Options for classes next semester (last semester at agnes? what?)

Art 160 – visual thinking 1, nell ruby mw 11-12:30 or tr 1-2:50
except that morgan is too far away to halp me

Art 220 – monuments: meaning and memory, sadler/katherine tr 12:30-1:45
a class taught by both sadler AND katherine? i don't know how i feel about it. but i sort of want another class with katherine before i leave.

Eng 320 – lit for children, coia mw 1-2:15
children's books! and i can take it pass/fail!

His 219 – black death, bender mwf 11-11:50
oh, dr. bender. why must you have class on friday?

His 343 – fam, love and marriage, bender mw 4-5:15
everyone i've ever talked to has loved this class (of course that was when it was with dr. lynn. but whatevs.)

PE 121 – yoga, falberg mw 2:30-3:45, mw 4-5:15
need another pe. egrim loves the yoga teacher here.

New poll! Huzzah!

Should I get contacts or should I get new glasses? And if I get new glasses, should I get fun colorful ones? I just want something to make me not look like a child anymore. I'm getting way sick of complete strangers tell me that I look like I'm twelve. Thoughts?

This was the absolute best thing to wake up to this morning:


“Cyberpunk suggests, once again, that [science fiction] really can be about the world and not

just about the author’s mind. For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me

how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole

thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have

been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”

- Rudy Rucker

Elaina had her baby yesterday morning. Betsy and I went to see her today. The baby is super adorable and healthy and wonderful.

In honor of little Lydia Lonidier:

because there are few things i enjoy more than scholarship that bashes people, some wonderful quotes about the architect and theorist le corbusier from mr peter hall in cities of tomorrow:

“the evil that Le Corbusier did lives after him; the good is perhaps interred with his books, which are seldom read for the simple reason that most are almost unreadable”

“the remarkable fact about Corbusier is just how phenomenally unsuccessful he was in practice.”

“His simpleminded egomania and his total political naivety made it difficult for him to understand his failure.”


and a couple from jane jacobs's death and life of great american cities which is one of my very favorite books:
"No matter how vulgarized or clumsy the design, how dreary and useless the open space, how dull the close-up view, an imitation of Le Corbusier shouts 'look what i made!' Like a great, visible ego it tells of someone's achievement."

"If the great object of city planning was that Christopher Robin might go hoppety-hoppety on the grass, what was wrong with Le Corbusier?" (have I mentioned that I love this book?)

Lines For Winter, Mark Strand

Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself --
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.

matt: "compact things are obviously communist. compact, communist. makes sense."
adam: "say no to dot-communism. real americans use dot-net."

morgan: "little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky. little boxes made of clay. there are big ones there are small ones, things and stuff..."

morgan's helping me "pack" too! but we're actually just watching weeds.

cowboys in outerspace!
mandarin curse words!
sword-fighting courtesans in long slinky dresses!
river tam!

"See, morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."

Dear People Who Drive in Atlanta,
You know how we've been closing lanes and on/off ramps on the connector every weekend for the past 3 months, and will continue do to so for the next 5? You know how you all love driving through bumper-to-bumper traffic at 2 in the morning on sunday night because there are only 2 lanes open at any given time during the weekend? Well, you're in luck, Atlanta! Because this weekend we're closing every northbound on-ramp from I-20 and Northside Drive so that thousands of cheerful motorists will be pushed downtown wandering aimlessly, creating a huge traffic jam on Peachtree because no one knows what to do! This is a great time for all of you who avoid downtown like the plague to learn your way around. Watch out for the poorly marked one way streets!

Love,
Georgia Department of Transportation

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Dear People Who Drive in Atlanta,
For your convenience, we aren't going to tell you about any of the lane closures in advance. We'll just have a front page story every monday for the entire 8 months this project is going on reporting on the hilarious traffic jams caused by our ineptitude as a newspaper.

Serving you with affection,
Atlanta Journal Constitution



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Dear People Who Drive in Atlanta,
Thank you for not knowing your way around town at all and not knowing that Piedmont Rd exists and will also take you north. Because of this, I had the road all to myself all the way to Sandy Springs, while all of you were stuck in the traffic jam of doom on Peachtree. Don't you know that Peachtree already has awful traffic on Friday nights? Silly motorists.

<3<3
Anne

Using other people's toothbrush: Yay or nay?

