I saw a groundhog today. It was awesome. I dropped my pen and said "What the fuck it's a groundhog." And then it scampered behind a bush.
It's been a while hasn't it, what have I been up to...
Friday we went into Philly. Crazy town, I had a very good time. It's sort of like Seattle, but bigger. And older. We hung out at Logan Circle and walked on King Tut's face. For lunch we went to Redding Terminal Market and I had surprisingly good phad thai. And Marion (she's French and I love her) and I stalked a guy who looked like a turtle for twenty minutes.
Friday night we had movie night and watched Robin Hood: Men in Tights in one of the lecture halls. It was grand fun. We had popcorn and massive amounts of candy. We've been watching a lot of movies lately. Philadelphia Story and Rocky Horror and Robin Hood and The Breakfast Club. The library here has a better selection of movies than Hollywood video does at home. I've sort of become the movie pimp of the group because I'm there pretty much every night renting a movie. I think the librarian hates me.
Saturday we went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Absolutely amazing. It's humongous, in two hours I only got through one wing.
Sunday I hung out and did basically nothing. No, we stenciled t-shirts. That was very fun.
So many other crazy stories that I wish I had time to tell. I'm having so much fun, it's sort of unreal, how much fun this is.
I got giggly yesterday. I don't remember the last time I was giggly. It was crazy. The things that came out of my mouth. At dinner we had a long discussion of how sweet potatoes are actually carrots in disguise. And jerk chicken. We ingested the jerk. And how disliking sweet potatoes doesn't make you racist.
Tonight it was decided that because I haven't found my prince charming (gee I wonder why) I imagine amphibians having sex.
I can't decided if I'm hearing thunder outside or very large trains.
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Maybe I like this place
You know, I might really like it here. It's pretty damn cool. Day one was fun.
Got up, took a shower, went to breakfast. Food, unfortunately is all the way across campus and is the farthest thing we have to walk to. And they put spicy stuff in their potatoes. WTF. I was very annoyed. The rest of the food is pretty good. I'm still alive.
We have our first class at 9:30, which sure as hell beats zero hour. They're in a building across the street that looks sort of like an obese cottage. Very cute, just large. We go in, past stairs, to the left into our lecture hall. Everyone sits in a circle in a very strange chairs. My teachers are... really, really, really awesome. I'm not awake enough to come up with more interesting adjectives, but they're really cool. They're very laid back and are just as interested in listening to us as talking. We had seminar for an hour where we discussed last nights reading and basically said... whatever we wanted. We're reading really cool stuff. Then we had workshop with writing prompts. Oh yeah, there are the most brilliant window seats in the lecture hall, they're about two feet deep, made out of marble-y looking stuff. I saw a chipmunk out the window. It looked like a normal chipmunk just had its tail straight up in the air like it was constantly being electrocuted. The prompts, like everything else so far, are very open ended, but I liked them. After we discussed what wrote and gave constructive-ish criticism.
Then lunch. More food. Some questionable. Then... Topic conferences, that's right. I really liked this. We have two profs, right, we signed up in the morning to meet with one. I met with D, who's very cool and easy to talk to. And we just talked ideas for twenty minutes. We have a creative piece due on Wednesday and we talked that around. It was really helpful and I came out feeling a lot more sure about what I was going to do.
We did our reading and wrote the paper for tomorrow in the afternoon, had a tour of the computer lab and did a group journal exercise. The sunsets here are gorgeous and I saw a good bench to watch from I just didn't get a chance to get down there.
Tomorrow: Go to library, buy postcards (not at the library)
Got up, took a shower, went to breakfast. Food, unfortunately is all the way across campus and is the farthest thing we have to walk to. And they put spicy stuff in their potatoes. WTF. I was very annoyed. The rest of the food is pretty good. I'm still alive.
We have our first class at 9:30, which sure as hell beats zero hour. They're in a building across the street that looks sort of like an obese cottage. Very cute, just large. We go in, past stairs, to the left into our lecture hall. Everyone sits in a circle in a very strange chairs. My teachers are... really, really, really awesome. I'm not awake enough to come up with more interesting adjectives, but they're really cool. They're very laid back and are just as interested in listening to us as talking. We had seminar for an hour where we discussed last nights reading and basically said... whatever we wanted. We're reading really cool stuff. Then we had workshop with writing prompts. Oh yeah, there are the most brilliant window seats in the lecture hall, they're about two feet deep, made out of marble-y looking stuff. I saw a chipmunk out the window. It looked like a normal chipmunk just had its tail straight up in the air like it was constantly being electrocuted. The prompts, like everything else so far, are very open ended, but I liked them. After we discussed what wrote and gave constructive-ish criticism.
Then lunch. More food. Some questionable. Then... Topic conferences, that's right. I really liked this. We have two profs, right, we signed up in the morning to meet with one. I met with D, who's very cool and easy to talk to. And we just talked ideas for twenty minutes. We have a creative piece due on Wednesday and we talked that around. It was really helpful and I came out feeling a lot more sure about what I was going to do.
We did our reading and wrote the paper for tomorrow in the afternoon, had a tour of the computer lab and did a group journal exercise. The sunsets here are gorgeous and I saw a good bench to watch from I just didn't get a chance to get down there.
Tomorrow: Go to library, buy postcards (not at the library)
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