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- In Chicago. Visited Shimer, which is a good school, but has the problem of not being in New York or San Francisco. I guess I'll apply to it, but I dunno if I'd actually want to go. Chicago is nice, but I dunno if I want to live here. It's cold here, and the Ambulances sound like warning sirens when they go by.
- I missed the Dane being in the city. I feel bad, but what can I do? I wish that she had stayed for longer, but she had no one to hang out with and left because she was just sitting around all day in her dad's girlfriend's apartment. She asked me to visit MD soon, so I need to figure that out. I feel like I'm always figuring out trips. I don't know why I'm such a pussy about moving way from New York, I'm always traveling anyway.
- Having a crush on somebody again is scary.
- Finished making my notes in the first Harry Potter. I'm going to write an afterward and then move on to the next one. I don't know if anyone but me will ever want to read it, but it's a good excuse to reread them. There's so much you forget and so much you remember wrong. It's also pretty surprising when she foreshadows stuff that will happen in the last book. It really makes me wonder if she planned a lot of stuff in advance, and if that's why the sixth book seems so differently written then the other five. The other thing I realized is that up until around the fourth, or maybe even sixth book in style, Harry Potter is an English, boy's detective novel. It takes place in a public school, Harry has a group of friends who help him with the mystery, and he has several tasks outside of it he has to deal with. In a way, Harry Potter is more of a Mystery then a fantasy novel. I think this may be why, or one of the reasons, it's so good.
- It's Oscar Wilde's birthday today. In four days it will Rimbaud's. I wonder a lot what Oscar Wilde thought of Rimbaud and if they would have gotten along. I think not, especially if they had met when they were both 17.
- Tomorrow I'm going to see Northwestern, which is much too expensive, but still a good school. Then home, which I've heard has also become quite cold.
- I missed the Dane being in the city. I feel bad, but what can I do? I wish that she had stayed for longer, but she had no one to hang out with and left because she was just sitting around all day in her dad's girlfriend's apartment. She asked me to visit MD soon, so I need to figure that out. I feel like I'm always figuring out trips. I don't know why I'm such a pussy about moving way from New York, I'm always traveling anyway.
- Having a crush on somebody again is scary.
- Finished making my notes in the first Harry Potter. I'm going to write an afterward and then move on to the next one. I don't know if anyone but me will ever want to read it, but it's a good excuse to reread them. There's so much you forget and so much you remember wrong. It's also pretty surprising when she foreshadows stuff that will happen in the last book. It really makes me wonder if she planned a lot of stuff in advance, and if that's why the sixth book seems so differently written then the other five. The other thing I realized is that up until around the fourth, or maybe even sixth book in style, Harry Potter is an English, boy's detective novel. It takes place in a public school, Harry has a group of friends who help him with the mystery, and he has several tasks outside of it he has to deal with. In a way, Harry Potter is more of a Mystery then a fantasy novel. I think this may be why, or one of the reasons, it's so good.
- It's Oscar Wilde's birthday today. In four days it will Rimbaud's. I wonder a lot what Oscar Wilde thought of Rimbaud and if they would have gotten along. I think not, especially if they had met when they were both 17.
- Tomorrow I'm going to see Northwestern, which is much too expensive, but still a good school. Then home, which I've heard has also become quite cold.