Brianne and I did the hair dye thing this evening, and watched Bridget Jones's Diary while we watched. Mmmm...Colin Firth-y goodness. I feel vaguely better than I did earlier this evening; I did go to seminar, and was frankly rather bored. Freud was weird, and our seminar was slow. Besides which, the only thing that has been able to draw me out of the Medraut and Goewin world that's been haunting me since the middle of the night on Saturday/Sunday was the bit in math where we tried to figure out how fast you would have to be travelling to reach Proxima Centauria in what seemed to you, on the ship, to be two weeks. (Unfortunately for us, we had neither the time apparent for the stationary system or the distance apparent for the ship. In the end we picked 3.5 years almost at random (Mr. Beall suggested 2.5, but then we pointed out that you would be travelling faster than the speed of light, and so we changed it to 3.5) and tried to get an answer. But no one had a real calculator; one guy used the calculator on his cell phone, and the rest of the math was done the old fashioned way. We figured that you would be going at something like 99% the speed of light. But yes. I like my new hair dye colour. Despite the fact that it was labelled "exotic" it's lacking that weird purple-y colour red dye often hsa when you first put it in, and is in the more subtle red shade that I much prefer.
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01:05:22 AM,Tuesday 22 April 2003
I hate skipping seminar, but I feel physically wretched.
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06:28:38 PM,Monday 21 April 2003
I find myself counting hours between painkillers, and the pills aren't lasting long enough. And now I feel vaguely sick to my stomach, I shouldn't eat dining hall melon.
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06:11:26 PM,Monday 21 April 2003
Does Andrew have a crush on Colin? This is what I've been wondering for a while now.
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04:01:52 PM,Monday 21 April 2003
The dining hall made this interesting biscotti with a lot of nuts in it. I snitched several pieces, cause it looked tasty, and now I seem unable to stop eating it.
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03:55:55 PM,Monday 21 April 2003
Tomorrow we return to poetry from O'Connor with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." And we realized today in math that the problem Mr. Beall gave us had too many variables.
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03:51:28 PM,Monday 21 April 2003
So I sat there and very carefully wrote down all the exceptions to the seminar reading, then looked at Freud and said "hey, none of this stuff is there!" So I went back and looked at the list again, only to realize that I'd written down the exceptions to the Adam Smith the Junior are reading.
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11:15:22 AM,Monday 21 April 2003
We should all concentrate really hard on sunny Saturday thoughts, okay?
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12:26:18 AM,Monday 21 April 2003
I like Orlando Bloom with dark hair. And even the stupid goatee looks good on him. The goatee is just not right for the time period.
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12:25:01 AM,Monday 21 April 2003
Today I threw half a dozen plates and made all the pieces for a tea pot, which I will put together later. I made a cream pitcher as well. Then Cassie and Brianne showed up as I was about to start down the sugar bowl route and said "hey, we're going to watch The Importance of Being Earnest would you like to join us? Now, don't make a sugar bowl." And so off I went. And the stupid DVD was broken.
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12:01:30 AM,Monday 21 April 2003
In the spirit of Easter, everyone should go read the bit of American Gods where they are in San Francisco. The whole priceless interactions are too long to put here.
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11:59:54 PM,Sunday 20 April 2003
I liked Telemakos. I would've liked him merely because of his name, which, for whatever reason, I had confused and thought he was named for Hector's son (I do know better than this). But he quoted Homer for Goewin, as though she were Athena and he were his namesake, and he charmed me. And he might fix his father, and so I liked him.
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06:22:49 PM,Sunday 20 April 2003
So, this was discussed briefly at lunch yesterday. Why do we have an Easter rabbit? I have some vague memory of reading about Eostre having a rabbit who used to be a bird, but why did that move into Christianity?
