In order, from most important to least important:

1. Eat a nutritious lunch
2. Write a 600 word paper on "Stravinsky as modernist" for MUL2110 (Musical Styles)
3. Study for MUT2127 (Music Theory IV) exam
4. Go to 4:00 rosary group, 4:45 confession, 5:30 mass
5. 6 hours ≥ amount of sleep I need ≥ 4 hours ≥ amount of time there is until rosary group meets
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I know I should be less dependent on material things to make me happy, but I couldn't help myself when I saw this old mandolin for $99 at Guitar Haven the other day.  I haggled with them a bit, and they let me have it for $80.


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Ha.  It's been four months since I've written anything in my LJ, and the last thing I wrote was sort of a cliff-hanger.  Time to update ( Read more... )

Comments welcome.  This situation is strictly hypothetical.  Don't freak out or anything ( Read more... )

I'm glad I can still bite my tongue when I need to, but I still need to find better ways of saying things.  Aaaaaand caffeine maybe isn't a real great thing for me right now.

You don't know what I'm talking about, and that's okay.

This past weekend was another one of the best this semester.  (Is my syntax correct?  Whatever.  I'm going crazy and I don't care ( Read more... )

In general, things are as good as they have been.  Same old school stress, same old Catholic Student Center highs and lows, same old college diet strangeness.

Specifically, I have a great gal, and things are the best they've been all year.

As usual, the Independent Alligator gets it completely wrong:

My comments are in (bold parentheses).

Silenced! Student Senate shouldn't censor Accent
By Editorial Staff

We hate to say it, but one Student Government organization is actually doing something right. Not everything, mind you, but we'll give credit where credit's due.

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Last night I spoke to the Student Senate about the Kevorkian thing.  The results were overwhelmingly positive.  Although it may be too late to actually stop his appearance (someone told me that the contract has already been signed), I think that our Student Government generally agreed with what I had to say and, if all goes well, they will issue a ( Read more... )

I've never spent so much time on non-schoolwork before.  We, the Pro-Life Alliance, are doing everything we can to stop Jack Kevorkian from coming to UF.  It's easy to lose hope, considering what a prick the chairman of our speaker's bureau is.

Here are some quotes of his, with my commentary in bold.

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