November 4th, 2008.
Everyone’s wandering around campus with excited looks on their faces, jabbering away about one thing and one thing only.  They’ve all got pins and needles; some people are optimistic and have a good feeling, others not so much.
We fucked up once, we can do it again.
But today is election day, and if Obama [...]

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Wow. Noise party. Entirely pointless parade to get completely trashed or yell like an idiot and play with fire and wake up half of Portland.  Extremely fun, honestly.  It felt like a bit of Puerto Rico had come with me, because it was just so noisy!  And, to be honest, I screamed my share of [...]

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I leave Monday night for San Juan and depart Tuesday morning.
Holy cow, Batman!
I’m only half-packed and I still haven’t seen my friends or visited my high school teachers and if I don’t, I will rue the day.  I really don’t have awesome notes on the craptastic Iliad, but I can rewrite the whole thing as [...]

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Ever since I found out that was going to Reed - not that I was accepted, but that the paltry $9K scholarship had been upgraded to $15K and my parents decided we could afford it - I’ve been in a state of constant excitement. It is extremely easy to make me happy and I’m [...]

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