Using the toothbrush of someone you've made out with: Yay or nay?

Only slightly related, should Morgan get a toothbrush with dinosaurs or disney princesses?

Whenever Lafrance is in my dream, the first floor is a breakfast restaurant so everyone lives upstairs. but in the evening when the restaurant is closed, we have free reign of it. Also, the garage behind the house is a lot bigger, and it's sort of a little guest house. but usually allen just lives there. and the house is white.

In my dream last night, Kevern used an icepick to write a note on a big block of ice, and ali was doing a project that involved writing and illustrating kids' book about aaron burr.

Since I last wrote:

Cortisone injections, lots of sickness, hating living with my parents.
Finally getting out of the house, lunch with Dani, Erica visited. We took a walk.
Season 4 of Friends.
Drive down to Savannah, yucky text messages, island-wide water fight on Tybee.

Bad breakfast, beach, burping.
Savannah, ships, seafood, sleep.
French toast, Fenway.

I spent 3pm to 1:30 am yesterday watching season 3 of friends. Nia and i stuck out the whole season; morgan and betsy had places to go and people to see. Got 3 pages of my film paper done while I was there. Finished it when I woke up this morning.

Speaking of my film paper, it's the best thing I've ever written. The assignment was to propose a film that has something to do with southern history, but Tams gave NO guidelines at all. So mine is a claymation movie called "Goober and the Gods of Dixie." It's set in 2045. The south has seceded from the union and the "gods of dixie" (andrew jackson, jefferson davis, etc.) have come back to their heaven-on-earth and are living deep in the appalachian mountains, spending all of their time drinking whiskey and listening to andrew jackson play banjo. The southerners have enslaved all of the northern business people who live in the south, so zombie civil rights activists (led by john f kennedy and martin luther king, jr) attack the south to free their northern brethren. an 11 year old boy named goober mcmason-dixon (name courtesy of morgan victoria) goes on a quest to find the gods of dixie so that they can save the south. the gods are barely holding their own against the zombies, but then abraham lincoln (dressed as magneto from x-men) and george washington (dressed as himself. seriously, what superhero is better than george washington?) descend and engage in a light saber fight. washington and the south ultimately triumph.

best. movie. ever.

Now i'm working on my art history paper, which I hope to finish tomorrow. Then I'll still have my english paper and my civil war final. I emailed dean cannady about the fact that I can't sit up and don't know what to do about my civil war final (I can't believe i didn't think about this before...) but she hasn't emailed back yet.

Alright. Back to it.

The theme of the day is optimism.

I set up an appointment with an orthopedic doctor at emory. The doctor is a woman, which is great because I'm very very sick of patronizing male doctors. The appointment is next thursday (may 1).

Also, I got an A on my ulysses paper! I'm really glad all the work I did paid off. If I can just do a really great research paper, I think I can pull off a B+ in the class. I think I'm probably going to get B's in all of my classes this semester (except maybe Civil War because Dr. Cain loves me and sort of thinks that everything I do is solid gold).

Dean Cannady told me to email her a list of all the books I need from the library for research papers, and she'll send a student worker to go pull them from the shelves and put them at the front desk so I won't have to go running around the whole building. This is amazing and wonderful and makes my life so much easier!

The plan for today is to outline my civil war paper, finish reading wide sargasso sea, write my little film response thing, and do my art history reading. If I can make a dent in all of that this morning, I think Erica and I will hang out this afternoon.

A Request
Erin is studying abroad next year, so I'm taking our couch. However, I need somewhere for it to live this summer. It's yellow and light green with a hideous flower pattern on it. It's really not very pretty, but it's the most comfortable couch in the world and I love it. Would anyone like to house this beauty until august? It's medium sized and surprisingly easy to move around (Erin and her sister were able to easily carry it up two flights of mountainous steps to get it into our room). I suppose this is really just me asking Morgan and Betsy if they think they have room for it. Once Nia is gone maybe it could fit in the studio? Maybe? I know that Erica has plenty of room and I'm going to ask her too. However, it doesn't fit with her minimalist modern aesthetic, and i think that she'll probably say "that couch would be a blight and an eyesore!" and refuse.

I sort of feel like the only thing that makes sense right now is the graphic novel version of the first book of the Baby-sitter's Club that is currently en route to my mailbox.

sarge broke her leg and is in a motorized wheelchair. i kind of want one now.

shut up, morgan.