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so i've had such a bizarre couple of days....
i'm supposed to buy my class ring tonight at dining hall...getting it in yellow gold and i'm getting it for my pinky. i'm trying to avoid the whole chunky class ring thing and pinky rings are very delicate-looking...and a little different.
but yeah, they're actually classier than most - i hate that shit with the stones....yech. here's the description:
"each gold ring features the official school seal. this seal includes many symbolic elements. the greek letters at the top of the seal mean "by the grace of god," indicating john phillips' wish that religion play an important part in the school [so much for that...HAHA]. finis origine pendet, a school motto, translates to "the end depends upon the beginning." non sibi, another motto, means "not for oneself," and is depicted across a rising sun, over the sea of knowledge. the beehive represents a group of scholars, and the pine trees symbolize new england. the oak, recognized as the tree of strength, recalls the maxim "great oaks from little acorns grow."
i actually like the whole idea of the symbolism behind the seal (oh, and if you want to see what it actually looks like, i think it's on our school site somewhere www.exeter.edu). it makes me want to come up with my own one.
- epicureanism? sensuality?
- the ocean?
- sunshine, light...?
- something about literature?
- the south?
in addition, i've been chosen to be a senior class gift representative. cool, right? mmm.....not so much. i basically have to go around to all the girls in our dorm and mooch money off of them for our class gift. the representatives are supposed to raise something like $30,000 which seems absurdly high. the money is apparently supposed to go into a fund to provide scholarships for prospective athletes who can't pay for equipment....i was pretty disappointed in their fund choice, but oh well.
"is this what they call hate on a saturday night?
broken beer bottles, broken beer bottles
hey! it's just jocks high on hormones
is this what they call hate on a saturday night?"
anyway, two nights ago, i found out that one of my good friends from last year, dunfee, got in a pretty hideous skiing accident out in aspen, colorado. he'd been skiing there with some of his friends from williams (where he's in college now). dunfee's a great skier, however it seems that he messed up a jump and ended up landing on his back. my monday night was hideous after i found out. kate and i had very little news about him other than that he had been operated on earlier that day. we were all afraid that he was going to be paralyzed. two of his vertebrae had shattered and had pierced his spinal cord?? however, it looks like he's going to be walking in a week and will be back at school in 5-7. when i found out yesterday afternoon, it was a huge weight off of my back. he's just such a great kid.
naturally, when i'd called my mom in tears about it monday night, the first thing she said was, "well any doubts i had about you learning to ski are settled. you ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO GO SKIING WHILE YOU ARE EXETER."
thanks, mom....(although, i'm inclined to agree with her sentiment. i've pretty much lost my desire.)
in addition, my good friend/teacher, ms. cushner, has officially departed exeter. that was another truly sad time for me, but she's really excited to be leaving. she hadn't even finished grad school when she came back to teach religion classes here last year. anyway, she decided to leave after this past term and go to india to live on a tibetan commune and learn the local dialect, in addition to hindu and erdu. she's pretty much my idol...haha. the woman can already speak sanskrit, latin, and greek and she's funny and irreverant as all hell. anyway, before she left, she gave me a copy of jonathan livingston seagull, a book i'm sure you all remember from elementary school days.
don't dismiss it on these grounds, however. i read it back then, too, and the only thing i got out of it was a greater respect for seagulls. at that age, i completely missed the philosophy behind it - it's such a wonderful book. no wonder it was such a cult classic back in seventies when it first came out. more importantly, it relayed a point ms. cushner had always tried to give to me....and it made me miss her all the more.
before she left, she told me that she would be attending berkeley for grad-school and asked me to be her roommate if i ended up getting in there. i was saddened to realize that she wouldn't be around for me to share my college admissions/rejections with....i won't be able to talk to her for months. she will be able to receive emails at her old dartmouth address (where she went for undergrad), however she won't be able to check them until after she comes back.
and i pray that i get into berkeley....
in other news, trendwatch almost got cancelled because we have this bitchy new arts and features editor who has some grudge against what the article represents. sweet. she probably needs to grow up. probably.
also, my friend jackson and i have a radio show on WPEA, our school radio station which broadcasts i think twenty-thirty miles off campus???? we were almost convinced that no one listens until someone called in recently. it was comforting. we've had two shows thus far, featuring :
FIRST SHOW:
1. call me - blondie
2. just another girl - pete yorn
3. miracle drug - a.c. newman
4. uptown girl - billy joel
5. the blower's daughter - damien rice CURRENT FAVOURITE SONG
6. five years - seu jorge (from the life aquatic soundtrack - features bowie songs in PORTUGESE. GET THIS CD.)
