Run Among The Clouds

I learned today that my friends horse passed on. My condolences to the Duncraven family.

Run among the clouds, and rest in peaceful pastures Vermeer.

Picnik Freak

I've lately become a raging addict of Picnik, a website that lets you alter pictures with quirky effects and such.

Here is my Picnik-made Valentine :)

Of Quindecim Reactions and Food Poisoning

As Valentine's Day approaches, a holiday I've never really ever able to get into... I pick up a copy of the Quindecim and reach for the opinion column. To much dumbstruck suprise, a different sort of article appears. Where on the front page an article applauded the new dining hall, a different tone was met on the last. 

Food poisoned by Taqueria. 

No really! Incidentally, I had experienced a similar experience.  I just thought I was getting my pre-period kick to the gut (apologies to anyone male reading this), but as it turns out I am not the only one who cannot handle the mutant mexican food served there.

As a freshman, a serving of tofu at Stimson was bad enough to send me to the hospital with two of my teammates helping me able into the waiting area. The trip resulted in many needle-jabbings and horrified faces from my team captains.

Upon arriving back at Goucher, I got the usual Goucher mini-plague of coughing that I always get, but was unpleasantly turned off by the food: the Taque...no... 'Fauxpotle' food made me want to throw up what I had just ate, Stimson's putrid stench slung to my clothes long after meals of poorly-heated not-well-made-at-all pasta, and Heubeck was all but a crapshoot...much of the food that I probably COULD eat was loaded with nuts. Oh and they don't tell you if there are nuts in it, you sort of have to guess...a fun new game for those of us that cannot eat tree nuts (though peanuts aren't nuts, and are therefore fine). It seems EVERY salad and its mom has walnuts. The granola is packed with nuts. I'm going nuts just typing this in fact.

Similarly, Alice's which held so much promise as the 'hipkidfairtradenotStarbucksStarbucks' has managed to retain its 'ok' status,....although sadly the tuna was messed around with, and the need to know your servers has reached new heights: This is crucial if you get the person that keeps putting hazelnut in the mocha smoothie even though it should NEVER be in a Mocha Breakfast unless asked for. 

So overall,  I LOVE my classes, I LOVE my school....but I, and a number of other students are highly considering dropping our mealplans altogether.

Get to work Goucher.

Food and Vomit

Food should never be vomit-inducing. It shouldn't. But after seeing the changes Goucher has made to our dining hall....sadly that's my only review.

The pasta line is gone, we have a...taco...thing, and the sandwich bar is gone.

College

In the heat of moving in, starting classes, and being horrified at Goucher's new taco-cafeteria (yes, you read that correctly), I had very nearly forgotten to write up a little blog. So here is said "little blog" :

So to summarize, in the past few weeks we have had classes postponed, cancelled, or generally messed around with in the name of snow, had an underground manhole fire, and have had to ask all Mary Fisher residents to vacate their rooms as of this pending thursday; on which classes are also cancelled due to power outages at school.

In the heat of all this excitement, its difficult to bear in mind that I attend a school and not a de-railed train, but with any luck things will shortly return to normal.

In other news, the riding team has been fun to come back to: some new faces and horses that are quite pleasant to be around. And I am considering trying Goucher Idol. No one knows why. Thats a lie, I'll sing for anything, and its a singing competition. Therefore, must do.

At any rate, I'm off to support the GoHo. And be a good student and stuff.

Public Service Announcement

I'm sorry I have to do this, honestly, its incredibly embarrassing.



In Germany, some USAC students noticed that you could eat horse meat, because there were several butchers in the area that served it. I, being a horse person, was not about to be a big jerk and tell everyone not to eat horse; just because I don't want to doesn't mean I should go all PETA on you.



However, I do not condone directing this craze of eating 'tasty animals' being applied to my horse AT ALL. Leaving comments about eating, trying to eat, or wishing to eat my partner of nearly 8 years is incredibly disrespectful. He has always been there for me; he is my rock. Why am I so offended?

I don't have any desire to eat dog, but seeing as many people have dog, I'm going to roll with it. If I were to say, feel compelled to eat dog and like it, I might jokingly mention that on your facebook wall, or in passing conversation. However lets say you had a dog, a dog like this:

Now, if I posted something like "Mmm tasty dead puppy!" That would be INCREDIBLY insensitive, no? I'd bet you'd be enraged. Who the hell walks up to a person and says, "Hi, your dog looks delicious, I want to eat it" ? NO ONE. Because its RUDE.

I again, apologize profusely for this, the fact I even have to say this is an insult to my true friends, it really is: the fact a friend of mine would even have the nerve to REPEATEDLY do it is worse.

This is officially a warning to all facebook/youtube/twitter/etc. members I am friends with: IF YOU DARE TO BE SO RUDE AND INSENSITIVE AS TO POST INSULTING COMMENTS ABOUT WANTING TO/PARTAKING IN/PLANNING TO PARTAKE IN CONSUMING MY HORSE, YOU WILL BE REPORTED ANS BLOCKED IMMEDIATELY.

Leave as many rediculous "yum horses" as you want, but if you dare you my horse's name or picture ANYWHERE in it, I will have NO tolerance AT ALL.

Thank you.

New Year, new school?

Just before I hit campus, I like to do what I have started to call "shopping around" campus opinion.

This is to say, I decide just for the heck of it, to google goucher college.

Now I don't do this to read what Goucher College itself has put up recently, but rather what the student populace has offered up....and by student, I don't mean Goucher student specifically.

In the same way I sometimes google my full name to see if anything unpleasant has reared its head from my facebook account, I curiously see what has spawned from Goucher.

Welcome Back!

Back home in NJ now, and enjoying being around my horse and friends.

(the above horse is not my horse, its a horse a la Google Images)

Goucher is just over the horizon, and still down a computer and unaware where I will be living, its going to be a LONG year. 

I did finally write a review of my study abroad experience. 

Now its not glam, or "oh my god how AMaaaaaaZING"

But its real, and exactly how I felt.

You can read it here. xoxo

I called it "No Grammar Left Behind", and its important to know that I studied in Track 4.

Some might find it brash, but...honest isn't always pretty.

That being said, take it with a generous helping of salt.

At any rate, I'll be trying to make this more regular as school gets back on track :)