best thing
the $10 bill stapled to the bulletin board in the ml entryway (there is a sign saying when it was found and asking its owner to take it and leave his or her name, and for anyone not its owner to leave it alone. it is still there. this fact somehow makes me feel better about recent vandalism and other incidents. not all people suck.)
workbox came and fixed our shower! joy.
play-doh. tiffany commanded laura and me to play with it, and so we did. brown play-doh is ugly, though.
earthlust (chocolate mint cake and a backrub for me. oh, yeah, some environmental stuff, too.)

worst thing
i was very sleepy last night while trying to write my aesthetics paper. i found myself thinking "maybe hume confused political reason with political broccoli." this does not make sense. at all. i cannot adequately explain how completely irrelevant it is.
no clipboard
weird misconstrued email

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25 . february . 2001

best thing
church
parrish desk (long franzi-conversation)
a capella concert for poverty awareness week (not very long, but amelia and megan both had solos. whee!)
running (warm gloveless hatless night)
getting a written email from sarah... like, she wrote a letter and scanned the pages and sent them via email. : )
hearing sarah st.v. read some of her poems on the radio
listening to nate and jeff's radio show with jesse as the special guest, or something (everyone i know is famous! or at least on the radio.)

worst thing
rain and no umbrella
vandalism on campus (smashed traffic lights on the corner by the church, slashed tires on all the red vans in the parking lot. people are idiots.)
holes in all my cool socks
this aesthetics paper (due tuesday, still clueless. i will die.)

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24 . february . 2001

best thing
grandma home from the hospital (it's odd... when i'm here at swat, it really upsets me when she's in the hospital. when i'm at home, yeah, whatever, she's in the hospital all the time anyway. not that i could do anything, but better to be powerless and nearby, i guess.)
will night never come? (directing 3 class presented a night of scenes: jesse was vladimir in a scene from waiting for godot. and then there was hunter... heh. excellent!)
crouching tiger, hidden dragon (of course it was legal... yeah. but wow. i think i would have been content even without the subtitles... gorgeous. and they flew!)
all your base are belong to us! (go here and click on video.)
ameliavisit to ml (pictures!)

worst thing
our shower, which still drains at a barely perceptible rate. (the unpleasantness is compounded when my nose begins to bleed while showering, as it often does. ick.)
owie ear, bleeding and refusing earrings
nonproductiveness (3 hours in mccabe for... uh... nothing. damn.)

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23 . february . 2001

best thing
sunnybrightness on top of all the snow
mailing the stupid scholarship application (nice to have done even one thing on my list from hell)
parrish desk -- i was going to work on my study abroad application, but i didn't have a pen that matched, so i drew instead. maybe i will scan. entertaining.
also i painted my nails horrible prom queen pearly pink :D
wrc coffeehouse (i only stayed for the middle bit, but i was there for oscar & emily and megan's solo, which was, of course, the important part.)
seeing reservoir dogs with jesse

worst thing
strange and inexplicable differences between my record of my checking account and the bank's record
seeing what may be the most fake blood i've ever seen in a movie

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22 . february . 2001

best thing
snow, lots, soft and silent and sudden, at least 6 inches, i think
truffle-hunting pigs?
english dance

worst thing
snow (it's nearly march! the crocuses were trying to come out! poor things.)
imminent decisions
spilling hot chocolate everywhere (one of those slow moments, you know, where you see what is going to happen and can't quite fix it. grr.)
needing sleep -- it just strikes me as really irritating sometimes. you mean i should be wasting at least 7 hours of each day just laying there? useless.

