Vacation Update
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jackofallgeeksLet's see if I can do a quick sumarry of my vacation while dinner cooks -- we're having brautwerst and beans and such, then i'm running out to Christendom to take gene the stuff he forgot at the beach, then to my uncle's, hopefully in time to sleep before work tomorrow.
Friday afternoon I got out of work and promptly made my way up 270 to Alyce's. The good news is that alyce lives quite a bit closer than I'd thought -- only about ninty minutes north of here. Unfortunaely, there was traffic on 270 and then a round-about detour just south of Alyce for some not-readily-apparent reason. But, I got up to Alyce's and then we ran to meet up with Brittany and have dinner at this bar/restaurant thingy. They both had nigh-identical orders, and I had the equivalent of a reuben on un-toasted bread. It was pretty good, and the crab-soup was an experience.
It was good to see Alyce again, though we never did get a chance to just sit and talk and stuff. It was nice seeing Brittany, too -- I think she's prettier than she gives herself credit for, and certainly more intelligent and thoughtful than her wild-and-crazy first impression might lead one to think. I ended up staying at Brittany's house because she had a bed and Alyce didn't, and it was nice and such.
Saturday we went to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire for Alyce's birthday. The peasant girl taking tickets at the front gate was very cute. Waiting for Becky and Jaime to show up, we watched a Scottish-Canadian comedy group do a show, wich was really cool. I ended up buying their DVD, though it was something of a let-down for the poor lighting and such. Funny, yes, but perhapse a CD of their music would have been better. -shrugs-
It was good to see Becky again, as I haven't seen her in quite a while and her company, when she lends it, is usually pretty good. I had thought that Jamie didn't like me -- I haven't seen or heard from her in quite some long time -- but she seemed as friendly as ever when they got there. We walked around, ate pickles and watched shows, and the girls shopped -- they wanted to get me into something pink and frilly and/or flowery, but it seems none of them were willing to put down any money for the beer it would have taken. Then we found the free wine tasting... All in all, it was a lot of friend, and it was good to spend time with some friends I see rarely. Afterwards Brittany, Alyce, and I went back and had pizza while watching movies, until we all decided to crash.
Sunday I drove down to Ocean City, stopping along the way for Mass, where I saw Louis's mom. Just after Mass, my dad called to say my mom had left some things at home, and asked if I might swing by and grab them. -shrugs- What's a couple extra hours to my trip? I finally got down there in time for dinner, about a day's worth of driving.
Monday through Friday was pretty standard -- get up, eat breakfast, head out to the beach in early afternoon, get home at early evening, and then a late dinner while watching the Olympics. Got a little bit of reading done, and some more brainstorming on writing -- I have a pretty decent idea of how I want things to go, now, just no concrete way of starting them off -- or rather, nothing I'm satisfied with. Got some sun, and a little more tanned, but though I didn't burn, my back and shoulders have been sporatically itchy, and maddeningly so! I don't know what's up with it, but it has a tendency to keep me up at night.
I showed my Granpa how to attach files to email in Hotmail *rolls eyes*, only to come home and find that my school's Webmail is down for the weekend, so I can't check to see if the picture he sent made it here OK.
Saturday was more-or-less another day of driving, stopping at my Uncle's for another family get together (mmmm, food), and then home around midnight. Mass this morning, then My sister got in (she's here for a two-day visit), and after dinner, as I said, I'm off once more.
One week of work, then I move back to school. I'm so ancious to get there. So very ancious. I'm tired of living out of a suitcase, and I want my own space again!
Friday afternoon I got out of work and promptly made my way up 270 to Alyce's. The good news is that alyce lives quite a bit closer than I'd thought -- only about ninty minutes north of here. Unfortunaely, there was traffic on 270 and then a round-about detour just south of Alyce for some not-readily-apparent reason. But, I got up to Alyce's and then we ran to meet up with Brittany and have dinner at this bar/restaurant thingy. They both had nigh-identical orders, and I had the equivalent of a reuben on un-toasted bread. It was pretty good, and the crab-soup was an experience.
It was good to see Alyce again, though we never did get a chance to just sit and talk and stuff. It was nice seeing Brittany, too -- I think she's prettier than she gives herself credit for, and certainly more intelligent and thoughtful than her wild-and-crazy first impression might lead one to think. I ended up staying at Brittany's house because she had a bed and Alyce didn't, and it was nice and such.
