Wednesday, May 29, 2002
I came here with the idea of being intelligent. And then I looked over and saw I still have 60 pages to read in Lolita and it hurts my head. But I guess it's my fault for not pushing myself to read it earlier. It really is a good book and I feel bad for complaining all the time. I promised myself I'd quit, but you know how far promises go with Jews.....
Speaking of Jews, tonight was my last BESSY event ever. We had a barbecue at John and Ny's house. Joey and Molly surpised everyone (well, surprised me) with a huge cake that was cow spotted and said BESSY in the middle with the names of all the Bessy seniors along the sides. My name was on there. And Molly passed around this book of pictures from Bessy events and it made me feel really...special to see myself in most of them. Like I really was part of this community. It felt like home; and now I'm leaving. Joey started to cry near the end of the night and I didn't know what to do so I just hugged her for a long time. Molly loves Rochester and is going to visit mid-August and I'm trying to get her to change it to late August so I can see her there. I'm going to miss them so much.
Maybe it's not too late to RSVP for the cookout at the Unger's so I can possibly see Stephane before I leave. I love her SO MUCH and going to school without a good picture of her is rediculus. It's finally setting in that I'm leaving and I don't know what to do. I just hope crying isn't an option, I like my eyes to function.
10:00 PM
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Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Prom was this weekend. Along with camping. Actual prom kind of sucked, but the boat was fun (Caleb got excited when he woke up at 3 in the morning. He has 14 hour mornings. It was cute.) and camping was amazing. There are stories that go along with that too, but I guess I have to tell all the ones from adventure ed camping first. I'll be consistant.
To be sad, I also have to do millions of hours worth of work in the next week, so I'll go start working now. I had more of a thought process before I started typing, but Mike posted this rediculously long survey on his site and I got stuck reading it. My eyes hurt now.
9:17 PM
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Thursday, May 23, 2002
a) So the first thing we did after lunch on Monday was go canoeing. They split up the groups by teacher, and it was kind of random, but I ended up with tons of really cool kids in my group. Included are Seth, Mike, Gabe, Little Luke, Chris, and Sasha. So we went canoeing. And all we did while canoeing was canoe across Devil's Lake to some pretty boulders and went bouldering. To make sure the canoes didn't float away, we kind of just got them stuck on some rocks and chilled. When we came back, Gabe and Andrew Dickenson just got in their canoe and pushed against the rock to get off, and pushed too hard. I just remember looking over and seeing them both kind of roll out of their canoe into the water. Gabe was screaming the whole way.
I immediately started cracking up to no end, as did many other people. Gabe somehow didn't find this as funny as I did and got up, yelling "WHO WANTS TO DIE FIRST?" directed at everyone who was laughing, looking straight at me. Half our group mentioned it sometime at the closing campfire.
7:33 PM
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good
7:28 PM
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Tuesday, May 21, 2002
So I just got home from camping with Adventure Ed. I have tons of stories, so to remind me:
a) Gabe falling out of his canoe
b) Seth falling over the edge of the repelling cliff
c) Why Alan rocks
d) Why I hurt
e) Why I don't hurt as bad as most other people
f) Seth's final campfire memory (about scaring away nazis)
g) The monstrosity of Mike's tent.
For a later date.
7:43 PM
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I want to exist. :-(
7:39 PM
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Wednesday, May 15, 2002
I was talking to Erik earlier today, and he mentioned something about how I wasn't allowed to yell at him for ditching his friends for Mary anymore 'cause I left with Caleb so abruptly Saturday. And he asked me if they were being obnixoius or annoying Saturday night, and I honestly didn't notice. I think I've pinpointed my problem with their relationship, as to why it bothered me so much.
Pure jealousy.
I know I'm usually the last to admit it (and I apologize for my blame-everything-on-other-people deal lately), but I really was upset that Erik was so happy because of someone else. As the best friend I thought it should have been me. And I'm not used to other people being cutesy-couple-deal while I'm alone. And it bothered me.
