Went to a Vertigo-go show (Swat's improv comedy group) last night... It was pretty good. For some reason the girls in the group are never as funny as the guys.

After Vertigo-go, I came back to ML and played some poker. My losing streak was ended, which was quite nice. Granted, I didn't win much, but I did at least win.

I need to do many things today: do some art, work on astro, study some psych, maybe start reading Paradise Lost, and email people. I really need to email some people. I feel very bad about that. At the beginning of this semester, I convinced myself that I would be very good about keeping up with my email. That has not happened. I'm a bad person.

I'm also a person who needs to go get some breakfast. So I'm going to go do that.

Apparently a sequel to Underworld is in the works. That means more awesome wardrodes to admire, hopefully. Cool.

And there's another Batman movie being made. I wouldn't really care, except Christian Bale will be Batman. And Liam Neeson is in it too. So I can't not see it, though I'll probably wait until it comes out on video.

Off to do work.

So I'm back to liking my English class again, which is good. And we're starting Paradise Lost for next week, which will be interesting, at least.

This weekend will be interesting as well. I need to do some studying for my abnormal psych midterm. I also need to work on art, astro, and English. I really need to email some people, and hopefully I can have some fun and get some sleep as well. We'll see.

I will now proceed to kill an hour in McCabe until dinner. Whee.

Dude! ML 1st and basement just got a celebrity endorsement for the scavenger hunt! And it's an endorsement from Adam of Guster! *does happy victory dance*

In other news... Not much. Another possible 5th for the Lodge, which is good. And my psych paper is done as well, which is also good. But I haven't started Milton yet, which is not good.

Tonight's radio show was okay... I had some technical difficulties (forgot to put a CD on, etc), since I was distracted by having a friend in the studio, but other than that it was fine.

Playlist:

Interpol: Obstacle 2
*The Shins: So Says I
Pavement: Cut Your Hair
Cat Power: American Flag
Poe: Another World
Schatzi: Death of the Alphabet
Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven
*Electrelane: On Parade
*Broken Social Scene: Almost Crimes
Weezer: The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
Cursive: Sierra
*The Wrens: Hopeless
Luna: Dizzy
*Beulah: A Man Like Me
Bright Eyes: Don’t Know When But a Day is Gonna Come
Jets to Brazil: Lemon Yellow Black

Not many playlist songs, but oh well. Still good music.

I am a weak, unfocused human being. Well, that's not entirely true. But I am letting myself get too distracted by my computer lately. I would go somewhere else, but I need my computer to type what I'm working on. And even offline it offers many distractions for a girl who doesn't want to finish a lab write-up and doesn't know what to write her psych essay about. Gah. Must focus more... Tomorrow. Now I sleep.

My website has been reborn! Well... Sort of. It has a new name, Languages of Apocalypse, which comes from The Sandman: Endless Nights... And the color scheme and fonts are different... Some of the info has been updated, the links page has been redone... But all in all, most of it is not new, and most of it is only semi-improved. Nonetheless, it is something. Whee.

Lodges actually looking like a real possibility... Even without an upper classman. Booyah!

I'm reading An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison, for abnormal psychology. I'm about halfway through, and it's quite incredible. Jamison writes very well; the description in the book is wonderful. As a whole, the book reminds me a bit of The Bell Jar, only Jamison is manic-depressive and a doctor of psychiatry. If you have a chance to read it, I highly recommend it.

So I was checking out the links page at Friendly Hostility, and saw a link to a comic called Nice Hair. I decided to check it out... Two of the main characters are named Neil and Tim. When Jack Sparrow started living under Tim's bed as "payback for that scissor incident," something dawned on me. Tim is Tim Burton. And Neil is Neil Gaiman. And the other guy living with them? The singer of The Cure. So yes... This comic has quite possibly one of the oddest premises ever... And it's pretty good. So check it out.

The concert was good... I made it all the way through Elefant's set (which was pretty good), and through some of Broken Social Scene's set (which was really good)... But I was so tired that I couldn't keep my eyes open, and I was almost falling asleep. When you're able to almost asleep in a small, crowded, warm room while your eardrums are practically ringing... Well, that's when you know it's time to go home. So... I went home. And slept. Yay.

ML talent show just wrapped up. There was a minimal amount of talent involved, but it was still fairly interesting. Not as interesting as the conversation in the hall right now, however. Remember the scavenger hunt? And the pretty impossible task of getting the massive globe from the library? Well, some of the guys on my hall think it's possible. The idea has been vetoed by the librarians, and even the people who put the list together. But... I think they're still going to go ahead and do it. *shakes head* I hope they don't get in trouble. Or better yet, I hope they decide not to try it.

Broken Social Scene concert in about an hour. Whee. I wish I was more awake... I was energized this afternoon, but now I'm dragging... But I still really want to go to the concert. So go I shall.

