tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58100822011-07-07T16:09:09.157-07:00Dancing through Lifeisilmenoreply@blogger.comBlogger13931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-27170469991888693072010-02-21T10:30:00.000-08:002010-02-21T10:30:08.927-08:00I am sick. Blech. Ew. It's the first time I've been sick away from home, and I miss my daddy. :( He just called me though and is convinced I'm dying of swine flu, which is pretty hilarious. But yes. I miss my daddy making me food and making me drink tons of water and reading to me while I lay in bed. Hmph.isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-14922219528665797112010-02-15T17:13:00.000-08:002010-02-15T17:13:24.535-08:00WOW it's been a long time since I posted. Bad Elaine!!
I finally got my package from home today containing my long-awaited contacts. However, my dad had asked me before sending it, "Do you want all of them or just half? It's a year's prescription, but you'll be back before then anyway." It made sense, so I agreed. When I received it though, I realized that "half" to my dad meant... all the isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-41094306282902075982010-01-15T01:09:00.000-08:002010-01-15T01:09:19.755-08:00I both love and hate going to the optometrist's. I love that feeling when you come out of the optometrist's office (in Costco, in my case) with that new pair of contacts on and everything that entire day looks so much clearer, brighter, and cleaner. The red sign for poultry is that much redder, the white letters gleaming clearly from a distance, inviting you to drink them in with your corrected isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-7247201481193546372010-01-12T01:59:00.000-08:002010-01-12T01:59:34.517-08:00I'm currently very pissed at my mother, so I am going to do this as a distraction.
Three names I go by:
1. Elaine
2. Super Sketchy Creeper Fo-Sho
3. Eye in the Sky
Three Jobs I have had in my life
1. Research assistant
2. Emily Dickinson Museum assistant
3. Overworked, unpaid, severely stressed, chronically insane editor-in-chief of The Amherst Student
Three Places I have lived
1. Amherst, MA
isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-66542269506557515482010-01-04T01:47:00.000-08:002010-01-04T01:47:40.989-08:00Goals for the rest of break:
-Play piano at least once every other day.
-Apply to the NPR internship.
-Figure out the newspaper website redesign.
-Sort out newspaper issues.
-Do Chinese with dad.
-Visit UCLA.
-Hang out with Andy, Sarah, Kathleen, Connie, Vicki (at least... if I'm forgetting anyone, sorry!)
-Write something about Mongolia/China and all that.
-Watch movie list.
-Read the followingisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-4265739038853826612010-01-03T00:04:00.000-08:002010-01-03T00:04:31.972-08:00During my long philosophical rant, I forgot to make resolutions!! Not that I ever stick to them or anything, but it's fun to at least make them and then compare them afterwards...
-Go to the gym. Yes, yes. I know... everyone and their mother has this resolution. But really.
-Take Florian up on his offer to go to France and have the time of my life. (This is more of a year goal.)
-Decide on a isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-25979939684083848812010-01-02T00:56:00.000-08:002010-01-02T00:56:57.433-08:00My first blog post of 2010. How strange. How long have I been blogging, anyway? I'm currently trapped at Lake Arrowhead. Not that I don't like being here--it's actually very restful.. I sat on the balcony and read in the sunshine for most of the afternoon today, but there's an Asian party going on and I can't go because no one trusts me to drive myself down.
Six hours after first starting this isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-79368746434852625252009-12-29T00:13:00.000-08:002009-12-29T00:14:20.656-08:00I just got back from Kathleen's house, where we exchanged Christmas presents, caught up, and talked about that eternal subject: boys. I got her a really cute bag by some ethnic minority or another from China (she likes 'cultural' things.. tehhee), "500 Days of Summer" and "Never Been Kissed" and she got me a pretty necklace, earrings, and a Claire's gift card to pay for me getting my ears piercedisilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-54721079121622444572009-12-28T00:04:00.000-08:002009-12-28T00:04:32.471-08:00Belated Merry Christmas, blog!! Wow. I'm talking to my blog now. This must be a low point. I've had a very productive day... in that I've wrapped two belated Christmas presents, read the entirety of "The Merchant of Venice" and finished the first season of "Glee." Yay! I'm so excited! I get to see everyone tomorrow! Well, obviously, not everyone, but we're having a tea party at Jen's house!! I'm isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-6765107635544707912009-12-15T18:40:00.000-08:002009-12-15T18:40:31.954-08:00Tim Clark is here asking Florian for French help, and Florian and I became embroiled in our classic Dickinson v. Keats battle (monkey sounds included). I then decided to ask Tim his opinion. Florian took a pen and held it to Tim's throat. Tim took one quick glance at it and then looked at me, "He has a sharp object at my throat."
