Author: brian

instead of having finals week be monday through friday (you know, a single week), our school likes to take spring semester’s finals “week” and make it tuesday through friday, with the next monday and tuesday tacked on for kicks. isn’t that cool? well, not necessarily, but it does mean for one thing that the tests i have are more spread out and i can be more leisurely in preparing for them, and also that today, monday, no one has any finals and is free to bum around like the springtime afternoon is so fiercely trying to convince us to do. so i had lunch and kicked it with a couple of my favorite non-future-roommate guys just now and it was great. a solid three hours of quality april daytime.

[note: when i say my favorite non-future-roommates, i do not mean to imply that all roommates come first, and all non-roommates come after. without getting into any sort of intricate ranking system which would be utterly stupid, i just mean to say that it so happens that a lot of my favorite guys will be living under the same roof come august, whereas there are still some rad guys who will not, e.g. my company this afternoon.]

so i’m a big fan of lazy sunny afternoons is what i’m saying i guess, and it’s too bad i have to start memorizing the cranium sizes, dental structures, etc. of prehistoric human ancestors sometime soon for a final tomorrow (yes, it’s true, nariokatome boy does have a very modern post-cranial bone structure, which allows him to walk long distances — thanks for asking!)

it’s also too bad that being aware that the only reason you’re indignant or embarrassed is your stupid male ego still doesn’t make it any easier to just shake off the indignity or embarrasment you know is just stupid and male of you to be feeling. of course, girls all think they look fat so i guess that wouldn’t be too fun either.

so. she came home. and she’s better than i remembered, even.

and things feel wonderful.

(i’ll have something else to talk about soon i promise. this is just a very big deal and deserved it’s quite little moment.)

man, things are sure coming together. good week, this week, let me tell you. we got our house. school is almost over and the things i have left to do are very few and non-threatening. i have one job offer which i will gladly take, unless i get another even better offer (still possible at this point). and most importantly, my favorite girl in the world is coming home from a semester abroad in only 20 hours (and counting). it’s the kind of week that makes you feel like life is on your side for once.

so on the bragging-about-how-great-it-is-to-be-me-these-days tip, how about i share a similarly themed song of the week? actually, i don’t think the song is about that at all, but if you take the chorus out of context, you could get that idea. “you can’t be me i’m a rock star,” is absolutely how i’m feeling right now. so mixing it up with a little n.e.r.d. is what we’re gonna do this time for the song of the week. are you down?

this is the lovely home i found for myself and eight of my favorite guys at this university. doesn’t it look cozy? i’m so excited to move in there in august.

today was fine, actually. i got a job offer which i will probably take, unless i hear something better from someone else before friday. i may have to make a few phone calls or emails to see if i can facilitate hearing from someone else though, because i’d like to at least hear what the other offer is before i decide, and before i run out of time to decide more importantly (can’t keep offer number 1 waiting too long or they’ll change their mind).

other than that, i’m just glad class is almost over for the year. oh, and i went to a ‘networking’ function tonight that was pretty stupid and pointless (surprising, i know), other than showing us that if we want to do something, we just have to figure out a way to do it ourselves — we can’t go looking for help or advice from ‘industry professionals’. most of those types don’t have much to say outside of small talk and broad generalizations; at least, not the ones that come to university ‘networking’ barbeques. so it goes.

and if i told you i wasn’t quivering with excitement a good deal of the time, at least on the inside, at how close it is to thursday night (a very special occasion), i would be a big fat liar. i mean, who wouldn’t look forward to being in love again?

how about a new song of the week? would you like that? i bet you would.

so how about a little piebald this time around. i picked up their latest cd we’re the only friends we have at their show a couple weeks ago, and have listened to it very heavily since. i really believe that if so-called “alternative radio” got a hold of this cd, then i would have to look back on that one wonderfully fun piebald show in a half-filled chain reaction — with the band playing their hearts out, the crowd loving every minute of it, and everyone just glad to be there — as a fond memory never to be repeated, with the success they would surely enjoy. maybe i give them to much credit for this album, but it’s just so fun to listen to, especially american hearts, which is the new song of the week.

more in the morning, about interviews and princes and coffee and scientologists and hobos and telephones. sort of.