<p>I’m going to guess that Naperville has better drivers. Evanston is too close to the city.</p>
<p>This is, of course, mere speculation, and I am fully prepared for the Chicagoan himself to begin a tirade of some sort.</p>
<p>I spent a mostly fruitless hour on Wikipedia today reading about Chicago’s seventy-seven communities. Hegewisch is such an awesome name, but that’s all it has going for it.</p>
<p>I have so much homework. For tomorrow.</p>
<p>What’s my favorite book? Besides HPizzle.</p>
<p>I will not begin a tirade. </p>
<p>Everyone drives pretty much the same in the Chicagoland area. Maybe a little faster and more aggressive in the city, but nothing like how those hayseeds down south drive.</p>
<p>I want to work in economic development, but I’m not sure I want a PhD. Hmm.</p>
<p>I’m a bit the same way. I would love to get into some sort of advising and discussing job, but I don’t really want to do it in the university setting. It’s too sheltered. It also just sort of occurred to me. How am I going to go about picking an econ school for my master’s degree after UChicago? I suppose I could just stay there.</p>
<p>When I took driver’s ed, I wanted to go to Toledo so I could get some big city driving experience. But the instructor said no, that it was their policy to stay out of accident-prone areas. So I’m an expert at driving on country roads with no traffic. I’ve only driven in Toledo a few times.</p>
<p>College. Puh.</p>
<p>Why did they have to invent the curie when the damn becquerel worked just fine. Why.</p>
<p>Because Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination.</p>
<p>Because Marie was so much cooler than Henri.</p>
<p>This is yet another example of French efficiency.</p>
<p>Exactly. I don’t see how anyone could prefer anyone over Ms Sklodowska. But technically she did become a French citizen.</p>
<p>I know a lot about Marie Curie. Eerie.</p>
<p>We took a short little pretest to get into AP English today and I doubt I did well on the 5 multiple choice questions, but we also had to write an essay analyzing something or other about a book that we could choose, and the directions said to make sure we picked something with literary merit (ie, no Twilight) and I couldn’t think of anything for ten minutes so I just wrote about Harry Potter. And my friends think I’m an idiot BUT IF IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR MICHIKO KAKUTANI IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME. But they really do think Harry Potter is on the same level as Twilight. I was hurt. And they like Harry Potter. My essay was pretty bangin’ though.</p>
<p>I should’ve done Catcher in the Rye. God. But still. I don’t care if the teacher thinks I’m idiot.</p>
<p>You seriously couldn’t think of anything?</p>
<p>This is the longest post I’ve seen you write in a while.</p>
<p>It’s 20:05 and I’ve done nothing.</p>
<p>Don’t you start on me. Dammit, EVERYONE LOVES HARRY POTTER DAMMIT. Take measure in the fact I’m a bangin’ essay writer, 'kay?</p>
<p>Okay. I write mostly sucky essays. Last year on the AP Lit exam, I used The Scarlet Letter on the open prompt, mostly because I hadn’t read anything else on the list. My connection to the prompt was a bit rough, but it got me a 4. That was the best score anyone from my school had ever gotten, so meh.</p>
<p>My English class is reading its first prose novel of the year. Frankenstein. There will be no nonfiction, which disappoints me.</p>
<p>Everyone else wrote about the Scarlet Letter. I didn’t even think of it. The only other book I could think of was Artemis Fowl, and I’m pretty sure Harry Potter was the better of the two.</p>
<p>But my friend who’s in her class now said he told the teacher about me and there’s little chance I won’t get in the class even if I bombed the test. Connections.</p>
<p>Between Artemis Fowl and Harry Potter, Harry is definitely the obvious choice. What was the prompt?</p>
<p>I need to have a memorable dream. The last one I remember was from a few weeks ago, when I dreamed of the “vaticans” of Selma, Alabama. The mall and the high school appeared normal on the outside, but they were huge, Gothic, and gorgeous on the inside. Since then, I haven’t remembered any.</p>
<p>Just analyze how an outsider to a society reveals the society’s morals and attitudes and such.</p>
<p>Michiko Kakutani is a hack.</p>
<p>I write all impromptus about Slaughterhouse-Five, it has a bit of everything.</p>
<p>Both Catcher in the Rye and The Scarlet Letter would have been perfect. To Kill a Mockingbird would have been nice, as would Brave New World. I wish I had that prompt for the AP test.</p>
<p>I made the mistake of reading Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. I consider it one of the suckiest pieces of all time. Hopefully Slaughterhouse-Five is better.</p>
<p>If I’m coming to Chicago, I should also read The Jungle.</p>
<p>Timequake is one of those books that you have to have read his other works for, and you have to read it three or four times. Then you appreciate it.</p>
<p>Pizza Pizza.</p>
<p>If you’re coming to Chicago, you should read something by Studs Terkel.</p>
<p>Toledo doesn’t have any good authors. That probably stems from the fact that it has only one-tenth of the population Chicago has, but still. Jamie Farr and Katie Holmes are pretty much all Toledo has.</p>