Butthead

I hate it when JK Rowling does this in her diary. I mean, it’s not fair…it’s kind of like (well, it is) when a friend walks up to you and says, “I have a big secret about what happened this weekend, but I can’t tell you.” And then you respond, “oh, now you have to tell me your secret if you’re going to start a sentence like that.” But I can’t do that with JKR because she’s not my friend; she’s a celebrity.

I wonder how Andy Warhol would depict her and Harry Potter. It would definitely be the kind of thing that would interest him; the idea of a children’s book as a big spectacle. I’m already envisioning silkscreened Harry Potter books reprinted 1,000 times; especially the fourth one since it has a nice green color scheme. Interesting thought project. Caitlin, want to collaberate on a photoshop project? :P

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Jacobsen [writing on board]: Theorem. One must take risks in love.
Kaz: I refuse to write that down.

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Jacobsen [pausing in the middle of lecture]: Kaz, how are you doing?
Kaz: I’ve been better.
Jacobsen: We missed you on Wednesday. You miss class ’cause of sickness?
Kaz: NO, it was just too early in the morning. You loose. [note: our class meets at 11a...]

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Cypress’s Away Message for Sunday Night: Hey there, Ms. Grumpy Gills. When thesis gets you down, you know what you’ve got do?
- No, I don’t want to know what you’ve got to do.
- *Sings* Just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing, writing, writing! What do we do? We write, write, write!
- Thesis, NO SINGING.
- *still singing* Hahahahahaho! I looooove to write so you can GRADuate…
- Now I’m stuck with that song! Now it’s in my head!

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Kevin: Does your thesis talk to you?
Talya: Yes.
Kevin: What does it say?
Talya: It says, “you should be working on me!”
Kevin:Does it tell you to burn things too?
Talya: Yes.
Kevin: Really? What does it tell you to burn?
Talya: Grasshoppers and fields of grass.

the amazing banana

If I was Popeye the Sailor Man I would so eat a banana over spinach.

Hell House

It’s not quite a haunted house, but the most disturbing part is that it is found in churches across the U.S. every Halloween. Hell House is a “real-life scenario” haunted house of extreme sin designed to “shake ‘em to wake ‘em” according to pastor Keenan Roberts, who founded the program during the 1970s. Apparently in 2001 George Ratcliffe directed a documentary about Hell House. In any event, I found this article about it in a glamour magazine (shut up) and was quite distrubed, so I scanned it in for your reading pleasure (?).

Hell House (option 1: pdf)
Hell House (option 2: two gif files–page 1 page 2)

Parent’s Weekend

It was Family Weekend this week at Scripps, so I privately enjoyed watching parents humiliate their first-year daughters all weekend long. Watching Family Weekend as a senior is like being in on some huge inside joke. Next to their 20-year-old daughters, parents are…well, old. And awkward. Many Scripps parents seem uptight, wheras others look happy but when talking about travelling come off as sounding like old yuppies (”oh, we’re just in the area after visiting Aunt Gladys in Palo Alto…”). Then there are some who are all-out happy to see their daughters, but their daughters are too busy or embarrassed to see them (this was always my case). The irony is that first-years and sophomores are the primary participants of Family Weekend, so they haven’t quite matured into the college routine thing either.

Parents in the dining hall are the best. They can’t figure out routine tasks like getting silverware, standing in line, finding a table, and so forth. They’re also kind of loud and dorky, and they like to talk to parents of students who never met each other. And I love the novelty of seeing adults and little kids in our dining halls who aren’t professors or Scripps staff. I don’t appreciate the extra time it takes to get food (but I do appreciate how Scripps puts up fancy tableclothes, serve good food, and try to make it look like their daughters get this every day).

Staci Buchwald once told the RAs that a lot of parents come to Scripps twice–to drop off their daughters at Scripps their freshman year, and to attend the graduation ceremony their senior year. Do parents belong at college in between those events? It seems like college is such a time for introspection and self-discovery, people from your past seem to get in the way, even on weekends such as these.

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Johari/Nohari Windows

Alright, so I decided to jump on the Johari/Nohari window bandwagon and prostrate my positive and negative personality traits before you, dear readers. Please follow the links below and also the instructions. If you have Johari/Nohari windows or choose to start a set after this, let me know and I’ll be happy to fill out your’s, too.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Talya [Johari window]
http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Talya [Nohari window]