This is about the time of year when I start to get anxious. Maybe it's all of the coffee I've drank today (I think I can a caffine withdrawl headache yesterday...scary). Mid-March is when I start to get sick of winter hardcore. And the weather continues to toy with me. I'm anxious about almost being done with my first year of grad school and being ( Read more... )

I've decided to give up the ghost on being "ethical" and not downloading music. What are some good sites to use? I'm looking mostly for complete albums and a mix of the usual metal as well as maybe some oldies and goodies.

Georgia was more than worth it this weekend. Eleven hours of driving was a bit much, but Neurosis made it worth it. However, I was conflicted about what to do because Coalesce started playing 15 minutes before Neurosis was done, so I left their set early to watch Coalesce, which may not have been worth it. There were no vocals at all in the tiny ( Read more... )

I feel like I should be having a slight panic attack when I think about all of the things I need to have read and written by the end of next week. Maybe this is why my sleeping habits are so eradic. I can't wait to go to Georgia to see Neurosis and Mastodon. I need to get far far away from here.

I spent the day with Sarah and Sophia. My sister has always been a people person and I think being alone all of the time with a baby really gets to her after a while. I brought lunch and we just generally hung out. I got to feed Sophia at one point and hold her while she was taking a snooze. This is one reason why it is so hard for me to think ( Read more... )

I'm an aunt!!!! Sophia Anne Collins was born January 12, 2009 around 7:30 pm. This is so unbelievabily awesome. See the myspace page for pictures because I don't know how to post them here.

If everything goes smoothly ::knocks on wood:: I will be an aunt by tomorrow. Sarah is having her labor induced in an hour and a half, as far as I know. We've had two false starts this week so far, and today is her due date, so hopefully tonight goes well for her. She got her hopes up on Tuesday because they were talking about possibly doing a c- ( Read more... )

I'm using the excuse that I maybe didn't try as hard as I could have this semester. I'm trying to ease my fears that I'm not as smart/good of a student as I thought I was. I'm trying to put this behind me and work for the new semester. I'm trying to take constructive criticism and not attack myself. I'm trying to be better than this. I'm trying to ( Read more... )

I just got my hairs cut off. It's ok, I'm not disappointed but I'm not super stoked on it either. Another semester of grad school starts next week. I have to work harder at this one. My grades for the first semester weren't bad, but they could have been better. Still kind of bummed out about one of the classes I thought I should have done better in ( Read more... )

I really hate it when people write in library books in pen. I don't care about your shit annotations to a text, especially when they're hardly intellectual and you should probably have thought twice about sharing what you think with whoever checks that book out after you. You should keep those kind of inane thoughts to yourself and not let on that ( Read more... )