I've made it to day 3.  My first real midterm was last night (for math).  It was very typically IB, I thought.  Before that, I had a surprising lunch with Rob.  I've finished a paper so now have one more to go, due Friday morning.  I have big plans for it.  And tonight I get to experience people auditioning for a part in a one act play I wrote.  ( Read more... )

Staying up till 5 a.m. and going fishing with a ten-yr-old from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. is perhaps the perfect recipe for happiness (and sleepiness).  I've never seen someone get so excited about fish.  When they were finally dead, he held them up and called them mama fish.  Maybe the only time I've almost cried over fish.

What a wonderful couple of days.  California weather and California things are happening.

The freshmen are all starting to read in each other's rooms and stuff--it's great.  That was such a big step for us last year, the welcomed invasion of personal space (a very small personal space).  How close they'll all get, how many diversions from work ( Read more... )

It's a wonderful thing--slipping easily into the pants that didn't fit at the end of last year.

This is getting pretty pointless, but here I am anyway.  Got a car, got some sheets, got some shampoo, and I think I'm ready for year 2.  I leave in less than two weeks.  I like that I'm not running from anything.  I'm just leaving, leaving like I did last year and like I'll do next year.  But I'm starting to really love leaving.  Maybe I mean ( Read more... )

I am exhausted.  And does anybody know when Raging Waters got lame?

We're all so young!  And weird!  And, damn, so vague!

Let's run through the hills of change!  corruption!  contact!

I am so in love with YOU, and the WORLD.  Maybe the WORLD YOU create, too.  So keep on creating those WORLDS!

I spent the weekend with Erika at Lake Arrowhead.  I wonder how many people have said that exact sentence?  Probably several.  Oh well.  I've stopped wanting to be original.  I threw all my old corsages away today.  They were getting all over the place, and I am less sentimental now.  Anyway, Arrowhead was great.  Nothing much else new to report ( Read more... )

I made this finger puppet for Neha's party.  It was a hit, I think.  The puppet and the party.


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I was going to post a picture from the concert last night, but then I looked at it, and it is awful.  I think most concert photos are awful, at least when people try to take a picture of the stage.  So we can all just imagine the LA Philharmonic behind The Decemberists, playing their songs like they're supposed to be played.  It was so nice hearing ( Read more... )