Our state of mind

As one Bwogger put it, it’s been a week of degeneracy. We’ve succeeded in setting our sights low, lying to ourselves, and mentally preparing for a week of agony that should be followed, theoretically, by a month of bliss. As you read through these field notes, (a) feel grateful you’re not us, and (b) consider sending in your own via tips@bwog.com or our tip form. 

Meditations on Carman Redux

• “Came to grips with my inner ego while watching a Carman closet door.”
• “Went to Toms at 2 am alone in sweats to write a paper and eat fries.”
• “Watched the sun set over the city while tripping on shrooms.”
• “Got a bottle of rum for Christmas that probably won’t survive to see the end of finals.”
• “Learned the capacity of the human body to intake psychoactive substances and still recover.”
• “Found a plant sitter for winter break.”
• “A stranger on the bus offered me a banana.”
• “Thought I saw a building on fire but it was an oil refinery.”
• “A week of degeneracy ended with a day at Butler, as it should.”
• “Went to a party with friends and dipped only to end up in Carman lounge and reminiscing about when we actually used to have fun.”
• “Cried until I gave myself a dehydration headache.”
• “Signed up at the Writing Center three times in one day because every time they called me I was in class…realized in the end my essay’s terribleness was God’s will.”
• “Some non-relative at a Hanukkah party back home asked me if I was married.”
• “Witnessed some bizarre tension, possibly sexual, between a student and his UW teacher as they had a conference.”
• And: “Had a tension-ridden conference myself in which my prof told me she felt as though she’d failed as a feminist.”
• “Just lost my friend in Butler stacks for an hour. She left to go get me a snack / go to bathroom, but her phone died, so she went to Barnard to get a charger, but didn’t have her ID…I tweeted about it and was about to email her on gBear when she came back, but without my snack!!!”
• “Pretended I only spoke Spanish to avoid talking to a creepy, persistent guy with an earring at 1020; ended up typing “no quiero hablar contigo” in Google Translate for him because he wouldn’t give it up.”

Meditations on…EC?

• “Supported my friend at NYU in a mostly bro beer pong tournament.”
• “Listened to another Spec person confide their desire to be on Bwog to me.”
• “Forgot and remembered again how great the GTA V soundtrack is.”
• “FaceTimed with my sister while she was high. She thought she was stuck in a dollhouse, so I took a video and sent it to my family in a mass email so we could have something to talk about over Christmas.”
• “Went to a drive-thru Starbucks for the first time. Geeked out with my mom about it.”
• “My roommate was gone for the weekend, so I made a blanket fort in our room and ate her microwave popcorn while reading German poetry.”
• “Took a stealth picture of my professor at a party with the flash on.”
• “Friend gave me the rest of her weed because she wants to stop smoking in order to do well on finals. Put weed in my pocket and then ALMOST put my flannel through the washing machine.”
• “Babysitting gig started at 7 am this morning but friend had a promoter last night so I was clubbing till 4 am because what are finals.”
• “Watched a wedding party take pictures in front of Butler, which struck me as either wildly or not at all romantic, depending on the backstory.”
• “Acquired a My Little Pony doll pipe.”
• “Went to a meditation chocolate session on Friday night in Greenpoint. We all pulled goddess cards from the center and told our life stories. My card was ‘Athena, goddess of wisdom,’ and her mantra is ‘follow your inner wisdom.’
• “Saw Hunger Games on Columbia’s dime, judged a gingerbread house contest, and went to two parties in EC.”
• “Finished applying to grad schools.”