Just a short update: I Hate Music History. This is what I have been doing for a week and a half - studying for the music history test tomorrow. I never want to hear another Gregorian chant as long as I live.

This is all for now, as I have to go do more of the same.

...with Stravinsky and a bottle of water and my computer, and wondering why trying to make people safe and happy backfires on me so often.

Where do I keep going wrong? Why the hell is this a trend in my life?

I'm a giant fucking cliche right now, aren't I? I am frustrated and jaded and exhausted and feeling like things are going to shit.

If you feel like reassuring me that they're not, feel free.

(Morning-after edit: Wow, I had a bad night, didn't I?)

• Suddenly I feel like an artist. I think I've always been an artist but terrified to admit it to myself or others. The artistic temperament defies logic - how do I deal with defying my own nature with itself? (My nature defying itself? I hope you get the idea. I do, anyways.) By not putting so much stock in logic all the bloody time, that's how.
• I ( Read more... )

Apparently, having taken 4.0 credits last year disqualifies me from getting any need-based awards except for the Bruce and Helen Mills Instrument Scholarship, which is the only one I needed anyways. This is mildly absurd, since I didn't have a chance to take 5.0 credits once I decided to change majors, but at least I have enough credits to be ( Read more... )

I just got an email telling me that I "don't meet the minimum requirements for need based awards," apparently based on my financial need application and my academic record. The thing is, my financial need application detailed exactly how I'm scraping through school on my own without any help from my parents, and my average is 92 fucking percent ( Read more... )

I was hoping that with the recent advent of a certain amount of newfound self-confidence and comfort in my own skin, I wouldn't be dealing with feelings like my current ones for a while. Apparently I was too optimistic about that ( Read more... )

Every so often, you run into people you want to hit with a cricket bat in retaliation for their very existence. Today, I found one of these people on the 6 Richmond heading home from band rehearsal ( Read more... )

Looking at the Half-Life 2 voice acting credits (what? every last one one of you knows I'm a geek) I discovered a few things:

Dr. Judith Mossman is also Ensign Ro from Star Trek: TNG.
Dr. Eli Vance is Rafiki.
The Vortigaunt was Commander Clash on Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which also starred Jeff Goldblum as Duke Nukem (no relation to the ( Read more... )

I enjoy these things - you tend to learn stuff about people that you may not have known.

( Quiz! Stolen from (well, ordered to fill out by) killer_star )