7. space oddity - david bowie (obviously had to have a follow-up song)
8. staralfur - sigur ros
9. simonize - pete yorn
10. femme fatale - velvet underground feat. nico (anything for a femme fatale)
11. all the pretty girls go to the city - spoon
SECOND SHOW:
1. what's my age again? - blink-182 (OBVIOUSLY)
2. freetime - kenna
3. thin line - jurassic 5 featuring nelly furtado
4. mr. roboto - styx?maybe?notsure?
5. i put a spell on you - nina simone
6. the way i feel inside - the zombies
7. i just don't know what to do with myself - the white stripes
8. billy liar - the decemberists
9. the stars of track and field - belle and sebastian
10. alone again or - love
11. life on mars? - david bowie AGAIN (my co-dj loves bowie)
12. i was made to love her - stevie wonder
13. auf achse - franz ferdinand
14. how good it can be - 88
it's a big rock and roll party.
finally, i guess my most exciting news is that i'm going down to brown-town, usa to visit isabelle this weekend with davis. he's going to visit his brother (yes, that one) who also goes to brown. we have a three day weekend, so we're taking the downeaster into boston and then taking the commuter train out of south station to providence. i'm so excited to see iz - i have missed her and cordy so much this year.
i'm so happy to get off campus, too.
AND - the most amazing thing - as i've been writing this, i just found out that cordy's applying to transfer out of bucknell to brown. so this leaves us with
isabelle going to brown
me applying for a freshman year there
and cordy applying to transfer there as a sophomore
ICK COULD BE REUNITED!
HUGE!
anyway, it's time for me to do some work. i'm sposed to go on the homeless vigil walk tonight and i have a photo project to shoot. blah. and a bio test tomorrow. BLAH BLAH BLAH.
kbye.
i'm supposed to buy my class ring tonight at dining hall...getting it in yellow gold and i'm getting it for my pinky. i'm trying to avoid the whole chunky class ring thing and pinky rings are very delicate-looking...and a little different.
but yeah, they're actually classier than most - i hate that shit with the stones....yech. here's the description:
"each gold ring features the official school seal. this seal includes many symbolic elements. the greek letters at the top of the seal mean "by the grace of god," indicating john phillips' wish that religion play an important part in the school [so much for that...HAHA]. finis origine pendet, a school motto, translates to "the end depends upon the beginning." non sibi, another motto, means "not for oneself," and is depicted across a rising sun, over the sea of knowledge. the beehive represents a group of scholars, and the pine trees symbolize new england. the oak, recognized as the tree of strength, recalls the maxim "great oaks from little acorns grow."
i actually like the whole idea of the symbolism behind the seal (oh, and if you want to see what it actually looks like, i think it's on our school site somewhere www.exeter.edu). it makes me want to come up with my own one.
- epicureanism? sensuality?
- the ocean?
- sunshine, light...?
- something about literature?
- the south?
in addition, i've been chosen to be a senior class gift representative. cool, right? mmm.....not so much. i basically have to go around to all the girls in our dorm and mooch money off of them for our class gift. the representatives are supposed to raise something like $30,000 which seems absurdly high. the money is apparently supposed to go into a fund to provide scholarships for prospective athletes who can't pay for equipment....i was pretty disappointed in their fund choice, but oh well.
