Foolish and thrown, I should've known, Her's was a world made for just one throne...

*Trumpets sound* I am officially no longer employed at The Watershed restaurant. Good riddance, I must say, even though I'll miss bitching about it with my girls. :) I'm really very tired, and should be doing my Am Pop homework instead of typing away and checking my friends page, but oh well.

My mood was much bolstered by the final chapter of Rhysenn's lovely IP, which I've been hanging on for more than a year now. Totally worth it; some of the best writing I've ever seen in terms of imagery and emotional evocation. It reminds me that good writing rocks no matter the pairing or the fandom, which makes my poor little discouraged-with-pedestrian-fanfic heart happy. I'm well known as a pairing whore though, I'll slash just about anybody, and my pet phrase is "sell it to me." Hell, thepsychicclam has damn near sold me on Percy being a Deatheater, and that's saying quite a lot.

I swear to God, tomorrow I'm signing up for the GRE, which I should have taken in October. I think I've created a mental defense block, like if I don't take it, then I can't apply to Grad School and I can stay a safe little undergrad forever, even if I'm tired of being one. Feeling a little discouraged about grad school and the future in general. I'm applying for library school as it seems to be a good fit with me and a good building block job if nothing else, but people keep asking why you have to go to school to be a librarian. This does not do positive things for my self-esteem, people. I know its not astrophysics or medicine, but there is more to it than waving around a bar code scanner. I am not now and hopefully never will be Madame Pince; I know I'm not super-cool, but really, the stereotypes suck. Done ranting now.

Gonna go read about Elvis and the Beach Boys. I really like this class, even if some of the people in there should be sterilized to prevent their reproduction.

I was just living in the moment, and the moment was all about you.

Wow, just wrote a three page think piece in under an hour on the influence of Elvis and James Brown on the development of rock and roll. I feel well pleased, and also a little worked-up. Music makes me happy. =)

So take me right back to the track, Jack!

I'm on a crazy jazz/ragtime/swing kick right now, which I blame on a combination of my American Popular Music class, the pieces we're doing in my choral group, and the movie Chicago. This isn't really a bad thing, but I'm getting so weird looks from folks 'cause I end up sorta singing under my breath and dancing along. Its swing, you know you wanna dance to it!

Speaking of American Popular Music (as I so often do), I love that class but the professor is really...interesting. Today's featured class quote: "We have three weeks of presentations [on our big papers], and I don't want them to suck." Now that's a woman who tells it like it is. She also has a tendency to dance along when she's listening to music, or even when she's just talking about music, so I guess I identify.

Mmm, day off makes me happy. Of course, I have a ton of things to do, but the fact that none of them is my job makes me very happy. Plus, trivia tonight, and the accompanying beer, so that's a great thing. Gonna go find food now, and hope I don't get trampled to death in the dining hall. Its a distinct possibility these days.

We were together, I was blown away, Just like paper from a fan...

Back from trivia, slightly tipsy. It sucked that we lost badly, cause I really wanted to win without all the boys there, but as usual the last question kicked our ass. However, I think that was one of my favorite trivia nights b/c it was just me, Devon, Ellen, and Rachel.

I like the whole girl bonding thing, especially when it involves beer. We had local brewery stuff, which was good, though it was a little bitter. I'm all about supporting the local stuff, be it beer, music, whatever. Damn the man; Save the Empire. Except, I guess in this case, its Damn the Empire, Save the local industries. I dunno, whatever, the beer was good.

Now I have to either read Marketing slightly drunk or do German sentences slightly drunk. Either choice should be amusing, especially since I have an early class tomorrow. Then its work and another girls night. I'm really looking forward to it. You wouldn't think Girls Nights would be important to someone at a women's college, but I'm feeling the friend love. Maybe its the whole "real world" approaching quickly thing, or maybe just that I have super-cool friends. :)

At any rate, its Golden Girls time, then homework of some sort until I fall asleep.