More detectivity: day 42 is a Friday. It's very possible that this is Friday, March 26, 2010. Let's go with that. I got the newsletter yesterday. I had forgotten about it, though it littered the dining hall in our last two weeks. I was ecstatic to hear all the faculty members' voices again, especially Jack in his column. I could see him walking into the class, pausing for a moment to glance at the frontier words we've put up before stepping to a point on the board and writing RULES in his all-caps handwriting. I could hear each inflection in his voice, each pause as he takes of his glasses and calls out someone in our class by name, asking them to imagine cotton as the 'death cloth', inventing some character to correspond with that phrase, ending its brief existence smiling and laughing to himself, 'I don't know what the heck that was.' I'm so glad that this constant tie exists. I can't wait for June, to see Spring '10 in the last page. I can't wait to see it slowly pass into the back. But above all, I can't wait to read that column and think of it as old news.

Day 42

Started off today waking up at 7:05, as I set my alarm. That was a mistake. I woke up for real at ~7:30 and got the NCAA standings from the library internet before a breakfast of banana bread, oatmeal, and a stubborn orange. My fingers felt cold, tired, rusty. History went well for a first class; I participated a fair amount talking about American strategy surrounding D-Day and internment camps. We looked at slides of propaganda, one of which was on cracked's list of unintentionally hilarious works. I did the reading in my free, sitting next to Isaac. Precalc was fun; we learned about expected outcome in gambling and whatnot. I sat with Rachel and Megan B. Hallie, David and I did the homework in the following free without many problems, even in the section 3 work. I didn't get the last one though, mainly because the answer didn't make sense in context.

Lunch was leftover pizza and sloppy joes. I filled in for Hallie on cook's crew with Megan K as an apprentice. That went well. Oh, also, the skim milk was sour and I drank a glass for breakfast. 2% had run dry by that point. Science hike with Pat (not Tina, as I requested...) was fun enough. Zoe RA, Hallie, Patrick, David, Chelsea, Shizue, Kyra, and a few others joined me in measuring the size, density and domination of trees in a belt of a randomly selected spot: practice for next week when we would do the same on our sites. I rocked the rain jacket. Didn't rock the rain pants, though. Spanish went well enough; we finished the melancholy Suite Habana movie and talked about possessives. Easy stuff. Dan read letters from the Nicaraguan family at the start of class.

In E. Sci we discussed how glaciers affect our big backyard, and at the end prepped our chapters. I know almost everything, except how to work in the angle of the sun's rays and the angle of the earth... it seems so complicated, when I know it simply as “the sun's rays change and are the cause of the seasons.” Dinner was mac and cheese, salad and cornbread, but I was mainly concerned with refilling the milk. It came from Hood this time, not in crates, so there was additional difficulty in getting it positioned correctly into the crate, and then half of the bags went sour a week ago. Eventually Becky, Hallie, Jay, Aidan and I got both Skim and 2% full of drinkable milk.

I returned to my table (Shizue, Rosii, Rachel, Megan K, Jimmy, Tina, Gwen) and finished my dinner, then ate Yomalis' and Kemi's birthday cake. After dinner I got the news in the library: new coke bottles, dead whales, increased spending, Moscow bombings, and a legendary Onion party. I did Spanish homework in the dorm after walking back with Sarah and David, albeit with interruptions on the pill front (I actually took the study pills! And did head medicine!) every page. [I have no idea what this is. I do not recall anyone having any study pills ever. Did we get them on our first trip to town? Did someone bring them? Any help?] It was only 3, so no real deal. The ending was confusing- did someone get stabbed? With a rock?

Rafi found his door while Jimmy, Taylor, Sam P, David and I were watching the Ali G show, with lolz abounding. Arya messaged me after Science hike saying she missed me. I miss her too. Rafi got back around 3- David and I went to Miles to greet him and found Taylor and Sam P already there. We laughed a lot when he found his door missing. We put it back around 8:15 to mess with him. This whole scene was very fun to pull off. Uhm... Dan came up with Kosher brownies. I cleaned up and unpacked. As of 10:34, Jake still isn't back. Kit might be picking him up. We had a fire drill with Dan. Tomorrow should be another solid day- my first actual work period.