November 11, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5
Quote: Every institutionalized expression of human aspiration tends to go through periods of corruption and decay and to become encrusted with irrelevant rituals and ceremonies. Not all who profess the faith keep the faith. Some exploit the symbols of the faith for selfish purposes.
Small wonder that ardent spirits view such compromised institutions with disdain and long to create something new, something honest, something uncorrupted. But the new thing they create will quickly accumulate false fronts and hypocrisies. All who profess it will not live by it. So what then? Reject it too?
No. Repudiate the falsifying and betrayal that occur in every human institution - the centuries-old betrayal of the traditional faiths and the betrayal that is occurring every day in the newest creeds. Bud in rejecting those who have corrupted the faith, do not reject those who were and are true to the moving spirit. When you enter a cathedral, or the United States Capitol, feel a bond with all who ever aspired to build something admirable above the muck, something worthy above the clawing and screaming of life. Do not let that bond be sullied by the fact that others built – and still build – for unworthy reasons.
– John W. Gardner

Good things that happened today:
1. Honeybush tea with breakfast!
2. Practice was pretty low-key.
3. Got a decent amount of work done.
4. Started my second armwarmer! (And double-pointed needles are rather easier to handle when you've gotten used to them, even in the early rows, which I had TONS of trouble with last time around.)
5. X-Files!
6. Cuddles and dancing.

November 10, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up the Girl
Reading: Cooper The Last of the Mohicans, Whitman (*shudder*)
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Weights went pretty well.
2. X-Files.
3. Sex.

November 9, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: Cather O Pioneers!, Dickens Our Mutual Friend
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6
Quote: "There does exist one intellectually respectable means of cutting through the realities of religious difference. It is to maintain a healthy measure of humility with respect to one's own religious certitude or omniscience. Indeed, such humility may be the only means of maintaining a consistent self-respecting and other-respecting pluralism in religious matters. But many people cannot achieve that level of humility." – John W. Gardner

Good things that happened today:
1. Quite interesting class today (got into the purpose of the university and education and all that).
2. Lunch with Jason.
3. My coach was gone, so I didn't have a lesson. Normally this would be bad, but I'm still sick enough that I appreciated the break and the chance to get work done.
4. REALLY finished my first armwarmer (wove in the ends)!!!
5. Practice went fairly well.

Other things to be happy about:

October 8, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: Crossan Who Killed Jesus?
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4
Quote: "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." – Thomas Jefferson

Good things that happened today:
1. OMFG I FINISHED* MY FIRST ARMWARMER YAAAAAAAY!
2. Slept in (skipped weights -- and it was a good thing because I think the sleep made me feel well enough to go in to practice tomorrow).
3. Democrats took back the legislature.
4. Rumsfeld is out.
5. I FINISHED the damn Crossan. Fairly interesting, but not when you have to speed through it because you've got tons of other reading.
6. Got to see Jonathan Rhys Meyers in a bra and panties, as well as some JRM bum (we watched an excerpt from Titus in class). Woot woot.


*Okay, I still have to weave in the ends. But the thing is OFF THE NEEDLES. That counts. ;)

November 7, 2006

Music: Barenaked Ladies Maroon
Reading: Cooper The Last of the Mohicans, Crossan Who Killed Jesus?
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch AND dinner with Jason.
2. Cuddles.
3. Finished The Last of the Mohicans.
4. Am sort of feeling better... definitely not healthy yet... but there's light at the end of the tunnel (of course now that I'm saying this I'm going to go get sick again).

November 6, 2006

Music: Barenaked Ladies Maroon
Reading: Crossan Who Killed Jesus, Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7

Good things that happened today:
1. Survived weights in the morning.
2. Finished the thumbhole on my first armwarmer... just a few more rows to go!
3. Lunch AND dinner with Jason.
4. Got all of the reading done that I really needed to do.
5. Got permission to skip practice tomorrow (I be sick and need to rest).
6. Got everything ready at the public service center to send materials to Archives!
7. Took a nap.

November 5, 2006

Music: Barenaked Ladies Maroon
Reading: Crossan Who Killed Jesus?, Thoreau "Walking"
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5
Quote: "It is strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and I apologised to nobody." – Valerie, V for Vendetta

Good things that happened today:
1. Cuddles with boyfriend.
2. Was moderately productive.
3. Knitting group!
4. Tootsie Rolls.