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| i need to exercise more oftenoccasionally my parents do really random nice things for me, which is always very unexpected and a reminder that they do know about things i'm interested in. so today when my dad got home from work, i guess he stopped at some electronics stuff to pick up new memory cards for all of our cameras and they had a bunch of classical music cds! so he picked up two of them for me, which was awfully kind. the one i am listening to now is called '25 thunderous classics" which makes me laugh a lot because thunderous is an interesting word and i have also played a lot of these so-called thunderous tunes (also sprach zarathrustra, march to the scaffold, william tell overture, les toreadors, mars, etc). mostly it is a lot of just "classical's greatest hits" but there are some songs i've always liked but never owned, like sabre dance and rondeau. so i am pretty content.
uhh let's see, last friday i went to go visit northwestern which was lovely. i've always had a love/hate relationship with nu because my grandparents went there in the '40s and i guess it used to be very WASPy, so my very jewish grandparents were always shunned because they were poor and not blonde. but i've always thought that it seemed like a pretty nice school. but i loved it, and it was by far the best visit i have gone on this year. too bad nu probably won't give me that much need-based money and my parents won't pay for it because i am not the child with the great future. oh well.
i have decided, regarding summer reading, just to read the books that i want to read from now on. and the bible. because i think it is probably a useful read. | | |
| sweetheart, bitter heart, now i can't tell you apartokay, i feel like i've updated a lot since last... saturday or sunday or whatever, but i obviously have not. the u of i visit went a lot better than expected. i've told this to everyone, but our tourguide mentioned something along the lines of "you can't make a small school bigger, but you can make a big school smaller" which really intrigued me. that being said, i am not confident about the english nor the history departments at u of i so we will have to see, i guess. depauw, on the other hand, continues to be a bag of mixed tricks, if you will. it's one of those "good" liberal arts schools on the outside, and then you read about stuff like 24-29 act average and 68% of students go greek and blah blah blah.... but then again, they have a really cool sounding honors program and thesis-writing and a ballin' creative writing department...
and kzoo thought it would be cute to send me not one but two handwritten letters of thank-you and how they are looking forward to my application. too bad the school is not as nice as it was last year.
whatever, maybe i will just not go to college, and instead, i will do things i actually want to do like nap and write and read a lot of literature that we wouldn't read at prospect and not suck at percussion. that would be a future worth looking into.
in other news, i am not any tanner and i have been eating out way too much which ends in TOO MUCH EATING. sorry mom, but the food at home just tastes bad... all the time. | | |
| you stay, johanna, the way i've dreamed you were.today i had leftover sushi for breakfast and it was a delightful experience. fish must be some form of brain food because i feel more awake than i usually am. yay!
kalamazoo was an interesting experience. i think i still like the school, but i don't know if it's my "probably going to end up here" school anymore. i'm still scared it'll just be too easy to go there. i kept trying to ask about how challenging the coursework was, and they would go, "oh, well you're basically working on stuff all the time. it's a lot of work." "... but is it challenging?"
"it's a lot of work." that, and the school seems to be filled with a lot of girls and a lot of people from michigan. michigan people are kind of weird.
so that was a fun game of "dodge this question". but otherwise i just feel way too overqualified to go there, and they don't have an honors program so they won't offer me a ton of money to be a part of it like depauw is going to. so yeah, u of i and depauw visits on monday and tuesday respectively. now i will see more of u of i that is not the main eating area or that one hall we always change in or the quad where "thank god there's no fire". and then i have my actual admissions interview at depauw so i have to be pumped and ready for some tricky questions about all sorts of things like my favorite movie quote.
i am knitting again and it is a very good feeling. maybe i will actually complete a scarf for once.
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| listened would sing, "now the old king is dead; long live the king."it is something like ten thousand degrees in our upstairs which is terrible and uncomfortable, and "of course i am going to use my ceiling fan, mother, because otherwise i will die." but that is all okay because today is kalamazoo day!
well actually tomorrow is kalamazoo day; today is... take a train to michigan day but... YAY!! :) something exciting and summer-related that has nothing to do with the phs music department!
PS: now that i am actually in the town of kalamazoo itself, it is a lot scummier than i remember and this disappoints me a lot. maybe i will remember how much i love the school tomorrow and my dismay will be erased, but now i feel sort of sad. why can't cute slightly original areas STAY that way? why do people who wear shirts not all the way down to their pants have to roam the streets with their children? that's WEIRD. | | |
| ... fuck yeah?things with gu admissions were thankfully cleared up in a matter of twenty-four hours from the last post. it turned out i did recieve an email from them, but it had gone directly to spam. that was probably because it was a form email that linked me to some "popular georgetown links" and "we hope this answers your questions!" and the like. so i sat at my computer screen being sort of peeved for a bit and then i just called admissions and spoke to a graduate student who was awesome and majored in history. so now i don't feel so dejected. actually i feel pretty good about georgetown! i have already started their preliminary application, which is just to get my name in the system. woooo gettin' stuff done!
fourth of july was actually pretty good. usually i think the holiday is moderately overrated, but i think that's because i don't really care for carnivals that much. or, well, i did like carnivals in junior high, but now i don't really care anymore. but this year i did not go to a single carnival and spent the time in the company of friends and fireworks and "america, fuck yeah!". so i am content for now, and that is a very good thing.
no more band! i never thought i would actually be happy to say that, but what other sections and people do not understand all that well is that pit spends ALL OF THE BAND TIME with pit. at least when you are in "marching" band, you are all over the field so you are exposed to different people and you might not always be standing next to someone in your section. but pit is always together, whether we're with the band or not. and we get very sick of each other, so i think it was about time for a break so we could all cool our jets, so to speak, and not hate each other anymore. that being said, i want to try to plan biweekly sectionals because the phs vibraphones are incapable of playing louder than a mezzo forte at their very strongest. ugh. but that will be fixed! and we will be awesome!
and this thurs/friday, i will be in kalamazoo and i am overjoyed. i love kalamazoo. and then feist! carrie, we should probably talk about what's going on with feist before you go to summer school. | | |
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