I'm not even sure I should say everything that's been going on with me. I grew up a bit, I mean, matured, this last week. I realized again how much I can do myself and how much I can get done and accomplish if I just stop whinning and do it. The band finally purchased a new tenor sax. I'm considering letting someone, maybe Nina if she wants, to ( Read more... )

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Despite the fact that Meg has declared Happy Day, Fridays always freak me out ( Read more... )

I just finished watching the movie "Closer". A very real account of life and love, I might say. The things we do to people for reasons we can barely descern. Mom thought it was depressing, but I thought it was real. There were some amazing lines in that film. I absolutely loved it, and totally just bought it. We can watch it in my room sometime, if ( Read more... )

Amelie makes me all mushy inside. :) Screw worrying about getting hurt. You cannot experience life better than by going in head first!

Today my professor, the only woman in the department, had all of us physics girls over for lunch and a discussion about our futures as women in physics. It was a very sobering talk. Being raised in today's world, the obstacles that I was destined to face were never acknowledged. Instead, we were all taught and drilled that we were no different then ( Read more... )

I'm still content about my decsion. If I can't vent and let out steam and cuddle and all the stuff you get with a boyfriend with my boyfriend, I want the freedom to find that somewhere else ( Read more... )

I called up an old friend from HS yesterday. I haven't seen her in years, and I invited her to go to a play with me that my sister couldn't make. I love that. People who you can just call up and talk like no time has passed. I wish she came to Oberlin. She wishes that she could go to Oberlin for just a semester. She's got awesome dreds, is on the ( Read more... )

So I went to my old work place yesterday. NIEHS, the labs I worked in for two summers after hs. Anyone who knew me then knows I was miserable. I blamed it on having to work full time for the first time ever in my life and not being ready. Then I blamed it on me not liking the subject I was working on. But being there, talking with my old collegues ( Read more... )