3 febrero 2001

best thing
first day of ml breakfast room
faculty dance concert (but sitting in the balcony is scary. perpetual impulse to throw/drop things, including self, from heights.)
watching getting in, a nonsensical and bad horror movie supposedly set at swarthmore

worst thing
rude non-swatties in the audience at the dance concert (laughing at serious things, trying to yell at each other and disguise it as coughing...)
drama (i still don't believe in it. but lots of people make up for me, i guess.)
unhealthiness (i'll be healthy starting tomorrow! really, this time!)

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2 febrero 2001

best thing
wearing my fun plaid orange skirt and orange tights and orange star barrettes
setting up the webcam
tv and hot chocolate and inexplicable quotes with jesse

worst thing
sniffly
parrish desk
sleepy and incoherent

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1 febrero 2001

best thing
giant package in the mail (tak, mutti!)
english dance
eileen giving david j. his pre-birthday card (with a promise in it to buy him ghillies. he kept going "ooh!" in this little happy voice.)

worst thing
assignments in spanish class that everyone knows about but me
heavy package! my gosh, i thought i wouldn't make it to ml. but i did.
almost falling asleep in aesthetics
accidental finger injury in english dance, from david j.'s watch (i didn't even realize. i finished the dance, and then realized my finger was all bloody. oops.)
the spark's gender test tells me "you are definitely a male!"

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31 enero 2001

best thing
poetry workshop at betsy's house (her daughter, who was sick, did not throw up. thank goodness.)
going to a meeting for scarlet letters
visiting allen in ppr (finally)

worst thing
not printing out and commenting on the poems before workshop

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30 enero 2001

best thing
getting my spanish poem back in class (she liked it. i still think it was a lousy response paper, which was the actual assignment.)
being asked by a latina in my other spanish class whether i were a latina. damn, that was cool.
going to the history major meeting (is that what i'm actually going to do? no clue.)
the phrase ruthlessness in time and place
running! lovely run. i should do it more often.

worst thing
not finishing the aesthetics reading
forgetting my umbrella (i think it's in papazian)
being sort of dazed and indifferent during dance

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29 enero 2001

best thing
the reserve reading for poetry workshop
nice long franzi-conversation
earthlust meeting, with sorbet and fruit and ecohappiness, i guess

worst thing
too much food
half-sleeping while trying to read aura for spanish tomorrow

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28 enero 2001

best thing
church
e-mail from frau!
parrish desk shift (megan, franzi, dan keep me company.)
opera scenes concert
part of survivor II and the kick-off of ML assassins (i'm not playing, but i'm always eager to watch carnage unfold.)
banana tofutti splits

worst thing
weird sermon
way too much food

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27 enero 2001

best thing
shopping at genuardi's for ingredients
news from middletown (maggie the cat is alive for the moment, con and lucy have safely returned from colorado, and dan's playing in the semi-finals at the battle of the bands)
baking with eileen and hollis and laura (thank you aaron! thankyouthankyouthankyou!)
hollis and eileen's birthday party with much good food and company
melanie's ferret
phone call from dad and susie while AT bogart's for the battle of the bands... these people are insane. (me: "is dan wearing my snake again?" susie: "WHAT?" me: "i said, is DAN wearing my SNAKE again??")
jesse and hollis and david j. and other people getting parts in play(s)

worst thing
inferior paper and glue
so... much... food... blah.

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26 enero 2001

best thing
getting the 4th dar cd in the mail. i have now officially outgrown my current cd wallet. oops.
abby's baby pterodactyl
taking pictures of parts of ML
watching ghost dog with jesse (a very good movie, see it. unfortunately the dvd got all freaky during one of the scenes; we were frustrated.)
running

worst thing
attempting very briefly to run on the track, then discovering that it was all ice. whee!

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25 enero 2001

best thing
long lunch (tuesdays and thursdays are good for that.)
e-mail from sean
chai in the morning and hot chocolate in the afternoon (wretched excess, wasting points already!)
english dance: we convinced allen to come, and we did picking up sticks! cool.

worst thing
owie neck that doesn't like to bend to the left
getting to bed late for silly reasons (better silly than serious, come to think of it.)
even less money. i really can't afford to buy extra stuff, i'm realizing. but that's just as well.

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24 enero 2001

best thing
first meeting of the poetry workshop. it was fairly painless. and there were cookies and clementines.
an ameliavisit to ml, with pictures
a truffle from rebecca (mmmmmmmmmmmm...)
my books of poetry back from peter, who needed them for a much less sinister cause than i'd expected from his description. or lack thereof.
guess the dictator or sitcom character site

worst thing
too much chocolate, bad girl. but the truffle was definitely worth it.
no proper stretching

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23 enero 2001

best thing
spanish #1
spanish #2 (with sra. friedman!)
webpaging

worst thing
e-mail about the poetry workshop (aaack.)
not going to scottish dance
not going for a late-night walk in the crum, which was supposed to be my alternative to going to dance
my sudden excessive use of the word "fucking"
my books of poetry were borrowed by my across-the-hallmate for a "hard to explain" purpose, requiring that they be "adult and evocative." i'm frightened.
our bathroom light died.

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22 enero 2001

best thing
first class (history with pieter, sans sex)
first lunch (with lots of people, also sans sex, thankfully. no offense.)
yoga
cards and x-men with jesse
a little girl and her welsh corgi in the snow on the football field
e-mailing ted kennedy

worst thing
oil spill in the galapagos islands
failing to visit people

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21 enero 2001

best thing
allen
to the co-op --> lunch with hollis, eileen and fraser
molly
watching traditional sunday night tv (the simpsons, malcolm in the middle, the x-files. molly and i hid behind the blanket for parts of the x-files.)

worst thing
buying books ($300, and i didn't even have enough with me to pay for them. i had to borrow $20 from eileen. grr.)
the creepy little guy with no legs on the x-files

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20 enero 2001

best thing
breakfast with mutti and alan (egg-in-a-hole, orange smiles with cinnamon, tea.)
to the mall, since we had time to kill
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more importantly, swatties
dinner consisting of assorted chocolate foods (brownie, buckeye, cookie, hot chocolate) given to me by other people

worst thing
my first flight cancelled
snow and bumpy flight
eileen's long-delayed-in-detroit flight