I realize this isn't really the point of this thing, but...

...I have to write a paper about If I were a house, what would I be? Not as in, what would I like to be, but my personality/psyche/self represented, house style. The outsides/some of the inside is supposed to be how others perceive me, initially and as they get to know me better. So, what I'm asking is (not in house format)- how did you first perceive me as a person, and how has that perception changed as you've gotten to know me better? Please be totally honest, here- I won't take offense to anything (and, me being un-girl-ish, you know I'm not just saying that.)
Anything at all will really help me out. If you feel like shooting me an email instead of commenting, that's cool, too: anneagain.c@gmail.com

Thank you!

Rianne
P.S.- Maybe I'll start a new trend- people getting homework help, blog-style!

12 Things I Learned at the Mandatory Campus Safety Presentation

1. Administration is smart enough to know to swipe our sun cards at the end rather than the beginning of the presentation

2. Don't get raped

3. Use u-locks to lock up your bikes

4. Hondas are really easy to break into

5. Don't drink if you are under 21....its against the law

6. Don't bring a homeless person back to your dorm

7. You aren't allowed to sublet your dorm

8. Chevy trucks are second easiest to break into

9. Lock your door

10. Don't take your roommate's Ritalin....even if they offer it to you, it isn't your prescription

11. Don't hitch a ride on the light rail by holding on to the back of it while on your bike

.....

and the most interesting piece of advice of the evening

12. Women should invest in an inexpensive masculine item to leave conspicuously placed in their cars

Intro

Well, I don't know if ya'll are ready for this, but I wrote a rap today in my intro to engineering class, which I may simply describe as what feels like a waste of time. I'm actually kinda proud of it, and definitely got some props from a couple classmates I shared it with. I felt ya'll should see it too, although it really isn't the same just reading it. It's much better performed.... (I pull off the stereotypical rapper dialect.) I'll try to help out with how I type it up.

Chek it!

I'm feelin' inspired
since I desired
to spend sum time
layin ou' my rhyme...
This E-N-G 13-0-1
Got my head unduh-the-gun
Can't wait til it's done
Cuz it ain't no fun
What duh hell're we doin'
Cuz dis class is screwin'
With whatI'drather be pursuin'
Atleastourgrades are a shoe in
It feels like a was[t]e
This class all ovuh duh place
Drooldrippin' down yuh face
Eyezcovered with uh glaze
Movin' at a slow pace
Why can't we cut to the chase?

(*rhythm change*)

We know IR equals V
And IV equals P!
Man, you think that we
Nevuh did see
Any 'lecticity?

(*rhythm change*)

In them comfy green chairs
You see us with them blank stares
Wonderin' "Who cares?"
Yeah.... Sic' em, bears...

Coocoo choir song... enjoy...

So the English translation of one of my Spanish choir songs reads as the following (with "cucu, cucu," at the beginning of EVERY line):

the frog was singing
under the water
a gentleman passed by
with a cape and hat
a lady passed by
with a long skirt
a babysitter passed by
carrying a salad
he asked for a piece
she wouldn't give him any
he went back in the water
and swam away

I didn't know why it wasn't making sense in Spanish, until I figured out that it doesn't make sense in English either!

For Laura!

even though I am

far away, I wish Laura

a happy birthday!

Wait! Not yet!

"It's snowing outside!"

Many people rush to see

Wait, it's only dust.

Ahh the joys of Jr high girls....but there is now snow on the mountains so our yearly dose must be just around the corner.

The early bird gets...

(A five-part Haiku)

Last Friday morning
I went to 8 a.m. class
Arriving early

The seats fill up fast
I was the first person there
And chose the best one

I waited for class
Getting out notebook and pen
Five minutes elapsed

And still nobody there
I glanced down, checking my watch
7:55

Then I realized
Computing only meets on
Monday and Wednesday

Silence Survey

OK, this what happens when you spend time checking out the library. I'd like to know your answers...

Is silence merely the lack of sound, or is it a sound itself? What do you personally think?

By definition, it should be the first choice, but I remember something I've read before that once described silence as "deafening" and I think some people might actually consider it a distinctly recognizable noise of its own. Or maybe it is a sound in the sense that it can communicate hesitation or agreement, etc. (Go figure I have "Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel stuck in my head...) I'm not sure what to think myself.

Lost in Walla Walla: A Sunday Morning Epic

In my attempts to avoid the freshman fifteen, I try to go on a run 3-4 days a week, usually for about 30 minutes (thats honestly all I have time for... college is insane). So I wake up Sunday morning, pull on my sneakers and tell my roommate that I'll be back in half an hour so we can go to brunch (a beautiful thing at whitman...). It is 10:15am at this point. I generally run in the neighborhood kind of behind my dorm. My brother's house is back there as is a small park. Well until this point I hadn't actually been able to find my brother's house by myself, but this time I was confident. So I follow the directions and head down Alder (this street is important later on) like I had before, then over a few blocks and up a back alleyway and sure enough I see my brother's car! So what if it was the back side of the house, I was still there! It is now like 10:30 and so I continue to the front side of the house, bang on the door to see if anyone's awake (they're not) and continue down Whitman Street (which incidently is not very close to campus). I soon come across the park, but it was a different part than I had seen before (it has an aviary!) And this is where I made my mistake; I started to run in the park. Normally I just run by or around it but no, I decided to run in it. Now I swear I was going the same direction the entire time, but I think the path turned and I didn't notice. So when I got out of the park I was going the entirely wrong direction and at 10:45 (half an hour into my run) I had NO idea where I was. It was definatly nowhere near campus and nowhere I had ever been before. I saw the "mountains" but couldn't remember which direction they where from campus. So I tried to remember the angle of the sun in comparison with my dorm room but since I was turned around that only got me more lost. And then, like a glorious beam of light, I see it! Alder Road, standing there in all its roady glory! As I approach it I realize that I was not familiar with the intersection, but of course I'm like "Hey it's alder! I can get back." So I try the sun/dorm-room trick again (bad idea) to get me going the right way. So I run yadda yadda yadda and then the road ends. Yeah, I was like WAAAAYYYY in the boonies of Walla Walla. It's like 11:15 (an hour after I left) and I finally decide to ask for directions because a) my legs hurt b)i'm hungry and c) my roommate would be worried. I find a woman sitting on her porch (thank goodness) and I start to walk over. After I avoid nearly getting attacked by her two dogs, I ask her how to get back to campus, after which she looks at me in awe and says "Whitman? you've got a ways to go!" And I'm like "oh jeez!" So she gives me directions and I follow them exactly. Her directions take me to the opposite side of campus, but nevertheless at approximatly 11:45 I stumble into my dorm room, exhausted. Of course people were wondering where I was, so I told them the story and soon enough it was all around my hall. On the bright side I was quickly given a map of Walla Walla and a few suggested running routes. And fyi, if you are ever in Walla Walla the mountains are east.

Proof that there is good in the world

Little humming bird

In an orange tree, at rest,

At peace with the world