I saw Modest Mouse at the Pines Theater in Northampton with Hannah. It was pretty cool. The theater is a round amphitheater in the middle of a big park. Yeah. Also Northampton is totally crunchy and all the kids at the concert had rebellious clothing and piercings. Well, not really. But it was fun anyway ( Read more... )

Amherst - This past weekend
Northampton - Tuesday
Wesleyan - Next weekend
Washington, D.C. - Fourth of July weekend
Portland - Some other weekend?
Deer Isle - Last weekend in July
Boston - Maybe?
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Well, I guess I'm pretty settled in here. Things are good other than a total lack of stuff to do in the evenings and my "Personal Jesus"-loving neighbor. It's okay, since we all have to move to another dorm on Monday ( Read more... )

1.) The person next door to me, apparently having tired of Dave Matthews, has decided to play "Personal Jesus" (the Depeche Mode cover, not the Johnny Cash version) on repeat. This is strictly a point of information ( Read more... )

The time has come for me to once again pack up everything relevant to me and drive off into the wilderness of southern New England. It's going to be really weird living on another school's campus. Knowing all the nicknames for their buildings. Especially Williams. Williams is this strange mirage that beats us in every sport, and then pops its ( Read more... )

I don't ever want to live somewhere with a lawn. Honestly, I don't see the appeal. It's a tiny little patch of land, at least in this area it is. You get a couple square feet of green. What can you do with it? I guess we used to play kickball on my front lawn when I was in elementary school and lots of kids lived in the neighborhood ( Read more... )

( Potential spoilers if you haven't seen it )

Whew, so. Yeah, I'm home now for the moment. I'm going back to Wesleyan for a lot of next week to meet and interview some of the Director of ResLife candidates. I find I'd be doing nothing useful at all anyway that week, so I don't mind. Plus I want to actually be there to cast the final vote on who gets hired ( Read more... )

Last year in Gottschalk's class we talked about how religions sometimes have "empty rituals" that people just do because they've always done them. Imagine that academia is a religion, since it basically is. When I go to my final exam in a few minutes, I carry my backpack with me. It is an empty ritual because it has no purpose. I am not ( Read more... )

Well, I have a physics final in about an hour and a half, then one last night at Wesleyan for the year, and then I will be blowing this popsicle stand bright and early tomorrow morning. I kind of doubt that any Portland/DHS kids read this, but if anyone's out there and wants to hang out, I'll be home hopefully by midday tomorrow. I'm going to be in ( Read more... )