Saturday, January 31, 2009
Lesson Learned
Okay, so you should never unstring your guitar before checking that you have another set to put on. Ans also check to see if that set has all six strings. Otherwise you end up like me, with a four string guitar. Fantastic.
Run away, I wanna run away
I had a good week.
I wish people called more to hang out in Morris. It's different from the being home where that's the way people do it. People start calling each other and magically something happens. It's so easy. Here, I have been walking to people's houses to see if anything is going on. I think it's the main reason I don't hang out as much as I want to. It will always be easier playing it safe than risking disappointment. But after I got over the whole walking into someone's house uninvited it got better. People seem to like hanging out, but it just doesn't start the same here as at home.
I spend too much time thinking about seeing people that I get easily disappointed. I wish I didn't, but it's a side effect of the mentality here.
I'm going to go restring my guitar, maybe that will make it sound better.
I wish people called more to hang out in Morris. It's different from the being home where that's the way people do it. People start calling each other and magically something happens. It's so easy. Here, I have been walking to people's houses to see if anything is going on. I think it's the main reason I don't hang out as much as I want to. It will always be easier playing it safe than risking disappointment. But after I got over the whole walking into someone's house uninvited it got better. People seem to like hanging out, but it just doesn't start the same here as at home.
I spend too much time thinking about seeing people that I get easily disappointed. I wish I didn't, but it's a side effect of the mentality here.
I'm going to go restring my guitar, maybe that will make it sound better.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Re: Install
The reinstall went great, nothing to hassling. It wouldn't let me resize my ubuntu partition to have two ubuntu's at the same time so I could have a crossover phase, but w/e. I have a while until my next class, like 2 hours, so I'm setting it all up nowish.
Things to do:
E-mail setup for 3 accounts
Theme it all (I can't wait to make it look pretty.)
Get back all my music, which is at home anyways.
Get back programs and set up defaults again
And other stuff I haven't noticed yet.
Things to do:
E-mail setup for 3 accounts
Theme it all (I can't wait to make it look pretty.)
Get back all my music, which is at home anyways.
Get back programs and set up defaults again
And other stuff I haven't noticed yet.
Monday, January 26, 2009
It's that time of the season
So I think I'm going to reinstall ubuntu. Yeah. It's gotten slow since the last clean install. Like, My ram never goes below 10% for some reason. Right now it's sitting at 19% used and I've been doing nothing. I've noticed it hanging on some operations and I want it a tad more streamlined. So it was either install a different distro like Debian or Fedora (I kinda want to try KDE for a bit but I read that it was somewhat broken and should be much better next update). But I want my base OS to be the best it can be, so I'll reinstall and then get another distro as something to mess with. I'm hoping it won't take too long to get back all my custom things to the clean install, like my conky setup and my emails, but I don't remember too much trouble last time. I also can't decide if this is a weekend project or I should start it now. I'll probably to the backup tonight and the reinstall another day this week.
This week is actually pretty busy for me. I didn't notice until I was trying to figure out a time to go to alexandria to retake a drug test for my internship (the last one was too diluted or something, oops). And I realized I'm pretty busy. Tomorrow I have lab 12-1:40, then 2-2:30 is vocal lessons, then 3-3:50 is class. And then I have work at the radio station to complete. Then dinner. On wednesday it's class at 9:15 to 10:20 then break until 1-2:05 class and then radio work from then until my radio show which is at the same time this semester, Wednesdays 4-6, you all should try and listen. And then I have more free time on Thursday and friday, but still I'll be running around most likely.
I wrote a song today in A.I. and I can't figure out if it's good enough or done enough to play at open mic this Thursday. Tough decisions.
This week is actually pretty busy for me. I didn't notice until I was trying to figure out a time to go to alexandria to retake a drug test for my internship (the last one was too diluted or something, oops). And I realized I'm pretty busy. Tomorrow I have lab 12-1:40, then 2-2:30 is vocal lessons, then 3-3:50 is class. And then I have work at the radio station to complete. Then dinner. On wednesday it's class at 9:15 to 10:20 then break until 1-2:05 class and then radio work from then until my radio show which is at the same time this semester, Wednesdays 4-6, you all should try and listen. And then I have more free time on Thursday and friday, but still I'll be running around most likely.
