September 30, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Tei Yamashita Tropic of Orange, Bible Gospel of Matthew
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5
Quote: "I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable..." – Kafka

Good things that happened today:
1. Ate cotton candy!
2. Bought Thanksgiving tickets home.
3. Read good book.
4. Was fairly productive.
5. Got some knitting done! :)

September 29, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8
Quote: "Life is like the steps a baby takes from the moment his mother lets him out of her arms until she picks him up again." – Tolstoy

Good things that happened today:
1. Sex.
2. Watched a movie with the boyfriend.
3. Decided not to take the subject GRE.
4. The book I'm currently reading for class is awesome. So hard to put down!

September 28, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Grabbe -- something about Jewish history around the birth of Christ
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8

Good things that happened today:
1. I saw a hawk! I was biking past the business school, and saw it swoop up to perch on top of a statue. So I stopped, maybe 10 feet away or less, and watched it. Then it flew to a nearby tree branch. I followed it. I was probably like 6 feet away from it, and it looked right at me -- eye contact with a predator is vaguely unnerving. Then it started hunching up and waving its head back and forth, which I took to mean it didn't like me staring at it. So I took off. But it was way cool.
2. Went to fencing, caught up with some people I hadn't seen in a while.
3. Did laundry.
4. Ate chocolate.

September 27, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Fredriksen From Jesus to Christ
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8
Quote: "The author in the work should be like God in nature – everywhere present, nowhere visible." – Flaubert

Good things that happened today:
1. Chatted with my roomates both from last year and from the summer, both of whom I saw on campus today for the first time since getting back.
2. Lunch with teh boyfriend.
3. Knitted. :)
4. Got into this cool seminar... it's going to be tons of work but mucho fun!
5. Am finally starting to get organized with work and stuff.
6. Found a version of Carcassonne online... probably a bad thing in some senses... ;)

September 26, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Misc. little stuff for classes
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8.5
Quote: "No iron can pierce the human heart with such violence as a period placed just at the right moment." – narrator of "Guy de Maupassant" by Isaac Babel

Good things that happened today:
1. Dinner with Dad at a great Chinese restaurant.
2. I got into a class that there was a very slim chance of my getting into (...just after I'd decided that I really didn't need to take it anyway... grr. Now I am faced with decisions. But at least it is a choice between two positives.)
3. My "Jesus the Christ" class had its first meeting today. The course is going to be fucking AWESOME. The teacher is just incredible. I'm so excited.
4. Knitted!
5. Lunch with boyfriend in nicely remodeled cafeteria.
6. Bought some of my books for the coming quarter.

September 25, 2006

Music: Barenaked Ladies Everything to Everyone
Reading: NOTHING. (Ahh, the brief pause between summer pleasure reading and the quarter workload...)
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8
Quote:

And I want you to know,
And to feel in your soul,
That someone has
come and gone.
– Hootie and the Blowfish, "Innocence"

Good things that happened today:
1. Dinner with my dad, boyfriend, and cousin at a FANTASTIC Italian place (melon and prosciutto, yay!).
2. KNITTED! Four or five rows in an hourlong class...
3. Hung out with boyfriend after dinner.
4. Wore pretty earrings all day. :)
5. Socialized with fencing people, and made plans for the coming year.

Other things to be happy about:
1. Tea.

September 24, 2006

Music: Barenaked Ladies Everything to Everyone
Reading: various Shelley
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Edited my personal statement.
2. Knitted two more rows!
3. Installed my new Norton Internet Security.
4. Went to a senior class mixer.
5. Entirely finished my work with the test prep company, probably forever. (That's kind of sad, in addition to kind of good.)

September 23, 2006

Music: Barenaked Ladies Everything to Everyone
Reading: various Shelley
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6

Good things that happened today:
1. Edited my writing sample.
2. Sex.
3. Found a fun games site.
4. Ran into Joel and chatted for a while.
5. Gunpowder Green Tea with brunch! And good cafeteria oatmeal!