It's funny that even though I post in my livejournal about twice a year, I still check my friends page every day.
Things happening in my life: I got accepted to study abroad in Senegal for six months I declared my major (english/women studies) I am working at circle pines again this summer as a junior counselor because I CANNOT STOP I also have an internship working on an organic farm on Vancouver Island which I'm insanely stoked about I got so sick over finals that the health center thought I had whooping cough and put me in quarantine I didn't have whooping cough but still missed two of my finals Catherine MacKinnon is coming to speak tomorrow, which is pretty much the best thing ever. I'm going home this weekend for my family's endearingly goy feminist Seder. I love Spring.
Since Dana pointed out I haven't posted in a while, and updating sounds better than writing my paper... how about it.
My sophomore year us going pretty well so far, with the predictable ups and downs. I absolutely love my living situation, I'm living in a suite with five of my friends and it couldn't be better, the only problem being that we have so much fun together that I often end up spending time with them instead of doing my school work. I've got a job at as a student chaplain in out chapel program, which I think is hilarious seeing as I've never been remotely Christian. But it's a nondenominational program, so even a jewish-quaker-pagan-whatever can work there. It's been frustrating at times because we have a new Chaplain this year and there's been tension between her wanting to change things and students wanting to stick to tradition. But I lead a women's spirituality group with one of my friend there which is fantastic. The best part is probably the fact that my job gets me a key to both the chapel and the bell tower, which means I can go up there and look out over Kalamazoo and all the trees changing colors any time I want. It is so. fucking. cool.
Lately I've been flipping out over my major, since I kind of still don't have one and need to figure it out in the next two weeks before registration for winter quarter. Right now I think it's down to english, political science and women studies, but that'll probably change tomorrow. Women studies would involve creating my own major, which would be... interesting.
I've been obsessively collecting all the beautiful fall leaves around campus, because I've been thinking about how next fall I will probably be in Senegal and won't get to see midwest autumn foliage. Except for when I'm whining about it being too cold, I'm relishing the fall weather.
So I suppose I should probably get back to the paper that's due tomorrow.
I am a junior counselor. Only a handful of people reading this can fully comprehend how weird this is for me. But it is also amazing.
Today I was obsessively checking my mail after a particularly bad round of improv, and the lack of letters made me sad. Obviously the solution is for you to write me letters.
I think not having posted since December means I'm officially not an LJ kid anymore.
I'm done with my freshman year of college, which is just bizarre. Last night I realized that this is the first time in my life I've ever felt ambivalent about summer vacation. Instead "Free! I'm free for a couple of months!" it's more like "oh really? not for another 3 months? Oh... OK." Not that I'll miss my school work that much (except possibly my acting class. And maybe women's studies. And... OK, I'll miss school work, I'm a dork.) but I'm really going to miss my friends. Why did I have to make friends with so many of the out-of-state-ers?
However, I am very excited to be working at CPC this summer, and after that to be working in DC for a month. Not to mention to have a bit of down time at home for a while. Especially after finals week, days where I have no responsibilities are awfully nice.
I'm going to see Obama speak Monday at Joe Louis Arena, anyone want to come?
Subway is sucking my soul. I hate the world and the world hates me.
...By which I actually mean that Ella's play, (Comment on This) was hilarious, amazing, and completely captured the essense of lj. In fact, I'm never going to write an original entry again, I'm just going to quote the play and it will say whatever it was I wanted to write perfectly.
