Been busy, so I know it's been a while since I added, so here's a little more! Enjoy!


October, 2004:

Saturday afternoon:

Am studying here in the library, Liberty library. As you might guess, it's named after Ms. Liberty. Am working on a humongous paper due in December. I think I got all the notes together; my topic is adolescence over the years in different eras. Right now, I just went on a little break and am drinking a coke from the vending machine out here in the hall. Good thing I'm off work this afternoon, so I have the whole afternoon to work on this paper. I hope I can get it in before T-day, so I don't have to deal with it along with finals in December. The weather's slowly turning cooler at last and I'm glad. The trees in Central Park are really pretty, I've been hearing; Kristy and Shane are probably there now, playing a little football. Mona's at work and Greta and Wyser are out somewhere, I don't know where. Not many people in the library. Funny how the library's almost empty on weekends most of the semester, then the last week or so before finals, it fills up with people cramming for exams. Just finished my soda, so I'm headed back to the book-mines to do more on my paper. Hope I can get it all organized and get an outline together by the evening, then at six, I'm meeting Mona at the student cafe for dinner.


Monday:

Between classes now, grabbing a fast lunch. Grilled cheese sandwich, tea, and a candy bar. It really feels like fall now and the leaves around campus are beginning to change. There's even an ad for a Halloween marathon of scary movies advertised in the main student union lounge. Probably will skip that since horror movies make me too nervous and I get nightmares and goosebumps from them. Dawn loves them; she'd probably enjoy something like that. Speaking of which, I got an ee from her yesterday. Says she can't wait until she graduates from Tucson U. in the spring and hopes to come visit in the spring. She asked if I was headed to the old town for Thanksgiving and I ee'd back and said I was. Stacey also called on Sunday and is doing all right in her classes. Is working on a term paper and an experiment for her advanced engineering axioms class. She also has a cough. Hope she isn't getting a cold; I notice a few people here have colds. Flu season will be kicking in soon also. Hey, I just saw Greta come into the snack room, so I'm waving her over.


Thursday:

We had an interesting discussion in Adolescent Psych today. What we've been doing is looking at letters and questions real teenagers, parents, and teachers have asked and proposing answers to them. One question was that if you suspected your teenager was doing drugs, would you search her room? I say no, no one has the right to search someone else's belongings. Some of my classmates say yes, it is in some situations! Connie Mitsu had a good point to rebut that...if you keep lines of communications open and don't have a judgmental attitude toward your teenager, she will not feel the need to hide things from you. Good point. Not long ago, we were teenagers and I haven't forgotten my need for privacy, yet the need to be open with my folks. Kind of reminds me of back when we were in ninth grade, I was going out with this guy, Logan Bruno. We'd had a pretty intense relationship and came VERY close to having sex in the barnhouse behind my old house. It had been a rainy November day and it had been cozy in the barn. We'd gotten really sexually exited and Logan had a hard-on while my vagina had gotten wet. We thought about having sex, but knew it was too risky without protection and that neither one of us was emotionally ready either, so we put it off and let it rest at petting. Later when my folks came home from work, we'd talked a little and I'd been able to be open about the fact that I'd come close to having sex. My folks were great about it. I feel lucky to have them; a lot of teens can never be that open with their parents. Logan and I broke in in April of ninth grade and it had been really painful for both of us and both of us had cried and cried. I didn't lose my virginity until I was nineteen, my second year in college, to a redheaded guy named Chris. Chris and I were in a hot tub and we ended up having sex there. This time we had adequate protection and we were both emotionally ready. It had been really enjoyable! I think the only one of us BSC who is still a virgin is Stace. Stace says when she finds the right guy she will, but I guess she hasn't found anyone yet. I know Kristy and Shane are sexually active; those two have a great sex life. It's really too bad that so many parents are squeamish about sex; it's prevalent here in the States; in Europe, there's not a huge hangup about sexual issues.



More later!