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This journal was kept by Lauren Kent while participating in the NYLine, an organized charity line-a-thon at NYC's Ziegfeld Theatre for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. Over the eighteen days of the line, its 240 staff and participants raised over $18,500 for the Starlight Children's Foundation through the generous donations of friends, family, and passersby at the line site.

about the author
Lauren is a 20 year old junior at NYU. She was present for 230 hours during fifteen of the line's eighteen days (and was so sick she couldn't leave home the other three), earning 735 points, the fifth-highest total at the end of the line.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2002
7.33pm
Emerald Planet

Two days and change after the big discovery, what say I? Um... I'm not sure. I gave up and publicly proclaimed it in my weblog - I guess that I felt (especially given recent events) that it was too integral to edit out when I finally get this thing posted.

But aside from that, nothing has happened. I PMed him about the Conan tape; an hour later, Samantha sent me a link to a WMV of the segment, so I kind of feel like a doofus now, not that it was my fault. At any rate, he hasn't checked the JC recently, so it doesn't really matter.

My return to real life has been uneventful and smooth, if slightly depressing. I've mostly held myself over with prepping the journal for posting; between that and scanning my pictures, it's about all I've done when I'm not at work (and even when I am). Can't seem to come up with a layout I like, though. Hrmph.

I've somehow managed to go three days now without seeing AOTC. I was going to go Monday night, then decided when I got home at 9.30 that I probably didn't have time to get to the Zieg, find a ticket, and still get a decent seat. I may go tomorrow night, maybe Friday - definitely Saturday with SWNYC, and it looks like we're having an impromptu reunion on Sunday.

I suppose it's worth recording that despite my inattentiveness, I still managed an A in Web/Database, which almost makes up for the abysmal C+ I received in Intro to C. I have to wait a year for Molec Cell, of course, but I'm confident (having been threatened by both sides of the system already) that I should emerge from this academic ordeal with a set of grades that doesn't reflect the utter chaos of the last three weeks of the semester.

And I must admit that despite the occasional insanity I've undergone recently, I feel much better than I'd expected for semester's end, and I can attribute that only to the line. I guess it's some sort of afterglow - even though I miss everyone terribly, I still feel fantastic. And that alone is something to be joyous about.