first day back
This is my first day back at school after a two week hiatus. Boy, was it a day. I had to 'write' an Aural Skills quiz at 1:45, and that took until about 2:20, cus i had my actual Aural Skills class at 2:30, which went until 3:45. Tomorrow i have to write 2 mid-terms, Music History and 20th Century Novel. Should make for an interesting day. OH! and, haha i just remembered about this. Tomorrow i have to make my way up to the UofC to go to one of the Kinetics research lab because i signed up to be apart of a study. haha i real medical study. Don't worry im not taking any pills or anything. What it is, is a study on how foot wear can effect your mental performance. So i simply wear a pair of shoes that they give me while im at work, and then i report in about once a month, for 3 months, and then i get a free pair of shoes. It sounds like fun actually. But i have to go in for an initial exam, so that they can set all my 'default'/control settings.
Like a twister in the sun
I've had that song stuck in my head for the past few hours. Bonus points for anyone who knows what it is!
Its Valentines Day. Im not going to post something angry and bitter, nor am i going to post something sappy and love sick. So, in my efforts to avoid that, i will say, its Valentines Day.
Im downloading the movie 'Hitman' right now, the Hollywood movie based off the game. Not sure how good the movie will be, but hey, Piriates of the Carribean was based of a ride right?
I think i want to learn the drums, either that, or Jazz/Funk organ. Correct that, i want to learn Jazz/Funk organ. Nobody plays that stuff anymore, i need to find someone to teach me, that would be so rad to be able to play all the old Deep Purple stuff (Space Truckin' anyone, and yes thats a song)
I, like many friends of mine right now, have the travel bug. I actually think i may be sick with the travel flu. I want to go somewhere, anywhere. Please please please let me, but alas, school calls.
I think that if i can meet enough people online, and become good friends with them, and they live around the world, maybe i wouldn't need to ever go to a hotel. How sweet would that be? It would be weird, but hey, im cheep.
Has anyone noticed that i like to use a lot of commas when i write, maybe it is a result of growing up with an English teacher for a parent. It seems that i avoid simple sentances like that plaugue.
I'm not dead yet!
I should write about this now
I had my surgery this morning. I remember an IV in my arm, and then hearing the beep beep beep of the heart monitor lower in tone for some reason, then my fingers went tingly and thats all i remember
I remember waking up, being some-what drowsie
Then i fell asleep again in the car, we drove home, and i passed out on the couch. I woke up, watched '300' and went back to sleep. No swelling though. Which is good
Peachy
In 12 hours i should be in pain, for in 11.5 hours, i will be getting my wisdom teeth out. Toodles
Today's Weather Report
Today it is cold. The sun is shining. but more than that it is just plain cold. -25 cold. Its the cold that freezes the soles of your shoes. I wonder if Paul Simon ever thought about how having diamonds on the soles of your shoes would effect traction on ice?
Letter to the Immortal Beloved
Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - I can live only wholly with you or not at all - Yess, I am resolved to wanter so long away from you until i can fly to you arms and say that i am really home wit hyou, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits - Yes, unhappily it must be so- You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my hear - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. And yet me life in V is now a wretched life - You love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At an age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection?....Be calms, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together - Be calm - love me -today - yesterday- what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. - Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful hear of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever our
L. Beethoven.
My friend gave me a good idea
I said, you know, i hate the enviroment canada weather site, 'chance of flurries'? c'mon. He said 'you should start your own weather predictions site'. So I will try to post daily, at the beginning of my blog, MY weather report for today.
Today's report:
Today it is cold, not freakin cold, but it looks like its going to snow a bit. But you won't care about the snow because of the intense wind. Its the wind that takes your breath away its so cold. On that note, when turning to walk northbound today, hold your breath for a moment until your mind can adjust to the cold. Based on my sources (aka the window behind me), the sun WILL rise today.
There that was my first one.
Im not going to 20th Century Novel today. My friend (same guy to suggest weather report) pointed out that it was a glorified, over-priced book club. I agree. I don't actually learn ANYTHING in the lectures. I should just take the class time to read. That would be better. Am I buying a grade? i think so.
There is a BIG hole across the street from me, its apparently going to be a low-income appartment building, and its supposed to also be a fire/ems station...I've never heard of that. How crappy will that be for the residents? I mean, sirens all day and night. dang. I suppose the owner of the building is getting government funding for the ems/fire station. Something has to be paying for that massive hole they are building. It has to go down like 5 or 6 stories.
I'm writing in what my literary prof calls 'stream of conciousness' which means i write what comes to mind. Aparently Virginia Woolfe was a master/genuis at this, and we all know what i think of her.
I will end this post with a poem. I just wrote it. Its freeverse
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I don't like Virginia Woolf
Her writing doesn't make sense and is hard to follow.
-don
Something i read
I was on a philosophy forum, and one person said: To die for nothing is a wasted life.
This struck me. That is wrong. I didn't like that at all. I replied right below it with:
"To live for nothing is a wasted life"
The Goings-on
Wow, its been a while since i wrote here, sorry about that. And no, there will be no song lyrics on here for a while hehe.
As of yesterday i ended to important friendships. It needed to be done. It says in the Bible (and as im writing off the top of my head a can't give you a verse, sorry) that if the eye is causing you to sin, cut it out. So these 'friends' were causing me to sin, thus, i had to get rid of them.
I feel strangely at peace with it, that would be, as Gena referred to in an earlier comment, the peace that passes all understanding.
Im teaching a few students the song 'Apologize' by the group OneRepublic. They are an American band that has made it absolutely huge in the US and Canada. They also happen to be Christian. Lyrics like 'walking on water seems pearolis now, you've got my hand, and i feel, and i feel like stepping forth...' I can try to use this group as a means to subtely minister to some of my students.
I have to say that Virginia Woolfe is a bad writer. Im not sure why people think she is some genuis, just because you write with a form of ADD does not make you genuis. She writes as things come to her mind, which makes it very difficult to read. For instance, i went to get flowers the other day, i like flowers, especially red ones. They remind me of my first love john, john was a sailor in the navy. The navy was a large part of his life, he liked to sail ships. My favorite ship is the so and so....it just goes on and on.
More later.
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