I bet you're gonna have to beat up a hobo!

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve written and I figure it’s time for an update.

Yesterday was my birthday, and it was wonderful! I went to NYC with some friends to participate in Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Experiment. Check out the pictures here: http://improveverywhere.com/2008/09/27/mp3-nyc-thanks/ I’m not sure if I’m in any of them, but there’ll be a video later, and I think I’ll be in that. It was a very unique, hilarious way to spend the day. And I got to visit a good friend who transferred to Barnard, which was lovely. It was a great day to turn 19.

Everything about school right now is great, actually. I LOVE all of my classes. I’m taking Earth, Environment and Humanity (really interesting and we get to play with things like silly putty and slinkys and identify rocks), Fundamentals of Music (easy and useful!), Cartography (hard but really cool, and great for Arrested Development references!), and, my favorite, Movement for Actors (lots of yoga, lots of experimental stuff, fantastic professor, and no homework. What else could you ask for?).

Plus all my extracurriculars are going wonderfully. I’m taking voice lessons again, which are just amazing. I auditioned for, and got into, the Drama Department plays. I’m in The Skriker by Carol Churchill. It’s a pretty weird, crazy play, but the cast is great (my roommate and best friend here, Andi, is in it, too, and one of my other best friends is stage managing), and I think it’s gonna be a blast! I’m still working at the Infant Toddler Center, and after the sad realization that none of my old kids are still there, I’ve slowly grown to be trusted by the new kids, and I’m really growing to love them. They’re a great group, and a little better-behaved than the last one, which is nice. Fencing is great, as always. We just started last week and are doing a lot of conditioning, which makes me wish I’d stuck with the running over the summer, but I’m not too sore anymore, and I think I’ll survive. Hopefully. It’s looking like I’m only gonna be fencing sabre this year, which is a bit of a relief. As much as I enjoyed the absurdity of trying to fence everything, I feel like now I’ll have more time to learn to fence sabre relatively well. Maybe I’ll actually be able to beat people more often! That’d be nice. And, lastly, Quidditch is going PHENOMENALLY!!!!!!!! I’m a co-captain this year, with two friends, and our big goal for the year was to get Quidditch certified as an official organization so we could get $$ and reserve campus spaces, etc. Anyway, we got certified last week! We’re really excited! Plus, we recruited a huge group of wonderful, talented, dedicated, motivated freshman who are gonna help us put up a really good showing against Middlebury at the World Cup in October. It’s gonna be intense!

Happy almost October!