The College Clunker

9/7/09 9:39 AM

There are two main kinds of college student cars.   1)      I come from money & Daddy loves me. 2)      I reuse disposable stuff & my car’s kinda in that category.   I have the second kind. I JUST got it out of the shop for having the serpentine belt replaced. It had been making a sound like Superman sharpening a machete. A horrible scraping . . . which the mechanic diagnosed, then fixed everything ELSE & returned the car to me. Um . . . it’s still making the sound – did you replace the belt? Oh, no . . . bring it in. WHAT THE HELL? So eventually, I got my car back, all better with something else replaced under the hood. I recently had to get a new battery too.   So I was driving to class...

Welcome Back!!

9/1/09 7:58 PM

The Towson campus is buzzing with life again. To the point where those ramps they put up for construction are actually in the *way.* The stacks of the New York Times are depleting quickly, the book store is restocking (for which I have to wait to obtain a number of my required supplies), & the clean slate feeling is setting in - that point of the year, as Robyn Quick puts it at the beginning of each of her courses, when you haven't started procrastinating yet. It's simply not possible. So welcome back. I've left the blog dead over the summer & intend to bring it back full force for the duration of the school year. So far this semester, I've got wonderful courses, wonderful professors, an audition rapidly approaching, a haunted house I've turned down, & a CD in the mail on its...