I took one look at him, smiled beatifically but menacingly, and isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-9149028615129243342009-12-13T21:40:00.000-08:002009-12-13T21:40:12.636-08:00Sigh. MORE DRAMA. DRAMA EVERYWHERE! Just before finals, too! The early afternoon wasn't bad though. I rehearsed with Robert and then went to Amherst Books and Starbucks with Robert, who is awesome. He's the only sane one left. I didn't think I would ever say that. I made him promise he wouldn't declare his love for Camille or something tomorrow. He responded:
"If someone walks into my room and isisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-59677074959404423012009-12-13T01:09:00.000-08:002009-12-13T01:09:21.335-08:00I'm currently sitting by the fireplace, the warm fire blazing, Javier sketching, the Christmas tree alight, one of my favorite band's music in my ear. It's very lovely, but I'm very sad. I had to turn down one of my friends today. After hesitating about it for many days and leaving the poor guy hanging, I decided no because it really wouldn't be fair to him. He, and everyone else in the world, isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-56972779930701466012009-12-05T20:01:00.000-08:002009-12-05T20:01:15.952-08:00I'm currently sitting on Florian's bed watching "The Trojan Women" for class. It's very dramatic. The play made me very sad earlier today in Starbucks. I know. Watching a movie for class on a Saturday night. But I'm basically going to be gone all day tomorrow for Vespers. Call time is at 2:45 pm and there's one show at 4 and another at 7:30, which basically means that I'll be sitting there or isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-52334518085886660432009-11-29T20:31:00.000-08:002009-11-29T20:31:45.073-08:00We're sitting in Camille's room talking and there's music blasting from downstairs.
"Is there a party going on beneath my ass?"-Florian
After we sufficiently made fun of him, he said, in a perfect fake French accent, "I am sick of the party beneath my ass! Ze party must stop. NOW!"
I don't think this is funny to anyone but me, but future Elaine is going to think it's hilarious. He also had isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-29890748798817557902009-11-28T15:28:00.000-08:002009-11-28T15:28:48.082-08:00"Our Gardens of Luxembourg are bigger than Luxembourg! No one even lives there!"-Florian, the Frenchman
"What's a bro? Are they actually brothers? Wait. What? Oh. So like KINSMEN!"-Florianisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-69571619002283750482009-11-26T12:46:00.000-08:002009-11-26T12:46:15.865-08:00Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!!
And by everyone, I mean the like... three people.. who read this thing. :) And the world in general!
I am currently in the kitchen, having peeled (or as I like to say: shaved--I feel like Sweeney Todd) three bags of potatoes. We're (Javi and I) boiling yams and potatoes at the moment, so I have a break. I feel really strange making the meal, but I suppose it's isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-27384298777970217532009-11-24T18:36:00.000-08:002009-11-24T18:36:34.027-08:00I really need to update more, especially now that I'm on break.
I'm currently taking a break from doing Chinese with my dad because he's talking to some guy at Home Depot. Haha.. So I don't get to read Trotsky's autobiography aloud to my dad on the phone for a few minutes. Whoopdie doo!
I've cooked four meals in three days thus far. I feel very accomplished. And I've fed 5-6 people each meal. isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-720090161962378682009-11-12T13:56:00.001-08:002009-11-12T13:56:48.400-08:00Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-59528126414281626442009-11-12T13:50:00.000-08:002009-11-12T13:50:10.669-08:00I know too many music majors. When I use "too," I don't mean it in a derisive way. It's just very strange and disproportionate to the population in general. But yes. People are starting to declare their majors, and it's freaking me out because I really don't know if I want to do English or history. I want to do literature, damn it, but the English department is too Anglo-American for my tastes. isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-82092625191429132772009-10-25T10:22:00.000-07:002009-10-25T10:22:13.465-07:00One thing I love about New England is how the weather is never the same two days in a row. Yesterday, Homecoming, was pouring all day and grey and dismal. Today is as beautiful a fall day as there is in New England. I feel like going out to take pictures, which I just might do. Maybe it's learning all about the weather in French class that makes me talk about all this, but it's days like these isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-82359377164356597262009-10-04T09:58:00.000-07:002009-10-04T09:58:40.755-07:00Wow I haven't posted in a while. Bad Elaine! Let's see... Liverpool just lost to Chelsea, which is very depressing. I received my first paycheck in my entire life on Friday! I haven't deposited it yet. Have to do that sometime today. I'm also going to become editor-in-chief of our newspaper in two weeks, which I'm not sure how I feel about. So much work. So little time. So many things to do. I isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-86956870538347438882009-09-17T08:58:00.000-07:002009-09-17T08:58:07.134-07:00I saw Cirque du Soleil last night!!! It was SO amazing!! I can't believe they actually came out here to the Pioneer Valley, probably all for the student audience. "Alegría" was beautiful. I actually teared up at one point because it was just so beautiful, and the music just adds a whole other dimension. Javier, Silvia, Florian, and I spent the whole time gasping at one feat after another, Javier isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-53932390639640108412009-09-06T21:11:00.000-07:002009-09-06T21:11:11.931-07:00Finally, a new post! I've just been so busy visiting everyone, having fun before classes, working on the newspaper, and moving in that I just haven't really had time to just sit down in front of my computer. It's scary. We finally got the newspaper done (worked Monday through Friday). As much as I love the newspaper and it's an essential part of my identity (and possibly future), there are times isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-8187055573219592092009-08-28T23:52:00.000-07:002009-08-28T23:52:55.999-07:00I'm leaving tomorrow morning.. in less than 10 hours. This makes me sad. As much as I love Amherst, I love home.. sunny weather, amazing friends, funny daddy, pretty piano, comfy bed, slow minivan, etc. I think being away from home for so long made me realize how much I really love it, and how homey of a person I really am. