bear and (in?) a presentable brown hat...

ahhhaa! two of the most wonderful people in the world (most of the time) dear sis and father-bear from their visit to bowdoin last month! i had a hard time deciding between this picture and the one of them standing in front of the huge boot at bean's but i decided that papa san looked a bit scary in the boot one... so here we go. :)

right now i'm in the basement of hl writing writing...furiously writing...and going on tangents. but that's normal, i think. the greatest tangent (and the inspiration to write right now) came just a few minutes ago... i was upstairs on the second floor gathering random books about fish and such when i stumbled into the anthropology section (ok, i went there intentionally because i'm confused about culture) and started flipping through books. i picked up one entitled "anthropologists and anthropology" (i realize its supposed to be underlined, but i can't figure out how to do that here...hmm) anywho, flipping through i came across this letter. so wonderful. odd, but wonderful... it's from malinowski to betrand russell in 1930...

Dear Russell,
On the occasion of my visit to your School I left my only presentable brown hat in your anteroom. I wonder whether since then it has had the privilege of enclosing the only brains in England which I ungrudgingly regard as better than mine; or whether it has been utilized in some of the juvenile experimentations in physics, technology, dramatic art, or prehistoric symbolism; or whether it naturally lapsed out of the anteroom.
If none of these events, or shall we rather call them hypotheses, holds good or took place, could you be so good as to bring it in a brown paper parcel or by some other concealed mode of transport to London and advise me on a post card where I could reclaim it? I am very sorry that my absentmindedness, which is a characteristic of high intelligence, has exposed you to all the inconvenience incidental to the event.
I do hope to see you some time soon.
Yours sincerely,
B. Malinowski

haha pretentious, perhaps. but if i could write a letter like that... (i wouldn't be so mean to physics, technology, etc.) anyway. page 36/37 of the 1973 edition.

right right. break is quickly winding down. i have much to do, too little time, and again... as always... other things on my mind. latest of which is whether i want to quit swimming. as of now, yes. as of after dinner tonight with cassia, who will undoubtedly persuade me not to quit, no... ach. i think i will need a wee bit of mental fortitude and just go with what i feel. i'd rather go hiking... or camping... running... no more pool.

really my dears, it's not easy being green. ooh and ps i've decided that i really like seeing people smile. even mentally haha. i talked to nagymama today (and mama and horvath iren) and i told her one of the hungarian tongue twisters i've been working on, and mama said she got 10 years younger and was smiling. i like that. i guess it's time to get back to work. this has been a fun diversion.