Hollyer Than Thou

I quit the play, Leavittsburg, Ohio, which is a good play (you should see it when it opens in November) but which wasn’t working with either my expectations or needs. Theater in high school was more fun-oriented than art-oriented. I don’t want to be a theater person, I just wanted to be in the theater community; too bad community here is closer to a professional association.

So I am starting over. I am on student council and its student services committee, personally responsible for creating a website directory far more useful than the current Brown website. Last week, I joined ACLU, and am also responsible for creating a website for them, a human/civil rights blog that features the perspectives of the campus ACLU and other interested school organizations. Wordpress, here I come! (It will be hard working with something other than the pure genius of Tumblr.)

Speaking of websites, my Biotechnology in Medicine class has divided us into groups of four (mine has two members named Holly). Our task: build a blog regarding the history of a biotech development, which is likely to be stem cell therapy.

Because the play had been eating up potential social time, I was feeling really depressed around the end of last week. I have enacted a strategy to get myself to do at least one unusually social thing a day. Last night, for the other Holly’s birthday, a girl named Mary, Holly, and I took the trolley to the mall and had cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory. (I had Dulce de Leche cheesecake a la mode with coffee ice cream. Super buzz.)

Today, I not only ate lunch with my advisor and advising group, but I also “tabled” with the president of ACLU, getting people to fill out a form sent to senators encouraging the JUSTICE Act over the PATRIOT Act, which is up for vote tomorrow. Then, because I am that open of a person, I went with a hallmate (who slowly is becoming a friend) to a showing of BLAST!, a documentary about a telescope hooked to a balloon that looked into the most distant space ever examined. The story followed the researchers over a two-year period, and it was thoroughly entertaining.

I had a good time.