

So, we thought it would take three hours to get through security, but guess what, it only took five minutes. So, we had about 2.5 hours to kill. We got a smoothie and “people-watched,” guessing where people were traveling to and where they were from.

Then I got on the airplane. Anna (girl in my Writing 50 class) was sitting next to me, though she napped the entire time. By the way, Camille and I counted about 20 students from Claremont at Ontario.

That was cool.

I got the window seat :P

L.A. at night is cool to watch. It has a lot of blue lights. When we flew over Las Vegas, NV, that was amazing. It really is the city of lights; you need a pair of sunglasses to look at it directly!!! Las Vegas is neat (I had a layover there), though I simply did Core reading there. I listened to two boys from Tucson though—just to listen to two people talk about Tucson. I don’t think they were realizing that I was listening to them.

So, then we took off again. I was Person Number 10 who had to be searched for the second check (you know how they check you before you board and all?). They really liked me because I cooperated so well; they thought I was very well-behaved for putting up with them. I guess I see the logic in airport security, so what’s the point in cursing them out the way some people were?

Besides, it’s not like I had anything to hide.

So, while flying to Tucson, I got in a huge conversation with the people I was sitting next to. One was a Texan and one was a native to Las Vegas (he was really cool—this old Hispanic guy visiting his fiance, and this little boy sitting across the aisle was like, “hey, mister!! You look like you work for the mafia!!! Do you?” lol he did but that’s why I thought he was cool).

I got the window seat :P

So, then I came out from flying in the airplane (”wheeeeeeee!!!!” Camille thought I was so cute for being all excited about flying in an airplane).

Now I’m here, and I’ve said hi to my dog, who won’t leave my side. Parents are lovely, brothers are great. I wish I could be more like Camille though. She’s the only genuine traveler I know. She sees no reason to grow attached to a place, because to her the grass is always greener somewhere else. So, she never thinks about things like her mountains or her stars. She says it’s the people she misses, not the things. Camille can find home in where she is, not at one particular place. She’s a wanderer.

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November 26, 2002 on 8:24 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

Ok…Tuesdays are officially “Quiz Day” on Slave to the Pen:

What Element Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

This was a good quiz for its graphics, though lacking in the air element, I believe.

Oh well. Water is cool. Cool like me, right?

In Core we got a lecture on Foucalt. It was a good lecture because at the beginning Professor Walker played us a George Carlin monologue. I LOVE GEORGE CARLIN!!!

In case you didn’t know. My love for Carlin dates back to those Palantir days, when James and Poor Guy would play his stuff. So yes, the monologue we got was the “Fine and Dandy” one, where he takes on language. So great!!!

At lunch they had a Thanksgiving meal that looked good, but the eggplant parmesian on the vegetarian table looked even better ~_~ It was delicious!!!

Then I headed over to Art 141. Well, actually we meeted over at Pomona’s Museum of Art to look at Denise Marika’s display. She is simply amazing!!! Here’s a link if you’re interested: click here.

In fact, I was going to go check out one of her peices that’s up in Smith after blogging…maybe I’ll see if Katie or Sarra want to go.

Then I headed over to Writing 50, we were all quite giddy with Thanksgiving Break being so soon, so Retseck was letting us be silly. 15 girls in one room is VERY silly, yes.

Then Mandy and I treated Steffany out to dinner (she’s the lady who interviewed us). I love Steffany!!! She told us that in admissions, she mentioned off-handishly she was having dinner with the two of us, and the admissions people actually knew who we were and thought we were great kids! Lol it’s like Mandy said: the two of us try to lie low, but we’re kind of the impossible duo! Hehe! Anyway, that was great!! We went to Walter’s, this restaurant in the Village, and it was sooo good, yum! I had vegetarian pasta.

Well, now I think I’ll go to check out Marika’s display, drop off my books from the library, and then go over to Mandy and Kelly’s study break!

TOMORROW I GO HOME! w00t. Uh, yeah, if I don’t blog tomorrow, it’s ’cause tomorrow’s kind of a big travel day for me, so okay?

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November 25, 2002 on 11:18 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

Well, last night around midnight I went over to outside Camille and Katie’s room and decorated the door with roses and a big sign made on the computers in the lab saying, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!!” Hopefully it was a good one.

It was kind of fun though, because at first I looked at the sign I made and shook my head. It just wasn’t—pretty—enough. So, while in my pajamas and while barefoot, I went over to the rose garden and picked some roses and put them on her door, too.

It was fun, actually. In my pajamas, barefoot, walking all the way across campus. I ran into a couple making out in the rose garden, they thought I was nuts!

Then I went to bed.

Then I woke up! I had some weird dream that Ken (my old boss) said he couldn’t hire me because the economy was down, so he had me volunteer for Loew’s (deranged). Even weirder is the fact that I remembered that dream.

