Jogging has become my unofficial Tuesday night tradition. Tonight I ran further than I have all year. My estimation is about 1.8 miles, about 0.3 of a mile longer than I ran last Tuesday, which had been my previous best. My roommate guessed that I had been gone about 20 min (I really need to start looking at the time)... So about an 11.1 minute mile or something. Not bad for a fun jog. Whee.

Now I have to do real work. Bah.

One of the rock directors for WSRN is going abroad or on leave next semester. There is therefore an opening for that position. I applied for it. We'll see what happens.

Also applied for: library internship for this spring and summer. Again, we'll see.

Time to do work. Or run. Or something.

Massively long day, and it's not over yet...

Had religion class, a quick lunch, and crammed for my theatre performance. The performance itself went well, though it was kind of nerve-wracking... I felt butterflies before, during, and then for awhile after. Whee. After that, some work on CS, then my radio show, then more CS, then WA conference for my religion paper.

Radio show playlist:

* The Washdown - Awful Truth
* Shoplifting - Ask Me
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Cursive - The Casualty
* Mates of State - Goods [All in Your Head]
Built to Spill - Else
Pedro the Lion - Criticism as Inspiration
Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life
* Camper van Beethoven - 51-7
* Apostle of Hustle - Baby, You're in Luck
The Shins - So Says I
* The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
* Fall Back Open - Antidote
Portastatic - Impolite Cheers
* Menomena - Cough Coughing
The Paper Chase - These Things Happen
Blonde Redhead - In Particular
Beauty Pill - Terrible Things
Hot Water Music - Rooftops
Beulah - A Man Like Me
* The Libertines - Last Post on the Bugle
Hot Hot Heat - Naked in the City Again
The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
* Ted Leo/the Pharmacists - Counting Down the Hours
* Autolux - Blanket
* The Prefects - Agony Column
* Fur Cups for Teeth - Mystery Train
* Bloc Party - Banquet
Franz Ferdinand - Cheating on You
* The Reputation - Face It
Braid - Forever Got Shorter

And now, to write my English journal and read some poetry. And then, sleep. Yay sleep.

Haven't updated for about a week... So here's a brief summary: Work, sleep, work, hanging out, sleep, choir concert, being lazy, work. Whee.

The choir concert went well... We sang Mozart's Requiem at this one... The next one, on December 4th, is for Beethoven's 9th.

Tonight's radio show was less than stellar... I made lots of stupid, silly mistakes and babbled a bit. Oh well.

Playlist:
Foo Fighters - Everlong
* Autolux - Here Comes Everybody
Fiona Apple - Paper Bag
The Delgados - All You Need is Hate
Portastatic - Autumn Got Dark
The Anniversary - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Braid - First Day Back
Letters to Cleo - I Want You to Want Me
Ozma - Battlescars
Cake - When You Sleep
* The Bigger Lovers - Ninja Suit
* Menomena - 20 Cell Revolt
* The New Year - Start
Tori Amos - Take to the Sky
Poe - Could've Gone Mad
* Fur Cups for Teeth - $100 Haircut
OK Go - The Fix is In
Garbage - Vow
* Guided by Voices - Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
Crooked Fingers - New Drink for the Old Drunk
Soul Coughing - Circles
The Hives - Die, All Right!
Pixies - Gigantic
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Operation Ivy - Unity
Alkaline Trio - This Could Be Love
Saves the Day - Shoulder to the Wheel
* The Reputation - Let This Rest
Chris Cornell - Wave Goodbye
* Adem - Ringing in My Ear

So yes. A tinge of a 90's, as I got nostaligic while looking through my CDs. That's one reason why there are so few playlist songs. I've also started going into the library and seeking things I've been meaning to listen to. Like Braid, for instance. And I have been rewarded by having some different music to listen to that is quite good. Whee.

Sleep soon... And home on Wednesday! Well, St. Louis on Wednesday, home on Thursday afternoon. But close enough. Yay!

Today was okay. I started the day off with an amazing lack of energy... I stayed in Child's Pose in yoga for quite some time... I eventually got out of it because my feet were falling asleep. But it was cool of the teacher to let me do that... I would have been completely exhausted otherwise.

Classes were fine today... Nothing to exciting... And there was nothing all that exciting about my radio show either.

