An Aware Moment

For once, in a long time (lol, that sounds so terrible . . . ), today was GOOD.

Okay, so maybe Japanese didn't rock, but it wasn't bad . . .

I had an aware moment today between Japanese Civilization and Japanese-- aware being the Japanese term for a type of sad beauty, usually associated with the transcience of things (and it often inspires poems, ie, of the Heian period-- I really ought to have should created a poem just off the top of my head as I was sitting there, lol . . . maybe it will inspire my paper for Japanese Civilization, about the day in the life of a Heian court lady, lol . . . ). I was sitting out in the Quad (Brookings Quad-- the smaller front quad, that reminds me of real old, traditional schools, that is just so beautiful . . . with the logia and all, lol . . . ), and it was fall, and cool, and sunny . . . and, before me, I saw the tour groups of prospective students wandering around, and, yet, the large stage before me used for graduation. I realized that I have four years here, and they're just beginning, but graduation is inevitable, just as coming to college was inevitable, after being a prospective student, just beginning the college search . . . and that graduation, yet, will be a happy day . . . and that I'm prepared for it . . . having been through it once, lol . . . and yet I'm happy about it . . . and I'm excited about all of the things to come . . .

Improv was good; we did a kick-ass Herald (the one "form" you actually give to long-form Improv . . . it consists of an opening, three scenes, a giant group scene, three more scenes . . . and then sort of chaos as long as it lasts as funny until the end . . . ) and I'm excited about tomorrow night's show.

. . . and apparently they all read this, lol :-P Hello, Improv people. I have one thing to say to you: HARRY POTTER.

Yes . . . we vaguely considered calling our "newbie" subgroup of Suspicious of Whistler's "Hufflepuff's Girty Dick" today . . . even though Hufflepuff was a girl, lol . . .

Rick, Laura, Stewart, and I (all from Improv) had dinner together, which was fun, and then I found Lisa and Keith in the lines-- Lisa had waited for me to return, and I hadn't come back, having had the meeting go on a lot longer, into dinner . . . so I feel bad about that . . . my cell phone was not working . . . )-: I was recharging it . . .

In the Harry Potter SIMs 2 game, Merope and Tom Riddle started flirting, which is all I can do, since they don't have love potions, lol . . . AND SHE FIRST SAW HIM WHILE TRIMMING THE HEDGE!!! Lol . . . literal ^_^ well, maybe she wasn't trimming it when she was looking through it . . . but okay . . .

We went and got ice cream-- Lisa, Keith, Anu, Patricia, Henry, and I-- and then Keith, Lisa, and I went to go see The Corpse Bride, singing "Phantom of the Opera" along the way, which was awesome (and I almost hit the final note-- I would have, if it hadn't been so cold and my breath had gotten caught in my throat in the phlegm, lol . . . ). The movie was good-- as Tim Burton films usually are ^_^-- though I predicted the outcome about a half-hour through it. Though, that doesn't bother me; I am a fan of the ancient tragedy-type drama and theater . . . you know the ending, but it's the beauty of getting there . . .

Keith's definitely going to have to come to the 4th Harry Potter movie with us. He was inspired. Unfortunately, he has no time to read Books 2-4, so he's going to have to go the pathetic Reader's Digest route, and simply watch the movies. *Sigh.* Oh well. I guess at least that way, he won't be unsatisfied by the canon breaches, lol . . .

Then we came back and sat out by the swings in The Swamp, the common area outside our dorms, and Lisa and I talked about friendships and relationships we had had with people back home. It was a nice moment, really. Then Keith came back over from talking on the phone with his friends (Mr. Popular, lol ^_^), and we continued it, a little bit. He finally got cold, and then Lisa and I ran around in the field of The Swamp and looked at the stars for a while, until we got cold, too. We spun until we got dizzy.

Just now, I loaded a bunch of songs from Keith's massive burn-pile of songs to my computer. IT IS INSANE. I have like doubled my music library. Now, not only do I have songs from like the past two years, I have songs from like sixth grade that I thought I had forgotten about, lol . . . THIS IS SO AWESOME!!! YEA FOR KEITH!!!

. . . the only problem is that, when I select "All Music," it means "All Media Files," and all my installed Japanese clips show up, lol . . . yeah, interspersed with Evanescence and The Goo Goo Dolls is "Nan desu ka?" "Kore desu ka? Hon desu yo." "Sou desu ka? Eigo desu ka?" "Hai, Eigo desu," yeah, lol . . .

I think I'm fixing that, though . . . maybe . . .

It's beautiful to listen to songs that remind me of everything, from 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade Ski Club (yeah, I totally have that song, Tiffany, lol . . . even though I know you hate it, Nichole :-P) to 8th grade to 9th grade to 10th grade to 11th grade to 12th grade to . . . now? Wow . . . through depression and happiness . . . all of them make me happy now, for some reason . . .

The air is so cold and fall-like. I really liked tonight. I really liked tonight, a lot . . . ^_^ I'm happy.

