'IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING', HELLS YES

*headbangs lots* YEEEEAAAAAH

(Bet you Edvard Grieg has been a HUGE influence on metal music. I mean, on popular culture and soundtracking, sure, obv, but it'd be really fun to trace the true strength of his influence on the general mindblowing WICKEDNESS of metal music.)

(Also, Solveig's Song? Like the prettiest thing ever and reminds me of that one line from Star Wars where Luke is like looking out into the sunset.)

(Gonna get me more Grieg like staaaaaat.)


the former http://www.box.net/shared/7gs74n0iat
the latter http://www.box.net/shared/kdqrhykeuv


EDIT: AWW YEEAH DEWPRISM SOUNDTRACK. *headbaaaang* Had forgotten how awesome the Dewprism soundtrack is. OH MAN. The Conan the Barbarian soundtrack is great too! so many soundtraaacks

Tonight is Open Mic Night at school... so I'm going to it with my friends. :3 We're gonna lay down some sweet tunes and rock out and maybe enjoy a cranberry juice together... it'll be sweeeet.

Our song? Is the best song.

Is the English Pokemon theme. 8D 8D 8D
(Philip and I will also perform Goth Girls by MC Frontalot, but that's less OUTRIGHT SILLY than an overwrought version of Pokemon. 8D)

This is why I love my friends. <3 We are unabashed in our nerdhood!

Waha! Weekend. There is supposed to be gaming today and tomorrow, but I'm a little hesitant -- I think I could do one game session, but not two. Two is really an investment of time I ought to be spending on... well, school, really. :3; Gotta get studyin' for my one exam, write another exam, finish/edit a project, and really get crackin' hardcore on the first chapter of my thesis. Whee, progress!

I got my blood taken yesterday for tests, and I think I did pretty well when I was getting it taken -- better than I have done in the past. When I'm relaxed about it, I feel as though it goes faster. Maybe that needs to be my new philosophy about medicine in general...

Went to the market today and in a flurry of grocery-getting (because I had gotten there in the last hour of its being open for the day, meaning I felt like I needed to move quickly) got carrots, potatoes AND turnips. Like... I don't know what prompted the turnips, but as I was taking them out of my bag to put them away, I just thought to myself, "well THAT was a little silly," seeing as I've always found turnips to be a funny cross between carrots and potatoes. Maybe my body just needs vitamin A and starches? No clue. (Also got a carton of eggs from a local farm, only to find out that my roomie had picked up a new carton of eggs like, yesterday. XD Perhaps this calls for tamagoyaki~! <3)

I'm still thinking about my commentfics, they'll get posted soonish. Gotta get my act together on those. X3;;

Wheeeeeekend <3


EDIT: Have written ~300 words on Pauling to add to the molecular project. That's 677 words total this week, for a total of many words. :3 Ah, the joys of... getting stuff written well ahead of time... I should do this for all my papers. ^^;;

Hey, look! A meme-not-meme!

I'd like to write some drabbles. Or comment-fiction. Fiction in the comments to this entry! :D

Just comment with a character of mine, or a character of yours, or a pairing, or a fandom, or just a word-for-a-theme, or a complicated theme, or a scene idea, or the colour of the light, or a prompting phrase or sentence...

I can't promise they'll be written right away, but I would like to write them. <3

So -- admittedly, yet another unproductive weekend working its way by me.

On the other hand, I knit myself a hat this weekend!

This pattern: <http://knitty.com/issuefall07/pattfoliage.html">http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall07/PATTfoliage.html</a>, but in a sort of heathery leafy green wool.

Pictures will later happen, probably, as I haven't blocked it yet. The lacy loveliness won't show up very well until I do. But! I made me a hat and finished my mittens; now on to other projects for lovely people. :3

EDIT: Whoops, wrong link provided earlier. Error has been corrected. Actually I knitted a hat based on the 'Foliage' pattern, type 2, but with a shorter edge. <3

The last little while has been really busy, but really boring at the same time. (This... must be a first?) For the first time this term I spent most nights last week at the library, and this week has just been WEIRD. I took a nap this afternoon for four hours, which no doubt will mess up my tomorrow, but I had good tutorials this week. I've been spending more time than I should be spending over at my friends' house ("The Guys' house") trying to unwind, so I need to get my act together in that dimension and learn some control. X3; Today I stayed home, at least, but uh, yeah. Four hour nap. Bad call.

I think what I really need is a structure, a schedule. I need to get up at the same time every day. I need to exercise so-and-so days a week. Would it help if I wrote up an hour-by-hour schedule for next week and used that, I wonder? Or would I just ignore it and abuse the snooze button every morning like I do? Because I DO, and it's not good. It's really really bad.

I've really... just dropped the ball this semester in pretty much every way. Like, every way, even simple things like feeding myself properly/regularly, which I'm usually pretty good at. I need to figure out why this has happened, and figure out ways in which I can change this for next semester. What will make me a better and more frequent communicator with the people I love? What will make me interested in eating breakfast every day, and in making time for eating breakfast? What would it take to convince me that getting up at 8:30 AM every day, say, would be a really good idea? What push do I require to use the College's gym facilities regularly like I said I would?

