I've been getting caught up in music I've never really liked that much, Ben Harper and Leonard Cohen and Lucinda Williams. It's a phase, I think. Ben Harper lasted 3 days, then I got over it.
Also been thinking about people from the past, wondering what's happened and where they are and will I ever see them again and would I want to anyway? That's probably a phase, too.
what's with the introspection? it's like a birthday crisis with a quarterlife crisis (don't laugh, it's well researched) with a wee bit of just-about-to-finish-study-become-a-real-adult self-analysis.
I probably should just grit my teeth and finish my assignments. Going through the motions, y'all.
Now, for purely self-indulgent purposes, here is a meme stolen from someone who doesn't know me:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three cool facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
23rd April
I'm taking liberties and putting in whatever the hell number i feel like.
Facts:
1533 - The Church of England annuls the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII of England. Woot, up with contentious divorce.
1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
2006 - The letter W get its own section in the swedish dictionary before it shared section with V.
It is also St. George's day. Aren't I just significant to the English?
It's also Lover's Day in Catalonia, and NATIONAL BEER DAY in Germany. Huzzah.
Birthdays:
1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright [uncertain] (d. 1616)
1775 - William Turner, English ornithologist (d. 1851) He has the same name as a character from Pirates of the Caribbean!
1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
1954 - Michael Moore, American filmmaker
1955 - Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001) WOW a chess player.
Deaths:
1616 - William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564)
1850 - William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
2005 - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911) OH YEAH That was a sweet day.
ETA: 11.20pm It took me half an hour for the Lucinda Williams phase to wear off. Mmm, longevity.