Friday, November 26, 2004
I'm weeding through my high school papers (conclusion: I know a lot less now then I did then), and found ye olde interactive notebooks from 10th grade government class.
Here is one gem, from an assignment in which we had to select a political cartoon and explain its meaning:
"The 'doomsday cult' is the Republican Party. By relentlessly continuing with the impeachment issue, they are losing supporters they'll need in the 2000 election. IE- committing political suicide"
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Here is one gem, from an assignment in which we had to select a political cartoon and explain its meaning:
"The 'doomsday cult' is the Republican Party. By relentlessly continuing with the impeachment issue, they are losing supporters they'll need in the 2000 election. IE- committing political suicide"
Thursday, November 25, 2004
"The thing about trains is, it doesn't matter where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on."
-the Polar Express movie
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-the Polar Express movie
"There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."
"She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether..."
- z.n. hurston
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"She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether..."
- z.n. hurston
Monday, November 22, 2004
In this bright future, you can forget your past....
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Saturday, November 20, 2004
Harvard 35, Yale 3. My roomie's blockmates scoring 21 of those points. W. taking the bell off the tuba w/o the tuba player noticing. Everyone going hoarse. Bouncing up and down.
hooray!
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hooray!
"Security breach" "DC traffic" "I feel like potatos" "mechanical problem" ...it had its glitches, but a dash to Washington and back also meant champagne and birthday cake and toasts to the bestest dad ever. family and friends.
the dash back, indeed, for the prelude to the Harvard-Yale football game, an unseasonably warm day, bewildered yalies running around, the Harvard-Yale football concert. replete with signs ("Miserere Nobis...stop singing"), and football songs, and singing Fair Harvard sandwiched between tons of alums and holdenites, and in particular between Jim (who rarely ventures my name, but at least shows signs of recognition now) and the most loyal Gleek ever:) a night with whitmanites, and proof that I not only am bad with my hands at video games, but with my feet too (dance dance revolution).
the Game tomorrow....er, today (!)
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the dash back, indeed, for the prelude to the Harvard-Yale football game, an unseasonably warm day, bewildered yalies running around, the Harvard-Yale football concert. replete with signs ("Miserere Nobis...stop singing"), and football songs, and singing Fair Harvard sandwiched between tons of alums and holdenites, and in particular between Jim (who rarely ventures my name, but at least shows signs of recognition now) and the most loyal Gleek ever:) a night with whitmanites, and proof that I not only am bad with my hands at video games, but with my feet too (dance dance revolution).
the Game tomorrow....er, today (!)
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
I deleted AIM from my computer. Not totally- I think some of the system files are still there. And not permanently- just for a little while. And not for a person-related reason, outside of me. Needing to stop worrying about focusing and actually do it.
which is just to say...well, that:)
Missa Celtica and Ravi Shankar.
(oh, and 5 out of 8 in my portuguese class are left-handed. craziness)
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which is just to say...well, that:)
Missa Celtica and Ravi Shankar.
(oh, and 5 out of 8 in my portuguese class are left-handed. craziness)
Sunday, November 14, 2004
"For freedom is a Siren road of promises and dreams/ attained by loss of who we are for who we might yet be."
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Saturday, November 13, 2004
First snowfall.
Full spiral?
Slush all day, but sticking now, frost and ice tomorrow.
Fire of autumn frozen underneath.
Festival of Woman's Choruses, "Niska Banja", where have I heard that before? Have I sung it before?
or in dreams..."Let's go the baths of Nis where we shall kiss kiss kiss"
or is it "you drive me crazy; you, sweetheart, torture my head" (ah, translations).
But on snowy nights, all that matters is 2+2+3 rhythms, and remembering what it was like when snow was pure joy...
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Full spiral?
Slush all day, but sticking now, frost and ice tomorrow.
Fire of autumn frozen underneath.
Festival of Woman's Choruses, "Niska Banja", where have I heard that before? Have I sung it before?
or in dreams..."Let's go the baths of Nis where we shall kiss kiss kiss"
or is it "you drive me crazy; you, sweetheart, torture my head" (ah, translations).
But on snowy nights, all that matters is 2+2+3 rhythms, and remembering what it was like when snow was pure joy...
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
What, I ask you, is the purpose of pounding on your keyboard, and cursing in greek, and sighing loudly and tsking and shooting me dirty looks?
all I' m doing is typing, and I was here first buddy.
triple sigh.
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all I' m doing is typing, and I was here first buddy.
triple sigh.
Monday, November 08, 2004
Stolen from a friend's away message:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg! Thephaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch atCmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in awrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be inthe rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed itwouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed erveylteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh? yaeh and Iawlyas thoughtslpeling was ipmorantt!
