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Water polo is a really cool sport, i don't think i'd want to play on a team.. but maybe. I actually did ok i think for my first time and it was fun getting to finally know more people on the team. It's actually a little scary because the next few days tall men would talk to me and i couldn't remember who they were and finally realized they must have all been crew members who i couldn't recognize because they weren't swiming around in the water.

I read "peace" by aristophanes for greek and roman comedy (i will probably refer to this as "greek" in other posts but don't be confused i'm not taking greek, just a lit class). It's hilariously greek and raunchy with references to penis's being used as rudders and giant beetles named pegasus. I also finally finished The Last Battle so i've officially read the whole narnia series. dad was right they go downhill from lion, witch and the wardrobe. I love how extremely obvious the biblical references are. Mr. Bone could have a field day.

Winter carnival is friday. I just learned yesterday that a carnival is what they call a big ski meet. so winter carnival is when our ski team hosts the carnival but we get friday and saturday off. there are also activities such as the "ice show" and the winter carnival ball. we havn't exactly figured out what the other to-do's are but a day off of classes is enough for me.

Katie came to visit friday (hi katie) although many of you may have known that due to the extreme wallposting that went on on facebook last week. after finally finding each other katie was treated to the delights of Atwater dining hall, a middlebury men's hockey game and my all consuming past time of hanging out in my room with people. It's really funny when people come and visit because i tell the people here alot more than i tell you about them so they all know who you are and what school you go to and other things down to sports you played and clubs you were in, but i would be suprised if any of you knew more than a few of there names. If you're ever interested i could post a summary on ye old blog but i guess i always figured no one would really care.

Saturday i went to another hockey game and then helped clean up after with crew. I guess the school pays the club to do it so it's a sort of fundraiser. I learned a few valuable lessons: people are gross and the arena is big. then we went to Vagina Monologues at the student center (for further description see comment on sam's blog). sunday i sat in my room reading my chemistry text book (weee) and trying to figure out what deuturium was.

f.y.i. I'm planning on going home the weekend of the 10,11,12 to see my mom's play and see my brother while he's on spring break and because i won't be home for spring break.

I finally figured out my schedule as of yesterday afternoon after attending many classes that i'm not actually taking. But now i'm in Greek and Roman Comedy (that's new because my Greek tradgedy class was canceled), Chemistry, French and Calc II. So far my chem class is actually really good. they're starting with really easy review stuff like how to read the periodic table and the teacher is really nice.

Crew started monday and other than being a little sore it's lots of fun. today we're playing water polo and except for the fact that i have no idea how to play water polo it should be interesting.

It's really warm and sunny here. by warm i mean 47 F, it's a little chilly with the wind but freekishly warm for the middle of febuary. i can't wait for spring ahh....

Valentines day was fun- a bunch of boys from the dungeon were running around at 7 in the mornign giving people valentines and waking everyone up and there was a valentines breakfast in the lounge. i made people oragami balloon hearts with the oragami calender i got for christmas.

one last note i seem to have lost my address book so if everyone could please email me there address and telephone numbers i would super appreciate it.

Back to school

An update on how my week- monday through wednesday i did nothing productive which although extremly boring at the time i think it allowed me to reach a new clarancy which peaked while watching an Oprah episode inspiring me to change my entire attitude toward life. I now try to look at everything like a slightly amusing joke and am going to try to take myself a whole lot less seriously including putting on hold this whole search for the meaning of life. I'll let you know how that goes. Thursday my mom was home so we went shopping and out to lunch. I got fabric which my mom sewed into a cool new bag and a patch for a pair of jeans. I also hunted furiously for a new bathing suit- a sporty type one good for diving and swiming laps and summer camp. and after serious hunting found one that i really like. I also finally found a cheap watch and more socks (yay socks). Also went to the library and returned masses of books and rented first wives club.

Friday i finally got a sub job for the morning working as a one on one at the headstart program (preschoolers) that was lots of fun. Now i should go finish packing and try desperetly to find my address book which i seem to have misplaced (oh the horror). oh and get dressed. I can't believe i start chemistry at 8am tommarow. ahghghslkdj;fklasjf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breaking News

I'm bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored....

