Sometimes I think I would like to have two little girls and name them Lily and Rose.
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02:07:08 PM,Friday 2 May 2003
The guy who came wandering through Second Chase to pick up our recycling didn't bat an eye as I sat there with a hammer and smashed glasses. (I decided to smash things in the hall, so there would be no broken glass in my room. Just in the hall. Except I put down extra plastic, so it will be easier to clean up.
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02:05:10 PM,Friday 2 May 2003
Wandering around my room, picking up a hammer and trying to figure out how to carry a hammer, bottles and ziploc baggies into the hall, I remembered that I am wearing carpenter pants, and so I hung the hammer off the hammer hanging thing.
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01:47:04 PM,Friday 2 May 2003
My brother's friend Dan is here as a prospective. I was wandering out of Mellon in the general direction of the dining hall, and heard my named being called and there he was on the Quad, looking for me. He's a good guy, and I think he'd fit in well here. I talked to him about St. John's over some break, probably Spring, and was talking about the last name thing, and he said it sounded too formal for his tastes, but he realized while sitting in on class that it makes things nicer, as it's hard to say "Mr. Such-and-so, that's stupid." (He is, of course, wrong, but I think Freshmen have more tact than Seniors, who occasionally have problems remembering not to call people by their first names.) We ate lunch together, we talked about St. John's and a bit about The Circle School, and their new chickens. (me: "So, what's with the chickens?" Dan: "Huh? Context?" Tracy: (laughing) "Yes, please give context." me: (waving my fingers to represent baby chickens) "Chickens like 'peep peep' chickens?" (to Tracy) "I'm on my school's mailing list, and apparenly someone brought in a dozen fertilized eggs and an incubator and there are chickens." Dan: "Yeah, I walked in the room, and there were chickens.") Dan is a good kid, a bit oblivious, as he didn't know there were chickens until he walked in and there were chickens running around peeping, but a good guy.
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01:22:14 PM,Friday 2 May 2003
I had my last lab, and with my schedule being what it is, this was my last class. Mr. Maistrellis brought us bunches of donuts and scones, and we finished off the coffee we have in the classroom. It was an odd class, returning to Aristotle, and people were trying to work Aristotle with genetics and DNA, and it was all very strange. Andrew was really on a roll, going on and on about things, and getting more and more exicted, and then Mr. Hinojsa told us that Mr. Schulman's class had had champagne, which was probably what had gotten into Andrew (Mr. Maistrellis had suggested Andrew cut back on the coffee). Somehow, all the ends of my classes seem to have wound up talking about how parts relate to the whole, it's kind of odd.
Now I don't know what to do. I think I might go make plates.
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01:13:21 PM,Friday 2 May 2003
Heading off for my last tutorial ever...God, that's a scary thought.
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10:12:08 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
The interesting thing about glazing pots in the St. John's pottery studio is that no glaze ever comes out the same colour twice. (Well, maybe black, but I have no idea.) I have several pieces glazed in "Bright Purple" and only one of them actually looks purple as opposed to mostly blue. (In fact, I used to have lipstick that paritular shade of purple--Manic Panic purple lipstick, not real makeup company trying to do interesting colours. I never wore it.)
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08:55:42 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
And I think the drops aren't helping anyway, although I didn't wake up with encrusted eyes this morning.
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08:35:48 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
If, say, we knew which sperm was going to fertilize which egg, and we knew all the chromosome details of that both, could we predict exactly the offspring?
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08:32:25 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I seem to have misplaced my pretty watch with the garnets and moonstones on the band, and this makes me sad.
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08:16:07 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I think I cry out the eye drops almost immedeatly after I put the things in.
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08:13:53 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I wonder what Bill Watterson does these days. I miss Calvin.
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02:58:01 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I remembered Parts of Animals to be impossible. I remember reading each sentance three times and it making less sense each time I tried. It was much easier tonight. I will have to reread it before class, because I was paying poor attention, but I could pay poor attention because I understood it. It's so strange.
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02:44:42 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I am sitting here, attempting to prepare for lab class, unable to. I am thinking of Janet, who once "wandered off to read Aristotle with a distracted mind" as that is what I am trying to do. Although I haven o good distractions. Just the lack of lab paper.
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02:05:56 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I closed all the windows in AIM, cause I was talking with no one. Usually I leave them open, because I might come back to the conversation. It's strange, there being no extra windows.
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01:50:27 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I want to take voice lessons so I can train my voice to hit that f on command. I want to learn to sing that aria.
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01:34:20 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I wonder if they will end the movie Troy with that thing they do from time to time in movies, where they will show someone and someone will narrate or text will pop up that will say stuff like "Neoptolemus went home with Andromache, they had a son, he married Hermione, Helen and Menelaus's daughter, and was murdered by Orestes, who then married Hermione, as had been promised to him" and "Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Klytemnestra on his arrival home, she was later murdered by their son Orestes" and "Helen and Menelaus returned home, and she was murdered shortly after Klytemnestra" and "Aeneas wandered around the Medeterranean a while, slept with and left the queen of Carthage, and then went on to found the Roman people." It might be amusing. It might be stupid. It would probably be stupid. In that amusing sort of way.
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01:26:17 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
And the Queen came on, and I tried to sing along, and I could barely hit an a let alone the f she hits so effortlessly. And usually I can sing as high as a d with no problems.
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01:05:27 AM,Friday 2 May 2003
I felt like the Lewis Carroll scholar in language today. It was a bit odd. I was, perhaps, the only one who had read Through the Looking-Glass at all recently (and some had obviously not read it at all; "so, she's in Wonderland? Through the rabbit hole?" "No," said I, "that was the first book. This is the second book. She got home, and half a year later, exactly, she walked through the looking glass. And now she's in Looking-Glass land."). There was brief discussion of "chortle" where someone I said what I'd thought it was a combination of, someone said "isn't it a real word?" and I said "not before this poem." And I brought in the introduction to "The Hunting of the Snark." At any rate, I was the only one who could put Alice in her context. And I've read The Annotated Alice cover to cover. It's a really delightful book. It not only tells you who people are supposed to be, and whatnot, but it has the occasional footnote on things like what would happen if you were to fall straight through the earth (and who didn't discuss this in math class? or with alpha particles and gold atoms, I think it's the same sort of thing), or about mirror image molecules, or about how Alice's only major romance before the man she married was with Prince Albert, who proposed marriage, but Queen Victoria said NO.
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10:36:54 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003
Mr. Schulman had us over for our Seminar party. It was lovely. I remembered to wear pants this time (I actually changed into pants because I wanted to go in the tree house at my precept party,but I was wearing a skirt), and so I got to see the cool tree house with electricity and cable and high speed internet access. I'd thought the Paca Loft thing had cured me of any fear I might have ever had about going down ladders, but I was a bit frightened going down that one.
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10:31:10 PM,Thursday 1 May 2003