Today is the 2045th anniversary of the Death of Cicero. Don't you wish we had a Cicero?pstCertain things get associated with certain tests. Tigerlily and 99.9 Farenheit Degrees went with most of my exams at Dickinson. This exam seems to have gotten itself mixed up with star and heart shaped ice cubes. I love my star and heart shaped ice cubes.
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01:25:30 AM,Tuesday 7 December 2004
Oh my god! I have Shufflepuck! I'd forgotten all about Shufflepuck! Apparently, though, I suck at Shufflepuck.
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03:43:18 PM,Monday 6 December 2004
And now, off goes the computer, because it is a distracting time sucking fiend.
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11:26:49 AM,Monday 6 December 2004
Once, I had a thing about how Marlowe faked his own death and wrote both Shakespeare and Cervantes. It was very funny. It was, like, two paragraphs that I found somewhere on the internet. Does anyone have any idea where I might've found it? Does anyone else have any recollection of this thing?
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10:17:35 PM,Sunday 5 December 2004
Would you ever walk your dog in the city, on a sidewalk, without a leash? I wouldn't. This woman was. I saw this small dog (I think he was a Shit Tzu) go trotting by on the sidewalk while I was parking, and so I sort of jumped out of my car to take care of him. His owner was right behind him.
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10:01:14 PM,Sunday 5 December 2004
Listening to Welcome Home by 'Til Tuesday. My mom loved this album, I don't know, fourteen years ago. She was in love with it for very personal reasons, which, as it is her story, I will not put on the web. For me, they would occasionally play one or two of the songs on the radio at work this summer, and it triggered memories to make me go dig it out. I don't share my mom's personal connections to it, but it's a good album. I love Aimee Mann. But there is this album, and the first Suzanne Vega album, and there's one by the Pretenders that I adore, but they aren't my music. (I have turned Suzanne Vega into mine, but all in all they are my mom's.) It's odd, I think, listening to something like this that really the assosciation is that it's someone else's music. I rarely associate a particular artist with someone my age, only with my parents or uncles. That is not to say thatthere aren't artists who everytime I hear them, I think of someone in particular. The Smashing Pumpkins are the odd one, cause they remind me of different people. Right, so...Plato.
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09:58:52 PM,Sunday 5 December 2004
I am not allowed to go to bed till I have read another ten pages of Plato. At least today I can look at letters without getting a headache.
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07:25:48 PM,Sunday 5 December 2004
I cann't concentrate on anything at all. The focus on grocery shopping is the longest I have held my attention to anything.
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07:20:33 PM,Sunday 5 December 2004
I drove off to rich suburbs to go grocery shopping, cause they had a quasi-normal grocery store (their Annie's Shells and Cheddar was still over-priced, as were their Morningstar Farms products, but everything else seemed to be relatively normal). They had a lovely health food section, and this huge selection of mineral waters. I'm a sucker for cool bottles. I didn't buy the mineral water in the red bottle (if something is in red glass and I am even more tempted than normal by the bottle), or the stuff that was just fun shapes. Anyway. I like Wynnewood. That is the moral of today's story.
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06:42:27 PM,Sunday 5 December 2004
This evening I watched The Empire Strikes Back, which I haven't done in ages and ages. I don't think I've watched any of the originals since before they were remade, except for the first one, which we went to see as a field trip. Mark Hammil is actually a pretty terrible actor. He might be better than Hayden Christenson, but he also has the advantage of, well, seeing what he's acting with, and he's not supposed to have romantic sparks with Leia, so the fact that there are none is okay (if you're going to have a great "romantic" storyline in a Star Wars movie, I should not be convinced that the best Jedi for Amidala would be Obi Wan). Anyway. I wonder if Revenge of the Sith will turn out to have the darkest ending of any of the movies. How many characters will he kill off, how many are assumed to die between the two trilogies? Will we see Amidala die?
The thing that bugs me, particularly, is whether or not he knows he has children. Why does the emporer assume that Luke is Vader's child unless they know that Vader had at least one child? If they know that Vader has a child, why aren't they looking for it before the kid is, whatever, twenty? Do they assume that Leia is it? that Leia may not, in fact, be his child, and might be Bail Organa's kid? And why don't the droids know that Anakin turned into Vader, and why doesn't 3PO remember Obi Wan (sorry, I have watched the first two relatively recently)? (Or do they not ever meet? Obi Wan never does go to Tatooine with Anakin, he stays to fix the ship in the first one, and Anakin runs off in the second one, right?). I mean, yes, I understand that they're making new movies, but don't you think they could come up with consitinancy?
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01:26:37 AM,Sunday 5 December 2004
I'm going nuts in my house. My head hurts from spending the afternoon reading and at the computer. The friend I was supposed to go out with when she got off work has not called, and she was supposed to have gotten off work an hour and a half ago, and her cell phone is off. I have a final on Tuesday and I can't read Plato in Greek or English so I'm going to fail, so I should study, but I can't study, cause my eyes hurt. I am so lonely.
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08:32:32 PM,Saturday 4 December 2004
Do you read magazines from front to back or back to front? This came up as an idle discussion at Thanksgiving, and it made me curious. Myself, I tend to start at the back, cause reviews are always in the back, and when I'm done with the reviews, then I go to the beginning. My family all thought I was nuts.
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05:21:32 PM,Saturday 4 December 2004
When I am feeling happy, then I go out and see people, and it helps keep me feeling happy. And then I will stop seeing people, and I will start getting depressed, and I start locking myself up in my room to study, and I get more and more depressed. Which, really, just goes to show how happy I was when Mari called.
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04:15:46 PM,Saturday 4 December 2004
The grocery store was having a weird colour thing today. Or, at any rate, there was a lot of purple produce that's not normally purple. There was purple cauliflower, and purple fingerling potatoes.
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08:56:21 PM,Friday 3 December 2004
You know what would be cool? If Ikea made clothes.
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08:15:57 PM,Friday 3 December 2004
Besides, Bucks County Coffee isn't that great, and Starbucks is always too full to get a table.
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01:39:15 PM,Thursday 2 December 2004
When I "study" in my room, I play Tetris. When I study downstairs Buella howls at me. It's a bit nutty. Maybe I should do something like study at a coffee shop, but then I think I would just get distracted and over caffinated.
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01:38:35 PM,Thursday 2 December 2004
I had thought my wrist had completely healed from the fall down the stairs in May. But the other day it started hurting incerdibly much again. Man, I wish I had health insurance.
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10:38:22 AM,Thursday 2 December 2004
I don't wear tee shirts but this is really great. I love D.C. Simpson.
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12:48:52 AM,Tuesday 30 November 2004
Soy egg nog is one of my favourite things about Christmas-time (others include gingerbread lattes and pretty lights). Soy egg nog manages to take all the wonderful taste stuff of egg nog and make it so that it doesn't feel like you're drinking cream.
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12:44:28 AM,Tuesday 30 November 2004