Hello blog, and happy Monday!
In the interest of full transparency, I think it’s important that I let you know I’m actually writing this post Sunday evening. I have a lot of assignments due at the front end of this week, and I’m really trying to stay on top of things by getting a couple of my usual Monday tasks out of the way early.
Last week, I was freed from quarantine early Tuesday morning before my Ghost Stories class and proceeded to have a bit of a surreal week. I think I was still a bit on spring break mode, so I didn’t get nearly as much sleep as I should have; I spent a lot of nights staying up much later than I should have talking with friends, but I don’t regret any of it.
On Thursday night, my friend Anastasija and I had dinner at Lulu and caught up on everything we had missed from each other’s spring breaks. We finished eating around six and it was so nice outside and the sun was still up, so we decided to go into the Ville for brownie sundaes at JP Licks. I had never been to JP Licks before- Truly’s is the cheaper ice cream place, so my friends and I always walk over there- but my grandparents gave me a gift card when they visited this fall and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to use it. I definitely understand what other Wellesley students mean when they say that JP Licks is overpriced- it ended up costing us $25 for our two sundaes- but it was exactly what I needed that night and I think it was 100% worth it.
I held my March floor program on Friday night- April Fool’s Day!- and we made paper bag puppets and listened to songs from the Muppet movies. The original plan was sock puppets, but it turns out most of us did not have spare ankle socks, so we had to get a little creative. My paper bag puppet was a very ambitious design that did not see full realization by the ten o’clock end of the program; he ended up finding a new home in the living room trash can. Still, I had a lot of fun trying to make him, and I’ll never forget the memories we shared together.
I took it pretty easy for most of this weekend, but my friend Emma did a 24 Hour Play Festival over at Olin, the engineering school next door, so Anastasija and I went over on Saturday night to watch the performances. Emma actually wrote one of the plays with my friend Emily, and it was easily the funniest one. It was called “Mango” and it involved a train, a snack cart, and a very tragic throw. If the Oscar committee had been there, it would have won an Academy Award.
For my Environmental Horticulture class, today was my day to water the plants in the greenhouses, so after lunch I brought Emma with me and gave her a tour of my plant bench. My corn is probably the plant I’m proudest of, and my dad says if it’s still alive by the time we leave campus this May I can bring it with me back to Iowa, so that’s really exciting! The header image is a picture I took of my plants during lab last Wednesday; my corn is getting close to two feet tall, and the sunflowers are already past that benchmark!
Tomorrow, I have a five hundred word essay due for my French class. On Wednesday, I have a six page essay due for my Education Studies class. It feels like I haven’t ever had just one paper due this semester; they’ve always come in groups. Thankfully, that means that as soon as I’m done with these I’ll be good until early May, when my next English paper is due. This semester keeps passing by quicker and quicker; I’m trying to find more time to stop and smell the roses and remember everything before it flies by!
Sending you joy,
Andrew