So close and yet so very --

[godream]

greekdiana was telling me she's measuring time till spring break in psets/other things that Must Be Done. In terms of that, I am two strobe lab reports, one lab session, one 6.851 pset, two 6.803 one-pagers, one 6.033 rewrite, the damn 6.033 design project 1, and two 21m.302 homeworks away from vacation.

Maybe it's time for a checklist? Or maybe it's just time to write the first of those two lab reports, which is due tomorrow. Hopefully this will turn out better than the first one, which I wrote on my birthday, and discovered (upon getting it back graded later) that at the time I had been rendered (inexplicably! inexplicably!) completely unable to keep up a consistent verb tense.

In other news -- blueeverglades recommended Red Umbrella to me, and I have to pass it on -- I adored the songs they have available on their site enough to go order the cd (real live non-pirated music!). I'm trying to put my finger on exactly what it is that makes me so happy about it -- a good strong beat and a full sound and just the right amount of predictability (something about the chord structure, something about the parallel motion between chords, if I weren't so lazy I would try working some of this out on the piano with my 1337 21m.302 knowledge to try to analyze what exactly it is) that I'm looking for right now, and I like the lead singer's voice and he gets a little bit diva-tastic about some of the melodies which is going to be mad fun to sing along to once I learn the words (and once my voice finally clears up again).