Then I headed over to math, which was a bit confuzzling, but whatever, I can figure it out because it’s all good, right?

After math, I had lunch. Then I headed over to CP&R. Gretchen had Myers-Briggs Type Indicator results (I’m too lazy to explain it, so here’s a link: click here) for me. Before giving me the test, she sat me down and talked to me for about an hour before we figured out, for sure I was what the test says. Here’s an abstract of what I tested:

“INTPs exhibit the greatest precision in thought and language of all types: they tend to see the distinctions and inconsistencies in throught and language instanteneously. The one word which captures the unique style of INTPs is architect—the architect of ideas and systems as well as the architect of edifices. This type is found in only 1 percent of the population and therefore is not encountered as frequently as the other types.”

Basically, the test and Gretchen concluded I think like a scientist. If you read the link I sent you, it explains it all towards the bottom what each type is. I thought it explained a lot about me though, especially the bit about me being not too common because call me deranged, but sometimes I do think that I’m just thinking too far outside the box.

And, apparently I am.

So, then I headed over to do some work, read some Core (we’re reading Foucalt—I probably mispelled that, but whatever). Then I talked to the family for awhile (”Remember: if you’re smiling, then you ain’t screwing!!!”), and then we all surprised Katie by taking her to 21 Choices. Try to imagine 9 people piling in Becca’s 5-seater car. We looked like a clown car. The funniest part had to be on the way back, when Becca found a rap station and pretended to be “bumping” with 8 hos in the car!! Lol, Becca.

When we got back, Katie then opened her presents—we all gave her such lovely gifts!! She got some stuff from her family as well, including, to Camille’s delight, an iron.

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November 24, 2002 on 10:53 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

Updated THE BOOK

Last night we wandered over to two parties—Trop Toll and the one at Lynde—but both were a bit dull, so we headed over to Mudd Hole to play some pool (that seems to be a trend this weekend). Then everyone went to bed except Emily and I, who played FFIX until two in the morning (that also seems to be a trend this weekend). I imagine we were very stupid to do that because we were the two staying up the latest and getting up the earliest.

So, next morning I went to church with Emily. Then brunch. At brunch I made myself a waffle, and someone gave me the bright idea of putting chocolate chips in the batter, so I did that. It had to be the most delicious thing I’ve ever had! It even beat the omlettes.

Then Emily (different Emily from last night/at church) and I went to the Browsing Room and I worked on my research paper while Emily worked on Core III.

Okay, so piss bitchfuck of the day: Emily and I were sitting there, studying, when this girl walks in around 1p. She looks around, pretends not to notice us, then she does and she’s like, “Oh!”

“Can we help you?”

“Ummm, yeah, I’m going to be conducting a psych study in here at 3p, is it okay?”

“Uh…do we have to move?”

“Please?”

“How many people will be here?”

“Just one, but…I’ve told ALL of them to meet in here, and it’s just so much easier in here, and I’ve never had to ask anyone to leave but…”

“…But, you’re telling us to leave.”

“Yes.”

“Have you reserved the Browsing Room for this time?”

“No…”

“And, do you realize you could meet in say, one of the two kitchens? The courtyard? The Rec Room? The Living Room? The third floor living room? A Browsing Room in one of the OTHER dorms? Or—how about your OWN room–” (Emily put in) “–don’t you own a single downstairs?”

“Yes, but…can’t I just have it in here?”

At that point, I had to leave to grab my laundry, and Emily came along.

“We didn’t exactly sort that out, did we?” Emily asked.

“Nope, but, we’ll figure it out when she comes back at three…”

At that point I had to go to a psych study myself (I was helping Megan make a film of people doing certain actions, and she was going to ask students what people were doing or what’s different in each picture, etc.—let me point out now she told me exactly what was going on), and then I came back only to find the same girl caught in the act of MOVING THE TABLES and MOVING OUR STUFF around so she could work on rearranging the furniture.

The time was 2:25, not 3p.

“What are you doing? Where’s Emily?” I asked.

The girl ignored me.

I assumed Emily was at the Motley since she said she was going to, and then the girl left saying, “As soon as she gets here in a few minutes, I’m going to start the study.”

“Why can’t you go to any of the places we mentioned?”

“Because…I’m conducting a psych study! And I need THIS ROOM!”

“Why?”

“Because…I need this atmosphere?”

“What’s the study on?”

“Uh, well, yeah, I can’t tell you that! It’s confidential.”

And, uh, yeah, where did I just come back from?

Then she just left.

