Hissez-ho, Santiano
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Finally back home. Yeah, I was only away for a weekend, but it was a busy weekend!
Daddy and I went 'college shopping' this weekend and headed down to SoCal (SIX HOUR DRIVE! six hours in a car through the Nothing of California! Seriously, on one side it was jagged rocky mountain-hills covered in green-brown scrub grass, and on the other side it was FLAT. Flat flat flat! Sometimes it was flat on BOTH sides! Okay, there was one orange field that broke it up for a couple miles, and a couple nut-tree groves. Plus a giant stockyard for cows, but that just STUNK. Six hours of this!). We went down to take a look at the Claremont colleges, specifically Claremont itself, as well as Pomona and Scripps. And maybe just kind of peek at Fullerton while we were down there.
So, Thursday was pretty much spent in the car. I think I fell asleep a couple hours into it (the sun was still up) but when I woke up it was like someone had dropped a blanket over the fishbowl we call Earth! Seriously! Pitch black, with NO light pollution AT ALL except from the other lonely cars and trucks out there on that abandoned road. Well, it wasn't really abandoned, but that's sure as heck what it felt like, what with NO LIGHT AT ALL anywhere. It felt kind of creepy, really, to only be able to see the moon and then the patch of road that the headlights were lighting up.
We got to the hotel at just about ten, and pretty much fell asleep after getting into the room. We were getting up early - needed to have breakfast done with by just after 8 so we could get to the colleges by 9. That's when our first appointment was for, and with Claremont! That's pretty much where Daddy and I spent the morning, or at least until 11 am, when we hopped over to Pomona for their information session.
I didn't really like Pomona as much as Claremont. :/ I'm sure it's a nice school, but...The lady was just kind of lackluster. And not very informative. Kind of the same thing with Scripps later that afternoon. Just not much energy.
But we had a break between Pomona and Scripps, because I wasn't feeling good and my interview (as well as the tour) wasn't scheduled until 2 pm. So we went looking for food, and found the most AWESOME sushi place ever. My God! It was so good! Miyabi's, I think, was the restaurant. Mmmmm. God, that was good sushi. I mean, REALLY GOOD sushi.
...Dammit, now I want sushi again. D;
But then we wnt back to the colleges, and, like I said, I didn't really like Scripps that much. It's an absolutely beautiful campus, seriously, but...I dunno. I didn't much like the fact that it's an all women's college either. Now, there is nothing wrong with women's colleges; I think their great! I just didn't like this one. It felt way too... well, 'feminine.' I like feeling like a lady and all, but it just...eh. I dunno. Besides, I don't like all-female company. Again, nothing wrong with female company (hell, I'm female and my own company 24/7!), but it just felt too passive, almost.
(And I don't know how to say this without opening myself up for all kinds of possible innuendos...) I like male company. I like having men and boys around, the boisterousness and competition and energy they bring with them. Plus, they're warm! Have you ever snuggled a boy before when you're cold? They're always freaking furnaces! Plus, they give good hugs. Like, Oni. I LOVE him, he gives the best hugs. I can just kind of grab onto him and hang onto him and he'll do the exact same thing! he hugs back just as intensely as you hug him in the first place. And Murph, too. And Henri, and Anth, and Miles and Will and Dan and pretty much all the boys I know will do that to some extent. Not every one of them, but most of them.
So, yeah. I like male company. I like it a lot. Dipping into Eastern philosophy, but the whole yin-and-yang thing, I like it. It works for me.
So yeah. Another knock against Scripps, at least for me.
But dude. CLAREMONT MCKENNA. -starry eyed- Oh my God, I LOVE THIS PLACE. I want to go to Claremont sooooo badly! Even more than St. Mary's! The people and the campus and the Athenaeum and the students and the faculty and the classes and the dorms and the policies and the connections and good God I'm babbling but it's such an AWESOME SCHOOL! -fangirls-
Yes. I'm kind of giddy about it, really, and I haven't even finished my application. Whoo.
