2 weeks of nagging, dull pain in my right hand, wrist, and forearm has forced me to conclude this may not be just your average muscle overuse ( Read more... )

 I'm sitting in my bedroom with the door shut and a bath towel stuffed against the bottom gap.  I'm also wearing my winter coat and my window is open wide, in December ( Read more... )

 2.5 weeks before the end of classes an inconvenient time for the "fuck school" malaise to set in.

*Edit*

I can also feel a virus lurking just underneath my immune system's radar.  It's that weird tingly feeling where you know something is up but defensive measures have not yet begun.  Time to pop some zinc.

 not dead, just busy.  directing my play is kicking the shit out of me, yet is still somehow fun.  this week I have to meet with five separate people about the play (probably more).  set construction is this Saturday yet I somehow must acquire supplies between now and then.  also must meet with boyfriend re: film editing for (what else?) the play ( Read more... )

One of the best phrases in the English language:

"Tonight's course cancelled, instructor ill."

YES!  I'm gonna clean my room and work on my script and eat popcorn and watch Battlestar Galactica...big shoutout to whichever virus leveled my professor!

 I simply cannot believe that I played cello for 7 years and never once heard a recording of Jacqueline du Pre's Elgar Concerto for Cello UNTIL TONIGHT.

God-damn could that woman play. 

I have newfound (grudging) respect for the KGB.  Those guys were on to something with the torture.

For example, right now I have a -2.5 hour sleep deficit (sleep deprivation)* and there are repairs being done on the stairwell directly behind my office wall, hence lots of pounding hammers (sensory bombardment)*.

Shit, under these conditions I would ( Read more... )

Slow weekend, not entirely intended.  But that's okay.  Lots of nerding out.

Stephanie's belated 21st birthday party was on Friday night.  Good times, except my efforts to get 100% wasted are consistently ruined by my own body getting a headache/nauseous before critical drunken mass is achieved, forcing me to abandon drinking after 3-4 doses.  Or ( Read more... )

previously unknown annoying thing about living in the city:

heavy thunderstorms = a dozen car alarms going off below your window, repeatedly.  Arrrgh.

HOLY SHIT ( Read more... )