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love Amherst, and I love traveling (like isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-25265677044298846632009-08-24T00:45:00.000-07:002009-08-24T00:45:07.211-07:00We had the second annual tea party today! Lots of fun, even if we were missing some members. I arrived at Shayne's house, snagged the awesome parking spot next to his house that is ALWAYS taken, and heard the beautiful, endearingly squeaky voice of Miss Ozaki! Yayy!!! Tea was just as lovely as last year, with real silverware and matching china and NAPKIN RINGS and scones and all that lovely isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-28659417213337062752009-08-20T22:11:00.000-07:002009-08-20T22:14:53.293-07:00I've been writing a lot in a journal... like, actually physically writing, so I've been blogging less. How strange. I have so many things to write and not enough time to write it, but when I sit down to write, nothing comes to me. Grr. I haven't done much lately. We have friends over from China; their daughter is starting private high school here this fall and is thus getting settled. I took themisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-35550244577928182892009-08-15T00:39:00.001-07:002009-08-15T00:53:04.407-07:00I think the only person who would find this interesting is Vicki. Doing the stupid survey thing that is going through Facebook because I'm too tired to concentrate on writing, which I procrastinated on all day. Grr.. My Life According to... MCFLY!I'm Male or Female? "That Girl"Describe Myself: "I'll Be Okay"How I Feel: "Just My Luck"Life is: "No Worries"What's the weather like? "Walk in the Sun" isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-48073285598245857292009-08-14T14:28:00.000-07:002009-08-14T15:01:40.220-07:00Hello! Day Five since China, which was really awesome even if my mom had her moments and pollution/smoking/spitting is disgusting. I got to see lots of different places, some of which was really eye-opening and potentially life-changing, and saw people I've missed. And ate way too much good food. I've never really experienced a big family at all; I mean, it's just me and my dad most of the time, isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-29151508165400650092009-07-17T01:05:00.000-07:002009-07-17T01:33:24.379-07:00I just came back from seeing HP6! I had lots of fun, even if the movie wasn't absolutely amazing. I went with Vicki, Shayne, and Connie. We got there about half an hour in advance, and ran into Janet and Jackie in front of the theatre. They had just finished seeing it, so after exchanging pleasantries, we went in. The theatre was surprisingly empty, so we basically got our choice of seats. Connieisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-92074622462546470202009-07-12T23:58:00.000-07:002009-07-13T01:13:33.373-07:00I want to start out by saying that Connie is CRAZY!! She's actually awesome, but I've just felt like saying this all day, and figured I should commemorate it on the blog. Connie organized this big basketball lovefest this morning, which forced me to get up at the horrendously early hour of 9 a.m. :D I'm so pathetic... though in my defense, I only got like five hours of sleep! I had this isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-13951182004990774812009-07-07T23:52:00.001-07:002009-07-08T01:24:01.849-07:00Sickness and parties basically sum up the past week for me. I started with a slight cough Wednesday night, which turned into a real cough Thursday, leading to a fever and runny nose. Fever lasted for three days, until my dad, who wouldn't leave my side and took my temperature every 15 minutes, took me to... the DOCTOR!! You must understand... I've NEVER been to the doctor's before. Ever. I was isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-27831199703558457152009-06-30T00:57:00.001-07:002009-06-30T01:45:48.176-07:00I haven't done one of these in a long time, and I'm kind of in the mood. Stolen from Andy..1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?Ice skating2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?An array of Liverpool memorabilia, various gifts from people over the years, including a Middle Earth poster, a sketch of Rivendell, and footballers :)3. DO YOU SNORE, GRIND YOUR TEETH, OR TALK IN YOUR SLEEP?Umm... I'veisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-74889333301940625232009-06-30T00:46:00.001-07:002009-06-30T00:54:47.235-07:00Kathleen came over Sunday night pretty late and stayed until even later. We had a long, as she would put it, "heart to heart chat" in which I established that I am superior at Kathleen impressions than Kathleen herself. :D She told me all about her love woes. I know. Kathleen actually has love woes apparently. :D It was lovely. I love talking to Kathleen. We don't get to do it as often as we'd isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-2772195360082994782009-06-28T15:52:00.000-07:002009-06-28T16:15:58.755-07:00I hung out with Andy today at Starbucks. Kathleen was supposed to come, but she had to babysit. I convinced her to bring Derek along and just give him a video game sedative, but then her dad made her watch him for even longer or something. Andy got there a little bit later than me because he assumed I'd be late. HAH! I win. We got frappachinos because we're fatties and sat down to talk. I think isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-65828850166336278102009-06-24T21:13:00.000-07:002009-06-25T12:28:30.867-07:00It's kind of sad that when I decided to blog and clicked the shortcut to blogger, it took me automatically to Andy's blog. I was kind of confused, stared for a couple of seconds taking in the words that I've already read, and realized that it wasn't my life. Speaking of that, nothing much going on. I went to Alexandra's potluck with Shayne two nights ago, which was pretty fun. I love Shayne's isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-17737972801913713982009-06-17T00:25:00.000-07:002009-06-17T00:47:31.888-07:00Emo/PMS alertI feel very inadequate. I increasingly have a feeling of regression, of not being as good as before, though I am supposed to be progressing and improving in life. I don't really do... anything. I sit around the house, refresh Facebook every couple