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Oh my goodness. Having hours of no work is amazing, but perhaps unhealthy... It all started with the google search 'moby dick t shirts'

Current Location: the big chair
Current Music: country music...already looking forward to workin' in a barn :P

Yay Sun!!!!!!! I feel I must declare myself a sun worshiper. It makes me so happy. As does the fact that when we have my education seminar outside the prof passes around spf 45 sunscreen :) I have hardly ever worn shorts since middle school--the are not terribly practical at the barn--and so I've lost the comfort level I once had in them. Therefore I wore shorts today because it was hot and sunny and they were comfy. :P I feel silly, but it is fun.

Time this term seems even more skewed than usual. It is already the end of seventh week! (There are ten weeks in a Carleton term, but tenth week only has classes through Wednesday as Thursday and Friday are reading days.) Saturday night is the Whoa! show--Whoa! being the hip-hop dance group on campus--and since in my senioritis insanity decided to join the CC Breakers (the breakdancing club) I am going to be performing with them as one of the opening acts for Whoa! This is really exciting, but making me rather nervous as I've hardly practiced with them and am not terribly good at getting the style/attitude quite right. It will be a lot of fun though. And hilarious.

Current Location: the kitchen with all the windows open :)
Current Mood: sunny!

I am in the Carleton Bubble. Life is crazy. I am trying to do too many things, as always.

But at the moment I am very happy about breaking club--which is breakdancing, but apparently people who know what they are talking about call it breaking. Anyway. I found out that we have a breaking club this term and tonight was my second practice with them because for some reason I got off the mailing list even though I was on it for about three days and the guy in charge didn't change anything.

Anyway, some of the stuff is hard and I don't do some stuff because it puts too much pressure on your wrists and I'm not going there. But today we did cartwheel-y things that were really fun and I could totally do on my first try, which was awesome. Yeah. And I've just about quite pretending that I'm going to try to talk myself out of performing with them. The guy in charge is just starting to get the choreography going, but I think I have to say one way or another by the next practice on Saturday. But I'll probably just tell him I want to do it in class tomorrow.

He is in my Moving Anatomy class, as is one of the other guys. I love that class so much. It is the most amazing thing ever.

Anyway, I'm distracted and talking on aim. Good night.

Current Location: the top bunk

Tuesday was the nerve-wracking karate test. But I passed!! And so did Ashely!! She she is now a color! Yay orange! And I made it over the last test before I go for black in the spring. I feel like this is cutting it just a touch close. Which is why I'm going to do a lot over break. I drove home today. It was a beautiful day, so a nice drive.

[the ad on the right as I'm writing this is kinda creeping me out...]

Anyway. I'm home and ready to embrace the home schedule and go to bed before midnight [shocked face].

I'm so happy to be somewhere it actually gets dark. And i

Current Location: WI!!

My physics prof keeps a blog and the link to it is in his emails. I happen to really like this prof, so I decided to read it. And I found myself in it. In a post entitled "Small big rewards" about two good things that happened on a Friday after a tiring week towards the beginning of term. The first was a student from his quantum class thanking him and the second was me showing up randomly in his office after class testing out my ideas about how Newton's Third Law (equal and opposite force pairs) works.

Current Location: the green livingroom

It is interesting how a single assignment and very short assessment can illuminate large patterns in life.

Today I gave a presentation about Troilus and Cressida in my Shakespeare class. Because I've had so much trouble focusing lately, I ended up being awake until 5AM trying to get my presentation to a point where it wasn't just me rambling on about a bunch of interesting, but unrelated things. I didn't quite succeed in that part. My 20 minutes was most assuredly closer to 30 and I didn't get close to putting in everything I had. There were just so many connections and so many things to look at... However, other than that, it was pretty awesome. Three out of the nine other students told me that it was good and while I was giving it I could see people being both interested and persuaded. So that was pretty awesome. Pierre's short assessment was it was interesting, insightful, and only short of perfect because I lacked the control over the material to keep it in my time frame. You just don't bring four hours of material to a twenty minute presentation.

This is one of the problems I have with papers--I have a hard time narrowing down to a nice tight thesis and I also am really bad at editing my own papers...

