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Thursday, November 15, 2001
Random thoughts: Deviations.... genetically, we would not exist without deviations in DNA code. If our DNA always stayed the same, well, we'd all still be swimming in that primordial soup. Change is good, nothing is perfect: cliches, right? But pretend you've never heard them before, and suddenly they take on a deeper meaning. Change is good. Why? Because it keeps the universe going. It keeps everything evolving. One little deviation can make all the difference. In my archaeology class we talked about how people domesticated wheat. Wheat was hard to make into food because the seed part always fell right off with the slightest breeze. So people found the "mistakes", the ones whose seed stayed on long enough to be harvested and ground into grain. And they bred more like that.
So, in the realm of ideas. Why is it that people with new ideas are often ignored? Why do some people who want to change things think that they don't have a chance? One little tiny voice can start a revolution when it begins to take root in one person's mind. I'm only writing a paragraph on this, so it sounds simple, and maybe it is just simple, something that I took for granted so easily that I never even really thought about it until tonight. You can't just accept what already exists. You can't just accept things because there's no obvious alternative. Like Troy said in (what else) Reality Bites: "I'm talking about... evolving."
23:48
"Writing a paper takes little to no effort. I'm doing it right now!" -- Amanda, sitting on the floor in her pajamas
19:38
Monday, November 12, 2001
"I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest." -- Willy Wonka
22:20
i woke up today and felt like i got punched in the stomach.... just that sickness of a day crashing down on me, e-mails that weren't what i expected, a disaster in new york, a missed deadline, last-minute registration decisions, too much reading, in a groggy confused mist.
16:02
Sunday, November 11, 2001
Update: So yesterday was a football game v. Iowa. I'm never gonna forget this ritual of fall Saturdays... wake up much too early, help cook a big breakfast, find something purple to wear and judge the weather using all instruments of science and intuition. Trek up to the stadium crunching through sidewalks piled with dried leaves, past kids selling cookies and lemonade in front of their houses. Pass the vendors pushing peanuts and penants in front of the stadium and enter the student section's barely controlled chaos. Think, "Please don't let me get knocked over by a drunk frat boy today" as we climb onto the aluminum benches and begin our vigil. It's the moments before the game when this could be the best game we've ever seen.
Then, like yesterday, it can all go haywire. This game was just plain bizarre. Especially considering that the last homegame, they seemed to be a totally different team, battling hard against Penn State. Yesterday they lost to Iowa, 16-59. The game even began weirdly, with the addition of "Air Willy". Our mascot is a wildcat, and usually there's a guy dressed in a costume, looking happy and fuzzy and psyched. Well, this time there was *also* an inflatable version of this mascot. I thought it was just plain creepy to see a bloated, jiggling version of our beloved fuzzball. But anyway. Then Amanda got a call on Brendan's cell phone to go into work. So she left. And then the game began. NU was slammed from minute one, basically. Iowa poured points on the scoreboard, and we watched in disbelief. Then it got more surreal. Air Willy attacked the Iowa color guard, which kept waving their flags in front of the student section. Our male cheerleaders went over to help the real Willy battle the Iowa birdy mascot. Then half the Iowa cheerleaders showed up on our side. The NU band got apples during halftime, and those who didn't want them chucked 'em up into the student section. Apples flew for a good five minutes. Then the scoreboard tried to have some fun, too, and read that Iowa had 65 points. No, our eyes weren't playing tricks on us yesterday. The game was.
14:28
"It's been hard. It makes me want to cry at times." -- NU linebacker Kevin Bentley
14:25
Ken Kesey gone away.
13:46
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