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This is my Journal. If you stop by, leave a comment. Thanks!
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wNovember 16, 2002 |
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Just got back from seeing Hands Around at the Reed Theatre. Wow, that play was all about sex. I guess it was kinda cool that the flask got passed around from lover to lover until it returned to its original owner.
There's a lot of drinking going on around campus. Celebration for the end of the 3rd Hum paper? May be. There's free "root" beer at Winch. I think I'll stay in tonight and study.
posted by
Beverly at 10:31 PM
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wNovember 15, 2002 |
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I went to a Physics seminar today. Our guest lecturer was Carl Weinman, Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2001. His lecture was about Bose-Einstein condensation. Wow, that's awesome. And you thought there were only three kinds of matter! (http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000). There are some pretty cool interactive java applets there.
Aaaa!!! Hum paper due in 21 hours!
posted by
Beverly at 8:00 PM
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wNovember 14, 2002 |
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Frustrated. Lots of work to do.
posted by
Beverly at 5:28 PM
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wNovember 13, 2002 |
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So, my birthday... here's how it went:
I had 8 am class with the elementary school students. On the way back to school, I was in a car accident. I was sitting in the back seat with my seat belt on, though, so I am okay. (One girl in our car was injured -- a bump on the head, a gash to the knee, and a twisted wrist.) We walked to a nearby restaurant to get her cut washed off, then we walked to the nearest bus station, then we walked the rest of the two blocks to Reed... and it was raining all this time. So went the start of my birthday.
I got to computing late because of the car accident.
I couldn't figure out why my array program wasn't working. (Almost have it figured out.)
I did 4 hours of Physics lab instead of 3. Fawntia and I stayed late to check our work... as it turns out, our measurement of the radius was really the measure of the diameter. Other than that, all was well with our data. We ran five or so trials of tests for conservation of angular momentum. Wow. We stayed forever.
I had dinner. I was too hungry to wait for the good food line, so I ended up getting the fast-style food... which happened to be steak. It was pretty tough. The twice baked potatoes were pretty good, though.
I went to the Cooley Gallery opening. Works on Paper: American Art 1945-1975. Many of the paintings were not impressive; although there were some Andy Warhol silkscreens... pretty nice. The hors d'oeuvres were all gone by the time we got there.
Fawntia and I went back to my room and we talked for a while about our boyfriends and such. Jesse called, and he came over. Fawntia left. Jesse gave me two DVD's for my birthday. How sweet. Then, Lissa called... so, Jesse sat at my computer while I talked to Lissa for a couple hours on the phone.
Fawntia surprised me with a cake (German Chocolate!). We found a lighter and lit the candles. They (Fawntia, Parker, Jesse, Erik, and Alana) sang "Happy Birthday" to me, and then we ate cake. We talked for a while, then we cleaned up and everyone left. Jesse and Erik went to play go, and I went with them to Erik's room and called Byron and Christina.
After that, I did my Physics lab.
Then, he went to play go with Erik. I went with them, but I took the phone with me.
I'm tired. I need to read Econ. I'm tired. What a day.
posted by
Beverly at 1:11 AM
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wNovember 12, 2002 |
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I'm 18! Yay! Forrest called me right at midnight to wish me a Happy Birthday. How sweet is that? I was actually sleeping at midnight because of this dreadful headache I somehow managed to contract. I feel better now, after that nap. Much more work to do!
If you've never read Aristophanes's Lysistrata, you totally have to read it! It's ridiculously filled with horny guys/girls. The women of Athens and Sparta want the men to stop the Peloponnesian War, so they vow to abstain from pleasuring their men. Hilarious!
I don't know what to write my Humanities paper about. I enjoyed Thucydides, but I just can't put my finger on his PURPOSE for writing the History of the Peloponnesian War. He doesn't really have a bias toward the Athenians, and he's not arguing for some moral standard. He just wrote a history... what's a Reedie to do?!
posted by
Beverly at 1:22 AM
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wNovember 11, 2002 |
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Remember TOK? Well, scary flashback today... in Hum 110 conference, we were discussing art (specifically, the temple at Aegis). It turned into a debate on the definition of art... "Is this cup art?" "Is this pencil art?" Aaaa!!! I just want to scream! I usually like our Hum 110 conferences, but this one started off well, but turned into confusing nothing. I did get something out of the question about leaving Greek statues out in the dust or putting them into museums. Are we protecting history from getting damaged, or are we damaging the history that has yet to happen to it?
posted by
Beverly at 3:57 PM
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wNovember 10, 2002 |
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I heard the Portland Baroque Orchestra at Kaul this afternoon with John, Tommy, and Steven. I enjoyed it; especially the violin duet. I think I can say for certain that I like the sound of the cello more than I do the sound of the violin or viola. Cellos are great.
Yesterday, I heard the David York Ensemble sing at Kaul as well. In contrasting Handel and A. Scarlatti, which would you expect to write with more ornamentation? I would expect the Scarlatti to be more ornamented... but no, it was Handel's version of Dixit Dominus that was fast, articulated, and intricate. Funny thing, Handel was sitting in the audience when Alessandro Scarlatti premiered his Dixit Dominus... The Scarlatti version has the ostinato in the violon part that can also be heard in Handel's Messiah that he wrote years afterward. Wow. Music is too wonderful.
posted by
Beverly at 4:16 PM
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