An Aware Moment

For once, in a long time (lol, that sounds so terrible . . . ), today was GOOD.

Okay, so maybe Japanese didn't rock, but it wasn't bad . . .

I had an aware moment today between Japanese Civilization and Japanese-- aware being the Japanese term for a type of sad beauty, usually associated with the transcience of things (and it often inspires poems, ie, of the Heian period-- I really ought to have should created a poem just off the top of my head as I was sitting there, lol . . . maybe it will inspire my paper for Japanese Civilization, about the day in the life of a Heian court lady, lol . . . ). I was sitting out in the Quad (Brookings Quad-- the smaller front quad, that reminds me of real old, traditional schools, that is just so beautiful . . . with the logia and all, lol . . . ), and it was fall, and cool, and sunny . . . and, before me, I saw the tour groups of prospective students wandering around, and, yet, the large stage before me used for graduation. I realized that I have four years here, and they're just beginning, but graduation is inevitable, just as coming to college was inevitable, after being a prospective student, just beginning the college search . . . and that graduation, yet, will be a happy day . . . and that I'm prepared for it . . . having been through it once, lol . . . and yet I'm happy about it . . . and I'm excited about all of the things to come . . .

Improv was good; we did a kick-ass Herald (the one "form" you actually give to long-form Improv . . . it consists of an opening, three scenes, a giant group scene, three more scenes . . . and then sort of chaos as long as it lasts as funny until the end . . . ) and I'm excited about tomorrow night's show.

. . . and apparently they all read this, lol :-P Hello, Improv people. I have one thing to say to you: HARRY POTTER.

Yes . . . we vaguely considered calling our "newbie" subgroup of Suspicious of Whistler's "Hufflepuff's Girty Dick" today . . . even though Hufflepuff was a girl, lol . . .

Rick, Laura, Stewart, and I (all from Improv) had dinner together, which was fun, and then I found Lisa and Keith in the lines-- Lisa had waited for me to return, and I hadn't come back, having had the meeting go on a lot longer, into dinner . . . so I feel bad about that . . . my cell phone was not working . . . )-: I was recharging it . . .

In the Harry Potter SIMs 2 game, Merope and Tom Riddle started flirting, which is all I can do, since they don't have love potions, lol . . . AND SHE FIRST SAW HIM WHILE TRIMMING THE HEDGE!!! Lol . . . literal ^_^ well, maybe she wasn't trimming it when she was looking through it . . . but okay . . .

We went and got ice cream-- Lisa, Keith, Anu, Patricia, Henry, and I-- and then Keith, Lisa, and I went to go see The Corpse Bride, singing "Phantom of the Opera" along the way, which was awesome (and I almost hit the final note-- I would have, if it hadn't been so cold and my breath had gotten caught in my throat in the phlegm, lol . . . ). The movie was good-- as Tim Burton films usually are ^_^-- though I predicted the outcome about a half-hour through it. Though, that doesn't bother me; I am a fan of the ancient tragedy-type drama and theater . . . you know the ending, but it's the beauty of getting there . . .

Keith's definitely going to have to come to the 4th Harry Potter movie with us. He was inspired. Unfortunately, he has no time to read Books 2-4, so he's going to have to go the pathetic Reader's Digest route, and simply watch the movies. *Sigh.* Oh well. I guess at least that way, he won't be unsatisfied by the canon breaches, lol . . .

Then we came back and sat out by the swings in The Swamp, the common area outside our dorms, and Lisa and I talked about friendships and relationships we had had with people back home. It was a nice moment, really. Then Keith came back over from talking on the phone with his friends (Mr. Popular, lol ^_^), and we continued it, a little bit. He finally got cold, and then Lisa and I ran around in the field of The Swamp and looked at the stars for a while, until we got cold, too. We spun until we got dizzy.

Just now, I loaded a bunch of songs from Keith's massive burn-pile of songs to my computer. IT IS INSANE. I have like doubled my music library. Now, not only do I have songs from like the past two years, I have songs from like sixth grade that I thought I had forgotten about, lol . . . THIS IS SO AWESOME!!! YEA FOR KEITH!!!

. . . the only problem is that, when I select "All Music," it means "All Media Files," and all my installed Japanese clips show up, lol . . . yeah, interspersed with Evanescence and The Goo Goo Dolls is "Nan desu ka?" "Kore desu ka? Hon desu yo." "Sou desu ka? Eigo desu ka?" "Hai, Eigo desu," yeah, lol . . .

I think I'm fixing that, though . . . maybe . . .

It's beautiful to listen to songs that remind me of everything, from 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade Ski Club (yeah, I totally have that song, Tiffany, lol . . . even though I know you hate it, Nichole :-P) to 8th grade to 9th grade to 10th grade to 11th grade to 12th grade to . . . now? Wow . . . through depression and happiness . . . all of them make me happy now, for some reason . . .

The air is so cold and fall-like. I really liked tonight. I really liked tonight, a lot . . . ^_^ I'm happy.