On the Massachusetts turnpike, we listened to Elvis Costello; and I felt I was getting in touch with my inner "R'ch'l". I guess I'm behind the times musically, but even the best of us are two years behind schedule. We almost missed the Amherst tour, but instead arrived exactly on time at the admissions office ( Read more... )

When we left town, I wasn't sure how long I'd be gone. Now, I'm only sure that I'll be back in time to register, or at least start school. Needless to say, the parent in charge of this trip is not the usual vacation planner; otherwise, we'd all probably have printed, color-coded itineraries ( Read more... )

I may have forgotten to bring something with me to camp, but since I can't think of what it is right now, I'd say that my planning was successful ( Read more... )

I've always had the nagging suspicion that I really didn't live in my hometown, since my house is outside the city limits. Even if I've spent five weeks in a dorm room that was supposedly in an enclosed education bubble, I think I'm closer than ever to truly becoming a towny ( Read more... )

Bamboozled, which I saw two evenings ago, was some jarring satire, but most of the people who bothered to go watch (instead of attending the Ben L'c' concert) agreed that everybody there already understood Spike Lee's argument. So nobody's mind was changed ( Read more... )

I never realized that I needed to see Edward Scissorhands. It should be the official movie of Advent and Lent. Seriously, the story's is a better way to understand what Jesus is supposedly all about than The Passion of the Christ (I haven't seen the latter, so that's not a fair judgment ( Read more... )

I realized how far removed I was from reality last night when I was on the phone with my parents ( Read more... )

I saw the tail end of Pretty Woman last night, which made part of my brain shut off. I would have preferred to be at the hammocks, but it was raining large, cold drops, and some of the stoop dwellers/chain smokers had invaded the area while the truer hammockers were inside ( Read more... )

I learned how to write to 999 in Chinese last night ( Read more... )

I have struggled to understand Russian, not because it isn't a manageable language, but because we have class in three-hour blocks. In other subjects, this could be acceptable, but when vocabulary is involved (and lists stretch over several pages), there should be limits. Learning the past and future tenses in one period seems like a stretch when ( Read more... )