Saturday, April 14, 2007
weekend, etc.
I'm going to a concert in St. Louis tonight at a venue called "The Pageant". The band is The Decemberists, one of my favorites, so I'm very excited about it. I'm going with 4 other people from Prin who all like the band as well. It says "no cameras" on the tickets...we'll see about that. We're going to have dinner in the city too, so extra fun right there. The best part is I have to get up at 5:00 AM tomorrow to go on a field trip for my Bio-Block classes. We're driving to the southern tip of Illinois, where the Cache River meets the Ohio River. It's a rare combination of ecosystems, where 5 different physiogeographic regions meet. We're going canoeing in a swamp, meeting with an ornithologist to talk about warblers he studies that migrate to this park area in the summer and down to Venezuela in the winter. We're camping out Sunday night too, cooking our own food and sleeping in tents. Should be lots of fun. I'm loving my major and bio block a whole lot. The classes are super interesting, the teachers are really fun and engaging, and also very available outside of class, a new feature compared to U of Illinois. I've become very interested with the idea of pursuing post-undergraduate education, possibly jumping immediately into Ph.D. work after I graduate from Prin. We'll see!
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Spring time is definitely here
I'm back at Principia as of yesterday evening. I was in Iowa for one week then Chicago for the second week. Not a whole bunch happened, which is ok. Saw family and a couple friends, so it was nice. Classes begin anew tomorrow. All of them are for my major, and are organized together in what is called Bio Block. I'm excited about it.
The weather here is almost oppressive, yet it is still March. Humid too. I'm also in a new room in Lowrey and a new roommate. I'm currently waiting to be called for a phone interview, though the caller is an hour late in calling, and I have dinner to eat and a basketball game to watch downstairs...nervous feelings growing.
I'll be diving into more details later on, thanks for reading.
WGM IV
The weather here is almost oppressive, yet it is still March. Humid too. I'm also in a new room in Lowrey and a new roommate. I'm currently waiting to be called for a phone interview, though the caller is an hour late in calling, and I have dinner to eat and a basketball game to watch downstairs...nervous feelings growing.
I'll be diving into more details later on, thanks for reading.
WGM IV
Monday, March 5, 2007
Everything is Illuminated
Phooey to not posting for a month. And apologies to you all. I'm honestly not sure where to begin for what has happened in the last month, so here goes.
Every weekend for the last five or six months I've been playing Intramural basketball on campus. Each house has a team, though Lowrey has two because we can always generate more participation. It was a lot of fun, and it felt good to be exercising so hard. My team was mostly just six guys every week, but we won a good number of our games. Unfortunately, for me, we just had the playoffs yesterday. I was not able to participate because I was in Madison, Wisconsin for the Midwest Student Clean Energy Conference. It was worth missing for going to Wisconsin, but we UNexpectedly won the championship game in OVERTIME, and I didn't get to be there.
The Clean Energy Conference was pretty fun itself. I left on Friday to go with two other Prin students. Ironically, the school would not give us a car or van to take, so we had to rent one of their pick-up trucks. Oh well. The drive is about 6 hours each way with no delays, but there was heavy snow on Friday, so we were delayed about an hour. There were several very good keynote speakers. One woman from Ohio who lives on the border with West Virginia was very powerful, making many people cry. On the West Virginia side of the border where she lives, there are several coal-fired power plants that are causing all kinds of problems in her small town. They are fighting against them as well as mountain-top removal practices. Learn more here. I also participated in a workshop about coalition building for a campaign on one's campus or in the community and how to get groups to sign on to your campaign. Several smaller things too, but these were the highlights for me. Unfortunately, there was one other key event that going to Wisconsin forced me to miss.
He's a world-famous author and biographer. His voice is instantly recognizable, used for several PBS shows, including American Experience. He has won the Pulitzer twice. His name, of course, is David McCullough and he spoke at Principia on Friday night, March 2nd, and one William Moller was not in town to watch. Very disappointing. Someone said they video recorded the talk, so I'll be looking out for that. Still, would have been fun to see him talk and possibly meet him and get a book signed, which he supposedly did.
One additional thing about going to Wisconsin. It was my birthday yesterday, the day of our return trip which took about 7 hours. This is the second year in a row that my birthday was celebrated mostly in Madison, Wisconsin, of all places. On the drive back to school, we stopped at Cracker Barrel to celebrate. It was quite a bit of fun really, and they surprised me with a cake. One of the girls in the group is vegan, so it was an interesting meal to eat. Being 22 is fantastic and I'm glad to be part of its wonderful organization.
