Sorry, I had to take

Sorry, I had to take off Joanna's radiohead album post. Jo, if you want to write up a review of the album that'd be awesome and totally appreciated (and a great idea, actually, if I weren't traveling I'd do it) but for logistics purposes, ethics, and etiquette, I have to remove that link to the album (and because the post served no purpose with no link, I decided just to remove the whole post).

Anyway, I'll update on what's new. Yes, there's a new radiohead album coming out in a few months and most people have it already and it's very good. Not much happened this week, although, I wrote up this post (a short one) about how I was sick and going to bed (this was early week) and I didn't get into UPenn but it didn't matter because that made my decision making process easier (because Penn wasn't any higher on the list than the others that are all tied for the same spot). But that post didn't make it to the site, and to be honest I'm not sure why it didn't. I thought I hit preview and submit twice, but whatever.

So yeah, other than that, the week was fairly simple, with decision letters making everyone happy (for the most part, I haven't heard of any major upsets other than I think Marc Farris deserves to go to Harvard but screw them their pretentious pricks anyway), and I also found out this piece was bumped from gold at the state to silver at the national now, so that's cool. I couldn't believe that Ballard boy swept the state level which such average pieces (and square prints), but then to see he'd swept the national level was unbelievable. A gold key for that stupid dog picture!

Anyway, I just got back from St. Louis, looking at WashU, and tomorrow I leave bright and early to head to Champaign and see Illinois. I did all the driving from Louisville to St. Louis last night, and that was fun. Especially the crazy crazy thunder and lightning and heavy rain (for only like ten minutes). I hate driving with my mom though, she's hypercritical of my driving, and a total hypocrite at the same time. She yells at me for making adjustments to my dad's cell phone in the cup holder or even the air conditioning. She thinks that if I take my eyes off the road for a split second we'll die. SHE COMPLETELY FLIPS OUT, and it's terrible, and then she does this thing where she grabs the handles for dear life, and it just really ticks me off, because she drove BACK today, and she tried making a shitty joke and turned around to look at me and smile and held that look for at least a second and a half! And she dances to shitty oldies while she drives, and not that oldies are bad but she'll be snapping her fingers instead of two hands on the wheel like she wants me to do 24/7 and the car jerks when she snaps. And she tried telling me that you need two hands on the wheel, even when putting the car in reverse and backing out of the driveway.

And excuse the ranting, but when I tried telling her that the only reason for two hands on the wheel was so that you wouldn't lose control of the wheel while driving and that there's no way to lose control of the wheel backing out of your own driveway, she replied that you could hit something and then you'd have lost control. I told her that the reason I only use one hand when I back out of the driveway is so that I can turn my body around more to look behind me while I back up, and as a second note, anyone who hits something backing up is a complete idiot in the first place and shouldn't be on the road! To which she actually tried arguing that they weren't an idiot. I didn't want to remind her that she's the only one in the family that's hit our own mailbox twice and she wanted to tell me that people who hit stuff backing up are not complete idiots. I kept my mouth shut on that one. There's a lot more, but I'd be wasting time continuing.

Wash U was cool, I'd be find going there. It was knock out oh my god I want to go here so bad, but everything about it seems fine and I know I'd be very happy there. We took a Wash U tour of St. Louis, and St. Louis seems like a very cool place to be as well, so I'd be happy in that city. And holy shit! Two blocks off campus was a church of scientology! It had a sign and everything, and the building was all concrete kind of ... Christian churchy architecture! I had no idea there were scientology churches, I seriously thought they just met at random houses and had mini seminars. And I certainly wouldn't think it'd have church-like architecture, I'd think the scientologists would have some sort of metal spaceship looking contraption. Anyway, yeah, we were the only family there for the engineering tour, so we got one on one with this systems engineer chick who showed us around. Seems like a fine school. We'll see how the rest turn out. And since I've gotta get up early and drive alone to Urbana/Champaign, I should probably hit the hay. AND THANK GOD I CAN LISTEN TO MY OWN MUSIC TOMORROW! That was the worst part about driving up, is the four hour ride we listened to one Elliot Smith and one Belle and Sebastian, and those two cd's are only 40 minutes long. The rest of the time was either oldies, mix stations, Delilah, or stupid middle aged best hits stations.

S.