| it's been awhile |
[Sep. 9th, 2005|09:10 pm] |
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| | "i can tell that we are gonna be friends", jack white | ] |
wow, it's been a really long time.
today was the (last) first of school. i can't believe that i'm a senior, partially because i feel too young, but mostly because i feel too old. i've lived by myself, i've got a car, i've had people arrested, i've filed taxes: why the fuck do i still have to take gym?
still, i've got exactly 178 days (lacking snowouts) of GFS left. i'm almost done my columbia application. which reminds me, i'll be in NYC from september 28- october 1. this is a little hint to sam and isaac.
my boyfriend has left me for the evening to smoke up. i'm going to do my spanish homework and watch CSI.
P.S.
look for my picture on the "southeastern pennsylvania right-to-life" website. the balding angry catholic men were photographing me when i was working at the clinic last week. i'm gwan be a celebrity! |
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[Jul. 6th, 2005|10:21 pm] |
I'VE MOVED TO MANHATTAN.
darlings, i'm at west 10th and 5th avenue.
come visit. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2005|11:32 pm] |
everybody's dropped off the face of the earth. i don't know where jack is (apparently, i'm off the guest list). i don't know where zach is.
i'm looking forward to going to new york, but i kind of wish i didn't have to do this internship. you see, i'm an intern in the astrophysics department of the natural history museum, and it's going to eat up a whole fucking lot of my time. the classes at columbia alone are going to be a lot of work. my syllabus for intro to political theory has me buying 8 books, so there'll be a lot of reading and writing.
mostly, i'm scared. i don't want to spend long nights alone in new york. i also don't want to leave a certain someone and all my friends. i know people will visit, but what if i'm too busy to have visitors? this is the last summer i'll have with a lot of people.
at the same time, this is what it's all about. new locale, new work. independence. laying the foundation for my future.
my imminent future is going to be very busy. |
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[Apr. 26th, 2005|01:14 pm] |
In 1985, Pennsylvania banned the use of Medcaid to pay for abortions.
Thousands of women have been forced into risky back-alley procedures or carrying unwanted pregnancies.
Learn how
THE WOMEN’S MEDICAL FUND
is helping
Students for Choice welcomes guest speaker Susan Schewel on Friday, April 29
M208 (Amy Celentano’s room)
10:50-11:35 AM
Pizza and drinks will be sold
$1 per slice/ cup |
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[Apr. 17th, 2005|06:05 pm] |
it's emphatically not my weekend.
i shouldn't bitch. i had a lovely friday, my fish are alive, i managed to deliver four varsity debate speeches and win one debate.
but i'm honestly just breaking down here.
two people are very angry at me.
college applications are looming.
i don't know where i'm going this summer.
and those haverford boys called me a bitch to my face.
i'm not waking up til tomorrow. |
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[Apr. 14th, 2005|03:41 pm] |
sitting in my car, outside my tutor's house, getting a signal from somebody's house on a very nice day.
god bless technology.
out of the approximate 300,000 kids who took the march 12th SAT I, 107 scored a 2400. 50% scored a 1700 or less.
i feel 567,000 times better about my score now. |
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[Apr. 9th, 2005|11:01 am] |
i didn't get an internship with ISERP. i beat out 94 people for an interview, but not two others for a job.
also, my guidance counselor has summarily told me i will never get into columbia. or any ivy, for that matter.
i'm not doing so hot this weekend. |
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[Apr. 4th, 2005|05:51 pm] |
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i've been royally fucked by the germantown friends school english department.
i went to my first period english class this morning to find no one there (for out-of-towners, my school lets upperclassmen pick their fourth-quarter english class from a huge list of mini-classes, a system known as 'essentially english'). i went back to the front hall to check the room number, and realized it said "anne gerbner's 'the art of persuasion', sections 2 & 4". so i talked to karen barbarese (school secretary) and found out i'd been placed in an english class that overlapped with my muslim civilizations class. then i got shuffled to anne to pick a different class, and i asked for peter reinke's russian literature class since it was my first choice. turns out every class (including peter's) is so full that my only options were "making a case: writing a lively essay" and the film class. since i have written so many fucking essays, i picked film.
i am so very pissed about this. i'm a very good english student, so it makes me really mad that they fucked up my schedule and then refused to give me any leeway in it. i pleaded with anne to let me take a reading course, but she said no. i'm stuck in the slacker senior film course.... |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2005|01:25 pm] |
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| | ted leo + the Rx, "tell balgeary, balgury is dead" | ] |
i've been back from japan for forty-eight hours. two nights in pennsylvania is quite enough.
the tokyo trip was amazing. it'll be dull if i describe it, so i'm waiting for sam to post her pictures to go with mine (hers are the more interesting ones). i really loved the city. sadly, we just flat out didn't have enough time to do everything. i want to see kyoto and odiva and the tower and roppongi hills and make more use of the extremely lax drinking laws before i'm legal. i absolutely must expatriate (first expatriate small-town america), or atleast get an internship/semester abroad/long-ass vacation in asia very soon.
so it's kindof a letdown to be back here. it's damn quiet, but the trees are blooming and summer will be here soon. i have my columbia internship interview in manhattan on tuesday, wish me luck! if i get that and the NYU housing, i'm completely set for two months. my parents are odd- if i get the internship, they're going to let me live by myself in manhattan for two months, but they're very freaked out at the idea of me taking the acela up to NYC for the interview. anyway, plead for my poor unfortunate junior soul that i get a summer internship.
and of course CONGRATULATIONS TO JACK *REED '09* AND ZAC *UPENN '09*. i'm proud of you, men!
p.s.
