The fourth Harry Potter movie is sick. I want to see it again. I've decided that my four favorite characters are Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Cedric Diggory and, of course, Harry. The acting is much, much, much better than the first 3 - I remember being very disappointed with the first two. The Dumbledore character wasn't at all as I'd ( Read more... )

I got sick a couple of days ago and, afraid that I would need to get up urgently in the middle of the night, decided to unfold the old futon so that I wouldn't have to climb up and down my bed, which is actually taller than I am. In a flash of inspiration I put my coffee table at the foot of the futon-bed and cleared a space for my computer. I've ( Read more... )

I'm screwed on the optional essay to Yale. I've tried writing it again and again without anything resembling success. I don't think I'll ever be used to this format. I also have a big spanish presentation tomorrow that I haven't started. Shit.
The Jimmy Fund Walk deadline is tomorrow. Mom and dad will flay me alive.

Dammit. Now I don't know what to write about for my "OPTIONAL" essay! It's just one thing after another. I also need a 35mm camera and about 200 dollars. Just so you know.

It's a strange thing that I can already see the regrets that in twenty years will plague me about high school, and yet I'm completely unwilling to do anything about them. I think that whatever I do I'll probably be making a mistake, but if it's unavoidable I'll learn to deal with it ( Read more... )

GAH! I'm so far behind in Jimmy Fund Walk fundraising! Donate! www.jimmyfundwalkregistration.org/sparl

Gotta finish my Spanish.

Wow, I'm scared out of my mind. I just affirmed an early application to Yale by handing Mr. Saltman a teacher rec. form. I don't even know for sure what his rec.s will be like. I'm shaky inside and can already see the rejection letter. To tell the truth, the Yale thing was a very recent development. It's been Wharton till now, but Yale has a ( Read more... )

I think it's high time I updated. Summer's been really restful so far =), but I've got to start waking up before 2 PM. It's obviously too late for Harvard Summer School stuff, so I might just do Belmont Hill School stuff; it's less commitment anyway. I'm insanely happy that school's over, but I need a bit of commitment to keep me going! I'm ( Read more... )

"Guantanamo's been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. ... I think these people have been well treated, treated humanely and decently," Cheney said. "Occasionally there are allegations of mistreatment ( Read more... )

I just saw Episode III. It was utterly depressing. I came to a realization though, about lack of definition - about the universality of the grey space. I guess that we as people are products of our own imaginations, and as such there is no right and no wrong - there is no purpose to guide life except that which we imagine for ourselves. ( Read more... )