Classes have been going very well me all quarter. My American Biography class has been surprisingly interesting, and I'm doing very well in the class. I've gotten A's on all my papers, my graded discussions and quizzes have been surprisingly well too, and the teacher is really interesting and it's just a fun class. 6 students total in the class. My two environmental classes have been good too. I've gotten at least a perfect score on every quiz in my Global Environmental Issues class, and the teacher is pretty interesting still, though the majority of students are not interesting in being engaged in the class, with a few exceptions. I had to give a couple presentations in that class, one about pineapple fruit and the environmental, economic, and social contexts of the fruit, where it's grown, and onward. The other presentation was about hydro-electricity with similar contexts to talk about. Turns out I'm not a fan of hydro-power as a source of electricity.
There is still a lot of talk about Stuart Jenkins, George Moffett, and everything in between on campus, and it's really just getting ridiculous. There is a lot of negativity about all of it, and it's really a turn off for me and I would think reflects pretty poorly on the campus in general to the outside world. People are nominated for temporary fill-in positions, people go up-in-arms about the nomination, the nominee resigns, and repeat. No more shall be spoken on this subject.
I've had a new roommate for the last 4 weeks or so, can't remember how long exactly. He's from the Toronto area in Canada. He's pretty fun most of the time, and has a lot of good thoughts and ideas about life, christian science, and everything in between. He's a theatre major and has his capstone project performance tonight. Every major on campus does a capstone, usually your senior year, that is a culmination of your years in the major. Some majors require a 50-page paper, others, like theatre, have you write a 10-page paper then direct a one-act play that is about 30 minutes long.
I'm running low on things to write about. Next quarter, I'm in what's called "bio block" which means the three classes I'm taking are all designed to work together within my major, which I officially declared as Environmental Studies a couple weeks ago. The classes are Botany, Ecology, and Research and Writing Methods. At one point in the quarter, we go to Smokey Mountains National Park for a whole week of camping. Very exciting. We also go canoeing at some point in Shawnee National Forest, which is in southern Illinois.
School ends for spring break after this week, so I have finals this Friday and Saturday. Classes end tomorrow for me. I have to write two papers this week too. I'll be going to Iowa for my first week of break, then to the Chicago area, then back to school.
Well, that's all I got for now. No pictures to put up really, mostly because I forget to take pictures as often as I would like to...and I'm not a fan of my camera that much. Have a good month of March, though I do plan to be back on here well before the month ends. Thanks to all for your posts and hounding of me to post again. Love to you all.
WGM IV
Every weekend for the last five or six months I've been playing Intramural basketball on campus. Each house has a team, though Lowrey has two because we can always generate more participation. It was a lot of fun, and it felt good to be exercising so hard. My team was mostly just six guys every week, but we won a good number of our games. Unfortunately, for me, we just had the playoffs yesterday. I was not able to participate because I was in Madison, Wisconsin for the Midwest Student Clean Energy Conference. It was worth missing for going to Wisconsin, but we UNexpectedly won the championship game in OVERTIME, and I didn't get to be there.
The Clean Energy Conference was pretty fun itself. I left on Friday to go with two other Prin students. Ironically, the school would not give us a car or van to take, so we had to rent one of their pick-up trucks. Oh well. The drive is about 6 hours each way with no delays, but there was heavy snow on Friday, so we were delayed about an hour. There were several very good keynote speakers. One woman from Ohio who lives on the border with West Virginia was very powerful, making many people cry. On the West Virginia side of the border where she lives, there are several coal-fired power plants that are causing all kinds of problems in her small town. They are fighting against them as well as mountain-top removal practices. Learn more here. I also participated in a workshop about coalition building for a campaign on one's campus or in the community and how to get groups to sign on to your campaign. Several smaller things too, but these were the highlights for me. Unfortunately, there was one other key event that going to Wisconsin forced me to miss.
He's a world-famous author and biographer. His voice is instantly recognizable, used for several PBS shows, including American Experience. He has won the Pulitzer twice. His name, of course, is David McCullough and he spoke at Principia on Friday night, March 2nd, and one William Moller was not in town to watch. Very disappointing. Someone said they video recorded the talk, so I'll be looking out for that. Still, would have been fun to see him talk and possibly meet him and get a book signed, which he supposedly did.