I think the leftover giddiness from visiting Claremont is what kept me awake for the entire ride back this time. Of course, part of it could have been because I was driving for at least two to three hours of it. And the entire bag of junk food that Daddy and I picked up at a rest station. Nothing we ate today was healthy at all. :D Not in the slightest!
OH OH OH. I forgot to mention this place - Daddy took me to a tapas restaurant Friday night, for dinner. And, HOMFG. BEST. TAPAS. EVER. Seriously! And the restaurant was so cool! This tiny little dimly-lit, over-crowded, oddly-decorated place just crammed full of tables and people and so much noise but it was some of the best food I've ever had. I'm so going back there again. Completely. It was almost better than the sushi restaurant. GOOD GOD, MAN. I am in love with this place.
Also, while we were there, Daddy and I accidentally started coming up with ideas for what this place would look like as a WWII tavern in a Tiny Town In France, and then we started coming up with people (Old Tourov, the bartender and tavern owner? He does talk much, him. And he does not like the Resistance using his tavern - but he likes the Germans even less. And Alexi? Nobody knows much about him - except Tourov. But, he does not talk much...) and so on and so forth. I have ten major characters for a story now, as well as the hint of a plot and several incidents and climactic plot points. It was an excellent night. :D
It was a good weekend. I'm still glad to be home, though.
And now, meme time! Whoo! Yoinked this from iambickilometer :D
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- What I create will be just for you.
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- You will receive your item before the end of the year (or sooner).
- You will have no clue what the item is going to be. It could be a story or poetry. It could be a piece of handmade jewellery or an art doll. I may draw, paint, collage or knit something. I might bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to repost this meme and make and send out five surprises of your own.
Oh, and if I don't have your address and you're comfortable giving it to me, drop me an email or a PM or something. :D
Victims Um, I mean, gift recipients so far are:
1. eerisedda
2. witchy_elphaba
Finally back home. Yeah, I was only away for a weekend, but it was a busy weekend!
Daddy and I went 'college shopping' this weekend and headed down to SoCal (SIX HOUR DRIVE! six hours in a car through the Nothing of California! Seriously, on one side it was jagged rocky mountain-hills covered in green-brown scrub grass, and on the other side it was FLAT. Flat flat flat! Sometimes it was flat on BOTH sides! Okay, there was one orange field that broke it up for a couple miles, and a couple nut-tree groves. Plus a giant stockyard for cows, but that just STUNK. Six hours of this!). We went down to take a look at the Claremont colleges, specifically Claremont itself, as well as Pomona and Scripps. And maybe just kind of peek at Fullerton while we were down there.
So, Thursday was pretty much spent in the car. I think I fell asleep a couple hours into it (the sun was still up) but when I woke up it was like someone had dropped a blanket over the fishbowl we call Earth! Seriously! Pitch black, with NO light pollution AT ALL except from the other lonely cars and trucks out there on that abandoned road. Well, it wasn't really abandoned, but that's sure as heck what it felt like, what with NO LIGHT AT ALL anywhere. It felt kind of creepy, really, to only be able to see the moon and then the patch of road that the headlights were lighting up.
We got to the hotel at just about ten, and pretty much fell asleep after getting into the room. We were getting up early - needed to have breakfast done with by just after 8 so we could get to the colleges by 9. That's when our first appointment was for, and with Claremont! That's pretty much where Daddy and I spent the morning, or at least until 11 am, when we hopped over to Pomona for their information session.
I didn't really like Pomona as much as Claremont. :/ I'm sure it's a nice school, but...The lady was just kind of lackluster. And not very informative. Kind of the same thing with Scripps later that afternoon. Just not much energy.
