Happy Halloween! and Something Weird about flippee.

My post-modern peacock outfit. I love it. I wish I could dress this all the time.

I spent the night hanging out with Ethandear at the Williams residence. I do love that family. We watched The Shining. And omg, I remember seeing "REDRUM" when I was little and that moment scared me for life. But it was amazing. and not that scary. Much more Hitchcock like than I assumed. But I don't really get scared during scary movies and I get scared during movies I'm not supposed.

Here's a secret: My number one most scared moment while watching a movie was during...Breaking Away. Yes, you're thinking of the right one.

The bike movie.

When Dennis Quaid like jumps into the ravine with the lake and hides under the dumpster; I flipped out. I was convinced Dennis was a goner. But I think I saw this movie first when I hadn't completely separated fiction and reality.

Like during the period when I thought Mel Gibson actually was disembowled and racked and beheaded while directing Braveheart. I honestly just assumed that was the last scene that was shot.

Morocco: Where I plan on becoming like any other woman, only more so.

Casablanca reference. Catch it.

[that building is a minaret apart of the largest mosque in the world outside of Mecca]

Meknes, Morocco. Hopefully my location for 6-12 weeks this summer!

This is a mausoleum in Meknes.

But I've always loved Morocco culture. I did a project on it in 7th grade. I had to make a "float" on like a wagon and it smelled like a kebab. Will did Algeria I think? Which is cute because they are right next each other.

But it had music. and obviously I chose...

back to this trip and Meknes.

I'm so excited. Even at the prospect of it. I have so much to do; before I can even apply I need to get a passport. So even if I don't do it, I'll get a passport.

I'd be staying with a host family, so I don't think I would take Arabic, at least I went for 6 weeks, because Moroccan Arabic is so different from Formal Arabic.

I would take the first three if I go 6 weeks, and all five if I go 12 weeks:

• Gender Studies: A Case Study of Morocco
• Exploration of Culture and History
• Archeology in Morocco
• Islamic Civilization and Artistic Expression
• Beginning Arabic I

But what I am really excited about is: planning my soundtrack.

Kearney family tradition states that you HAVE to have a soundtrack of sorts for any trip. Whether it is planned meticulously on a series of mixtapes or if it is because you let Julianna pick out the music and she only picked one CD that every one likes.

And since I spent the greater part of senior year and this semester feeling like Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famous when she sneaks Bookends into her house under her coat by listening to Simon and Garfunkel by the gallon, and since Kate Hudson goes to Morocco at the end of the film, my soundtrack is going to be a lot of Simon & Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, The Who, The Allman Brothers and David Bowie.

That would probably be my soundtrack of my life anyway. Anyways Taylor Swift doesn't really fit a) in that group or b) in Morocco.

Updates will continue to come on all Morocco plans, but I can't really do anything until I get a passport, which I am planning to get over the Thanksgiving Break!

Happy Halloween everyone! Pictures of Peacock Flapper tonight!

A Tale of Two Majors—English and Classical Languages

When asked what he looks for in a woman by the Proust Questionnaire at the back of Vanity Fair, Garrison Keillor said

High-spiritedness, wit, a love of repartee and wordplay and allusion and jokes—in other words,

an English major.

Well put, Mr. Keillor, who I actually had the oppurtunity to meet and chat with about golfcarts* at the Decatur Writing Festival this fall. And English Major [plus Classics] I will be. But here goes the rest of my academic plans that all point towards...becoming an academic.

Next semester I am planning on taking the following schedule (I'm registering in a week or so I believe)

Monday-Wednesday-Friday

Eng 322, The Woman Question in Victorian literature with [babuhdabum] Professor Cozzens! I've been waiting so long to have a class with her! My mom had her when she was at Agnes Scott for the M.A.T. program and I work with a lot of her current students in the Writing Center.

Lat 202, Intermediate Second Semester with Professor Jim Abbot!‡ I had Abbot this semester for History of Greek Civilization and I love him. This is the guy who makes me want to double major. I've never seen anyone get so excited by a 1/30th of a pediment.

