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GODDAMMIT THAT THING WHERE I'M INSANELY STRESSED OUT IS HAPPENING AGAIN.

Back in Oberlin. Hanging around Keep is like being a little kid left alone in a big mansion. Have gone to two amazing parties in the past two nights; John's OSCA business-casual Cotillion and the Feve 80's party. Lots of dancing around with people I love. This year should be good.

Look at this food!

We put our feet in the ocean today.

BEHOLD!

This is how we're gonna be alerting the rest of the world to our progress. So watch it!

The alumni are here. Some of them are really awesome (e.g. old biker couple walking around with their helmets on, nose-pierced muscle guy sitting with 2-year-olds at OSCA picnic) Most of them seem pretty normal. But maybe my view of normality has been so totally skewed that I can't even differentiate the totally normal from the mildly eccentric. One of them started telling me his favorite parts of Wayne's World.

Ongoing anxiety about the bike trip. Working with Tyler has pretty much kept me sane; if he dropped out I probably would too. Though we got $1000 from the Center for American Progress! Because of Johanna! How badass is that? I talked to a biker alumni from Indiana; she was really helpful but she was worried about the wind. Fuckin' wind.

I got most of my grades back. On one hand, I'm pleasantly surprised - I was expecting a mostly B semester (possibly failing Dawson), but so far it's A-'s with a B+ from Dawson. This makes my total GPA a 3.43, which is a B+ kind of deal, which I suppose isn't bad, but after high school and crushing my AP exams kind of hurts, anyway. I am a small fish in a big pond.

Please watch this.

Tonight started freaking out, went over to Ben Shapiro's house, he fed me lentils and gave me a computer charger he found in the trash. I won't sleep tonight and tomorrow I'll be frantically moving my stuff across campus, but at least after that I can sleep.

Argh.

Finals = suck.

On the plus side, the bike derby. Quite possibly the best combination of bicycling/drunken bicycling/jousting/postapocalyptia/irresponsible gross overuse use of lighter fluid/rampant destruction/funny hats I have ever witnessed. If I have to go through this academic-oriented pile of augh, at least I am doing it at this school.

Today I was lamenting the unnused flour in Harkness's basement and John Sidall was all "well I can go get it" and went and unlocked Harkness and took 25 pounds of flour and left. It is useful having the president of OSCA in your student organization.

Minus: Not going to see Bomb the Music Industry. :-(

Plus: Sleep?


To do:
* 10-20 group research paper on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Northern Botswana - due Sunday
* 120 page screenplay - due Friday - extension to Monday morning
* 10-12 page English lit paper - due Thursday
* talk to Dawson tutor - totally have no time!
* Dawson's final - Saturday
* Superkommando!
* Fiction workshop application - Monday (this Monday! not next Monday!)
* sort out legal residence and associated voting/driving/insurance issues; change license and buy new insurance if necessary
* Get early arrival status for next year
* acquire - raincoat, tank tops, thermarest, keeper, biking leggings, etc.
* move several gallons of used cooking oil from Harkness to Ben Shapiro's house
* move several pounds of rice and beans from Harkness to Ben Shapiro's house
* move several gallons of used cooking oil from Pyle to Ben Shapiro's house
* move several pounds of rice and beans from Pyle to Ben Shapiro's house
* drain SFC account, start a spending spreadsheet, and start a new budget
* Buy stuff from Krista's Cups
* Make a set of panniers out of two old backpacks
* change address w/ bank
* deposit checks
* mail forms to parents
* buy boxes for storage
* pack up and store stuff in Keep
* pack up and store stuff somewhere else, too
* move remaining stuff into commencement housing
* luncheon with Tevi and Ma'ayan
* Brunch with Kate and Harris
* Sell back textbooks
* figure out goddamn commencement schedule
* unpack bike part shipment and attach things to bike (new Brooks saddle omg)
* research desert survival strategy
* find places to sleep in Illinois
* Order passive solar heating books from Mindfair - never mind, just going to use the internets
* write workshop on passive heating and cooling
* adapt conservation easement article into a workshop
* Get haircut
* register bicycle
* Buy CRWR major t-shirt, because I am a consumerist whore
* Work 10 hours at library this week, 11 down
* return library books!

I feel like I actually did fairly well on Dawson's final. Though I thought I did well on the midterm, too.

Also my boss just emailed me and told me she's thinking about firing me.

This just might be the Worst All-Nighter Ever!

Screenplay due tomorrow. 52 pages written and no inspiration. Fuck fuck fuck.

Okay. There is a Bomb the Music Industry concert this Sunday. If I finish this without freaking out, I will let myself go to that.

Also, I want a pet anteater.

Tonight drove the truck around with Benji and his slightly crazy friend James, looting all the co-ops of their dry goods. James owns an ambulance; he bought it from "some guy".


To do:
* 10-20 group research paper on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Northern Botswana - due Sunday
* 120 page screenplay - due Friday
* Edit other screenplay assignments, pack it up nicely and turn in portfolio
* 10-12 page English lit paper - due Thursday
* talk to Dawson tutor - totally have no time!
* Dawson's final - Saturday
* Superkommando!
* Fiction workshop application - Monday (this Monday! not next Monday!)
* sort out legal residence and associated voting/driving/insurance issues; change license and buy new insurance if necessary
* Get early arrival status for next year
* acquire - raincoat, tank tops, thermarest, keeper, biking leggings, etc.
* move several gallons of used cooking oil from Harkness to Ben Shapiro's house
* move several pounds of rice and beans from Harkness to Ben Shapiro's house
* move several gallons of used cooking oil from Pyle to Ben Shapiro's house
* move several pounds of rice and beans from Pyle to Ben Shapiro's house
* drain SFC account, start a spending spreadsheet, and start a new budget
* Buy stuff from Krista's Cups
* Make a set of panniers out of two old backpacks
* change address w/ bank
* deposit checks
* mail forms to parents
* buy boxes for storage
* pack up and store stuff in Keep
* pack up and store stuff somewhere else, too
* move remaining stuff into commencement housing
* luncheon with Tevi and Ma'ayan
* figure out goddamn commencement schedule
* awkward and yet hilarious margarita party with screenwriting class
* unpack bike part shipment and attach things to bike (new Brooks saddle omg)
* research desert survival strategy
* find places to sleep in Illinois
* Order passive solar heating books from Mindfair - never mind, just going to use the internets
* write workshop on passive heating and cooling
* adapt conservation easement article into a workshop
* Get haircut
* register bicycle
* Buy CRWR major t-shirt, because I am a consumerist whore
* Work 10 hours at library this week, 1.25 down
* return library books!