Helloooo From Ohio
Hey there!
I haven’t been looking at the blog recently, so I just wanted to write and say hi and see how you all were doing!
I have to leave for class in 8 minutes, but I suppose I can fill you in a little bit about life…
I’ve been LIVING in the library recently. I was sick a couple weeks ago, and I’m catching up on work still. Generally I have frisbee in the afternoon and then I go to the library (after I shower/eeeaaattt foooood) until 1am or so. Blegh. The work is no fun, but I go with two of my really good friends from frisbee and we giggle and make too much noise. Mostly I’m trying to catch up on Economics, which just stinks. I understand most of it (in a off-hand, vague sort of way…) but the problem is that I don’t agree with it. It’s just all such bull-shit, I suppose. But there’s really nothing I can do about it, and there’s no point in arguing, because economics is just the study of capitalism, which is pretty much a bunch of bull-shit in and of itself. OH WELL!
Other classes are going pretty well. I have midterms in a week and a half for my Social Psychology class and Econ, so I should start studying for those pretty soon.
Frisbee is awesome. And awful. Since it was snowy/SO COLD here, we were having indoor practices from 7-9am three days a week, and then on Sundays we had 10am-noon practices. Those were all pretty brutal. But it meant that I had some free time during the day. Now I’m going to start having frisbee from 4:30-6:30 everyday, which cuts into homework time. I’ll figure it out. It just kind of sucks. But playing is really fun. We’re outside now, even though it’s still around 10 degrees probably, if you count the windchill, and the ground has tons of ice on it. It’s just soooo good to be outside again, though. It’s totally necessary.
Let’s see. Crazy roommate has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY less crazy this semester. I still love her to death. She just sleeps at night, in our room, at normal times! It’s fantastic! Sometimes I’ll even come back from the library around 1:30am or so and she’ll already be in bed! I love it. A lot. Although I didn’t love the fact that her boyfriend from NY came to visit last week for 4 days, so I was sleeping on people’s floors/extra beds. And apparently they put a plastic bag over the fire alarm in our room and there were empty alcohol bottles in the room and Safety and Security/ResEd did a fire check and weren’t very pleased. So I guess they’ll come back and recheck at a surprise time. Just kind of sucks. Oh well.
Okay, I don’t want to be late for class! Much love!
OH ALSO: I NEED A JOB FOR THIS SUMMER!!!! WHERE CAN I WORK WHERE I DON’T HAVE TO PUSH STROLLERS AND I DON’T HATE MYSELF?! I just want to work for a cute environmental justice group, or a socially conscious non-profit. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?!!!
Okay, love love love. Feel free to post on the blog whatever you want. ESPECIALLY if someone from the blog is going to find me a really cute job!!!
Hilarynoodlebeanface
Hi Hilarynoodlebeanface!
So great to hear from you! Glad things are going the same for you as the other Hilary.
I’ll think about job possibilities for you. To clarify, you want a paying job, not just an internship?Which is more important; the work or the money? I don’t have any connections in any company with morals or values, but if you’re willing to sacrifice your soul to the Corporate Gods, I might be able to hook you up. That is, after I find something for the other Hilary.
Hugs and stuff,
Jen (the other Jen)
Comment by Jen — March 7, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
What were you sick with, H-noodlebeanface?
Hey, remember that student with the Mohawk who was very weirded out when he heard my daughter [that’s La Gata, not La Chica] had one (too)? He HASN’T shaved it off! (But he has kept it covered since. I gather it only looks like a Mohawk when he mooses it, and that’s too much bother.)
Comment by Jennifer — March 7, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Hey Jen, and Madre,
The hope was to find a moral paying job. If that doesn’t happen, I suppose I’d go for something where I was at least doing something INTERESTING, which was between part-time and full-time. I just don’t want to be stuck babysitting again, and I would like to be learning some valuable skills. Internships would be of interest as well…
Much love to you all!
Comment by LaChica — March 8, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Dear Noodlehead,
Which I think I remember was the nickname my dad gave to my best friend when I was 3 or 4,
it is always so good to hear from you.
(She had red hair and a parrot and I can’t remember her name, though I can see her still.)
Diane
Comment by anon — March 8, 2007 @ 8:24 pm
I remember feeling that way once. I was going to make a difference in the world. Then I got hungry.
Comment by Jen — March 10, 2007 @ 7:43 am
There’s a lot of space between making a difference and without morality. I’m assuming your work, Jen, is not actually IMmoral.
Comment by Jennifer — March 10, 2007 @ 7:52 am
I’d argue that Econ is much more than the study of capitalism. Too me it’s like knowing what I know about the work I do before lifting a hammer. You can look beyond the pretty pictures and the cream-colored walls and know what keeps the system standing. I wish I’d studied harder or better comprehended what it was I being taught, but instead I chose to leave it all mysterious. And that made my working life more difficult.
I’m really happy you wrote, and I do wish I’d not taken the southerly route back home. You are far more baffling than 3-D art on a wall, and far less depressing than strip-minded hill sides and coal dust covered rooftops.
Comment by michael — March 10, 2007 @ 8:24 am
Hells yeah!
Matt has made it sufficiently clear that he’s never planning on trekking it out to Ohio (even though he would really enjoy Oberlin), so that means that the rest of the family really ought to step it up and get him off the hook a little. I’ve already gotten two visitors, but more are always welcome!
Comment by LaChica — March 12, 2007 @ 9:26 pm