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The National Merit Scholar reception was today. There weren't that many people there, though I did find out a couple other freshmen were national merit as well. All the upperclassmen with scholarships were there as well.

They gave me another certificate. See...I've gotten LOTS of certificates from being a National Merit Scholar. I got one for being a semi-finalist - actually I got three...one from the corporation, one from the school, and one from a state representative or something. Then I got the nice official framed certificate for being a finalist, along with something from the school....And now I get another certificate for getting the scholarship. But this one is from UD and is hand-signed.

I met the lady in charge of alumni relations. It was extremely amusing, because we had a conversation about linguistics/accents that lasted for a good five minutes. She's one of those people who picks up accents really quickly as well, so we talked about that. It was really random and fun.

This Friday I'm planning on going to this From the Ashes of Vesuvius exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. It's going to be really fun, I think.

So Dad, you should get Esther down here on a Thursday night sometime so she can go swing dancing. I have no idea when this would work, but it would be so much fun if it did.

I have some homework now, but not too much. [Well, obviously; if I had lots of homework I would not be writing long blog posts!] I think this is a fluke week, if my friends' amount of homework is any indication of the proper amount of homework here.

"Summerlong" by Kathleen Edwards is one of my favourite songs, and Blake Lewis has a CD coming out sometime in October. Ivannah met him. I am very jealous.