Recent Epiphanies discovered while spending the last 3 days doing nothing and not leaving the house:

1. College is good, doing stuff is good, talking to people is good

2. Life doesn't have to make sense, you just have to enjoy it'

3. Having free unstructured time isn't relaxing it's boring.

4. Facebook is only interesting when used as a distraction from doing work.

5. I like cleaning, and dancing. especially dancing while cleaning.

Artsey Photos Dedicated to Jessica for being the blessed free spirit that she is and knowing that Lesusa is in fact a communist

Hooome hoome on the Raangee

guess what teacher's depicted on the left and i'll dedicate one of my artsy pictures to you!


I'm hanging it at home this week for my break between j-term and spring term. If anyone has any ideas as to what to do with myself i'd appreciate it greatly. I'm signed up to substitute so i'm currently sitting around hoping teachers get ill which must give me horrible karma. I think ill go for a walk todady and take some artsy pictures and then i can post them to prove that i havn't done nothing. their might even be some accompaning poetry. stay tuned to find out more!

sit right back and you'll here a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.... so i went to the library to work on this web page that my group decided we would have finished for tomarrow. the library closes at 1am so i gathered up my stuff and headed out the door whilst all the lights were being shut off and the automatic locks were making loud clanging noises. as soon as i got outside i had this brilliant moment of "wouldn't it suck if i forgot my keys" and then preceded to pat myself down security style and discover i had somehow managed to leave them in the library. I still needed to do work on my project and i needed a public computer since i don't have dreamweaver on my laptop, besides i wasn't sure how i would get into my dorm at one in the morning without a key card anyway. so i'm at the 24 hour computer lab and i just finished most of the project like 10 minutes ago and now i get to wait around until the dining hall opens at 7 so i can eat because i'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooo hungry and then run to the library at 7:30 to hopefully find my keys/card because i really don't want to have to pay to have my locks replaced. and then hopefully i'll get a good two hour power nap before class. oh yeah and i have a cold and my body has decided it's really sore from erging/diving/sking and decided to inform me of all these minor ailments at once.

in other news, since i have two hours to kill, i joined crew (novice) so far only had two practices with the coach. susan taught me how to dive backwards off the board today so that was exciting. My class is over on wednesday and i'm going home thursday if all goes well. I'm not sure if i mentioned this before but i developed a severe addiction to the O.C and managed to watch both seasons (that's about 56 hours of O.C.) in the span of a few weeks. not counting the two i watched on tv rather than dvds because they were on last thursday and this thursday.

I also discovered that i can't squat. or at least not properly. both my friend abby and i can't do it but everyone else can. i have to squat on my tippy toes but they can all go flat footed- but if i try to be flat footed with my feet together i tip over backwards. aiko then of course wondered how i was able to pee in the woods- i told her i'd managed just fine without proper squating technique.

i wonder what breakfast is going to be... wait hold on i think i can check they post it on the school's website.. nope didn't say, just said "chef's choice" which means they don't know.

ooo so i've been researching paris all night because that's what my group's project is on and i found an intriging article so here's a link for that oh and i watched the russians are coming, the russians are coming which is a ridiculous movie but it has this really cute part where a russian (alexai i think is his name) says "you kiss at me? does this mean same as in union of soviet?"

last night for dinner i had some pumpkin ravioli, which sounds really weird, but it just tasted like pumpkin pie and pasta.

Hello all. J-term is going swell. I got my snow bowl seasons pass yesterday. One of my friends has convinced me to watch the OC so i've started from the beginning. I'm about 8 or 9 episodes in already. Katie the cookies wer super fantasticly yummy and soft. I havn't eaten the cake yet though, that's being saved for catastrophe.

well i'm back as you all know, though none will read it until you get back. just thought i'd post out of nessessity. i'm off to my first afternoon of work. exciting.

Home, rent and Mr. Darcy

so i've been home since saturday night. I was going to call katie but we ended up having dinner with the kersulas and i didn't have time. If you're free tomarrow let me know and i'll call, sounds like school's fun. I found my family's ice skate stash and my mom's fit me and i think my old one's will fit leah and i think we have some other pairs ranging from smaller to size 12 mens so i was hoping we could all go ice skating soon. It costs $10 at grafton ponds and you can rent skates if you want to go but we can't find any skates. let me know if you're interested and when people would like to go.

