I went to the last women's lacrosse home game today, just because I've never been to one. Plus, they're free and the team's #1, so its a win all around. They did win and were hella good, as far as I can tell from my limited knowledge of laX. If you can catch a ball being whipped at your face with a netted stick and then run around with it like a ( Read more... )

On my iTunes the song "Good Night" by the Beatles came on. In my concious memory I don't remember ever hearing this song before, though I thought I'd pretty much memorized all the songs on the White Album after hearing them so much. It's a pretty song, I really like it. Also, both of the songs with my name in it came on in the past hour. ( Read more... )

in my attempts to procrastinate writing the easy part of my opera paper (just the background section...what's gonna happen when I get to the real stuff?) I looked at one of the livejournals in the spotlight this week. turns out there's a girl in austrailia who takes pictures of her hair every morning and posts it up. all the pictures look the same ( Read more... )

Applying to grad school is a bitch, and takes up a lot of my extra time. Not especially with the work for filling applications out, but thinking about it, studying for the GRE, calling schools, and meeting profs for recommendations. At least I've gotten three solid recs on their way, as soon as I pass out the forms and self addressed envelopes. I ( Read more... )

About two thirds the way through last summer, when I was working the housing office full time, I got the brilliant idea to burn songs from CDs onto the student office computer so that I at least have some tunes on while my muscles atrophied from sitting in a desk chair for 8 hours. Unfortunately, I ended up only burning one CD, Ben Folds' "Rockin ( Read more... )

I recently visited New York with some friends from my study abroad program, and had a slightly unsettling conversation about friendship. Both of my friends agreed that one can't really totally trust anyone as a friend, because there's always another person in the picture who they will tell your secrets to, that rarely will you find two people who ( Read more... )

Today my new physics teacher did an impression from "Star Trek" in the exact same way my old physics teacher does. Do all physics buffs watch Star Trek and practice their Captain Kirk impersonations in the mirror? Maybe profs have workshops for such things, or just sit around and drink beer and say "Captain's log: We're approaching Vulcan at .80 ( Read more... )

Rachel, Stace and I drove up to the Dominick's on Green Bay yesterday to buy some groceries for our empty fridge through a torential downpour. Luckily it stopped by the time we exited the car and upon entering the store were pleasently surprised to discover this weekend was Dominicks' grand re-opening, ie there were amazing free samples EVERYWHERE ( Read more... )

Put your music player on shuffle. Press forward for each question. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if they don't make sense. You'll be surprised though ( Read more... )

On Saturday night I went to DeKalb, IL, about an hour west of Chicago and home to lots of corn and Northern Illinois University. My friend Bill turned 22 last week, so in celebration we made the time-honored pilgramage to the rows and rows of identical student houses, which thankfully have airconditioning and, within walking distance, both a sweet ( Read more... )