well then, i finally did it.

Your Life: The Soundtrack
Opening credits:	"extraordinary machine" - fiona apple
Waking up:	"learning to breathe" - switchfoot
Average day:	"in the aeroplane over the sea" - neutral milk hotel
First date:	"first day of my life" - bright eyes
Falling in love:	"simple as it should be" - tristan prettyman
Love scene:	"bedshaped" - keane
Fight scene:	"i predict a riot" - kaiser chiefs
Breaking up:	"play crack the sky" - brand new
Getting back together:	"breakdown" - mae
Secret love:	"une année sans lumière" - the arcade fire
Life's okay:	"stars" - david crowder band
Mental breakdown:	"lonely nation" - switchfoot
Driving:	"life of artic sounds" - modest mouse
Learning a lesson:	"let it all out" - relient k
Deep thought:	"you" - switchfoot
Flashback:	"soco amaretto lime" - brand new
Partying:	"dance and shout" - shaggy
Happy dance:	"all for swinging you around" - the new pornographers
Regreting:	"let you down" - goldrush
Long night alone:	"the engine driver" - the decemberists
Death scene:	"heysátan" - sigur rós
Closing credits:	"new slang" - the shins
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work was kind of tiring, and i guess typical "first day on the job" things happened.

And it's done.

an IM conversation from about 45 minutes ago. dont get caught up in the "bec"'s:
becca: becky
becca: you're not doing work
becca: are you?
becky: shoot. nope
becca: hahaha
becky: :-)
becca: caught ya
becky: i am...doing something
becky: my homework is on my desk
becca: that's good
becky: i'm listening to music i would like to buy
becca: small steps
becky: right...and i wrote my name on it
becca: good!

you know what i've done today?
a lot of not much. and last nite? not a whole lot.

but, oh, i've had a good time. its my last weekend in college for the year, and i needed to do some chillout things. i had some great roomie time last nite, and pizza tonite was great. as much as i am looking forward to going home, there's some sadness about not being here. and i've already had to say goodbye to erin.

i keep looking at this test i'm supposed to take. 5 short essay questions just seem like too much. somehow it will get done.

today at church, my favorite priest talked about joy and happiness. he said that happiness/joy isn't really a feeling, its a state of mind. people can be feeling sad, but if they have a fulfilled life in faith, they can feel sad but still be joyful. whereas, a person can go around looking for pleasure all the time that makes them "feel" happy time to time, but they don't have that inherant joy. because joy is a gift from God.

it was good.

another thing i did today was find more music that i'd like to acquire. but i have promised myself that i wouldnt buy any more music for myself until after Christmas. i'm a little proud of myself that i didn't compromise that.

so, i'll just stick with the free mp3's.

but check out this song! it's by this band called Bishop Allen -- their album came out in 2003 but i just found out about them.

eee this is a multimedia post!!
Bishop Allen - "Busted Heart"
you should right click and do "save as" and then listen to it. and if you like it go to their website and download three more. and listen again and again and sing along.
i saw a comment that they sound like Modest Mouse, but they are too happy for comparisons to them. i guess i can hear it, but not really.

but anyway, thats one new favorite. would i be good at promoting? maybe.
haha, perhaps i could promote nerdy indie pop to my students. then again, if i talked to my students about music, we'd never get anything done.

speaking of students, i am being a bad one by not doing this take home test. then again, i really should stop making myself feel guilty.

oh, so update on my Friday Finals:
i went to see the midnight show of the Chronicles of Narnia, so I got back to my room about 3:30 am. i went to bed for about four hours, got up, took my Human Development final (which i took a bit sluggishly, but i think accurately). then i came back to my room and took a glorious two hour nap. then i re-woke up and found jess was eating lunch, so i figured it was time to really start my day.

isnt it funny that when you do that, its easy to think of that brief period you were awake was a dream?

anyway, i poked around for a few hours and somehow found myself in my Health classroom with 1000 page textbook, binder full of notes from the entire semester, a calculator, a pencil, and a Fifteen Page Semester Final Test. hoo-boy.
i think it went well. i did alot of flurrying through the book and notes, looking for things such as what i'm supposed to take Universal Precautions for, how many calories are in three grams of fat, and what a full service health center at a school is called. well, i flipped fast enough that i was able to find justifiable answers. 200 points boo-yow.
AND i turned in my paper!! woooooooooooooooo!

now maybe i'll start those essays. or not. either way, i'll be sitting here jammin out to Bishop Allen. hehehe :-D

I AM:
-overyjoyed by the beauty of the shimmery snow
-sick of studying
-pleasantly surprised by the music of Steve Burns
-listening to the punk awesomeness of "entertain" by sleater-kinney to wake my head up
-hoping staying out late again tonite does not have highly regrettable consequences


mmmboy am i sure looking forward to 4:30 Friday, December 9th, 2005.

