1. I had a fantabulous weekend at Knox College in Galesburg, hanging out with Emma and her college friends. I could write about everything that happened (and I kind of already have, as I started making notes of memories which I'll rewrite in my journal), but since the primary reader of this is Emma, I figure she knows what happened :)
2. I finally saw Slumdog Millionaire today. I'm going to say it--"Jai ho!"
3. I think I'm going to study how to procrastinate doing homework. =)
4. I want to go shopping for summer clothes and shoes soon. Wow, that sounded gay.
5. Life overall is great.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Weekly Update
1. I learned how to use a sewing machine while I was working at the library today. I sewed little strips of fabric to make tubes which tomorrow will become "bookworm buddies" for NCC's earth day celebrations. It's random, but hey, it's a life skill.
2. On Saturday Kiaran and I were on campus and no one was there. Then we ran into my friend Breanna and her girlfriend. After they left for Chipotle and he and I sat on a bench to cuddle, three guys (two of them I knew to be gay) were eating a snack with a third friend (gay by association?) at a table about 15 feet behind us. I didn't even realize all the gayness around us until Kiaran said something before we left. I try not to believe in signs, but sometimes it's hard not to throw up your hands and exclaim, "Madonna! Un segno!" Kiaran speculated that it's a sign that perhaps NCC isn't such a bad place after all...
3. I can't wait for Friday. It's going to be 77 degrees, if the weather report isn't bluffing.
4. I'm a very lazy facebook friend. It takes me forever to respond to someone's post. It would only take a few minutes to write back, but that requires doing something about it. How lousy can I be?
5. I don't know...
2. On Saturday Kiaran and I were on campus and no one was there. Then we ran into my friend Breanna and her girlfriend. After they left for Chipotle and he and I sat on a bench to cuddle, three guys (two of them I knew to be gay) were eating a snack with a third friend (gay by association?) at a table about 15 feet behind us. I didn't even realize all the gayness around us until Kiaran said something before we left. I try not to believe in signs, but sometimes it's hard not to throw up your hands and exclaim, "Madonna! Un segno!" Kiaran speculated that it's a sign that perhaps NCC isn't such a bad place after all...
3. I can't wait for Friday. It's going to be 77 degrees, if the weather report isn't bluffing.
4. I'm a very lazy facebook friend. It takes me forever to respond to someone's post. It would only take a few minutes to write back, but that requires doing something about it. How lousy can I be?
5. I don't know...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Another Dream
To add to my dream that I wrote about yesterday, I shall write about a dream that I had sometime in the wee hours of morning.
I was driving. Mind, I haven't driven since sometime over the summer, so this was particularly titillating. I think that I was driving a SUV. My destination is a mall. I can see it in my mind. To arrive at this mall I'm driving through a wooded neighborhood, where shafts of sunlight are shining down through leaves and branches onto the street and the humble houses. I'm alone driving on this road. Suddenly I see an orange, and then another, lying on the road. I drive past them and discover more oranges on the road, in clumps. I keep driving. I see more and more oranges, until finally, the entire street is a sea of oranges. I drive through them, squishing many and smelling the aroma in the air.
Did oranges mean anything to Freud?
I was driving. Mind, I haven't driven since sometime over the summer, so this was particularly titillating. I think that I was driving a SUV. My destination is a mall. I can see it in my mind. To arrive at this mall I'm driving through a wooded neighborhood, where shafts of sunlight are shining down through leaves and branches onto the street and the humble houses. I'm alone driving on this road. Suddenly I see an orange, and then another, lying on the road. I drive past them and discover more oranges on the road, in clumps. I keep driving. I see more and more oranges, until finally, the entire street is a sea of oranges. I drive through them, squishing many and smelling the aroma in the air.
Did oranges mean anything to Freud?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Weekly Update
Weekly Update
mood: relaxed
music: Ranks in Love/E.G. Morgan, Diariamente/Marisa Monte, Rosie's Lullaby/Norah Jones
1. I realize sometimes how unsophisticated my English vocabulary can be. In the past week I have learned these words: recumbent, corroborate, laconic, perfunctory, lassitude, indolent, knave and pernicious. I'm thankful for my modern European history class for being the medium through which I came across these new vocabulary words.
