So today I totally slept until noon. It was a good day for it, as Saturdays often are. The only thing I do not like about sleeping in is getting up. It somehow feels worse to me than waking up after a near sleepless night. I don't know why this is, but it is probably because of the feeling of having wasted half of a perfectly good day in a half asleep half awake stupor drooling on your chin. When I finally woke up enough, I read, until the inevitable hunger that usually follows a day in bed overtook me. After making myself smell absolutely wonderful, I went down stairs and nuked some leftover calzone.
After that, I wrote a song. Playing guitar at 2 in the morning is not something I usually do these days, so when I called Doktor Vickery very very early this morning to tell him I had the best chord progression ever, he was not best pleased. It is an awesome song, that is essentially the chords from 3 different catholic songs smushed together, with non sensical lyrics about my day over the top.
Today was my parents "Versery" so we went out to eat. While we were there, we talked about the Germans, and how a certain family at my sister's school probably has a bunker somewhere in their house. After dinner, I discovered that I was a designated driver, and so after leaving my parents at a watering hole, I drove my siblings home. I am now awaiting the call to pick up the parents, so what better to do in the mean time than share my day with you?
Also, If you have no plans for Sunday the 18th, you should come and support my Catholic group's resident Kenyan. There will be semi legal gambling, Bluegrass, and Tony playing mandolin with his group... Oh there is the call, see you soon.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Bud, Mango and Rain
How y'all doing, It is Friday right now, and I just got back from playing mandolin at a Catholic event. My week is finally over, and tonight I am going to go out and do something fun for a change.
So, with the week and spring Semester almost over I think now would be a good time to give my over all opinion of college.. I can do it.. There you go. It can be boring hard at times, and at other times it can be wickedly easy, fun and interesting. If my parents will keep paying for me to go, I don't see any problems. Like anything, I suppose what you get out of it depends on what you put in. Next year, I am going to try to get my GPA up to something good, and really invest in all my classes because when you work hard and do a good job at anything, be it a paper or a wood floor and take pride in your work, it can be quite fulfilling.
Speaking of wood floors, I called EC Floor Sanding today and got the answering machine. It barked angrily at me in it's extremely heavy regional dialect to leave a message, before Mrs. EC picked up the phone. It seems that they will be happy to have me back, as long as they have plenty of jobs, which hopefully they will.
I have nothing to do for half an hour, and I want to save some topics for other posts, so why not talk about books? I just got an amazon gift card for $5o from a relative. I used it to buy "Magical Catholicism" by Vito Quattrocchi, which is about the folk magic of southern Italy, and the pre christian influence on Italian Catholicism as well as the practices of Benedicaria. It promises to be interesting. I bought it because of the stories my mom told me about the scary woman who lived downstairs from her growing up. She was called Lucrezz' and promised to cure everything from tape worms to the evil eye with garlic and holy water. I also used the card to buy a stiletto (knife) and "Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton" as well as a set of uncorrodable mandolin strings.
I hope you have a very nice weekend, and a week that will not make you wish it was the weekend again. Just remember that whenever possible save your breath for cooling your porridge, and make sure you don't buy a caravan with no wheels...
So, with the week and spring Semester almost over I think now would be a good time to give my over all opinion of college.. I can do it.. There you go. It can be boring hard at times, and at other times it can be wickedly easy, fun and interesting. If my parents will keep paying for me to go, I don't see any problems. Like anything, I suppose what you get out of it depends on what you put in. Next year, I am going to try to get my GPA up to something good, and really invest in all my classes because when you work hard and do a good job at anything, be it a paper or a wood floor and take pride in your work, it can be quite fulfilling.
Speaking of wood floors, I called EC Floor Sanding today and got the answering machine. It barked angrily at me in it's extremely heavy regional dialect to leave a message, before Mrs. EC picked up the phone. It seems that they will be happy to have me back, as long as they have plenty of jobs, which hopefully they will.
