Feliz
Finals are done! It’s almost suppertime! I’m going to Amy’s tomorrow! Video chat is working! It was 55 degrees today! I have 60 meals to eat before I leave tomorrow! I think I got all A’s! I sold one book … Continued
If I Ran the Library
Dear Librarian, if I were you,There’s little things that I would doTo make this place a better one, To make this place much better run. I don’t say these books are badOr that the aura makes me sad.It’s just that … Continued
Late Friday Night
This is what me and friends look like late on Friday night after drinking a lot (of apple cider) and hanging out in a steel-sided shed with paint on the floor and leak spots on the ceiling and colored lights … Continued
I should probably write something.
My brain is feeling a little hazy with lack of sleep from the huge amount of Christmas and end-of-semester activities and assignments and I have quite a bit of stuff to do before ten minutes from now so I thought … Continued
on the size of this college
This college is too small. I have to work my schedule around its schedule. This college is too big. It’s impossible to learn everyone’s name, so half the time I don’t know who people are talking about. This college is … Continued
Thanksgiving
As always (except for the time I was in Tokyo), I spent Thanksgiving in Pella, Iowa. As always, we spent the time with extended family, feasting, talking, holding a trapshoot, and playing games. What made this year unique was the … Continued
This weekend
What a college kid can accomplish in 61 hours, starting on a Friday morning: Go out for breakfast with cousins Matt and Laura. Eat yummy stuffed french toast and talk about Trinity. Go to an international teaching job fair. Ask … Continued
Once again, “Last Weekend”
Last time, I wrote about the previous weekend soon after it happened, but didn’t get around to putting it on the internet until after the next weekend, which is the weekend I would like to tell you about tonight. The … Continued
Last weekend
I spent last weekend downtown Chicago attending lectures and presentations that were a part of the Chicago Humanities festival. I got to here about the art of interviewing, teaching a culture of peace and justice, and photographing war. I heard … Continued
flying and talking
I’ve been losing my voice over the past few days. Today it was gone. I think it is on vacation in Hawaii. I think the weather from Hawaii was on vacation in Palos Heights today. We benefitted from the tourism. … Continued