My family is here, and so we are about to pack up the car, and so farewell to Pinkney.
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10:03:54 PM,Sunday 12 May 2002
Goodbyes are hard, even when they aren't totally goodbyes. I'll see Hiram when I come to visit Cassie, and maybe Mr. Esterheld as well, but when I said goodbye to Hiram, I asked specifically to see him when I come to visit Cassie this summer. Jenna said she and Nat would come to visit, and I got her email address and AIM name, and even saying bye to Libby and Roy, even though it's just for the summer. Jesus, I'm even feeling sad about saying goodbye to Pinkney, even though I'm quite happy to be living in Chase next year.
Apparently our class asked for the same guy to be our commencement speaker, but since they're graduating now, they won. It would be very cool to get the guy who lectured on Julius Caesar to do ours, but I think we're supposed to get a tutor.
I have to finish packing now.
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02:02:20 PM,Sunday 12 May 2002
There is someone out there talking on a microphone. I had this brief terror that I was missing watching people graduate, even though it starts at 10:30, so I went over to the window that looks out on front campus, and it hasn't started yet. I think they might be testing sound.
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09:05:16 AM,Sunday 12 May 2002
What, precisely, is a Jerusalem artichoke? I've eaten one, knowing what it was, and it looks like some sort of tuber. But is it related to an artichoke?
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03:08:39 AM,Sunday 12 May 2002
Pretzels are like bread. At least sort of. At least enough so that the vitamin pill Joe King gave me is no longer making my stomach hurt.
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03:05:04 AM,Sunday 12 May 2002
I got to dance with all my favourite guy seniors tonight, and that makes me happy. When Cassie and I walked in, Hiram looked at us, pointed and said something along the lines of "ha, ha, y'all're seniors now." At which point we had to to remind him that they are making him leave tomorrow. But all in all the waltz party was fun. I danced with Kitt the Fe transfer who is probably the best guy dancer in Annapolis right now, better than Hayden not only cause he knows more moves than Hayden but cause you can tell he's having fun while he's dancing, and he doesn't use his girl like a prop, the way Hayden does. And I danced with Hiram and Matt Ting and Mike Esterheld and Erik Thompson, and that was all fun and good, as they are my favourite guy seniors. Uh. Yes. Cassie and I shared a bottle of champagne, between the two of us, and I think I am much drunker than she.
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02:38:31 AM,Sunday 12 May 2002
I hate I hate I hate sitting here and scratching my throat. But it beats the alternative, which is to have an itchy throat.
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10:56:07 PM,Saturday 11 May 2002
Wow, I found out how to move all my netscape bookmarks into ie without typing them all in again!
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08:45:33 PM,Saturday 11 May 2002
Mr. David's children are absolutely adorable. As I walked to Libby's room to borrow her swiss army knife with screwdriver, I ran into the two of them and their mother. They are lovely little girls, and their mother is very sweet. The younger one was very excited about the flag, and then when I tried to talk to her about it, she shut up and played with her toy dinosaur, so I asked her about her dinosaur, and she wouldn't talk to me then either. Mrs. David thought it was vaguely amusing, pointed out to Rosie (the younger daughter) that she'd met me before, that I'd been to their house, but she still wouldn't talk, and so she told me that Rosie was pathologically shy. I said I understood that, and that I'd been there. Then we talked a bit about whether I was graduating, and I said no, not for a year, and then whether I would be around this summer. And then I went off to get my screwdriver. The older daughter, Jenny (which is short for Guinivere, of some spelling variation) thought her sister's shyness was funny, but she is also incredibly shy.
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07:32:34 PM,Saturday 11 May 2002
I picked up a martini shaker from a free pile on my hall last night, along with a dark green scarf. I picked up the scarf cause it was pretty and looked useful. The martini shaker I picked up cause it was there, and seemed like the sort of thing it would be nice to have around. I've never drunk a martini, on the general idea that I don't like gin and I don't like vermouth (I don't particularly like vodka either) and I don't like green olives. Still, now I have one, and it's pretty, so who knows whether or not I'll ever use it?
