We bought artichokes at Fresh Fields, cause they were less than a dollar a piece and they looked like good artichokes. They will be eaten when I come home on Sunday or Monday. Yum. Also, I got the to make me a sandwich, which was quite delightful, even though they no longer make sandwiches on ciabatta rolls and they also no longer have sprouts. But the cheddar was/is (I was only able to eat half of it at lunch, and so it is making a lovely dinner as well) delightfully sharp and actually cheddary, unlike the "cheddar" they serve us in the dining hall, or even the stuff we'd put on sandwiches at Isaac's. I got avocaldos and lettuce and cucumbers with a balsamic vinegrette instead of mayo or mustard, along with the cheese, all on a piece of french bread. It's quite tasty. To drink I had a a pear soda, which was also lovely. I like pears, and pear juice/soda is generally guite good. It's not the sort of soda like coke that is sweet sweet sweet, but it's the sort of soda that tastes like bubbly juice. I wanted to try both or either of these "French lemonade" things they had that were either lemon ginger or caramel, but they were quite expensive. They looked yummy. The sort of thing that would be nice and look appropriate at a picnic with the right sorts of cheeses and breads, in a park. Maybe to have at a Shakespeare in the Park thing. The lady a the cheese counter was really cool. I was curious obut this goat/sheep's milk Greek cheese they were selling, and so she told me about it, how it was a bit like feta, only creamier, and she thought it was very tasty. I laughed, and asked her if she actually would tell me if I didn't think a cheese was any good, and she said that yes, she does tell customers on a regular basis if a cheese is bad. So I got a small chunk of this Greek cheese, and I also wound up getting a chunk of Australian cheddar, that she was in the process of slicing and wrapping up, so she gave me a taste of it, and it was really yummy. This is cheese for home. I got to do my first bits of shopping for home, for home with a fully functional kitchen (although our blender is broken, but we do have a working food prcessesor). It is the idea of going home, of sleeping in my bed and eating good food and playing with my dog that is making this week bearable.
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08:07:18 PM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
When we ran errands this afternoon, we went to the yarn store, cause my sister knits these rather impressive little beaded bags that use teensy tiny yarn that they sell there in all sorts of colours, but she hasn't been able to find it anywhere else. So in we went. And I was wondering around, drooling over lovely lovely yarns and patterns (I found a book of patterns full of hats some that were cute and adorable and some there were actually quite nice). And this woman who works there was all happy and excited that I'd come in, since I haven't been in in ages. And she talked and talked, and it was all very cool. I like that store. I wish I had money to buy yarn to make cool things with. Ah, well. At least with me not having the money to buy yarn to make cool things with, it means that I won't be starting yet another new project. I have three unfinished projects, but a good deal of them just went back to PA with my sister.
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07:34:06 PM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
And the free piles in Pinkney begin...
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07:21:55 PM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
It occurs to me, now that I am in my room alone, that I may in fact be slightly more than just tipsy.
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06:00:51 PM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
I had two cranberry juices with vodkas and a gin and tonic. Martin, they don't actually taste like Christmas trees, they just smell like it. And the lime really helped it taste good. The vodka was, remarkably, good vodka, the stuff in a pretty bottle with trees behind it. This was all at the Junior-Senior-Tutor cocktail party. I came home with Cassie when she decided it was time for her to leave, cause at that point there was no one really to talk to left. I have been feeling particularly...odd? upset?...about this year ending, and the seniors graduating. It's always sad when they go away, but now this means that we're going to be seniors. It also means that if I'd had my shit together enough to write all three essays when I ought to have, I'd be graduating this year. Isn't that a scary thought? It scares me.
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05:48:59 PM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
I just shipped large stuff home with my sister. I sent home most of my clothes and just about all of my books, and my CD cases. My room looks empty. And suddenly much messier, cause things that fell under and behind my chest are now exposed, cause my chest is now on its way to PA.
