Morning Glory

When I came back to Bard I felt a bit misplaced. It’s a familiar feeling though.
I went to Will’s moderation show, for music: drumming'. He passed! He dropped a drum stick and suavely picked up another one without missing a beat. It was a variety of jazzy music.
I had a chamber singing concert, Beethoven Mass in C; it was on a Wednesday, but people still came. 

'when I entered the building some guy said hello to me in a way that I didn't expect on campus, nor knew what to do with

One day I started out eating dinner alone (peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, it was a bad day for kline) and accidentally (and awkwardly) ended up at the “Russian table”. Some good things out of it;

1) I watched Mercury Rising with a girl who took Russian 300 this semester. We had an assignment for our child abnormal class to analyze a character by the DSM. We have quite a few mutual friends, so it's funny that this is how we met.

2) This guy I don’t know but who’s funny says hi to me now (he’s from the Czech Republic, he wasn’t at the table, but he was Andres’s roommate last year). Sometimes greetings can be nice.

3) I get e-mails about Russian/Russia related stuff form the Russian professor Oleg Minin. For example I went to a talk called “Social Vulnerability and the Psychologist in Russia's Vice of Modernization” before the Beethoven concert. Despite the topic, it wasn’t a very good talk, but maybe at one point there will be a good one.

Friday is when it felt that finals had started.

A semester of watching the Smolny (St. Petersburg) exchange students from afar led to nothing, and I became sharply aware of this fact that morning. I wandered past Stargon for a break, my thoughts were flickering a bit. I think that area is usually a bog, but the ground had frozen enough to walk on it. Later, when I left the library for dinner, I met Mark while he was tripping on LSA.

“everything is new, everything is a decision” I’m not entirely sure as to how the mechanisms behind LSA differ from LSD, though I do know there’s a natural source for it: Morning Glory seeds.

(sorry to those of you who expected sexual content?)

Finals is when everything seems to happen. Maybe it's the urgency of time running out, or maybe it's because all the social events happen then, or perhaps because everyone is working so hard, and so everyone is functioning on 'high', pushing themselves in every way. But it always happens.

this was fun

Last Thursday I took out my braids, and Britt dressed me up as if it were the 90's, crimped hair and plaid, and we watched Clueless. Then at some point later in the week  I made banana bread,

which turned out really well (I doubled the recipe and made it in a cake pan.)  

Friday Anna organized an ecoreps event where we made a really good salad. There was also a screening for a movie, but since the salad was my lunch and dinner it needed to be supplemented with something else, so I went to get more food. Here's the recipe:

Lentil Salad:

(on the recipe it said it should take 30-40min to prepare, and this is a recipe for 6 servings

Ingredients:
1 cup lentil
2 cups of water

1 cup of dry bulgur weat
2cup of boiling water

The dressing:
1/4 cup Olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 medium garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of oregano
2 tbs freshly minced mint
2 to 3 tbs freshly minced dill
fresh black pepper to taste

(Ingredients to chop
1/4 cup freshly minced parsley(packed)
1/3 cup red onion
1 small bell pepper diced
1/2 stalk celery finely minced
(half a cup crumbling feta)
1 medium sized tomato, diced
1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts

1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts
(+squeezable wedges of lemon for garnish)

cook the lentils and the bulgar, let them cool.

Chop everything else. Add all the chopped ingredients (apart from the tomatoes) to the bulgur. Add the lentils. Mix all the ingredients for the dressing together and add to the mix. Add the tomatoes.



Then Saturday we tried to track down a party (Shivalika, Clea, Britt, Tamding, Armaan and a few others). We went to smog at like, 10:30 because Shivi had a friend who was djing there, danced it up in the empty space. When we tried to go to manor around 1am the party had already broken down, and we headed back to smog (just me, Britt and Cindy, who we kidnapped from her dorm on the way) it was totally empty, just the djs-very eery. So we didn't find anything, but it was still fun.

Tuesday I had breakfast at Manor for the first time, and my shoe broke on the way to neuro so I went to nuero and research methods barefoot. Amanda and Meg kept calling me a hippie, I had a long flowy skirt and everything.
Two nights ago I went for a night photo escapade with my tripod. I've always had this frustration with night photography that the camera can't capture what you see. It goes like this: Camera! You know there's a face there! stop being so blurry!
But with a tripod it can compound all the information it is getting, and see more than a human. It's awesome.

Stargon at night

also last night when I was walking back to my dorm, I saw a couple guys go into the woods. I was really confused as to where they were trying to get to that way until I heard peeing.