I was home last night and happened to watch the season finale of Alias, due to boredom and mild interest. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, and so I'm going to attempt to reproduce the ending for those of you who might not know the show at all, or have only seen a few episodes ( Read more... )

I am sitting in the apartment, in Ann Arbor, and have finally unpacked and arranged things. For those of you in the letter-writing mood, the address for this summer is: 1001 S Forest Ave, Apt 214, Ann Arbor MI, 48104 ( Read more... )

I’ve had this really disgusting cold for the past few days, and happily it seems to be on its last leg. One of the more frustrating symptoms of this cold was that my ears were really blocked up, and I couldn’t hear anything. Throughout much of yesterday and the day before, I had the exhilarating sensation of my ears occasionally popping, and I ( Read more... )

Hooray, I have a job! I got an internship at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum in their publicity department, and although I imagine I'll just be doing a lot of photocopying, they also let me actually write things and edit things and oh, it's so exciting. It does stretch the definition of 'job' slightly, because I'm not being paid. But I'm looking for ( Read more... )

Whee the book game. Note: Pride and Prejudice is not here merely because everyone else has used it already ( Read more... )

Well, many eventful things have happened since my last update, so I suppose the birthday is more of a capstone than a keynote ( Read more... )

Today was that day of days, Achievement Day. In keeping with many years of tradition, Laura is done and has done very well, things said in the car on the way home made her cry, and I’m so angry at Mom that I don’t really want to be in the same room with her. Happy Achievement Day ( Read more... )

Back in Widener, one of my new favorite places. In a more tetchy mood, I might think it elitist and ridiculously snobby that you have to have an ID to get into the building, and then swipe it again to get into the stacks, but right now my expansive feelings of good-will allow me to recognize that these are safety measures that protect the countless ( Read more... )

I am sitting in the Phillips Reading Room in Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138. David dropped me off while he went to class, swiped me in as a guest, and not long thereafter I discovered to my dismay that you need to swipe your ID yet again in order to actually get to the books. So I have a nice list of the call numbers for ( Read more... )

Hooray for the Franklin Miller String Quartet! Bill McCullough asked me to play in this quartet for the Harcourt Parish, and until our first meeting I had no idea that it’s existed in some form or other since long before I was born or that it even had a name. Anyway, we had a lovely first rehearsal at Bill’s house. The music is fun but not too hard ( Read more... )