If gorgeous wilderness wasn't enough to get the academic year moving on a high note, Reed itself has pulled out all the stops to insure that we, as new students, are made to feel, not only welcome, but completely infatuated with our new home.
In the space of an afternoon I have been...
...ambushed and spontaneously taught by 40 jugglers, left to spend as much time as I see fit in a cavernous, couch-filled goldmine containing every graphic novel I've wanted to read for the last six years, shoved into the no-man's-land space created between three simultaneous dance parties (all with separate pounding stereos playing different music, mind you) and told to dance, involved in a physics-based discussion about pie warfare with more that ten people at the same time, and passed by a swooping group of what can only be described as Viking marauders -- on bicycles -- wielding LARP-based foam weaponry.
However, the more I hear from returning students, the more I am astonished and thrilled to hear that this is nothing out of the ordinary.
To clarify: this happens all year long.
In short: I am here, and very, very happy about it.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Lowdown
I feel as if I haven't had time to draw breath since the moment I hit the Hard running back in July, so here's a brief list (You know I love 'em) of what's been going on in my life of late.
1. Knitting a space invader.
2. Painting a 7'x10' jungle mural for some adorable children.
3. Reading The Iliad (again).
4. Attending a pilates class for the first time in my life, just to see what all the fuss was about.
5. Drawing again after a lengthy creative dry spell.
6. Coming 3rd in a Scrabble Tournament.
7. Packing my life into a series of boxes and, coming soon...
...Moving to Portland.
To avoid this turning into the obligatory "moving away to college, life so full of change and impermanence, woe and calamity, blood and gore, et cetera and et cetera" post, I'll focus on the bright side. Indeed, I haven't even had time to explore the disagreeable portions of it myself, owing to the aforementioned not having time to draw breath situation.
First off, my new address, for those of you in the know -- or you absolute strangers who stumble upon me with a burning desire to send mail to other absolute strangers (and unto you I bestow this link: http://sendsomething.net) -- will be as follows up in the land of the Port:
Lucy Bellwood
Reed College MS#76
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland OR 97202-8199
Try as I might to see everyone before leaving the sunny lands of California, I will most certainly fail, so I suggest you start penning postcards now. I'll be incommunicado for my first 4 days up there, owing to Reed's long-standing tradition of sending all incoming students out into the wilderness to do battle with bears prior to the start of term. Those who survive will be granted a place in the class of 2012. I foresee only glowing victory in this arena.
Bottom line: I'm excited, though nothing's really sinking/sunk in yet, and so I remain blissfully delusional and a little unhinged, muddling through unfamiliar territory towards intellectual paradise. I will do my best to keep you all informed.
Two Six!
1. Knitting a space invader.
2. Painting a 7'x10' jungle mural for some adorable children.
3. Reading The Iliad (again).
4. Attending a pilates class for the first time in my life, just to see what all the fuss was about.
5. Drawing again after a lengthy creative dry spell.
6. Coming 3rd in a Scrabble Tournament.
7. Packing my life into a series of boxes and, coming soon...
...Moving to Portland.
To avoid this turning into the obligatory "moving away to college, life so full of change and impermanence, woe and calamity, blood and gore, et cetera and et cetera" post, I'll focus on the bright side. Indeed, I haven't even had time to explore the disagreeable portions of it myself, owing to the aforementioned not having time to draw breath situation.
First off, my new address, for those of you in the know -- or you absolute strangers who stumble upon me with a burning desire to send mail to other absolute strangers (and unto you I bestow this link: http://sendsomething.net) -- will be as follows up in the land of the Port:
Lucy Bellwood
Reed College MS#76
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland OR 97202-8199
Try as I might to see everyone before leaving the sunny lands of California, I will most certainly fail, so I suggest you start penning postcards now. I'll be incommunicado for my first 4 days up there, owing to Reed's long-standing tradition of sending all incoming students out into the wilderness to do battle with bears prior to the start of term. Those who survive will be granted a place in the class of 2012. I foresee only glowing victory in this arena.
Bottom line: I'm excited, though nothing's really sinking/sunk in yet, and so I remain blissfully delusional and a little unhinged, muddling through unfamiliar territory towards intellectual paradise. I will do my best to keep you all informed.
Two Six!
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