I have my own work to do because break "is about work, not about wasting time" according to my enviro sci teacher. She's lovely, but I call shenanigans on that. I finished my reading for my writing class and now have to 1) do research on some stupid science poster, and 2) read and fully understand a French novella for a quiz on Tuesday. I actually thought there was more. THOUGH I do have work study shit to do, which is just fully unpleasant.
I'm so looking forward to winter break and seeing everyone. And I love my plan on going back to UTK early with Suzanna and then riding a greyhound bus back to Memphis to catch my plane. I feel like I would really love meeting all of these people that she's become such good friends with and it would help out with the our long distance issue, i.e. the fact that we live so far apart.
Classes are getting amazing. I DID have to spend 4 hours in the woods/composting area near our school collecting plant specimens and earth core samples. That wasn't fun. But I'm deigning to spend psychology class doing other work, my writing seminar is fucking incredible, and my French class is really advanced, which is fun.
I'm weirdly already thinking about next semester's classes. Instead of 4.0 credits (which means 4 classes, which is standard for Vassar, we're weird and don't do "hours"), I'm considering doing 5.0, which is entirely feasible. The true question is whether or not I want to do Intensive German, which is 2.0 credits- basically it's doing a year of Elementary German in a semester. This means 1h15 every single day, Monday through Friday. And already I'm used to having Fridays off. Besides that, I'm fairly set on Intro to Sociology and Biology 106, which is the lab course that you must have as a prereq for upper level bio classes.
So I'm not "in a relationship," but I am spending a lot of time, both in my bed and out of bed, with Rafael, who is funny and incredibly obsessive compulsive and a cross country runner. We're not super serious, we just hang out all the time and hook up regularly. Right now, he's lying in my common room pretending to be asleep on his calculus homework. It's kinda adorable. I really want to go in the next room (I think they're drinking), but I don't want to leave him alone because WEIRDLY this room is empty.
Weekends events: tonight, party and possibly dancing at the Mug, the college nightclub. Friday: hip hop night at the Mug. Saturday: Welcome to the Jungle, a themed party. Sunday: homework, including (re)reading The Metamorphosis by Kafka.
My roommate (with whom I have a really nice, close friendship) and I are now in competition. He put up a picture from a magazine of a girl in lingerie on a motorcycle. So I put up a picture of a guy in just a revealing towel. And then he put up some hot chick's picture. So I have to come up with something clever. By semester's end, our room will just be covered with hot people.
I love college.
I'll try and update soon... just not much has been going on that's worth writing about.
Bad thing: he brought up Jessica Campbell AGAIN and used her as an example of sexual fluidity. Why I told him that, I'll never know.
Good thing: I got to hang out with my cousin Kalin, who is going to be a junior in high school this year and is really cool. I'm hoping to give her advice (over Facebook, largely) this year about college because her brother, who is a year older than me, is NO example. . She wants to go to film school, which I think is great, even though I shamelessly plugged liberal arts colleges to her.
Bad thing: 2/3 of the triplets possibly have the flu. Ethan's temperature went up to 104.7 last night.
Good thing: I got to sleep in my sister's bed (which used to be mine) for 2 nights in a row because she stayed elsewhere.
Bad thing: My stepmother backed her giant ass van into my small car this morning. It dented the driver's side door and doesn't open easily. My dad should have it fixed (I am soooo screwed if he doesn't) but it's horribly annoying and there's the possibility that they can't pull it out.
That was kinda long, but it's a summation so far of the pros and cons of this visit. OH, and FedEx has possibly misplaced my bike. But they don't know for certain. As it turns out, fortunately, the first zip code that I gave them, even though I later called and corrected it, is for the town right next to Poughkeepsie.
I HAVE EXACTLY 1 WEEK UNTIL MY FLIGHT LEAVES MEMPHIS. Pretty much down to the same time. I'm going to miss all of you and even those of you who aren't reading this because you fail to have LJ (Caitlin, Roxy, *cough cough*), but I'm ready to get on and start doing something useful with my life again. Stagnation is just bothersome.
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