Yes, yes I am still alive

Hello!! I return from my weeks of lazing about to catch you up on the nothing that I have been doing. First, my garden is torn between taking off (PEAS........EVERYWHERE!!!!!!) and doing dead nothing. Second, the weather is the weather and has been doing whatever it wants. Third, I went and saw Batman Begins, which was awesome, and fell in love with Dr. Krane, leading me to watch 28 Days Later. Although usually billed as a zombie/horror flick (it definitely is) it also raises a lot of very interesting and thought-provoking questions and the nature of humanity and violence. However, I do NOT recommend this movie for people who can't handle violence and blood. Yours truly watched several chunks by counting stitches on my fabulous shawl. Ninth, I've been working at my old lumber yard job doing little projects to earn the much needed cash for Camp. Sixth, Jane Eyre is really a very good book and my next serious book to read is Frankenstein. Seventy-second, I've been trying to catch up on all the little things I've been meaning to do for ages. XIC, I drove up to Eugene for the Black Sheep Gathering where I got to see lots of cute, fuzzy animals and play with all kinds of fabulous fibres. F, I tried out for the Rogue Valley Opera's winter production and didn't do too badly, although I won't know the results for a week or two.

Now, you all need to pick yourselves up from where you've pretended to die from boredom. I'm planning on having another long hiatus while I'm hanging out at Campmeeting in Portland so I hope to see some of you there and as for everyone else, have a wonderful Fourth of July and I'll bore you all later!!!

PS Pheather, about the annotated bibliography, you were mostly right. It did help me a lot because I had to figure out what my sources were really saying, which involved reading some of them and then I could clarify their relevance to my study. However, some of the annotations were definitely leaning a bit towards the vague and fictitious side because I just didn't have enough time to go through every stinking one of them. But I'm so glad it's all done!!!!!!

The verdict is in...

Two A-'s and the rest A's. Whoo hoo!!! And the two minuses were in my classes where there was the least concrete stuff to grade, so I'm okay with it. And I got an A in Capstone. *shriek of joy then satisfied smile* For this first week of Spring Break I've just been watering my garden, skimming through books (except Persuasion, I never skim Austen), cleaning the house a little, doing other yardwork, and generally just lazing around. The only really revolutionary thought I've had was "What a completely racist and inaccurate representation of indigenous tribes in Mexico" in reference to a novel and I've barely touched the newspaper, although I do need to go read about that earthquake in Chile. My garden is doing nicely, especially my flowers, alhtough the Armenian cucumbers seem to be magnets for bugs and the cat keeps filling in the beer-slug trap that's set up next to them. Oh! I need to go start harvesting peas. I do have my never-ending list of things to do, however, so I should probably go and do some of them. I hope everyone is having a great week and decent weather (am I obssessed with the weather?!)!

Sobs of Joy on the Warm Spring Zephyr

I'M DONE!!! I just turned in the heat-bound copy of my Capstone, finished the portfolio and I'm DONNNNEEEEE!!! *sobs quietly with happiness* I have no idea how I did on the Soc exam and my music assessment was so bad I actually cried while watching the video tape, but my ensayo final is done and in and I don't think it turned out all that bad, so WHO CARES about the rest. Well, I will once I discover I've gotten B's or C's in them, but for now... the weather is gorgeous and I have books and knitting in the car. I do believe a lunch trip to the Co-op is in order and then a picnic in the park. *shrieks with joy* No puedo decirte que feliz estoy! Me siento como voy a llorar y volar al mismo tiempo!! Claro que voy a extrañar muchísimo a todos mis amigos pero voy a ir a sus fiestas mañana después de la graduación, y ahora..... a sí, ahora.....

