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Friday, November 30

5:09 PM
While my guitar gently weeps.

Thursday, November 29

1:44 AM
It was great! Best Thanksgiving I've ever had, mostly because I got to see Shannon. Hadn't seen my brothers in a while either. Or my sisters for that matter. Anyway...

Tuesday, November 20

1:13 PM
In 24 hours, things are going to be great.

Saturday, November 17

8:29 PM
Today was the opening for our group installation project. Over the last few weeks we made some gigantic rocks out of styrofoam, chicken wire, papier-mache (sp?), and handmade paper. They were anchored with weights and we put them in the middle of a small pond by the Lake Erie Center, and they float. I'm making the website for the project, it should be done fairly soon.

Barbara (the prof) took some of us to a bar nearby and bought everybody (of age) a drink. This was about an hour before the opening. It was kind of funny. I asked for a Guinness, and the waitress says, "What's that?"

The reception was from 4 to 8pm, but we all wanted to leave by 5. Not very many people came. But then there was sort of a surge after 6, and everybody sat around talking for quite a while. We got on the topic of other students' proposals for this project, like mine, which was sort of twisted, and people made fun of it and it became a running joke for a couple of hours. Now everybody thinks I have a sick mind. I thought I was a good sport about it, though. Barbara was going crazy, laughing hysterically the whole time. She's great... really an inspiring teacher. And she toasted us with some Latin and Yiddish phrases at the bar.

Friday, November 16

11:07 PM
Just watched The Dreamlife of Angels. Good, good.

Saturday, November 10

5:37 PM
mom and dad came up this morning with the new/used honda they just got, which they promptly lent to me in light of my accident. i'm very grateful, as i don't feel as safe as i used to in the mercury. i also think i'm being rather spoiled, but i'm too happy about the new car to feel as guilty as i normally would.

i'm tired.

Thursday, November 8

11:38 PM
today i was in a car accident. the road was slick from rain, and my car's tires always skid. despite my knowledge of this, i was driving 45mph in a 50mph zone. there were stopped cars ahead of me on the four lane road, so i had to swerve into the center turn lane to avoid hitting them, and i had to simultaneously avoid hitting the oncoming traffic. so i avoided hitting the car in front of me from behind, but i hit it on the side as well as the next car. i feel stupid and careless now, and i missed the class i was on my way to, the class i had already missed on tuesday. i got a fine as well.

earlier today i interviewed a city councilman for my political leadership class. i bought a tape recorder last night to record it, and the gadget is fun. it makes me want to tape all my conversations with people, or tape monologues while i'm walking or driving. but i can't think of anything to say so i haven't recorded any thoughts.

a guy at school bought me the brand new chris ware book, the big book of jokes volume 2. he also gave me an issue of a once-yearly newspaper that was devoted to chris ware.

Tuesday, November 6

12:37 PM
from AP:
...The remarks, delivered via satellite to a 20-nation gathering in Poland, were part of a 10-day diplomatic offensive designed to address doubts about the military campaign in Afghanistan. [...]

"For more than 50 years, the people of your region suffered under repressive ideologies that tried to trample human dignity. Today our freedom is threatened once again," Bush said. "Like the Fascist totalitarians before them, these terrorists -- al-Qaida, the Taliban regime that supports them and other terror groups across the world -- try to impose their radical views through threats and violence."

"We see the same intolerance of dissent, the same mad global ambitions, the same brutal determination to control every life and all of life. We have seen the true nature of these terrorists in the nature of their attacks," Bush said.

Aren't we imposing our views through threats and violence? Don't we have the brutal determination to control, if not every life and all of life, other nations' way of life? We have seen our own true nature in the nature of our attacks.

It's easy for me to criticize. But I don't know what we should do. I don't think bombing is going to help find bin Laden, nor is overthrowing the Taliban going to help much in ending terrorism. There are a lot of places for terrorists to live, such as the United States.

Sunday, November 4

5:07 PM
Went home Friday night, came back Saturday. While I was there, I went with my sister Kate shopping for a keyboard. We found some sweet used ones at a small music shop, especially this one that had almost 700 different voices and a pitch shifter (this switch that bends the notes). Then we went to a big chain store that had some nice keyboards as well. To get a decent one you need to spend at least $200, though. What's cool is that Kate is talented enough to really make use of a good keyboard.

And Mom cut my hair. It was starting to get on my nerves.

Now, to write two papers.