Ooh, 2005!
I am tampering with the time and date on this, but shhhhhhhh. Gotta write something on the first of the year!
Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you all had a fabulous evening and aren't feeling too shitty today. :) 2005 already? Meaning college graduation is in less than (eek!) five months! For as much complaining as I do about it...lol. Anyway, I'm still complaining about graduation, but I'm also complaining about school in general. I'm tired of it. But I think that this semester is going to go rather fast, due to the pile of work that is already glaring at me (senior sem! agh! senior recital! agh! history class! agh! woodwind techniques! agh! oh wait...that's going to be joke. never mind). As my sister so pointed out the other day "It's funny Lauren, because your last semester of college is going to be my first semester of college!" Um. Okay. Why is that funny?? Oh well, whatever. Gotta love my sister. Umm...100 days party is almost here. I hope. :) LoL. Priorities, priorities...I am amused because we move back to school on January 16, and graduate on May 15 (mark your calendars, folks!). Hooray for graduation (boo to impending real world doom. lol)...but Themis: Congrats, you'll be graduating at the same time as me! Hooray!
As for me, yay for Dazed and Confused and Empire Records: Special Fan Remix! That's how I spent my New Years. Better than last year, but High Fidelity with Paul last year wasn't too terrible. It was the other company that wasn't so great! Mwa! I'm still not sure if I like the Empire Records Special Fan Remix. They moved around some scenes and such, and it totally threw me. Like the scene with Dire Straits' Romeo & Juliet playing in the background, with AJ trying to muster up the courage to talk to Corey, Mark hitting on the ballerina, etc was moved, and it totally threw me off! They moved it to much earlier in the film...so being a die-hard fan of Empire, I was distracted. Anyway, there's my ranting on that. It was still fun to watch with all the extra scenes added in and whatnot (but still no Tobey Maguire that I saw).
Also fun with New Year's was driving around Appleton like a maniac last night to find out that pretty much every grocery store in town closed before 10:30. What??? So an hour later...but ended up with cookie dough ice cream so all was good. And yes, I mean a maniac. Don't challenge a Milwaukee driver, yo! I may be a terrible driver in freezing rain, but it was not freezing rain last night, thank you. *evil grin*
Changing topics rather abruptly, there is a totally sweet version of Eleanor Rigby by Chick Corea. I highly recommend it. Jazz meets the Beatles? Awesome. Speaking of Beatles arrangements, a few years back (or maybe many years back?) Sonja mentioned at one point of having a recording of an arrangement of Beatles music with an oboe??? I must locate said recording. Beatles meets the oboe? Nothing better (unless it's cheesy. in which case DIE).
There are some things in life that make me smile, and giggle, and blush. Certain things *cough - emails - cough* make me do that.
Alas, it's not really 11:48...it's almost 4am. Don't ask what I'm still doing up. But I'm going to bed now. Happy 2005!!!

- posted by L. @ 11:48 AM