of minutes, and read. My dad makes me learn Chinese, so I have a quiz, learn new characters, and read aloud for an hour each day, but isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-84133716509428114862009-06-16T17:47:00.001-07:002009-06-16T17:59:03.626-07:00The house is quiet again. Life is back to normal. Just me and daddy sitting at our respective computers typing away. We took Blanca to the airport last night, with me serving as translator the whole way there. My dad for some reason decided that he would speak only in Chinese, so I decided to make it more interesting and translate from Chinese to Spanish. Blanca and I had visited Hsi Lai Si isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-89254349678692473872009-06-09T22:52:00.000-07:002009-06-09T23:26:13.706-07:00Blanca's here! Well, she's been here. She arrived Saturday afternoon. Vicki, my dad, and I went to go pick her up at LAX. I was driving, which was probably not the most intelligent idea, as people in LAX are very mean and rather insane. But we pulled up to the Delta curb, scanning the series of strangers lined up, each hungrily searching for a familiar face to take them away from this hustling, isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-63273156565828400122009-06-03T15:20:00.000-07:002009-06-03T16:14:13.299-07:00I don't know how I did the bug project freshman year. Hear ye now the epic, frightening tale of.. MOTHAMON!A couple nights ago, there was a fly in the room all night and it kept flying into our ears as we slept and waking us up. Thus, last night, when we found a fly in the room once again, Vicki and I put our feet down (I don't know if it works in the plural) and decided that it was going down. isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-10230907917676234492009-06-02T13:48:00.001-07:002009-06-02T14:58:15.248-07:00Vicki's currently at Disneyland with Yogin for his birthday. Happy birthday Yogin! I didn't end up going, so now I'm sitting at home writing, which I never have enough time for. A moment passes by without notice, yet it takes ages to capture it with a pen. It's quite unfair, really. I wish I could just tape record my life so I can just play it back to myself. Anyway, Vicki's been staying with me isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-75302723528931708772009-05-26T17:47:00.000-07:002009-05-26T17:48:18.037-07:00I bought 500 index cards today.Let's see how long it takes me to run out!More later... on Andy and wonderful friends!isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-40980884720877435142009-05-24T22:50:00.000-07:002009-05-25T22:05:52.108-07:00I am HOME!!! FINALLY. It really did take forever. We (Brian and I) were supposed to leave Friday morning, but checking the flight loads Thursday night, realized that would probably be impossible. Because of Lane, I get free tickets and Brian got a discount, but we're on standby, which normally, isn't a problem since there are always a couple seats open. What we didn't realize was that it's isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-72948566961201127922009-05-22T14:19:00.001-07:002009-05-22T14:26:02.918-07:00I'm sitting in my room in Tyler for the last day.. not too attached to its white walls and bad lighting, so won't be sorry to leave it behind. I just finished watching "Y Tu Mamá También" with Blanca.. omg. So much sex in one movie. Wow. But I must say, it was very thought-provoking. I'm waiting for Brian and Robert to get back from town so I can go have my last dinner in Val! I thought that was isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-36883032192633011942009-05-19T12:14:00.000-07:002009-05-19T12:36:39.909-07:00Wow. It's been a while. I've officially been a sophomore for two days now. How strange. It's all so surreal!!! I hate this feeling that my life, the one thing I should have some measure of control over, is the most surreal thing to me! I'm currently sitting in the newspaper office listening to Death Cab waiting for Brian to finish... I finished early but don't have anything to do. It's beautiful isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-68958301910011446492009-04-20T12:47:00.001-07:002009-04-20T12:57:03.724-07:00Currently listening: "Cold of December"--Ken Oak BandMy new favourite band! They came to play here at Night Market on Saturday night and we totally fell in love.. Jaclyn and I bought two of their CDs and I haven't listened to anything else since. SO beautiful. I love cellos... A rock band with an Asian lead singer who plays the cello. So amazing.Anyway, my pre-frosh just left. It's so strange howisilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-54406058590526919642009-04-08T21:35:00.001-07:002009-04-08T21:39:00.226-07:00Oh, just another note. Last weekend, Blanca (the Spanish TA from Barcelona) came and hung out with us Friday night. She, Camille, Shannon, anD I went to Jamboree, which was awesome and filled with lovely cultural stuff that I actually miss. Then we sat around and played cards and then talked till about 3:30 am. As Blanca was leaving, she didn't realize what time it was and was absolutely shocked isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-72426428883436267952009-04-08T21:22:00.001-07:002009-04-08T21:34:57.068-07:00Sarah's coming to visit me on Friday!! YAYYY!!! For all of you who are reading this, this should put some ideas into your heads as well. As in.. COME VISIT ME!!! I got Shayne and Kathleen's birthday presents in the mail recently. Shayne got me a collection of Fitzgerald's short stories, which made me smile (beautiful wrapping and all, of course). I shall read them immediately! Right after Kant, isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-46677028155956999482009-03-29T13:55:00.001-07:002009-03-29T14:17:47.333-07:00I've been converted into a Decemberists lover. Yay for Jaclyn, Brian, Camille, and Ethan! They gave me their newest album, which was written to be a musical, and it was love at first.. hearing. So you all should listen to "Hazards of Love" by the Decemberists too!I have an econ midterm tonight at 7:30. Boo! The past two days have been absolutely gorgeous.. full of sunshine and almost in the 60s!!isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-8511008289086629612009-03-19T22:33:00.001-07:002009-03-19T23:26:53.518-07:00I'm currently up playing Scrabble when I really should be in bed. Spring break has flown by, though I really haven't done anything spectacular, which isn't necessarily a problem.. just quiet days relaxing with friends. It's