Ceehrs !!
pretty neat, eh? if only the same were true for entire essays....
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I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg! Thephaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch atCmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in awrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be inthe rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed itwouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed erveylteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh? yaeh and Iawlyas thoughtslpeling was ipmorantt!
Ceehrs !!
pretty neat, eh? if only the same were true for entire essays....
Sunday, November 07, 2004
Tidbits:
the cutest, sweetest RCS freshman, in the middle of a Jim ramble (spontaneously): Thwack! Thwack!
(walloping a church pew with a nalgene, in the attempt to kill a fly)
L., in the green room (randomly): Hey guys, do you think if RCS gets killed by a falling meteor Glee Club and Collegium will sing together at our joint funeral?
Dude on Street 1 to DOS 2 (vehemently): Don't get a dog till after you have kids, man.
DOS 2: eff that, I want a dog!
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the cutest, sweetest RCS freshman, in the middle of a Jim ramble (spontaneously): Thwack! Thwack!
(walloping a church pew with a nalgene, in the attempt to kill a fly)
L., in the green room (randomly): Hey guys, do you think if RCS gets killed by a falling meteor Glee Club and Collegium will sing together at our joint funeral?
Dude on Street 1 to DOS 2 (vehemently): Don't get a dog till after you have kids, man.
DOS 2: eff that, I want a dog!
Thursday, November 04, 2004
I don't know quite what to make of it (the analogy, that is)- the ideas themselves not so original.
"One cannot imagine that many fans of the boy band are also aficionados of the rapper; the evocation of heterosexual romance espoused by 'N Sync and numerous similar groups (Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, and LFO) has little in common with the taboo-breaking practices of Eminem. The differences are stark, and more than one commentator has compared this fissure in taste among the broad scope of American consumers of popular music to the ideological chasm revealed by the 2000 presidential election. The antithetical relationship between the romantic idealism of the boy bands and the social realism of rappers bears a remote resemblance to the national split in voting patterns between the long-standing Democratic bastions of the industrial North and Midwest as against the Republican strongholds of the Sunbelt and Far Wes. We seem to inhabit a nation divided against itself, culturally and politically- divided not only between red states and blue but between (in both red and blue states) ballads and bellicose ranting"
- from "Valuing Popular Music" (2005)
It will make a quiant period piece, someday, I suspect.
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"One cannot imagine that many fans of the boy band are also aficionados of the rapper; the evocation of heterosexual romance espoused by 'N Sync and numerous similar groups (Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, and LFO) has little in common with the taboo-breaking practices of Eminem. The differences are stark, and more than one commentator has compared this fissure in taste among the broad scope of American consumers of popular music to the ideological chasm revealed by the 2000 presidential election. The antithetical relationship between the romantic idealism of the boy bands and the social realism of rappers bears a remote resemblance to the national split in voting patterns between the long-standing Democratic bastions of the industrial North and Midwest as against the Republican strongholds of the Sunbelt and Far Wes. We seem to inhabit a nation divided against itself, culturally and politically- divided not only between red states and blue but between (in both red and blue states) ballads and bellicose ranting"
- from "Valuing Popular Music" (2005)
It will make a quiant period piece, someday, I suspect.
There are so many things....but here is something totally unrelated:
"Pleasure disappoints, possibility never"
- my comp lit professor's favorite Kierkegaard quote.
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"Pleasure disappoints, possibility never"
- my comp lit professor's favorite Kierkegaard quote.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
over with the mercenary missionaries....
J (sadly): now I'll never get married
E (punchily): lets do an interpretive dance for ohio
and the Wonkette on tv, (chipperly): All the young voters who turned out for Kerry, maybe its a good thing their first election will be so soul-crushing. They won't get their hopes up for the next time.
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J (sadly): now I'll never get married
E (punchily): lets do an interpretive dance for ohio
and the Wonkette on tv, (chipperly): All the young voters who turned out for Kerry, maybe its a good thing their first election will be so soul-crushing. They won't get their hopes up for the next time.
Monday, November 01, 2004
Today I skimmed a book for my thesis. Hooray!
6 hours later (nap, dinner, rehearsal, tv later), I flipped through some notes, and realized I had read the same book in August.
No idea.
That, in a nutshell, is how my thesis is (not) going.
Gee, it takes a lot to fail out of this school.
Gee, I'm superworried about tomorrow.
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6 hours later (nap, dinner, rehearsal, tv later), I flipped through some notes, and realized I had read the same book in August.
No idea.
That, in a nutshell, is how my thesis is (not) going.
Gee, it takes a lot to fail out of this school.
Gee, I'm superworried about tomorrow.
