Part II
Let's see what else I've failed to ever post about...
-June 3rd was also the end of my relationship with Gene.
-I met Kevin in the fall -he played the alto sax in the band- and we dated for just over a year. He's now at the Wilmington campus of Widener Law School. He wants to work for the state government, probably of NJ, as a public defender type awesome legal eagle. We broke up this fall...irreconcilable differences.
-We're still vacationing in Emerald Isle, NC. This summer marked our 10th year in the same house of fun. I love it there and I hope to go back every summer until the end of time.
-I changed my major to Business Management (with minors in International Business, Economics, and French), in large part because of finances, and also in large part to the fact that I did not want to miss my senior season of marching band. It was the best decision I think I have ever made.
-I'm still living off-campus. I have wonderful roomies - there's a quiet math grad student who cooks delicious-smelling food all the time, a girl from my home county who I actually know through 4-H when we were kids, and Rae the love of my life, who was in the marching band. She and I are fated to live together - she was my roommate at band camp our freshman year! We're a chill, quiet, and clean group of girls, and that's just how I like it!
-I'm not sure what I'm doing next year. I'll be applying to grad schools this spring, and also to a program at NGC for recent college grads to gain work experience in various business sectors. We'll see how it all goes. Either way, I'll be moving home at the end of this coming summer- wish me luck!
-Things with grandpa are still meh. We visited after christmas and had a rip-roaring debate about the end of oil and the end of the world, as well as the inherent flaws in the current way we define and use economics. My strategy is to contest the big points or things which I feel are grievously wrong, and not take any of it too seriously. He's always chosen to only believe the facts and figures that he wants to believe. (He has figures from who-knows-where that allegedly prove that Christianity is growing in the US as a percent of the population, and that 90-something percent of teens believe in angels. I really have to say that I think the first idea is utterly wrong, and as for teens and angels, that's plausible, but believing in angels or spirits makes you spiritual, not religious, and certainly does not automatically make you Christian.)
-Grandpa is working on his autobiography which denounces the American way of life, even though the education and job the US provided him to attain the American dream: have a nice house which you own outright, own a car, maybe have something fun...and then some. Grandpa owned two houses at one point, more than one car, and the farm house had a pool, 125 acres of land, tractors, and two boats because it was waterfront. Of course, he can't see the irony in his American Dream life, he just mocks the rest of us for wanting these things. In case you were wondering, he only disparages my family, claims we never visited him at all, and utterly neglects to mention Katy or me at all. He doesn't even use the word "granddaughters" once. He did, however, write a several-page-long appendix for economist Adam Smith.
-Thanksgiving 07 was spent in Palm Springs, CA. Katy went with her club field hockey team to a giant tournament out there, and mom and I joined the fun. We stayed in Laguna Beach the first night, and had many various adventures in CA. It's a weird state, haha -you drive through the desert and the arid mountains, and all of a sudden you stumble into a city in the middle of dry dirt, made possible by water piped in from some river a thousand miles away.
-This semester was really rough. Delta Sigma Pi (oh wow by the way, I joined a professional business fraternity - I'm a founding brother :)) placed a lot of demands on my schedule, on top of marching band, Collegiate 4-H, attempting to have a life, and classes. I managed to do well, except for Econ 302Honors-Banking & Monetary Policy with a senile guy who knew everything and everyone ever having to do with economics, but who couldn't teach it to us at all. 3.9 this semester, 3.86 overall.
-OH hey big news - I am going to Martinique this winter session. I'll be gone Jan 2 through Feb 5. Mail is slow but I will very happily send you a post card!! Just email or FB your address!
I'll be taking Caribbean Culture: Modern Martinique and Caribbean Literature in Translation With A Focus on Martiniquan (? is that a word) Authors.
-June 3rd was also the end of my relationship with Gene.
-I met Kevin in the fall -he played the alto sax in the band- and we dated for just over a year. He's now at the Wilmington campus of Widener Law School. He wants to work for the state government, probably of NJ, as a public defender type awesome legal eagle. We broke up this fall...irreconcilable differences.
-We're still vacationing in Emerald Isle, NC. This summer marked our 10th year in the same house of fun. I love it there and I hope to go back every summer until the end of time.
-I changed my major to Business Management (with minors in International Business, Economics, and French), in large part because of finances, and also in large part to the fact that I did not want to miss my senior season of marching band. It was the best decision I think I have ever made.
-I'm still living off-campus. I have wonderful roomies - there's a quiet math grad student who cooks delicious-smelling food all the time, a girl from my home county who I actually know through 4-H when we were kids, and Rae the love of my life, who was in the marching band. She and I are fated to live together - she was my roommate at band camp our freshman year! We're a chill, quiet, and clean group of girls, and that's just how I like it!
-I'm not sure what I'm doing next year. I'll be applying to grad schools this spring, and also to a program at NGC for recent college grads to gain work experience in various business sectors. We'll see how it all goes. Either way, I'll be moving home at the end of this coming summer- wish me luck!
-Things with grandpa are still meh. We visited after christmas and had a rip-roaring debate about the end of oil and the end of the world, as well as the inherent flaws in the current way we define and use economics. My strategy is to contest the big points or things which I feel are grievously wrong, and not take any of it too seriously. He's always chosen to only believe the facts and figures that he wants to believe. (He has figures from who-knows-where that allegedly prove that Christianity is growing in the US as a percent of the population, and that 90-something percent of teens believe in angels. I really have to say that I think the first idea is utterly wrong, and as for teens and angels, that's plausible, but believing in angels or spirits makes you spiritual, not religious, and certainly does not automatically make you Christian.)
-Grandpa is working on his autobiography which denounces the American way of life, even though the education and job the US provided him to attain the American dream: have a nice house which you own outright, own a car, maybe have something fun...and then some. Grandpa owned two houses at one point, more than one car, and the farm house had a pool, 125 acres of land, tractors, and two boats because it was waterfront. Of course, he can't see the irony in his American Dream life, he just mocks the rest of us for wanting these things. In case you were wondering, he only disparages my family, claims we never visited him at all, and utterly neglects to mention Katy or me at all. He doesn't even use the word "granddaughters" once. He did, however, write a several-page-long appendix for economist Adam Smith.
-Thanksgiving 07 was spent in Palm Springs, CA. Katy went with her club field hockey team to a giant tournament out there, and mom and I joined the fun. We stayed in Laguna Beach the first night, and had many various adventures in CA. It's a weird state, haha -you drive through the desert and the arid mountains, and all of a sudden you stumble into a city in the middle of dry dirt, made possible by water piped in from some river a thousand miles away.
-This semester was really rough. Delta Sigma Pi (oh wow by the way, I joined a professional business fraternity - I'm a founding brother :)) placed a lot of demands on my schedule, on top of marching band, Collegiate 4-H, attempting to have a life, and classes. I managed to do well, except for Econ 302Honors-Banking & Monetary Policy with a senile guy who knew everything and everyone ever having to do with economics, but who couldn't teach it to us at all. 3.9 this semester, 3.86 overall.
-OH hey big news - I am going to Martinique this winter session. I'll be gone Jan 2 through Feb 5. Mail is slow but I will very happily send you a post card!! Just email or FB your address!
I'll be taking Caribbean Culture: Modern Martinique and Caribbean Literature in Translation With A Focus on Martiniquan (? is that a word) Authors.