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The Great Hunt and Other Random Nonsense

This just got to me through the mail today. Celtic music is clearly the best thing since, like, cheese balls. Hmmm . . . wait. That's not particularly difficult . . . and I think Celtic music might have been around just a little longer. Maybe. However, the long and short of it is that this music is way freaking awesome. Listen to the samples . . . Or at least the ones for "All Souls Night" and "The Lady of Shalott" (which is the reason I got this CD, having heard it in Dr. Watson's class). I think I'm going to memorize that poem, just because . . . I won't put any real work into it, but I think, maybe, it'll just come to me. We'll see . . .

Anyway, clearly life is like a lute solo. Really. See, it's something that's been around for quite awhile, but people don't use it as much these days as they have in the past. Most of the time it's fairly slow and soft, and it's best to just take it one note at a time. Done properly, it's insanely cool . . . but you won't find a lot of people who can do it properly. And try getting them to explain it in a way that you can understand! Ha! Still, it is doable . . . just don't attempt it in front of a lot of people at first. Oh, yes . . . and most importantly: Traditionally, the most skillful performers are the biggest Fools. Keep that one in mind.

I was going to do a reading update, but I don't think I will right now. I'll save it until after the weekend and see where I'm at then. Today I got to sleep in because there was no Western Civ. As it was put earlier, "Western Civilization has been cancelled. You may all go home now." Now, wouldn't that be loverly? And I spent an hour talking to Dr. Johnson in his office after American History, because he was just generally talkative. We talked about everything from Tejano music to West Texas dust storms to Russian literature. Fun stuff.

And then at 3:00 I went prof hunting with Ardith and Wilson. We started off with a long visit to Coppinger's office and went over the entirety of the Honors program . . . again. I think we disturbed him profoundly a few times as well . . . He kept giving me these very leery looks. I can't imagine what I said . . . After that we went and bothered Solganick, and convinced him that World Lit through Film absolutely had to be held in Berry Auditorium (duh!). And then we stepped in to speak with Dr. Hood, and cornered Watson in the copier room (Moore had joined us at this point) and finally settled in Dr. Johnson's office to sample a bit of all the food he had before suppertime. And I got to help him decide the fate of the Theodore Roosevelt book we had to read in terms of upcoming semesters. Yay.

And that was pretty much my day, other than doing the presentation in Honors Shame. Which I did. With Wilson. And it went fairly well. *shrugs* But we got out an hour early! *jumps up and down* And now I'm sure you know what I'm about to do . . . or at least you should . . . *leaves*

Posted by Jared at March 4, 2004 09:45 PM | TrackBack