I got to the airport on Tuesday morning and read some Steinbeck and got a bagel and got on a plane to LaGuardia and got to NY and read some Steinbeck and got on a plane to Roanoke and got to Virginia and waited for the shuttle to come and drove another hour up to Lexington.
Let me just say that I absolutely love flying, in all seriousness. Being in and around airplanes was one of the best parts of the trip--I considered running off to join the Air Force but decided against it because of all the money my family already dumped into applications.
So, I was in Virginia for Tuesday, Wednesday, and part of Thursday for the Johnson Scholarship Competition and Washington and Lee. A couple of years ago, some ridiculously loaded alumnus gave the university 100 million to set up this scholarship, and every year 40 of us reap the benefits. The school pays for about 180 seniors to fly down and stay in the dorms so that they can be interviewed and check out the vibe of the campus.
I liked it. I didn't love it. I got to sneak into the dress rehearsal of Chicago with the theatre majors and successfully avoided the massive party scene. Cool people were met. Good interviews were had. I went through four airplane takeoffs and loved every one of them. I got to hang around airports and people watch and relax a little bit. I started writing my speech. I went to school on Friday.
I had a free hour and a half Friday morning, so I decided to type up and learn my fragmented and mixed-up speech for that afternoon so I could read it to the panel and qualify for the actual contest. With an hour to go in my study, I completely scrapped it and wrote four entirely new pages and that's what I'm taking with me because, apart from the fact that I need to sink way more time into it this weekend and do some polishing, I really really like it. I'll put it up on SVe and probably facebook too.
I came home. I watched a movie. I went to bed and slept.
L
PS: 19 days until April 1st.
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