Michigan's Missing Glove
Musings from Jessica – Post #9 – 1 August 2009
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Happy First of August, everybody!
By the way, that noise you hear, like a sixth grader practicing his cello in the apartment above yours? That’s the train that goes by my house. Oh yes. I was surprised to hear it on camera because I’ve gotten so used to it in real life that I didn’t even realize a choo-choo was chugging along at that moment in time.
Enjoy!
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Anticipating the School Year
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I miss having free access to the OED online.
I miss Bodo’s Sundays.
I miss the libraries and the lovely architecture.
…especially the Harry Potter Room.
I miss social living.
I miss having a tight schedule and actually needing to use my planner.
I MISS WRITE CLUB!
I’m itching to get started on Voices of the Class.
I can’t wait for Fondue Fridays and Monday dinners in Lambeth.
I miss the opportunity to do great things at every turn.
I miss living in a city that has approximately twice as many people as Chester and more restaurants per capita than New York City.
I miss Thomas Jefferson, UVA, the whole shebang – I’m a Wahoo through and through (I even miss “The Good Ol’ Song”) – and I can’t wait to move back in!
…just 30 more days…
(I’m working on my proposal to gain entrance into Intermediate Fiction Writing, so maybe starting on that will make term get here faster.)
Do you feel like your friends are getting ahead while you’re staying behind?
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Happy 40th anniversary of the lunar landing! Yay, America! Learned that from the LA Times Crossword, and I’ve been fighting the urge to sing “We Went to the Moon” from the Even Stevens musical episode ever since.
When I wasn’t fighting that urge, I was having lunch and hanging out with my high school friends Spencer and Wyatt. I thought it might be awkward, having not seen either of them in quite some time, but the conversation just picked right back up like we saw each other yesterday.
Wyatt just got back to the States after spending a year in Germany through the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange. On Thursday Spencer’s leaving for the same program. I am SO jealous of them. The CBYX pays for practically everything except incidental expenses, and this experience will look so good on their CVs. WOW. Aren’t you jealous by now, too?
Speaking for those of us who have to pay for our trips abroad, here’s how my fundraising “progress” is going: it’s not. I have twenty-some dollars in my bank account right now. 
A recent personal decision I made may raise my funds a tad, but who knows? I’m giving myself until January to have raised a serious enough amount of money to consider an internship abroad before I start focusing more intently on something stateside. I really do hope things work out… That would look so great on my resume and improve my professional future so much, so … popping over to my Donations page would be greatly appreciated! 
Tags: 7/20/1969, abroad, Congress-Bundestag, donations, Europe, Even Stevens, France, FRIENDS, Germany, international, internship, Intrax Intern Abroad, Lunar landing, Summer 2009, Youth exchange