I saw rent with jess yesterday. It's really good i definitly recommend it even if you've never heard of it before hand (like me) it's worth seeing. the bellows falls opera house looks nice and the seats arn't hideous like ashley said. they have cup holders. we should all go see harry potter like friday (it's playing in bf).

I'm babysitting on new years eve, but hopefully we'll all see each other other times. hope finals go well and see you all when you get home.

producers is coming out christmas!

in other news i only have one more final, tommarrow at two and i'm going home at 5ish. when you college folk get home call me and let me know 'cause i don't know when you're finished. or if you're not to busy studying and would like a little call i'd be happy to talk since it won't be on a calling card.

so until around yesterday things have been pretty crazy. My OED final was three and a half hours long, oral exam. it was the longest three and a half hours of my life. Took french last night and bio yesterday morning. After the test we went to see one of the "stress breaker movies" which was "dazed and confused" a throwback depictin 76 actually really funny. it has ben affleck who plays this overaggressive high school senior and says f**k alot. THe moral of it seemed to be do drugs, smoke pot, drive around while under the influence of both and then make out with the first person you see. but it was still good.

i posted pictures on facebook, pretty much all the good ones i had so check them out.

and in other news i only have a short 2 1/2 week break so we have to make plans to see each other quick! new years eve? etc.

and here's a funny clip proving that
ebert is a jerk.

i think i'm actually going to go to bed before 1 am tonight. it's so weird how a year ago i thought doing homework past 10 meant i'd been procrastinating. owell, we make up for it with nice breaks. i'm really excited about christmas. especially since it'll mean finals are over. my last one is saturday from 2-5pm (next saturday, not this one). Then i get to laze about home. yay! i'm looking foreward to reading some more jane austen, which i now read religiously before i go to bed. Somehow i feel like if i can jsut read a little pride and prejudice before i go to sleep the world can't be that bad of a place after all. it's sort of my bible. speaking of which i've started going to the congregationalist church in town. I wouldn't call myself a regular yet since i've only been twice, but i really liked it. it's UCC like my church at home so most of the people are nice. They have the college kids over for lunch once in a while. i went last sunday to this nice family's house. the woman spins wool, and she taught us a little abou it and fed us hot cider in front of a warm fire. it was very homish. besides in church you get to sing which is fun, and it gets me up on sunday mornings instead of sleeping to insane hours when i groggily dredge out of bed to do homework.

can't wait till we're all home again. happy studying.

-Laurel

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i went and saw my first hockey game today-it was really cool. we won, of course, being the awesome team we are. learned most of the cheers and alot about hockey. thats all for now. buenos noches, or however you say it.

I registered for spring classes this morning, that was a bit of a nightmare but it's all done and i'm in cool classes so that's good. Not much news, just busy with work. one more week till finals so it's crunch time. thanks for the cookies mom. break a leg mary with your play tonight!!.. oh its so exciting she's probably already there getting makeup and costume ready. remember everybody, although its school it's still the holiday season so be excited! i found a pretty cool video clip you should all see, it has will ferrill, i guarantee enjoyement. Happy Holidays!

Le Pen - the next hitler?

I was enlightened in French class today about this party leader in France named Jean-Marie Le Pen. He originally wanted to restore france to a monarchy, but when everyone made fun of him he changed over to attacking immigrants and immigration. His party "Le Front National" is famous for their slogan "France pour les Francais" (france for the french). He's trying to take over power (democratically, ring any bells?) by playing through peoples fears (again. hitler.. duh) of immigrants stating that all of frances problems are caused by them (getting the connection?) anyways, he has this what might seem hilarious, but is actually somewhat terrifying flash videoon the frontnational website which you should all see: he also, as deranged as this might seem, he qualified in the presidential elections in 2002 to go onto the second round of voting, meaning out of all the presidential candidates he was second only to Jacques Chirac. and in the final round of voting recieved 18% of the vote. 18%!!! that's ridiculous considering that this guys political views intend on expelling all immigrants from france. If you want more information wikipedia covers it fairly well.

BEST HARRY POTTER MOVIE EVER!!

