Month: February 2004

I just cleaned up my desk and put all my rarely used stuff in the bottom drawer of my file cabinent and sorted stuff into piles and threw lots of stuff away, and I feel so ordered and clean! Yay, prettiness!

Also, I just got an email back from the Penn Glee Club, and they informed me that my secret admirer is none other than DADDY. *hearts* Daddy is wonderful and thoughtful and the cutest person ever! Thank you!

I feel ill.

*sings* I’ve got a secret admirer!

Today in Film Noir class, the choir of five singing Valentine deliverers came for me. I laughed, thinking Rachel had sent them. However, before they even got to sing five words, Chris loudly and emphatically kicked them out for disrupting class. Rather disappointing, as they never got to sing their song, and I never got the card saying who it was from, but I was sure it was Rachel, so I could thank her for having the cleverness to figure out my schedule and to convince the Glee Club to add one more Valentine to their roster after they’d said they weren’t taking any more orders. I explained to the class about my prank yesterday and all were amused.

But I just got back to my room and thanked Rachel, but she had no idea what I was talking about. So someone sent me a singing valentine and I have no idea who they are! As I was probably intended to know, I’ll just email the Glee Club and ask them to tell me what was on the card, or at least who sent it.

Now I’m really curious.

Happy Friday the 13th! *breaks a ladder, walks under a mirror, allows a crack to cross her path, and steps on a black cat*

Question: What programs do you guys use for making screencaps? All my media players don’t allow it, except for the one that came with Kazaa. Any recommendations? (preferably free, of course)

(and while on the topic of media players, everyone go see Rhysenn’s V-Day RotK song video. So much love!)

Oh! I forgot! A shout-out to the coolness of Hockaday’s “History of Art and Music” class and my AP art class last year for making me Cultured and Intelligent.

Today, in Visual Communications, we were talking about ads that tapped into a desire for social status, so a large part of the discussion was the use of famous (and occasionally esoteric) works of art. A few kids and I were naming all of them, geekily rattling off icons like “Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’!” and “Claes Oldenberg!” and “Botticelli’s ‘Allegory of Spring’!” and “Pointilism!”. And because of Mrs. McCullough, I will forever pronounce “pointilism” the French way, like “pwaahn-til-ism”, and sound like even more of a dork. At the end of class, Rob (who was sitting in front of me) asked me “How do you know all this stuff?” and I kinda shrugged.

THANK YOU, HAM!

Gravy, I love this class. It always makes me feel so intelligent! Especially today when Professor Messaris called one of my comments “very insightful” and got all glowy and impressed. Life is good. Life is very good.

P.S. I love how it’s become universally accepted that the huge, ugly, abstract red sculpture in the middle of the campus is called “Dueling Tampons.” Does anyone actually know its real name? I heard somewhere that it was supposed to be a representation of the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. Go figure.

*cackles* Oh, the evil! After Ari’s show (which was hilarious and awesome), I stopped by Fresh Grocer, as it’s just a block out of my way coming back from the Hillel building. Ah, the indulgence!

I got: Chocolate soymilk, pineapple juice, dried apricots, sprouted wheat cinnamon raisin bread, and Nutella. Worth twice the sinful pleasure because they’re actually healthy! (Nutella is healthy. Shut up.)

All in all, a great way to end the day.

Not happy just discriminating against gays, Bush now wants a piece of the deaf.

In other news, Barbie dumps Ken.

So I finally tracked down Joan, and as it turns out, she hasn’t been getting my emails, as I sent them to the address in the school directory, which she never checks, rather than the one she gave us the first day of class. (mmm, commas.) Oops. Anyway, when we didn’t find it in her office, she said she’d look for it. I guess all I can do now is wait. *sigh*

But now I’m off to Ari’s show at the Hillel. T’will be crazy fun, he assures me. Hurrah!

*cackles* Rachel received her singing valentine in math class today! She shares the class with Vadim and Carmen, so plenty of embarassment all around. She thought it was hilarious, and has since sworn revenge. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with. XD