2. Speaking of my modern European history class--I really love history nowadays. I've always had a flirtatious interest with history (as long as it wasn't a survey of American history) but I haven't fallen in love with it until now. It's really quite amazing how much more sense the world makes when one spends the time to seek its causes. Next year at NCC the professor that teaches my class is teaching a class called Modern Ireland and India since 1750. I will be taking both if I'm still otherwise languishing away at NCC next year. Yet, I guess if I'm taking them and loving it, I'm not really languishing, am I? The funny thing is that if I do that I will be 2/3 done with a history minor around this time next year.
3. I had a weird dream last week. In my dream, I was walking in my bedroom. Not the bedroom that I have now at the apartment. This one was different. There was elegant dark wood panelling, for one thing. My bed, nightstand and desk was at the furthest point away from the door. Between the doorway and this point, there were three bookcases and three aisles to walk through, going around corners and down aisles like a snake slithers. Along the walls there were shelves of books. Do you have the image in your mind? Yes, I dreamed that my bedroom was a library.
It makes sense, in a lot of ways. I work at a library, spending about 10 hours a week inside one for that. I often do homework in that same library. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I spend some time at Nichol's before and after I meet Kiaran during his off-campus lunch hour. On the weekends, a trip to Wheaton's library or Downers Grove's library is a treat, because they're relaxing places to be and they have a varied selection of books. Then, like so many of us, I absolutely relish hanging out in Borders.
The end result? I have a dream that my bedroom is a library.
Oh boy.
4. I can't wait until this term is over so I can formally stop taking Chinese. Yes, there was a time when I thought I would major in it. About half a year ago I decided that I wanted to quit after this year, realizing that for one, I will never remember thousands of characters (I can barely remember the ones from two chapters ago) and that two, I actually don't want to go to China (or Taiwan, really). Reflecting on my sophomore year when I signed up for Chinese 1 at NNHS, I remember that I had decided to take it because it would be novel, fun, and outstanding for my college application. There were also so many Chinese-speaking classmates and friends that I knew it would be great to practice the language with them. It was. But Chinese is no longer novel or fun, and the last thing I'm interested in at this point of my life are buzzwords to get ahead in the college-race (those I've completely done away with--I'm getting A's and working--hasta la vista to internships, extracurriculars and volunteering). If you don't even want to visit the country, then why would you learn the language, is a revealing question. So, my linguistic interests shall confine themselves to the Romance languages, the Indic (North Indian) languages and German.
5. I can't believe people are going to be coming home for summer vacation in a few weeks! It's so cold here still and I still have seven weeks of classes left!
mood: relaxed
music: Ranks in Love/E.G. Morgan, Diariamente/Marisa Monte, Rosie's Lullaby/Norah Jones
1. I realize sometimes how unsophisticated my English vocabulary can be. In the past week I have learned these words: recumbent, corroborate, laconic, perfunctory, lassitude, indolent, knave and pernicious. I'm thankful for my modern European history class for being the medium through which I came across these new vocabulary words.
2. Speaking of my modern European history class--I really love history nowadays. I've always had a flirtatious interest with history (as long as it wasn't a survey of American history) but I haven't fallen in love with it until now. It's really quite amazing how much more sense the world makes when one spends the time to seek its causes. Next year at NCC the professor that teaches my class is teaching a class called Modern Ireland and India since 1750. I will be taking both if I'm still otherwise languishing away at NCC next year. Yet, I guess if I'm taking them and loving it, I'm not really languishing, am I? The funny thing is that if I do that I will be 2/3 done with a history minor around this time next year.
3. I had a weird dream last week. In my dream, I was walking in my bedroom. Not the bedroom that I have now at the apartment. This one was different. There was elegant dark wood panelling, for one thing. My bed, nightstand and desk was at the furthest point away from the door. Between the doorway and this point, there were three bookcases and three aisles to walk through, going around corners and down aisles like a snake slithers. Along the walls there were shelves of books. Do you have the image in your mind? Yes, I dreamed that my bedroom was a library.
