Lavender Chocolate

Sogroutes. licorice. Hardscrabble. Smog.

Rosette has a car. Which means we can go places.

It's a four-seater with two doors but of course that doesn't stop us.

First: Sogroutes (I thought it was spelled Socrates). We were going to the garlic festival there but it had a 10$ entrance so that didn't happen. So we walked around, looked at the thrift stores and candy shop (I got some licorice, because I've only eaten it once before, a long time ago. others got raspberry chocolate and lavender chocolate, chocolate covered orange peal...) and feta spinach croissant and almost got a cute tie. but didn't, I'm not sure I'm a tie-wearing person yet (i would like to be ^_^)

2nd: Hardscrabble Fair, in Redhook. We only caught the tail end, got some food at a GiGi's van (mm...fries boiled with sage and rosemary)

3rd: Hannaford. bread and all that jazz.

 and later we went to smog. everyone else left after a minute-there were Bard bands playing and the first one was okay but then the one after that was...well, just the singer with a guitar and the rest of his band couldn't make it. listing to music and watching very drunk people dance and stand around and sway. got a very sweaty hug and "are you drunk" "no" "why not?"
(really though, two nights in a row is too much. that's what happened last weekend and nobody felt like doing that again. granted the night before I ended up finishing my book for adult psych "the boy who couldn't stop washing" while everyone else was being silly and loud)

 work....two short papers this week, three exams next week. early midterms combined with classes that have three tests in a semester.

Dancing Ninja

on shrooms and with blue ring pop all over his face, climbing up the window. 

"I'm a fucking ninja! I'm like superglue"

and then

"Just because I'm white and smoke a lot of weed doesn't mean I can't be a ninja"

that's from last year. Saw him at smog the night before last dancing on by the dj's. Idk what was going on but between each song there was a break. People yelled "woooo!" and stood around waiting for the music to start again. Everyone hooking up around us (straight girls with straight girls, gay guys with girls...)

but yeah, the guy who got expelled last year is back, I saw him on the first day here. 

1: with Margaret Joe and Rossette at the Burrito stand.

2: me.

3: an orange.

all I remember of last nights dream was that I was on a giant playground.  Huge plastic structures that shot up into the air and stretched out into the wood-chip covered distance, little children running about under the watchful eyes of parents. Also I was looking for a job.

in translation

the last 7 words I looked up:

флигелей wings
тылу rear
гемикрания hemicrania
хитон chiton
кентурион centurion
палицы maces
ворковали cooed

I got a weird ego-boost when I realized that most of the words I was looking up from Master and Margarita were words I didn't know in English either, or that I am certain are not basic words in Russian (i.e. the normal word for wings is крылья, not флигеля, which I'm quite certain is the word for architectural wings, not the kind that are used for flying)

so I'm getting double use of learning words in two languages (some medical or war-related)

my ears arn't hearing properly

lots of dubstep, and the crowd was the biggest one I've seen here. booty banger xii.

what else...went to the burrito stand and the waterfall earlier today, after my photo class (three hours long)

but yeah, the music was loud enough that i could feel the bass and my ears can't hear properly right now.

Back at Bard

So first there was the hurricane, and then it turned out that there was no wifi in the dorm and I hadn't brought an ethernet cord, and so a week has passed by.
The lighting in our new room is really shitty, so we got a lamp and light-bulbs, and the tile floors get dirty easily, so we got a swifter and a carpet. good bye money. don't get me started on textbooks, especially ones that say they came out in 2012.

Actually, the hurricane wasn't too terrible here. One of the buildings got a bit damaged, but the campus if fine otherwise. Some of the surrounding towns, on the other hand, are passing out water and other basic supplies. And Adrienne's town in Vermont looks in pretty terrible shape by the photos-like the bridge that her parents usually use to get to work was over run by water and broken at one side.

It's Yosef's birthday today. I wish I could at least give him a hug, but I did get him a present. <3

anyway, off to the info-session for camps drivers of various types. I didn't get a library sorting job because my schedule didn't work.