{"id":50,"date":"2010-09-09T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T13:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/?p=50"},"modified":"2010-09-09T08:38:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T13:38:19","slug":"busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/2010\/09\/busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-50 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/amanda.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/amanda-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/amanda-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/amanda-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/amanda.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/camera.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/camera-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/camera-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/camera-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/files\/2010\/09\/camera.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>(And shout-out to my girls, Alyssa and Kelsey. Love ya, dearies!)<\/p>\n<p>I have thirty minutes before lunch, so this is another quickie.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s Rosh Hashanah\u2014my first real attempt to visit temple since I\u2019ve moved here\u2014and tomorrow\u2019s the Alpha Xi Delta cowboy dance party. Then, I have various errands to run and homework to do, making for a busy couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also a smidgen worried about my first year seminar. As it turns out, I\u2019m a B grade comic artist (NOOO) and I have tons of reading to finish before the semester\u2019s worth of homework is complete. I already finished my Rhetoric curriculum\u2019s reading (both recommended and required), but there\u2019s still much to do for Art History, including an appointment with the Writer\u2019s Center and Works Cited page for my essay.<\/p>\n<p>So. Much. Stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, my friends, Kat and Kristen, created a crumpled paper-pet for Rhetoric. They tried to sell it to me yesterday, but since we can\u2019t have pets in the dorms (save for goldfish, which would die in my care anyway) I declined.<\/p>\n<p>It was a shame, though. It was cute in a quirky, mismatched eyes, random-daisy-popping-out-of-a-spinal-column sort of way. It would have made a cool pet.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in response to a commenter, I spoke with Zach today his morals and the horrible things he could have done while I was gone for Labor Day weekend. He stopped by for a second and I asked, \u201cHey, Zach, would you hang my underwear to the door if I were gone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(The plants were fine, by the way. He watered the bonsai and <em>majestica<\/em> like I asked. They were a little brown, but the orchid blossomed, which was nice. He added ice cubes to the soil like I requested and even refilled the tray.)<\/p>\n<p>Response: Shock and disgust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNOOO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody commented saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to see anyone\u2019s underwear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright then.\u201d I typed our conversation on my computer. \u201cI\u2019ll defend you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This sentence is Zach\u2019s official defense. I hope you\u2019re happy, Zach. \/thumbs up\/<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I also spoke with my Rhetoric professor about the recommended reading (<em>Stiff<\/em>, Mary Roach: a book about cadavers and how they become crash test dummies, medicine, fertilizer, and other amazing and useful things).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember the part about the brains?\u201d I asked. \u201cThey can be detached from the body and they live in a state of permanent memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell it depends on your definition of memory. There\u2019s physiological memory and memory as society interprets it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean? Do they differ vastly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysiological memory is literally memory running lines through your brain. It\u2019s like when military airplane fliers permanently ingrained the way they\u2019re supposed to land on the docking station. If they come in from the wrong angle, they can drive their plane straight into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We talked airplanes, memory and elasticity. I like how I can learn things at college even when I\u2019m speaking recreationally.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from all the stuff I\u2019ve yet to finish, college is pretty awesome. You can have dance parties at midnight, watch free foreign films, buy physically impossible pets and do a ton of random, cool things.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice, and I love it bunches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(And shout-out to my girls, Alyssa and Kelsey. Love ya, dearies!) I have thirty minutes before lunch, so this is another quickie. Tonight\u2019s Rosh Hashanah\u2014my first real attempt to visit temple since I\u2019ve moved here\u2014and tomorrow\u2019s the Alpha Xi Delta cowboy dance party. Then, I have various errands to run and homework to do, making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/2010\/09\/busy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-campuslife","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}