mostly been me, Brian, and Jaclyn, with Keith and Jorge sprinkled intermittently between. Simon got back yesterday, which has injected testosterone back into Brian's life... isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-61543516885186943342009-03-14T20:30:00.001-07:002009-03-14T21:32:43.733-07:00It's spring break!!!! The first day went by really well. I was kind of afraid we would end up with absolutely nothing to do and I would waste my life in boredom, but first day was great! We woke up early, around 8:30 (ew) to see Camille off. Going to Florida to celebrate grandma's birthday... fun! Jaclyn, Brian, and I then walked for about 20 minutes in the brisk morning air to the closest isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-7454821492473520912009-02-28T22:33:00.000-08:002009-02-28T23:26:47.148-08:00It's been an exciting few days!Wednesday night, I was sitting here at my desk moping over some sort of work, and Brian popped his head in the door. "What's at Val tonight?"Still annoyed from earlier, I checked and told him. Since it was gross, he proposed that we go out for dinner. We went to Arigato, which is ridiculously expensive by the way, but we were really happy to finally have sushi againisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-32717202321132159012009-02-23T10:16:00.001-08:002009-02-23T10:31:02.816-08:00It's Monday again, which means that the pull of stress and insanity is just being felt, but not quite at its peak. On Friday night, we had a housewarming party for Jaclyn and Camille in their new room! It was awesomely insane. The party was actually postponed an hour because Jaclyn, Camille, and Brian missed the bus to come back from the Hampshire Mall where they were getting all the food and hadisilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-66732531882128455262009-02-15T11:27:00.001-08:002009-02-15T11:51:46.532-08:00Happy Sunday everyone!Because I don't want to read my econ book but promised myself I wouldn't watch "Dangerous Liaisons" for class before I finished econ, I'm going to blog because I really should. It's been an eventful few days on everyone's fronts, particularly romantically speaking. I need to make a list before I leave anyone out: Jorge, Shayne, Shannon.Friday night was Pratt Prom, thrown by isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-51930699892385133582009-02-11T07:41:00.000-08:002009-02-11T07:46:48.971-08:00WOW I haven't blogged in a while. I just finished reading the next part of "Dangerous Liaisons" for class in 20 minutes. Such a good book!! So devious, so seductive! I was rather annoyed at having to get up early to finish that part, but of course, it was because of newspaper, which soaks up all my time on Mondays and especially Tuesdays. But it was especially tight this week because of my isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-36581649966742604872009-01-29T15:57:00.000-08:002009-01-29T16:02:19.531-08:00First thing's first: Happy Chinese New Year!!I didn't do anything to celebrate this year, as New Year's was actually the first day of classes here. No Chinese food. :( I DID however, write an article for Arts&Living because they were desperate on the traditions and history of the LUNAR New Year.. Brian was very upset that everyone assumes it's Chinese because, apparently, Koreans are important isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-55022165931045303752009-01-15T22:53:00.000-08:002009-01-15T23:01:12.006-08:00It's really interesting but slightly freaky when you search for someone on Facebook and end up with all these people with similar names that have a bunch of mutual friends with you. It makes me think about the Six Degrees of Separation theory and if that's really true, and all the people that I might meet and have someone in common with. For example, I played basketball with a couple of Brian's isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-59084208487868686822009-01-14T00:21:00.000-08:002009-01-14T01:39:48.580-08:00Haven't updated in a while merely because not much is going on. Sarah came over on Sunday and I realized once again how awesome she is. She looked at pictures of Amherst on my "fancy new computer ooo" according to her. Her job beforehand was to think of something for us to do, but she failed (as usual haha just kidding), but that didn't matter. I don't think we need to have anything to do. Moviesisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-38657927035533310432009-01-08T23:33:00.000-08:002009-01-08T23:57:26.971-08:00Vicki and I hung out today. I drove to Chapman in the afternoon, which really amazed me as to how many places in Southern California, and even the immediate area, that I've never been to. I was so completely lost and feebly trusting my Mapquest directions. Once I got there and parked in the football field parking structure, Vicki came to get me. I finally gave her her birthday present that she isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-51932857889108418962009-01-07T22:14:00.000-08:002009-01-07T23:07:58.630-08:00I haven't done much in the past few days. We had guests from China over for the past few days so I've been mainly helping my mom entertain them. Otherwise, I've been reading Khrushchev's Memoirs, reading Chinese, and learning Chinese. I've gotten into a habit of stalking the sunshine in my house. Wherever the sun seems to shine the most, usually downstairs, I take my book and follow it. So day I isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-41517390269942242792009-01-03T00:20:00.000-08:002009-01-03T00:27:42.944-08:00I stole this idea from Andy and toyed with it for a while. Review your blog posts for the past year. Copy the first sentence that was written at the beginning of each month, and string them all together to form a new paragraph. So for 2008:I'M DONE WITH APPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Current favourite songs: "Il N'y a Qu'un Pas"--Gregory Lemarchal. Birthday list!!! (Since Kristina's demanding it). Wow isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-26717836241106637552009-01-02T22:39:00.000-08:002009-01-03T00:17:47.064-08:00To follow through with my New Year's resolution #1 to blog more, here we go! I hung out with Kathleen and Andy today, since they will be leaving for UCLA and London, respectively, very soon. We met at Borders, which was having a huge sale, which induced Andy to spend money, of course. We wove through the stacks of $3.99 books, the stationary (since Andy wanted to write people from London), and isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-62212915229754388702008-12-31T14:42:00.001-08:002008-12-31T15:04:27.495-08:00I'm really bored...1. