11:54 p.m.

no hazmats. no hazmats. hazmats use this exit NOW (yes, with a capi’al NOW)

and what are hazmats exactly? can i be one so that i can feel very special and get off on very special exits on the highway? that probably lead to very special wonderful places that only these very special hazmats have access to? my first thoughts were “haz” as in the tu form affirmative spanish command (yeah i can remember this at sporadic moments on the highway but not on tests) and was like make mats? you want me to make mats? how did you know that i was a mat-maker? how would one make mats? is it as complicated as making buses? probably not, the factories don’t need to be as big. this was basically the running dialogue in my head for a good 5 minutes. and after seeing many a more signs, i really really wanted to sabotage my fathers driving and kick the steering wheel so that we could “accidentally” go off on a hazmat exit. yeah. daring rogue till the end, that’s me.

but, well, i didn’t. and we got to Durham, NC at around 1 in the morning. twas late, we were lost, and the man at the mariott who we kept calling for directions kept saying over and over duke street turns into gregson (but i thought he said gracin, and thought of joshua gracin, and thought of american idol, and thought of annoying really needs to leave carmen, got angry, and didn’t pay attention to the rest of the directions). the ride there was moderately nice, minus mom almost puking on us and us spending 2 and a half hours looking for a place that sold alka seltzer and exploring a Springfield, VA mall and getting pulled over for running a stop sign in the mall parking lot and then having mom show the police guy my duke brochure and try to get out of a ticket. meanwhile daddoo was allowing susans mini badge to glint in the sun quite nicely. haha twas funny.

but otherwise, i just sat in the back, listening to my cd’s for like 9 hours or so. except when mom wanted to sleep in the backseat so i had to move to the front seat, and my parents were playing these tapes of our minister giving sermons, and he had this very cutting voice, so i kept hearing him over my cds, and so id put my discman higher, and higher, and then my ears started hurting, and the man kept like searing through, and it was all quite painful. and im already pretty deaf cuz for like a good 12 years of my life i would hold my nose when i sneezed and i learned at age 12 that this makes you go deaf and one day my eardrum will just poof bust open and then ill be in trouble, like Beethoven. sorta unglorifying beethovens tragic deafness, but hey, scared me all the same.

so: a list of what i have learned from my 2 day trek at duke:

1. liz has allergies.

2. the counting crows cd august and everything after is the perfect cd for road trips in the sun.

3. i don’t remember what the names of the puffy round white clouds are. cumulus?

4. when you leave the state of nj, and people ask you where you are from, you are all of a sudden from ny instead.

oh yeah, and

5. dukes campus is obscenely pretty and obscenely large, which we gathered after getting lost for 40 minutes. and the rents kept saying it looked like a place for lazy slow people cuz it was sorta homely country-esque and that i would fit right in, but that’s a bad thing, and i need to be in a cold place so that i can stay on my toes and start waking up to my alarm on time.

so. took what, 11 hours to get down here, we go to bed at 2, wake up at 8:30, leave the hotel at 10, get to duke, get lost at duke, get very lost at duke, go around in circles at duke, and finally make it onto a campus. yes there are two. im telling ya, its obscene in the largeness. haha yeah and we stay there for about hmm 20 minutes. we walk around, smell the pretty flowers, go into the pretty chapel, stop random people and have them be insulted when my dad says oh you look very young you’re a senior? i thought you were a freshman. and then we’re off again onto I-85 for the 10 hour drive home. so. um. yeah. very. informative. the admissions office was closed, everything was traffic-jammed for the alumni reunion, blarghy. and i was very overwhelmed by the largeness, and now instead of helping to narrow my choices down, ive decided to visit williams too. but, a major plus for duke: they have friggity humungo benches EVERYWHERE. its really quite amusing. but there were a lot of sorority houses. and i don’t like sororities. it’s like, hey, lets make some more cliques but instead of having them reside at designated lunch tables, lets have them reside in designated houses. icky.

and i was so bored on the way home that i actually did calc homework. now THATS saying something.

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