i am in New Mexico and that's why i've been out of touch for a while. i am updating on a computer at the private school where the Breakthrough program is held. yesterday and today were the first 2 days of classes. they've gone pretty well. but i don't love children crushingly like some people do. they're kind of cute, but whatever. i'm a little ( Read more... )

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I waited 15 minutes at the ATM today behind a woman who was suffering from Parkinson's disease. She repeatedly kept pressing the wrong keys when trying to enter her PIN. I offered to help, but she refused. It was infuriating. Bitch ( Read more... )

everyone else left Kenyon yesterday, and it feels like a ghost town. it was very sad saying goodbye to some people. i won't see a lot of people for more than a year - some are abroad all of next year, and others are abroad in the fall, after which i'll be gone in the spring ( Read more... )

everyone from Linden needs to tell me what they think of this idea. i have mulled, since i got to Kenyon, over Linden High School and the ways it prepared me and didn't prepare me for college. and as an international studies major, i have decided that one of its failings is not requiring every student to take World History. i know NOTHING about ( Read more... )

i've been feeling kind of violent and furious all week. ARGHGHGHGHGRGRRH. i am pretty ready to leave Kenyon for the year. it's suffocating. at the same time, i don't want to go, because this year has been fun and i'll be sad to see it end. next year, everyone will be scattered around the world for a while. and when we return as seniors, we'll all ( Read more... )

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woohoo! it's Friday night, I'm in the library again and I'm posting again ( Read more... )

my day so far ( Read more... )

ooh. fury. i checked out a video camera and tripod from the library on Sunday. i was supposed to return it by Wednesday and forgot. i get an e-mail reminding me: "The item(s) listed below are overdue. Please return or renew. Fines of $0.50 per day, per item, will be charged after a 7 day grace period, on the 8th day after the due date ( Read more... )