Alabama, y'all

Happy Earth Day! Every Earth Day makes me remember the best Earth Day ever, two years ago, in high school when I helped put together an Earth Day table. I was part of Environmental Club. It was really cool because we did a plant sale and set up displays with pamphlets and handed out pencils made of recycled materials. This year they had some stuff on campus but I couldn't go because I was finishing my digital storytelling project for Japanese class:

Let's Exercise!

Yea glad that's over with. I kept making fun of Mary Elizabeth because she sounds so robotic...but since I do too, I guess I shouldn't say anything.

And so, going backwards in time from today. I'll start with yesterday: two things happened that I can remember. The first is that I went to a reunion of all the people who were in my First Year Seminar class, Kyoto Through the Ages. Last year we all went to Kyoto, Japan for two weeks and so it was really great to see them all again. We made sushi and it was a major fail, but it was pretty fun anyways.

Earlier that day, something really gross happened. I was lifeguarding, watching the old people jump up and down in aqua aerobics, whatnot.. and then a patron calls for me and holds up something dangling from her hand. I THOUGHT it was a hairball, and so I was slightly grossed out. Picking up the trashcan, I made my way over to her only to realize that it was a dead mouse. It had drowned in the pool. Gross. I didn't touch it, the patron had it by the tail so she put it in the trashcan. I am so happy that I never had to deal with dead furry things at work last summer. Sometimes frogs would get stuck in the filter, but they were usually alive. Also, there's something about a dead furry animal that frogs don't have. It must be because fur is nasty and disease-ridden.

Going further back in time: This weekend was the Aloha Relays at Bowdoin. The meet was tons of fun last year but this year was a bummer. It took 5 hours to get to the hotel Friday night, and then Saturday morning we woke up and I peaked out the window only to see SNOW. Ridiculous. Not just tiny flakes but full-blown snow. Of course, it turned into rain by the time we got to the track, and we spent the whole day freezing. I ran the 800 and my legs froze and then fell off.

Finally..This is the big news..I'll tell you that I'm not guarding at the old people pool this summer! Yatta! I never thought this would happen but I got an email on Friday asking for a phone interview. I called them on Saturday and I must've done a good job because I got an internship. heh heh heeeeh. It's an REU so their paying me bank, and it's gonna be in Alabama. I'm a bit worried because I've never ever been near the south in the summertime, but it'll give me some good research experience. I leave on May 30th, a week after I get back from California, and I'll be in Alabama for 10 weeks.

It's a bit sad cuz I'll be missing out on all the cool home stuff like going to the lake, my friends, JESUS RUNNING CAMP, ...my parents...i guess. I'm really sad I have to miss out on camp, but I'll get over it >:D

[/edit] I CAN'T WATCH ADVENTURE TIME FOR THE NEXT 2+ WEEKS I AM GOING TO DIE. This is really bad because I missed it this week too. I'm going to be soooo outta the loop :O :O :O

Bit O' Boffin'

This (among other n3rdish things) is what took place at Smith College ConBust. Always prepared, I recorded the mayhem:

EAT FOAM LOSER

OOooo Holy Coooow.

Probably a lot has happened in the last two weeks, if only I wasn't too tired to remember anything. It's like that feeling when you get silly on sleeplessness. Last week was intense. I had lots of school things to get through including tests and a grant proposal I wrote for behavior genetics. Also, I did end up meeting Tamora Pierce 2 weeks ago and I even got my book signed. Awwweeesomeeee.

I also applied to a few summer internships. Lessee, I applied to an REU program in Alabama, which I won't get accepted to, and I applied to a Naturalist Intern position through the NY state environmental conservation department. I probably wont get that either. So I'm stuck, again, staring at old people all day. I guess it's not too bad. At least I'll have an income.

Half an hour ago I got back to Baldwin house (my dorm) after watching Adventure Time with Claire and Liza in Lawrence house. Adventure Time is pretty much sick-nasty. The show premiered last Monday and we all got together to watch it. It was better than I imagined any cartoon could ever be, and more on crack than anything I've ever seen. We decided that it's creator, Pendalton Ward, probably keeps drugs in his beard for easy access.
This past weekend was the best. It was totally worth all the no sleep. It was Spring Weekend so Friday night, I went to watch "Where the Wild Things Are" on campus but left because that movie is on crack. Then I went to the campus center to decorate a T-shirt, which was super-crafty. Lastly, Friday night Baldwin had its annual party. The theme this year was heroes and villains so pulled on my speed suit and danced a lot.

Saturday I had a meet and I actually ran semi-OK. My times in college are so not close to what I could do in high school but I'm getting over it. Saturday night there was Starlight Ball in the quad and a pretty good (and good looking) band was playing. They did a lot of covers of hit songs which I listened to while standing in line for a quad party. I eventually met up with Hannah and it turned out that we never got into the party. We gave up after waiting way too long and went to the campus center for midnight breakfast. It was great. They had a ton of doughnuts and a photobooth set up and nobody was in line. There was karaoke, and in preparation for Japan I tried out my vocals. Ummm, oh, THE BEST. I'd never seen this before but they had this lady who made WAXY HANDS. Like, you dip your hand in a giant vat of wax and then let it harden and you get this wax model of your own hand. For mine, I did a peace sign but my fingers must've drifted together because now it looks like the boyscout symbol. Hannah also did a peace sign but her pointer finger broke off on accident so now it just looks like it's giving the finger.