Carbonated Water

( Musings on tonight's House, cut for spoilers )

And now I have an entire paper to write for tonight. I was planning on sleeping before the meteor shower, but that's not going to happen, so I guess I'll get about two hours of sleep tonight, if that.

Ingrown toenail. Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow it hurts. It's ugly and red too. Ow.

Well, the rest of the time until next Friday will consist of me either studying or writing papers. I have an exam tomorrow and have not started studying. I hate myself. At least I have my fridge stocked with disgusting drinks with 8000000000x the amount of caffeine it takes to stop someone's heart so I can stay up all night to study. This will bring my grand total of sleep this week to like four hours.

Anyway, wish me luck and let me get A's on all the papers and the exam.

I've been doing a really good job of staying awake in all my classes! A few weeks ago I vowed to do everything in my power to stay awake in class, and it's worked! Coffee really works wonders. Also I probably have a much stronger determination to stay awake now. I dunno. But I hope this keeps up. Unfortunately I'm probably developing a tolerance toward coffee.

I've been watching Animaniacs on DVD lately. I have the first three DVD sets, since the fourth one hasn't come out yet. But oh God it's such a good show. Brilliant. There are some sketches on it that I found boring, such as Rita and Runt or the Goodfeathers or whatever, but otherwise it's a wonderful show. Also Tiny Toons is funny too, although not as good.

Anyway have a meme that I stole.

1) Ask me my Top Five (whatevers, fannish or otherwise). Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! I will answer them all in a comment.

2) Give me a fandom and I will:

x) Tell you my unpopular (or possibly popular!) opinion(s)
x) Ramble on about OTPs/characters that make me giddy and/or rage
x) Share a deep, dark secret

3) Comment in this post with a pairing, a character, or theory. I shall write you back a paragraph explaining what I think about it (good, bad, indifferent) and why.

Well today was better. I got an A on my music history exam!

...Not much else to say, really.

Oh, I do have a couple comments for last night's House. All I really have to say is... *ahem* Are Thirteen and Taub... not going to be characters anymore? Especially Taub... He hasn't been on in a few episodes, whereas Thirteen was on in the last episode. And I want to give Wilson a big hug. When he was in bed, talking to the dead Amber, my heart went out to him. And when House did the same thing to his father... ;_;

Midterms are finally over, thank God. I was mostly worried about my music history midterm and studied the most for that, and that turned out not to be too bad. I'm fairly confident that I did well on it - at least a B. (An A would be really nice though.)

As for my form and analysis exam, I'm... pretty sure I either failed it or got a low D at the best. I hate that class so much, and he did not test on the right things. I'm not in that class to remember what key Beethoven's 4th piano sonata is in; that class is supposed to teach me how to analyze music. On the part where I actually did get to analyze music (which counted for about half the test maybe), I think I did okay, but everything else just... no. He asked a question about some random music theorist, and I had no idea what he was talking about. He asked this big question about Bach's fugue in D# minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier, and was asking about all these stupid fugual techniques and what was employed and it's like.... really? Am I really going to need to know what the fuck happens in like measure 15 of that piece for the rest of my life? Besides, that's more music history stuff, I thought.

Either way, I probably did terribly on it, because I didn't know what the fuck I was doing on the first half. Here's to hoping he gives a 50-point curve. Or at least a curve of some sort. Please.

At least there are other assignments and stuff in that class, so it's not purely test material that we're graded on. Unfortunately, in music history, our grade consists only of three tests, so it's good that I most likely did better on that test anyway.

( My sleeping problem )

Ah it felt so good to get a decent night's sleep last night after having insomnia for the past few nights. Too bad I won't be sleeping tonight, since the midterm from hell is tomorrow. Music history. I don't know anything. I wish I didn't have orchestra tonight so that I could study. Oh well, I'll have to stock up on energy drinks.

I'm starting to get sick. I have a sore throat. That is generally an indication that I'm getting a cold. Or swine flu. I hate having a sore throat, because then I can't drink milk, because milk always feels terrible on my throat when it's sore. I got my flu shot this year, but I haven't gotten the H1N1 shot, and I don't think I will, because I don't know enough about it to know if it's truly safe. While the flu sucks (I had it once before in high school), I heard that H1N1 really isn't too different from the regular flu, so I can suck it up if I get it. And the only reason I started getting flu shots was because a couple years ago, I got pneumonia over the winter, and that makes you susceptible to... everything, even after you've recovered, so I got a flu shot when I recovered.

But if I'm getting sick, me planning to pull all-nighters (or, at the very list, minimal sleep) the next two nights probably won't help. At all. Oh well. Such is life. Such is college.

I found someone to do my junior half-recital with, though, and I'm quite relieved. We haven't signed up for a date yet, but she happily agreed to share a recital with me. She and I are already playing Mozart's Flute and Harp concerto for chamber, so we'll probably play a movement of that or something in the middle of our recital, in between our solo works. (I'd like to play the whole thing, but it's kind of long.) Oh it'll be fun!

I think my brain is dead. I was planning on studying after video game club, but Gitaroo Man sucked out any sort of intelligence I had left. That game is like acid on acid. I can't remember how to do things. No but seriously, that game is so fucked up but awesome at the same time.

Apparently Schubert wrote a piece about a guy raping a fish. I think. No that's not on my exam but this is what my friend told me. Of course I immediately assumed that the piece was written about Kanye West.

I really have no idea what I'm saying right now. What just happened.

