Month: September 2002

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I just heard a song on KSHE (the classic rock radio station) about being in the deepest depths of Mordor and finding a lost love but Gollum came and took her away… when I heard Mordor I thought I heard wrong, but then they said Gollum… how odd. I didn’t expect that.

It always seems to be this way

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I perpetually come up against these seemingly unresolveable dilemmas. Maybe it’s just cause I remember them more than the little choices you make every day…
so, as you probably know, I have a year of track eligibility left. This means that as long as I’m enrolled in some college, I could run on their track team for one more year. You also might know that I can get 50% off graduate school tuition if I took classes at Wash U. The great thing would be to enroll for the spring semester in some grad program and run. However, the 50% is dependent on working full time. And you have to be a full-time student to be ncaa-eligible. Full-time work + full-time class + running = very long day != Jennifer awake. It would probably be all-around bad, I’d always be sleep-deprived, I probably wouldn’t do too well in classes, and I don’t know if I could ever top the wonderful (and I’m not being modest here, it was wonderful) season I had last year. But I love to compete, most of the team is back, I’d get to run relays again, maybe do some hurdling, be with friends, and keep in shape.
If nothing else I will try to help the team out, run unattached at some meets, but then I can’t do the relays. It’s kind of sad that I would entertain the idea of going to grad school just so I could run one more year of track. But I know how much I would miss it, the whole year of eligibility thing resulting from the old coach and I having some differences about my commitment to the sport and me not running sophomore year. It galls me to have a year that I could run and not be able to do anything about it. I could run next year, I know… I have five years after I graduate to use the year. But I wouldn’t get to run the relay with Val. And I think it’s terrible that I have done hardly anything athletic this summer aside from some bike rides with Sarah. Coach said it well: that’s sad for the former Most Outstanding performer. Sigh. So I’m soliciting opinions, but I know some people don’t feel the competitive urge, and I know that I’m the one who would have to do it. I want to, but I don’t know if I can. That’s the crux of the matter, I suppose. The mind is willing but the body will shut down on you. Any advice? Caveat: I might not even be able to enroll in the spring. They might not let me. Still, let me know what you think.

Rings Thing

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Now that we know The Two Towers is not going to end where the book does, how would people like to see it end? And taking it perhaps a little further, how would people like to see the two individual threads end — the Frodo/Sam and the rest of the Fellowship?
I feel a little silly, but I have absolutely no idea what this is talking about. I mean, I know there will be differences between the book and the movie (I’m reading FotR again, btw) but the biggest thing I’ve heard is that there’s going to be more of the Aragorn-Eowyn-Arwen triangle. That doesn’t bother me all that much. I could be totally uncanonical and say how I want Legolas to find his ladylove and go off into the West with her instead of Gimli, but really, I’m just interested in seeing what they do with it. I can’t wait to see the battle of Helm’s Deep, and I’m interested in how much they show Legolas smile I want to see how Merry and Pippin “grow up”. As much as I love Elijah’s eyes, I’d rather see the other parts of the fellowship. Erm. You can tell where my loyalties lie smile

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Friday Five (.org)
1. Would you say that you’re good at keeping in touch with people?Sometimes. Depends on how much I like the person, how interested in what they have to say, and how frigging busy I am that particular day. Or week. Or year.
2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why?I’m more comfortable with email; I hate the telephone usually. Unless it’s a friend that I know well, I hate calling. I’m always nervous. I’d like to send more mail because I love getting it myself, but I’m usually too lazy.
3. Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it? Yes, all of them. AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ…because I have random friends on all of them. Sometimes random friends are on all of them too 🙂
4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away? mostly far away. My closest friend, my cousin, lives about four hours away, and we won’t even get into friends in LA and the Philippines…
5. Are you an “out of sight, out of mind” person, or do you believe that “distance makes the heart grow fonder”?Considering I’ve remembered Chris every day of my life since “that time” and I haven’t seen him in years, out of sight does not mean out of mind. However, that can’t be called a relationship. I’m all for trying long-distance relationships though. If only I had a boyfriend to try it with. *ironic lol*(happy 1st birthday to the friday five!)fridayfivefridayfivefridayfive

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Online smiley face turns 20

question for anyone who cares: should I attempt to get into grad school here at Wash U so I can run track in the spring? It would mean taking heinous amounts of class, and very long days… essentially taking full-time class plus working full-time so I could get 50% off tuition… erm.