Irony and Self-Deprecation

Today was a very productive day if I do say so myself. I got up at 10:30, which is not even close to how early I have to get up on Monday, but it's progress. Then I went up to campus and bought most of the books I need and a new backback. New school stuff, yay! Then I sat around for awhile and read a bit of the Italian version of Watchmen that I have. I figured out why I didn't understand a lot of the first page the first time I tried reading it, I never learned the Italian words for 'filth,' 'whore' or 'stomach gash' last year.


Around six I hung out with Davies, and I remembered why I love hanging out with him. We saw the Dark Knight, but before and after the movie all we did was talk. What did we talk about? Our mutual hatred of Twilight, our love of Star Trek, Star Wars, Batman, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Watchmen, The Beatles, Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, horror movies, Christian Bale, and Russell Crowe. I also recommended stuff for him to listen to and watch like Wilco, American Psycho, QI and Top Gear. And we talked about a bunch of other stuff that I can't quite remember. I love geeking out with him, and I love that when I pointed out that Bruce Wayne totally fell for Harvey Dent, he agreed.

I'm still on a geeking out squee-y high. :D

I got a B+ in American Institutions, and I am pleased with this grade. So far this term I have a 3.58 GPA, and I just have to wait for my Gender and Social Change grade to be posted, and unless I totally bombed my final, I am going to get an A in that class, which means I'll maintain a GPA above 3.5 and I'll get to stay in the Honors College. I am very pleased. :D

So, the concert. The concert was in a movie theater, a large movie theater, but it was a movie theater so as concert venues go it was pretty small. We were in the balcony and we were in seats with absolutely no leg room, it sucked. But the view of the stage was fantastic and the acoustics in the venue were astounding. Retribution Gospel Choir opened, and I had never listened to them before, they were pretty good.

Wilco was incredible. They sounded so beautiful and it was just astounding. Nothing will beat the Arcade Fire concert I went to in amazingness, but this was a very close second. It was weird sitting down the whole time, I don't remember the last concert I went to where I wasn't standing the whole time and wasn't pretty close to the stage. They played all of my favorite songs in a row (Shot In The Arm, Via Chicago, California Stars), and the only songs that they didn't play that I wanted to hear were Radio Cure, Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again), and Muzzle of Bees. But I wasn't disappointed because the concert was soooo fucking good. Also, they are going to be in Salt Lake on August 18th, so hopefully they'll play those songs then. :D

We parked behind the theater and we noticed the tour bus, so we decided that we'd wait and see if we could meet the band after the show. We decided to get out there before the encores so we wouldn't get caught in the crowd and we waited in the rain for 30 minutes. Then when the show was over the security guys said that the band wouldn't be signing stuff outside of the bus, but they would go to the after party across the street. So we went across the street and discovered that the after party was 21+, so I couldn't go in. We sat outside and talked for awhile and Jaime went back to the venue to see if they came out, and then ran back to us to tell us they were out of the tour bus talking to fans and signing stuff.

I literally ran back to the theater. When we got over there we met Glenn (the drummer) Mike (the piano player) and Jeff Tweedy (the awesome). We talked to Glenn for awhile and he is just so incredibly adorable, awesome and approachable. Haley and Jaime talked to him more than I did, but eventually he noticed me standing there smiling like a fool and he shook my hand. I mentioned that they played my favorite songs in a row and he was pleasantly surprised and said, "And then it all went down hill from there huh?" "OH no no no!" XD He's so cute and awesome.

I didn't really talk to Mike, I kind of just pushed my way towards him and asked if he would sign my ticket. It was kind of rude of me because he was talking to someone at the time, but I tend to be rude if I'm not thinking clearly, and I really wasn't at the time, so woops!

We got Jeff to sign our tickets and then we backed away so other people could get their stuff signed. Haley decided to go back up to him and she asked if she could shake his hand and he said sure. Then she told him how much the band means to her, and he said that was sweet of her, and she mentioned her WILCO license plate. Then he went into the photo pose with his arm around her shoulder and she said that we didn't have a camera, and then a guy said he'd take the picture and email it to her. So I got in the picture and the guy couldn't take the photo because flash on the camera wasn't working. So Haley and I had our arms around Jeff Tweedy for several seconds while the guy was getting the flash to work. :D Eventually he got the camera to work properly and hopefully he'll email the picture to Haley.

After that Haley and I thanked him and calmly walked a few feet away, and proceeded to squee like a couple of crazy fangirls. XD

Man, last night was just so kick ass. :D (I really need a Wilco icon)

Oh, I'm watching TCR right now and it reminded me of something, Tweedy wasn't wearing his wrist strong bracelet!