One additional thing about going to Wisconsin. It was my birthday yesterday, the day of our return trip which took about 7 hours. This is the second year in a row that my birthday was celebrated mostly in Madison, Wisconsin, of all places. On the drive back to school, we stopped at Cracker Barrel to celebrate. It was quite a bit of fun really, and they surprised me with a cake. One of the girls in the group is vegan, so it was an interesting meal to eat. Being 22 is fantastic and I'm glad to be part of its wonderful organization.
Classes have been going very well me all quarter. My American Biography class has been surprisingly interesting, and I'm doing very well in the class. I've gotten A's on all my papers, my graded discussions and quizzes have been surprisingly well too, and the teacher is really interesting and it's just a fun class. 6 students total in the class. My two environmental classes have been good too. I've gotten at least a perfect score on every quiz in my Global Environmental Issues class, and the teacher is pretty interesting still, though the majority of students are not interesting in being engaged in the class, with a few exceptions. I had to give a couple presentations in that class, one about pineapple fruit and the environmental, economic, and social contexts of the fruit, where it's grown, and onward. The other presentation was about hydro-electricity with similar contexts to talk about. Turns out I'm not a fan of hydro-power as a source of electricity.
There is still a lot of talk about Stuart Jenkins, George Moffett, and everything in between on campus, and it's really just getting ridiculous. There is a lot of negativity about all of it, and it's really a turn off for me and I would think reflects pretty poorly on the campus in general to the outside world. People are nominated for temporary fill-in positions, people go up-in-arms about the nomination, the nominee resigns, and repeat. No more shall be spoken on this subject.
I've had a new roommate for the last 4 weeks or so, can't remember how long exactly. He's from the Toronto area in Canada. He's pretty fun most of the time, and has a lot of good thoughts and ideas about life, christian science, and everything in between. He's a theatre major and has his capstone project performance tonight. Every major on campus does a capstone, usually your senior year, that is a culmination of your years in the major. Some majors require a 50-page paper, others, like theatre, have you write a 10-page paper then direct a one-act play that is about 30 minutes long.
I'm running low on things to write about. Next quarter, I'm in what's called "bio block" which means the three classes I'm taking are all designed to work together within my major, which I officially declared as Environmental Studies a couple weeks ago. The classes are Botany, Ecology, and Research and Writing Methods. At one point in the quarter, we go to Smokey Mountains National Park for a whole week of camping. Very exciting. We also go canoeing at some point in Shawnee National Forest, which is in southern Illinois.
School ends for spring break after this week, so I have finals this Friday and Saturday. Classes end tomorrow for me. I have to write two papers this week too. I'll be going to Iowa for my first week of break, then to the Chicago area, then back to school.
Well, that's all I got for now. No pictures to put up really, mostly because I forget to take pictures as often as I would like to...and I'm not a fan of my camera that much. Have a good month of March, though I do plan to be back on here well before the month ends. Thanks to all for your posts and hounding of me to post again. Love to you all.
WGM IV
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Realization is better than Anticipation
Sorry for the delay. I have had a few opportunities to write on here, but to be honest, I'm not entirely motivated to write stuff. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but as far as I can tell, the number of people who read this are counted on one hand, and I talk to a few of those relatively consistently. Nontheless, I don't suppose that's a legitimate reason for not writing a bit more frequently. So, in conclusion, give me some fodder in the form of responses to my posts to motivate further entries.
Now then, stuff that's going on. There has been a big flap on campus about the CEO's pay increase of 47% from last year. I'm not well informed on the issue, I'm not familiar with the context, and it doesn't really interest me anyway, but it sure is causing quite a stir on campus. There will be meetings and such open to students and faculty in the coming days, with rumors going about of resignations and so forth. It all seems a bit ridiculous to me, since the CEO requested his pay be returned to the previous level (once the information became a hot topic of course). But anyway, you all in the Christian Science community may be hearing things.
Personally, I've been working pretty hard in school, writing papers, lots of reading, researching for a couple presentations I have, and being pretty busy socially too. I'm doing well so far academically, but there is still a ways to go before the end. It is currently 5th week in the quarter (10th being the last week in the quarter), so it's crunch time right now. I'm reading a biography about Mary Baker Eddy written by Sibyl Wilbur. Briefly, I don't find the book very good as a book. Yes, the information within the book is itself interesting, but it is presented with a style of writting that just doesn't work for anything but the time period it was written in (published in 1907). The book was basically commissioned to be a response to the biography written by Georgine Milmine, a book that casts MBE rather negatively. The church asked Wilbur to write this book, and it definitely carries a positive bias towards MBE. Alas, everything is biased it seems.