Argh, I just feel like I stumbled at some point and never recovered, instead tripping all over myself and rolling up into a huge snowball of idiocy and laziness. It's a horrible, horrible apathy towards myself that I want and need to get out of, except that I don't know how I got there in the first place, so I don't know where to start backtracking to make it work again.

I think I just need a total re-boot... but how to make that happen?

Probably a schedule. If I work with a schedule for the next week or two weeks, that might work.

...heh, or if I keep a journal. XD That might not be a bad idea, actually. Keeping track of myself using my LJ? Might even be worth a shot!

In the next few days I should write up things that I want to tackle in my next two weeks to try to get back up on the horse.

First obvious things first: being online often!
Getting up earlier, not leaving myself just an hour before class.
Eating breakfast at home before class.
Making lunch and going to class with it.
Snacking well. Snacking, period.
Using scent-free shampoo.
Doing laundry at least once a week.
Spending more time in the afternoons at the library instead of at home.
Reading at least a source article or book chapter every day for my projects.
Exercising at school after class/work a couple of days a week.
Going to the market early every Saturday morning.

...I'm sure I'll think of more!

Aaah, looking forward to tomorrow being done. <3 I have a thesis colloquium tomorrow where we'll be discussing my topic proposal, so I spent ~3 hours in the library today just picking up a bunch of literature and trying to organize my noggin about the modified topic.

My advisor seems to be convinced that my interest is more with the first third of the twentieth century in German science than it is with sex reassignment surgery, which it isn't necessarily. Why can't I have both? Cry. When we talked about my topic he said that there were basically three options for me... none of which I particularly liked, so I walked out of the meeting with my head spun around rather a bit. In the topic proposal I submitted last week I tried to work his desired topic in with mine, and I think I may have done that. Now I just need to work on encouraging him out of the particular language he uses to talk about transsexuals... fingers crossed on that one.

SO! New topic on that. Also, it's cold and rainy and miserable here right now, and although I want to punch something in joyful success at actually having completed a tiny drafty piece to hand in to my class today (which three out of six students did not, despite today being the due date), I also know that there are STILL about two million books sitting on my desk (and on my floor...) waiting to get read out of their little booky minds. Yeah, books. I'm lookin' at you. Hrrrr.

Also need to work on research for the assistantship -- I need to find primary sources from the first moon landing, which looks like it could be LOADS of fun but could also be really boring depending on how I decide to take it. ... wait, what am I talking about? MOON. LANDING. MOONLANDING. Serious.

I want desperately to be writing NaNo... but I will content myself with cheering on my dearest gileonnen in such efforts, because it's gonna be a BLAST of a story to read, I can already tell. Go, you! :D *cheering and other acts of supportive obnoxiousness!!!*

<3 <3 <3

So! It's midterms. I only have one 'midterm' as such -- meaning only one midterm exam -- but I've got a handful of other things due this week that will need my attention. I'll try to get online but... this week promises stress up the wazoo. Here is list!
( This week! )

Thankfully, rehearsal didn't last the full fourteen hours -- I got home an hour and a bit ago, which is a relief. Thank goodness for rehearsal being over. <3

I'm only in one dance and I do a solo, which I've got pretty well down. For none of the three 'run-throughs' (not really run-throughs) we did of the show did she have me repeat the routine more than the one required time. I mean, okay, so I'm doing well, and I know this because she tells me so, but... of all the times I've felt useless in theatre, I don't think I've felt more useless than I did today. Twelve hours, one dance, three repetitions of the same, amounting to about fifteen minutes of on-time. Maybe what I'm asking for is... better organization, I don't know. Something.

Anyway, despite having not had that much to do today I'm now exhausted. Weird paradox of theatre life, I suppose -- rehearsals are exhausting no matter what, apparently. XD; I don't feel perfectly justified in feeling the way I do right now. Tired and gross.

I've been nauseous on-and-off since yesterday afternoon, when I skipped swing class to stay home and feel miserable. T_T; I've thought about it, though, and that was BEFORE I ate pineapple (which I'm pretty convinced I'm mildly allergic to anyway). At least, I think it was before I ate pineapple. I remember feeling starting to feel ill on my way home from Pete's, the fruit market. I had drunk a smoothie -- a little wee one, maybe 200mL. Blueberries and banana and... something something. I felt better this afternoon after eating something (a bagel), but now it's back to feeling gross. I'm hoping hoping hoping to feel better tomorrow. I can't afford to miss any class, since I have a geography midterm this week and presentations in three classes... fwwwwwwwww.

Breathing breathing, and hoping the stomach unhappy isn't stress-related. Breathing breathing. And sleeping now, sleeping earlier than usual, in hopes it'll contribute positively.

It's 0200, I just got back from hanging out with the guys, I had a great time --

-- I haven't talked to my dear folks in a couple of days, I feel sick to my stomach (as I did before I left for hang-outs), I have a more-than-twelve-hour rehearsal tomorrow starting at 0900, there's a loud party going on downstairs that I don't have the heart to ask them to stop (they are AWESOME neighbours and haven't had a party yet this year -- and it's someone's birthday, someone who's really nice -- so she's welcome to have a party as far as I'm concerned -- ) --

I'm really stupid at making decisions. Damn. :/

...

*will grow up tomorrow, when there is more awakeness to contribute to growing-up*