best thing
pretty decorated feet
fun skirt
melanie's birthday thing (and melanie donating her room! to us! oh! new
favorite person!)
worst thing
no church
and yet no work, either ("maybe i'll get more done out on parrish
beach" ... riiiight.)
bad food
heat
pathetic failed run
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21 april 2001
best thing
sleeping in later than the hardcore parrish beach earthlusters ;)
specs! everywhere!
and especially elisabeth, the spec visiting from my high school. i hope
she comes, she seems cool, and i'd like to have started a trend.
swil kegger (sad that it was poorly attended, but it meant more room for
us to dance.)
worst thing
morning disorientation (you know, you run that very fast mental list of
who am i? where am i? how did i get here? first thing in the
morning... mine was a bit confused. i actually had to think pretty hard
about it for a few seconds.)
bad fried food things
nonproductive! totally! slept on a desk for an hour in mccabe, failed to
do anything.
no notebook workshop after all
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20 april 2001
best thing
history paper due date pushed back two days (every little bit
helps...)
student dance concert
earthlust sleepout (that is, earthlust singing and marshmallows and
company, then maybe 6 or 7 people actually sleeping out. and some of us
defected in the night to indoor dry places. but fun.)
the campaign for sustainable nakedness? indeed.
worst thing
too much sharples dinner
not working! a whole lot of it!
rain (laurel and i slept on the floor of the squ room to escape. yeah, so
we're pathetic. or maybe just sensible, there's a thought..)
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best thing
discovering i have nearly 50 points left (i was so paranoid, i didn't
check for a long time because i thought i only had 10 or 15...)
one syllable words (i like them. yes i do.)
english dance
running
pseudo-yoga out in the hall (i can do headstands properly! except for the
second one, with the rapid dismount in the wrong direction, quick tuck and
roll instead of quick snapping neck. good.)
david foster wallace (i need more. more. i have only girl
with curious hair, which continues to delight me, but i need
more.)
dark chocolate orange and company
worst thing
less skin on feet (norwegian polka)
remembering that creepy x-files guy with no legs on the little cart (bad
when i'm alone on a playground at night, swinging on creaky swings... but
effective for sprinting.)
to bed late, late... there's not much point in even mentioning it
anymore... it's okay.
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best thing
june jordan? maybe?
student council dinner (weird music and good ice cream.)
coffee and forced organization (does coffee just wake me up or does it
actually make me happier? maybe being more awake and able to organize
things just makes me happier. that could be.)
writing my poem for workshop an entire week in advance
oda a la alcachofa (when i get around to reconnecting pictures and
quotes and poems, maybe i will include this one. and some of the other
odas.)
worst thing
lack of food
workshop... ack! i think she just didn't like us. or what we
wrote. errr.
suddenly too much food
study abroad meeting (i should have known that would be completely
useless.)
realizing that i have 25+ pages of writing due by the middle of next week,
none of which i have really begun
headband (i always forget and wear them because they're convenient, but
they give me headaches and actual dents in my head.)
sleepy typing (trying to search for something on google, but when entering
the url i typed "gogoogle" instead... like... go-go-ogle. go go gadget
ogle!)
dad and susie's visit postponed! :( but only until next weekend.
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17 april 2001
best thing
entertaining titles of philosophy papers: sexual behavior: another
position and - arguing against in vitro fertilization - spare the
rod and spoil the child
a letter from the history department informing me that it is delighted
to accept you as an Honors Minor with an Honors Major in Spanish -
interestingly, the department of modern languages has not yet expressed
any such delight.
scottish dance, even though i was being stupid and crabby and silent
run (#1, i like the feeling of stopping voluntarily, feeling like i
could run another mile and another if i wanted to... #2, i had been sort
of distressed, believing that i was not running any farther than i had
been because i did not seem to be running much longer. then i realized
that i have been running farther, just in the same time, and therefore
consistently faster without really noticing. interesting.)
finally discovering a use for cleavage: a good place for storing keys when
running in pocketless clothing
the gemueseorchester site (go)
worst thing
skipping my shift for editing phoenix copy
subjecting the world at large to my unreasonable and selfish and childish
and very silly moods (i apologize to the world at large, and to you,
too. but i can't promise it won't happen again.)
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16 april 2001
best thing
first post-lent chai
orange segments with nutella
lying on the backroofporch during that one part of the afternoon when it
was suddenly sunny -- pink petal snow falling up from the exploded
pinkwhite trees, floating on my hair and in my clothes, sun on my
eyelids.
earthlust
worst thing
realizing that my right brown boot has a hole worn in the top inside, and
this is why i have eight or so individual socks with holes over the right
toe
gross too much foodness
unproductive afternoon... i sort of wanted time to stop but instead it
just went slowly, so slowly
going back and forth. excess consciousness.
