Wherein Elana is completely ridiculous

Not exactly that unusual, I know.

So my sister, Elana, has just started as a first-year at Wellesley. Two weeks ago we went up to Massachusetts to drop her off.

And now she wants to transfer.

She's been at this school two weeks, one of which was orientation. How can she have already decided she wants out? And this is the school she got in early decision to.

So why? What's the reason? Apparently, the place is dead on weekends.

...so had you considered, you know, just switching to another dorm?

My mom tells me that Elana's response to this obvious suggestion was that her dorm is reputed to be the social dorm. But I think the sensible thing to do would be to ignore the reputation and actually look around at the others.

Or, you know what? If the place is dead, you have to drum something up. (Or, you know, just find things to do by yourself. Apparently she doesn't consider that an option either.) You're not much of a leader? Well, if it's necessary, so what? I'm not much good at it, and I don't like to do it, but when I've thought it was actually necessary, I've done so.

Meanwhile my parents are actually checking out college information books from the library again... it's hard to believe they're actually going along with this. I mean, this must cost a ton of money, right?

And she's only been there two weeks!

-Harry

S3&K, once a day

So over the past few days I've gone back and beat S3&K (all emeralds) with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles (I have yet to do Sonic and Tails together, I've never much liked playing that way). (Yes, each of these I did in a single sitting. I'd forgotten just how long the game is.) I'd forgotten just how different Knuckles's game was from Sonic and Tails's. (Knuckles gets no special stages in Angel Island Act 2? What?) I've played S&K as both characters quite a bit, but not so much the full game. And though back when I first got it I always played as Knuckles, I eventually switched to primarily playing as Sonic, and over time I've almost entirely forgotten about Knuckles's game, while I remember Sonic's quite well.

Also, I think I have to say that I really do like Sonic 2 better. The primary reason, I think, is the bonus stages in S3&K. The slot machine bonus stages, I learned long ago, are simply too long to be fun if you actually try to get the most rings out of them; now when I encounter one, I just try to get the 24 free-floating rings and leave. But more generally, it's that the bonus stages let you get obscene amounts of rings. When you go around carrying more than 200 rings half the time, well, it's just a bit ridiculous.

-Harry