Bork bork bork Friday, March 21, 2008

I wrote this Icelandic(ish) Saga for my German Lit in Translation class.
... Enjoy?




I'm almost done until Spring break! Yesterday was the first day of Spring and I forgot to celebrate! (It rained all day)

I woke up 5 minutes after CS started this morning, so there's no way I'm getting there. I'm going to get dressed, instead, and go to the health center and find out whether or not I should be worried that my glands have been swollen and angry for 2 weeks now. If they tell me I should be worried, I'll go to immediate care in Corvallis.

Corvallis! I'M GOING HOME TOMORROW! Hooray! And Mommy's birthday is on Sunday! And Easter! Yay! Exclamation point!

I will give a real update on my life soon, I promise.

Let's get pumped up! Thursday, March 13, 2008

Appreciators of our football team here at Lewis and Clark are in a distinct minority. The majority of the school couldn't be bothered with going to a game (even a home game!), following the scores, or even getting to know a football player. The team itself is a joke. I think my friend Marcus from BSM put it (he plays football for Occidental) "wait, you go to Lewis and Clark? I think we play you guys at the beginning of the season just to beat you. You guys are awful!" It's often pondered whether we'd be better off just losing the football team, since other athletics at Lewis and Clark (for example, our Ultimate Frisbee team) flourish, and the money that goes to football could be funding another department in athletics... or maybe even... academics? The problem is the alumni. Many alums would stop giving to the college altogether if we lost our football team.

The point of this story is that back in the fall a couple of my friends (Nick and Brian) decided it would be hilariously ironic if they got REALLY PUMPED UP for the homecoming game. They dressed themselves in the school colors, taped giant L C's to their chests, and got really drunk. You know, the way you get pumped up for football if you go to a state school.

Evidently a staff or faculty member took a picture of them ALL PUMPED UP at the game, and since they are so starved for proof that your average student really, really likes football...

Well, they ended up in the Alumni Magazine:

Yay! My friends are dorks!

A capella retreat this weekend at Rockaway beach was absolutely wonderful. This week is frightening. Way too much work, not enough time.

Let me sleep on it, I'll give you an answer in the morning. Wednesday, March 5, 2008

This weekend, while I was procrastinating doing homework, I designed the logo for con.... yay!! I drew the line drawings, Lizzy L. did the writing.

The front:

The back:

I haven't really decided on colors yet, but Dev and I were talking and really liked the idea of something really bright and beautiful and awesome.


I'm listening to 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light' and it makes me think of Budapest and Voula and late nights spent in Morrison's.



I put up a link on the left hand side to my YouTube channel, which is currently full of Kimya Dawson, Mountain Goats and Section Line Drive. Hooray!

I found out today that I was supposed to apply to graduate. No one told me... I was gone last semester... I feel so out of the loop. Looks like I can still apply (late) to graduate.. sigh. Screw you, bureaucracy, I'm sick of filling out forms.

It's that time of year again Tuesday, March 4, 2008

HOLY SHIT IT'S A NINJA GET IN THE CAR

International Fair was this weekend, and it was really good, besides my freak out just before hand, partially due to having not had coffee, a shower or food and not knowing when I was going to get to consume/take either. (The freak out was around 12:15. I had coffee around 12:45, a shower around 12:50 and then call was at 1:00, so I didn't have food until around 4:30... damn). We sang Chicago and 29 Ways. Rob has videos of both and is hopefully uploading them today. We chose solos for Chicago on Sunday of last week, deciding that Kyle and Sarah would sing it at International Fair. And then Kyle couldn't make practice on Tuesday or Thursday and Sarah got a cold, so it ended up being Sander and myself in front of a wall of international students and a ba-jillion parents. Serendipity, I guess? 29 Ways was absolutely fantastic (though we took it a little fast) and John made his solo debut on it. And rocked it HARD.



This time of year, between February and April, always seems to be really challenging, but life-changing.

• Steve and I started dating in April of 2000. We broke up in May of 2003.
  
• Justin and I got together in March of 2004 and broke up in March of 2005.
  
• Dylan and I got together in April of 2005 and broke up in February of 2007.
  
• Rob and I kissed at RockOn (Spring Con 2007) on the last weekend of March last year.
  

(Why are those all just get-togethers and break-ups? There was a lot more stuff happening in the Spring of all of those years, the relationship stories are just the milestones, I guess) This year is especially eerie because a lot of the things that happened last year are happening again under different circumstances. And I don't mean in a Twilight Zone kind of way, I mean that I went on choir retreat last year (in February, we're going again next weekend), I participated in the International Fair last year, I saw the Mountain Goats last year. The weird thing about it is that I'm living in the same apartment and I was gone in the Fall, so it almost feels like the months of June through December just... didn't happen, and it's still last Spring. I worked Sunday afternoons in the Math Skills Center last year and sometimes I still accidentally plan my weekends around being in there from 12 to 3. Last Spring was really hard, especially from around Valentine's day to Spring Break. I was really lonely, I was chasing someone who was very obviously not into me and couldn't seem to take a hint, I was drinking too much... Actually, Spring of my Senior year (2004) was very similar, previous to Justin and I getting together. But minus the drinking.

But it's not last Spring and everything is completely different, there just happen to be some similarities in my activities and living situation. Weird.


Rob had a cold this weekend and I'm coming down with it. Suck.

I will put a link to my YouTube account on the left hand bar, so you can just check out my videos there. I'll be uploading Mountain Goats and a capella in the very near future, so I'll update here when I put them there.