Let me preface this entry by saying that I saw my grandmother (in my immediate memory) probably less than 5 times in my entire life, some lengthier than others, but you can hardly form strong bonds from probably a total of a 2 months together with half of a common language. Even with the blood tie, it's difficult ( Read more... )

Had a bit of a "Classical Music Workshop" yesterday, aka my dad asked my half-sisters over and we all listened to classical music and chatted about it. Well, mostly they chatted about it. I was trying not to do anything that would potentially anger my uterus, such as: eat, not eat, be too warm, be too cold, sit up straight, lean back, etc. So you ( Read more... )

Exhausted. I am. I didn't even call my parents tonight because by the time I finished watching When Harry Met Sally it was 10:30 and I was worried they would have gone to bed, but now I'm a little worried they'll be like "KATIE DIDN'T CALL SHE ABANDONED US" which is TOTALLY not the case but I kind of wish my dad wouldn't sound so depressed every ( Read more... )

some days I get frustrated at colleges in general because it seems like they are these big, looming, cold institutions made of steel and concrete who fail to look at individual amazingness. Unfortunately, they are institutions and I just need to stop complaining about them.

But I will say that the week after prom I'm going to have to take that ( Read more... )

Wow, my brain hurts.

Today was Pi day, and the day of the one-act play on substance abuse (I wonder if I'm the only person who was actually vaguely excited for it? Yes, yes, probably, I am weird, I know.) I'm glad it exceeded everyone's expectations, however, I know I enjoyed it because there were actually quite a few funny bits. I also got told ( Read more... )

I'm a little upset now (but in a good way).

My half-brother sent me a CD, I guess as a thank-you for going to see my niece/plus I invited her to come along to England with me over the summer, so it's gonna be the two of us backpacking around and I'm going to have to be the most experienced person there. But I'm still really excited about the trip.

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 Family over this morning for a flipping 2-hour breakfast. All of the current Wright children are nephews (+grand-nephews). I mean they are kind of adorable, but I seriously don't understand how anyone could have one child (let alone two) and not, like, go crazy. The talk at the big table was rants about politics, and I kept my nose out of it ( Read more... )

Hrm. Today I went to creek clean up, had fun wandering around in the woods, then went home where my dad was ornery because Arsenal was playing badly and in turn made my mom ornery by criticizing her birthday gift for my grand-nephew. Then my mom proceeded to make me ornery by complaining about how there are so many kids in orphanages. So my dad and ( Read more... )

So, um, I did my shopping this weekend (like a good girl) and got a gift card for the family we've "adopted" in my advisee, although I swear to god if none of those other rich girls in my advisee do anything I'm going to be MIGHTY ANGRY. especially since it was THEIR IDEA, but apparently the idea of buying things for a single mother and her XXXL ( Read more... )

I went out to lunch with my nephews today.... They're really crazy kids. And of course they love rooting through my room so that all I can really do is stand back and look bemused while they look for all my old pokemon stuff. Ah well. Such is life ( Read more... )