It makes sense, in a lot of ways. I work at a library, spending about 10 hours a week inside one for that. I often do homework in that same library. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I spend some time at Nichol's before and after I meet Kiaran during his off-campus lunch hour. On the weekends, a trip to Wheaton's library or Downers Grove's library is a treat, because they're relaxing places to be and they have a varied selection of books. Then, like so many of us, I absolutely relish hanging out in Borders.
The end result? I have a dream that my bedroom is a library.
Oh boy.
4. I can't wait until this term is over so I can formally stop taking Chinese. Yes, there was a time when I thought I would major in it. About half a year ago I decided that I wanted to quit after this year, realizing that for one, I will never remember thousands of characters (I can barely remember the ones from two chapters ago) and that two, I actually don't want to go to China (or Taiwan, really). Reflecting on my sophomore year when I signed up for Chinese 1 at NNHS, I remember that I had decided to take it because it would be novel, fun, and outstanding for my college application. There were also so many Chinese-speaking classmates and friends that I knew it would be great to practice the language with them. It was. But Chinese is no longer novel or fun, and the last thing I'm interested in at this point of my life are buzzwords to get ahead in the college-race (those I've completely done away with--I'm getting A's and working--hasta la vista to internships, extracurriculars and volunteering). If you don't even want to visit the country, then why would you learn the language, is a revealing question. So, my linguistic interests shall confine themselves to the Romance languages, the Indic (North Indian) languages and German.
5. I can't believe people are going to be coming home for summer vacation in a few weeks! It's so cold here still and I still have seven weeks of classes left!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Weekly Update
1. I discovered a cute café in Wheaton yesterday called La Spiaza.
2. Kiaran comes home tomorrow. Yayyyayayayay!
3. My classes are good, for the most part.
4. I'm spending a weekend in Galesburg in the beginning of May. Hopefully that will punctuate the last two months of this school year.
5. I'm still waiting to hear back from U of I and U of Wisc-Mad on financial aid packages. As Jake Nelson eloquently put it, it's "bureaucratic purgatory."
2. Kiaran comes home tomorrow. Yayyyayayayay!
3. My classes are good, for the most part.
4. I'm spending a weekend in Galesburg in the beginning of May. Hopefully that will punctuate the last two months of this school year.
5. I'm still waiting to hear back from U of I and U of Wisc-Mad on financial aid packages. As Jake Nelson eloquently put it, it's "bureaucratic purgatory."
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Weekly Update
1. Today I went with my family to a coffee shop in St. Charles, where I finished reading a book of source documents about the French Revolution for school and my dad and sis talked. After that, we walked around St. Charles. Inside a historic hotel I stepped into to view, I accidentally said "hello, isn't this place beautiful?" to a young woman that I thought was my sister. Oops. We saw some gorgeous condos by the Fox River that I wouldn't mind living in as a second or third home...After St. Charles we drove along the river, going through Geneva, Batavia, Aurora, Montgomery, Plano and Oswego. It was a neat little road trip.
2. Kiaran's in Singapore right now. Actually, given the time change, he's already in Bali. He's there for spring break with his family, visiting family friends in Singapore on the two weekends that they're there and Bali during the week. We're writing little emails to each other daily. It's hard to believe he's so far away.
3. I went to a hookah lounge with Liz on Friday night. We had a great and cultured conversation while smoking peach-flavored tabacco and listening to great Arabic music. That was lots of fun. I was really glad to catch up with Liz, as I miss seeing her more often.
4. Sometime this past week--the days have blurred--I visited Naperville North with Rachel and Tammy. We ran into Meghan and Chris there after turning a corner, which was great. We had the chance to catch up with so many teachers (even if it was only for a few minutes). We were there for almost half a school day, from 11:30 to 3:00-ish. I miss Naperville North--at least the community that I had there--although I'm glad to leave behind the pretentiousness and elitism of the institution (might I venture to say that I'm still an elitist, albeit one who is attempting to shed those attributes).