I wrote a song today in A.I. and I can't figure out if it's good enough or done enough to play at open mic this Thursday. Tough decisions.
Sometimes it takes a push
I haven't posted in a few days, but here I am now. I wanted something to come along that I could write about, and something fell into my lap today. I was checking the KUMM mail and there were a few things but one overly large package from Urban Noize records. They send us kinda iffy street gansta rap albums. So I open it up and it turns out to be a small promo pack. It's got the usual two CDs and a clean mix and the info with the history of the bands and everything. but at the bottom of the envelope is something else: a strawberry flavored blunt wrap. It was quite funny and amazing. It made my day 10x better.
Then, having something to write about I went to the TMC to chill for my hours between classes. And I'm chilling and these two professors sit down at the table next to me. They start talking and I overhear a great story about a freshman student. It goes like this, one of the profs teaches one of the first year seminars that all freshman have to take. And he was explaining how different these two sections of the same class were. He couldn't place the difference, but he wondered if it was a difference in the dominant gender of the class. The great example he brought up was of a very pretty female student that made a comment that wasn't well thought out or with the point very much. In response to this, a male student ripped into her about it, being sarcastic and condescending and all sorts of rude. And the professor thought to himself, is this kid ever going to have sex?
I had to keep myself from chuckling too hard at that, but it was pretty good.
Then, having something to write about I went to the TMC to chill for my hours between classes. And I'm chilling and these two professors sit down at the table next to me. They start talking and I overhear a great story about a freshman student. It goes like this, one of the profs teaches one of the first year seminars that all freshman have to take. And he was explaining how different these two sections of the same class were. He couldn't place the difference, but he wondered if it was a difference in the dominant gender of the class. The great example he brought up was of a very pretty female student that made a comment that wasn't well thought out or with the point very much. In response to this, a male student ripped into her about it, being sarcastic and condescending and all sorts of rude. And the professor thought to himself, is this kid ever going to have sex?
I had to keep myself from chuckling too hard at that, but it was pretty good.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Cowbell hero would be a lame game
My cat has a bell. It might be the most annoying thing in my house now. It can sit there and paw at it endlessly. Argh. And right now it's attacking bags. Here is the cat in a bag.
And here is why I put up with it, the adorableness.
And here is why I put up with it, the adorableness.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Observing the process will change it
So, day two of classes is in progress and so far, so strange. Waking up at 8:30 was somewhat rough, I did it though. Props to me. I ate a bowl of malt-o-meal cap'n crunch berries and biked to campus. Got to class at 9:05 and was starting to fall asleep again. I managed to stay awake mostly for the class, I heard everything, just couldn't keep my eyes open the whole time. I felt bad for my prof, Nic Mcfee, cause I figure I was pretty obvious. But I didn't have time to go buy a rockstar until after class. But AI was good, it should be fun and interesting. I need to find a quick and cheap way to stay awake in the mornings. I've heard apples have things that keep you awake more than a cup of coffee. So maybe I'll buy a sack of apples. Because coffee takes time and energy drinks are expensive.
After I got my drink I found out my second class, operating systems, was kinda canceled. It turns out our prof lost her visa and hasn't received her new one yet. So, she might be back next week, and if not, I'll have to switch into a different class. I don't want to have to switch because the class is after my last class of the day and so I'd be forced to stay on campus from 9 to 4. Rough, because from 10:30 to 1 I have nothing.
After Nic let everyone go I stayed behind to ask about going abroad because the cancellation changes things and I forgot that my actual advisor is having a baby about now and isn't here. So I sat around for this other kid to endlessly chat about nonsense and I played solitaire on my ipod. I wish I had a ipod touch for it's games. And wifi. But w/e. So I asked Nic and he said that actually with the way things end up being scheduled, going abroad would be best next spring. Which changes a lot. I still want to goto china, and was planning on the fall. But I feel a little better knowing I won't go from summer into china, because that seems a little scary. And it makes housing a little smoother next year as I won't have to sublease first semester.
