Don't you just want to kick yourself sometimes?  Like this morning.  Got up, showered, packed a lunch, started hiking down the (suspiciously) snowy sidewalk to campus, only to find Swenson locked and dark.  Proceeded to Olin to check my email.  Conclusion:  campus is closed for the day ( Read more... )

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It's not often that  you find someone with whom you can carry on a conversation for seven hours straight (at least, not for me). 

"You're singing like canned green beans!!"

Umm...thank you, Dr. Hurty????

This evening's goal: crank out term paper in T-12 hours.

EDIT:

12:01 am:  Happy Halloween!!

1:28am:  Security attempted to kick me out of the building.

4:37am:  Paper finished!

5:21am:  Got shit scared out of me by janitor.

Cost of choir tour to Sweden: >$3000

Monetary compensation for egg donation: ~$5000

Tempting...

Word of the Day:

tmesis- splitting a word and inserting another word between the halves

Posiflippintively amazing.

 Megusta mi amigos y amigas. :o)

 We're singing Bound for the Promised Land in choir this term.

I sang that same song two and a half years ago at Mr. Beaty's memorial service.

It's bittersweet, but there are so many good memories.  Makes me remember why I sing...

Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man
He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm
Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle
But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent
He would not be caught sittin' around in no
Junglescape, dumb as an ape doing nothing

Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will ( Read more... )

I thought I had figured out what I was going to do with the rest of my life.  To a degree, at least.  That was three days ago.  Now I have no idea, yet again.  Three days ago,  I was fairly certain of going into the peace corps and then grad school, or vice versa.  Whatever works best at any given time.  But now...there are so many things I can do ( Read more... )