Saturday we went to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire for Alyce's birthday. The peasant girl taking tickets at the front gate was very cute. Waiting for Becky and Jaime to show up, we watched a Scottish-Canadian comedy group do a show, wich was really cool. I ended up buying their DVD, though it was something of a let-down for the poor lighting and such. Funny, yes, but perhapse a CD of their music would have been better. -shrugs-
It was good to see Becky again, as I haven't seen her in quite a while and her company, when she lends it, is usually pretty good. I had thought that Jamie didn't like me -- I haven't seen or heard from her in quite some long time -- but she seemed as friendly as ever when they got there. We walked around, ate pickles and watched shows, and the girls shopped -- they wanted to get me into something pink and frilly and/or flowery, but it seems none of them were willing to put down any money for the beer it would have taken. Then we found the free wine tasting... All in all, it was a lot of friend, and it was good to spend time with some friends I see rarely. Afterwards Brittany, Alyce, and I went back and had pizza while watching movies, until we all decided to crash.
Sunday I drove down to Ocean City, stopping along the way for Mass, where I saw Louis's mom. Just after Mass, my dad called to say my mom had left some things at home, and asked if I might swing by and grab them. -shrugs- What's a couple extra hours to my trip? I finally got down there in time for dinner, about a day's worth of driving.
Monday through Friday was pretty standard -- get up, eat breakfast, head out to the beach in early afternoon, get home at early evening, and then a late dinner while watching the Olympics. Got a little bit of reading done, and some more brainstorming on writing -- I have a pretty decent idea of how I want things to go, now, just no concrete way of starting them off -- or rather, nothing I'm satisfied with. Got some sun, and a little more tanned, but though I didn't burn, my back and shoulders have been sporatically itchy, and maddeningly so! I don't know what's up with it, but it has a tendency to keep me up at night.
I showed my Granpa how to attach files to email in Hotmail *rolls eyes*, only to come home and find that my school's Webmail is down for the weekend, so I can't check to see if the picture he sent made it here OK.
Saturday was more-or-less another day of driving, stopping at my Uncle's for another family get together (mmmm, food), and then home around midnight. Mass this morning, then My sister got in (she's here for a two-day visit), and after dinner, as I said, I'm off once more.
One week of work, then I move back to school. I'm so ancious to get there. So very ancious. I'm tired of living out of a suitcase, and I want my own space again!
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Date: 2004-08-23 03:04 am (UTC)1) Have you enjoyed your college experience at Catholic
2) What exactly are the requirements to get into Catholic?
3) Would you recommend for upcoming students to attend Catholic?
Lol, as you may or may have not guessed Catholic is one of the colleges I'm planning on looking into. Lol. Yups, that is all.
~*Tina*~
Ahhh, College...
Date: 2004-08-23 11:54 am (UTC)2) Standard-type requirements, I think. A 3.0 Cumulative GPA or something and, like, 1000 SATs? I think I got in with, like, a 3.2 and a 1290 SATs, and they even gave me money. They have a website, CUA.edu (http://www.cua.edu), and if you look through the Admissions page, I'm sure there will be more information there. There should also be a phone number for Admissions, and they're paid to pick up the phone and answer your questions, so...
3) This one is almost as fuzzy at the first; probably more. It depends on who it was, what they were looking to study, and what they wanted in a school. CUA is, I think, on the large side of 'small' -- it isn't a huge metropolis like UMD, but it isn't the little township like Christendom. It's a close-enough community that you can get to know people and make a number of good friends, but odds are you won't know your whole class, let alone the whole school. Classes are, depending, reasonably-sized -- I only had a few that had more than, say, 35 students, and those were the Big Ones, like Physics and Math. Most of my classes have been half that size or smaller -- but when you only have 6 Computer Science Majors in your class, Operating Systems doesn't draw a very big crowd.
Part of why I chose CUA was because it was near family -- specifically because grandma and grandpa still lived in the area, and our family still did the Sunday get-together thing regularly. So there is that. Nearly the whole Gigioli clan lives in the metro area, and I can't imagine that'll change anytime soon. Of course, the first couple of years I was going here, my parents were 3000 miles away, too, and there's something to be said about that, too. It depends on the kid and the parents how much space they need -- some kids really need their parents nearby to get through the year, and others really need their parents half-way around the world, or they go mad. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle.
Also, depending on what you plan to study, CUA may or may not be the place for you. If you were going to look into Political Science, for example, what better area to study in than DC? And with Physics and such, we have a bunch of labs around here as possibly Summer-job sites. Some schools have better reputations for certain majors than others, though. Drexel, as an example, is heavily a techie school, where as NYU isn't. I'm not sure exactly how the majors at CUA place, exactly; it would be worth checking out for yourself and comparing it to others schools.
Uhm, in short, I wouldn't discourage anyone from going there, per se, but nor would I really press for them to go there -- as far as I'm concerned, it's just another school, and while I liked it there and expect anyone else to do likewise, I don't know that it's much above any other prospective school. But then, I really wouldn't know -- I've never really been to another school, except visiting friends.
By the by -- are you a Junior these days? You can't be a Senior already, can you? I don't think I even started looking at colleges before I was a Senior, but at that I'd strongly encourage you to start researching school early and often -- time will get away from you before you know it.
Re: Ahhh, College...
Date: 2004-08-23 02:33 pm (UTC)