december 1, 2000

best thing
tiffany's sifl and olly songs
watching abby's matinee: an ideal husband
finishing up the ny times crossword with abby and prime
pokemon movie 2000! (some quotes from the movies:

Misty: "If you want someone to do whatever you want, whenever you want, get a girlfriend!"

Female villain: "That's the sort of trouble you get into when you get involved with the opposite sex."
Male villain: "That's the sort of trouble I stay out of!"

Lethargic duck emperor thing: "I could use some pants.")

worst thing
peeling off pretty sparkly nail polish

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november 30, 2000

best thing
getting lotteried into my history class (which means that after next semester, all my requirements will be done. whee!)
nap
english dance (shiny shirt, spinning twirling dizzy...)

worst thing
still not sure if i'm in one of my spanish classes next semester

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november 29, 2000

best thing
skipping religion in favor of breakfast
buying a cute book (when i went to the bookstore to buy dewey, heh)
calling nancy - actual plans!
hanging out on the first floor, this is entertaining, and i need to do it more often

worst thing
bad sharples... i didn't even want to drink the tea
parrish desk
sad sarah

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november 28, 2000

best thing
nap
amelia + non-sharples food = happy picnic, yay!
scottish dance: "and if you dance backward into place, i will hit you with a chair."
amelia over, people hanging out

worst thing
sleepy classes
disinterest in picking a spanish paper topic

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november 27, 2000

best thing
gold sparkly nails
assorted conversation at parrish desk

worst thing
jennifer finds out about her rat... and not even from me...
parrish desk
trying so hard not to be annoyed
sad hollis

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november 26, 2000

best thing
church
finally getting in touch with nancy
advice of the day: "put narcotics in the cookies, and no one will remember the rat." (thank you, sarah.)
cookie-baking study break in willets, yum! (with all the silly cookie cutters, heehee.)
watching unnecessary television
clementines

worst thing
jennifer not back yet...
katherine harris: the partisan bitch
stupid camera (finally gave up. not only does it go "whirrrrr," it goes "click click click" at the same time, and the film doesn't advance.)
evil network not letting me take my pictures from it

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november 25, 2000

worst thing
*sniff*
the rat died.
i killed the rat. maybe not literally, but still.
poor poor rosie.

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november 24, 2000

best thing
going to the mall with jesse (bought 100 cookie cutters for amelia, and ate ice cream at friendly's. friendly's!)
permitting myself to play christmas music
phone call from dad :)
into philadelphia with dan, amelia, jesse and branen - saw best in show (go see! cringe! be amused!), ate wonderful veggie pizza

worst thing
some confusion over plans, but we figured it out

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november 23, 2000

best thing
eleven hours of sleep
phone call from mutti
sharples thanksgiving (good food! in sharples. wow.)
watching dune (jello men! the voices in their heads! semi-naked sting! lol...)
ml thanksgiving (er, a bit nontraditional. but fun just the same.)
scrabble
off to willets to visit amelia and eddie izzard

worst thing
mutti's call waking me an hour before my alarm
a bit too much ml for me

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november 22, 2000

best thing
still waking up before the alarm (after an hour and a half of sleep. haha. i think it's a good habit, though.)
getting into the poetry workshop
pre-registration
break, finally

worst thing
getting into the poetry workshop

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november 21, 2000

best thing
not-working in kohlberg
meeting about study abroad (ooh, more indecision)
rosie my new roommate (temporarily, at least)
visitors, distraction, ridiculousness

worst thing
almost funny, not quite: dropped little silver cross from my pocket into the toilet while changing clothes for dance. ridiculous.
no presence of mind during dance class
philosophy paper
to bed at 6:30

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november 20, 2000

best thing
over the rhine christmas cd in the mail!
running into my philosophy prof, who told me i didn't have to talk :)
our study break

worst thing
portable cd player batteries running out
some alarm going off for minutes on end during my whole shift at parrish desk
scheduling uncertainty

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november 19, 2000

best thing
church
brunch at the village porch with eileen, her dad and amelia (even though they put the sausage on the waffle. haha.)
six cents/sixteen feet show

worst thing
sleepless amelia
david j. went home! already! what a bum.

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november 18, 2000

best thing
10 hours of sleep
choir concert: mozart's requiem, audience spilling into the aisles...altogether lovely.
eileen's dad coming to visit (with a suitcase full of smoked salmon, apple pie, trail mix, banana bread, and more...)

worst thing
borracheria de ml (well, not so bad, except for ben)
ben going to the hospital after a lot of tequila
being in my pajamas at 11 but going to sleep at 4

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november 17, 2000

best thing
pretty gel pen design on hand (becoming a habit: dots on tuesday, lyrics on wednesday, stars on thursday, flowery spirally thing today)
finishing and turning in the prostitute paper
package (plane tickies! yay mutti!)
sort of napping
ml 2nd hall dinner (thank you eben stefan fraser willa, and everyone else!)
cards and silliness with jesse

worst thing
bizarre phone message: it was marked 'urgent' and the entire message was someone coughing and hanging up

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november 16, 2000

best thing
meeting with my advisor about scheduling and study abroad and such
a brief nap in kohlberg
english dance ("the ferret is soft and fuzzy and you can call him hugo!")
working on my history paper

worst thing
having to write a reflection paper for religion
to sleep at 3, again

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november 15, 2000

best thing
getting up on time
music in my red purse
haircut (not much. just so it's not all messy and at odd varying lengths.)
long dinner (interesting enough to forget that i had parrish desk at 6.)
finally writing a letter to vicki and bob
receiving the results from my alumni search
course selection study break with food and such

worst thing
my recently exceedingly caffeinated diet
not really getting started on my history paper

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november 14, 2000

best thing
getting spanish essays back
finally visiting the foreign study office (where we got poorly written informational packets, and set up appointments for later. hm.)
starting an alumni search at the cp & p
impulsively buying over the rhine's christmas cd online
scottish dance
hitting hollis up for fudge

worst thing
oversleeping (no shower, general discontent)
amelia's linear algebra (i'm still impressed; i would have imploded from all the numbers by now)
over the rhine concert in philadelphia on december 15th... for 21 and older. dammit!
religion paper

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november 13, 2000

best thing
lunch at ml: edible miso soup, avocado and crackers
getting paid to participate in a psych experiment

worst thing
parrish desk

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november 12, 2000

best thing
church
web-paging
shuttling to genuardi's to buy shtuff
a phone call from sarah, on her computer!

worst thing
uncooperative html
spending money

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november 11, 2000

best thing
dinner: lipid bar (as hollis calls it... ick... ha...), those things pie, visitors
charlie's angels
laura and dea's birthday party (pina coladas, sexual trivia game, much vegan food)

worst thing
long unproductive sad afternoon
tiffany missing the movie because no one told her when we were going

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november 10, 2000

best thing
our spec, allen's friend ariel
the eumenides
back to ml for chocolate, scrabble, etc.

worst thing
excessively large scone for breakfast
amelia having to deal with assorted grapevine confusion