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05:12 pm: Blogger
http://www.drlenna.com/blogger.html

I figure I might as well use hosting if I have it. No idea how it'll change when I go to college; possibly not at all.

08:21 pm: screw depauw
screw greencastle.

06:31 pm: wow
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, I'm pretty cool. <link>

08:10 pm: The Economics of Labor Day
The Economics of Labor Day

They always raise the gas prices over the weekend,
Although it hardly seems necessary this year.
The marginal cost of going to the barbecue
as opposed to staying at home
Is nothing more than however much the gas costs.
It's a good decision if the benefit is more.

Beer and charred meat and sunshine--
What summer could end without it?
The marginal cost of another piece of meat
as opposed to leaving leftovers
Is feeling like a glutton in front of your friends.
It's a good decision if the benefit is more.

Today, it's always a good decision.

a bit tamer

02:25 pm: A Poem Composed To and From the Grocery Store
A Poem Composed To and From the Grocery Store

I bought half a dozen peaches and a dozen condoms today
The total was eighteen dollars and fifty-six cents
because
the peaches are food and aren't taxed and
they were on sale
even though I didn't have the card that I'm supposed to have to get the discount
I planned in advance to go to a male cashier
I didn't think of gender equity
but that he would look at the sunglasses tucked between my breasts
and the inch of skin between my top and my shorts
that was mostly there because I have a bug bite right there
and my long hair
and my other purchase

So now I will wait for the peaches to ripen
and glance at the box of condoms now and then
Eventually I'll hold a peach in my hand and pull off the skin
and eat the firm, sweet flesh inside.

this is mostly true

09:44 pm: my exciting weekend
I read:

A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
25-35 pages of Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The first page of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Approximately 1/3 of Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
10-15 pages of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Approximately 1/3 of Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

They're all on my term paper list. Of the ones I highlighted, I still haven't looked at Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe or the plays. The former because I forgot about it at the library and the latter because I seriously doubt I'd be able to write a good term paper on a play.

I drove the ancient, decrepit farm truck around today. It accelerates fast and brakes slowly, making tight turns extremely exciting. In second gear it's a little too slow and in first it's insanely fast. There's a particular turn on the way out to the pond that's a left turn, 15 feet or less, and a right turn, all pretty narrow. I had to back up on the way out but was able to take it on the way back. Good practice for my driving test (next Friday!), although I doubt I'll need it.

We also went to Three Oaks, Michigan for lunch and to look at galleries. In the car on the way home, I filled out a paper version of the Common App. It's not that comprehensive. Yay for laziness!

Now I'm home.

11:30 pm: update
- St. John's
- Carleton
+ DePauw
= 6

06:54 am: Wheheheheeee
I'm spitting stitches. Not the most pleasant thing, but maybe food will stop getting stuck in my sockets!

:D

12:12 pm: hooray
I'm back on solid food. Thursday I had mashed potatoes with curried lentils for lunch and was able to chew the lentils. Friday I had rice with curried kidney beans and was again able to chew it! Friday night I had potstickers for dinner. Hooray!

Now I'm trying a bagel with cream cheese. Mmm, cream cheese.

06:35 pm: I'm still alive
barely.

I didn't anticipate this level of pain. I took one Lortab, so I'm not crying in pain anymore.

Ergh. Stitches in my mouth.

My dad took a great picture of my ice getup. I'll post it later.

I should go rest. I hope the narcotics kick in a little better very soon!

08:30 pm: wheee
I'm getting my wisdom teeth out Friday 19 August 2005 (tomorrow, as I write this) at 14:30. I cannot eat after 8:30.

Suck.

So I finished my Bio worksheet (due Tuesday) and am currently writing my first AP English Paper (also due Tuesday.)

Hooray!

The calc homework will most likely get shafted.
Wheee.

I'm also missing football @ Crawfordsville. Marching band does one away game a year, and I happen to miss it. :(

03:42 pm: first day of school
pretty shitty.

Bio II: read the first chapter for wednesday
Econ: no homework
AP Calc: worksheet
AP Eng: read pp. 21-31

and the convocation was the principal telling us that we're going to start each day with the pledge of allegiance and the athletic director telling us to support the sports teams.

I walked home carring my bio book and my english book. My shoulders are not happy with me.

10:00 pm: New Harmony
It was actually called a Symposium on Ancient Design Principles.

I'll list and very briefly summarize the lectures.

Jon Allen
"The Prevalence of Geometry in the Natural World and the Relevence of Geometry Today as a Universal and Objective Reference for Beauty"
Building layouts using geometry for proportions, etc.