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01:32:40 PM,Sunday 20 April 2003
The other night (Friday) while we sat there watching Angel, the one in the first season where Cordy is impregnated by a demon. me: "What was that last name they gave? Are they masquerading as Mr. And Mrs. Penguin?" We come up with a new name for them to have given the doctors. me: "Where did they come up with that last name?" Doug: "I think it's Wesley's last name." me: "I thought he was Wesley Dodds." Doug: "No, no that was the original Sandman." me: "Right! Right! The one in yellow, right?" Doug: "Yes."
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12:12:00 PM,Sunday 20 April 2003
I finished my book. It sits now, on my bookshelf, next to The Winter Prince, both of my lovely hardbacks about the fascinating white haired tortured Medraut and his fascinating sister Goewin sitting between my War and Peace and a Dover Thrift with the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution and other such interesting pieces. I don't know what I was expecting in A Coalition of Lions; I don't think I was expecting what I just read, but what I read was lovely. (I spluttered a lot, wailed internally that I read "Fire," first years ago when I purchased the paperback, and then again over Christmas or Spring Break, and knew what had happened to Lleu. I was, perhaps, waiting for them to find out about him, for Medraut to speak, for the dragon bracelets to come up.) I always did like Goewin, certainly more than I liked her twin.
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03:24:09 AM,Sunday 20 April 2003
And there was this stand at the mall, right, where they sold hand held massaging things that were shaped like animals. Some of them vibrated. The salesman reminded me of everything I hated about being a tourist in Istanbul. I wanted the one that was shaped like a bee, it was adorable, but it was also $25, which I didn't feel like spending, which I said, so he said he'd sell it for $20, even, but I didn't feel like that either. I wound up sort of blushing and running away, then ranting to Brianne about middle easter salesmen, and the way I still have this tendancy to look the other way when I pass the store on Maryland Ave that sells all the Persian carpets.
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12:13:21 AM,Sunday 20 April 2003
So we went to the mall, and I got hairdye and some Easter candy and mascara (because while I almost never wear makeup, mascara is possibly my favourite sort of makeup, although I like lipstick a lot too). And then we wandered over to Borders, where (eventually) I picked up my book and it makes me so extraordinarly happy. First, however, I wandered up to the music section, and found that a new Dan Bern CD, and stood there and stared at it and stared at it, and listened to it with those listening things they have sometimes, and was all distressed, because I wanted it, because I really like Dan Bern, and I thought it sounded good, but it was $17, which I was already spending on a book, and the book is way more important to me than the CD was. It was very distressing, but I eventually chose not to buy it. I will later. When I, like, have a job. The book is delightful. Brianne and I then wandered around the mall in order to try to find her a croquet dress. Brianne is very particular, and also very scared of showing her body. And...And she doesn't like eyelet. It eventually reached a point where we would walk into a store, walk around for like two minutes, and walk out. At one store a woman asked us if she could help us, and we were about to say no, when it occured to me to say, "well, probalby not, unless you have a floor length white dress with a waist that isn't terribly low cut." And she didn't, and so we said thank you. And the fucking Advil bottle (I forgot to mention in the CVS bit, I bought Advil) had an alarm thing in it that went off when we went into every fucking store until finally Brianne stood there while I took everything individually out of the bag and walked through the door to see if it made the alarm go off.
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11:58:34 PM,Saturday 19 April 2003
I trimmed yesterday's plates this afternoon, threw seven more, tried to trim one, and broke it while taking it off the bat, succeeded in trimming two more, made two bowls while feeling frustrated with plates (this was in the middle of the seven). The two bowls and the four untrimmed plates didn't dry out quickly enough for me to trim them before leaving, even though they were sitting in front of the fan. So tomorrow I will go back and trim them. The last two I even managed to make plate sized.
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05:16:46 PM,Saturday 19 April 2003
Both Borders and the Mall will be open for rather a while today. Borders till 11, and the rest of the mall til 9:30. Which means that I get to buy my book today! Yay! While Brianne is at work, I am going to throw stuff in the pottery studio. But for now, I am going back to sleep.
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11:04:46 AM,Saturday 19 April 2003