Friday, November 12, 2004

Way to go, Chuck ... way to go. I managed to sleep until 10:00 today. That would have been great except I was supposed to be up at 7. I had a test at 9 and at 10 today. Needless to say I managed to miss both tests. I took the one right when I went in but my other professor had left already. I could potentially be in trouble on this one ...

Needless to say, I'm now stressed to the 10th power and not in a good mood. My alarm clock appears to not be functioning so well (I should test it to see if maybe I just jumped up and turned it off). I just don't know what happened and it bothers me. The alarm was still set when I woke up and the clock was set 15 minutes ahead. I don't know what happened at all. Not a clue. Did I get up, turn off the alarm, turn it back on, and reset what I thought was the alarm but was actually the time? Argh this bothers me.

I started listening to some Bach and Mozart at the suggestion of Mr. Oftencold. It's quite pleasant listening to say the least. I can't help but feel at peace while listening to some good classical music. I'm sure many of you feel the same way as this is the general feeling (unless you listen to some of Beethoven). Ah well, maybe it'll stimulate my brain like it did in 11th grade when I started working at Hoyts.

I guess I should explain that one. When I was 16, I started working at Hoyts (now Regal). It was summertime going into my junior year. All I was hired for was cleaning theatres and ripping tickets (and I mostly did cleaning theatres). Anyway, our CD player worked at the time and we had classical music playing. Now I worked every weekend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and all I did was clean theatres. Needless to say, I listened to classical music quite frequently. I would hum along as I was sweeping up the floor and picking stuff up. It was quite nice (unlike the music we have playing now). Anyway, so I continued to do this as I went through my school year and I had my most successful school year ever. Mostly A's with 2 B's (one for each semester). Senior year came and I was promoted to supervisor so I did not listen to that music as much and ... I went back down in grades for my senior year. Does classical music help, I believe it does.

In other news, my paper has been pushed back until next Friday. That'll give me opportunity to study and research and write the paper. Good news I think although I'm still nervous about it.

So I theoretically have 2 things to look forward to this weekend. Tonight I'm going to a birthday party, which will hopefully be fun. I'm sure it will be. THEN, if everything goes well, tomorrow Michelle, Gretchen, and I are going to West Chester to visit "the man" (Tyler). I'm hoping Michelle will come otherwise I'll be a third leg and I'll have to pretend that I am not. Granted I am good at make-believe but ... yeah.

I had pizza for lunch, going to have pizza for dinner. Could pose a problem I believe. :-\ I haven't bowled in such a long time -- I may just suck badly at it. I do enjoy bowling, I just have not had the opportunity to go. Tonight is 3 dollars a game -- apparently we were told to bring 8 dollars and I figured that out to 3 dollars a game for 2 games and 2 dollars for shoes. I think Mike and I were trying to figure it out and for some reason today it just became ever so clear. I have shoes so that'll save me some money :-)

Anyway, I think I'll do some bible work now for my one class. Cya later.

1 comment:

Fred Oftencold said...

I liked your story about classical music at work. Let me suggst that you try some more martial selections, or heavy Bach organ pieces, like "Toccata & Fugue".

("Tocata and Fugue" gets me fired up, but if I'm feeling the least bit aggressive, it makes me want to go out and be a superhero crimefighter. This piece always sounds like a dialog to me somehow, God lecturing Job?)

You might try the alarm clock method I use. I use two clocks, one is set for an hour or so before I have to get up. I set this one to news programming wherever possible. (One station here, so my options are limited.) Usually something will catch my interest enough to draw me gracefully to wakefulness before the "serious" alarm clock goes off. As a bonus, I then get to lie abed for a while and enjoy the sensation.

May we (my Church group,) pray for your sucess? I hate to read that you are so stressed. I hope that this isn't something you mind being asked about. I'm always afraid that I will offend. Oh well, I'll just hope for the best.

Best wishes, and remeber please what you said after the last party you went to.