9:33 p.m. - 2003-03-02
let's play catch-up (ketchup!)
Since my last update...
*We spent a weekend in Anguilla
*I drank two margaritas
*At different times
*My father turned fifty
*I read "The Bell Jar," "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," and "Beloved"
*I began doing assignments for a tutorial in writing drama
*I wrote an essay in the style of the Gollum-and-Bilbo riddlegame
*I critiqued many essays for the writing tutorial I was TA'ing in
*The writing tutorial ended
*I made a preliminary college list
*I spent a day in the Berkshires with friends
*We cleared a foot of snow off the trampoline
*And went sledding in jeans
*And ate ten brownies apiece
*I had to pretend to be addicted to ice for two days as a psychology exercise
*Kris turned eighteen, and the illegal-relationship-jokes began in full
*I took the writing SAT II and scored 800; Mom had bribed me with a hot fudge sundae at Serendipity's, we'll have to go soon
*We went to dinner at an authentic steakhouse for Alexis's thirtieth birthday
*I had a psych review session with Jackie and Missy
*When you lose your hearing, you're going bald in your ears
*I did well on my three midterms, even physics
*I broke the curve in AP Psych -- whoops
*I got a 5 on the 1998 AP we did for a French midterm
*I went to Utah for the first weekend of February
*We saw the World Cup championship aerials and dual moguls competitions in Deer Valley
*They kicked ass
*Mom, Kelsey, and Alexa stayed out in Utah for another two weeks; Dad and I came home, just the two of us
*We rattled around the house a bit and at times were at a loss for food, but it was comfortable
*We had a hellish week with a gazillion psych assignments due, up past bedtime every night (then again, since my bedtime is officially 10:30, it doesn't take much)
*I called lots of college admissions, but most colleges don't interview until the summer
*We had a snow day!
*Dad and I went for a walk in the woods in our backyard
*The winter we moved here, when we had a blizzard with three feet of snow, we spent all our time out there
*We went to dinner at my grandparents' house
*She made lamb and watercress-cauliflower mush, both of which I hate. And she put a lime in the water, which I hate too
*But I liked the chocolate cake, the cheese and the salad
*Why do I remember what I ate? Moving along
*Dad and I toured Princeton
*We saw Les Miserables, his second time, my first
*Went out for dinner at one of the fanciest bistros in NYC
*Kris bought me an awesome A.F.I. shirt, he saw them in concert, am extremely jealous
*We watched Amelie in French class... the second time I've seen it sans les sous-titres!
*I bought Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings valentines, and started sending some to the Sisters... if you don't have anything from me yet, and your name's on the list, I promise, it's coming, it just might take a long time
*My French class took a field trip to see "Tartuffe"
*On Valentine's Day we took a memory quiz with our valentines
*Dad and I joined the rest of the family in Utah
*The East Coast stole our snow
*We saw "Chicago", which I'd seen on Broadway years ago
*And "Shanghai Knights"
*Mom and I spent three hours in the outlets
*I broke my toe
*Walking into a couch
*Took a full-length practice SAT and scored 800V, 700M; Mom told me if I keep the 800 verbal and get the math to a 750 the day of the test (April 5th), she'll buy me and Kris tickets to Rent
*At this one dinner we went to, there was a deer bust on the wall
*Every five minutes, its eyes would glow orange
*It was so freaky
*A two-year-old boy grabbed my boob (Juliet, to be exact)
*A fourteen-year-old boy hit on me
*What is WITH people these days?
*Alexa, Dad, and I had one kick-ass day of skiing powder
*By the time we got home, my legs kind of stopped working
*When we flew back to NY, it had rained and all the lovely snow had turned into icky ice
*Mom and I toured Wesleyan and had lunch with an admissions officer; we'll probably go back to interview in April
*There was a girl who had a shirt that said "Don't assume I'm straight"
*I think I want one
*I saw "The Vagina Monologues" at SUNY Purchase with friends and gained a new appreciation for that wonderful body part
*I'm reading "Of Mice and Men"
*I finally got down to the office and wrote checks for Dad -- for two hours
*We went out for dinner at Rosa Mexicano
*And saw "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" afterward with Whoopi Goldberg
That was yesterday. Which brings us to today. *phew*
More later. I love you all; I'm sorry I've been such a bad diarylander. *hugs*
