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Friday, February 07, 2003
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My Bio exam is today. Stress makes for weird dreams. I don't usually post dreams, but this one was exceptional....
I was in my room at the dorms and was looking out the window. I spotted Bin walking with Kristen and Gina and was wearing a very very big light-pink, baby-blue and white scarf. It was unraveling itself on the sidewalk --the width of the scarf was the width of the sidewalk-- and it kept unraveling until Kristen said, "hey! look behind you!" Some boy students were trying to pick up her scarf and take off with it. She beat them away and gathered up her mounds of wool. Somehow it had also gotten to the other side of the road, behind the trees in that little path and she had to beat off some students there as well to gather up her precious belonging. I was watching this from my window and it struck me as very funny so I rushed to where my camera was, but I couldn't open it. I tried and tried and was worried about what I was missing outside. I finally got it out, but it had required that I set fire to something near the camera. So I took my camera to the window and I saw Bin was wrapping the scarf about herself making her seem like a pink and white and blue snowman. Kristen just stood there watching. (Gina had probably taken off due to the silliness.) I tried to take a picture but it said in the viewfinder that the batteries were overheated. So I looked down to open up the battery case so it would cool down faster. When I looked back up, Bin had put a huge fox suit over her scarf; instead of a fox snout or face was her face. Also, Kristen had put on a huge grey rabbit suit and they both started skipping, hand in hand, to McMahon. I commenced to take pictures, hoping they would come out for later....
I don't think any dream book will ever be able to make sense of this one.
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9:36 AM
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Wednesday, February 05, 2003
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I told KT that I would put this in the blog, so here I am:
Did you know that the Swiss have one of the largest standing armies in the world? Once you reach a certain age, you must join the service for a determined amount of time (which is not an unusual requirement for a country to have). But Switzerland? Who are they going to fight, aren't the supposed to be neutral? Well, granted they need a large army to defend any country that may want to invade and take over their banks, but I wonder how training is. Well, that's why the Swiss army knife has a cork screw for wine bottles. (har dee har har)
So we decided they probably just make Swiss Army Knives and Swiss Army Watches and little swiss cuckoo clocks.
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9:07 PM
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Monday, February 03, 2003
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I hope everyone read January 26th's entry because I spent a whole lot of time writing that one!
The Lantern
I bought the coolest lantern at Ikea on Sunday! Well, my mom bought it for me, and I told her I'd pay her pay her back. So I'm currently in debt. Anyway, it's made for tea lights but I currently have a medium-sized Yankee candle inside. If I were to light it, the top would get dangerously hot because the wick is too high (tea lights, for those who aren't exposed to this kind of thing, are really small, stout candles. This candle is neither small nor stout). But I can't light candles in the dorms anyway. Well, the rule is actually "no open flames" and technically, literally-taken, it's not open anymore if it's in my lantern, but I get what they mean so I won't be a brat about it.
So yeah I brought my lantern to my dorm. Apparently, there's some kind of carrying capacity (in biological terms) or a quota (in my dad's terms) in the room for how many "Ikean" items can be introduced. I came to this conclusion after, not two hours after bringing my lantern, did I knock my olive-green Ikean mug off my fridge and it broke into a dozen pieces. Very tragic because it was my second-favorite mug and the Ikea gods no longer bestow us with such a product. It was irreplaceable!
At any rate, this notion that the room can only tolerate a certain number of Ikean items is not far-fetched because the room is, after all, possessed. We hear scratching noises in my wall all the time, not to mention KT's printer going off at odd times in the night and the new trick of the door opening on it's own accord. This last one I used to laugh about because KT was rather freaked out but I explained to her that the pressure difference between the outside and the inside was enough to push the door open. But this time it happened to me, and it wasn't no danged pressure difference. The door knob must have turned because I always secure the door behind me as a result of an instinctive shear terror of my clustermates. I thought KT was coming back from Justin's place, but when I looked over there was no one there.... I hate ghost stories like that.
Anyway back to the Ikea thing. KT and I were talking about it and she decided that our room is haunted by preppy ghosts; the flaky, shallow souls of those before us. They can only tolerate so much Ikea; after that, only Ethan Allen or Pier One.
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Other than that I've been thinking about studying abroad in Scotland as a lot of you know.... Well plans have changed a little. I wanted to do something over the summer so that I'm not away from home so long. Through the Study Abroad Program at the UW, the only way to go to Scotland is to stay a whole year, which I don't want to do. The upside to this is that I would get to reeeally know Scotland, plus I won't waste any time in classes and I would get scholarships and financial aid for it. But, like I said I don't want to spend a whole year there.... I would have two other options: study abroad somewhere else where they have a summer program (and I would miss out on Scotland) or just travel to Scotland and take a summer off (but I wouldn't get any financial help, nor would I advance with my career/degree/resmué). Well I was doing some research on the web, and I decided I could try to find a job or internship over there for over the summer. THAT would look good on a resumé, so I'm not wasting time, I wouldn't have to worry about exams and homework, I'd be able to get to know the place when I'm off work, it would just be over the summer, plus I'd be making a little money. Which solves the financial issue. The only problem I see is that I believe I would be paying taxes to Scotland and the US, which is dumb, but oh well, taxes are a fact of life. I hope I can just make enough to come back home at the end of the summer....
Updated 5:50pm on Feb 4: I went to the Study Abroad department in Schmitz today to bounce off my above-mentioned ideas and see what they say. The person there told me that I would still have UW backing if I talk to the ESS department and try to get them to give me credit to do research abroad (it would be in their name, so what would they have to lose?). If they give me research, the Study Abroad program will back me, just af if I was taking classes abroad, so that means I'm open to the scholarships and financial aid. Plus I don't have to worry about whether or not the classes overlap enough over here at the UW to move on to the next level. Whee! Now I just have to find someone in Scotland to take me in for research.
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Also, I helped cause a little stir in the paleontology community.... Very little.... But at least you can check out my name on the PaleoNet website [:.clic!.:] ( taken from the Parent site.)
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