My Firefox toolbar has a link to the BBC News page that I click on every once in a while.

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Today I went out to look for temp work before I go off to summer school in about three weeks. I drove by a couple of places including the library (where the librarian barely looked at me as I asked if they needed help), a pet grooming shop (which told me to call back on Wednesday), and a dentist's office (whicg just opened and is in need of help ( Read more... )

This weekend has been dedicated to bad pop music. Here's a description from Blender.com about the 39th worst pop song of all time:

39
RICKY MARTIN
“She Bangs” 2000
La vida proves not to be so loca after allThe arrangers of Ricky Martin’s follow-up to “La Vida Loca” worked with the fevered desperation of men who had been driven to the desert and ( Read more... )

Dear AP Stats,

Please don't be too harsh to me tomorrow. Have a little bit of mercy, will you?

Thanks.
-AJ

I had the first rehearsal for my new (last) piece today. It's called Wine-Dark Sea, after Homer of course. It was alright. I came in completely unprepared so it was slow going. I find that the way I used to prepare (coming up with one or two preliminary combination) doesn't work anymore, but I don't know what does. Fortunately we're halfway done ( Read more... )

AP exams are coming up: English Lit and Statistics. I'm prepared for the former and not feeling so hot about the latter ( Read more... )

1. I'm watching the HBO miniseries John Adams. I like it. It's not stiff and gray like the Masterpiece Theatre stuff, and the dialogue and action are pretty compelling. Abigail Adams pwns.

2. I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 and, unsurprisingly, was disappointed. Michael Moore's McDocumentaries are nothing but sentimental entertainment (and a vehicle for ( Read more... )

I solved a Stats problem correctly, figured out how to count a difficult passage of music, did well in dance, and get to go home for break today. And my humanities project is running smoothly.

Yes, things are good.

This is the point where I realize that I may have bitten off more than I can chew ( Read more... )

Columbia + (Princeton + $45,000) = good day