best thing
chinese food with jesse
macaroni & cheese (but none for me) and visiting in willets
wink, with lenny!

worst thing
philosophy paper (but it's done, and turned in, and good enough.)
advice on a message board

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december 19, 2000

best thing
using up the last of my points at kohlberg (well, with $0.03 left)
working on philosophy
ben and jerry's ice cream in sharples
e-mail from sean!
distractions (shiny things...)
snow

worst thing
working on philosophy
people leaving (while i am eager to go home, i do not recall having authorized anyone else to leave. ever.)

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december 18, 2000

best thing
turning in the history paper (2 down, 1 to go)
selling back books (mmmmoney is gooood...)
visiting the antique shop in the ville (full of sparkly costume jewelry, little glazed japanese bowls, dutch lace fans, tiny cabinets...)
my watch! it works again! i shoved in the bottom of my closet for a week and it started ticking again. joy.

worst thing
the antique shop, where nothing cost less that about $65, as far as i could tell. and most of it was a lot more than that.
no muppet movies after all

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december 17, 2000

best thing
church
dinner at tarble
rachel's birthday (mmm cake. and peter lighting candles... ha!)
finishing the history paper i'd started at about 5 p.m. by 1:30 and heading to bed

worst thing
sharples brunch
procrastination: it's a bad sign when i look at my own page to see if there's anything new
paper preventing me from going to the advent evensong at church :(
world's slowest sandwich at tarble (she put it over by the fries and left it there for like ten minutes... as if the fries would leap onto the plate of their own accord.)
so much unhealthy food + lack of exercise = nast... i will be healthy once i get home. really!

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december 16, 2000

best thing
bad mst 3k movie
salt and vinegar chips

worst thing
religion exam
drizzly incomprehensible cold dark weather
similar effect in my head... cold incomprehensible empty wandering all day...

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december 15, 2000

best thing
phone call from dad (even though he woke me up at 10:30... *ahem*...)
sitting in kohlberg for hours on end and not studying
reading terry pratchett
fun socks
lenny!

worst thing
not studying in so many ways...

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december 14, 2000

best thing
turning in the spanish paper
secret santa study break (i didn't do the gift exchange, just went and visited and ate, which was all i really wanted. tiffany got jason a llama!)
primal scream (at midnight the night before exams, everyone everywhere goes outside and screams. i didn't really... mostly laughed at the screaming people instead.)

worst thing
turning in the spanish paper... with which i am not at all pleased
noisy scary screaming people

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december 13, 2000

best thing
7 hours of sleep
downloading lots of shakira (grapevine's fault... bad catchy music...)
night of scenes (yay tiffany! and william in turquoise tights...)
being quotable ;)
dessert with jesse at paces (where i had never ever been before, and should go more often.)

worst thing
looking up information on dreaming in cuban online and being directed to the essay girl site (i guess i have some morals left after all. i was sort of offended. damn.)
having to look up all the shakira lyrics after downloading the songs
making sarah worry

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december 12, 2000

best thing
two fluttery skirts + my long coat + lots of wind
last day of classes
wandering ml and visiting (er, instead of working...bad...)
synesthesia (what color is your alphabet?)
IMing with sarah, who is lucky and at home
some nice virtual crack from amelia

worst thing
an hour of sleep
the lids at kohlberg coffee bar (which always result in coffee on my shirt. or maybe i'm just incompetent. but no, i think it's the lids.)
hershey's kisses and a cold piece of pizza for dinner
nonproductivity

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december 11, 2000

best thing
pseudo-yoga (i realize suddenly i've done essentially no physical activity this semester. damn.)
email from jen (the only person who can get away with sending me sappy friend forwards like that. she's just exempt. i don't know why.)
shimmery lavender nails
phone call at parrish desk from allen (!)
hanging out on the ramp on ml 2nd where we used to congregate more last year

worst thing
nasty chocolate chip muffin from kohlberg
sharples lunch (tofu and rice and black coffee and an apple. wow.)
parrish desk

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december 10, 2000

best thing
church
jamboree! (lots of wonderful people sang lots of wonderful songs. i won't list them all because it would take too long. but you were great.)

worst thing
least healthy breakfast ever
bakhtin and his nonsense about monologic poetry. no! when i have some free time i will write heteroglossic poems. somehow.