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I had more ideas earlier, but now it is going on midnight and I don't remember. Tonight I went to both karate and latin dance club, which is why I didn't get home until after eleven and am only now finally going to bed at what will be about a quarter after twelve. Tomorrow is Friday and ninth week--no convo--so I don't have to be anywhere until noon. Craziness.

The trouble is that now I know I have twelve hours before anything has to happen. Though I am much happier as a morning person, I am not immune to the temptations of the night--especially when all the roommates who are home are asleep, or at least have the lights off. I am a little unwilling to have my "vacation" end. Though it is Friday and therefore there are fewer things I must deal with, I still need to use my time wisely. I think it will be much easier after taking tonight off though. I am no longer hyperventilating. This is exciting :P

Life is crazy as turning Shakespeare into a tango is taking over my brain. I'm going to juxtapose Antony and Cleopatra to Troilus and Cressida. Both men become "effeminate" because they become overly concerned with the women, but their relationships (and the two women) are completely different. Cressida lives in a world where once something it won, it loses its value--so here story is about playing hard to get for as long as you can and then moving on to the next thing. Cleopatra's world is quite different. She is Antony's downfall because the more you have from her the more you want.

For the recitation yesterday, I memorized one of Cressida's soliloquies. I am amused because even though it is over, when I'm not paying attention, my brain starts practicing it:

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
He offers in another's enterprise.
But more in Troilus thousandfold I see,
Than in the glass of Pander's praise may be.
Yet I hold off. Women are angels, wooing.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she belov'd knows naught that knows not this,
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.
That she was never yet that ever knew
Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.
Therefore, this maxim out of love I teach:
Achievement is command, ungain'd beseech.
Then, though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.

I picked it, partly because it was fun to do, but mostly because I think it really explains the way her world works as well as why she does what she does throughout the play.

But it is a beautiful morning and so I'm going to go for a walk with the bouncing beast.

Current Location: the top bunk
Current Mood: content
Current Music: john mayer

I am still giddy from Midwinter Ball last night. I got tipsy from twirling. Now I'm trying to focus on As You Like It, which is such a fun play and amazing and all that. But I keep wanting to dance. Especially when I read a cool part in the book that I'm using to help me write the paper. It is really awesome--people who have played different characters in different plays write about the way the production they were a part of worked and interpreted the characters. The essay I'm using to help me is by two women who played Rosalind and Celia in As You Like It. I am going to write about Celia, I think. Even as being giddy distracts me from my work, it makes it all that much more exciting, because Shakespeare is almost as awesome as dancing, in a different way.

So off I go, back to giddily giggling over my Shakespeare homework.

Current Location: the green living room
Current Mood: geeky

So Thursday was the first day of classes and working and all that jazz. I work at the bookstore and we got these new fancy registers with touch-screens and a couple glitches. They are pretty cool though. My Tuesday/Thursday class is Shakespeare II, which is going to be AMAZING, but A LOT of work. We get to learn stuff like, printing and bookbinding as it was done in Shakespeare's time, which is way sweet. The only downside is that all of that will take place outside of class in addition to all our reading. This prof takes 300-level seriously. But he is an awesome lecturer and seems to be both hilarious and amazing, so it is all good. Yesterday I went to convo with Lauren (Jane Brody was the speaker), worked at the bookstore and then went to my class Revolutions in Physics (Physics without a lab). Again, the prof seems to be pretty sweet. I did the first bit of my homework for Monday this morning and the textbook actually doesn't seem too bad, so that is a nice bonus.

I had a mild cold starting on Wednesday, but it is mostly gone. Hopefully it will be totally gone by Monday. Anyway, I should stop procrastinating and get back to work, my lunch break has been over an hour now...

Current Location: MN
Current Music: Tarzan!!

Hehe. OMG! Internet here is so fast!! haha. Yeah. I got back in the habit of having dial-up at home that this is crazy-exciting :P Everyone is here, so that is exciting. Well, all of my housemates, the dorms don't open until the first, so other people aren't here yet.

I am not terribly coherent. So I guess I'll stop now. Later!

Current Location: Northfield!
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: fish tanks