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21 . february . 2001

best thing
warm morning (light jacket day, and fluttery skirt)
poetry workshop (you've seen the new quotes by now, of course)
cp&p panel on writing and editing (although it was mostly about journalism, which wasn't exactly what i was looking for. but interesting.)

worst thing
warm morning turned cold at around 11, with loud wind during history
hrm... sort of falling asleep during the writing and editing career panel

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20 . february . 2001

best thing
sra. f's birthday in spanish convo class -- she brought us cheesecake and taught us to dance salsa
giving blood (they asked nosier questions than last time, but i feel vaguely as if i've fulfilled some civic duty.)
scottish dance (blood loss, pah! i can still bounce around and spin!)
editing a few things for the phoenix

worst thing
now that the toilet works, the tub drains at the speed of glue
fire drill during spanish class (high school revisited, only sra. c de s made us bring our books and work standing around outside.)
unreasonable and disturbing email received by hollis. strange and hard to deal with.

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19 . february . 2001

best thing
red tights
chocolate chip bread
vanilla flavoring dumped randomly into my cup of coffee at kohlberg
earthlust (wind power, zpg, mug)

worst thing
typing in mccabe for 2 hours with the result of 6 or so lines of mediocre text (that's what i get for being in the poetry workshop. whee.)
hollis's kaputt shoulder
katrina and the horrible no good very bad day
my computer sucking ass! i do not understand, and i am not pleased.

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18 . february . 2001

best thing
church
new mp3s (next thing on long list of things to own: eve, by over the rhine)
web-camming with mutti! we talked, and saw. unfortunately my microphone doesn't work.
also a phone call from dad and susie. i'm popular today!
parrish desk (i didn't do any work... oddly enough, i ended up playing cards for an hour with aero. entertaining.)
running

worst thing
no heat at church
my grandmother getting pneumonia and refusing to do anything about it for several days, until my mother called. now she is in the hospital, with an apparently incompetent doctor. whee.

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17 . february . 2001

best thing
ball stuff (i didn't want to dance, so i didn't. not entirely sure how i even ended up there. but i played with the children and listened to the pretty music. it's just that my role in life is spectator, not participant. i watch while other people live. um. nevermind.)
the toilet working when we got back from the ball (apparently workbox didn't fix it... so i don't know how it got fixed, and i don't care. it works.)

worst thing
demonic toilet overflowing

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16 . february . 2001

best thing
lunch with different people
goodwill (i can spend more time when i go alone. i got a horrible bright pink sweater, a blue sweater, a skirt, and a shirt for eileen. there was more i wanted... i restrained myself...)
nice rain, not too cold
jesse's half-birthday half-assed open house

worst thing
eileen's recommendation letter thing... i mean, the person... and the unpleasant emails.
going to bed late for no good reason. (it really doesn't bother me when it's for a paper or something. but there was no reason.)
i've nothing to wear to the ball! (hahaha... but really, i don't.)

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15 . february . 2001

best thing
managing to be vaguely pleasant despite lack of sleep
english dance
wearing mismatched socks

worst thing
losing my ambivalent button
being made to call a dance
morbid daydreams (not exactly intentional)

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14 . february . 2001

best thing
the hawk that sometimes hangs around campus was on parrish beach... i walked to within a few yards of it before it flew away. unfortunately, i didn't have my camera.
decent sharples lunch (greek bar and lentil stew)
poetry workshop (we ate oranges.)
baking cookies and eating chinese food and playing cards with jesse

worst thing
disturbing pink (or possibly blood-red) heart-shaped bagels in sharples
semi-napping
too much food
random fire alarms
not going to sharples dinner (apparently it involved desserts and balloons and flowers and such)
going to bed after 4:30

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13 . february . 2001

best thing
editing stuff for the phoenix
running

worst thing
the first thing i thought when i woke up was "you're not sleepy! you can't be sleepy! you got five whole miles of sleep! ...wait... i mean, hours..."
weird dyslexic tendencies with writing (i think it's just the same as how i get ahead of my words in my head so i can't talk. my mind gets ahead of the letters and they end up in the wrong order.)
non-functioning campus (no network for most of the day. we are so dependent.)
sao auction/paper plates and plasticware in sharples
not having our little presentation ready for spanish class
not going to the phoenix editing workshop (i went upstairs at the appointed time, didn't know where i was supposed to be, didn't know who i was looking for, and so reacted as is customary when i am not sure what i ought to be doing: i went "agh!" and ran away.)
running (only because i'd spent the day hearing the grass scream and the buildings suffocate. the first few minutes were flat-out running hard, definitely running from. then it got better.)

