I wonder if anyone will read this? Except thejenx, who already knows it all.

Top 10 things that happened since I last posted:
1. I married David this January 3 in Atlanta. It was an awesome interfaith Episcopalian/Pagan ceremony with about 100 friends and family, 10 attendants, 2 officiants (his priest and my mentor), broom-jumping, his 4 cousins calling ( Read more... )

It's Grinnell finals week. I have 33 pages to write between now and Friday at 5 PM. 22 of which require prepatory research ( Read more... )

So a LOT has changed since that last post. (Maybe someone still reads this... actually if you do please comment so I know whether it's worth updating even very, very occasionally.) The major points ( Read more... )

In the past month ( Read more... )

...to anyone who wonders what happened to me for the last two months, and especially to Fimion, who deserves more ( Read more... )

Condensing a formal essay into a short, blunt summary is surprisingly energizing. I spent a few hours toiling on an essay for my Sistine Chapel tutorial class, describing a fresco called "Gift of the Keys." Then I got fed up and wrote the following ( Read more... )

Calculus II will do that to you. But in a glorious moment, I discovered that a) I didn't actually need the class after all (see if I listen to a prof without checking the academic catalog for myself ever AGAIN!), and b) this is college, not high school, so I don't have to stick with a class I don't want!!! This revelation, and my subsequent ( ( Read more... )

I was talking to Fimion last night ( Read more... )

Graduation was last Saturday. On Friday (after seniors were officially gone) I returned to LHS to visit my dear language arts teacher, and had to get a visitor's pass at the front office. Walking down the hall, the bright yellow pass on my lapel proclaiming my status as "other," I felt a thick glass wall between me and the students chatting and ( Read more... )

I'm going to Grinnell!!! *dances wildly* I'll have to work a couple hours a day, and I'll miss friends and family dearly, but my heart leaps at the prospect of four years of GHP: regular late-night debates, stimulating class discussions, awesome classmates, a constant stream of speakers and concerts ( Read more... )