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October 23, 2002

And she was lying in the grass. And she could hear the highway breathing. And she could see a nearby factory. She's making sure she is not dreaming. See the lights of a neighbor's house, now she's starting to rise. Take a minute to concentrate, and she opens up her eyes. The world was moving and she was right there with it. (and she was) The world was moving she was floating above it. (and she was) And she was drifting through the backyard. And she was taking off her dress. And she was moving very slowly, rising up above the earth. Moving into the universe, and she's drifting this way and that. Not touching ground at all, up above the yard. She was glad about it... no doubt about it. She isn't sure where she's gone. No time to think about what to tell them. No time to think about what she's done, and she was. And she was looking at herself. And things were looking like a movie. She had a pleasant elevation. She's moving out in all directions. Joining the world of missing persons. (and she was) Missing enough to feel alright. (and she was)

It's blast from the past Wednesday bringing you those hits you wish had been systematically destroyed.

The king of all things obsessive compulsive has come up with a new way of getting to mp3s. It stems from the fact that while in my car I prefer to listen to a shuffle of a bunch of similar music by various bands as one would get from a playlist of a couple hundred songs on shuffle, where as at home I'd rather listen to albums as I read or do homework. Unforunately the easiest thing to deal with would be the exact opposite of that, but I have my way now. When ripping albums I just have everything kinda dump into d:\mp3 so that I can make the mp3 discs for my car easily, but I have CDex make playlists for the album and stick them in an albums folder so I can listen to the albums nice and easily, everyone wins (all of my multiple personalities.)

Anyway, I have my classes picked out for next semester and I'm waiting for the reg date to come around so I can finalize them. three ece classes and a cs class, so it's going to be a far cry from my current situation involving microbio, earthcare, and descrete math. I seem to expand my ability to work (elasticly as opposed to plasticly) to fit the needs of a given semester pretty well so I've determined that really any semester I take is not going to feel that different from the next in the long run. But at least now I'm really heavily specializing so getting into my classes will be nice and easy. Plus apparently I'm a senior which is news to me, but whatever, if it means I can sign up for classes a week earlier than everyone else I'll take it.

A bunch of bands are coming through here including Better Than Ezra (thanks Leandra for the link) so I think I'm going to get some tickets. They might be Giants is playing soon, but although I like their music I'm not sure I could stand an entire concert. Dave is coming to Assembly Hall too, but I think it's too late to get in the lottery to buy tickets for that, it's funny cause the more I think about this the more I realize the number of people that of told me he was coming to U of I in the past few months. I must just be retarded. Other concerts I wouldn't mind getting reminded of if they come anywhere near here are Radiohead and Coldplay. No idea if they ever will though. One can always hope.

Meanwhile I'm fulling enjoying my little vacation here, not from classes and work but from tests. I'd like to take a moment to assure everyone out there still stuck taking tests in these couple weeks here that, yes, not having tests is as good as it seems to you right now. :D

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