Hey guys,
School officially started... forever ago? I guess I've been here almost a month already, and I miss everyone! But it doesn't feel like it's been a month. Time is flying by so quickly, and I've been really busy. So I will catch you up on my semester so far...
I'm taking 5 classes, which is one more than the typical course load. I am taking-
Women in the Italian Renaissance (it could be worse, it could be better)
Italian (despite all my efforts I can barely speak. I might actually be regressing. d'oh)
Introduction to Psych (I was thinking I might minor in Psych, but who knows)
Contemporary American Fiction (AMAZING class, probably my favorite)
Creative Writing as Creative Thought (we're working mostly with short stories, this class is exactly how it sounds, if you catch my drift)
Aside from that I've been very busy with my job on campus, which is an internship in event planning. There is so much to do all the time, I'm surprised things ever get put together. This last Wednesday, we had Elizabeth Gilbert (she wrote Eat, Pray, Love) on campus. I had lunch with her and introduced her (to a theater full of 600 people) before her presentation in the evening. That has been my highlight thus far. She was such a nice person, and although I was very nervous, I spoke pretty well. Tonight I am introducing The Lovell Sisters, a bluegrass band that is playing a concert here on campus.
In my spare time? I've been knitting for a craft fair on Oct. 2. I went to the beach, which is so amazing down here. I had totally forgotten how much I love it. I'm going back this weekend, to escape the intense triple-digit heat of Claremont. I saw Blink-182 (and Fall Out Boy, but only because they opened for Blink) in concert. That was pretty good. I'm not a big fan of huge amphitheaters, but the show itself was pretty good. Unfortunately, we had tickets on the lawn, which is where a bunch of intoxicated, shirtless men started a bonfire. Hot dry grass + fire = Me, slightly alarmed. But for the most part it was under control. What concerns me most is that security would have seen it from their vantage point on the roof, but did nothing. Isn't that a job of theirs?
I should go and get ready for tonight's concert, and then tonight's dance party in the courtyard of the Humanities building. What a fabulous, strange location. I have no doubt that people will be dancing in the fountains or hanging off the olive trees. It should be a sight to behold.
Ariel
Friday, September 25, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Final Countdown
Hey there! I know it's been awhile. I feel like I've been busy forever. Technically, next week is finals week, but all my my final work is this week!
Next year I will be working as the Malott Commons Programming Associate, which is an intern position where I will be helping to organize events and arrange speaker series. It'll be a really good experience, and I'm sure I'll learn a lot.
I'm also babysitting tomorrow for a nutritionist who is doing consultations at the gym.
I need to finish my Death paper (she didn't like the first one and I have to write a whole new 10 page paper) and my Anthro paper (another super long final paper).
But then Julia and I will go to San Diego for Friday+Saturday to visit her friend who goes to school there and to see the legendary zoo! It'll be a great reward for finishing these awful papers and being done with my Freshman year of college. Already... wow.
Next year I will be working as the Malott Commons Programming Associate, which is an intern position where I will be helping to organize events and arrange speaker series. It'll be a really good experience, and I'm sure I'll learn a lot.
I'm also babysitting tomorrow for a nutritionist who is doing consultations at the gym.
I need to finish my Death paper (she didn't like the first one and I have to write a whole new 10 page paper) and my Anthro paper (another super long final paper).
But then Julia and I will go to San Diego for Friday+Saturday to visit her friend who goes to school there and to see the legendary zoo! It'll be a great reward for finishing these awful papers and being done with my Freshman year of college. Already... wow.
Monday, April 20, 2009
20 aprile, 2009
Things are going pretty smoothly. Not too much work this week. I guess it's the calm before finals. Tomorrow night is room draw, the purposely stressful process by which we choose where we live next year. Dinah, Julia and I are trying to get a triple. Hopefully there's one left for us by the time we choose tomorrow night. I have an interview for a job on campus for next year on Thursday. I really hope it goes well.