Playlist:

The Postal Service - Nothing Better
Jimmy Eat World - Blister
* TV on the Radio - New Health Rock
* A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug
Beauty Pill - Here Lies Rachel Wallace
* Camera Obscura - Shine Like a New Pin
Beulah - If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart
Spoon - Stay Don't Go
Modest Mouse - Paper Thin Walls
Desaparecidos - Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)
* Adem - These are Your Friends
* Menomena - E is Stable
* The Decemberists - Billy Liar
Built to Spill - Strange
* Autolux - Turnstile Blues
Bikini Kill - New Radio
* Le Tigre - Seconds
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Chemical, Chemical
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Grandaddy - El Caminos in the West
* The Hidden Cameras - The Fear is On
* The Clientele - (I Want You) More than Ever
Interpol - Obstacle 2
* Portastatic - Noisy Night
* Animal Collective - Who Could Win a Rabbit?
The Weakerthans - A Plea from a Cat Named Virtue
Saves the Day - All I'm Losing is Me
Hey Mercedes - Haven't Been this Happy
The Get Up Kids - Action and Action
Weezer - Only in Dreams
Weezer - The World has Turned and Left Me Here

The reason for the two songs from the Blue Album is this: When "Only in Dreams" was wrapping up, it was 8:05 and I was all cleaned up, CDs put away, etc... But the next show's DJs had not yet shown up. So I needed something. So I just switched the dial from track ten to track four and yay, another four and a half minutes of music. And then the DJs came just in time... I was beginning to fret.

Time to read or do something like that until I decide to actually go to bed... Which may turn out to be pretty soon, I think.

I've been really stressed this week for some reason... Lots of headaches, whee, no fun at all. It was nice to see Saka on Wednesday, but other than that the week was less than great. Yay for it being the weekend.

I didn't get into the poetry workshop for next semester... That upset me... But I'm okay with it now, thanks to the power of distraction (yay SSx Tricky on an 8 foot screen!). I've also found another class to take instead: Classical Mythology. So that should be interesting, I think.

The tentative schedule for next semester:

Monday
9:30-10:20 Modern British Poetry
11:30-12:20 Classical Mythology
1-4 Acting I

Tuesday
9-10:20 Yoga (for the 1st half of the semester)
1:15-2:30 Existentialism

Wednesday
9:30-10:20 Modern British Poetry
11:30-12:20 Classical Mythology
4:10-6:40 Acting I
7:15-9:45 Chorus

Thursday
Same as Tuesday

Friday
9:30-10:20 Modern British Poetry
11:30-12:20 Classical Mythology

I may not take yoga for gym credit... I should be done with gym after this semester, so I may just show up when I feel like it. We'll see. And Acting I is C/NC (credit/no credit, i.e. pass/fail), so that's nice... And I may take Mythology C/NC as well, but I'll decide during the first week of class, after I see the syllabus. I have all four of my C/NC options left, though... And I should use them. I should have used one for either religion or CS this semester (probably CS)... I've definately been more stressed than I would like.

Time for brunch now.

Bah. Today has not been that great. I didn't get as much work done yesterday as I should have (though I did get to see Saka, which was really nice)... Chorus felt very long last night, and the first concert is coming up quickly... Today I had a CS exam, and I'm sure I didn't do great... I'm behind on some freewriting stuff that I have to do to prep for my theatre piece... I have another religion paper coming up, as well as a response paper that's due tomorrow... I'm very tired and just want to be lazy and not do anything at all. Arg. Yay for the weekend being here very soon. And yay for yoga, which is fun, even though it makes me ache.

I want to nap, but instead I have to go to the Daily Gazette meeting. Whee.

So today was a busy but pretty good day... I actually got to yoga class on time, and I even managed to pull off Crow position in addition to my usual tripod. Whee. Religion was fine, and theatre was long but fun. We did acting exercises and moved around a bit, which was nice. Worked on CS for a bit after that (well, Lauren worked and I occasionally pointed out stuff)... Then had a quick dinner and did my radio show.

The radio show was interesting -- the door to the staircase to get up to the studio was locked... I ended up crawling in through another window that is by another staircase, going up those stairs to the 2nd floor, then going down the other staircase to unlock the door and prop it open. Then I finally got to climb back up to the 3rd floor for my show.

The playlist:

Beth Orton - Couldn't Cause Me Harm
Death Cab for Cutie - President of What? (since it got cut off last week)
Belle and Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
*Driver of the Year - Volume Switch
*The Crimea - Opposite Ends
*Frausdots - Fashion Death Trends
*Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
*Le Tigre - After Dark
Joydrop - Thick Skin
Lennon - Trying to Make Me
*Clinic - W.D.Y.Y.B.
*Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Heart Problems
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
Guster - Airport Song
*Menomena - The Monkey's Back
#*Spoon - Anything You Want
Ambulance Ltd. - Primitive
Jets to Brazil - Lemon Yellow Black
Sunny Day Real Estate - Every Shining Time You Arrive
#*Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex
#*Superchunk - Cool
#*M. Ward - Outta My Head
#*Versus - Eskimo
*A.C. Newman - On the Table
*Plastic Mastery - Before the Fall
*Guided by Voices - Asphyxiated Circle
*Apostle of Hustle - Sleepwalking Ballad
Jump, Little Children - Too High
*Luna - Malibu Love Nest

The songs with # by them are all from a 3 disc compilation from Merge Records. Lots of playlist songs tonight, and most of them were really good. I really need to get the Menomena CD... I've heard 3 songs off it now, and they're all really great.

