I'm at camp. Overall it's amazing, but the barn is stressful as usual. There aren't enough horses because they tend to either be staff only or have really bad heaves. I have two favorites, Sunny (Sonny?) a bay thoroughbred (?) who was supposedly a show horse who was abused in the ring and now can't be used in the arena. I was going to work with ( Read more... )

Your Linguistic Profile::55% General American English15% Upper Midwestern15% Yankee5% Dixie5% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Hmm, I wonder what the other 5% is. Maybe that part of my vocabulary has been replaced by all the foreign languages I keep trying to learn.

Erm, so here's what I've been up to in the last few weeks ( Read more... )

for posterity ( Read more... )

So. I'm done with my first year of college ( Read more... )

Alas, my declaration of victory was a wee bit premature. A few days after my Non-Native Invasive Species Battle, I noticed some strange bumps on my finger. POISON IVY! Aughhhhhh! I didn't have time to deal with it because confirmation of my suspicions came from my Outdoor Trip Leader professor the day before we left for a backpacking trip. It ( Read more... )

Went for Round 2 with the Honeysuckle yesterday. More scratches, more thorns in the fingers. Today at the barn I washed all the windows and the bathroom mirror. Yay fun. Also got my Latin paper back. I had written that Aristotle and Ovid were contemporaries without actually checking this fact. My teacher was kind enough to point out that ( Read more... )

Yesterday I battled Honeysuckle at the environmental center and emerged from the woods covered in dirt and scratches, which at the time seemed like impressive battle scars, but not just kind of sting. Also, I think I still have tiny thorns in my fingers ( Read more... )

Emma is coming to visit me this weekend and I said something about SAGA which of course she didn't understand. I think it's weird how much Earlham lingo has become a part of my vocabulary. I mean, most of the people reading this would have no idea how to decipher the following (and not just because it's a run-on sentence ( Read more... )

People Envy Your Compassion
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