Sunday

•March 7, 2010 • Leave a Comment

The journey has begun. Taylor showed up by my bed at around 9pm on Friday night. Wonderful story equipped. This is a PG blog, so I’ll leave it out. We stayed up ’til around midnight, as is my custom, and then promptly passed out at around 1ish. Of course, my idea was that we were leaving at noonish the next day. My father, who has just returned from Europe, is horribly jet lagged. He woke up at 5am and waited three hours already to wake us up. Well, you can imagine I was not happy to be awoken that early. I slept ’til 9 at that point, and then managed to get up and shower, but it took me forever to get all packed. I think we left around 10. After 3 early stops (I swear I was ready to kill someone) we finally got going. I still hadn’t bought my converter, so we only had computers for like an hour. I fooled around with my iphone, and tried to not dieee. We also bought an amazing issue of Cosmo, which offered muchhhh entertainment. (Esp. for Taylor). Mudkipz also brought joy to our hearts. We hit horrifying traffic through New York, and I think we arrived in Maryland around 4pm. We checked into an AMAZING hotel. It’s one of the better rooms I’ve ever stayed in. Huge HD TV, sick nasty ipod station, and huge feather queens. I don’t wanna leave. We went out to dinner at Sullivan’s, some sort of Ruth Chris’s reminiscent steakhouse. Steak was amazing, Ahi Tuna was even better. And they definitely knew how to cook it rare. The best part of the whole evening by far though was as we were walking back to the hotel. The walk from the Kimpton to Sullivan’s was somewhat sketchy, a lot of the buildings had closed down, but there were a bunch of people walking down to the harbor etc. So Taylor and I were dressed to kill, well, skinny jeans, adorable jackets, hair to kill, etc. My parents were behind me . . . dressed like parents. We were walking fast though, ’cause I was tired and wanted to get back. There are a bunch of people on the sidewalk, it’s pretty huge, and then this group of about 5 boys on ridiculously small trick bikes goes by. One of which almost hits me, but I don’t let it phase me, but the best part is, once the first one went by, the second one sees us, and shouts “Heyyyy ladies”. I giggle and push Taylor, and then the 4th one, near the end, shouts, “Do you have a phonee number?” I full out slapped Taylor and started laughing uncontrollably, I think they caught the drift and kept going. That’s my new favorite pick up line. Forever.

Last night I almost hit 39 on my lock. Affff so close. I’ll have my second felsteed soon enough. I love playing with the guys, and I can tell already this game is even more dominated by men then asda was. Only spells good things for me, they always love the girls =p I won’t be able to play much the second week because I’ll be rowing, but I’m gonna try to play every night this week, as long as I’m not out to dinner. Even then my parents sleep a ton, so we probably won’t be out too late. This morning was pretty bad though, I just wanted to sleep, sitting in a car takes a lot out of yah apparently.

I won’t discuss my life with everyone right now. But yahhh, shiz going down. If you want, you can ask me about it, but if you have something in mind that’s probably it.

I loveeee you all and as much as I miss you I’m enjoying my sleep ins! Toodles, I’ll try to post everydayyy.

Maria

•February 27, 2010 • 1 Comment

Maria . . .
The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word . .
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
Maria!
I’ve just met a girl named Maria,
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me.
Maria!
I’ve just kissed a girl named Maria,
And suddenly I’ve found
How wonderful a sound
Can be!
Maria!
Say it loud and there’s music playing,
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying.

Maria,
I’ll never stop saying Maria!

The most beautiful sound I ever heard.
Maria.

Meditation

•February 27, 2010 • Leave a Comment

“They’re lining them up, what the hell are you doing?!”

I stood up, wiping the snow off my ass. “I’m number fifteen; don’t get your freaking panties in a bunch.” I unzipped my treasured snow pants, the zipper pulls long since removed and replaced with duct tape. I groaned as I realized that I’d have to take my gloves off. I ripped one off, shoving it between my knees, and pulled the misshapen tag from my ankle to my waist. I shivered, the cold air running over my hand and reducing my fingers to mere claws. I bent over, subjecting the same hand to that torture again, and tossed my pants against a tree. I stomped my feet, trying to bring my toes back to life, and rubbed my thighs, warming my suit up. I yanked my headphone out of my helmet and delicately wrapped my iPod up, tucking it in my jacket pocket.

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Friday

•February 26, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Haven’t posted in forever.  But . . . I felt it.  Don’t ask.

So.  I’m kinda concerned about talking about tons, but, hopefully less people look at this then I thought.

The last three weeks were strange.  But I’m glad they’re over.  Truly, it’s for the best.  I was sort of upset over the reasons, but I’m myself, and I have to realize what I want.  And that was not what I want.

I’m also now thinking that everyone is interested in me.  I pray that is not the truth, but . . . afffff.  Let’s just hope not.

Still got mono.  Yup.  Well, a mono-like virus, whatever the fuck that is.  I’m supposed to tell everyone it’s mono, but . . . well, I just feel tired all the time, and I tend to pass out at like, 10.  Lol.

Asda is boring.  I’ve quit.  Kinda sad, but it’s for the best as well . . . and something much more dark looms on the horizon.

WoW.  It starts.  I knew I’d end up playing it.  I’ve wanted to . . . forever.  But frankly, I didn’t wanna pay the money.  Now I have the money, I have no bf, so, THEREFORE, tons of time for Warcraft.  I swear to not join the Deerfield server . . . fucking Darkspear.  Mal’ganis kthnx.  Gonna be a belf lock, ’cause frankly, they’re the best looking.  And locks are sick.  HUMAN LOCKS ARE FAIL.  You know who you are.