Time to do work and also time to turn off the computer... It's making very scary noises.

So today has so far been a pretty good day. I got up half an hour early to finish up my religion response paper, went to class and actually contributed some, got my paper and midterm back (did well on the paper, fine on the midterm), I turned in my theatre response paper and my writing submission for the poetry workshop, had a fun lunch, and then played Soul Calibur II with Rob.

Soul Calibur was especially fun, since we played in the Pit, which is, well, kind of a pit in the floor, with carpeted tiers, and a big projection screen. So yes. Soul Calibur on an 6 or 8 foot screen? Very cool. The only downside is that my thumbs are a bit sore.

Nap now, then dinner, then some sort of movie-watching tonight. Lunch out tomorrow to celebrate Andrew's birthday. It should be fun.

Computer status, in case you care: still functioning, but when I initially turn it on, it sounds like it has a woodpecker living in it. Not so cool. Oh well.

Another 4 years of Bush. Geez. I just don't understand it.

Augh. So stressed at the moment. The election is much, much closer than I would like. Eep. Not cool at all...

Also, my computer is actively dying. Apparently my soundcard is probably integrated into the laptop's motherboard. This means that the problem isn't isolated to one little part. Oh no. My computer seems to have had a stroke. It had been mostly okay, except for the sound part. But tonight, when I went to start copying my files over to a memory card I discovered there was a bit more wrong than that. The computer didn't recognize the chip, said there was no disk in the drive. So I transfered what I needed into my user folder on the college network. Then I decided I would put all my music onto CDs in data form. Good idea, except then my CD drive decided to act up. Luckily, it's cooperating again... Who knows for how long. But at this point I have about half my songs on CDs and the other half in my user folder. Now the interesting thing is that the other two drives, E and F, which hadn't been recognizing the disk, aren't even being recognized by the computer. They have vanished, basically.

So what this all boils down to is this: I need a new motherboard. Apparently that is rather expensive, and my warranty has expired, so I think I'll be trying to just get a new computer altogether. This time I go with a nice, friendly Mac. When my computer was freezing up, I started using the public Macs as well as Andrew's Powerbook, and now I'm rather fond of them. So yeah. I think that's the route I'll be taking.

Off to possibly work on my religion reading, but more likely to stress over the election. Oh joy.

My computer was working fine. It still is working fine -- mostly. Except for one little problem: my computer is now incapable of producing sound. Yeah. The short story: I had it plugged in to the auxilarily feed at WSRN, and somehow smoke began to pour out of the headphone jack, and now my sound is kaput. Whee. Unfortunately, that happened within the first 15 minutes or so of my show. Leaving me with an hour and 45 minutes to fill without all my MP3s. Still, I managed with the use of lots and lots of playlist CDs.

And so the playlist for my first radio show of the year, finally! (* indicates from rock department playlist, ** means I wrote the review and feel proud...)

*Interpol – Evil
Beulah – Landslide Baby
** Camera Obscura – Double Feature
Spoon – Revenge!
Desaparecidos – Greater Omaha
Death Cab for Cutie – President of What? – (Sadly, this song was cut off by the smoking of the laptop)
* Luna – Speedbumps
* The New Year – Plan B
Le Tigre – Fake French
** The Reputation – Bottle Rocket Battles
** The Washdown – Learning Makes You Handsome
* Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Me and Mia
The Rapture – Sister Savior
** Shoplifting – L.O.V.E.
The Killers – Smile Like You Mean It
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Speakers Push the Air
* Ulysses – Frustrated
They Might Be Giants – Meet James Ensor
* Karate – Tow Truck
Matchbook Romance – My Eyes Burn
* The Bigger Lovers – I Resign
* The Black Keys – 10 AM Automatic
* The Crimea – White Russian Galaxy
* Bloc Party – She’s Hearing Voices
Fugazi – Waiting Room
* Menomena – The Late Great Libido
* The Libertines – What Became of the Likely Lads
* Now It’s Overhead - Reverse
* Regina Spektor - Us
Taking Back Sunday – A Decade Under the Influence
* Menomena – The Strongest Man in the World
* The Autumn Leaf – Over the Pond

Things to note: I normally never play 2 songs by the same band, let alone 2 songs off the same album. But I had to play two songs off of Menomena's album. One, I was fascinated by the presentation of it. The CD case was a flipbook, with the in a pocket on the inside back cover. So cool! Two, the first song was awesome, and I felt the need to see if the other songs were good as well. Since I couldn't just toss it into my laptop and check that way, I played it on the air. And it was also great. So yes. Check them out.

Off to do actual work now, I think.