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best thing
easter!
the weather to match, at least in the morning
church
brunch at the rectory (the incredible casserole, people, easter
baskets...)
video call with mutti, alan, and both grandparents :D
easter cards
the shiny!
worst thing
easter church means lots of people, which is good, but they sit on all
sides of me, which is bad
tooo much candyyyy
parrish desk
cold rain = no run
three weeks of classes left! (how did this happen??? *absolute terror*)
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best thing
sleep (9 hours? a lot.)
phone call from dad from kentucky, at the official tunning family easter
gathering (pandemonium in the background, yelling cousins...)
dyeing eggs in sharples
contra dance (the beginning and the end)
church (easter vigil -- candles, bells, voices which i am beginning to
perceive in non-aural ways. interesting.)
the end of lent! cheese! cookies! ohhh so much fattening-ness!
worst thing
sleeping enough means weird dreams (reckless driving dreams, as always,
and arguing with a couple of women about body image -- something about
sandwiches, and a hospital -- also picking hard-boiled eggs out of a hat
to select the CAs for next year.)
sad mutti phone message (she misses me. : ( i will be home soon
enough. no worries.)
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13 april 2001
best thing
sunshine
church
being taken by amelia to lodge 2, where there were lots of people and
music to
listen to and cake (in honor of laurel's birthday) to look at. regular
cake and jew-cake.
worst thing
parrish desk on sunny days
also parrish desk making me late to church
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12 april 2001
best thing
easter package from mutti (good and strange things enclosed! vegetarian
marshmallows, an exceedingly polyester shirt, egg dyeing kit with little
paint rollers, grass jelly drink... you know, all the usual.)
walking in the amphitheatre for a while until i felt reasonable
and then i went off to dance
running (playground all to myself, as it should be.)
writing a sonnet in spanish in not very much time. rhymes and everything,
and in vague iambic pentameter.
worst thing
riots in cincinnati (they've set curfews and everything. guns and fire
and looting. is this really where i live?)
lack of scale (i realize i have none. this is why the question "how are
you?" perplexes me as thoroughly as it does.)
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11 april 2001
best thing
sra f. campus mailing me the pen that she borrowed the day before (so
cute!)
italian food study break (daniel and richard should realize that they will
have to keep this up until they graduate. i would give sexual favors for
that garlic bread... okay, probably not. but you never know.)
worst thing
rainrainrain, on and on, not enough energy to even storm
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best thing
morbid potato faces at sharples (especially morbid when eaten with
ketchup.)
no dance -- not good, but i needed the time.
worst thing
spanish presentation (blah. but over.)
no dance -- no dance!
no run, either. day of extreme laziness. lazitude? lassitude!
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best thing
sarah-news *smirk*
bright sunny finally spring (almost summer??) weather
going to goodwill with jesse (agh! hit me with an umbrella! i did
not need to buy stuff! but i did.)
overheard in kohlberg: "oh, so you're saying 'fuck' works better because
it's an action verb?"
thunderstorm (first real one, and i stood in the rain in my green linen
dress, and i remembered how much i love the smell right before a storm,
thunderhungry.)
earthlust (giant rainbow pinwheel thing!)
worst thing
hot hot too hot, i am pathetic
getting a sheet of 16 pictures for $8 after having paid more than $20 for
4 a few weeks ago (i am a moron moron moron)
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best thing
church
long brunch
being accosted somewhat randomly to help diaper a baby in a parking lot
(at least it was someone i knew accosting me. still strange. but i got
to hold a baby.)
worst thing
knees - no running, still hurt from dancing.
lots of parents and specs coming to parrish desk. i was nice, though. to
their faces.
the Big-Ass Cockroach that scuttled under the couch when i turned on the
lights (it wasn't really that big, i guess... its ass certainly
wasn't... but i was still extremely displeased. wrathful. i will take
vengeance.)
whining, mine
fragmentedness. this is what i am.
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best thing
dad and his cell phone (now they're calling me from some fable opera thing
in middletown, then con & lucy's house. fun toy.)
time code (i rather enjoyed the trotsky in the house song...)
squ's pink party (i danced for three hours. my knee hurts. so much good
bad music!)
worst thing
unproductive day (worked on earthlust page for hours and hours... so not
really unproductive... but not what i needed to be doing.)
breaking my ID card (while dancing... to ice, ice, baby... oh god.)
