As Jon and I were driving over to Fredericksburg yesterday to see their community theatre's production of Man of La Mancha (not at all a Valentine's Day kind of show, but good nonetheless), we got to talking. People can fuss and fret all they want about how to handle relationships, but I still maintain that if you can't have good conversations with ( Read more... )

While doing some online shopping this afternoon, I came across Barnes and Noble's website for the nook, their answer to Amazon's Kindle. I am of two minds about this sort of technology.

The Good

Based on what little I have read about ebooks, many educators (especially in high schools) seem to like the idea. Some of their students hate the idea ( Read more... )

1. How do you define virginity? Where do you think this definition came from (i.e. society, parents, friends)?

2. How do you think the ethics of passivity affected your life, or how do you see it play out around you?

3. What values--other than "purity"--should we be instilling in young women to ensure that they grow up to be active moral agents?

4. ( Read more... )

Even though it seems that most of my days have been crawling by, I can't believe it's almost July already. The last week or so in particular has actually been kind of busy.

Yesterday was fun. I went with Mom to check out the outlet mall that was (relatively) recently built in the Valley. We only went to one little part of it apparently, which was ( Read more... )

Yay, finally a reason to update! Some stuff to bitch about, some stuff just to type out so I can chew on it.

First comes the bitching. STC, in a classic bonehead move, canceled my class. And of course I find it out by accident. The day before it's supposed to start, I still had no idea what textbook I was supposed to have, or even where I was ( Read more... )

I have had yet another run-in with the local "we take ourselves way too seriously" almost-not-a-community-college. I got to stand in line for over an hour today, to register for a class that will be taken online. They had to have my high school transcript (because I took dual enrollment there in 2005), so of course that had already necessitated my ( Read more... )

"The book of love is long and boring ( Read more... )

I've always thought that the weirdest thing about summer is the fact that all the days seem to run together--I'm generally aware of whether it's a weekday or a weekend, but if you ask me what day of the week it currently is, or what the number of the day is, good luck getting a correct answer. Also, questions like, "When did we make this pasta?" I ( Read more... )

As usual when writing here, I am in a strange mood. I've packed a lot of my stuff, but it still seems as if it will be physically impossible to fit all of it in my car. I'm dreading the drive home, and I'm dreading staying there even more. I'm probably hyping it up--like I often do--but at the same time I can't help but feel that this summer is ( Read more... )

I've been trying to work up the...whatever to update this journal, but today is really the first day that I actually feel like writing. It seems I get so caught up in all the homework and studying and tests and papers...that I don't really have time to reflect and think about my week, or even my day. Seeing the campus counselor once a week helps, ( Read more... )