1, 2, 3! If you wanna take a shot at me,
Get in line
1, 2, 3! I've had all my shots
and I'm fine
s-k

well i did finish!! all i need to do is add an intro and awkward introduction and edit it. we'll see how bad my composing gets at 2:45 am.

but now i'm awake, and need to get ready to go out to lunch. then the rest of the day is mine to sleep and study. and i can bet you that a minimal amount is going to be spent instead of a dumb computer monitor.

and ilana sure is right, when else can ya do something like this??? weee!

oh boy. i've passed the six hour mark.

but i'm almost done! and almost asleep!

i wonder if they would let me spend the night in the break room.

iPod died about 1...hmm...yet i seem to be managing. i should run to the bathroom to see if my eyes are crossed yet.

weeeeee post from the library computer!!

i just returned the loan laptop right on time, and the loan time is four hours. blehhhhhh.

now i'm in the PC lab.

oddly enough, i still feel like marching onward with this paper. i have an extensive references page, which is a bit redundant, but it's all there. and i'm onto page 3 of 7-10, and i'm feelin pretty good about it. Casting Crowns is in the iPod, i just hope it doesn't die in less than an hour.

the 1st floor of the library is open 24 hours, and it's like a party down here! good thing i have my headphones on.

well--here we go!

yesssssssssssssssssss for no more classes.

health is driving me nuts. oh, the irony!!

yet i'm continually being shown it could be worse.

....back to it....

mmmmhmmmmmmhmmmmm

so, finals start on this friday. i am out to make it the best time ever, unlike last year which was the worst time ever.

This past week i have
1. eaten cocoa puffs with chocolate milk
2. learned the couch game
3. bought "the twelve days of Xmas" by Relient k and listened to it at least 16 times
4. eaten Lucky Charms with chocolate milk
5. watched Love Actually twice (and i'm still not sick of it!!)
6. started listening to Christmas music!
7. got a job at Bath and Body Works!
8. redid my blog!
9. had my last regular Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday sets of classes of the semester!
10. WAS AT HOME!! DID I REALLY COME ONE WEEK AGO?!?!?

i have listened SO MUCH to loud and exciting music in the past week, there hasn't been many calm moments. i am feeling crazy and excited and so alive. i need to channel this, which i sort of am, but not completely. i might actually start my health paper today which would be fantastic.

i wish i could see Falling Up tonite at the See Spot Rock Show, but i dont feel like spending precious twenty dollars to see them play---dangit i missed battle of the bands!!!!!!----for kids who are probably still in high school, along with three other bands. i bet it would be a good show...yay Falling Up! i'll just listen to "Arafax Deep" quite a few times.

okay, now OFF TO CONQUER THE WORLD!! or just get some homework done.

ah. just the way i want it.

soo...i just wanted to add the audioscrobbler thingy to the right(which is quite awesome, i must admit) then i went on an all-out bloggy transformation. i think i need to fix some things, but i'm sick of html and i've probably wasted far enough time. check back later for improvements. maybe.

i got up this morning, after deliciously sleeping in 45 minutes, read my pal Erin's away message, then bolted to the window. this is what i saw.



its snow! this is first time its stuck to the ground here. it made me feel happier than i thought it would, i think partially because i was 100% not expecting it. and here we have it. on the first day of December! perfect.

today has been happily crazy. first the sleeping in, the snow, then my red sweater/shoes combo, wating ten minutes for them to open the cafeteria, psych test. and crazy loud music the whole time, at least in my head. and i couldnt help but groove with my iPod on the way to class. some people stared, other people smiled, but importantly, i was having a blast.

Carly is coming soon and we are getting ready for Christmas Cru meeting tonite. should be the best meeting of the semester, although sad as it is the last.

i should put on the Christmas music. maybe.

excitedly, i don't have any more immediate homework until finals start. granted, i have a couple papers and a few more tweaks to my lesson plan, mais ca, c'est tout!

thats all. ooo and i get December 2005 over in the "Barchives." yessssssssssssssssss.