I had this webpage up when I was in college- Esther put her plans on her homepage, so I copied the idea. I didn't save any of her .plans, but I remember the conversations with her that prompted a number of these, so I'm saving them here now.

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds

but i'll be walking proud

i'm saving what i still own

-indigo girls

wendy lives alone

now that she has a single

she will geek all night

-haiku that marian wrote for me.

this one was actually in aditi's plan:

math glory

ahh, the glory of the light of math

it shines downs upon us

illuminates us in its brilliance

its inescapable, undeniable TRUTH

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked..." -Allen Ginsberg

"When it is dark enough you can see the stars." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out." -Denis Diderot

"Let me not seem to have lived in vain." -Tycho Brahe, final words

ha ha, finals time!

echoing esther, my junior year geek & history buff book collection:

computer security basics hal's legacy computation structures ansi c linux companion escape velocity calculus & analytic geometry computer organization hotwired style elements of user interface design tcp/ip visual basic guide programmer's reference manual to some motorola chip java programming for dummies exploring java inside codewarrior 9 pascal on the mac, a graphical approach various software manuals

an autobiography of malcom x the italian renaissance reader on the beauty of women her immaculate hand giovanni & lusanna the earthly republic renaissance florence power & imagination Jennie, Vol. I & II The twenty year's crisis world economic primacy: 1500 - 1990 the world revolution of westernization the twentieth century world great power diplomacy, 1814-1914 the versailles settlement

"unless opportune remedy is applied to this heresy, it could grow & spread its roots to such an extent that the city of Florence could be rent by division..." (Brucker 251).

http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/depts/english/coursework/rar/

http://www.packet.com/packet/97/10/index3a.html --->thoughts on why i feel content right now?

on a ferry boat bound to victoria laying down to hide from the wind
big dipper hangin over the city you know everything now is different for me
-indigo girls

listened to this song on the ferry ride from vancouver island, en route to seattle then to boston. spent the last week of summer break kayaking and sleeping on beaches, in a few days i'll be in class again

my glow in the dark stars are glowing. :)

"it is against my programming to impersonate a deity" -c3po

"i shouldn't have come along. i'm endangering the mission."-luke

"i don't know. fly casual"-han

"you're going to die here, you know. kind of convenient, huh?"-han

Many Reasons to Become a DNC -- as composed by Wendy, Marian and Esther

1. flexible hours.

2. laptop, all the way

3. become privy to all sorts of interesting Macintosh and Win95 info that you wouldn't hear about otherwise.

4. work independently

5. real sense of ownership of your work

6. getting fed.

7. DNC gossip network

8. cute girls

oh wait.

9. Geo Meetings/Parties every week!

10. you hear "thank you" all the time from users

11. you know you want to know the password to lift protections on dorm computers

12. Esther's beer bread (if you're good)

13. shortcut to the digerati

14. learn more vax tricks than you've ever imagined

15. powermacs in the computer rooms next year

16. be seen as a computer goddess by those you live with

17. get to know *all* the quirks of netscape

18. hobnob with other DNCs during all ITS training things

many reasons why summer should get here right now:

a frozen lake is almost worse than no lake at all

shorts! tevas! no mittens & other yicky winter stuff!

sailing

swimming

canoeing

lying in the sunshine with a nice book

long, warm, hikes

living in a city somewhere

no homework

getting paid to geek, somewhere....

hahvahd square on summer evenings

a single!!!

road trips to cool places

lots of awesome free time

the mighty internet, with its vast array of connected systems, networks, and services, is nothing more than assembly of much simpler building blocks.

knowledge awaits!

http://www.trinityvt.edu/bdavis/cmc.htm

"i think i'm ready for spring break"

-esther we as walked from

the hoop to the minifocus

my new absolute favorite place in the world: stowe, vermont.

i'm off to seattle.

http://www.microsoft.com/macoffice/default.htm

where i'm going to spend my summer!

dinner: cheerios & jellybeans.

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

-??

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."

--Virginia Woolf

Dept/Major

IMAS

it's raining. should i get used to it raining all the time this summer?

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

--Robert Anthony

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

--Thomas C. Haliburton

things to make me smile:

yellow daffodils and carnations

sunshine

a comfy bed

dante

visual basic book which makes me laugh

crayolas

new yorker covers

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

--Albert Camus

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

--H. F. Hedge

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

--Ferdinand Magellan

stomp. stomp stomp stomp. bounce, stomp.

lost: one small brain. loves CG and
madeline. please feed it chocolate
and allow it to get some sleep.

my bed is buried under an avalanche of books. literally. it's quite impressive looking; i don't know how i lugged them all over here from the library.

things left to do:

cut hair- yum!

finish up history paper-it's lacking an intro & conclusion.

3 page physics paper-quality mit library time on saturday.

french oral- not so bad.

cs problem set which is going to be *6* days late 'cause damned if i'm not using the lateness coupons

cs exam, sadness that it will be over but bigger things await.

pack-this is gonna be horrible. shoot me now.....

go to the airport-yay lauragoddess!!

"hey kind friend don't know when i'll see you again...big dipper hanging over the city you know everything is different for me...hey kind friend help me forget where i been help me remember who i am" indigo girls

would wendy like to walk to the moon?

sure.

it would be nice if there was an escalator to moon.

*i am argueably the world's slowest person at learning to yoyo.

Tiggers are wonderful creatures.

Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs.

They're bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, and Wendy's the only one!

from esther.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. -calvin

i'm home.

it's psychosomatic. you need a lobotomy. i'll get a saw. -calvin

i like short hair!

and i love love love love love love love love love love love 2100 curfews.

other good things:

enrich light bulbs from cvs (buy them, they are wonderful!)

amy ray's voice

fresh sams

johnson's baby lotion

yellow flowers from harvard square

more good things in life:

my bike

grapefruits

sharing cinnamon buns with esther

the cute tigger bath toy heather got me

chocolate ice cream

"life is vertical. and there is no feeling on the face of the earth like living on the fall line." -glenn plake

he walked by himself and all places were alike to him. - rudyard kipling