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12 . february . 2001

best thing
joint custody with jesse of the bizarre sun pillow with hands found at goodwill
working in mccabe (dude, i found all these literary criticism journals. i think everyone else has known about them all along. now i can stop faking it.)
earthlust meeting (i volunteered to do chalkings. fun!)
a steve the crocodile hunter valentine from tiffany

worst thing
no luck at goodwill (apart from stuffed arm-sun)
letting myself dwell on old things

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11 . february . 2001

best thing
church
brunch at the rectory (pineapple, quiche, other things. mmm... sweet church people!)
seeing three cats in one day (one at the rectory, one outside of willets after church, and another following me on my run, with its collar-bell ringing.)
running
the almost ephemeral ministers
amelia who is on my webpage (and, if she came to ml, she could have her picture on it, too. eh?)

worst thing
stupid joyful love poem. ghazals. argh.
parrish desk
running on the track is boring...
the grammar check in word doesn't understand the subjunctive

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10 . february . 2001

best thing
blue velvet pants (6 people rubbed my legs)
looking online to reassure myself that ketchup does not, in fact, contain any kind of blood (andy was wrong. nyah nyah.)
medeski martin and wood concert (i think. it was nice to sit and hear and would have been better if i'd danced, maybe, just for the sake of dancing. it was no dar, though.)
to bed early (day 2 in a row of 9 hours of sleep)

worst thing
splashing tomato soup all over my white shirt (have i ever mentioned i'm a moron??)
trying to write a joyful love poem for workshop next week (my head will implode without my cynicism!)
not baking cookies after all
sometimes i am sad that this is not a web-journal. but i don't really want to let myself start talking; i'm afraid i won't stop.

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9 . february . 2001

best thing
sort of napping
seeing the kings of comedy with jesse

worst thing
another running late morning
turning in my major form
no movie shuttle (we wanted to go see hannibal)

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8 . february . 2001

best thing
a card from susie. with samples of fur from each of the four cats taped to the inside. she is insane; it is great.
being cool with dave at lunch
getting books from the library to read in my supposed free time
postcard from vicki and bob
a rare day of semi-clarity and competence (probably fleeting, but well-timed, what with deciding majors and such.)
phone call to mutti (her birthday!)

worst thing
late morning (still in pajamas at 9:20. showered, dressed, and walking out the door at 9:33.)
having to decide a major (there was a rant, but you missed it.)
not actually having free time to read the books in ( also, they are books about history and philosophy and art... exactly what i'm already studying... i am a dork. i like it.)
watching a stupid spanish movie and missing dance as a result
many people with variations on the flu : (
auntie claire dying (expected, though, she was 98.)

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7 . february . 2001

best thing
poetry workshop
hosting a study break

worst thing
having to dislodge abby's car from the snow to go to genuardi's
too much food (agh... study break.)
viruses (computer and flu-ish both.)

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6 . february . 2001

best thing
my last paycheck from this summer... about time.
scottish dance
run

worst thing
meeting about the honors program (i don't want a major! i have no delusions of competence! leave me alone!)
short run (leg hurt. ow.)

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5 . february . 2001

best thing
***snow***
somersaulting down the snowy hill next to the track
scrabble
oranges

worst thing
lost umbrella
nasty rain in the morning
cheese curls and hot chocolate
pizza
bad letters in scrabble

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4 . february . 2001

best thing
church
organizing and cleaning (many papers. didn't actually do anything, but i feel better about all the things i have to do.)
researching internships
run (got lost in the ville. stopped when i reached a sign for rutledge.)
fun with webcam (see new thing? click on date.)

worst thing
parrish desk