"If you wind up a meeting you finish it; if you wind up a watch, you start it."

[beboots]

"Trying one's best is a good thing, but trying one's patience is a bad thing. A blunt instrument is dull, but a blunt remark is pointed." (seriously, what the hell, English? D: )

A cheerful little story for you guys, also courtesty of Bill Bryson's book "The mother tongue: English and how it got that way":

Sometimes words are made up for a specific

Comments

[xlirealx]

Aw, I hope your interview went well :) I'm sure you did just fine!

I'm pretty bogged down with papers too. I have 3 papers to write and 2 presentations to do in the next couple weeks. And my Art History midterm on Tuesday. Sigh...

[dayadhvam_triad]

Sometimes interviews go better than you think they did; so don't worry about it too much. It sounds like you did fine. :)

Classical music! Haha, I see you've saved Rob Paravonian's Pachelbel Canon rant. XDD Hey, besides Enya, also check out Loreena McKennitt. And, and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZVcP8XsTk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZOVSL5woo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmeKI3r3LTw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W21USUhx7Bw&feature=related

:DDD Heiden! Oh, he must have relished that. XD

Good luck with the essays. :)

[beboots]

Loreena McKennit for the win! <3 I have like four or five of her CDs. She be awesome

[dayadhvam_triad]

Thank you for the links! :D Have you ever heard Palestrina's stuff? There's a band called Chanticleer which sings some of his stuff. Also, there's a Scottish (I think? ^^;) band called Capercaillie which does some lovely songs. :)

Your teacher sounds amazing. :DD I love shameless criticism! Your class revolves around the Habsburg family?

[beboots]

I haven't heard of them... but I'll have to check them out too! :D

Professor Szabo is awesome. He actually convinced the Austrian Ambassador to Canada to do a mini lecture at the University of Alberta, where we study. :3 He was pretty cool. Prof. Szabo seems to go to a billion consulate and ambassadorial things, and since he's been in Canada since the 60s, he has amazingly good English. He's one of those European polygots that speaks like five or six languages - German, English, French, at least, maybe Italian and Hungarian... or at least enough to get by...

The course I'm taking with him is History 310, History of the Habsburgs, which yeah, pretty much covers them from Rudolf I, the first Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, until 1918 when the Austrian Empire became just Austria and a frillion successor states. He makes stuff like the 30 Year's War interesting and entertaining.

He also tells us about the sex lives of half of them. ;)