We watched most of An Inconvenient Truth in class yesterday. 'Twas my first time watching it, and it was pretty strong I think. Yes, it too carries a bias, and one that I agree with, and he does indeed have a lot of fantastic information supporting his point, always from credible sources. However, I have to admit there are a few points where additional referencing or context would have either made his point stronger OR presented something not supporting him that would still at least give Gore more credibility in that it would not show him to be as biased as he obviously is. Hooray for long-winded sentences! I also have to write a paper and give a presentation in that class about pineapples: ecological/economic/social context, and facts about it like how it's grown, where it's native, etc.
This past Sunday I played in my 2nd Intramural basketball game. So, I live in Lowrey, we're the only house on campus that has TWO basketball teams, thus I can accurately say we played ourselves on Sunday. Team 1 v. Team 2. I'm on team 1. Team 1 won. It was a lot of fun really, we just played randomly a lot, not really calling fouls too much, taking ridiculous shots a lot, and Team 1 played at a man disadvantage of 6 to 8. 14 guys on the court at once sure makes it interesting. Lots of fun though. I scored a bunch, but we weren't really keeping track.
Saturday night I went to "Jo Down." It's hosted by Jo McNabb house in a barn building down in Elsah, and it's just several hours of fun dancing (mostly line dancing), free food/drinks from an establishment in Alton, and free bandanas for everyone! Of course, I had to dress as a cowboy. I had a black hat, plaid shirt, jeans, and I wore the FREE bandana in the manner of a cowboy bandit (covering the face). It was a lot of fun, there are pictures of me, but I didn't take them so I don't have them yet.
Oh yes! Last...Tuesday I believe...I went on an all-day field trip to the St. Louis Zoo for my Wildlife Conservation class. A rather appropriate venue for such a topic. We did have some work to do while we were there, but we finished it early and just enjoyed seeing everything there. It was sad to see many of the animals, spending their lives in glass enclosures. Some of them were almost certainly not there mentally. It had snowed days before we went, and you could tell the tiger had walked probably hundreds of times since the snow in the same pattern, with some change in the pattern once in a while too. The zoo does work hard to keep the animals engaged, to be sure. One of the easiest ways for the zoo to do this is to make the act of getting food a very time consuming process. They also interact with the animals too, knowing zoo animals will NEVER themselves be realeased into the wild (thus it's not too much of a big deal if they lose their fear of humans). I did take pictures, but most turned out pretty bad. Here's a few of the better ones:
Now then, stuff that's going on. There has been a big flap on campus about the CEO's pay increase of 47% from last year. I'm not well informed on the issue, I'm not familiar with the context, and it doesn't really interest me anyway, but it sure is causing quite a stir on campus. There will be meetings and such open to students and faculty in the coming days, with rumors going about of resignations and so forth. It all seems a bit ridiculous to me, since the CEO requested his pay be returned to the previous level (once the information became a hot topic of course). But anyway, you all in the Christian Science community may be hearing things.
Personally, I've been working pretty hard in school, writing papers, lots of reading, researching for a couple presentations I have, and being pretty busy socially too. I'm doing well so far academically, but there is still a ways to go before the end. It is currently 5th week in the quarter (10th being the last week in the quarter), so it's crunch time right now. I'm reading a biography about Mary Baker Eddy written by Sibyl Wilbur. Briefly, I don't find the book very good as a book. Yes, the information within the book is itself interesting, but it is presented with a style of writting that just doesn't work for anything but the time period it was written in (published in 1907). The book was basically commissioned to be a response to the biography written by Georgine Milmine, a book that casts MBE rather negatively. The church asked Wilbur to write this book, and it definitely carries a positive bias towards MBE. Alas, everything is biased it seems.
We watched most of An Inconvenient Truth in class yesterday. 'Twas my first time watching it, and it was pretty strong I think. Yes, it too carries a bias, and one that I agree with, and he does indeed have a lot of fantastic information supporting his point, always from credible sources. However, I have to admit there are a few points where additional referencing or context would have either made his point stronger OR presented something not supporting him that would still at least give Gore more credibility in that it would not show him to be as biased as he obviously is. Hooray for long-winded sentences! I also have to write a paper and give a presentation in that class about pineapples: ecological/economic/social context, and facts about it like how it's grown, where it's native, etc.
