"I'm Amy, and I'm a Capricorn..."
Just got back from the LAST Dark Purple meeting of my life, the Monday after the LAST Dark Purple event of my life! I love that our meeting was just like "uh, Twister was great! Yummy Snowcones! Let's hang out." And I enjoyed doing introductions One Last Time.
The year is rapidly drawing to a close and I find myself confronted daily with thoughts of "The last time I..." Like Friday, "The Last time I paint the kiosk" or the other day "The last time I'm in Norton," or for Phat Noiz "The Last Time I make an OC Sign" etc.
Strangly, none of them have made me sad yet. A little nostalgic perhaps, as with Dark Purple, but not really sad. I think it's because although I have LOVED my Cornell Experience, I am noticing, (particularly now that I'm in a 100 level class and was one of the few upperclassmen at KYBO) that I've gotten out of this experience what Cornell has had to offer me. I've outgrown it in a way, and I'm fully ready to jump into my next big adventure, my next life experience. As sad as it will be to close this chapter in life, I'm so excited and ready to start the next one. I've never lived in a real city before!
So, my homework is on reserve in the library. OP! Guess I can't do my homework tonight! (Because walking to the library requires more effort than my senior body possesses!) How relieving to have senioritis and NOT care whether or not my homework gets done! I've never experienced this "*shrug* Oh well! NOT gonna do it!" attitude to this extent before! How refreshing.
My hands smell like clay. I had a good time down in McWethy today. I love that I have enough free time that each weekday I can spend from 3pm to 5pm just doing pottery! I haven't made a lot of stuff, but I'm enjoying myself thoroughly. Maybe I should take a Red Rocks ceramics course this summer.
Class was really good today. We talked about Neanderthal and Cro Magnon/Homo Sapien origins of language and it was really cool. Then I got to give my presentation on language change, and it went really well! I got to recite the first three lines of Beowulf in Old English! HWAET! Yay. AND we got to talk about Indo-European, which I think is so neat. Hard to imagine English and Sanskrit sharing a common ancestor. I also got to add my bit about borrowings from Celtic vs. Old Norse because of language superiority, which I wasn't sure I'd have time for. Nice. Tomorrow we're talking about language acquisition and wild children brought up without language. Should be fascinating. Nothing will be as cool/adorable as learning about Koko the Gorilla though. Nothing.
I also really am enjoying having/making friends in my last block class, and enjoy sitting near Rita, Tasha, and Colleen. "Koko-Love" to those people. Rita has excellent snarky comments about the Muppets.
Okay, clean my room and then maybe some Rodney Yee! Later I must update about Giant Twister, Perkins, We Three, Mario Kart with Casey, and shopping.
Also - Why I worry about what changes English has in store:
http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html
The year is rapidly drawing to a close and I find myself confronted daily with thoughts of "The last time I..." Like Friday, "The Last time I paint the kiosk" or the other day "The last time I'm in Norton," or for Phat Noiz "The Last Time I make an OC Sign" etc.
Strangly, none of them have made me sad yet. A little nostalgic perhaps, as with Dark Purple, but not really sad. I think it's because although I have LOVED my Cornell Experience, I am noticing, (particularly now that I'm in a 100 level class and was one of the few upperclassmen at KYBO) that I've gotten out of this experience what Cornell has had to offer me. I've outgrown it in a way, and I'm fully ready to jump into my next big adventure, my next life experience. As sad as it will be to close this chapter in life, I'm so excited and ready to start the next one. I've never lived in a real city before!
So, my homework is on reserve in the library. OP! Guess I can't do my homework tonight! (Because walking to the library requires more effort than my senior body possesses!) How relieving to have senioritis and NOT care whether or not my homework gets done! I've never experienced this "*shrug* Oh well! NOT gonna do it!" attitude to this extent before! How refreshing.
My hands smell like clay. I had a good time down in McWethy today. I love that I have enough free time that each weekday I can spend from 3pm to 5pm just doing pottery! I haven't made a lot of stuff, but I'm enjoying myself thoroughly. Maybe I should take a Red Rocks ceramics course this summer.
Class was really good today. We talked about Neanderthal and Cro Magnon/Homo Sapien origins of language and it was really cool. Then I got to give my presentation on language change, and it went really well! I got to recite the first three lines of Beowulf in Old English! HWAET! Yay. AND we got to talk about Indo-European, which I think is so neat. Hard to imagine English and Sanskrit sharing a common ancestor. I also got to add my bit about borrowings from Celtic vs. Old Norse because of language superiority, which I wasn't sure I'd have time for. Nice. Tomorrow we're talking about language acquisition and wild children brought up without language. Should be fascinating. Nothing will be as cool/adorable as learning about Koko the Gorilla though. Nothing.
I also really am enjoying having/making friends in my last block class, and enjoy sitting near Rita, Tasha, and Colleen. "Koko-Love" to those people. Rita has excellent snarky comments about the Muppets.
Okay, clean my room and then maybe some Rodney Yee! Later I must update about Giant Twister, Perkins, We Three, Mario Kart with Casey, and shopping.
Also - Why I worry about what changes English has in store:
http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html