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I didn't really "get" "Four Saints in Three Acts." Not at all by reading it, and not much more by reading about it. I don't think it's the sort of thing that's meant to be read. After all, Gertrude Stein herself said that the words of the story were only important in relation to the imagery of the production. Furthermore, I didn't enjoy reading ( Read more... )

Heinrich Schüler von Allenstein is one of the most obscure composers of the Romantic era. Comparatively little is known about his life, save for what has been pieced together from letters found in the basement of the sanitarium where he ended his days. Born in Allenstein in 1816 to a Lutheran minister, Schüler was an only child. His mother ( Read more... )

I'm making angel hair spaghetti, because I'm more hungry than tired. What have I been up to, you may wonder? Yesterday I went to see Sophie Scholl at the FIlm Forum with Sean Moundas. It was incredibly hard to watch. Almost as depressing as that Osama movie, though I don't think anything will ever top that. Then I went to NYU to hang out with ( Read more... )

I'm gonna learn that waltz.

I can't bring myself to read plans. Or to write another plan. I just can't. It's too weird. I'm sure I'll end up doing it, but I feel like such a sellout for absolutely no reason at all ( Read more... )

The past 24 hours have been bizarre. Just bizarre. I can barely describe. Last night I was in such a funk, I wrote a plan. It didn't help. I left Amherst depressed, and being here has not made it any better. I wish I could say that I'm happy to be home, but honestly, I'm not. I got home at 8, and no sooner had I taken off my coat, when my ( Read more... )

Swedish Chef!
You scored 68 Mood and 74 Energy! You are happy and energetic. People just love being around you and your infectious energy. You're good at entertaining people without even trying, and you make a mean lutefiske.
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Hegel
You scored 66 realism, 50 rationalism, 44 materialism, and 44 atomism! Your philosopher is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831), a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. Hegel's thought represents the summit of 19th Century Germany's movement of philosophical ( Read more... )

(As I miss my Arabic class, because I missed the bus and didn't feel like walking in the rain)

I'm gonna be Marsh House President next semester. Nobody else ran (or is staying in Marsh) so I won by default. Yeah.

-J

(As I take a totally undeserved nap)