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december 9, 2000

best thing
finding strange lollipops in parrish (they say "smile! there is no god." on the stick...)
contra! (yay for eileen and hollis and rachel and kyla, who organized it. very very fun!)

worst thing
completely unproductive afternoon
my beloved green watch broke. *sniff*

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december 8, 2000

best thing
skipping philosophy to go eat lunch with tiffany
2 1/2 hour nap
catherine and hollis and allan's lovely lovely dinner party in the ml breakfast room (dressed up people, french food, wine, cheese, delicious pear tart... delightful.)
watching a movie with a bunch of people in hollis and jesse's room

worst thing
skipping philosophy... bad bad girl
too much sharples food
being honest

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december 7, 2000

best thing
watching parts of pillow talk and eating m&ms in history
getting more foreign study information, or at least lots of pieces of paper (which should aid my decision... what do you think, venezuela or ecuador? or something else?)
actually checking out books from mccabe for my spanish paper
going to the student dance concert
student council serving dinner in sharples (real bread, ben & jerry's ice cream, fresh fruit...)
english dance (especially pick up sticks. orbit! shuttle! sheepskin hays...)
daniel and richard's italian food study break (oooh garlic bread...)

worst thing
no spec... we were supposed to host her, and she just never showed up... very strange.

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december 6, 2000

best thing
finally getting photoworks papers in the mail (meaning i should have new pictures up, but not for a couple of weeks.)
entertaining television
sponge animals and other goodies from abby (i got an emu. hollis got a lion. jesse got a what-the-fuck-is-that.)
phone call from mutti (and grandparents and sammy my darling cat)

worst thing
amelia's exam and evil hallmate (i think she should take laurel up on her offer...)
too much chocolate, everywhere
parrish desk (and the next worker being late to her shift)

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december 5, 2000

best thing
no spanish class, so i got to go to sharples before lunch rush
getting quarters and doing all the laundry there was (in our room, at least. that's all that matters.)
playing saint nicholas! eileen and i filled shoes.
ranting with sarah about how commercial and anxiety-inducing christmas can be when you give gifts. we just want parties and music and cookies and trees and such.

worst thing
no spanish class, since prof. h. was sick
elastic of a very poor quality (not) holding up my stockings

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december 4, 2000

best thing
phone call from dad
painting my nails sonar (deep bluish green with iridescent sparkles, mesmerizing)
compromise

worst thing
being distracted in philosophy (he says things that turn into poems. i can't help it.)
the END of the smashing pumpkins. THE END. :(
parrish desk

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december 3, 2000

best thing
church
getting lotteried into both of my spanish classes
angelica the spec
the beethoven concert (i only drifted for a few moments during the third movement. i think everyone did. but it was beautiful.)
visiting the first floor again (entertainment! madness!)

worst thing
certain people who will remain unnamed (well, a certain person) being in my church. without my approval.
missing dad's phone call
the health hazards involved in visiting the first floor (having someone put my foot on his shoulder and run down the hall with me hopping frantically behind, having two people pick up one of my feet each as i cling to the wall for a second or two before falling on my back and wheezing desperately and laughing at the same time until i can breathe again...)

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december 2, 2000

best thing
10+ hours of sleep
finally sending an email to the neat place in berkeley
dinner at nancy and ray's house! (finally. talking and cooking dinner and petting the cat and more talking and looking at pictures and talking... lovely...)
hanging out and watching galaxy quest with assorted people

worst thing
the decision to cut football, badminton and wrestling
everyone's handling of said decision