I need a job. With really flexible hours that will let me go to Campmeeting and Mexico. *sighs* Money sucks. And the house needs cleaned. But for now, I am here, it is gorgeous, I am done, my recital isn't until 7, and I am happy. Hay una brisa ligera y voy a tener comida buena, quizás queso y un refresco o algo. Y para todos ustedes que están quejando porque estoy hablando en español... te avisé y es mi segunda lengua y mi especialización. Qué más quieren? *little happy dance in seat* Y todos los guapos están emergiendo del woodwork hoy. *suspira* Andale pues. I hope everyone has a fabulous, spectacular weekend, and I will talk to you all later! *giggle salsa step giggle*

Snooooooow on the moooooountaaaaaains.....

*beat* and gray clouds in the ska-eee. In June no less. I wore my gorgeous but very lightweight bright fuschia blouse for my Capsone presentation today (whoo hoo!!!!!!!!! Too bad I have to finish up a bunch of stuff) and let's just say it's a good thing I happened to grab my turquoise rebozo because, baby, it's COLD outside. And we're having the Foreign Languages Dept. picnic today. But it'll be fun, especially since I'll get to see my Capstone buddies....not that I haven't been seeing quite a lot of them in the library as we as scribble towards the deadline. My next deadline, along with the final clean-up of the Capstone project, is my violin perfomance assessment tomorrow morning, for which I am supposed to have an analysis of one of my pieces, which is why I'm here in the library instead of practicing for said assessment. I think I'm going to have to plead other discipline Capstone as my excuse for what will be a lousy performance.

Oh, I'm in love with an unattainable man, too, by the way, and I don't think his name is Frank. It's the man who announces the beginning and end of the copy of Jane Eyre I'm listening to on CD. *sighs* The reader is rather awful and speaks in a dreadfully over-pronounced monotone, but in an effort to culture my lil' self, I am perserving, and as my reward, at the end of every CD, he speaks and tells me *big sigh* "end of disc four." I just melt. I can pretend he looks like the guy I saw in the computer la....oh wait, I just remembered that random people I know read this and are probably writing me off as a moony, lovesick, spinster in a gorgeous turquoise rebozo. Here's my answer to that: http://msn.match.com/msn/article.aspx?articleid=4159&articleSrc=1&lid=90 Anyway, I need to research Schubert's violin piece "The Bee" and then go stuff myself with charred meat in the rain, so I'll wish everyone a good week and trot off!!

Toast

Why yes, I should be slaving away devotedly at my Capstone! And yes, I am writing yet another boring entry about stupid things! But wait, a distinct feature of this post will be..... mention of the two girls who just walked in looking like slightly overdone toast!! Yes, while I may have made disparaging comments about over-tanning before (or have I? I can't remember. I know I have in real life.) they have never included snide commentary about the Olsen twin wanna-bes currently sitting, that's right, at this moment, in the library computer lab. I mean, a healthy-looking tan looks okay and I secretly have this thing for guys who are tanned from working outside, but there is a limit. Orange is not a color in which your skin should be appearing. I have tanned before and after sliding out of the alien brain-washing pod I held my arm up to my nose and sniffed. Not believing my olfactory sense I sniffed my knee. I would have sniffed more body parts, but I'm not quite that flexible. I smelled like lightly charred flesh!!! What does this have to do with your Capstone? I can hear you asking. Absolutely nothing, except for Simón Bolívar's premature aging in the novel El general en su laberinto can perhaps be attributed in part to his overexposure to the sun. Men, answer truthfully, is that orange look really that much more attractive than my slightly pale epidermis? Gak!! Ten minutes of reviewing my proposal down the drain!!!!!

Nothing new....

Same lab, one chair over, with my compadres de Capstone, similar panic. *sighs* Not much has changed since last term, I guess. Except the itching. Well, and I've had more homework. And assessments. And the bi-weekly restaurant dates. And my parents' (really Mom's) theory that I am having an affair with a married man named Frank and that's why I'm in Ashland all the time. And the weather is slightly warmer, so my garden needs more attention. Many things have changed, I guess. Just not my end-of-term location.