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04:53:07 PM,Saturday 11 May 2002
Those of you who've read War and Peace , what is a good translation to read? The woman at the bookstore whose name I've forgotten/never known said that really I should just watch the movie with Audrey Hepburn.
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02:02:29 PM,Saturday 11 May 2002
They are selling tee shirts for the class of 2002, with all their names on the back. Is this normal?
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02:00:59 PM,Saturday 11 May 2002
Ascanius. Do you have any idea how hard that was to look up online?
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12:46:01 AM,Saturday 11 May 2002
What few functioning brain cells I had were killed watching a special on VH1 about the top 100 one hit wonders of all time with Neil this evening. Now I'm bored and braindead. Wahoo.
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09:53:55 PM,Friday 10 May 2002
My brother imed me last night, when I wasn't in, but I'd forgotten to put up an away message, with messages that went something like "Tori! Where are you? Tooooorrrrriiiii!!!!!" for a while, and then eventually, he gave up. When I got home, I thought of calling him, but it was midnight, so I didn't. So I called him just now, and he'd been trying to get ahold of me last night cause he'd just found out that he got an 84 on his macro-economics final, which is very cool, and was like the third highest grade in the class or something. I'm proud of him.
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05:24:38 PM,Friday 10 May 2002
My Don Rag went much better than I'd thought it would, which means that once again it's good that I didn't do a conference. All my tutors for tutorials thought I did a good job. My seminar tutors said I need to talk more, but that my paper was interesting, maybe needing a little more. Mr. Kalkavage thought the oral was okay, but slow, but Mr. Kolb just thought it was pretty slow. Ah, well. Mr. Datchev thought I did rather well in math, and Mr. Barbera thougth I did pretty well in lab, but I might want to let up on the common sense a little for math and lab next year.
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10:51:06 AM,Friday 10 May 2002
No, no, it can't rain on Sunday morning, cause I want to watch my friends graduate.
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10:08:44 AM,Friday 10 May 2002
Hiram's seminar decided it would be fun to ring the bells tonight, as they met up there this evening. It was odd hearing the bells ring early, and then to hear them ring at ten. They say we really are seniors now, no nonesense of this waiting til those other seniors graduate on Sunday. My Don Rag is tomorrow morning, I'm holding onto my status as a junior until then. My seminar was disappointing, cause my seminar is rather incompatent at doing literature; I think we ought to be banished and shot. It was odd, I'd had the impression that my tutors didn't like the idea I had for why Don Quixote became Don Quixote, and then Mr. Kalkavage brought it up (not as my paper, but well...yeah). After seminar, Hiram called people juniors or sophomores who I still think of as a year behind, and I said that they weren't, cause we don't get to move up until he leaves, and he said that isn't true. I asked him out it felt, and he didn't know. Then eventually I wound up talking to freshmen and sophomores on the quad and Mr. Truesdale walked by us and I called out "You're done, Mr. Truesdale! How does it feel?" And he said it felt great. And then Cassie and Aiden and I went out to the Ram's Head, where Cassie got tasty potato things except they had bacon and Aiden and I got pie. Our waiter was new, and kept forgetting to take our menus away, so eventually I took them and put them away. Ah well. I felt bad for him, besides which I do rather want to get a waitressing job when I get home. Ah. I'm not supposed to be a senior. It's much more depressing this year than it has been in the psat years knowing the seniors are going to graduate. Freshman year I only really knew Moss (well, and Val and Liz, cause Val was my RA), and last year it was sad that Anne Needham was leaving, but I wasn't particularly going to miss any of the others, but this year it's much more sad.
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12:33:29 AM,Friday 10 May 2002
My brother imed me at about 9 in the morning to tell me that the new computer has showed up at our house. Cool.
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11:34:39 AM,Thursday 9 May 2002
Someone left a stack of women's magazines in one of the free piles. I went through a few magazines and tore out pictures with which I will someday make a collage. I have been collecting pictures from magazines with which to someday make a collage for a very long time. I lose them, you see. I am used to tearing pages out of the New Yorker's ads for far-away vacations in Spain or Hawaii or wherever that are very cool scenery. These were odd, cause I'm used to looking for scenery, but there wre really only pictures of women.
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08:28:26 PM,Wednesday 8 May 2002