4.3.04

also Alexander Borodin: Symphony #2 in B. Guess what, CHS orchestra and band kids? This song sounds AMAZING when played right... could never have surmised that from our rendition of it led by the one, the only, Mr. Armadillo. :P
lost the championship game last night. went late to acapella and only about a 1/3 of the group showed up. got to ian's an hour before closing, thinking I could finish my lab, and they closed 10 minutes early. didn't feel like going to the library at 11, so went home and stayed up for 2 more hours instead talking to/watching TV with Troo. planned to get up at 7 to get ready and go to the library to finish lab writeup before 8:30 chem quiz section, but woke up at 7:45 instead. had to rush to finish and probably made errors with my calculations. all in all, the last 24 hours haven't looked especially bright. and today is the longest day of the week, with 5 hours of class to attend, and the next one starts in 5 minutes. blah.

i'll list the more positive aspects of the last few days when i'm feeling more optimistic. (probably tonight after work)

3.3.04

ooh, ooh! This song just came up on CPR, and we played it last season for SOGO. I never knew the name - I just knew it was Mendelssohn. How beautiful... oh man, classical music is the best.

Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture "Fingal's Cave" Op 26

Check out CPR - it's all I listen to in the library nowadays.
oh my goodness, Aaron Copland, how I love you.

i really need to go see the Seattle Symphony. How did I miss Bolero? arrrrgh.

in other news: we won our IM basketball game last night, and championships are tonight at 6:50 at the IMA. too bad everybody has other things going on and can't come cheer us on. ah well, if we win, i'll have a nifty t-shirt to show for it. wednesdays are busy, man.

for today's lyrics: go find Aaron Copland's Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes and listen. you'll love it.

1.3.04

what a scholarly day today.

woke at 5 AM to shower and get to the library by 5:45 so I could set up my computer and get everything ready for registration at 6. (mental note for the future: set insurance options a day prior to registration - those few minutes you spend in advance are worth their weight in gold when 6 AM comes and you know some poor fool is sitting at his/her computer, staring at the screen, waiting for the page to load so they can get the insurance shizzle out of the way - that's 2x as much waiting as you, the planner, have to do. a few extra minutes make all the difference...) yeah, so anyway, went and studied after that, and then got starbucks (ordered the correct scone this time), studied some more... just basically went over things until 9:15 rolled around and I headed to Kane for my chem midterm. i'm optimistic about it - I think it went well. Then there was a German quiz, which turned out to be a lot less work than I expected - no essay or anything, so I was done in 20. Just enough time to grab a sandwich before chem lab, and that was also an hour shorter than usual... so yay! this means I am almost done with about three days' worth of steady, nonstop work. all I have to do in the next 24 hours are the rest of a paper, a chem lab writeup and a presentation, and then I can rest again. woot.

not that i didn't rest this weekend - actually was it quite relaxing. saw some old chs friends from up north and one from plu, so that was fun. went to casino night at mccarty and gambled all my (fake) money away. can't say I didn't come out on top, though... Troo and I won a raffle and got a small pile of CD's. I got a sampler CD and Bering Strait (who are they? dunno) and Troo took the Fabulous CD. we'd rather we had won the movie tickets, but it was fun overall. the sampler CD is actually pretty decent. sunday was a lot of coffee, random solo bus riding, shoe shopping, phone conversing, and lying out in the quad in the sun doing homework. oh, and acapella rehearsal, and the Passion of the Christ, which was... well done. I'll save my criticisms for another post.

had the most annoying experience yesterday in the library. was on a computer at the end of the "silent study area" bank, and the people next to me finished and vacated their spot. A girl from the computer bank behind me immediately came over to the computer - without logging off her own computer - and began downloading AOL instant messenger. she would yell something over to the boy at the other table whenever she felt like it, completely disregarding the concepts of "silent study" and "library". Then she and the boy were flirting, and he dragged her off across the room in her chair. At least they were away from me... not for long though, because the girl's cell phone started ringing, and everyone turned and looked at me as if it were mine. she ran over, laughing, and answered it. argh. THEN she started telling her friend how her roommate didn't like her (wonder why?) and had taken some of her stuff and done something with it (don't know what, but I"m sure if I were her roommate, i'd burn all her possessions). anyway, she kept talking about not getting her towel back, and try as I did to block her out with my headphones, I could still hear her whining about her stupid towel. Finally, the girl loudly proclaimed that she would call her roommate's parents and get her frickin' towel back, so she ran off down the stairs, thankfully. her computer was still logged on, but Troo needed a computer too, and since the girl didn't seem to be doing anything of academic merit, I logged her off and handed it over to him, telling him the story. troo didn't use the computer though - the good boy was trying to avoid confrontation. i'm not as good... i would gladly have yelled at her. stupid ho.

basketball playoffs - we play tomorrow at 7:40. IMs are fun, although I must admit, I get a little too competitive. doesn't bother me, but i'm sure some girls would have something to say about it (the ones who we're up against, for instance...)

am currently trying to figure out how to make amends to a friend. I didn't mean to make him mad, and i'm not used to guy friends being annoyed with me (it's usually girls). and in this case, I don't know if he'll take it the wrong way if I bring him flowers or bake him cookies, or something. anyway. i'll work on it.

alright, i'd better see to that paper now... then I can go take a nap, possibly, maybe get up in time to go to Swing Kids, or maybe just get up and go work on the lab writeup. schweet.

so long ago I don't remember when
that's when they say I lost my only friend
they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
as I listened through the cemetery trees
i've seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn
the long broken arm of human law
it always seems such a waste
(she always had a pretty face)
i wondered why she hung around this place
hey
c'mon try a little
nothing is forever
there's got to be something better than in-the-middle
me and cinderella put it all together
we can drive it home with one headlight


the wallflowers - one headlight (FINALLY bought "bringing down the horse" - it was only 4 bucks! woot woot.)