This weekend is UCLA's book fair, which is supposedly a really cool event. But the weather has been scorching and I feel in need of another beach trip. We'll see where the weekend takes me.
This weekend is UCLA's book fair, which is supposedly a really cool event. But the weather has been scorching and I feel in need of another beach trip. We'll see where the weekend takes me.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Volatile
Today I had a bad day. But this has been a pretty good week overall. I had a lot of work to do Monday (I didn't start my religious studies paper due that day until the night before), but I got it all done and went to work. Tuesday we watched a movie in Anthro. Wednesday my core class got canceled and I figured out my schedule for next year (to some degree at least). Today my Italian class was canceled and I got to sleep in and do reading for my Anthro class.
I was scheduled to work at 6pm, and I was hungry and wanting to go to dinner at 5. But a neighbor had laundry going and wanted me to wait 15 minutes, which turned into 25, so that I didn't get to the dining hall really until 530. All of that would've been ok if Mudd had been serving what was written on the menu online. You see, tonight was supposed to be Appetizer bar- a buffet of fried potstickers and eggrolls and yummy things. They haven't had it very often this semester. But instead Mudd chose this night to serve lobster tail on a whim! WHAT? WHY? Everything else being served looked horrible, but I no longer had time to wait to get a lobster tail because I had to go to work, unlike my friends. I thought, at about 5:42, after inhaling some pasta, that maybe I would. The lobster line was short and moving quickly, so I hopped on board. However, when I got to the front of the line, they were out of cooked ones, and I had to wait 10 more minutes. Which meant by the time I got back to my table I had 7 minutes to get to work and a steaming hot fresh lobster tail that wasn't cool enough to eat.
So at this point (and still, actually) I'm hungry, frustrated, have a headache and just can't keep perspective. These are all actually good problems for me to have. I go to school that decides to serve lobster for dinner out of the blue, and I have a job to go to (it's less than Oregon min. wage, but I can't complain- I mostly just surf the internet anyways). Despite what awesome problems there are for me to have, it does not make me any less bitter about the lobster.
My awesome friends saved and brought back the lobster tail for me. They put it in the fridge. But really, what do I do with a cold lobster tail? Microwaving it makes it rubbery. Not to mention the rest of the dorm might crucify me for making the kitchen smell like fish. But I'm kind of hungry and might just do it anyway.
I was scheduled to work at 6pm, and I was hungry and wanting to go to dinner at 5. But a neighbor had laundry going and wanted me to wait 15 minutes, which turned into 25, so that I didn't get to the dining hall really until 530. All of that would've been ok if Mudd had been serving what was written on the menu online. You see, tonight was supposed to be Appetizer bar- a buffet of fried potstickers and eggrolls and yummy things. They haven't had it very often this semester. But instead Mudd chose this night to serve lobster tail on a whim! WHAT? WHY? Everything else being served looked horrible, but I no longer had time to wait to get a lobster tail because I had to go to work, unlike my friends. I thought, at about 5:42, after inhaling some pasta, that maybe I would. The lobster line was short and moving quickly, so I hopped on board. However, when I got to the front of the line, they were out of cooked ones, and I had to wait 10 more minutes. Which meant by the time I got back to my table I had 7 minutes to get to work and a steaming hot fresh lobster tail that wasn't cool enough to eat.
So at this point (and still, actually) I'm hungry, frustrated, have a headache and just can't keep perspective. These are all actually good problems for me to have. I go to school that decides to serve lobster for dinner out of the blue, and I have a job to go to (it's less than Oregon min. wage, but I can't complain- I mostly just surf the internet anyways). Despite what awesome problems there are for me to have, it does not make me any less bitter about the lobster.
My awesome friends saved and brought back the lobster tail for me. They put it in the fridge. But really, what do I do with a cold lobster tail? Microwaving it makes it rubbery. Not to mention the rest of the dorm might crucify me for making the kitchen smell like fish. But I'm kind of hungry and might just do it anyway.
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