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?“Dream A Dream”—Charlotte Church2. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?“Sixteen Going on Seventeen”—The Sound of MusicHmm… I don’t know what this means. Hopeless romantic? Young? Immature? Let’s go with the first.3. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?“You Belong To Me”—Kate RusbyHmm… such a pretty song which consists of this woman singing about her love isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-85463283669678870432008-12-31T13:47:00.001-08:002008-12-31T14:31:13.801-08:00I suddenly was struck by a realization of why Shannon's such a great friend (and roommate). Camille, her, and I were walking back from Val one night after dinner and we passed a guy that I used to harbour a small, extremely shallow crush on. He was walking towards us, and as he saw us, he called out, "Hey Elaine!"I responded, "Hey. How are you?" Without a response, the exchange ended. I wasn't isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-32210837617555464892008-12-31T01:16:00.000-08:002008-12-31T02:28:19.360-08:00The last two days have been really fun. Elsa arrived in the afternoon Monday, after driving in a huge circle because she thought she was going the wrong way, asked me what to do, and I, without making sure that she was actually lost, told her to turn around and caused her to go back. Eek! Whoops! She texted me, "I think I'm going the wrong way. Any ideas?"And I just assumed she was right and saidisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-59266645173002526252008-12-25T00:02:00.001-08:002008-12-25T00:02:51.228-08:00HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!:) :) :) :)isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-64666662556918038742008-12-22T00:51:00.001-08:002008-12-22T01:00:48.229-08:00I feel so overwhelmed! Everyone's home and everyone's leaving a lot earlier than me and thus they all want to hang out in the next few days!! AHH! So many people to see!! I feel so loved! :)Lauren and Erin had an Asian party tonight. I hadn't really seen them in a while and kind of dreaded going beforehand, but it actually turned out really well. It was really cool because we were all different isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-90335972458181753422008-12-19T23:47:00.000-08:002008-12-20T00:28:22.246-08:00I visited Troy today!! It was amazing! It really made me appreciate my friends more and appreciate that wonderful, torturous school (yes, both. tis a paradox). More details tomorrow when I'm more awake, but I picked Shayne up at his house in the morning, and the first thing I said to him as he climbed into the car was, "I think you made me pick you up so I couldn't attack you on sight!" I isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-73175510721574558762008-12-19T20:01:00.000-08:002008-12-19T20:26:10.672-08:00It's a little late, but I guess some semblance of a Christmas wish list is needed, if only because I do it every year! I really can't think of much this year, probably because I am isolated from the world and thus do not listen to new music or see new movies.-Lotion.. I'm looking at my dry hands and my empty stock of lotion and being sad. Raspberry scented, if you please!-"Wall-E" DVD-"Les isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-27960538286515159782008-12-19T01:19:00.000-08:002008-12-19T01:20:13.983-08:00I'm visiting Troy tomorrow!! yay!! Will let you know how that goes! This means I should get to bed so that I am capable of driving tomorrow.I miss Brian... :(isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-12411385217698801472008-12-16T23:51:00.001-08:002008-12-17T00:30:16.555-08:00I was always intrigued with these lists of things to do before I die, and since Brian just made one, I might as well steal. In no particular order and just as they come into my head.1. Go ice skating at an outdoor rink at night. Halfway through skating with friends, it starts to snow.2. Watch a Liverpool match at Anfield.3. Write a successful novel.4. Be published in the New York Times.5. Visit isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-81709065504665875972008-12-16T23:48:00.000-08:002008-12-16T23:49:41.904-08:00Quote of the day happened at Kathleen's Asian party.May Li (who is 12 years old): OMG, I was watching this movie, and like, I always come in at, like, the wrong parts. Like, always! So I come into the room and this guy is like... ON TOP OF this other girl, and they were like... *silence*... HAVING A RELATIONSHIP!!!From then on, I kept asking Kathleen if she wanted to "have a relationship" with meisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-8844253428388614472008-12-15T22:48:00.000-08:002008-12-16T00:57:32.508-08:00If you haven't heard by now, I'm HOME!!!!... after the longest plane ride EVER. Brian, Shannon, and I got up bright and early at 7 to go to breakfast and then see me onto my shuttle at 8:20. We got to Converse around 8:15 and sat there for 30 minutes before I finally decided that it was getting ridiculous and that I was going to call them. Turns out, they changed it to 9 AM!! And we stood there isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-58946822911822136792008-12-10T08:59:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:44:07.223-08:00Here we are at the end of the semester... already.I have my last class in an hour, which is a frightening notion. Where has the time gone? It feels like both such a long time ago and just yesterday that I left home. But then again, I've realized that I'm not the only one who feels this way, and this isn't the only time that I've felt this way. Time always flies, and we the humans in its isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-7151187424901385512008-11-27T13:29:00.000-08:002008-11-27T14:51:17.408-08:00Brian, Jorge, and I went to Boston from Sunday morning to Tuesday night! Lots of fun and shenanigans! We got on the bus to Boston in the morning and after sleepiness, a long ride, sitting at Dunkin Donuts, and then a ride on the T, we arrived at Harvard. I called Vicky and she told us to meet her at a place that we had never heard of, so we wandered around for a little bit, and Jorge decided thatisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-73315222079223733842008-11-21T17:27:00.000-08:002008-11-21T17:38:42.671-08:00I'm in my room horribly disgusted with the state of mankind