(12:40 AM) It's my luck that I'm falling asleep before I'm ready for bed, yet after I brush my teeth and all, I can't get comfortable. So I'm up and at the computer after wasting 30 minutes of fruitless...sleepification.
I watched "Space Cowboys" this evening. Good, enjoyable movie. Funny too. About four old guys who finally get their chance to go into space (to fix a Russian communication satellite. but there's something shiesty about the whole thing...). Ending was a bit sad. But happy too, in a way.
Something tells me I need to work on my expository writing...
So...my MP hasn't gotten anywhere today. My logic seems right. But it doesn't want to work right. Why?
I'm trying to figure out what I want to do later in life. That frightening reality is that I'll probably spend the next 5 to 10 years after I graduate doing web design (unless the web dies out completely), in which case I have a good excuse to forget everything else and maybe work on being a composer. Starting in my late 20's...yeah, it would be quicker to just kill myself.
Seriously, I'm not sure how to direct my life. I don't want to be a hardcore CS person at all, so why am I in the program to begin with? The way I see it, I would be better off pursueing a minor in CS. That way, I won't have to take all the other bullshit classes I don't want to take, leaving me room for classes I'd be interested in taking. Like computer graphics and multimedia. And maybe a minor in music. And I'll always have that minor in math (which, on the whole, isn't useful. but bits of material I've picked should come in handy later on).
I'm not sure where that leaves me. And then there's graduate school...just about everyone is pressuring me in various ways to get a masters (and in one case, even a Ph.D -- directly after my ungrad and grad studies. /puke). It's not that I'm against getting one, I don't know what to get it in. I know that I don't want to get a masters in CS or anything business-related.
I don't know how I'll sound if I keep going on about it, so I'll quit.
So I started poking around on the keyboard today. It's disheartening. I want to be somewhat proficient in playing. I want to hear and know notes in my head. I want to be able to remember the songs I make up in my head. I want to be a musician. And I want this all when I'm nearly 21. Nearly 21 years of virtually no musical training of any sort. My hopes of accomplishing such goals grow diminished with each passing day.
Modern French stems from the dialect of the region north of the river Loire (called langue d'oil); the dialect south of the river was langue d'oc. Oc was the term used for the word "yes", while oil (or oui) was the other term, hence the names of the two dialects. The poets of langue d'oc were called Troubadours; those of langue d'oil were called Trouveurs. It was the Trouveurs who kept track of chivalry and other such things; Troubadours were too concerned with love. This was all in my myth book. I'm starting the "Age of Chivalry" section.
I'm still not getting sleepy...it's 1:30 now.
I need to put a guestbook up soon I think. I hope people will sign it. I get very little feedback on this place (only five or six random/semi-random people have commented on it). Then again, the content isn't really interesting. Maybe that's why no one lets me know?
The weekend is almost over. So sad.
It's time to start shopping for a new email address...some of my emails sent with uiuc (through the msn.com smtp server) are getting rejected, while mailandnews.com is an unresponsive piece of shit (they used to be good). I could just telnet or use a browser, but that defeats the purpose of wanting to use Eudora.
I just tried signing up with newmail.net, but apparently they've shut down signing up for new accounts. I currently have an account on there, but it's my designated junk mail account. But if I suppose it'll work. It's not like I get any less junk mail on my other two. Hopefully it'll be reliable. Whatever happened to the days when there were a lot more free POP accounts?
Some nifty links: charismama.com, deadflesh.org, and lil ron's world. A [somewhat] interesting note on the last two sites mentioned...I'm scrolling down the page of deadflesh.org, and there's a snippet from a chat conversion. I see the name lilron and think "Wha? is this Lil Ron from wodie.com??" so I click the link and sure enough, it's Lil Ron from wodie.com. I wonder if anyone else from the board knows he has a site?
Ick...I've been rambling for too long. Time to attempt sleeping...
[+dendum] "mellon collie and the infinite sadness"
(11:34 AM) Just wanted to say that after messing around on the keyboard, I played the I chord (in C major) and noticed that it sounded like a chord played on the song "mellon collie..." so I thought "hmm...the song must be written in C major." So then I poked around for a minute before finding the first two or three bars of the melody.
It may not sound like anything big, but I'm proud of myself. I was able to use my basic knowledge of theory to guess the key and make an educated guess as to what keys I needed to play to get the right sound. I feel special
Alright, it really wasn't a big deal. But I just wanted to share it. Back to the keyboard I go...
Oh, and sleep sucked. Ah well. At least the sleep I got earlier in the week was restful (although short)