Colbert K School

Yahoo, Mickey is here this week-end. It's so refreshing and wonderful to have her here. She got in this morning at the perfect time - as we were trying to muddle through the morning chaos of trying to get out the door, and it was great to have that breath of fresh energy.

She and I took Liam to preschool, and then she and I walked over to campus. She tooled around Harvard Square while I tried to organize myself before my quant review - trying to do the logistical work in applying to grad schools - mostly transcripts this morning - I have four - Duke, Harvard, U of Toledo (one summer class) and Augsburg College (study abroad) - of course, each have their own ways of obtaining them. Lots of bureacratic hoops, including going to the career office to try and fax a few transcript requests - what an ancient artifact, the fax machine is. On my way into the career center, there were big well, designed signs about recruiters on campus today - from the World Bank and the Dept. of Homeland Security - later Negroponte will speak - in other words, how we're using your hard earned (or debted) tuition money to support our repressive capitalist system. In the center, though, I did have a nice chat with folks about Colbert coming to campus. I don't know why I've been obsessing about it. I even dreamed last night that I went to the forum event and he walked up onto the third floor and hung out while lots of chaos was happening, and he and I chatted for awhile.

Anyway, he's here at 4pm, and it's been a dance or two to try to get tickets. I signed up for the lottery and actually got one, but I really wanted to take Mickey. On the KSG home page were oodles of requests, including "Sell me a ticket b/c it's my birthday" "Will sell kidney for Colbert ticket" and "Big money for Colbert" However, mine worked: Private Yoga Session for Colbert - Chaking.

After a confusing quant review session (the grad student had a major concept wrong in our calculation - in other words, a waste to go), Mickey met me and we walked back to pick up Liam at preschool for assembly - great fun - then on to expensive but yummy Darwin's - Liam's whining paid off in getting people to leave so we could sit and eat.

Then back home where I talked Mickey's ear off about my grad school decisions. Then, I went to try to do some work and saw an e-mail from beloved GrgWlsn, who works for the forum office, and said he had two tickets for me. I called to say thanks (I had asked him earlier this week), but that I had a few. He said, "On the floor?" "No," I said. "Then get over here and I'll give them to you." Good reason to try to get some work done at all today, so I rushed over here, got my tickets, gave my other one to another student and have been trying to work at the library. We're not allowed to bring anything into the Colbert event (i.e. anti free speech efforts), so I don't have my bible of a laptop to focus on. I tried to get a quant book, but it's useless. I talked to another student applying to Comm programs, which was helpful, as well as the bigwig in the ministry of Chna about our nb papers - he was worried that he didn't know enough about the u.s. media system or that everything has to be compared to the U.S. as the media ideal. hogwash, i told him and said that so many people diss' China but it'd be great to get an analysis from someone there. He claims that the "free" media in the u.s. causes high teenage pregnancy and gun violence.

Alas, gotta run to meet Mickey to go see Colbert. Yahoo.