A Long Weekend

I can't believe our Thanksgiving break is almost over. 4 days seemed much longer on Wednesday than it does in retrospect.
Thursday I spent at Taylor's house for Thanksgiving. It was good to be around a family, even if it wasn't my family. I guess in a way they kind of are a family to me. Theirs is sort of an adopted family, more family friends than blood relations as far as I can tell. And, for a change, I was the second youngest person there. Thanksgiving just isn't the same without all my younger cousins. And of course, Grandma's mashed potatoes and gravy, and home-made pumpkin pie. Maybe next year I should come home for Thanksgiving.

Friday I cleaned my room. You probably wouldn't be able to tell, but it's true!

Saturday, I told myself I was going to do more work than I actually did. I went to Target with a carful of my friends, and then to the Mall. I didn't wind up with much, Peanut butter Cap'n Crunch, some christmas cards to send out and a pretty clearanced head scarf to bring to Dubai.

Today I've actually gotten more done. Harvey Mudd finally stepped up to the plate and had a decent brunch this morning. Eggs Benedict, a waffle bar, a smoothie bar, good fruit. Yesterday, almost all of the cereal had run out, the only fruit left were green apples and honeydew, and the bagels were not very bagel-y at all. It was a sour dissapointment and spoiled much of the day. I have a hypothesis that the better the food is, the more productive I am. I completely read Making History today, which is a play that we're reading for Core, and I just started some laundry. And now I'm updating this thing. I think it can all be attributed to the eggs benedict.

Tomorrow school starts up again, and I'm not looking forward to it. I've got 6 things on my calendar for tomorrow in addition to classes, which is really overwhelming. Even though one of those things is Gossip Girl.

Thanksgiving!

School has been super busy the last week and half or so. This weekend I wrote 2 essays and a giant lab report about our field trip. And before break I need to write a long paragraph in Italian. I'm shocked by how much Italian we've learned in just a semester.
Monday I had food poisoning, which was a really upsetting way to start the day. Hehehe. Get it? Upset. Like my stomach.
Today for dinner Harvey Mudd's dining hall had a really elaborate Thanksgiving dinner. It was really fantastic. I went with Julia and Grace. There was roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, asparagus in hollandaise sauce, and a whole table of fresh bread and cheeses. And for dessert they had pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake! It was a very exciting dinner :)

There won't be pictures for awhile because my camera is a little broken right now, and I'm going to have to go and get it fixed. :(

More Pictures!

Taylor finally got me the pictures from Halloween! Here I am as Carmen Sandiego. I should get my own red coat one of these days. I borrowed this one off of Julia.

Yesterday we took a field trip to the Getty museum. It was a beautiful space. Large gardens, fountains everywhere, and quiet sections of museum. I got great postcards and a pair of earrings from the gift store.
Then we went down to Santa Monica for dinner, which was great. I love all my new friends. :)

Pictures!

So, here are some more pictures from this month!
Election day was a lot of fun at the Motley with a ton of people watching together.Today was a field trip to Laguna Beach with my marine bio class. We played with tide pools and surveyed some areas to collect data.


My Critical Language Scholarship Application is completed, so I've been looking at other summer programs to apply for. I found another international opportunity through a group called Humanity in Action. We'll see what happens I guess. I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving! It doesn't really feel or look like fall here at Scripps.

November, already? + More Arizona Pictures

It's unbelievable that it's already November 10! This month is going by much quicker than the previous two. I had a really great Halloween. The Dr. Horrible Sing-Along I went to was a lot of fun, and I got recognized as Carmen Sandiego by a bunch of people, which made it even better. Taylor and his friend Carlon dressed up as the Bad Horse cowboys from the musical, and a lot of people posed for pictures with them because they're costumes were so good. Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, and Felicia Day were all there at the screening, which was really neat. Carlon threw himself at Nathan Fillion and managed a hug before getting pushed away. I think I saw a crazy lady in a dress with little cat faces all over it try to follow them to their car. Creepy. Also, I found this picture of Taylor and Carlon on Flickr.com, which is pretty cool. By this point, Carlon's mustache is past it's peak.
Last week I had tests in 2 classes and a paper due, which made it a hard week, but it went by really quickly. The election was great to watch. I saw both the speeches streaming live online while I was at work that day. It's a bummer that Prop 8 passed here in California, banning gay marriage. People are really up in arms over it. I don't remember that kind of reaction in Oregon when we passed it as Measure 36 a few years ago. Maybe now stuff will actually get done about it. I thik what's even worse is that Arkansas banned gay couples from adopting children. But then again, we don't expect much different from Arkansas.
This weekend was pretty quiet. Friday night I went to the Southern California A capella Music Festival at Pomona, which was a lot of fun. Groups from the five colleges, as well as UCLA and USC came and they all did great. The Claremont mens group did a version of the Backstreet Boys "The Call" which made me very happy. Unfortunately, another group did "Come on, Eileen" which means it will be stuck in my head for the rest of eternity.
My friend Melody has dreams of starting her own pirate themed a capella group.

Anyway, I don't have Halloween pictures yet, because Taylor hasn't gotten around to sending me any. But Ellie did finally upload pictures from Arizona! That last picture is capuchin monkeys dressed up as jockeys riding dogs... Depressing, yea? It was called the banana derby.