The Red Carpet Has Teeth

Rome Day 3

Thursday was a bit horrendous, because I was still a bit jet-lagged and we walked for miles in the sun. We all met at the Pantheon at 9AM and went to the Adrian temple, a few churches (from one of which most of us got kicked out of because we hadn't been forewarned and thus not dressed according to the dress code), Piazza del Popollo, and the Galoppatoio (a long hill in the north of Rome) all before 12. Then we reconvened at 5:30 and after a little meeting we went to the Janiculum, saw Gariba…

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Posted by Aurikku on June 20th, 2008 at 7:56am — No Comments (Add)
 

Random Update

Got my Chaucer final back, and was 1 question from being a 4.0; I wrote 'D' instead of 'C,' even when I knew it was 'c.' *sigh* oh well. Chaucer will still boost my English GPA quite a bit.

I sort of randomly picked FFX back up again just this past Saturday. I'm calling it "research" and/or "inspiration" for CCP. It's worked; I've written at least half of the next chapter, which is probably going to be the penultimate chapter. Considering my Muse has been blocked for over a year on thi…

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Posted by Aurikku on June 2nd, 2008 at 4:38pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Co-Ed Dorm Rooms, I Name Thee Progression

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_re_us/coed_dorm_rooms

I'm glad some people have this option now; I would never jump onto this bandwagon (I have difficulties enough with female roommates), but it's good that people have the option to room with the gender they're more comfortable with.

But the mother's comments bother me. "When you have a male and female sharing such close quarters,…

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Posted by Aurikku on May 3rd, 2008 at 9:17pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Information!!! It's what keeps the blood pressure low!

Finally had an information session about Rome today, at long last. And thankfully I wasn't the only one who was irritated it was so late; a girl came to the room early and mentioned how she hated it was held this late. <small>and this being the 10th year doing this program, I don't understand why they don't realize the earlier the better...</small>

Lots of information that I wanted/needed, yay-ness, and some that I kinda wanted them to be clearer about but they were sort of…

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Posted by Aurikku on April 29th, 2008 at 5:41pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Stress: My Enabler

I finally got my visa in. It's all such a horrendous hassle. I'm taking every two minutes to pause and hope that nothing is wrong with it, that everything will pass inspection (there was one tiny little section for the notary to fill out, but the notary I went to didn't know what to do with it and left it blank....@.@), and that I'm not going to have to make a mad dash later today or tomorrow morning in order to complete it and turn it in before 4PM tomorrow. Because....really? I'm d…

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Posted by Aurikku on April 17th, 2008 at 2:55pm — No Comments (Add)