Typing Fool
Ack! I hate it when I don't have time to blog.
But the Jerry clip is me right now. I have been trying to keep up with my homework, which has been hard in the last week. There has been so much going on in the evenings, my time is always fragmented. When I try to work on assignments after everyone has gone to bed, I'm too tired and I just fall asleep. What keeps me going is knowing that I have only *Ten Weeks Left*!!! So I will hang in there, if by a thread. NEED STIMULANTS NOW.
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TEN WEEKS?!! Oh, man, I thought it was maybe only two or three weeks. I noticed your absence from the blog and e-mail and thought you were probably grinding through homework, but I had somehow got it in my head that you were finishing up this month. I think maybe I got mixed up because we are on a quarter system here. So when is your final final?
ReplyDeleteGod, I wish I only had two or three weeks left.
ReplyDeleteMy classes run through the 1st or 2nd week of May, and I have a couple of assignments due in early May.
But before that, the real pain-in-the-butt deal will be April 10th through 18th. That is "comps week", when the final comprehensive exam for library science degree candidates is distributed. It's a take home exam, consisting of four questions. Each question requires a response that is like writing a small paper, and we have to use references. Ugh. I am so not going to enjoy that. I'm going to have to take time off work--there is no way I can get that done otherwise.
i watched the whole video. imagined you sitting at a desk and typing away. apparently, you don't get a spring break?? that comprehensive exam sounds like a real ball-buster. will be pulling for ya this next 10 weeks.
ReplyDeleteThis is totally unrelated to typewriters and Jerry Lewis. I notice you have a quote from the Verve. I have one CD of theirs. It's the one where in the inside jacket there's this burning car.
ReplyDeleteAnwyay, I used to listen to the Verve, ONLY on completely overcast days, when their music seemed to fit. Those odd chord changes and harmonies, sort of haunting, brooding, a grasping for spirituality or meaning...something. Are you a fan?
Marc,
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge Verve fan. You obviously missed my fawning blog post sometime last fall titled "Verve triptych". What makes you cool and me less so is that you used to listen to the Verve, and I only recently discovered them. I was really out of it in the 90's. I have the CD you mentioned --love the pic of the burning car. That's "A storm in heaven" and it is their coolest CD---as you said, very weird and moody chords, weird soundscapes created by trippy guitars. Very outer space-sounding to me. What's also great about their music, why I latched onto them so quickly when I finally discovered their music (through YouTube), is the spiritual nature of a lot of their lyrics.
When I heard Storm in Heaven, I was like --How the hell did I miss out on this CD? This is totally ME. Totally up my alley! Where have I been? What else have I missed out on?!!!!
Yeah, well, in the 90's I tried to keep up with the alternative music scene as much as I could. But I have totally lost touch today. And it's a whole new paradigm; there aren't any alternative radio stations I know of to help create a scene. You have to go to the Internet, which just ain't the same. There's no there there.
ReplyDeleteput yourself in a place beyond the end of school. picture it. you are there, soon
ReplyDeleteI am there. I am free. I have no more schoolwork...oops, guess I can't go to my happy place just yet. But someday soon I'm going to make a list of all the things I'm going to do with my time once my school is done. : )
ReplyDeleteMarc, it's hard to keep up. I sometimes listen to 96.5 the Buzz, which is sposed to be Alternative. It's so-so. I read the Rolling Stone, and I have found that that is a really good way to keep up. They mention bands I've never heard of, and then I look them up on YouTube or elsewhere, if they sound intriguing. Another good place to hear about weird bands is in the New Yorker--they list which bands are in town performing, and often describe their music, which clues me into far-out bands that might be worth checking out. Now if I just had time to check them out!!
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