But we had a break between Pomona and Scripps, because I wasn't feeling good and my interview (as well as the tour) wasn't scheduled until 2 pm. So we went looking for food, and found the most AWESOME sushi place ever. My God! It was so good! Miyabi's, I think, was the restaurant. Mmmmm. God, that was good sushi. I mean, REALLY GOOD sushi.
...Dammit, now I want sushi again. D;
But then we wnt back to the colleges, and, like I said, I didn't really like Scripps that much. It's an absolutely beautiful campus, seriously, but...I dunno. I didn't much like the fact that it's an all women's college either. Now, there is nothing wrong with women's colleges; I think their great! I just didn't like this one. It felt way too... well, 'feminine.' I like feeling like a lady and all, but it just...eh. I dunno. Besides, I don't like all-female company. Again, nothing wrong with female company (hell, I'm female and my own company 24/7!), but it just felt too passive, almost.
(And I don't know how to say this without opening myself up for all kinds of possible innuendos...) I like male company. I like having men and boys around, the boisterousness and competition and energy they bring with them. Plus, they're warm! Have you ever snuggled a boy before when you're cold? They're always freaking furnaces! Plus, they give good hugs. Like, Oni. I LOVE him, he gives the best hugs. I can just kind of grab onto him and hang onto him and he'll do the exact same thing! he hugs back just as intensely as you hug him in the first place. And Murph, too. And Henri, and Anth, and Miles and Will and Dan and pretty much all the boys I know will do that to some extent. Not every one of them, but most of them.
So, yeah. I like male company. I like it a lot. Dipping into Eastern philosophy, but the whole yin-and-yang thing, I like it. It works for me.
So yeah. Another knock against Scripps, at least for me.
But dude. CLAREMONT MCKENNA. -starry eyed- Oh my God, I LOVE THIS PLACE. I want to go to Claremont sooooo badly! Even more than St. Mary's! The people and the campus and the Athenaeum and the students and the faculty and the classes and the dorms and the policies and the connections and good God I'm babbling but it's such an AWESOME SCHOOL! -fangirls-
Yes. I'm kind of giddy about it, really, and I haven't even finished my application. Whoo.
I think the leftover giddiness from visiting Claremont is what kept me awake for the entire ride back this time. Of course, part of it could have been because I was driving for at least two to three hours of it. And the entire bag of junk food that Daddy and I picked up at a rest station. Nothing we ate today was healthy at all. :D Not in the slightest!
OH OH OH. I forgot to mention this place - Daddy took me to a tapas restaurant Friday night, for dinner. And, HOMFG. BEST. TAPAS. EVER. Seriously! And the restaurant was so cool! This tiny little dimly-lit, over-crowded, oddly-decorated place just crammed full of tables and people and so much noise but it was some of the best food I've ever had. I'm so going back there again. Completely. It was almost better than the sushi restaurant. GOOD GOD, MAN. I am in love with this place.
Also, while we were there, Daddy and I accidentally started coming up with ideas for what this place would look like as a WWII tavern in a Tiny Town In France, and then we started coming up with people (Old Tourov, the bartender and tavern owner? He does talk much, him. And he does not like the Resistance using his tavern - but he likes the Germans even less. And Alexi? Nobody knows much about him - except Tourov. But, he does not talk much...) and so on and so forth. I have ten major characters for a story now, as well as the hint of a plot and several incidents and climactic plot points. It was an excellent night. :D
It was a good weekend. I'm still glad to be home, though.
And now, meme time! Whoo! Yoinked this from iambickilometer :D
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- What I create will be just for you.
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- You will receive your item before the end of the year (or sooner).
- You will have no clue what the item is going to be. It could be a story or poetry. It could be a piece of handmade jewellery or an art doll. I may draw, paint, collage or knit something. I might bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to repost this meme and make and send out five surprises of your own.
Oh, and if I don't have your address and you're comfortable giving it to me, drop me an email or a PM or something. :D
Victims Um, I mean, gift recipients so far are:
1. eerisedda
2. witchy_elphaba