I got into grad school--found out today. They all came at once: Berkeley, Yale, & Harvard. feeling immensely relieved.

waiting...

Nice to see people posting!

Congrats on the summer position Darcy & good to hear you're feeling better. Are you going to RA next year too or are you still figuring that out?

Not much is going on here, other than that I really need start to get to work this semester. My spring break isn't for a while--last week of March. I'm going to Florida with three (girl) friends from school. One of them has an uncle who has given us permission to stay in his vacation homenear orlando & use his car, since he won't be there. So I'm feeling lucky & it should be nice!

Anyway, life is not very eventful. Went to an econ major party friday night... drunken taboo playing, always a lot of fun. Trying to learn to play tennis (another PE class, since ice skating ended). Also, becoming VERY impatient & obsessive waiting to hear from grad schools. I am driving myself nuts with my own neuroticism.

that's all folks...

ps

post a photo of the new baby!

good day sunshine

yay people are posting again. that makes me happy. I am up late working, which is unusual but deserved -- time for me to reap the consequences of not working much so far. let me think of news: the sccs conference went really well, though now I am kind of ignoring my follow up responsibilities. my wallet + everything disappeared last week, which sucked.

oh, I went to my first naked party a few weeks ago, which was really fun. they're pretty common on campus and I'd always wanted to go to one, but always heard about them the night of and was like 'oh I haven't shaved my legs in weeks I can't go...." lame-o. I went this time and it was really chill and enjoyable and in the Yale Daily News building. I saw a guy there that I'd hooked up with at the very start of the semester and had this weird guilt thing in the middle of so stopped and pretended to fall asleep, but I hooked up with him again after the naked party and it was really good. run-on sentence!

oh, and I've made out with this coffee guy Alex a few times but I don't know how interested I am. we're going to get drinks sometime this week. my friends just told me he has a speech impediment, which I'd never picked up on. they think he's kind of a loser. maybe he is.

I'll mix things up and not start this paragraph with 'oh.' what are you guys doing for spring break? how soon is it coming for you? ours starts next week, which is ridiculously early as usual. I'm going to Puerto Rico with society girls for the first week, which will be wonderfully warm and sunny. I got a research grant to go to Hyderabad in India for the second week, but I suck and haven't made any plans for that yet. I need to get my ass in gear!!

hiiii
wow i havent posted in a lonng time.
I'm gonna stay here this summer to do research w/ my current advisor, so I can actually get some papers written. He's really cool and I like the work, so it should be fun. and will give me a chance to get in to grad school even if I get an C on my thesis.
I just got over some tonsilitis or strep or something (yay penicillin!). Its odd cuz it felt worse than mono had for me, but that could just be memory deceiving me. Or maybe its just so much more fun to be sick at home than during the school year. When I went to the dr. he decided he was gonna test me for malaria. I told him I didnt have malaria. We argued back and forth for half an hour, and I came to the conclusion he must beleive in God. Or he's terrified of lawsuits. But I won the argument :)
okay hope you all are doing well, and yay to your baby, steph!

so here i am

waiting for my bread to come out of the oven, when all of a sudden, outside the window, i hear a group of people begin to chant. it gets louder and louder and soon they come into the house. they're chanting: "what do we want? our food processor! when do we want it? Now!" the co-op that we'd borrowed the food processor from to make dinner had come to take it back! i went and looked in the kitchen ... and they were all naked. all 10 of them.

Ah, fun times.

