Just also wanted to note that I saw Nowhere in Africa on Saturday, and I thought that it was really good. Sad. Pretty in spots. Good music, too.

There was a little card for the Sea Education Association tacked up in sub the other day, so I decided to check out the website, and I found this, which looks completely and totally awesome, and I really want to go on the summer program. I am planning to do this in the summer when I get out of college, just before I enroll at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. (Yeah, right.) It’s also unbelievably expensive, which I am, okay, not happy about… but ARR!! Nautical knowledge and ropes and fun stuff like that!

Another thing I’m happy about is that my speakers came today, and they are very good. In case you, too, need speakers for your laptop (since laptop speakers suck…), check out Harmon Kardon’s JBL Duet Speakers. They’re small, but very powerful, the sound is very crisp, and they have surprisingly good bass for their size. Anyway, they’re plenty good enough for a dorm room! And if you buy them from the Apple Store instead of Harmon Kardon, they’re about $10 cheaper.

Besides that, I am spending most of my time dancing, watching “Friends”, cleaning my room (I like to keep my room really clean here…), doing my schoolwork (okay, of course, duh), playing guitar (I found the tabs for Dispatch’s “Out Loud” lastnight!), reading “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and occasionally eating, showering, and sleeping.

Hope you’re doing as well as I am!

Barista Goddess say: “FEED ME.”

I was originally going to post this blog on Sunday:

After the party last night I hung out in the TV lounge. Originally I was just going to watch Saturday Night Live, only it really wasn’t that good. It had Christopher Walken hosting, so it SHOULD have been good, but it wasn’t. So Rebecca (she is the resident senior on my floor) and I switched to the Law and Order marathon, which was a blast. Vincent D’nofrio is like the Derek Flint of police shows. How does he know (and is able to recognize in a photo) the flowers used in an Irish marriage service? Last night he caught a criminal by dialing the criminal’s cell phone; he had been tipped off that it played the theme from “Bonanza”. Anyway. It’s great fun. Also, Rebecca and I had a really interesting discussion, and I sort of got a miniature lecture about the history of the Pentecostal Church, the specific place of the Assemblies of God, and several interpretations of the speaking in tongues that goes on there. It was a good conversation.

Traditionally, this is not the goal of rhetoric. It could be a big fake-out — that would make me happy — the purpose of which was simply to get people to think about their faith in a broader sense. Such a thing could actually be very helpful and interesting. Unfortunately, I think this is not the case. It annoys me. But if you want to discuss it, that would be cool, because I want to be open-minded and reasonable.

Since Sunday, though; had classes, went to the open climb at the climbing wall (yum, climbing), and OOH! saw the season premier of “Friends”. I have been getting caught up in this Highly Important TV show (while studying, of course!) because it is this really big deal here in Prentiss. There were probably 30 girls packed into our little TV lounge last night for the premier. It was pretty fun. “Friends with Friends!” Lots of giggling.

Today is my self-destruct day; last night was completely insane. I was hyper-caffeinated, and then I had a couple of different weird conversations that just sort of freaked me out. *slight shudder* Also, I had a German test this morning and a Core paper due; I still have a (luckily short) bibliography due for German film. Point is, though, that I was doing a lot of stuff for all three assignments last night, and then one of my friends shows up on AIM (somewhat) drunk, and it was sort of more than I could handle.

On the good side of things, this weekend is sort of relaxed; I am going to hang out with Steph and some other peeps and watch “Zoolander” downstairs tonight, and then tomorrow my German film class is taking a field trip to some funky movie theater which is an hour away… I’m excited for that, though, and strangely happy to be going somewhere in a car, because I have not been in one for almost a month (which somehow seems really weird to me).

Barista Goddess says: “DU MUSST CALIGARI WERDEN. Also, the heart must be the mediator between the hand and the mind. Also, express yourself!”