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Discovery: my UROP office is locked and closed until people show up. (Of course.) I do not yet know the code for the door. When they told me people tended to roll in around 10, it was with emphasis on the "around".

I'm not sure why I'm a morning person during summer but not the rest of the year, but I definitely am -- given my choice, I'd probably turn up to work at, like, 8. So I think I'm going to have to find a good place to code in the mornings somewhere conveniently nearby, and ideally also get the code for the door.

Ah well. They did say they didn't mind if I worked from elsewhere half the time, and that's not something I should complain about. And I won't. (Once I find a good elsewhere.)

Two exams down, one to go. No tragedies yet that I know of, knock on wood. Switzerland in two days, yay choir! Have to do a few more last minute things (clean room, do laundry, load ipod, deposit checks, borrow books, call bank, and (heh) pack, and probably more that I haven't thought of). And studystudystudy for the 6.003 final. And go to that UROP meeting tonight. Whee!

I can't believe this term's almost over. I'm nearly halfway through college -- no, no, no, that can't possibly be true already.

(With hopes that analyzing it doesn't break it.)

This is why:

"louder" and "darker" and "you've got the melody, take the lead" and "watch me for your entrance there, altos, look up from the music, you know this" and "parenthetical tenors, always parenthetical" and "text! qual means torture" meld into a continuous monologue that I hear like another accompaniment even when our director isn't saying it.

the right note all around me, and the harmonies, and the wrong notes sometimes, but: all around, enveloping.

standing up straight. the time to support consciously, breathe full, to *be* correctly. (incidentally and almost related, really neat aikido page here.)

success: oh my god, that noise, we made that. yes.

and the emotional trip. angergrieffearcomfortlovejoytriumph, everything you feel if only listening, eyes closed, in concert-dark -- but magnified, exponential, superlative.

(what did I do all last year and a half without singing?)

Ten minutes into trying to maul the damn 6.004 lab into submission again and *already* I'm trying to use the mouse on the Athena machine to steer around the pointer on my laptop screen and wondering why it's not working. This is probably not a good sign.

It's going around again...

1. Comment here and I'll pick one some strange conglomerate of your LJ interests and draw a picture using the mighty MS Paint.

2. You have no say in what I draw for you, or in how much it will suck!

3. Put this in your journal along with the pictures people drew for you.

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No news. Well, there was news, but it was stupid and self-pitying and I need to just get over it so that entry's private and instead you guys get this one.

Hmmm... just finished a problem set, and I'm not the last one awake on my floor, but I'm pretty close. And it's what, two days after spring break ends. So much for using the vacation to recharge for an awesome efficient non-procrastinatey second-half-of-semester. But it was a nice, relaxing, sleeptastic vacation nonetheless.

Aforementioned potential summer urop interview probably didn't go well, though I'm bad at telling. Didn't mess up in any too-spectacular way but also probably didn't leave much of an impression. Bah.

And if I go to bed right now I can still pull off almost six hours of sleep, so I should probably do that.

1.) I have a new computer! I am basking in the joy of ownership. It's shiny, by which I mean matte black and wonderful. I love it. I haven't named it, 'cause I just sorta don't name computers, they just never strike me as things to be named in spite of the occasional personality they possess, it doesn't stick in my mind.

2.) Battlestar Galactica -- ( incoherent spoilers! )

3.) I should get busier, do more things that make me happy, get my act together already. Yeah, any minute now.

4.) I can't remember what 4 was supposed to be.

Another exciting meme: go here and pick five or six adjectives for me. And then we'll be amussed at the difference between how I see myself and how others see me. (11th grade Health Issues class, anyone from L-S? Or did only my teacher make us do that?) And then if you want I'll reciprocate.

Last week, a friend of mine was sick. He sounded terrible, voice all scratchy and stuff and miserable. A few days ago, I started getting sick. Just a little. And because the way we deal with problems here on Slugfest is by teasing each other, I informed him that I considered this his fault, pretty much in exactly those words. "I'm sick. I blame you," I said, and then confessed, "but only a little sick, and I think I'm getting over it." This is where the Irony Fairy appeared, I suspect.

"So what would be really funny would be if now I told you, 'oh, yeah, I was starting to get over it and then a couple days later it came back really bad," he pointed out, kdding. "Hilarious," I said.

It is a couple days later and I am huddled freezing under the covers in a perfectly normal temperatured room (wacky temperatures are always the first symptom when I'm ill), my throat is burning and aching and my nose is running and I feel a headache coming on. Not funny, dammit! *shakes ineffectual fist*

1.) There's nothing like playing silly games among students here. Taboo, most recently -- the first, reflexive description of one word: "sucrose is a form of this". And right away everyone on the team goes: "sugar!" And all sorts of other things, many exponentially geekier. I love my hall.

2.) Downhill skiing is amazing, amazing, amazing; why haven't I ever done it before? Today was slippery and icy and I fell spectacularly at least four times, limb-waving snow-spewing sliding-for-yards disasters, and I *still* had a fantastic time. I adore chairlifts. (My legs are killing me though.)

3.) Oh, my god, Sheppard's hair moodtheme... and as I type this I realize only maybe two people on my friends-list watch Stargate: Atlantis and will be amused by this. That's okay, I'm leaving the link here anyways.