So I think that now that Caleb's around, Erik and Mary are going to bother me less. Or so goes my theory now, we'll see how annoying they get in the near future. :-)
As a general close, though, Erik - I apologize for being so snappy. I'll be better in the future, I promise.
7:59 PM
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Sunday, May 12, 2002
And can I remind everyone listening how amazing Caleb is? Story:
Last night Mary threw a surprise birthday party for Erik. I was the distraction. I took him out around 2 and we got a biiiig lunch at Dixie, which I miss (Grant needs to be in town more), then we picked up Mike and Caleb and goofed off until we were supposed to be at Erik's at 6:30. We were 15 minutes late and Mary ended up calling Erik's phone from his house wondering where he was. During the evening, people kept asking me inquiries about the party, like Mike asking 12 million times if there will be cake. I told him planning everything was Mary's department, but it felt good to be reminded that I'm still an assumed important role in Erik's life (sorry if that's phrased badly). Anyway, since cake wasn't a part of the evening, everyone left around 9:30 to go to Baker's square for pie. Caleb and I went to my house to spend quality time together.
stop laughing, I'm serious.
We spent about three hours sitting on my couch in back with me holding him while he took naps, waking up frequently to kiss me. It was everything I could have ever asked from him. At one point in the evening, he turned to me and said:
Caleb: "I think eyes are amazing. Like how they're an organ used for vision, and yet they show everything in terms of emotion."
Nora: "What do you see in my eyes?"
Caleb: "That's a really hard question."
Nora: "Tough, answer it anyway." (I'm evil, haha...I guess I'll apologize tomorrow)
Caleb: "Well, I see that you know your goals. Everything you want in life you know and you're going to get it. You're probably the most confident person I've met." (we'll see...)
Nora: "Well, I got you..."
Caleb: "Was it that hard...?"
and then we both almost fell asleep and I took him home. *dances*
8:35 PM
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"a) People who want to participate can't, and b) "Real" talent gets left behind. "
Welcome to high school politics, Erik. That's the sole reason I don't care about going to shows at the high school - the same people are in everything. If you've seen one, which I have, you've seen 'em all. Which is possibly why I'm not excited about seeing YAMO next week. The only thing keeping me intereted is Amy and Kat. And even if Kat didn't have a song, I don't think I would have gone. I know Amy can act and I know Amy can sing. I don't have to see her in a show to see how great she is on stage. I guess I"m just glad she's not one a part of the "theater crowd." They really don't think about anyone but themselves when it comes to theater, and I'm glad you're the idealist you are and you except things to be different. It's what keeps you cute. Thank you.
Just remember, "thesbian" rhymes with "lesbian" for a reason.
8:24 PM
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Saturday, May 04, 2002
I just got home from a camping trip with BESSY. Simply amazing. And the night added another point to my top ten most beautiful moments: Friday night, we didn't really get to camp until about 7 or 8, and it was kind of dark, so we started putting up tents right away. When we finished tents we made food and ate, and so we didn't start our shabbat evening prayer until 9:45 or so. But when we did, it was around a campfire that we built (we borrowed a saw from a boy scout troop and more stories on that later) and it was really really beautiful. We made sure to sing extra loud and energetically to ward off the evil Christians.
When we went to the Christians to ask to borrow the saw, we were just waiting for them to ask what we needed it for so we could say "We're building a fire for our children sacrafice. Do you have any volunteers?" But they didn't ask. And I kept on calling Joey "mario" 'cause she was wearing one of those headband flashlights and it made her look like she was from a video game. When we were standing in their campsite, Mario kept making fun of the way some of the kids looked (well they really did look funny) and I whispered "hey Joey, why don't you make more fun of them while wer're at their campsite? They're probably just making fun of 'the dumb jews' anyway." And Jeoy turned to me, eyes wide in panic, and said "don't say that here, they don't like Jews!" I burst out laughing. We had a few more episodes with them and Joey getting offended, but more on that tomorrow. I didn't sleep well at all so I'm about to go to sleeeeep!
11:06 PM
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