My eyesight has been really bad lately. My eyes have been incredibly dry and my vision has been really blurry. But, as soon as I decide that maybe I should go home in a week or so to see the ophthalmologist, my eyesight decides to start going back to normal. Well, my mom said I should see him during Thanksgiving break anyway, so I'll wait until then. I guess allergies this year decided to affect my eyes instead of my nose.

There was a distinct lack of Taub on House tonight. Is he like... not going to be a character anymore? :\

Edit: Damn it, someone already posted with the Music Meister on dear_mun about a week and a half ago. D: I wanted to be the first!!! I was planning on doing it when midterms were over but maybe I won't now. (Also I really hope they didn't think I stole some of their icons; I didn't. I just screen capped a lot of the same images.)

Okay I lied. I created a new musebox. I couldn't think of a creative title, though.

singingmuses

Go watch it now. Crazy stuff will happen there. :|

Oh my God. Oh my God oh my God. I have found the absolute perfect character to RP as, that is, if I ever get back into RPing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgVc2uEY6E0&feature=player_embedded#

That's the only episode I've ever seen of that show, and that's the only episode he appears in, but I don't care. He is perfect. The Music Meister. He controls people by singing, and then makes them break out into song and dance. He even made Batman sing at the end. BATMAN. SING. That doesn't happen. Ever. (Okay he technically didn't make Batman sing, but still.)

So yes. I think I'm going to open up a musebox just for this character. Maybe.

Harley Quinn was originally just in one of the Batman animated shows, but she was so popular that she became part of the comics and such. Maybe the Music Meister will... Although that's doubtful. But it would be wonderful if he did.

I have so much studying to do this weekend for midterms. I'm gonna die. Or fail. One or the other. Arggh. But musebox will come after midterms, which end on Thursday. Maybe.

Day five of the seven day meme.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/fanfiction/e-book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3DmuFx0ug

I don't know how to post the actual video directly to my LJ. Sorry. :|

HEY GUYS give me something to say for the voice post meme.

VOICE POST MEME

Comment to this post and give me things you want me to say. It can be as long or as short as you want and there is no limit on the amount of things you can have me say.

And with that I'm going to bed. I'm barely coherent right now. My friend in Philly called me earlier tonight while I was at an observation, and I called her back afterward and we talked for almost five hours, taking a break for an hour in between to watch House. But now I'm barely coherent. At the end of our conversation I started talking nonsense and singing random things, showing that I am indeed tired.

Part four of the seven-day meme.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/fanfiction/e-book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Um, as for sites... I'm gonna go with http://cuteoverload.com. When you are feeling down and life sucks, looking at pictures of cute little kitties (or dogs or whatever) will always cheer you right up. Or at least it works for me.

Day three of the seven-day meme.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/fanfiction/e-book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

I'd post one of my favorite books here, but I read a lot of annoying informational books on psychological problems and such (not necessarily because of me - just for my own entertainment and because I find this stuff interesting), or like astronomy, which I love. So instead of a boring book, I'll post a fan-fic. (Also if you ask me to pick one favorite book you'll just get a blank stare as I really can't name one.)

I wasn't sure which one to post, but I found one of my favorite ones. Now, I never read Disney fan-fiction (unless my friend and I are purposely looking for bad fics to send to each other), but this one was recommended to me years ago, so I decided to give it a read, and I absolutely loved it.

Picture This, a Beauty and the Beast fan-fiction. It's an AU where Belle ends up with Gaston. Again, I normally wouldn't read a fic like that, but yeah.

Part 2 of the seven day meme. I didn't have time to post yesterday, unfortunately.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/fanfiction/e-book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

I wasn't sure what to put here, so I went through my favorites in my DeviantArt and found this.



She looks absolutely beautiful. The lighting is great, and I love the red background. The model is obese, but this also shows that obese people can be beautiful too, despite what society claims. She also seems to have a lot of self confidence, especially to be a model, and I admire her for it.

Okay I stole this meme from pippin_my_ride. But it looks fun! It's a seven day meme.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/fanfiction/e-book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Technically not a "song" but a choral piece. "Agnus Dei," the choir rendition of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," which is truly one of the most gorgeous pieces I've ever heard. I love both the choir and string versions.

Also, kusanagi_karin chose icons for me for the famous icon meme, so here they are.

( Icons )

the /loves on meme





Someone asked me to beta their unwritten Guys and Dolls fic. I didn't know people wrote fic for that musical. Well I read a couple of them a few years ago, but they were pretty bad. But anyway I haven't written a fan-fic in like forever, so uh, this will be interesting. When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky, you can bet that he's doin' it for some doll.

Speaking of FF.net, though, I only have a couple stories up there from a few years ago, but my most popular one is my least favorite. Funny how that works, huh? I only left it up because people seem to love it for some reason, while I think it's poorly-written.

I literally slept through my entire Form & Analysis class today. I have no idea what we learned. It's kind of sad. Also, my woodwind tech professor has missed every class except for maybe like three of them. I was learning the flute, and now apparently I have to switch to the clarinet to keep up with the syllabus. I'm rather pissed because I can't play the flute to save my life. Most of the other people in the class can, but I cannot. I blow into the instrument and that beautiful, bell-like sound does not come out. In fact hardly any sound comes out. It's so hard. I'm thinking I may ask my mom to search in the attic for my sister's old flute so I can take the time and learn it myself. Because I've had hardly any class time, that's probably why I suck at the flute right now. Everyone's super-pissed at the professor, though, for skipping so many classes. As they should be. We're paying a lot of money for an education, damn it. (Says the person who sleeps through a lot of classes... Okay it's not my fault, seriously. I can't help it.)