I’m like, whatever, I’ll just keep working until then. Then she comes back in, with her “study”—a girl who I believe lives right down the hall from me, but I’m not sure. Then she more or less ignores me as I keep working. She wasn’t kicking me out, but I knew if I stayed, that would be like a MAJOR breach in psych from what I’ve been told. So, when Emily returned, we left and went to the kitchen because at that point we figured it wasn’t worth arguing about.

People. Suck.

So, I’m almost done with my research paper! w00t. Special thanks to Trevor and his mom for helping me with one part!

While in the kitchen, Emily and I decided we were hungry, so we got the gang to order Thai food for dinner! Mmmmm. Sooo delicious. I kept some in the fridge upstairs…that’ll be my lunch for the next few days!

Then I exercised, showered, and now am here. I need to finish my research paper tonight due to a personal deadline, so night all!

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November 23, 2002 on 7:17 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

bleh. No more homework.

Last night was fun in its own, unplanned way. First, Katie, Mandy and I wandered. Then Mandy headed back. Then Katie and I wandered some more.

“Dammit, Katie, it’s Friday night. SOMETHING should be going on.”

“Nope…”

“All right. Let’s go find Becca and make her entertain us….”

So, we went over to Becca’s room, and there she and Alanna were putting make-up on a boy (Alanna and Colin were going to the Queer-Straight Prom at the Motley and were both dressing as the opposite sex). So, Katie and I helped Becca and Alanna by putting a skirt, a tank top, jewelry, and yes, make-up, on Colin so he could dress drag. He looked funny enough, but I helped add the final touch: I loaned him my strapless bra. Then we stuffed him with Alanna’s pantyhose and he had some nice boobs going.

I still haven’t gotten my bra back yet though…

Then Katie, Becca, and I ended up wandering. We went over to Camille’s door: “Heyyyy, Camille. We’re bored. Entertain us…”

“Sorry guys, I’m going to bed…”

Shit.

Then we went over to Harvey Mudd, to East. Nope. That party was so dead we almost died upon entering.

Shit.

Then we headed over to Grant’s suite.

“Heyyyy, Grant. We’re bored. Entertain us.”

“Sorry guys, nothing going on here tonight…”

Shit.

So, we wandered over to Mudd Hole. There we ran into Leia and her gang.

“Heyyyy Leia. We’re bored. Entertain us.”

“Ummm well, we’re playing pool…”

Awesome.

So, we had fun playing pool. It was quite amusing because we were all so terrible. For example, Epf missed the balls completely not once, but twice when he tried to break, and then the third time he broke but ended up scratching! Oh, lord, we were dying. At that point Epf tossed his stick on the table and made like he was leaving.

It was a loooong game; 12 people were there and we had about six or seven rounds before finishing, too! We decided the pool table had a demon from hell in it. So, Alex and I exorcised it.

And after we did, it was my turn, and I ended up sinking the 8 ball.

Then we came back. Becca and Katie went to bed, but I couldn’t sleep, so I played FFIX in the Rec Room. I love how I’m the only one who knows that tv is in color.

Or, should I say, I’m the only one who can make the tv work in color.

Then I woke up the next morning, close to 10ish. “Oh no, bitch, you’re going back to bed….”

Nope.

So, I went to brunch with the gang (usually I sleep through that), which was fun, I guess.

Then I came back and worked on my research paper, till dinner. Now I’m back. I’m on page seven right now, so I think I’ll work on it some more and then go to Trop Toll.

love ya guys!

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November 23, 2002 on 4:57 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

Jenn, I know I shouldn’t be laughing, but I found this hilarious when I read it: I am better than your kids

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November 22, 2002 on 7:46 pm | In Blogger | No Comments

Yay for busyness.

Business? No, that’s a major. They don’t have business majors here in Claremont, but that is a major, right?

And of course there’s that Muggle institution, business. So, no, I guess I don’t mean business but busyness~

I woke up this morning with a dull throb in my head, which dissappeared as I actually began to wake up. I was happy to see it looks like I’m not sick after all, just a stupid headache! ~_~

Then Camille and I went to office hours to get help from Chaderjian on one math problem. Funny, we both got the same part wrong without even realizing it!!! But, she helped us out just fine.

Then we had math. We’re learning about u-substitution!!! She’s trying to keep the next week easy for Thanksgiving, isn’t that great?

Then Emily and I had lunch, that was jolly.

Then Emily (different Emily—remember, you know you’re a Scrippsie if your name is Emily, Allison, or Katie) and I had a study party in the Browsing Room! w00t. We got a lot done, it was fabulous.

I did take a break for a Motley run. Yay for caffe lattes.

Then we went to dinner. Eeek the dining hall was busy. They cater from a sushi bar on Friday nights, and people from the other colleges are starting to discover our secret! Nooooooo!!!!

Well, I’m not sure what is in store for tonight, but it should be exciting. Or dull. Who knows. It always works out though.