On close examination of Christina's letter from the Dean telling her that she will graduate, we decided that the Dean really did sign the letter. With a fountain pen, no less.
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09:30:27 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003
I was all impressed at the dinner at the president's house that the tables were properly set. I haven't seen a properly set table in ages, at least that my dad hadn't set, or had one of us set. I was beginning to think that maybe he'd made it up.
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09:27:01 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003
Apparently, Middies are taught how late you are supposed to be to an event, as well has things like how to properly set a table and dance and a handful of other things. You are, apparently, supposed to show up around 20 minutes late to a dinner party, and 5 to 10 minutes late to a cocktail party. Presumably, so this is so your host has a bit of extra time to set everything up.
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09:24:37 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003
The nurse gave me eyedrops, a generic version of visine. Funny, I have no problems sticking my fingers in my eyes to pull out goop (sorry), but I jump, and wind up with drops on my eyelashes when I try to put those in my eyes.
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04:20:49 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003
The discussion of "Jabberwocky" wasn't too terrible, after all. We talked a good deal about nonesense; about a perfectly balanced mind, because I read part of Carroll's introduction to "The Hunting of the Snark". One girl wanted to make it deep, and give it a lot of meaning, but we kept ignoring her.
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04:04:59 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003
We had this dreadful math class, and to top it all off, in order to balance out the ac turned way to high, the windows were open, and pollen was filling the room. I sat there, convinced I could feel thousands of pollen bits hitting my eyes.
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04:03:57 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003
I want pretty smelling potted plants. Katherine's gardenia was simply lovely, and I think I want a jasmine plant.
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11:27:40 AM,Thursday 1 May 2003
Dear god, the weather seems particularly to dislike school events, such as Prank, Croquet and Reality (which this year is occasionally calling itself "Realitas" because their theme is Ancient Rome; they made some announcement, talking about their wonderful "traditional Roman food" and I said I might kill them if hey try to feed me peacock feet.).
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10:26:48 AM,Thursday 1 May 2003
There is this girl who is singing second soprano in the one split soprano song we are singing in chorus who always insists on everyone holding their vibrato. And then she sings with so much vibrato she is quite audibly changing far more of a pitch than you are ever supposed to. Funnily, though, she only does it when she's singing the second soprano part, and also only when it's in those bits where their voice have crossed over ours. I think she is compensating for the fact that she is not singing first. It was funny, thoug, today, cause there's this bit we sing, then they echo, and (to me) it sounded like the firsts were singing just notes, like they were nothing, and whatnot, and the seconds were like "look at us! We are singing a g! listen to us!!!" And, frankly, I thought we sounded better.
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12:57:50 AM,Thursday 1 May 2003
I think I don't particularly care for Angel. Or the way Buffy seems to be going. I liked the episodes with Faith (in early Angel) and I have completely decided that she is welcome to Spike. I want to curl up and watch Third Season Buffy, though.
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12:50:28 AM,Thursday 1 May 2003
Mr. Kalkavage is having the Chorus sing "Sicut Cervus" as a singalong with everyone at Collegium, so we sang over it a few times this evening. We are going to read the first Parts of Animals reading from Freshman lab for Friday (cause Mr. Maistrellis decided that the rest of the manual is too technical to do in one day). I feel almost like a Freshman. It's nostalgiac and weird. (Does nostalgiac have any synonyms that don't translate to "return of great pains"?)
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08:32:24 PM,Wednesday 30 April 2003
I dread discussing "Jabberwocky" in language class tomorrow. It is a particularly dense bunch. They will obssess on "chortle" I just know it.
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08:30:13 PM,Wednesday 30 April 2003
I wonder if either the local Borders or Barnes and Noble (at home local, not Annapolis local) will be doing midnight Harry Potter things. Cause I think it could be fun to go to one of those.
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01:25:38 AM,Wednesday 30 April 2003
My grandmother called this morning, at 9 (whch she still hasn't learned is a bad time to call me. If I'm up, I'm running late for class, otherwise I'm asleep). I was unnecessarily snappy at her, mostly because I'd just woken up, and she takes forever to ask a single question over the phone, constantly tripping over her words. And she was only calling to find out what I want as a graduation present, which really is a nice reason to call someone. (I am ridiculously paranoid that my quiet-to-nearly-silent manner in Seminar is going to make it so I don't get to graduate, as well, although I understand they made the decisions.) I just haven't a clue what I want as a present, which I told her, so then she asked if she could call back around dinner time, and I said I probably wouldn't be in. Then I went back to sleep some more.
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11:25:51 AM,Tuesday 29 April 2003
For anyone who doesn't know, reads this, and is near a Ben and Jerry's, today is Free Cone Day.
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09:46:41 AM,Tuesday 29 April 2003
The OED says the word "chortle" is a combination of "chuckle" and "snort" which is interesting as I'd always been told it was a combination of "chuckle" and "exhort."
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09:22:55 AM,Tuesday 29 April 2003
Mr. Verdi's lab challenged our math class to a softball game this afternoon, and so instead of discussing Minkowski, we played softball. God, we sucked.
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07:17:19 PM,Monday 28 April 2003
I was hoping to spend this evening after seminar at Cassie's art reception and then in the pottery studio, making plates, as my lab tomorrow morning was cancelled. And now, it seems, I get to babysit the phone, waiting for this restaurant in Eastport to call me back.
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07:12:42 PM,Monday 28 April 2003
After the games on Sunday, Aidan and I were sitting on the table we weren't supposed to have as we tried to figure out what to do with it. This middie came up and started talking to us about how we'd won. He wasn't in uniform, and was extremely drunk, and seemed like a nice guy. He kept saying how good we are at what we do, and how everyone has so much fun at Croquet, and even they think it's great how we beat them so thoroughly. (They did win one game.) He was going on and on in this vein, and then started talking about how different the school's are, but they really appreciate that we're thre, because some day, we will be their bosses. Because we are the ones who will sit around and create the policies which they will carry out, and he thought this was great. I thought it was adorable that he was talking like this.
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07:09:09 PM,Monday 28 April 2003
First, I got to organize the bar's money. Then I got to protect it. I felt like Anya.
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02:26:24 AM,Sunday 27 April 2003