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03:51:16 PM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
Collegium was long, and largely tedious. Matt Ting's typewriter bit was delightful, and Mike Esterheld was wonderful, as is only to be expected. There were good singers, and good instruments, but there were also dull instruments and people playing the piano and messing up. I thought we sang rather well, but that is me. The contra dance afterwards was delightfully fun. My sister is here, so I slept on the floor, which was interesting. I put a folded up blanket under me, for some softness, and everytime I moved off of it, or it moved under me, I woke up. Eventually I traded blankets with my sister, cause hers was softer than the one I was using, so I could sort of sleep with that half under me, and that was okay. And now we are going to go shopping, and then we are going to pack the car up with large things like my trunk and suitcases and possibly chests of drawers and my printer which has little to no black ink and say b'bye...
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11:02:57 AM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
Could Storytellers perhaps be done in the Great Hall to better fasciliate Mike Esterheld's performance tomorrow evening?
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01:58:24 AM,Wednesday 8 May 2002
Collegium is tonight. My sister is coming down, to see it, and to go to the contra dance afterwards and she's going to spend the night and take home large objects, such as my trunk and possibly a chest of drawers or two, so that when they come to get me sometime later this week, we will be able to get what stuff I have back into the car. I just need to find a Febbie to take my fridge for the summer. I've been packing and listening to the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy this afternoon.
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02:58:03 PM,Tuesday 7 May 2002
Christina had some of that awesome sort of aloe stuff with a pain killer built in that's blue and makes you feel all wonderful. I was in her room, saw it, said "You have aloe, wow..." And she said something like, "yeah, it's for sunburns." And then it occured ot her that I have a sunburn, so she put some on my very burnt and hurting shoulders, and now I feel much much better.
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11:25:44 PM,Sunday 5 May 2002
Melee's human chess game was entirely amusing. Their current weapons, however, are too colourful to be respectable looking.
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07:27:28 PM,Sunday 5 May 2002
Katherine and Tracy, the Bibles and Aristotle's are out on my card, but I think you guys have them. Call-in is tomorrow, so the sooner you get them back to me, the happier I will be.
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03:45:29 PM,Sunday 5 May 2002
We went into the birkestock store yesterday while we waited for our table at Friday's. I wanted to see if they still make the shoe I've been wearing since sometime in high school, cause it's extraordinarly comfortable and cute, and mine are getting really worn out. (Although, thanks to their cork saver stuff, the cork is doing remarkably well.) I found my shoe at the store, and I was wearing the same shoes on my feet, so I lay a new one on the floor next to my old one. It was impressive. I wanted to take a picture.
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12:40:18 PM,Sunday 5 May 2002
I got utterly sunburnt today. I was stupid, and even though of sunscreen, and then though, nah, I can pull this off without sunscreen.
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01:09:11 AM,Sunday 5 May 2002
Reality sold tee-shirts which had the same print as their regular tee-shirts, but they got Tom Divine to tie-dye them and sold them for an extra five dollars. They're lovely, so I got one.
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01:28:54 AM,Saturday 4 May 2002
Last year, throughout Reality Weekend, I would put up an away message that I also used while playing the Sims, which quoted Baron Munchausen, saying "Your reality, sir, is nothing but lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say I have no grasp of it whatsoever." Somehow, though, being a Junior and being in the Real Show and having offered to help wake people up tomorrow and to help Tracy run games, this somehow does not seem nearly so appropriate.
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04:14:18 PM,Friday 3 May 2002
And we're done...
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04:04:43 PM,Friday 3 May 2002
Mr. Barbera brought us donuts this morning. We then proceeded to do two experiments, one of which was with Cassie's lab class, and we decided we felt sorry for them, and that our lab actually was better, or at least our lab assistant was better. Then at the end of class we all applauded Andrew for being a good lab assistant.
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10:39:24 AM,Friday 3 May 2002
The only reason I was able to get out of bed when my alarm clock went off was the thought that this is the last hell day of the year.
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08:42:02 AM,Friday 3 May 2002
My poor spell-check never knows how to deal with Greek names.
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12:32:27 AM,Friday 3 May 2002