This past Sunday I played in my 2nd Intramural basketball game. So, I live in Lowrey, we're the only house on campus that has TWO basketball teams, thus I can accurately say we played ourselves on Sunday. Team 1 v. Team 2. I'm on team 1. Team 1 won. It was a lot of fun really, we just played randomly a lot, not really calling fouls too much, taking ridiculous shots a lot, and Team 1 played at a man disadvantage of 6 to 8. 14 guys on the court at once sure makes it interesting. Lots of fun though. I scored a bunch, but we weren't really keeping track.
Saturday night I went to "Jo Down." It's hosted by Jo McNabb house in a barn building down in Elsah, and it's just several hours of fun dancing (mostly line dancing), free food/drinks from an establishment in Alton, and free bandanas for everyone! Of course, I had to dress as a cowboy. I had a black hat, plaid shirt, jeans, and I wore the FREE bandana in the manner of a cowboy bandit (covering the face). It was a lot of fun, there are pictures of me, but I didn't take them so I don't have them yet.
Oh yes! Last...Tuesday I believe...I went on an all-day field trip to the St. Louis Zoo for my Wildlife Conservation class. A rather appropriate venue for such a topic. We did have some work to do while we were there, but we finished it early and just enjoyed seeing everything there. It was sad to see many of the animals, spending their lives in glass enclosures. Some of them were almost certainly not there mentally. It had snowed days before we went, and you could tell the tiger had walked probably hundreds of times since the snow in the same pattern, with some change in the pattern once in a while too. The zoo does work hard to keep the animals engaged, to be sure. One of the easiest ways for the zoo to do this is to make the act of getting food a very time consuming process. They also interact with the animals too, knowing zoo animals will NEVER themselves be realeased into the wild (thus it's not too much of a big deal if they lose their fear of humans). I did take pictures, but most turned out pretty bad. Here's a few of the better ones:
Saturday, January 20, 2007
This past week
Wowee, quite a busy week I had. Sorry for growing the anxiety of waiting to a fever pitch.
So I went to church on Sunday as usual. The service was nice, as always. Then the fun began. I think it was the Bears who played that night against the Seattle Seahawks. There were over a dozen of us watching in the RC's living room, with favoritism split pretty much down the middle. It was very exciting, with the Bears pulling it out in OVERTIME...with a 50-yard field goal, the longest of the kicker's career. A very exciting way to determine the fate of men who get paid millions to play a game.
Later that evening I went to my first hymn sing. That was really fun. We go to the Chapel and just sing hymns by request for half an hour. If you sit upstairs, it's a great view of the organist in action, pulling levers, pushing pedals, and playing two sets of keys at once. So that was a neat day.
On Monday I had a geography quiz on all of South America. We do a different region every week until we have done all of Earth. So I had to know the names of countries, their capitols, 4 main rivers, a few lakes, geologic featurse (Andes Mountains, Drake Passage, Tierra del Fuego, etc), as well as population levels in each country and each country's ecologic footprint. It's some number that represents the physical impact per capita on the environment, taking into effect consumption levels, cars, home sizes, and lots of other things. To measure YOUR footprint, click here. Mine's 18.
I finished a book for class titled Sickles the Incredible. I had a paper, graded discussion, and test on it all on Thursday. So that was a nice afternoon once I finished all of that. We are now starting a book about Mary Baker Eddy written by Sibyl Wilbur. It was published just about 100 years ago.
Friday (last night) I had class, work, then I watched Finding Forrester, went cosmic bowling for free (thank you Principia), then watched the Matrix. Quite a night. I slept in today and I have homework to do, then work from 6-730 in the dish room. Then the grand finale: Lowrey House Initiation. I have no idea what will happen. I've only been given these simple directions:
"Bedtime is 10:36, and DON'T ANSWER YOUR PHONE!"
So I went to church on Sunday as usual. The service was nice, as always. Then the fun began. I think it was the Bears who played that night against the Seattle Seahawks. There were over a dozen of us watching in the RC's living room, with favoritism split pretty much down the middle. It was very exciting, with the Bears pulling it out in OVERTIME...with a 50-yard field goal, the longest of the kicker's career. A very exciting way to determine the fate of men who get paid millions to play a game.