"is this what they call hate on a saturday night?
broken beer bottles, broken beer bottles
hey! it's just jocks high on hormones
is this what they call hate on a saturday night?"
anyway, two nights ago, i found out that one of my good friends from last year, dunfee, got in a pretty hideous skiing accident out in aspen, colorado. he'd been skiing there with some of his friends from williams (where he's in college now). dunfee's a great skier, however it seems that he messed up a jump and ended up landing on his back. my monday night was hideous after i found out. kate and i had very little news about him other than that he had been operated on earlier that day. we were all afraid that he was going to be paralyzed. two of his vertebrae had shattered and had pierced his spinal cord?? however, it looks like he's going to be walking in a week and will be back at school in 5-7. when i found out yesterday afternoon, it was a huge weight off of my back. he's just such a great kid.
naturally, when i'd called my mom in tears about it monday night, the first thing she said was, "well any doubts i had about you learning to ski are settled. you ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO GO SKIING WHILE YOU ARE EXETER."
thanks, mom....(although, i'm inclined to agree with her sentiment. i've pretty much lost my desire.)
in addition, my good friend/teacher, ms. cushner, has officially departed exeter. that was another truly sad time for me, but she's really excited to be leaving. she hadn't even finished grad school when she came back to teach religion classes here last year. anyway, she decided to leave after this past term and go to india to live on a tibetan commune and learn the local dialect, in addition to hindu and erdu. she's pretty much my idol...haha. the woman can already speak sanskrit, latin, and greek and she's funny and irreverant as all hell. anyway, before she left, she gave me a copy of jonathan livingston seagull, a book i'm sure you all remember from elementary school days.
don't dismiss it on these grounds, however. i read it back then, too, and the only thing i got out of it was a greater respect for seagulls. at that age, i completely missed the philosophy behind it - it's such a wonderful book. no wonder it was such a cult classic back in seventies when it first came out. more importantly, it relayed a point ms. cushner had always tried to give to me....and it made me miss her all the more.
before she left, she told me that she would be attending berkeley for grad-school and asked me to be her roommate if i ended up getting in there. i was saddened to realize that she wouldn't be around for me to share my college admissions/rejections with....i won't be able to talk to her for months. she will be able to receive emails at her old dartmouth address (where she went for undergrad), however she won't be able to check them until after she comes back.
and i pray that i get into berkeley....
in other news, trendwatch almost got cancelled because we have this bitchy new arts and features editor who has some grudge against what the article represents. sweet. she probably needs to grow up. probably.
also, my friend jackson and i have a radio show on WPEA, our school radio station which broadcasts i think twenty-thirty miles off campus???? we were almost convinced that no one listens until someone called in recently. it was comforting. we've had two shows thus far, featuring :
FIRST SHOW:
1. call me - blondie
2. just another girl - pete yorn
3. miracle drug - a.c. newman
4. uptown girl - billy joel
5. the blower's daughter - damien rice CURRENT FAVOURITE SONG
6. five years - seu jorge (from the life aquatic soundtrack - features bowie songs in PORTUGESE. GET THIS CD.)
7. space oddity - david bowie (obviously had to have a follow-up song)
8. staralfur - sigur ros
9. simonize - pete yorn
10. femme fatale - velvet underground feat. nico (anything for a femme fatale)
11. all the pretty girls go to the city - spoon
SECOND SHOW:
1. what's my age again? - blink-182 (OBVIOUSLY)
2. freetime - kenna
3. thin line - jurassic 5 featuring nelly furtado
4. mr. roboto - styx?maybe?notsure?
5. i put a spell on you - nina simone
6. the way i feel inside - the zombies
7. i just don't know what to do with myself - the white stripes
8. billy liar - the decemberists
9. the stars of track and field - belle and sebastian
10. alone again or - love
11. life on mars? - david bowie AGAIN (my co-dj loves bowie)
12. i was made to love her - stevie wonder
13. auf achse - franz ferdinand
14. how good it can be - 88
it's a big rock and roll party.
finally, i guess my most exciting news is that i'm going down to brown-town, usa to visit isabelle this weekend with davis. he's going to visit his brother (yes, that one) who also goes to brown. we have a three day weekend, so we're taking the downeaster into boston and then taking the commuter train out of south station to providence. i'm so excited to see iz - i have missed her and cordy so much this year.
i'm so happy to get off campus, too.
AND - the most amazing thing - as i've been writing this, i just found out that cordy's applying to transfer out of bucknell to brown. so this leaves us with
isabelle going to brown
me applying for a freshman year there
and cordy applying to transfer there as a sophomore
ICK COULD BE REUNITED!
HUGE!
anyway, it's time for me to do some work. i'm sposed to go on the homeless vigil walk tonight and i have a photo project to shoot. blah. and a bio test tomorrow. BLAH BLAH BLAH.
kbye.