"Like the leaves of autumn"

I have a physics exam on Thursday, a German quiz on Wednesday, and a German oral test on Thursday morning, so the fact that I’m taking time out of my busy schedule to write a post just for you should make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Two roads converged in front of Angell Hall and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

The events of my day on Monday:
- Our calc exams were passed back and I got an 84/100. The average was high (80/100), but I was still pleased (a.k.a. relieved) with my score.
- During calc, I realized that I didn’t do my German homework for today. Whoops. It was on the internet, so I did it and turned it in right after lunch.
- I was hoping for hotdogs for lunch and, whadya know, it was hotdogs.
- As I was heading to the Diag area to study physics under a tree in the nice 66 degree heat, I randomly saw and talked to Greg and Carla Dittenber, Steve’s parents, outside of the Union. And then as I was heading back to South Quad, I saw and talked to Steve for a while on State St. near the art museum.
- I watched a couple episodes of Stargate. I had completely forgotten that it was on Monday night, but then my roommate mentioned it and I couldn’t resist.

The events of my day on Tuesday:
- I got to watch a wine glass shatter in physics lecture purely as a result of sound.
- It was very warm…. Over 70 degrees… and I sat under a tree studying physics in the warmth for 2 hours, and then there were 2.25 more hours of physics studying in the IRC.
- I drew pictures during calc.
- Dante is wonderful. I love Dante... or just The Divine Comedy actually.

Oh yeah! My concert! It went well and it was cool to play in Hill Auditorium. We played Noisy Wheels of Joy, Amazing Grace, First Suite in E-Flat, Scenes from the Louvre, and Americans We... in that order. The concert was quite long… almost 3 hours long, but it was good. My parents, Ross, Ryan, and Alecia came to see it. Afterwards, we got slushies and went to Amer’s for dinner.

I am the proud new owner of four new CDs… Wow 2004, Jonah 33, Day of Fire, and The Very Best of Chicago: Only The Beginning. They’re fun. I’ve listened to all but Wow 2004 so far and they’re all great.

One of my sweatshirts smells like wheat, as in dirty wheat that I used to munch on from the field.

Last week I had some pretty messed up states of consiousness; they weren’t dreams, I was fully awake. The one night I was woken up by Rebecca’s whatever she was doing and my nose was stuffed and all I could see or think about when I tried to go back to sleep were circles and polar coordinates. As I was laying there, it was a concrete fact in my head that it was impossible for me to get back to sleep because of my nose and the effects that the polar coordinates had on my nose. The next night I was again woken up. This time I had fallen alseep later than usual and as I was laying there trying to figure out how many hours of sleep I could get yet that night, I was thinking that it was hopeless to try to get back to sleep because of the hours left in the night combined with n/2 (n divided by 2). I finally managed to talk myself out of that crazyness, but I vividly remember having to consciously tell myself that I was thinking nonsense.

The correct answers to my blog title trivia are:
What Dreams May Come
- movie from 1998 with Robin Williams (which was so mentioned in my great books discussion today... what a coincidence)
- line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1. “For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause”
Into The Joy of Spring
- concert band song composed by James Swearingen
In The Spring, When Kings Go Off To War
- concert band song composed by David R. Holsinger
- verse from the Bible, 2 Samuel 11:1, “In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.”