It's been a while...

It's been a while, but that doesn't mean that things haven't been movin' and shakin' over here in New England land. Last weekend was parent's weekend and my parents came up and visited for a day and a half and I got to eat off campus. There was a musical performance Saturday with the Wellesley-Brandeis Orchestra, Glee Club, Choir, Chamber Singers and various ensembles that were all really good. That was the afternoon. Then my parents and I went to Back Bay (and we took the car! Man, it's been a while since I've been in a car) and walked around and now I pretend I can find things in that area. If anyone one wants to come visit me and go shopping, that's were all the stores are. Just don't expect to be able to afford anything. For dinner we went to Legal Seafoods and I came back smelling very fishy. Bleck.
Sunday we went for breakfast in the ville (yay for not eating on campus again!) and then checked out the train station. I've been past it several times but I had no idea what it was until my dad was like, "this is the train station." In my defense, it's behind a parking lot, and it's right by the post office and a bunch of stores, so I just kinda assumed the train didn't stop there. Then we had characteristic family time: we went into Wellesley Booksmith and wandered around by ourselves, sampling books like fine wines and expensive chocolates, lost in rapture. Or something like that.

In different but exciting news I made the fencing team and I'll be competing in our first tournament this Saturday. It doesn't count for anything, which is good, because I'm going to do really badly.

I feel obligated to mention that my campus is beautiful. The leaves are all turning orange and red and yellow and falling and being picturesque. The flowers and the cattails by Paramecium Pond are dying and look kind of ugly, but when you step back and look at the still-green lily pads floating in the water, and the weeping willow with yellowing leaves contrasting with the dead, brown of the cattails, it actually looks really pretty.

Anyway. I know there was something I was going to say, but I can't remember it anymore....hm. Well, for anyone who was wondering my lab report is 10 pages long. And it's probably not long enough or inclusive enough, but I've worked really hard on it, so I'm sad that I'm probably going to do badly. It's just too much material, and we did the experiments a month ago and I know none of these are good excuses. But I would just like to say that my Islam paper wasn't even 10 pages, so.....it's ironic or something. I dunno. I'm too tired to be intelligent.