October 6, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Meier "Jesus Among the Historians"
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4
Quote:
Oh, we make a boast of storing,
Of saving and of keeping,
But only by ignoring
The waste of moments sleeping,
The waste of pleasure weeping,
By denying and ignoring
The waste of nations warring.
-"November," Robert Frost

Good things that happened today:
1. Back rub. :)
2. Practice was definitively set at 4-6, NOT 6-8 on a Friday night.
3. Watched a strange and amusing anime.
4. Hung out with teh boyfriend.

October 5, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Euripides Medea
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6

Good things that happened today:
1. Hung out with fencing team at an evening get-together.
2. Reread Euripides' Medea. How I love that play... this time around was a crappy translation, though. I like the Jeffers better, though that's an adaptation; and the other version I have is better too.
3. Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

October 4, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: nothing, actually... no time to read today
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 9.9
Quote:
I would have written on me of my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
-"The Lesson For Today," Robert Frost

Good things that happened today:
1. Got medication for my UTI. (Yes, UTI equals bad. But getting medicine to fix it before it becomes absolutely terrible, as my last one did, equals good.)
2. My mommy sent me Swedish Fish. :)
3. EVERY SINGLE THING is checked off on today's To Do list!!!
4. Krispy Kremes at hall meeting tonight. I ate three (yeah, shush, I know I'm gonna be sick) and took two more for later (there were tons of leftovers).
5. Emailed the list about setting up a knitting group today, and already two people have responded with interest!

October 3, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Tei Yamashita Tropic of Orange
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5
Quote:
As ever when philosophers are met,
No matter where they stoutly mean to get,
Nor what particulars they reason from,
They are philosophers, and from old habit
They end up in the universal Whole
As unoriginal as any rabbit.
- "The Lesson For Today," Robert Frost

Good things that happened today:
1. Got new fencing-related clothing. Our warmups this year are AWESOME.
2. Lunch with Jason.
3. Pretty good fencing practice.
4. Finished Tropic of Orange. A good book, but it gets quite weird toward the end. I wish I could have given it a little more time/thought...

October 2, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Introduction to Sophocles' Antigone
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7.5
Quote:

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Its contemplation makes us out as small
As a brief epidemic of microbes
That in a good glass may be seen to crawl
The patina of this the least of globes.
But have we there the advantage after all?
You were belittled into vilest worms
God hardly tolerated with his feet;
Which comes to the same thing in different terms.
We both are the belittled human race,
One as compared with God and one with space.
I had thought ours the more profound disgrace;
But doubtless this was only my conceit.
The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet.
- "The Lesson For Today," Robert Frost

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason.
2. Got back to work at the public service center!
3. Dat gave me a pillow for my chair! Now it is all soft and cushy, not hard and uncomfortable! Yaaaaay!
4. Ice cream for dessert with dinner.
5. Tried Honeybush tea (from Numi). It was pretty good.

October 1, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Sophocles Antigone
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw "Little Miss Sunshine" with Jason and his mom. Cute movie.
2. Hot sex.
3. Cuddles.
4. I said something about having too many movies that we need to watch, and Jason said, "Well, I guess we'll just have to keep dating after college until we watch them all, then." Which is a really little thing, I know, but when we're both seniors the thought of what happens at the end of the year is a stressor (albeit minorish at this point in time), so it's really reassuring to hear something like that. :)