Later that evening I went to my first hymn sing. That was really fun. We go to the Chapel and just sing hymns by request for half an hour. If you sit upstairs, it's a great view of the organist in action, pulling levers, pushing pedals, and playing two sets of keys at once. So that was a neat day.
On Monday I had a geography quiz on all of South America. We do a different region every week until we have done all of Earth. So I had to know the names of countries, their capitols, 4 main rivers, a few lakes, geologic featurse (Andes Mountains, Drake Passage, Tierra del Fuego, etc), as well as population levels in each country and each country's ecologic footprint. It's some number that represents the physical impact per capita on the environment, taking into effect consumption levels, cars, home sizes, and lots of other things. To measure YOUR footprint, click here. Mine's 18.
I finished a book for class titled Sickles the Incredible. I had a paper, graded discussion, and test on it all on Thursday. So that was a nice afternoon once I finished all of that. We are now starting a book about Mary Baker Eddy written by Sibyl Wilbur. It was published just about 100 years ago.
Friday (last night) I had class, work, then I watched Finding Forrester, went cosmic bowling for free (thank you Principia), then watched the Matrix. Quite a night. I slept in today and I have homework to do, then work from 6-730 in the dish room. Then the grand finale: Lowrey House Initiation. I have no idea what will happen. I've only been given these simple directions:
"Bedtime is 10:36, and DON'T ANSWER YOUR PHONE!"
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Oh yeeeaaah!
The last few days have been pretty crazy busy for me. I suppose that will be the norm, so updates may not be as frequent as I would like. Sorry. But anywho...
Well, on Sunday I went to my first church service in the Chapel. It was really neat. Lowrey generally sits as a group near the front. The readers are always students. The organ is quite magnificent, and authentic...no pics of that...yet. Otherwise, it was like a normal church service (though I suspect the average age is tilted slightly lower than usual). I had a boatload of homework every night since then, tonight being no exception. The classes are good, and THIS saturday is actually when I'm doing the Eagle Count somewhere about 25 minutes from campus.
I also went to CSO's Tuesday testimony (in lieu of a Wednesday service) which is from 10-11 AM in the Chapel. That was really fun too. Students and teachers alike participate in it, and a fella in my house runs the service.
All this week, whenever I find time, I have been walking around my house with my basketball and a Sharpie marker...perhaps you see what is coming, in part. All new students in the house have to find an "artifact" of theirs that carries some personal significane and go around the house and have every single person in the house sign their "house name" on it. I will eventually be told what my house name is, though apparently not until next week. It will be something ridiculous, as everyone else's.
Today was my first day of working at Principia. 3 days a week I work in the Pub, plus every other weekend. I also work Saturdays in the dish room and Sundays as the Grill Call. In total, my schedule is only 6 hours per week...I guess it'll add up...eventually. Salary = $6.50/hour. I have bunches of reading and writing tonight, and there is a house meeting later tonight. Bye byeeeee
Well, on Sunday I went to my first church service in the Chapel. It was really neat. Lowrey generally sits as a group near the front. The readers are always students. The organ is quite magnificent, and authentic...no pics of that...yet. Otherwise, it was like a normal church service (though I suspect the average age is tilted slightly lower than usual). I had a boatload of homework every night since then, tonight being no exception. The classes are good, and THIS saturday is actually when I'm doing the Eagle Count somewhere about 25 minutes from campus.
I also went to CSO's Tuesday testimony (in lieu of a Wednesday service) which is from 10-11 AM in the Chapel. That was really fun too. Students and teachers alike participate in it, and a fella in my house runs the service.
All this week, whenever I find time, I have been walking around my house with my basketball and a Sharpie marker...perhaps you see what is coming, in part. All new students in the house have to find an "artifact" of theirs that carries some personal significane and go around the house and have every single person in the house sign their "house name" on it. I will eventually be told what my house name is, though apparently not until next week. It will be something ridiculous, as everyone else's.
Today was my first day of working at Principia. 3 days a week I work in the Pub, plus every other weekend. I also work Saturdays in the dish room and Sundays as the Grill Call. In total, my schedule is only 6 hours per week...I guess it'll add up...eventually. Salary = $6.50/hour. I have bunches of reading and writing tonight, and there is a house meeting later tonight. Bye byeeeee
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