Quick update, that's all. my boy gets home from a week-long trip tonight!

hi guys-

saw romeo & juliet last weekend with josh and thought of junior english:

happily met, my lady and my wife
that may be if i may be a wife
what may be must be, love, on thursday next
what must be shall be
that's a certain text


it was a strange production, performed in a long strip of sand, with the audience on either side, facing each other. costumes were modern. benvolio was female.


last night went out with my frosh roommate & her bf & josh. had a lot of fun.

classes have started at last... i'm taking a lit seminar (reading ulysses!), 2 econ classes & my thesis

pooooooooooost

update: sccs national conference looms ominously on the horizon. weekend was awesome. still not doing any work -- trouble soon?

fin

yay bread

I'm so impressed at your mad baking skills! props to both of you.

we went skiing in VT at Mt. Snow, hokiest name possible.

this week started off soooo stressfully -- Monday was just hell, non-stop busy all day rushing to different meetings, classes, rehearsals. besides the business during the day, though, my semester is lined up to be very relaxed. so far my work commitments are relatively few, so I am packing in hours at the library, dance, and SCCS (student campaign for child survival). yesterday was the first night of Feb Club: about 200 seniors, groups of whom will host a party every night of February. the intention is that everyone will attend (or at least make an appearance) at every party, but I don't know how closely I'll stick to that. we're throwing one for president's day on the 20th -- very excited for it.

do you guys know the "swedish pop sensation" gunther? he's the artist responsible for the most ridiculous song I know, the ding dong song (lyrics: oh, you touch my tra-la-la / my ding-ding-dong). imagine that with an accent and a handlebar moustache and you start to get the picture. he's performing at yale tomorrow night, and I've volunteered to work at his master's tea tomorrow afternoon, when he'll give a talk to all the students that can squeeze into our master's house. I'm hoping to get a photo with him.:)

also, random: I was talking with a girl I know pretty well a few nights ago, and she revealed that she has an ongoing correspondence with an older Chilean senator with whom she had a love affair when she was in Chile for the past two summers. how does that happen to people? the idea of a relationship like that is straight out of movies, and is completely foreign to me. it's so interesting that it's her, too -- a kind of homely looking Rhodes scholar. the whole affair is just so fantastical to me.

not vegan

sorry ender, the recipe had 2 eggs (standard, i think). a vegan challah recipe would be cool. i'll keep my eyes out... (i just googled it and there are several recipes online, but i obviously wouldn't know anything about them. let me know if you try something.). i'll have to check out the soymilk bread recipe. we have the laurel's kitchen bread book at home, so i'll look it up. thanks for the tip =).

beautiful challah!

That looks great Elle! Did you make a vegan one? If you did can you send me the recipe? I'm thinking of just trying to replace the eggs with soy levicin (sp? is that even the right word?) but I'm not sure how it will turn out. In the beginning of the year, when I was still learning my way around the kitchen (making Challah took me about 4 hours of work, not including rising time, because I just didn't know where things were or how to use them or really how to make bread without a bread machine), I had just gotten the challah into the first rising stage, was exhausted, and then someone came by and said: "Hey, are you making any vegan challah?" and I wanted to burst into tears. But now I think I'm ready if I can find a good recipe.

Also, you should try the Larel's Kitchen Whole Bread Book recipe for soymilk bread, it's REALLY good. It has like an eggy texture but doesn't have egg (it has soymilk!). Really good. Hooray!!

Beautiful braiding, as well. :)

okay

ender: yeah state of the union... congrats on having your response posted--that's cool =).
and slim: congratulations on accepting that job! that's super exciting. how was the ski trip? where'd you go?
steph: dinosaur taing sounds like fun... good luck.

my semester starts next week for real. yikes. i am feeling very lost with respect to my thesis at the moment. seriously drowning. need a viable topic. (you're not alone, darcy). on the plus side, i made my first loaf of bread. josh & i baked challah, as you can see in the photo. only we forgot to take the picture until we had already eaten half of it. oh well.

not much going on otherwise. maybe i will go to charm school on friday--yearly iap tradition, but i've never attended. i think they teach you what to do with one million forks and spoons at a fancy dinners and other useless stuff. okay that's all for now. bye-bye!

also

wanted to point out that most of those people from stanford (over 5) live in my house.

woooo exciting places

come on people i'm posting! i'm really trying here!