2 papers and 2 finals away from being done done done

Well it's the beginning of crunch time, so as usual I'm avoiding my work. I've just stalked facebook for about an hour, got some good laughs out of icanhascheezburger, read some news on msnbc.com, and now I'm blogging. After this I'll probably play a game of scrabble on scrabulous.com, play a sudoku or two, watch tv, and then go to bed. And then wake up tomorrow and smack myself in the face for doing no work today.

Well I did do a little bit of work today. I found a story to analyze for my Spanish final paper. It's called "Carta a una senorita en Paris" (Letter to a lady in Paris). Sounds relatively normal, right? WRONG. This guy is renting this woman's apartment (they're friends) and he's telling her how he keeps throwing up bunny rabbits and he's sorry that they're eating her books and pooping in her apartment. After a couple weeks of randomly throwing up bunnies, he can't take it any longer and jumps off the balcony, killing himself.

So that's what I get to write a 7-8 page paper on. In Spanish. Personally I can't wait to start.

Not all hispanic/latino people are Mexican!

I just read an article on MSNBC.com about a legislator calling migrant workers "illiterate peasants." Yeah, he's an insensitive jerk, but the author of the article said that he was referring to migrant Mexicans. Do only people from Mexico emigrate to the US and work? NO! There are 18 other Hispanic nationalities represented in the US. Mexico is of course the best of all of them, but I think it's really rude when people refer to any Hispanic person as "Mexican." I'm pretty sure they don't like it either.

Also, I'm procrastinating writing my presentation for senior seminar tomorrow.

A beautiful day

It's April 16 again, but this time the sun is shining, you can hear people laughing, and there is a blanket of peace that encircles VT. We're still sad and hurt and we will always remember, but the sense of hope has lifted us to higher, safer ground. I know we will never make up for the amazing talents that we lost with those 32 souls, but as individuals and as a community we can preserve each of their lives by continuing what they loved to do. Volunteering, academic excellence, being a kind sibling, being tolerant and understanding - all of these describe our fallen friends. As Hokies United we should come together to promote these qualities and our school motto, Ut Prosim. With much love,
Joanna

Welcome!

So the roommates of Whipple Dr. have decided to create blogs to keep up with one another after graduation. Plus, what better way to procrastinate doing our work than this? So here is my contribution to the internet's wide world of wonderfulness.