I’m so excited already, and that’s probably not a good thing.  I’m going to pick it up today, and I calculated, it’s gonna cost me $110 for all the games and a 60day subscription.  And so it begins.

Mostly, I’d just like to say I have awesome friends.  I’ve kinda felt down the last few weeks, mostly because of the sickness and the ego blow, but without them I’d be a huge mess.  And the always faithful Pokemon . . . they keep me warm at night.

Yes, I quit asda about . . . 3 weeks ago, not fully quit, but I don’t log on anymore.  I started playing Pokemon.  Finished Silver in a day, then finished Ruby in 2 days.  Now I’m on Fire Red, it’s the only one I’ve never played before, and I’m having trouble getting through it.  I need a freaking walkthrough or something.  But I’m most proud of my Ruby file.  I’ve got a level 60 Mudkip.  So sick.  I refused to evolve it.  He’s so weak, but, so cute.

Also, going to Florida with Taylor!  Only a week more.  I’m so excited, ordered the sexiest suit ever and I get to go shopping saturday and sunday.  So . . . EPIC.  Epiwin.

Hmmm, don’t think there’s anything else.  Except that I finally finished my meditation.  I’m not sure  . . . how good it is.  I’ll upload it later.  You guys will like it hopefully.  It’s about skiing, yeah, barf, but, it’s okay.  I just can’t wait for crew.  I’m almost able to work out again, so I’ll start erging next week, that’s when I’m finally allowed to exercise again.  And the way skiing ended.  Girls won the MISL league, really proud of us, because it was not easy.  We also took 1, 2, and 3 in the standings for individuals.  Yah biddies.

Plus . . . edbart today.

Vale!

Thursday

•January 15, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Hm, haven’t blogged in a while.  Nothing worth it I SUPPOSE.  But, well, I’ll start again!  The experiment must continue.  Soooo, I had my MIT interview today.  I actually applied to that school.  I know what you’re thinking, girls!? ENGINEERING!?  WDF!?!  Well, most of you at least.  But, I’ve wanted to go there pretty much all my life.  Not my first choice, but . . . it’s still like, been that upper goal?  Well, it went really well, my interviewer was a rower too, and a skier, so we had plenty to talk about and I think she liked me.  Hopefully that will only help me get in, hopefully ahaha.

Ski race yesterday, went okay.  I got 2nd, to my little sister . . . -_-  Whateverrrr, she’s only one point ahead, that’s just one little screwup away.  A little healthy competition never hurt anyone? :3

I’ve got Blanford Saturday, gonna try to go to Hannah and Blau’s party, and then GS practice all day Sunday . .. as well as pathways all night.  This fucking sucks . . .  At least I got my huge English project out of the way, which went . . . not as well as I expected, but I still think it went fine, merely because I’m amazing at BSing . . . liek, amazing.  And I’m beloved in that English class.

I have almost no work for a while . . . just a latin test tomorrow I’m gonna bomb.  Just as long as I don’t bomb that my midterms will be okayyy.  I’ll post more on this later, but it’s about home timeee.  I’ve been staying so late lately . . . I blame skiing.  It keeps me at school like all the time lololol.   I can’t wait ’til crew already.

Decision

•December 10, 2009 • 1 Comment

My Life is Over

Dear Hayley:

I am writing to let you know that the Admissions Committee has decided to defer its decision on your application for admission to Duke University until April 2010. I understand that this is disappointing news, but I want to assure you that your application remains under consideration and we will fully and carefully review your file again in March.

This year we received more than 2,000 Early Decision applications—a 33 percent increase over last year and by far the highest number in our history. We admitted fewer than a third of our Early Decision applicants, and deferred decisions on about a third as well. The fact that you applied under our Early Decision program and that Duke is your first choice will certainly be taken into consideration as we review your candidacy this spring. At the same time, we anticipate that in April we will be able to admit only about 10 percent of the Early Decision applicants whose decisions were deferred.

Since we limit the number of places we offer students in the Early Decision, we defer many students who have very real potential. The competition to become a Duke student is keener than ever, and your application remains active in a process that has already excluded a good number of very talented students from further consideration. You may ask why we defer so many students when we will be able to accept relatively few in April. Sometimes we want some more information about an applicant – fall term grades, for example. Sometimes we want to consider an applicant within the context of the larger Regular Decision pool. And sometimes we just want to give a student with a strong interest in Duke one more chance in the admission process.

Our frequently asked question sheet addresses the most common questions asked by students who have been deferred. If you have any questions after having read that sheet, please feel free to contact us and ask for the admissions officer responsible for applications from your state or country.

I know this is not the decision you were hoping for, and I’m sorry I do not have better news for you. I truly appreciate your interest in Duke, and wish you a productive and successful senior year.

Sincerely,

Christoph Guttentag
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

Thursday

•December 10, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Well, since today is all about college admissions, THAT IS WHAT I WILL BLOG ABOUT.

Duke’s decisions came out today.  Got deferred.  Hm, I suppose that’s better then rejection?  But knowing that 33% got deferred doesn’t raise my spirits.  And I’m not sure what they were looking for that they didn’t get.  Perhaps they’re testing me?  I have no idea.  But I wanted to get in, bad.  I’m hoping it’ll just restart after this.  Ugh . . . this is depressing.  Not much else to talk about.  This is about it for my day.  I texted the bad news . . . and well, I just wanted it to be over.  Just.  Over.  No more essays, no more worries.  And now I have this.  God.
JUST ACCEPT ME DUKE.

 
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