Tuesday, November 17

Friday at work Megan wrote me a story while I was working on the art auction. It is possibly the most amazing thing ever written.


To a Weezie. From a Weezie.

Once upon a time, there was a girl named W. Eezie who had a curtain of blond hair. One day, W. Eezie decided to go boysenberry picking. She put on her thinsulate trousers, her plaid shirt, and a pair of lopsided Uggs.

"Now," said W. "Where can I find a ripe patch of boisenberries?" W. Eezie scratched her blond head. She adjusted her thinsulate trousers. And she thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. W. Eezie started walking.

W. Eezie walked all the way to the general store. She walked past all of the tractor drivers and the pig breeders. W. Eezie adjusted her thinsulate trousers. She scratched her blond head. And she walked into the general store.

"Hello there Miss Eezie," said Farmer Sam, the general store proprietor. "Would you like to buy another bolt of plaid cloth?"

"No, Farmer Sam," said W, "I need to ask you something."

"Ask away!" said Farmer Sam, taking a puff from his pipe.

"Well, I'm looking for a patch of boysenberries" W. said.

"Boysenberries!" cried Farmer Sam, scratching his plaid-hat-encased head. "I don't rightly know! I'd say your best bet is to go to the land of Sweet Briar. I'm not sure if they have a boysenberry patch, but I know they have a briar patch!"

W. scratched her blond head. She adjusted her thinsulate trousers.

"Sweet Briar..." she murmured. "Later!" And off she ran.

But as soon as Kate got to Sweet Briar, she realized that there were no berries of any kind - except for a Merry Barry! So Kate settled for that. She rolled up the sleeves on her plaid shirt and she lived a very ghoulish, successful existence at Sweet Briar for the rest of her days.

Tuesday, October 27 - Very Happy Mungling

I barely have time for this anymore. I feel like I barely have time to breathe. Last year, I would see Kristin running around, always in charge of one thing or another and looking like her head was about to fall off of her shoulders. I now know how she feels. One fear that I have had has been starting to come true lately: "over involved/under committed." I keep adding more things to my plate, and I am physically and emotionally unable to get everything done. The one thing that took on last year that has been the biggest time commitment and the most annoying is the Voice. I know it looks awesome on a resume, but I feel like the rest of the editorial staff has just this one responsibility on top of classes. I am taking 18 credit hours, I have three campus jobs on top of working at Opera on the James in Lynchburg, I am in SGA, Habitat, Chung Mungs, SDS, PBL and some other things that I am sure are escaping me now, as they do so often.

I am much happier this semester than I was all of last year. Even Lauren said something about it a few weeks ago at lunch one day. I think I thrive under pressue. I know it is such a cliche thing to say, but it is true. During exam times I am always the weird one that is happy to be so busy. It's nice. This year I jump from class to meetings ro work and get little sleep in between, but it does make me happy.

Being a Mungling has been amazing. We had ode night last week and gave our moms gifts. I have loved getting to know all of these girls that I never really sent time with before. Last night Allison and I were getting into bed, early for us, then we got a mass text from Alexandra saying "Urgent mungling meeting. Come to GV 3B." We were not pleased. But of course this happy little Mungling jumped out of bed and scurried down to Green Village despite the rain.

When we got there we were greeted by a Chung Mung that graduated in 1999. Meeting her was amazing. She actually got emotional and started to cry talking about what an amazing group of girls the Chung Mungs are. It made me realize that I am a part of something special. And it made me very happy.

Other tap club news, I was considered for TTC, but turned them down. That's just a big no thanks. Earphones tap on Thursday, and I know some people that are being tapped, myself not included. Kind of upset about that. But, life goes on.

Instead of trying to update this with my life, I am instead going to make an A to Z of things that I enjoy and things that make me Kate. So that will begin when I have time.