If you do, will you be staying there this weekend (yes, I know it's your fall break)? Do you have a floor or couch I could sleep on Sunday night?
I have a lovely wedding to go to on Sunday afternoon/evening and would prefer not to have to drive all the way back to Charlottesville that night. Heck, we could make a swell little playdate out of it and I could make my trip as long or short as impulse deems fit! Please please please play with me (and give me shelter)? I'd love you forever and could promise free food =)
Gone are the days of long, untamed, shaggy hair! I'm shaving my head for St. Baldrick's day to raise money for children's cancer research and be in solidarity with those who lose their hair during chemotherapy.
More children die of childhood cancer in the US than of any other disease. It would really mean the world to me if you would make a donation on my behalf to support childhood cancer research so that all children diagnosed with cancer will have a better chance for a cure.
Nine hours until this paper needs to be submitted. I've got about 10 pages to write still, but notes and planning to guide me for a little while at least. And then I've got to spew on theory for a good while at the end...I just need to focus. LJ helps one focus, right? Right.
So I came home and went to bed intending to sleep for about 2 hours and finish it upon waking up. Instead Islept through my alarm and woke up at 11:30 (I needed to finish the paper by 2). Got it done with 10 minutes to spare. The title: Sweet Independence.
I'm writing a paper about candy. It just hit me, at 2:42, that a paper relating CANDY and FREEDOM may have been the worst possible choice I've made in my college career.
So there was a show, a pledge project, a long meeting, and a lot of reflection. In the end, I'm left with a slightly tweaked perspective on humanity and my place within it, but have found that I can be and, in fact, am the man I want to be. I'm understanding what it means to 'embrace your flaws' which I have heard people say so many times before, but never really comprehended. I'm surprised that I'm having more essentialist leanings, given the theoretical/critical world into which I've hurled myself. I realize that there's a lot I need to work on for the sake of three quirky little letters. I really can't wait to be able to do for someone what four amazing women did for me. I must be vigilant (vigitant, perhaps?) in my renewal of perspective, because I'm sure that things will never coalesce in the same way for me again.
It was a fantastic show, it was a solid project, it was an awkward but generative meeting, and not one would have been the same without the influence of the others. I want to thank everyone who has been a part of this formulation over the last semester - the love I have for you runs quite deep.
Things are starting to get really testy. Show goes up two weeks from Thursday. Project two days after that. Papers and midterms are all happening in that week before. Wasn't the point of having no class before 2PM that I'd get to sleep in? I've been up since 7:30 working!
sick