My Clean Room

The rain stopped! Yale is beautiful again!

I also saw the sky for the first time in , like, two weeks.

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Does anybody else have a problem with meterologists on the weather channel? I never understand what they're talking about. They will vaguely mention something about an approaching "front", and behind them will be looping videos of amorphous cloud-shapes extending somewhere( if you watch carefully!) over where you live. But none of it means anything to me. Just tell me whether it's hot or cold, raining or snowing, when and how much.

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There are a lot of silly traditions at Yale. In Branford College, for example, you are not permitted to walk through a certain gate (it's a really majestic one too), and you cannot touch a certain stone.

However, all of those traditions were perturbed when prospective applicants flooded the campus for the admissions "open house." They walked through and over everything they were supposed to trip to try and avoid. The most egregious was one particularly oblivious family; they thought it appropriate to eat their lunch on the steps of the Skulls and Bones building. Did they not know what depraved rituals went on behind the ominous black doors which stretched above them? Did they not know that they had just offended an organization intent on world domination? I didn't want to get involved so I averted my gaze and walked on.

Seriously, these weird eccentricies have to end. I do twice the walking to get from Point A to Point B because I have to loop around half a dozen no-no spots. Apparantly, you don't graduate if you violate them.

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John Edwards is coming! I'm very excited; I've already registered and printed out my ticket. Some of the girls on campus are getting riled up for different reasons. My friend in chemistry class told me he was"dreamy".

Speaking of celebrity visitors, guess who else came? Lynda Lopez sister of the infamous J.Lo! Her speech on all of the work she had done to rise to the ranks of TV anchor was attended by an overwhelming twelve people. I didn't go myself; I was just informed by an overly cheery YDN article.

I forgot to see Lemony Snicket when he came. I'm still upset over that one. His books are brilliant.

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I had a phone conversation, over MSN, with Kiff (and her roommate). It was hilarious. I haven't heard her cackle in, like, months. Someone else initiate one of those newfangled voice convos with me!