Quickie

So I had my advising meeting today, and it looks like I'm stuck up here this summer. Excuse me while I slit my wrists / light myself on fire. Sigh, I was really hoping that there would be some way that I could get out for at least the summer too. I'm officially sick of Houghton. Maybe I'll wage war against it, put it on pay per view, something like that.

Currently Listening to... Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Currently Reading... Donald Miller - Searching for God Knows What

Winding down...

Well, I'm finally starting to get the feel that the semester is beginning to come to a close. This is probably due to the fact that I have no more exams til finals. I do however have a couple of papers due before then that I really should get working on. I'm never motivated to do these things until right before they're due. I don't know why this is. It's not like the motivation of the present shouldn't be enough. I mean shouldn't the motivation of not having to write these things the hours before they are due that will lead into more hectic hours of studying for exams be enough? It's funny because I can find the motivation to lament over these things, yet it's not there to do them. Such is the life of a college student.

As for summer plans, I don't know yet. It all kind of depends on what happens tomorrow. I'm skipping out on my radio show, (a week off will be nice), to go and meet with my advisor because I don't know what classes I can take. There is currently one class being offered this coming semester that will aid my graduation plans. I need 15 more credits and only 3 of those 15 are offered. That ain't right. So, I'm going to find out if there is anyway I can do some of them in an independant study type of format, correspondance course, summer course somewhere else, etc... I'm so close to graduating and really there is not one thing that I would want more than to get out of Houghton for life. It's nice and all, but I'm really just sick to my stomach of it. What I do know, (and my current employer does not), is that the only way I'm staying up here this summer is if I have to squeeze some of these 15 credits in up here this summer. Right now any and all plans are on the table and I'm seriously considering all of them, (even if they're semi-anonymous suggestions). More to come on this post-Wednesday.

So my favorite song of the moment is Regina Specktor's Samson; here are the lyrics...

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
But they're just old light, they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that I'd done alright
and kissed me 'til the mornin' light, the mornin' light
and he kissed me 'til the mornin' light

Samson went back to bed
not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first

The way that she sings just sounds stripped or naked, very vulnerable and yet one of the most confident singers I have come across. She just puts her self out there with no regard to what anyone else thinks, maybe that's why I like her so much. That and can she ever sing. Which reminds me, we have homepage space from MTU, right? Do any of you know how to use it? If so let me know and I'll put up the song so yous can all hear it.

We're at 50 degrees again here, I love it! Spring has sprung and it's entirely too refreshing. And if winter rears it's ugly head again I swear I'll find a knife and stab the snow. It's just great to be outside. I just want to see grass finally, and it's starting to peak though in spots. I want to lay out on it and just soak in the weather. Maybe with a book, maybe not... I haven't decided yet. I want to run around on it barefoot. I just want to soak it in.

March Madness may not be over yet, but I definately pulled in a cool $25 as I already won my pool. I'm also 30th at Tech out of like 840 people who filled out a facebook bracket. So that's pretty cool.

I finished White Teeth by Zadie Smith and would recomend it to all of you. It's a character development book about three families and their interactions. It's hard to go into detail about what it's about save for the fact that it starts out with one person and branches out from there. Maybe I'll just let amazon do it for me.

I'll try to update tomorrow or Thursday to let you know what happened with the class stuff.

Currently Listening to... Regina Spektor - Samson
Currently Reading... Donald Miller - Searching For God Knows What

Update!

Another week, another update.

I'm getting better at playing the guitar! I've felt like I was stagnant for quite a while now, but I'm starting to play some harder material and not completely butcher it. Well, it's harder for me at least. The song that I've been working on later is Shiny by The Decemberists. The chorus was killing me for the longest time, but I'm starting to get a handle on it. Yay!

The book project was kind of slowing a little this week, but that was to be expected as March Madness has begun. I'm relatively happy about my picks and devastated that Illinois went down already, as I had them winning it all... and they're Illinois. Other than that I'm doing well riding high on my Bradley and Witchita St. sweet 16 picks. In the facebook pool, I'm even sitting in 12th out of 841 people!

I went and saw V for Vendetta this past weekend. Uhhhhhhh... yeah. It was a movie that made me wish that I didn't read the book first, because then I probably would have appreciated it more. No FATE computer, no Evey slipping into prostitution and an even worse job by butchering the main point of the book. Where the book contrasted Fasicim and Anarchy. The movie turned it more into ruling through fear and Democracy. Sigh. Still it was fairly well done and fun to see.

Okay people stop it with the engagements already! What is up with this? I'm apparently way too old now. Thanks a lot birthday buddy, now you had to go and get yourself engaged. Now my only chance with you is through an illicit affair. But really, congrats Katrina. Soon I'm going to be the only one left... and I'm surprisingly fine with that, sorry Rachel.

School continues to go well this semester as I did well in my exam last week and I think that I did well on my exam today. One more to do well on tomorrow. It's kind of crazy but I do believe that as of this moment I'm averaging a 4.0. I think that might be a good bounce-back GPA don't you?

I still have no idea what I want to do this summer. The only option I really have on my plate right now is staying up here and cooking the summer. I really enjoyed last summer, but I'm not sure that I want to do that again. But, I don't know that I really have any other option. If anyone thinks of one let me know!

There are a few movies out right now, dvd that is, that I really would like to see. Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, Copote, Everything is Illuminated, Lord of War, and Broken Flowers. I'm sure that there are more, but that's all that I could think of right now.

Currently Listening to... James Mercer (of The Shins)- Live 1-7-04
Currently Reading... Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Finally...

...back to write up a really crappy post that will in no way summarize what has happened in the last two weeks! (But, it will try.)

So, break... I spent it in Grand Rapids, saw Rachel, had some fun. Finished Freakonomics, started White Teeth. Borrowed more books from Rachel. Lent books to Rachel. Slept a ton. I think that pretty much summarizes break. Oh except for the fact that the weather was great.

And now it sucks. I haven't ventured out of the dorm yet to face the blizzard we're going through and with my night class cancelled it doesn't look like I'll have to. I want to get working on some of the papers I have for classes but I don't have the ambition yet to do it. Bad weather does that to me. Due to a misunderstanding at work I don't have any this week. Hurray, another week off! Although by next week I'm sure that I won't mind it too much.

I'm going to learn how to play the Brokeback Mountain theme on guitar simply because I like the song and can think of nothing funnier than playing it at random times.

My phone forgot how to ring, so if you call me leave a message. And hopefully I'll see that you called soon enough to call you back.

I got the new Page France double EP in! I haven't listened to it all yet, but it's quite the departure from their last CD. Very poppy, but then again they always have been. I'll come up with an apt description later. Just put in the Sister Pinecone half of it.

I was able to watch some baseball today from the WBC and I'll say that I want to watch some more and am aching for the season to start!

Maybe I'll clean the room a little tonight. It looks like crap.

That's all for now, maybe I'll try and update more than once a week...

Currently Listening to... Page France - Pear & Sister Pinecone
Currently Reading... White Teeth - Zadie Smith