this weekend was terrible. well, no. saturday was tres bien, but sunday was downright awful. and it's not even over yet.
but first things first
thursday night, lauren, julianne and i went to brown for a lecture in alumnae hall on aids. well, lecture doesn't quite describe it. it was called the aids oral history project. from 95-97 they had conducted interviews with aids victims and from those entrevistas, they compiled a ton of intertwining quotes. it's rather difficult to explain, but the bottom line is that a clear message is made and that is: aids sucks.
no, okay, there's a ton more to it. there was someone who had contracted it through sharing needles, a nurse, a recipient of a blood transfusion, and homosexual men. when it was over, it turned out that one of the original interviewees was sitting in front of us, and he spoke briefly, but eloquently about how no one is afraid enough of this disease anymore. and it's so true. people just assume you get aids and you take your cocktails and live, but really everyone needs to become more aware of how totally fatal it still is. he said that at least before, when it first broke out, people were shit scared and took all the necessary precautions to prevent it, but now everyone's just so uneducated and awareness has completely decreased in the last decade and every eyar more and more people are becoming lax in their sex/drug use practices and it's all just so fucked up.
on the bright side, it was held in the beautiful crystal room, thus named for it's gorgeous chandeliers and creaky old wooden floors with old world style circular stairways and the smell of prosperity and success positively brimming in the air all around.
stuff like that makes me think too much, but i'm really happy that i went. lau, julianne, and i want to try to get the same thing performed at our school as a type I presentation. because everyone needs to hear it.
afterwards we visited lauren's brother, greg, in his dorm. people were giving and receiving professional massages as an activity of the Brown University Relaxation Committee. how incredibly awesome is that? answer: wicked. (good enough to make me apply to brown now!) after greg fell literally head over heels for me (okay, i lied, he just tripped), we headed home. but first, we were stopped by these 3 guys, 2 of whom were very gorgeous, asking us where we were going for the night. lauren told them we were students from brown going out for a night on the town.
oh college. how i love you.
friday morning i woke up feeling pretty shitty, so my mom wrote me a note to get into school late. it was the day that never ended, complete with stupid physics lab, a peer ministry presentation i had completely forgotten about (whatever, it was 1) peer ministry and 2) short period), and last period spanish.
after school i went to the Student Poetry Union for the sole purpose of seeing R. yeah that's right.
friday night i had made plans with madeleine to see jude law's new flick (closer) but ended up feeling incredibly shitty once again (just to evenly round out the day in the same way it had started) so i took a ridiculous amount of benadryl and called it a night after the first 10 minutes of watching old school.
saturday = work and brouie's concert. i took rye along and there we hung out with liz. the concert went very well, B was awesome, jon was awesome, and cris ryan was - you guessed it - awesome. however... between you and i... i got a little bored... shhhh!) afterwards was npc and ice cream and laughs with will & co. a perfect saturday night of music friends and food. my favorite three things.
and today.... well... today was college app day. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here's the final count:
yale - app already received by admissions
providence college - app already received by admissions
boston college - app already received by admissions
harvard - mailing app tomorrow
stanford - mailing app tomorrow
notre dame - mailing app tomorrow
tulane - complete...
pepperdine - complete...
brown - not complete....