While playing Scrabble with my mom last night, I passed on my turn about five times, hoping she would place the appropriate tile(s) in the appropriate place for me to be able to put down any of the three possible bingo words I had (these happened at two separate times): destitute, situated, or deserved. Mom, cursed with a long series of crappy ( Read more... )

I get back from my semi-annual haircut to see a new message in my UR inbox. A Facebook friends request from someone named Boris. Boris? What the heck? I only know one person named Boris, and I've never actually met him. He's a guy on one of those morning radio shows. So I go to Facebook and check him out. He goes to Stanford, gives no indication of ( Read more... )

I'm going crazy at home.
I can't wait for my parents' long weekend to be over.
I want to go away as much as I possibly can. To NYC, to Boston, to LA... anywhere that will have me.
Until I manage to arrange a trip, I think I will be biking around town as much as possible.

I had a wonderfully vivid dream last night ( Read more... )

I am living on a couch for a week. Even given that I share the lounge with another guest to the suite, it is great. Jarrett comes over a lot, and he makes life super fun ( Read more... )

Every time I walk back to my room from Anderson late at night, I see this raccoon sitting by the baseball field. I have never seen it move, except to turn its head very slightly so its eyes can follow me as I walk by. It is always in the same spot, in a hollow on the slope. I wonder when the raccoon moved in to its home near the baseball field, and ( Read more... )

There are flowers on the trees.
The sun is out.
I feel chilly when it is 50.
Spring is here. :)

I want this weekend to last forever.

I heard back from all the REU programs I applied to. I got accepted to two (both of the California ones) and was rejected from the other three (Michigan, Rochester, and Hong Kong). My plans are staying the same, though. Nine weeks at UCLA, here I come ( Read more... )

My summer plans:

Leave Rochester in early May
Hang out in Walden for a month and a half
Fly to California
Spend 9 weeks at UCLA doing a really awesome REU
Then either:
1) go back to Walden for a couple of weeks and head back to Rochester for senior year OR
2) head directly back to Rochester and be an Orientation volunteer

How big is UCLA,