PS

tomorrow i am drawing cait naked!!! aren't you all jealous!

big plans

hey ladies and Julian,

so as usual i am in the midst of academic crisis, so i need to know exactly when chapman events will be taking place next weekend, so i can plan to ready for them, and not in some hole hopped up on ADD meds, crying about a paper. everyone but Hannah should be in town right? (don't worry, Hannah. we won't have any fun without you. promise). i heard something about a dinner in chapman, possibly with professors? a brunch? what's really happening and when? who's orchestrating this shit? remember hampshire halloween is friday night, and there's a zu party on saturday night. can't wait to see you!

Love,
Becky

homecoming = in the middle of midterms :/

hi all! i'm super looking forward to all the funness that's gunna be going down around here in the coming days/weeks. meanwhile, i'm furiously studying for a stats exam in the morning and i have more spanish homework that i'd like to admit.
we're thinking of hosting a mini community of women dinner (in chapman!) friday oct 30th in commemoration of all the chapmanites who will be descending upon us (rosie selenaa jenny hopefully megs too?) before heading over to hampshire halloween, just so you know (let me know if you want me to hook you up with a hamp halloween ticket!).
here's an excerpt from a gchat rosie and i had about c.o.w., prof gewertz, and rachey's thesis... enjoy!

Rose: you kno i don't like that lady anywayz

what's her name

...curly hair

me: gewertz?

Rose: YEAH

she think she all that

whateva!

i also showed my officemates bonquiqui

points!

me: HAHHA yayyy

oh and rach could totally use some mooching points

they had a terse thesis mtg today

Rose:

she'll be okay

me: in which her closing remarks were - no more socializing, not even for a minute. and you better not fall in love.

tikes

hahahah

*yikes

SHE KNOWS

she must know~1

Rose: that is so funny

not even for a minute?

me: yeah, who is she kidding!

Rose: dude gw needs to understand some humanity

"humanities"

social science

rachel should have been like

me: riiiight

Rose: "I AM LIVING ANHTROPOLOGY"

me: anthro is all about the study of HUMANS

righto!

i will tell her

psh

gw...

Rose: or just be like

i am conducting a case study

on dan kamen

me: HAHAHHAHAHHAHA

Rose: wha wha whaaaaat

Sent at 9:15 PM on Monday

My dearests...

I am missing you!!!! I just is.

I am coming to homecoming! Well, not the football game part but i will be there at night, and want to see you (all I can think about is Selena and Rose plotting to make hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps), because I have my LAST day of saturday clinical this week... speaking of which, clinical makes me really really sad sometimes. I want to tell all of you about what's happened generally while i'm there, but want to in person. I am sleepy. all i can say is: don't do too many drugs. never shoot up anything (and if you must, GET CLEAN NEEDLES. if you need your drugs, i will get you clean needles AND DON'T SHARE NEEDLES). wash your fucking hands. but give love love and more love to people who are sick because they need some love. and wear condoms!!!! seriously. unless you are sure sure sure about your partners STD status. seriously, diseases can get ugly ugly ugly and it is so sad. really so sad. And Hannah I want to skype -- you emailed and I haven't replied yet! selena i got your message and left you one too but i want to talk... and I want to talk to ALL of you and see what is happening. destry do you want your table? i imagine now that you are starting real life you might like a piece of furniture? missiing missing missing missing missing my pretties... (julian, you are also a pretty.) im getting on the telly tomorrow...

kisses
megan

New Project!

I have a new project. So Bill asked if I was going to homecoming. I said no, that I was coming over Halloween. And then I told him to give the Chapman tribe something that they could give to me when I come visit over Halloween. So, Bill is going to bring an object from Sante Fe, and it is going to stay in Amherst until someone (like... me over Halloween) else visits and takes it. And then I'll keep it until someone comes and visits me (like... Rose over Thanksgiving). And we'll just pass it around, marking reunions and visits. Sound fun?!

as usual, procrastinating by posting chapman. got home an hour ago from utah, via boston. my only cousin got married. nuclear families are fucked up. indeed, destry, traumatized is the word. but, i love the feel of travel and always reflect well in planes. plus hotel beds are super comfy. and i hiked in the rockies, which are so colorful right now! will post pictures if my mom sends 'em to me. lots of love, and hoping to see you ALL asap. now to work. rach.

work balance play balance

i'm finally starting to be pummeled with work, but it'll be okay. destry and carmz came to visit, we walked around boston, passed by the 'head of the charles' regatta where we ran into some 'hersters. followed by cooking up some sweet potato fries, emily's birthday dinner, and dive bars.

going to try to go to homecoming next week, as long as i can bring my work and hole up for part of the time,

and now back to the carbon cycle,

cheers and all, rose

p.s. so was that boy-in-balloon thing a hoax, or what?

Wild things

I want to be one! I'm so excited for the movie. "A movie about childhood." What could be better?


Sorry for being a grump last post. Everything is okay now.

On Monday, by all accounts I officially become an adult. I move into a new apartment with my boyfriend and start my job. Woow. Until then, debauchery (and hopefully movie-going!) or just plain good old fun times in Boston with Carms and Rosie.

God, don't the wild things look amazing? I can't get over it. Maybe I miss my childhood imaginary friends, like Punky, who had pink hair and was in a wheelchair. (It's just what happens when you're a middle child.)

this is terrifying... (just in time for halloween)

The Arctic Ocean could be largely ice-free and open to shipping during the summer in as little as ten years' time, a top polar specialist has said.

"It's like man is taking the lid off the northern part of the planet," said Professor Peter Wadhams, from the University of Cambridge.

Professor Wadhams has been studying the Arctic ice since the 1960s.

He was speaking in central London at the launch of the findings of the Catlin Arctic Survey.

The expedition trekked across 435km of ice earlier this year.

Led by explorer Pen Hadow, the team's measurements found that the ice-floes were on average 1.8m thick - typical of so-called "first year" ice formed during the past winter and most vulnerable to melting.
The survey route - to the north of Canada - had been expected to cross areas of older "multi-year" ice which is thicker and more resilient.

When the ridges of ice between floes are included, the expedition found an average thickness of 4.8m.

Professor Wadhams said: "The Catlin Arctic Survey data supports the new consensus view - based on seasonal variation of ice extent and thickness, changes in temperatures, winds and especially ice composition - that the Arctic will be ice-free in summer within about 20 years, and that much of the decrease will be happening within 10 years.

"That means you'll be able to treat the Arctic as if it were essentially an open sea in the summer and have transport across the Arctic Ocean."

According to Professor Wadhams, faster shipping and easier access to oil and gas reserves were among short-term benefits of the melting.

But in the longer-term, losing a permanent feature of the planet risked accelerated warming, changing patterns of circulation in the oceans and atmosphere, and having unknown effects on ecosystems through the acidification of waters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8307272.stm

PS i miss all my single ladies! all of the chapman girls round here have lovers. uncool. i mean, yay love, all the way. but, well, you know what i mean..