!many, many thanks to the lovely miss rothberg for letting me and georgia use her space, time, and utilities!
p.p.s.
said miss rothberg, POST YOUR PICTURES! |
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[Feb. 28th, 2005|02:03 pm] |
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| | shitty action movie soundtrack! | ] |
it's a snow day!!!
it's supposed to snow for three days in the midatlantic, so hopefully we'll have off til wednesday. didn't stop me from having to go in for my biology test ( i think i did okay). i adore adam hotek, he has completely forgotten that i was supposed to turn in a week-late homework assignment to him friday, and grades were due today so it won't matter. if chestnut hill kids want to come sledding tomorrow, get on the R5 and come to ambler.
i've been incredibly busy, between the women's clinic and the SATs. there were twenty anti-choice protestors last saturday! this happens every lent- all the generation life college kids get worked up and forget about it by april. dennis is by far the creepiest.... he asked me if he could "hold [me] as jesus held mary magdalen". if he touches me, i will wrench his arm from its socket. mark, leader of gen life (who DOES NOT like it when we radio him in as 'marky mark and the funky bunch') had to retiterate how proud he is to be a thirty-five year old virgin. hanging around abortion clinics on saturdays may have something to do with that.
i got in a huge argument with malik, mbizo, and ida today in muslim civilizations. i don't care if it's not in the qu'ran, the fact of the matter is that it is a middle eastern/north african/muslim cultural tradition to make pubescent girls cover their hair and/or faces. no one can ever convince me that rape or societal abuse of women is curbed by covering one's hair, or that god intended for girls and women to never feel sun on their faces and wind in their hair after the age of 14. if girls/women want to veil/niqab, they can knock themselves out, but many girls are pressured into it (and everything that goes with it), and i would never accept it.
that said, it pisses me off that malik will argue with me, but every time mbizo goes off on a tangent about americans forcing culture on africans or women or whatever, malik just lets him. that kid needs anger management classes.
*12 days to the SAT1, 23 days to Tokyo* |
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[Feb. 15th, 2005|07:57 pm] |
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| | "you make it easy", air | ] |
i'm alive.
I AM NOW SEVENTEEN. my birthday weekend was really nice! zac and i hung out and tried to go see pretty girls make graves at villanova, but no one told us it had been canceled. all that was playing was murder by death and inferno ( because OF COURSE mirah played on a fucking weeknight).it turned out okay, because me, zac, and jack just sat around watching the upright citizens' brigade. on saturday, zac, maddy, jack, max, and i went out for japanese dinner at hikaru and watched dodgeball at max's after. zac spent the night, and i spent all sunday working.
the SAT I is slowly killing me. no matter what i do, i cannot seem to get my fucking math score above a 550. this is making me very angry, because i've done so many practice tests and specialized work. i'm scared that i have no real chance at getting into columbia. the college crusade is turning my life into a project, and i'm getting sick of living like human 4-H prize.
on the positive side, i have zac. |
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[Feb. 7th, 2005|11:58 pm] |
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| | anguished moaning | ] |
i am so sick. i'm talking body-achin', fever-runnin', nearly comatose sick. fair warning to people at my school: i got sick to my stomach in the library, which was obviously cleaned, but just felt you should know. i've been throwing up all night and yesterday, which is why i'm online after pacing my bathroom for two hours.
on the bright side, i registered for classes. i'm taking advanced biology, calculus, english 12, american history, and DIS minor on islam with malik. me and my wild senior year.
night kids, i'm going to try to keep this ginger ale down til morning. |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2005|10:31 pm] |
jack's new hurr
i'll be at the quaker leadership conference til saturday. feel free to send me messages to keep me from strangling defenseless quakers. |
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| my seventeenth birthday |
[Jan. 30th, 2005|05:22 pm] |
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| | les savy fav, "we'll make a lover out of you" | ] |
allright, final details for my birthday:
hikaru in manayunk
february 12, 2005
7:00 in the p.m.
me, zac, jack, maddy, max, evan, mina, and i need one more person.
(p.s. kids, i'm paying.) |
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| new hurr |
[Jan. 26th, 2005|09:24 pm] |
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| | minus the bear, "monkey!!knife!!!fight!!!" | ] |
whaddya think? |
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