I have nothing to do for half an hour, and I want to save some topics for other posts, so why not talk about books? I just got an amazon gift card for $5o from a relative. I used it to buy "Magical Catholicism" by Vito Quattrocchi, which is about the folk magic of southern Italy, and the pre christian influence on Italian Catholicism as well as the practices of Benedicaria. It promises to be interesting. I bought it because of the stories my mom told me about the scary woman who lived downstairs from her growing up. She was called Lucrezz' and promised to cure everything from tape worms to the evil eye with garlic and holy water. I also used the card to buy a stiletto (knife) and "Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton" as well as a set of uncorrodable mandolin strings.
I hope you have a very nice weekend, and a week that will not make you wish it was the weekend again. Just remember that whenever possible save your breath for cooling your porridge, and make sure you don't buy a caravan with no wheels...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Honesty, Coffee and KSC
how are you?
I had a good day today. I did not do anything remotely exiting, but that's OK. The reason it was good is because I finally handed in my Irish paper.
This morning, I made a few small changes to my bibliography before going to my meeting at the KSC writing center. Some of the tutors seemed quite peeved at the amount of papers they had to read. Jahrley was one of them, and she was glad that I had only brought my conclusion instead of the whole paper. She gave me some good advice that I wish I could have Incorporated, before I discovered that EC Floor Sanding had put in the writing center's floors. This was easy to tell because any other installer would have filled in the cracks and cut the edges smoothly.
After a cup of coffee from the student center, I went to my class to hand in my paper.. I found out that instead of just dropping it off, I had to write a reflection on how writing the paper had gone and how I felt about it, as well as skeletal outline of what it was about. It was funny, because I thought that I had to be doing much worse than everyone else in terms of paper writing, by the descriptions of how long my classmates said papers were, and how the tutors at the writing center had told them not to change a thing. It turned out that at just above the minimum, I had the second longest paper in the class... Just behind Cass's friend. It is funny for me when people lie about how much work they do, but have nothing to show in the end.. Well, needless to say it was a great weight off my mind, especially since I have no more papers to write this semester. I promptly went home and watched almost all of season 1 of The Riches online, and took a long nap. I also read plenty of An Inconvenient Book as well as a letter from the bank that says I have more money than I thought I did.. Speaking of money, I also went to sell some of my expensive textbooks back to Keene State. I watched in slack jawed disbelief as the clerk handed me $6 for 4 books that collectively cost nearly $50. There is probably a better way to get some sort of compensation out of them, but I have yet to find it.
Piano anyone???
I had a good day today. I did not do anything remotely exiting, but that's OK. The reason it was good is because I finally handed in my Irish paper.
This morning, I made a few small changes to my bibliography before going to my meeting at the KSC writing center. Some of the tutors seemed quite peeved at the amount of papers they had to read. Jahrley was one of them, and she was glad that I had only brought my conclusion instead of the whole paper. She gave me some good advice that I wish I could have Incorporated, before I discovered that EC Floor Sanding had put in the writing center's floors. This was easy to tell because any other installer would have filled in the cracks and cut the edges smoothly.
After a cup of coffee from the student center, I went to my class to hand in my paper.. I found out that instead of just dropping it off, I had to write a reflection on how writing the paper had gone and how I felt about it, as well as skeletal outline of what it was about. It was funny, because I thought that I had to be doing much worse than everyone else in terms of paper writing, by the descriptions of how long my classmates said papers were, and how the tutors at the writing center had told them not to change a thing. It turned out that at just above the minimum, I had the second longest paper in the class... Just behind Cass's friend. It is funny for me when people lie about how much work they do, but have nothing to show in the end.. Well, needless to say it was a great weight off my mind, especially since I have no more papers to write this semester. I promptly went home and watched almost all of season 1 of The Riches online, and took a long nap. I also read plenty of An Inconvenient Book as well as a letter from the bank that says I have more money than I thought I did.. Speaking of money, I also went to sell some of my expensive textbooks back to Keene State. I watched in slack jawed disbelief as the clerk handed me $6 for 4 books that collectively cost nearly $50. There is probably a better way to get some sort of compensation out of them, but I have yet to find it.
Piano anyone???
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