I SAW HARRY POTTER FIRST HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we went yesterday at 5:30 pm to sit outside the middlbury movie theatre like hobo's for 6 hours before being let in. thankfully the snow held off until we got inside. we were the second group in line. the line didn't get huge until around 8pm The manager of the theatre had a snape costume that he had sewn himself!! he even had a wig. finally at 12:01 am this morning the movie started. I absolutly loved it, it was so great. like most of the movies they're a lot of parts missing, but unlike most of the other movies this one was really good!!! we didn't get back to the dorm until 3 am so i was pretty tired for classes, but owell. it's friday who cares. and it's so much better to see those movies when you're with a bunch of hard core fans who whistle and cheer at the movie. anyways i won't elaborate too much cause i'm sure you'll all go see it soon. (katie i'll tell you more about if you ask specific questions!)

In doing research on 'hegemony' (for OED of course) i found an interesting web site: why is disney evil? I'm not sure i totally agree but it was interesting anyways. why is disney evil? at least look at the hegemony cartoon if you don't have time to read the whole thing.

see you all v. soon!

Originally a comment on leah's blog.. but since i'm a slacker i'll reuse it

nice to hear you monday was well. My tuesday was pretty good, i was really tired this morning and got up litterally 10 minutes before i had a class in bi hall but i still made it on time! and then i took a 45 minute nap before french class and then a 2 1/2 hour nap this afternoon so lots of rest since i don't have orchestra for a month. I also found out my lab for thursday was cancelled because someone had a severe allergic reaction and had to go to the hospital due to some peanuts that were part of the lab, even though they asked everyone a hundred times if they were allergic to peanuts. But the person's ok and i don't have lab so this is going to be an awesome week. I'll probably post this on my blog too since i bothered to write so much. See you (tuesday?? ) ONE MORE WEEK!!

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone." -Czeslaw Milosz

that quote reminded me alot of Jessica and how in 6th grade she wanted to grow up and live in a tree. Which is pretty much what she's doing living in aurora. But it also reminded me of roots, and how humans move so much. trees must have figured out something about how nice it is to just stay in one place. they seem to live much longer, stress free lives. Why is it that humans feel such a need to see everything, go everywhere. In Jane Austen's times we all had to go to london for a while, then it was Europe. Now we better make it to every continent before we die or we havn't lived. Not to mention space travel, poor monkeys.

On another note thanks for all the messages and birthday wishes. I'm working on getting some cool pictures into that frame leah and i use the early birthday present towel everyday when i wash my face. The little whale makes me smile!

I went to see the state championship football game, seeing as it was less than 5 minutes away i had no good excuse. Ashley was there! she tackled me when i wasn't looking, i was so suprised. But then i realized Billy was on the team, so it made sense. She seems to be doing great, enjoying school and all that. My company performance went well. My friends made me cupcakes for my birthday and lured me outside to blow out candles so we wouldn't repeat aiko's birthday incident. I finally watched Napolean Dynamite ("your mom goes to college") My family, including timmy and my grandparents came up to visit on satuday!

Harry potter comes out friday!!

Bet your bottom dollar that tommarow.....

Ok, it's been a loonng while since i posted, but leah was right, the reason has been due to excessive studying. Wednesday I took my second bio midterm and today(/yesterday i guess) i had two humungous papers due (like seriously, no shit, gigormous). But at least i left you with cute monkeys, not crabs like katie (j/k katie, honestly)

I'll send out an email to people soon with more details, but friday (after thanksgiving) around 5 (earlier or later if you want this is just what i'm putting in the email) i thought everybody could come over... you'll get more details in the email.

note- picture not mine, found on google. i only wish i had a pooh bear that big(not really, don't get ideas about sending me a humoungous stuffed animal).

it's too late to write much interesting so i'll go to sleep, but i'll post more stuff tommarow! hope everyone else is having way to much fun for their own good. 8 more school days until break!

12 DAYS!

Excitingness. the weekend will be upon me after french class, but classes are fun so i pretty much consider after finishing thursday homework to be the weekend. We talked about chimpanzees in biology today and i think i definitly want to get an internship working with monkeys in zoos, not labs because that's just depressing.

I think the friday after thanksgiving would be a good time for us to all get together, it sounds like most people are available then. If there's d&d we could go to that too, but other wised everyone should come over and we can have a "finish off the rest of the pies" party. let me know if this works for everybody, any suggestions.

see you later, alligators!