we (katie & I) missed the bus to bonaroo and then decided to drive to tenesseee, and then remembered there was a blacksburg bus the next and stopped there, and then we bought a paint by numbers unicorn and did it in the park. we called winnie chao and somehow got offered a place to camp overnight next to a trampoline, and a bed inside the apartment ( Read more... )

slowly working my way up the hardcore scale:

sunday: playing rugby in the rain at tech.

tuesday: stabing my thumb about a quarter inch deep with a hypodermic needle in chem lab, being fine, and finishing the lab anyways.
drinking two liters of mountain dew, two cups of coffee, a dr pepper, and a sobe adreneline rush.
and then throwing up.

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wenesday included:
a press conference
trying to enlist in the air force ( Read more... )

I got an email in my uva account from someone who had read the article I was in two years ago about girls in science. I asked her how she found me ( Read more... )

uhhh, it's nice to know that I could go to the pharmecy this morning with an eye infection and without having showered in a day in cargo shorts and a sweat shirt, and still get hit on by the guy filling out my prescription for antibiotics and eye drops. I wish I had glasses and I had been wearing them. that would have made it better ( Read more... )

cds I listen to a lot this summer ( Read more... )

I saw ani difranco in concert at the 930 club. she is a genius. yeah, what else is new.

I work right next to Arlington courthouse. sometimes I see Bailey, a black lab puppy. Bailey is going to be a bomb-sniffing dog. right now Bailey is a kibble-detecting dog. I don’t know why I like that so much.

I took the driver improvement program on evergreen lane. evergreen lane is only about two blocks long- everywhere on it is within walking distance of my house. but I also had driven past it enough to know that there aren't any real offices on evergreen lane, just a whole bunch of offices that look like they used to be townhouses with korean signs. ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning and my throat hurt agggaaaaaiiin. and I still sleep all the time. even though I am halfway through my antibiotic treatment. oh god strep throat just goo awwwaayyy. and I dont have time to go to student health again. I am dyyyyiinnnggg.

strep throat is making me appreciate the small things, like lying in bed all day and putting off studying. and THANK GOD for these tiny little things called antibiotics. I mean, normally I am anti-medication, but these guys have been nothing short of amaazzzing. I am trying really hard not to take the next 27 of them right now, even though I know ( Read more... )