Ant 101, I'm taking this in preparation for MOROCCO. [see next blog post] Plus it fulfills two graduation requirements. whoa. This class only meets on MW

Rel 232, Tibet in Film and Literature with Professor Zablocki. So everyone knows I love China. But the only country I love more than China, culturally, is Tibet! We just had a group of Tibetan monks on campus doing a sand painting. And it was very moving. Plus I love disenfranchised people. Could the Dalai Lama get cuter? And this class only meets twice a week from 5:30 to 8:30 on Mondays and 5:30-6:30 on Wednesday.

Tuesday-Thursday

CLL 212, Greek and Roman Heroes with Professor MacEwan, and I will have gotten the flush of Classics Professors! This is my only class on Tuesday-Thursday.

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*Why is this my default topic of conversation? I love golfcarts and I love Peachtree City. I suppose it was appropriate to mention to Mr. Keillor the quirk of my small-town life. But golfcarts? C'mon Emma, this guy is one of your favorite Apples to Apples† cards

†A favorite game among Kearneys. I hope to meet someday my other favorite living Apples to Apples card—Sean Connery. Our other automatic win card is Carl Sagan. But unfortunately the Great One has passed on.

‡ I like to exclaim a lot. Especially about English and Latin!

Bamboo Needles

I had a lovely long weekend with the Kearney girls, especially because of my awesome yarn purchases. (Thank you, momma)

But my best purchase by far was a set of 5.5 mm bamboo double-pointed knitting needles! They are absolutely the best set I've had and I am never buying an aluminum knitting needle again.

My main source of complaint with knitting against my fiber art of choice, crocheting, is that the wrist isn't used enough in the nature of the stiches, though it is obviously should be the joint of choice, as it is the closest.

*This may be my personal knitting style, but hey, I knit like a crocheter.

Aluminum, though slick, always catches the yarn and I have to do this weird elbow chicken moment to release it and by then I've usually dropped three stitches. BUT, that's where bamboo comes in!

They feel amazing in my hands and helped me finish a project I never thought possible for me, an inept round knitter.

A ribbed knitted hat!

Pictures will be up shortly when I finish a few other projects, including a scarf for my mom, and one for Mrs. Lovett, an infinity, mobius scarf that will be for sale on my etsy toppings, and possibly another hat, in yellow and gray stripes, now that I know how to do it! and knitting uses so much less yarn, so bits that I could never make a hat with while crocheting I can now!

Black Cat Formal

dancing
the girls

the dresses

ASC 101 girls-Lamest Class Ever, but super sweet girls
Max was there! Middle School buddies reunited.

Black Cat was so much fun, I feel supremely sorry for anyone who does not attend Agnes Scott.

ACCOMPLISHMENT

Finished a goal!
I watched Love Story. now I want it get cold and wear my trench the collar half popped around my neck.


and I went running, 3 miles. on my way to a marathonnnn.

ToDoWhooHoo

I set goals a lot. and one of my surprisingly good qualities is that I usually obtain them. just my goals are usually oddly arbitrarily selected, not necessarily improving myself, just giving me a sense of accomplishment, which I suppose does improve my self-esteem. but example: becoming a vegetarian-just to see if I could do it. for 8 years. I love causes, but that is not a cause; that is stubborn eight-year being contrary. Well these are my goals, silly or not.



1. Clean my room on saturday. Small room, lots of stuff, equals big mess in college dorm room.

2. Go running. once my toe recovers from its massive splinter. that I got from a toothpick.

3. Finish Middlemarch

4. Watch Love Story

5. Get my costume ready for Halloween. still up in the air about what I'm going to be exactly. Mrs. Dalloway or Miss Woodhouse are front runners for Friday and peacock if I can find the stuff for Saturday.

And life wouldn't be very Emma-like if I didn't have a far fetched goal.

6. I'm going to run a marathon.