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| Since my parents couldn't get their act together we're not going to move this year. 
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| Oh golly me it certainly has been a long time since I've updated. A lot has happened since then...well not really. School has certainly taken on a definite air of pointlessness that is a trifle bit annoying. Every morning I wake up a little bit later, hoping that one of these days school will be over. I've been thinking a lot about college and I'm excited for it. I'm not excited to leave friends behind though. But as Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote:
My heart is warm with the friends I make
And better friends I'll not be knowing
But there isn't a train I wouldn't take
No matter where it's going.
That was my sister's senior quote. Pretty impressive choice there Kate the Great. To show you how long ago that was the only reason she picked that poem was because I had to memorize it for Mr. Hadinger's fifth grade class. Fifth grade doesn't seem like seven years ago. That's how we'll feel in four years when we're getting ready to graduate from college...I hope.
"Maybe there's a God above,
And all I ever learned from love,
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you,
It's not a cry you can hear at night,
It's not somebody's who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah." ~ Rufus Wainwright
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| Over these past few weeks I've found myself doing a lot of things for the first time. I voted for the first time last week and saw Mrs. Felman, the kindergarten teacher, taking the little slips of paper you hand in before you vote. Not to put too fine a point on it but she's getting on in years. I'm wondering how many election days she's worked there...perhaps ______ (this is blank because I know how closely the school administration reads our xangas and I wouldn't want this to be misconstrude so I'm leaving the blank fo you the reader to fill in). I also took my first trip to Iowa this past weekend. I suppose I should jump on the band wagon and add this: Grinnell College 2010 Anyway, as many of you know they grow corn out there in Iowa...that's an understatement, I think it would be more accurate to say that they collect corn out there because they have it everywhere. They even grow stuff on the grass which covers the median which divides the highway. Anyway, I thought the campus was nice. It's very large and many of the buildings have interior corridors where one may walk if the weather is bad. The people were nice too, especially my tourguide who seemed to me to be the sort with whom I would like to hang out. On Saturday of last weekend I got my first tour of the Iowa state Capitol...did you know the Iowa Capitol building uses 29 different types of mineral to decorate the interior? Didn't think so, nor do I think that you care at all. But hey, it seems like just the sort of useless fact one learns in Iowa.
This week also marked the first time I've won something from the prom people. For those of you who weren't present, we had the post-prom sweepstakes on Monday and they called my name for one of the corsages...so I guess I'm going to the World Class Montgomery Shop-Rite for the corsage. Larissa, I'm sorry to take the choice out of your hands but what can I say? It's not everyday something like this happens...
On a different note my interview with the scholarship people was today. Good luck to those of you out there who still need to go. I don't really feel very good about this whole thing because it inherently pits us all against each other. I suppose it's no different than applying to the same college as a friend, but since it is only limited to Montgomery High School it seems a little less ethical. Well good luck to all of you who still have to interview and good luck to those of you who still have to decide where to go to college.
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| So, the ever so stressful college application process is over and I'll either be going to Grinnell in very isolated Iowa or I'll be going to Ole' Trin Trin in ghetto Hartford. In other words I'll either come back with straw in my teeth with a hint of a mid-western twang OR i'll come back in a body bag with enough bullet holes to sink the USS Constitution.
Spring Break in a week eh? I can't wait. If it weren't for the unGodly number of track meets I have (three) during the week I would be happy. But it will still be fun cause Katy and Sam (and I guess Brian and Kristen too) are coming home to help my parents get ready to move. That's right I said move...the move that I was told we were going to make, but then weren't going to make, and now are going to make is back on. At least according to dad who says that it's a 95 percent chance. But the good news is it won't happen until deep into the summer so we'll probably be at college when the ink dries...worst ten years of my life!
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So today was a good day. I ran well in track, which was a nice change of pace (get it, change of PACE?) because I hadn't been doing too well this season. So that was pretty motivating. I love running. It liberates me. Inspires me. Makes me feel like I'm worth something.
So anyway. *Cracks knuckles* Today I got into Dickinson College, in Pennsylvania. It was my safety, and probably my last choice. I still have to hear from Bates and Bowdoin, which are probably my top two choices.
Today's Government and Politics class was quite interesting. We learned history related material. I love history. Everything from Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, to Napoleon Bonaparte and the Lousiana Purchase, to Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression, to John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs, to George W. Bush and the War in Iraq.
Okay well I'm going to go watch some West Wing and Jeopardy.  If you couldn't tell...the above was written by someone who's name rhymes with Marissa Loan Jerritt
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