"a tale of two towers" kind of day...
you read it correctly, a bit of dickens, and a bit of tolkien. "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" may not literally be the case today, but it was definitely along the lines of "it was a good day, and a not-so-hot day."
believe it or not, i'm going to keep this as short as i can since i need to get to bed...pretty much because tomorrow will be a work marathon since my productivity dropped to zero around 5:30pm today - but as usual, that was generally my fault!
anyway, today was a great day in terms of weather...whenever i can consistently see the sun (through sunglasses of course, because i wouldn't want to burst into flames) it makes me happy. as "studies have shown" i think this is generally the case with most people, especially here in michigan where a nice sunny day is a rare occasion in the spring. the weather was good, the lab practical i had to give was relatively short, and people were out and about. i actually got a lot of work done (although there is plenty more to do before wednesday) but also figured it would be a good day to venture out to my good friend dominick's place (a lot of you know how fond i am of this establishment). it started with just one person being contacted via text, then my roommates shortly thereafter, then a few more friends, eventually a miniature 'call to action' text (as damon likes to call it) was sent out and i was getting consistent text replies and phone calls back in the computer lab.
as you can probably guess, a simple impromptu gathering at dominick's quickly snowballed into a relatively decent-sized get together of a diversity of friends (which is always nice). among things discussed over sangria were the mackinac bridge incident (involving a car literally being blown off the structure during a windy day), what a SIM card is in a phone (this was particularly humorous since we had several people disassembling their phones on the table...just screaming for a spill to occur and render all of us temporarily telecommunication-less), and a random assortment of sunglasses. andrea also sneaked up from behind to win a 'contest' of finishing up the beverage before leaving...guess that makes us even for the burrito 'contest' last week, so there! i'll also add that mackinac island fudge came up twice independently over the course of the evening, with rakhi and chris promising to bring me back some this summer...sweet. now if i can just get that material converted to brownies...
now i know all this randomness sounds like a lot of fun, but amidst all this was the omnipresence of unfinished work looming over all our conversations and witty/sarcastic banter. oh well. damon and i later reiterated our philosophy on such things to make everyone feel better, and we moved on.
***
ok i just typed up (and subsequently deleted) a section about 'the bad side of things' for this little allegory. but you know what? who needs negative crap right now...exactly. nobody. we all have enough garbage to worry about, why make your time-wasting experience yet another venue for negative influx? not here. take a look at the tagline for this entire blog:
"just remember, you'll never get this time back."
yeah, it refers in many ways to wasting time reading this blog, but at the same time, you can obviously apply it to everything else. take from that what you will. i have to get back and run Orthanc since Baradur seems to be acting up (they don't call me saruman for nothing).
random thought: THANK GOODNESS they are starting to show spring practices for college football on sportcenter now. they may be just quick glimpses, but i'm quickly growing more impatient (i know that's hard to believe) for the season to get here.
next time, a bit on bollywood music and how it reiterates the fact that i honestly don't care about lyrics in music so much as the music itself. i wonder if that is in any way connected with my 'skill' of selectively only hearing people but not listening to them. again, that's all another story. <:><
music: thanks to rakhi, rashmi, seema and spike lee for (whether directly or indirectly) introducing/further expanding my foray into bollywood movie music, it can somehow always make me smile.
Hum Tum soundtrack - Jatin-Lalit & Prasoon Joshi
Main Hoon Na soundtrack - Anu Malik & Javed Akhtar
Bunty Aur Babli soundtrack - Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa & Ehsaan Noorani
Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint - Inside Man soundtrack - Sapna Awasthi & Sukwinder Singh
random pic:
i can't remember if AJ took this pic or if i did, but it's in my archives. either way, be happy, there are michigan colors in the tank!
believe it or not, i'm going to keep this as short as i can since i need to get to bed...pretty much because tomorrow will be a work marathon since my productivity dropped to zero around 5:30pm today - but as usual, that was generally my fault!
anyway, today was a great day in terms of weather...whenever i can consistently see the sun (through sunglasses of course, because i wouldn't want to burst into flames) it makes me happy. as "studies have shown" i think this is generally the case with most people, especially here in michigan where a nice sunny day is a rare occasion in the spring. the weather was good, the lab practical i had to give was relatively short, and people were out and about. i actually got a lot of work done (although there is plenty more to do before wednesday) but also figured it would be a good day to venture out to my good friend dominick's place (a lot of you know how fond i am of this establishment). it started with just one person being contacted via text, then my roommates shortly thereafter, then a few more friends, eventually a miniature 'call to action' text (as damon likes to call it) was sent out and i was getting consistent text replies and phone calls back in the computer lab.
as you can probably guess, a simple impromptu gathering at dominick's quickly snowballed into a relatively decent-sized get together of a diversity of friends (which is always nice). among things discussed over sangria were the mackinac bridge incident (involving a car literally being blown off the structure during a windy day), what a SIM card is in a phone (this was particularly humorous since we had several people disassembling their phones on the table...just screaming for a spill to occur and render all of us temporarily telecommunication-less), and a random assortment of sunglasses. andrea also sneaked up from behind to win a 'contest' of finishing up the beverage before leaving...guess that makes us even for the burrito 'contest' last week, so there! i'll also add that mackinac island fudge came up twice independently over the course of the evening, with rakhi and chris promising to bring me back some this summer...sweet. now if i can just get that material converted to brownies...
now i know all this randomness sounds like a lot of fun, but amidst all this was the omnipresence of unfinished work looming over all our conversations and witty/sarcastic banter. oh well. damon and i later reiterated our philosophy on such things to make everyone feel better, and we moved on.
***
ok i just typed up (and subsequently deleted) a section about 'the bad side of things' for this little allegory. but you know what? who needs negative crap right now...exactly. nobody. we all have enough garbage to worry about, why make your time-wasting experience yet another venue for negative influx? not here. take a look at the tagline for this entire blog:
"just remember, you'll never get this time back."
yeah, it refers in many ways to wasting time reading this blog, but at the same time, you can obviously apply it to everything else. take from that what you will. i have to get back and run Orthanc since Baradur seems to be acting up (they don't call me saruman for nothing).
random thought: THANK GOODNESS they are starting to show spring practices for college football on sportcenter now. they may be just quick glimpses, but i'm quickly growing more impatient (i know that's hard to believe) for the season to get here.
next time, a bit on bollywood music and how it reiterates the fact that i honestly don't care about lyrics in music so much as the music itself. i wonder if that is in any way connected with my 'skill' of selectively only hearing people but not listening to them. again, that's all another story. <:><
music: thanks to rakhi, rashmi, seema and spike lee for (whether directly or indirectly) introducing/further expanding my foray into bollywood movie music, it can somehow always make me smile.
Hum Tum soundtrack - Jatin-Lalit & Prasoon Joshi
Main Hoon Na soundtrack - Anu Malik & Javed Akhtar
Bunty Aur Babli soundtrack - Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa & Ehsaan Noorani
Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint - Inside Man soundtrack - Sapna Awasthi & Sukwinder Singh
random pic:
i can't remember if AJ took this pic or if i did, but it's in my archives. either way, be happy, there are michigan colors in the tank!
posted by Solomon at 12:32 AM
1 Comments:
I took that pic! I called it "Michigan Fish" and it's from the Baltimore Aquarium. By the way, the play was awesome and I really do want a copy of the video to show my mom. Also, is it sneaked or snuck? Oh, I just looked it up and it's either. Aah, joys of the English language... :)
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