Last night I went to my first Taylor alumni dinner. Wow, I definitely don’t feel old enough to be an alum of a university. I was definitely the youngest person there, but it was fun to reconnect with Taylor people who live in Atlanta. Of course, I was 45 minutes late to the dinner because it took me an hour and 15 minutes to get to a place 7 miles from my apartment. Welcome to Atlanta at rush hour. (Did…
David and Ann are some of my favorite people, and I knew each one indvidually before they ever started dating. :-) I first met David at the beginning of my freshman year, in Gerig lounge. We were lounge rats together, and I knew him as Bill Nye (the Science Guy). I was able to talk to him about Peru, which helped so much in the culture shock I experienced (to a certain degree) after moving from Peru to Taylor. He…
Here’s a picture of the new curtains in my bedroom. (note also the matching pillow on the bed) Here is a picture of the curtains in my living room. Note that I rearranged the furniture (if you saw the pictures of my apartment before). You can see more pictures of the curtains and the apartment on my online photo album (the section is called “apartments & curtains”).
I feel like a lot has happened in the last few days, and I’m debating about whether to combine it all, or spread it out in separate posts. This weekend was quite eventful: We were allowed to go home early on Friday because we were all distracted and we weren’t very busy. I enjoyed the few hours to myself; I cleaned my apartment and washed the dishes. Friday night I went to see The Tempest, produced by a drama school,…
I’m taking a poll: how many people who are not in government jobs have today off for Veteran’s Day?