right now. Since 3/4 of the dorm has left for home already and the rest are planning to leave except for a few (including me), we were all laying around relaxing. All the guys were playing video games and Camille and I were reading our respective books: "The Time Traveler's Wife" and "The Accordionist's Son" on the couches. My book is isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-24930225283774904212008-11-12T09:07:00.000-08:002008-11-12T09:30:05.905-08:00Oh the joys and woes of a newspaper!Yesterday, after class ended at around 1, I ate at Val per usual and then read Vaclav Havel's essay for history for about an hour. Then, at 3:10 PM, I set off, took pictures of a science building that we had article on (renovation) and by 3:20, was sitting in front of a computer in the newspaper office. Oh how I love and loathe InDesign at the same time. By 5:isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-78702509752852614042008-11-10T17:32:00.000-08:002008-11-10T17:40:42.029-08:00I can't let a post go by without screaming: OBAMA!!!!!!We have a TV in our dorm room so we had it on to CNN the whole night while we were doing our homework. My two hopes for the night were (at least in regards to the presidential race): Obama would win (obviously) and California would be the one to clinch it.Lo and behold! The moment the polls closed in California, CNN projected him as the isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-11467575522994257772008-11-02T21:59:00.000-08:002008-11-02T22:00:53.363-08:00Quote of the day: As we're leaving Val, Brian grabs one of the many copies of the yellow pages they have laying there for us to take.I ask him in my usual shrill demand, "What are you doing?? What could you possibly need the Yellow Pages for??"Brian (in his version of the story) flips open the Yellow Pages randomly and reads off the first thing he says, "ABORTION!"isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-45945026582604933642008-11-01T14:34:00.000-07:002008-11-01T14:35:45.941-07:00Quote of the day:I was opening a 1920s film on my computer so I could watch it for seminar. I clicked something wrong and all of a sudden, exclaimed, "WHO IS THIS STRANGE MAN ON MY SCREEN???"Shannon, on the other side of the room, straightening her hair asks, "Is he attractive???"isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-19074906525588398092008-10-22T09:15:00.000-07:002008-10-22T09:16:04.208-07:00So much to talk about.. I really shouldn't let all this writing pile up.Last week was mid-semester break, which was really relaxing. I really did nothing, but it was time I enjoyed wasting, so I guess it wasn't wasted. Friday night, the guys decided that they were going to have a Bourne movie marathon. I'd only ever seen the first, but I wasn't that into watching them, but then I got sucked in. isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-5695906827559502932008-10-06T11:43:00.000-07:002008-10-06T12:04:59.415-07:00I'm currently sitting in my room after lunch with my laundry going across the hall, listening to Death Cab for Cutie, whom I have finally discovered. Tim brought over his huge case of probably 500 CDs for Shannon and I to peruse and steal at leisure, and so a lot of alternative bands, such as Death Cab, Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, and Switchfoot have been added. :) Another productisilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-67439110880923536682008-10-04T14:13:00.000-07:002008-10-04T14:15:20.553-07:00Quote of the day:We're all sitting in the common room and Jorge starts coughing really badly like he's choking.I say, "Don't die Jorge!!" in the fashion that I always say such things.In between coughing, Jorge yells, "Shut up, Elaine! Don't tell me how to live my life!"Last night, we were playing intramural soccer and Jorge was out on the field. Someone yelled at him to do something, and this guyisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-67442864954294350902008-09-23T21:50:00.000-07:002008-09-23T22:34:59.118-07:00I'm trying to brainstorm for my seminar paper, but instead, I blog. I've found a new musical love! "Spring Awakening!" Tis a musical which won eight Tony's in 2006, and Elsa told me about it sometime last year but I didn't really listen. Then, a couple weeks ago, Greg was telling me about when he went to Broadway and saw this show called "Spring Awakening" and he told me all about it. Then, this isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-71729586096042592932008-09-21T08:34:00.000-07:002008-09-21T08:47:09.624-07:00I have so much work to do today!! :( But that's okay, because it was worth it to go to Boston yesterday! I went with the College Democrats to the "Students for Change" Obama rally. A Boston Congressman and the governor of Massachusetts both spoke, which was awesome, and the only sad thing was that Barack Obama himself wasn't there. Sigh. I sometimes hate living in all-blue states, but only isilmenoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-51866069452907707582008-09-14T09:03:00.000-07:002008-09-14T10:53:15.348-07:00Wow I really need to update!! So much has happened around here that I can't even begin to describe them all. I feel like I should introduce all the characters first, but don't know if I have the stamina for it. First and foremost, let me say that I am very happy here. I love my classes (well, three out of the four), love my roommate, and like my developing group of friends. And Amherst is isilmenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-43959269185435779052008-09-01T10:18:00.000-07:002008-09-01T10:55:12.469-07:00Hi people! First off, NO, I have NOT yet gone to a college party.Secondly, NO, I have NOT gotten drunk or even sipped alcohol here.Thirdy, NO, I am not on the brink of an emotional breakdown.Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Geez. That's all anyone wants to know. Well, the third one is mostly my mother. She seems to think that I miss her or something... *rolls eyes*There ARE a lot of isilmenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-4117297825818063312008-08-26T15:00:00.001-07:002008-08-26T15:28:26.704-07:00Hello from Amherst!! Yay first post on the Mac and at Amherst!! Every night I keep telling myself to post but something always ends up happening or I'm too tired or I get a phone call. First, I should introduce my roommate, Shannon. She is AMAZING!! I love her so much! I'm SO grateful to the housing assignment goddess (yes, goddess, because women are superior) for pairing us two. We like the sameisilmenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-58575146397801399012008-08-23T00:19:00.000-07:002008-08-23T00:20:53.580-07:00It is officially the day that I leave. It's so frightening. I don't quite believe it, even though all my clothes are packed. I drove my car for the last time in a while, hugged Yogin, and am sitting at my computer for the last time in a bit. It's so weird. I don't quite believe it, and I really can't think about living another life from that which I have always led. Well, we'll see. Here I go!isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-73954214807265608832008-08-14T22:16:00.000-07:002008-08-14T22:49:32.567-07:00My dad decided that I had eaten too much at dinner, some of which, by the way, I cooked!! YAYY FOR ELAINE!! So about half an hour ago, he decided that we were going to take a stroll around the neighbourhood. We walked all the way down to Chino Hills Parkway and made a circle back, ran inside the house to turn off all the lights brightly wasting electricity, and walked to the park, where we sat onisilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-71102205282888856652008-08-09T23:18:00.000-07:002008-08-10T00:01:07.742-07:00I went to Knott's on Thursday, and am halfway done writing that recap, but since today has been the most miserable day in a long time, I shall just do one of these mind-numbing surveys. No Lying Survey1. last beverage: iced tea2. last phone call: Yogin3. last cd played: "Motion in the Ocean"--McFly4. last time you cried: today5. last text message: JayHave You Ever:1. dated someone twice: nope. 2.isilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-48176852461341359032008-08-06T21:17:00.001-07:002008-08-06T23:08:32.903-07:00Let me tell you the epic episode of the bitchy Chinese waitress at the restaurant I am never going to again.I went to go play basketball today, as usual, and at first, it was just me, Sam and Jeff there (Connie and Jo had to go eat and thus were going to be late). Jeff is really talkative; it's pretty funny. A lot more talkative than the rather shy Sam. And then Ryan and John got there, and the isilmenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-13564943098646403962008-08-05T23:07:00.000-07:002008-08-06T01:38:41.558-07:00My mom started freaking out about leaving for Amherst today, and pulled out all her boots, woolen socks, and started making piles of what I have to bring. We were upstairs, digging through the guest room closet where my mom keeps her mountains of crap, trying to find a throw for me to take, when my mom suddenly pulled out this piece of bright red cloth, brighter than even any Liverpool jersey. Itisilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-50637100419310748512008-08-01T23:33:00.000-07:002008-08-02T00:36:04.631-07:00Oh and I need to add that while we were walking up and down the street yelling, "SAAAAAMMM," I thought it was highly ironic that Stella was with us yelling, as it reminded me of Marlon Brando's iconic "A Streetcar Named Desire" moment yelling, "STELLA!!!!! HEY STELLA!!!!!!!"PLEASE. SOMEONE. Tell me you get it!isilmenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-70564062425667448952008-08-01T21:31:00.000-07:002008-08-01T23:11:43.319-07:00Today is August 1, a fact that very much frightens me. Just the word "August" seems so daunting.. only 22 days until I get on a plane with boxes and suitcases, leaving home and everything and everyone I know for the very first time. I know it's exciting and everyone wants to leave home and go off to college, but I somehow find myself staying in bed, trying to ignore the very idea that I'm leavingisilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-84723567388053450292008-07-29T00:40:00.001-07:002008-07-29T02:31:54.054-07:00I doubt anyone even read that hideously long Chicago recap, but hey! I'll need it to remember all the fine details someday. And now I shall continue.Sunday, July 20, 2008Bright and early, Sarah and I set off for Northwestern, which, though only 14 miles away, takes quite a while to get to. We were one of the only ones on the train, except for a couple (and I use that term solely numerically), whoisilmenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-74856492849601864052008-07-27T19:17:00.001-07:002008-07-27T19:17:54.958-07:00TWO HOURS TILL YOGIN'S COMING HOME!!!!!!!! :) :D :D :D :Disilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-74381466420548152422008-07-26T22:29:00.001-07:002008-07-27T02:39:28.850-07:00First thing's first: YOGIN'S COMING HOME TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! :) :) :) :)I'm so excited!! I was looking at pictures of us today and I actually pet the monitor where his face was. Haha. I'm lame. :)Second of all, McFly's new album is AMAZING!! I only wish I could get my hands on it. Grah. Yet another reason to live in Britain. They gave it out for free!And now I shall begin my extremely extensive isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-16168417578172114972008-07-23T23:37:00.000-07:002008-07-23T23:42:47.937-07:00Despite being utter brain dead and jetlagged, I feel I must rant in the heat of passion. CNN's dominant story's headline is: "Black and single: Is marriage really for white people?"There's nothing wrong with that (other than the fact that Oracle never uses questions, but that's okay), but this: WHY is it that the general population of America, or at least the news media, assumes that there are isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-52969943031592753512008-07-23T23:21:00.000-07:002008-07-23T23:23:55.225-07:00I'm back from Chicago, as you all probably know by now. I promised myself I'd write a full and detailed description of all the occurrences with the help of all my lovely photographs. But right now, jetlag has really caught up with me.. *yawn*"The House of Mirth" is really an exquisite novel. I am currently completely in love with Lawrence Selden and also inextricably entwined in Lily Bart's isilmenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5810082.post-17795662991597966842008-07-17T00:03:00.000-07:002008-11-12T09:31:02.362-08:00I'm leaving for Chicago tomorrow morning and I'll be back on Tuesday, but I'm going to try to squeeze in a recap here so I don't get extremely behind.After waging war and doing bloody battle with my father, Kathleen and I boarded the bus to Union Station from Pomona. We spent the ride as the only two people on the entire vessel speaking, and speaking very loudly, I'm sure. Everyone was staring atisilmenoreply@blogger.com1