founder's day & rain???

first off, the damn may day bank holiday (which was actually on may 2) has totally thrown me off, so I think that it's monday. wonderful, wonderful. has skewed my paper writing schedule a bit, but I'm trying to get back on track, as per my campaign with tolan, most appropriately named 'back on track 2005.' (that should be said with a great deal of straight edge enthusiasm, if those two parts of the phrase even go together.)

okay, so founder's day, that most beloved vassar event, my favorite day of the entire year, was on saturday. obviously I was not there. I was in the goldsmiths library writing crap about dirt and imperialism. (and crap it is.) this was my first absence at founder's day since 1999. am I bit of a f.d. junkie? perhaps? did I miss seeing/playing in the alumni rugby game(s)? fo' sho'. is my body totally off it's biological clock because I haven't spent this past saturday drunk on cider and roaming about the hill in flipflops, sunglasses, and some cute skirt? most definitely. so, with all of my heartfelt connection to founder's day, I sometimes feel like a bit of an eccentric about the whole thing. but let me tell you this, founder's day misses me too. how do I know? well, for the first time since 1999, it actually RAINED on founder's day, which is fine rugbywise but shite for anything else f.d. related. matthew vassar himself was missing my presence and the rain is testament to that. fear not matthew and fellow f.d. attendees. I will be back to poughkeepsie in the beginning of may next year. yes, it may be a bit weird to still be back there after being out for four years. but it is the 25th anniversary of women's rugby at the vass and well, sometimes you just have to represent.

on a completely work-related note, I officially have less than two weeks to think of a topic, read for it, and write for it for my politics and culture class. all this while writing my anthro & representation course essay, which is due two days after pol & cul. awesome, awesome. my media paper due friday is not so great, but I'm cutting my losses and working on these next two. a girl has to do what a girl has to do. one of my gsmiths friends is going back to the states in three weeks after the onslaught of essays and exams (due to her father's worsening condition). she said something today that really struck me. 'I feel like it took me so long to get here and now it's almost done.' god, I feel like that and I'm leaving in three months (or so). it's going to be a bit surreal when I'm actually packing up my london life and returning to an abyss of the unknown. reading cards that my chicago friends gave me at my going away party reminded me of why I should go back there. there are some good people in chicago. so why do I feel so unsure about it? oh, things that I can't think about right now. back to the stacks to search for books and pull together paper three. hope that this finds you all well. love to all.