After studying constantly for the last two days, I have come to an important conclusion:



And now, I'm going to take a break and start packing since I'm going back to Kamas on Thursday and haven't packed a damn thing.

I'll probably jinx myself by saying this, but I think I made that Italian final my bitch today. It wasn't incredibly easy, but I'm pretty sure I aced it. Woo! I was really nervous about the final because I thought that I just couldn't remember all the rules and tenses that I needed to remember, but luckily my brain has held on to the important things, and I'm pretty sure I remembered everything. :)

So, I'm officially done with classes. I just have one more final next Wednesday, and other than that I'm done. :D It doesn't feel like school is over though, after finishing late May/early June for my entire life it seems strange to be done in April. Awesome, but strange.

It is such a nice day today, and by nice I mean cloudy and raining. But the temperature is comfortable, the breeze is nice and cool and the birds are chirping. Also, it may be raining, but at least it's not snowing. Thank god.

Oh! Oh! Guess what? My mom bought me La Signora Dalloway! WOO! I want to read the Italian version and the English version side by side this summer, which I'm sure will be difficult since I barely understood the English version, but I'm looking forward to it. :)

Today for my Art class I needed an ink pad, and I do not have an ink pad, so I was planning on just going to Office Max before school. It's a little out of my way, but whatever. I got up an hour early so I could get down there and back up to the school in time. I just checked my email and my art class was cancelled today! WOOT! I should be a little pissed about getting up an hour early for no reason, but so what! All I have to do today is go to Italian and then I can work on my paper when I get home at 1:00 instead of at 5:00!

Also, I can add more details to my art assignment that was due today. I drew a still-life of my Care Bear Cousin monkey holding a knife menacingly over one of my teddy bears. Masks had to be incorporated so I tied a ribbon with some eye holes around the monkey and I put my sleeping mask on the bear so it would look like it was sleeping and vulnerable. I think it looks crazy awesome... and disturbing.

I feel like today is going to be a good day. :)

I'm done. I'm done! I don't have any major assignments/tests for weeks! This weekend I get to pretty much do nothing but rest! I am so happy midterms are finally over. :D

Oh, Staci! My paper that was due next friday isn't actually due until the friday after spring break! I'm totally free next Thursday and Friday. You want to go to the zoo on Friday? :D

My Italian presentation will be about Spaghetti Westerns! I figured it out! Now I just have to write the damn thing.

I woke up at noon today, even though my alarm went off at 10:00. I was totally planning on getting up at 10:00 too, but when my alarm went off I remember saying, "Fuck that" and then turning it off. Eh well. I didn't really miss anything in those two hours.

My university is planning on changing up the campus and they keep on talking about meetings regarding the Campus Master Plan and I like to think that the Campus Master Plan is as sinister as it sounds.

That reminds me, Haley and I were watching 'Dalek' a few weeks ago and when the bad guy (Van Stanton? Statten? whatever) said the closest town to the base was Salt Lake we were wondering where the base actually was. Because if it was out in the salt flats it's more likely that the closest town would be Toole or West Valley or one of the other many little cities surrounding Salt Lake. So we decided that it would have been cooler if the base was just directly under the University, like, under Fort Douglas. Where better to put a secret base than under a former military fort that's right up against the mountains?

Of course this theory is totally boned if he actually said they were out in the salt flats earlier in the episode, which I could totally check up on, but what's the fun in checking your facts?

I wasn't planning on making macros this weekend, but I have this sudden urge to make an assload of DW macros. Well, I guess I'll be scouring Wikiquote and Time and Space tonight. :)

My day has just flown by, I can't believe it's actually 8:00. Where the hell did my day go?! This is what I get for saying "Fuck that" to my alarm clock. I should plan out my day tomorrow so I'll be more productive. I think I'll get up before noon and hopefully we'll go grocery shopping in the morning. After we go grocery shopping I'll study while I have a giant marathon of BoB, DW and LoM. Yes, tomorrow shall be splendid. :D

My brain always checks out on Thursday because it thinks that the week is almost over. I'm trying to tell my brain that this is not so and I still have classes to go to and a quiz to take, but all it wants to do is look at my f-list or sleep. I can't relax yet! Shit to do!

Happy Valentines Day. I don't particularly like this holiday, but I love funny/cute valentines. So here's another one.

( Another valentine made by 45eugenia )

I was just reading this article about who won in Utah last night and a student at the U said this,

David Edwards, a junior in international studies, said he voted for Obama, but also likes Romney. He said Obama and Romney both seem highly intelligent and would be strong leaders.

"I'm happy with what Utah did -- Utah did good," he said.

University of Utah education, ladies and gentlemen! Utah did good.

Well, speaking of the U, I have to go to school now. So I can enhance mah learnins.