Life

So I have a life. Of sorts. This is how it is.

I am at home. So far, I haven't done anything particularly riveting. Mild productivity is about all I'm good for these days. Lots of cleaning and cooking and driving people places. Things like that.

I am planning on making some money this summer. I heard from the place I applied to a couple of days ago, and they're giving me a job. Which is exciting, although I'm not exactly going to be making pots of money. Oh well, it will be really awesome. I'm a program aid, so basically I get to hang out with disabled people who work at the ARC (that's where my brother works) all day. It will be sweet. I had to get tested for drugs, tuberculosis, and fingerprinted, all of which made me feel thoroughly criminal. I should be starting there next week.

I'm also going to be taking some violin students for the summer. Our friends the Woods (of Celtic Spring fame) have several students, and since they are going to be gone for most of the summer, I'll be taking their students. I'm looking forward to it.

Deirdre and I are also in a musical for most of the summer- Kiss Me Kate. We're both lowly ensemble girls, but it's fun and something to do. (I got in at the very last minute. I didn't even really audition...) We've been rehearsing for about three weeks, and it opens June 22. I feel wildly unprepared, since I'm used to having large roles, and it feels like we've done almost nothing. We have actually learned all our music, and have staged a lot of it, and have learned our big dance number, so I guess it will come together. It is rather terrifying though!

Besides that, not much has been happening. I actually miss school already, and I miss both my friends there and all you up North. By the way, everyone is more than welcome to come and visit. I don't know if I'll make it up to Washington this summer, since Kiss Me Kate runs through July 21, which means there is no visiting before that ends. And we'll see about afterwards, how jobs and things are going. I hope I can come up and see you all. (By the way, I officially curse all you quarter system people who are not out of school yet. The past couple of weeks would have been ideal to come up and visit!)

Oh yes, and finals all went well. I'm exceedingly glad that they are over with- I decided after our first final that I don't like them. It took me 5 before I decided that. My seminar final was really fun though, although I was horribly nervous for it. Oh, and for our Fabre project (for Freshman lab, everyone has to do an experiment on an animal or plant. You ask a question about it, hypothesize the answer, and then do experiments to determine whether you were right) we (my friend Jacob and I) caught a lizard, asked in what way the temperature of the lizard affected its reactions, hypothesized that hot temperatures would not change its normal reactions, and that cold temperatures would slow them down and eventually cause them to cease altogether. We were right. Fans, small refrigerators and space heaters are very handy for determining this!

Everybody had better behave themselves. You're all in my prayers (probably), and I hope I see you all before too much longer.

Love,
Bing

Let's Hear It!

Dear Public,
It's been a year since we last had a poetry contest/rhyme-off. I think it would be appropriate to have the second annual Poetry Showetry! Yay! This year's theme:
This artistic advertisement for the Morris Panych play The Dishwashers. You could write a poem, a few lines of dialog that you think would be in a play with this title (rhyming or not), or anything else that comes to mind, like the ever-popular haiku. Enjoy!