Also, the title of this post is from a song by built to spill. It's one of my favs because the lyrics are very string of thought and almost a ramble. But it's on this mix I made while waiting for Nic, so here's the mix:
Radio Cure by wilco - this song was covered by the local jazz band the bad plus and it is ahmazing, so I wanted to hear the original again. A depressing song, but I like it.
In your Mind by built to spill - this is the song mentioned above, great guitar and great lyrics.
The sound of science by beastie boys - i love the besastie boys so much, it's comical and has some great beats. Like when they do a breakdown and one just yells, Rope-a-dope.
Fireworks by the animal collective - The only animal collective song I have on my ipod, and it's really good. 6 minutes of wonder
Um, circles and squares by Dosh - i picked this up with abunch of other music and wanted to give it a listen to, it was good.
Old Old fashioned by frightened rabbit - nice kinda folk tune
Take Pills by panda bear - a member of animal collective, it's really rythmic and white noiseish.
The national anthem by radiohead - one of my favorite bass lines, so strong and great. and tom yorkes's vocals are again strangeley wonderfull
gobbledigook by sigur ros - i love the vocals on this, la la la la la. It's great and catchy.
track 02 by signal to trust - i don't think that is actually the tracks name, but maybe. it's a local band that I saw at last years lunch show with stnnng, i got the lp for their album folklore and i like it quite a bit. it's upbeat indie rock. not too heavy, but solid. I'm trying to track down a digital version of the album.
fuck you guyses teams by ten grand - I got this in the bunch of local music i picked up off of MFR, and i heard their name in a pos song so I am checking it out, not bad.
After I got my drink I found out my second class, operating systems, was kinda canceled. It turns out our prof lost her visa and hasn't received her new one yet. So, she might be back next week, and if not, I'll have to switch into a different class. I don't want to have to switch because the class is after my last class of the day and so I'd be forced to stay on campus from 9 to 4. Rough, because from 10:30 to 1 I have nothing.
After Nic let everyone go I stayed behind to ask about going abroad because the cancellation changes things and I forgot that my actual advisor is having a baby about now and isn't here. So I sat around for this other kid to endlessly chat about nonsense and I played solitaire on my ipod. I wish I had a ipod touch for it's games. And wifi. But w/e. So I asked Nic and he said that actually with the way things end up being scheduled, going abroad would be best next spring. Which changes a lot. I still want to goto china, and was planning on the fall. But I feel a little better knowing I won't go from summer into china, because that seems a little scary. And it makes housing a little smoother next year as I won't have to sublease first semester.
Also, the title of this post is from a song by built to spill. It's one of my favs because the lyrics are very string of thought and almost a ramble. But it's on this mix I made while waiting for Nic, so here's the mix:
Radio Cure by wilco - this song was covered by the local jazz band the bad plus and it is ahmazing, so I wanted to hear the original again. A depressing song, but I like it.
In your Mind by built to spill - this is the song mentioned above, great guitar and great lyrics.
The sound of science by beastie boys - i love the besastie boys so much, it's comical and has some great beats. Like when they do a breakdown and one just yells, Rope-a-dope.
Fireworks by the animal collective - The only animal collective song I have on my ipod, and it's really good. 6 minutes of wonder
Um, circles and squares by Dosh - i picked this up with abunch of other music and wanted to give it a listen to, it was good.
Old Old fashioned by frightened rabbit - nice kinda folk tune
Take Pills by panda bear - a member of animal collective, it's really rythmic and white noiseish.
The national anthem by radiohead - one of my favorite bass lines, so strong and great. and tom yorkes's vocals are again strangeley wonderfull
gobbledigook by sigur ros - i love the vocals on this, la la la la la. It's great and catchy.
track 02 by signal to trust - i don't think that is actually the tracks name, but maybe. it's a local band that I saw at last years lunch show with stnnng, i got the lp for their album folklore and i like it quite a bit. it's upbeat indie rock. not too heavy, but solid. I'm trying to track down a digital version of the album.
fuck you guyses teams by ten grand - I got this in the bunch of local music i picked up off of MFR, and i heard their name in a pos song so I am checking it out, not bad.
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