Ben Nicholson
"Demystifying Labyrinths"
History of labyrinths. He's trying to draw every labyrinth known to man and then some.

Jeff Soule
"Incorporating Cultural Traditions in Town Planning"
I skipped this one to draw in the sand of the local softball field with Ben and some others. It was about Chinese cities and expanding them without overwhelming modernity.

Randy Schmidt
"The Geometry of Feeling, and Growth through Structure-Preserving Transformations"
Almost an answer to Jon's talk. He thinks that you can't know how a space will feel just by drawing it. He stresed the importance of physically laying things out. He has a list of 15 things that are often present in spaces that are emotionally pleasing.

Paul Murrain
"Town Making: A Living Tradition"
He supports rejecting sprawl, rejecting wal-mart, rejecting parking lots. He wants cities to build so that peoples' necessities are within a five-minute walk of their house. He had plans with lots of circles on them (5-minute-walk in radius).

Clearly I don't remember the first two that well.

Mrs. Owen (90 years old, formerly married to a descendent of Robert Owen): "We got out our sabers and our pitchforks and our voting rights and our rezoning and we won that battle!" She's a feisty one.

The host's 25-year-old son, Patrick, is slender and really cute and sexy and cute and ummm... He's an actor in NYC (read: waits tables). His sister, Kate, is 27 and teaches art in a Chicago high school. She's really nice.

The kid who was doing audio for the lectures has long, wavy blonde hair somewhat reminiscent of another guy...so I stared at him now and then. One morning he had it all under a hat and my mom said, "different guy." I said, "no!" and she started talking about him. He heard and looked up, so I told him that my mom didn't believe that he was the same guy as the night before. She said, "You have all that hair under that hat?" and he said, "Yeah, it takes a long time!"

He's not as cute as the guy he reminded me of. I love that one. He also isn't as tall.

I saw some meteors...two thursday night and two friday night. I believe it's the time of the Leonid showers.

On Friday we got up at 6:15 and walked down to the labyrinth to do Qi Gong and walk the labyrinth. That was a pretty exhausting day.

The food was really good :) Cooked by Patrick and Kate and their mom and another guy.

I was sort of sad that we were so overscheduled. My dad wanted me to take some panoramas (there was this incredible brush sculpture, and I found the picture! →) but it was hot and we were tired and wanted to go home. So we went home. It's a long drive...it took a little more than four hours. Somebody from Tennessee had a shorter drive home (~3h). It's partly the roads and partly because Indiana is a portrait state and Kentucky is a landscape state.

But my mom has an exhibition arranged at a local gallery in 2008, so I'm sure I'll be back at some point.

/me toddles off to upload pictures

07:23 am: away
I will be in New Harmony, IN until Saturday night.

I will be attending a conference on "sacred geometry."

03:23 pm: One thing I detest
1. People who ask for a gmail invite without leaving their email address.

2. People who do the aforementioned...thing...and don't reply to a comment saying, "Sure, what's your email address?"

3. People who reply to a comment like the one described in #2 asking for a gmail account, again not including their email address.

Okay, that's three things. But it just piles up and piles up and...

01:30 pm: oh snap
I have a doctor's appointment in LaPorte on Friday. This means I will be gone for at least a week.


Byeeee..........

/me hugs the internets

05:55 pm: grr
I'm going to be in BFE, Indiana, August 11-13. Fuck.

Also July 30 until as late as August 4. Different BFE, though. Bah.

10:29 pm: hump day!
I went to the dentist today. Apparently I have to get my wisdom teeth out. Whee.

My dad called the BMV. Apparently I have to hold my renewed learner permit for two months before I can take the test. Total bullshit. That means I can take my test on ~September 6. Fucking A.

Also, please ignore anything about Saturday the 30th. I had an abrupt change in plans.

Hmm. I feel like I'm forgetting something.

Oh well.

<3

08:39 pm: weekend
I went up to visit my first cousin once removed and her son, my second cousin, who were staying at my grandma's. He's 10. I had honestly forgotten how silly 10-year-olds are.

I got home and quickly ran out of things to do on the internet. Every page on lightweave.com is compliant XHTML 1.1, so I don't really know what to do.

But I remembered that I should work on college applications. Reed sent me one. I don't think I asked for it. I'm not sure if I ever responded to their mail.

So I'm going to work on writing my essay for the common application. I think that 3/4 of the schools I'm applying to (that few?) accept it. Stupid stupid stupid stupid.

Oh, I have mono, too.

01:55 am: Tell me
are you free on Saturday the 30th?