5. Classes start tomorrow. I have German Conversation and Composition and Intermediate Chinese, plus three hours of working at the library. I'm excited to have a German class after teaching it to myself since June of 2008.
Namaste,
Aditya
2. Kiaran's in Singapore right now. Actually, given the time change, he's already in Bali. He's there for spring break with his family, visiting family friends in Singapore on the two weekends that they're there and Bali during the week. We're writing little emails to each other daily. It's hard to believe he's so far away.
3. I went to a hookah lounge with Liz on Friday night. We had a great and cultured conversation while smoking peach-flavored tabacco and listening to great Arabic music. That was lots of fun. I was really glad to catch up with Liz, as I miss seeing her more often.
4. Sometime this past week--the days have blurred--I visited Naperville North with Rachel and Tammy. We ran into Meghan and Chris there after turning a corner, which was great. We had the chance to catch up with so many teachers (even if it was only for a few minutes). We were there for almost half a school day, from 11:30 to 3:00-ish. I miss Naperville North--at least the community that I had there--although I'm glad to leave behind the pretentiousness and elitism of the institution (might I venture to say that I'm still an elitist, albeit one who is attempting to shed those attributes).
5. Classes start tomorrow. I have German Conversation and Composition and Intermediate Chinese, plus three hours of working at the library. I'm excited to have a German class after teaching it to myself since June of 2008.
Namaste,
Aditya
Thursday, March 19, 2009
I'm back...
So I've decided that at least once a week I'm going to write at least five sentences about how I'm doing, serving as an update for friends who happen to come across this. It will also be reproduced in my live journal currently needing resucitation. So here goes:
1. I got to see Kboy today...I walked to NCC where he had a WYSE competition, had lunch with him, walked around with him and sneaked into the auditorium where they awarded the schools trophies for their results from the morning's competition. NCHS won first, NNHS won 2nd (by four points). Kiaran came 2nd in math and 3rd in physics in the whole competition. I was so proud of him.
2. Tonight was the ECCE dinner. The only people who showed up besides myself were the president and the faculty sponsor and his son. The lack of attendance was disappointing.
3. This is my list of things to do over spring break:
-- Tidy my room, hang up prints at last
-- Go to Frugal Muse
-- Watch "Pane e Tulipani" and Pedro Almodóvar movies
-- Dabble in drawing/painting
-- Take a day trip to Chicago
-- Pass on the traveling scarf to Tammy (a month and a half late)
-- Go to a Quaker meeting
4. I finished reading "Holy Cow" by Sarah McDonald and I adored it. This is why I love Mother India.
5. I'm starting to read "La Sombra del viento" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
That was a lot more than five sentences. I like the five-idea concept more anyways.
Ciao, namasté, hasta siempre,
Aditya
1. I got to see Kboy today...I walked to NCC where he had a WYSE competition, had lunch with him, walked around with him and sneaked into the auditorium where they awarded the schools trophies for their results from the morning's competition. NCHS won first, NNHS won 2nd (by four points). Kiaran came 2nd in math and 3rd in physics in the whole competition. I was so proud of him.
2. Tonight was the ECCE dinner. The only people who showed up besides myself were the president and the faculty sponsor and his son. The lack of attendance was disappointing.
3. This is my list of things to do over spring break:
-- Tidy my room, hang up prints at last
-- Go to Frugal Muse
-- Watch "Pane e Tulipani" and Pedro Almodóvar movies
-- Dabble in drawing/painting
-- Take a day trip to Chicago
-- Pass on the traveling scarf to Tammy (a month and a half late)
-- Go to a Quaker meeting
4. I finished reading "Holy Cow" by Sarah McDonald and I adored it. This is why I love Mother India.
5. I'm starting to read "La Sombra del viento" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
That was a lot more than five sentences. I like the five-idea concept more anyways.
Ciao, namasté, hasta siempre,
Aditya
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