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best thing
skirt and green shiny flip-flops
grapevine concert (despite extremely late columbia kingsmen)
scrabble
worst thing
cool and rainy
flip-flops eat feet
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5 april 2001
best thing
tofutti in sharples
reading on parrish beach (there was a book open, and my face was near
it. on it. for a good hour and a half.)
dance (and talking to joanna about the apartment.)
cribbage
worst thing
forecast: 81 on monday? no! no! aaagggh i hate heat...
the necessary end (not a best thing, not a worst thing, just a thing,
strange thing? something. agh... *silence* i don't know...)
do you know that sometimes you can paint a piece of old furniture so many
times that you don't know when the wood has rotted out from under the
paint and then you find out all of a sudden when you try to use it
like any other piece of furniture and it just falls in on itself? i was
thinking about that today.
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4 april 2001
best thing
warm windy sun-filled weather
WA conference: i think the first useful one i've ever had.
a good conversation while walking back to ML -- kept walking for another
10 or 15 minutes to finish it (too bad i was, uh, the only one
there...)
receiving e-mail addressed "Goddess of all goddesses!"
worst thing
workshop... i am just not in a poetry mood. i don't like anything i've
written for that class, or possibly ever. some stuff other people do is
okay. sorta. blah.
weather... i feel that strange warm weather unsettled mood returning
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3 april 2001
best thing
e-mail from the dancing ferret place (now i cannot tell if i want to work
there, i would need another job anyway, i do not know if it is music i
like, but it sounds so cool, but now i can't remember if it pays, oh it
had better or i just don't care!)
bob kerrey lecture (i am not quite sure what i think of him. he spoke
well, but i am still... feeling uninformed. ambivalent.)
worst thing
yes, it was amusing the other day when we had that
talking-to-yourself-and-responding conversation... but i don't even know
how many times today i've hissed 'leave me the hell alone' under my breath
while walking by myself
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2 april 2001
best thing
nice long lunch
survivor and bad tv with jesse
branen's teletubby rant (i mentioned that i had to write a political poem
for class... i should've know better.)
earthlust meeting
worst thing
realizing i'll probably never actually wear the horrendous bright pink
sweater, much as it amuses me
reading the poetry workshop binder after trying to work on my poem
worried discontented sarah
computer requiring four ctrl-alt-deletes and end tasks to finally shut
down
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best thing
church
tofutti (ooh! if they just keep that up, i can be vegan forever. only
i'm fond of cheese, too. hrm.)
april fool's day: dan and i started laughing hysterically on the way back
to ML when we realized that the bells were ringing backwards; the
stairwell in parrish had a rainbow string webbed spiral (more impressive
than last year's, by far); and some random sort of funny other things.
running
worst thing
tofutti at both meals is very very excessive. but i've been deprived!
short run (people on my playground, aching legs.)
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31 march 2001
best thing
maypole dance (and it went perfectly, after all that worry. i even had
fun.)
mixed company singing in the bell tower
tarble dinner with david (paleontologists? other things? what?)
the first half of the b minor mass
rose tattoo cafe (definitely worth skipping the second half of the mass
for, sorry. yay allen and his dulcimer! the wandering warriors were
great, too. i will have to go to more of these.)
sean email, even when it's short
worst thing
aimless sleeping (vague afternoon nappishness, noise next door, blah.)
mouse skeleton in the boiler room -- all bits. tail bones with fur on,
skull, a few feet, ribs and spine all curled up.
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best thing
haircut, at long last
lentils at sharples (yum! also the only thing i really ate.)
sharples III opening (galen's pottery and ben's photographs. very
nice. i didn't know what to say in the little book, though. i never
do.)
phone call from mutti
vegan apple crisp from lenny and friends
worst thing
weird phone call (apparently i'm involved with the art department and i do
receptions? i am not who he thought i was.)
you know that ridiculous anxiety where you wish you could cry even though you haven't
for a couple of years despite your best efforts and you know you're being
quite unreasonable but can't help it but what else can you do? maybe,
maybe not. i do. it eventually goes away, though.
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29 march 2001
best thing
a cd in the mail (i send them money! they send me things! what could be
better? well, maybe if we took out the money part...)
finished with the ass-thetics midterm. not really that bad, after
all.
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (but their play went quite well, i
thought. the plastic costumes looked really cool, and people -- jesse,
david, hollis, alyssa, everyone -- were all great. and what an excellent
play, just in general--
i'd never seen it before.)
worst thing
rainy laziness
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28 march 2001
best thing
talking to a spec in kohlberg. he seemed convinced.
veggie night at sharples (beautiful cellophane noodles and brightly
colored vegetables and things! but i still disapprove of the
propaganda.)
worst thing
ass-thetics
computer (who knows what it's doing now... always something new...)