My oh my, but it's been nearly a quarter since I posted last. Seems the fickle tides of the EE workload are sweeping me out to Cs and I just don't have the time to be clever as I used to. I'll try to have some worthwhile experience over Spring Break to make up for it.
As a token post, though, a couple of cool things happened to me just recently:
Anecdote The Former - A few days ago I went to a blood drive at Roble. They had a radio set on some San Francisco station playing to keep the patients happy, and I was mildly amused when I entered to notice that the song playing at that particular moment was "I Will Survive". I was more amused when the next song the DJ happened to pick was Matchbox Twenty's "Unwell". A little bit after that, some people from Roble came in and asked if they could borrow the radio, so off it went. Just before I left, though, they put it back on. The song that was playing as I left: "Doctor My Eyes".
Anecdote The Latter - Having recently sold a little piece of my soul yet again to the psych department, and weighed down with the resultant pocket-hole burnage, I decided to go to the SImps end of quarter show yesterday. It was definitely worth the money for three very good reasons. The opening act was one reason: Down With Gravity, the Stanford juggling club (of which my friend and dormmate Daniel Jacobs is one of the three members) put on a great show. If you happen to be one of the Stanford people reading this, you should definitely make the effort to go watch them on Fridays as they dink around at White Plaza. The second reason was the SImps show itself. It was absolutely fantastic. I won't go into details, because these things are always strangely unfunny in the retelling, but suffice it to say (What a weird expression, by the way. What a weird word) that it was the best SImps show I've seen yet, and I've seen a handful. Maybe they have a video. But I digress - the third reason that I consider it well worth the five-minus-a-special-Jeff-is-the-house-manager-discount-of-one dollars that I put forth for the experience is this: During intermission, I saw a girl wearing a black T-shirt. On the front was a picture of a covered wagon and the words "You have died of dysentery".
Music of the moment: "Candle Killing Light" by Michael Knott, off of "Life of David" (Four stars)
I've been going on a bit of an eBay binge lately what with all the soul-sellage. Life of David is one of the several prettygood CDs I've picked up, along with works by The Normals, Chasing Furies, Havalina Rail Co., Fleming and John, Bill Mallonee, Poor Old Lu, and other spectacular bands that you've never heard of. I highly recommend them all. Especially The Normals' "A Place Where You Belong" and Chasing Furies' "With Abandon" (har). Those are now my two favorite rock albums ever. Christian music that's actually better than secular music - craazy. Go ahead and listen to them off of my AIM shared files, and I'm sure that you will agree.