I've been scheming about housing for next year. I'm thinking of maybe the Lodges, but the only real chance to get them would probably require an upperclassman, since they have better numbers and will raise the average of me and the other 3 people... But the first choice said no, since he's pretty much guarenteed a single next year. And I think that's going to be true for everyone. Hmm. I don't know. We'll see what happens.

There is no hot water in my dorm right now. None. Not even a drop of lukewarm water. It's all ice cold. The possibility of a shower is daunting, but unavoidable. Therefore, I am about to set a new record for my fastest shower ever. Whee.

I think I may have to learn how to knit. I need to be able to do something with my hands or just do anything that will keep me awake while reading Milton. Today I folded my laundry, braided and unbraided and rebraided my hair, sat in various odd positions that prevented me from falling asleep, and tossed in a few pushups for good measure. And then, with 17 pages left, I ran out of things to do. So yeah, knitting may be my best option. Or taking the book to the gym, but it's really big and bulky, so it's a bit hard to handle on the exercise bike.

Off to read a few more pages and then sleep.

Geek humor. Hehe... Reminds me of problem solving class.

What Irrational Number Are You?

You are e Of all the irrational numbers, you are the most intense. By nature you are powerful, although sometimes you can spiral out of control. You are good with money; the interest seems to just compound whenever you are near. When someone uses the word "exponential" they are probably talking about you. In some ways you and φ are a nearly perfect match. Not to mention how attractive φ is. But then, there is the remarkable π... Your lucky number is approximately 2.71828183

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Oh, the unfairness of it all. There's just too much to do this weekend.

Possibilities for Friday include watching Kill Bill (which I still haven't seen) at 7:30 or 10 pm, watching the ML talent show at 7 pm, and going to the Broken Social Scene concert at 10 pm. Saturday there's a couple of one act plays starting at 8 pm, as well as a concert/open mic night from 10-2. And sometime I'm probably going to try to play poker, since we didn't play last weekend. Also, Sunday is my 5 month anniversary with Matt.

And lest I forget, I really need to do work sometime this weekend as well...

I just bumped into a very nice dog on my way back from campus. Black, shaggy, very friendly... And perhaps a bit dumb. See, he was wandering around on the sidewalk all alone, so I decided to investigate. I crossed the street and he kinda looked at me, then sauntered out to the road. Unfortunately, a car was coming. Fortunately, the car slowed down, I whistled to the dog, and he came over. He immediately sat down and let me pet him... He had a collar, but no tags. So I didn't know what to do. I figured he was probably from one of the nearby houses, and hoped for the best. After urging him to stay out of the street, I continued my trek back to the dorm. He seemd to follow me, then stopped. I looked back and he had wandered into the road again. I walked back a bit, and he returned to the sidewalk quickly, as if he knew he had screwed up. So hopefully he's okay and will not get run over. Silly dog.

In other news, it looks like the dorm I wanted to live in next year, Mertz, is not going to have sophmore rooms next year. One of the other dorms is eliminating freshman rooms, so they're going to be moved to Mertz. Rar. So now I need to figure out a new 1st choice dwelling place.

I started reading An Unquiet Mind for abnormal psychology today. It's good so far; I really like the tone and style of the writing. Hopefully I'll get an interesting paper idea from it... I have to write a brief paper on bipolar disorder for next Thursday. Whee.

Off to do work and laundry now.

I very much want to sleep. I can't sleep. I have to do psych. Grr. Arg.

This week's radio show playlist:

*The Pleased: Never Come Home
Run Lola Run Soundtrack: Running One
Badly Drawn Boy: Everybody’s Stalking
*The Walkmen: Little House of Savages
*Stereolab: La Demeure
Emiliana Torrini: Tunafish
*Broken Social Scene: Lover’s Spit
Modest Mouse: Paper Thin Walls
*The Delgados: Falling and Landing
Tori Amos: Professional Widow (Remix)
*Her Space Holiday: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
*Camera Obscura: Lunar Sea
Ben Harper: Forever
Guster: Airport Song
*The Wrens: This Boy is Exhausted

Tonight was a pretty calming show music-wise, especially the first half. I managed to watch the IP numbers and time the Ben Harper song for my mom so that she actually got to hear it. So that was cool. And I officially became a fan of Her Space Holiday. They remind me of The Postal Service, which is always a good thing.

I'm becoming a bit of a web comic addict, I fear. I keep on finding new ones that are pretty cool. So the list of comics I check almost daily is growing rather rapidly... I only have links here for a handful of them. Eep. But they're all so good...

I am rather grumpy with the student art gallery. They had an art exhibit this past week. There was an opening last Tuesday that was fairly well advertised. I couldn't make it. So I looked the show up on the schedule of events and found the other times when the gallery would be open. I tried to go on Sunday. No one was there. I figured I'd try again tonight, since there was supposed to be a closing reception from 5:30-6:30. I got there around 6 pm. Again, no one in sight, door locked, lights off. Gah! I made an effort to support my fellow students, to check out the art of one of my friends, and I was thwarted. That ticks me off. *grumps*