FYI, I won't be coming home Thanksgiving, since it's going to be uberexpensive. My parents said it was my choice, and I will be coming home only 12 days after Thanksgiving vacation ends, which is Dec. 12. So I will be there to pester all of you youngin's during finals.

Guess who is coming to campus for a seven dollar ticket?
Rufus Wainwright.

Hot damn. As if I needed another reason to love this school. Rufus Wainwright and "special guest" on October 14, tickets on sale on the 1st.

Ooo, Livejournal remade the posting format.  Fun times.

Warning: Materialistic post ahead.  If you are afraid of shallow, artificial commentaries on ephemeral objects such as clothes and such, do not continue reading.

College is a blur of free items and reduced prices.  I believe this is so that Norris can rest easy at night after gouging you for ( Read more... )

Random Life Updates (otherwise entitled, Laura is too lazy to post about anything in full)

• I fell up a staircase on the way to the X-factor a capella auditions (except on the way into the wrong building) and tore the skin off of my big toe.  The bloody tissue paper stuffed into my flip flop impressed them so much that they didn't give me a ( Read more... )

Sooooo in love. And I haven't even really done anything yet, just bought a television/phone/speakers and drove about the campus. Pictures of the beach in Lake Forest, some random flowers in Evanston my mom liked, and the lake from the tech building don't even begin to describe how the beauty that is Northwestern. I'll take much better pictures ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm finally leaving now. Those who want my address, call me/e-mail me, or just call my house as I am sure that my parents want to be inundated with phone calls. I flirted with posting it here, but I would rather not post things ilke room numbers to any lurkers. Oh, and I'm transitioning to using the Northwestern e-mail account, you'll ( Read more... )

Is it wrong to refuse to see something just because it's advertised in The Twenty?

I just stole a new icon off of the Northwestern webmail program's "processing" page. The e-mail program is called "emu-mail". The servers are named "hecky" (mine), "casbah", "lulu" and "merle ( Read more... )

I have decided to undertake a mission: to find international paper for sale on the web. Jenny came back from France with beautiful paper, with wonderfully different margins and lines designed for perfect handwriting. Chile uses graph paper, but the pages are nicely perferated, the lines are faded, and they have little boxes at the top to put any ( Read more... )

Question.
Can someone justify this purchase?
( The most beautiful shoes in the world )