the blog that wasn't

kiel: full...

kie: silk road express/mattin center cyber cafe

kio: some crazy weird contemporary asian music

well i'm giving in to peer pressure again.  apparently people need one more thing to do besides homework.  i really should update more often.

anyway i'm here in silk road waiting for rehearsal (i gotta start putting more random links in here) to start, so i figured i may as well hit the blog.  besides it's raining and i don't feel like going all the way home then back in the next 40 minutes or so.

so when we last left our hero, he was doing a lab report for pchem that prominently featured phallic molecular kinetics of nitric oxide oxidation.  what's happened since then?  well, october happened.

i've been going through the month seeing humourous things to scan or take pictures of and post.  then i forget about them and they are lost forever. oh well.

well i was in oklahoma two weekends ago.  the first show went okay (not spectacular).  see i'd never been miked before so i didn't really know what to do with it.  right during the first scene when i ran out it came off my pants and was dangling inside my tucked-in shirt (the tuck of which was also barely hanging on).  so i'm there singing kansas city (where everything's up to date) and it falls out of my shirt.  luckily i put it in my pocket (rather discreetly i thought) and things continued smoothly, although i was really distracted and was kind of aloof.  the rest of the show went okay, i biffed like 3478 lines, but all in all a good show. 

sunday's show was rather different.  i was also waiting tables this day so my life became twice as stressful.  and the customers.  DON'T get me started on the customers.  old people can be so mean..... some of them liked me and some were just very very cranky and some of them, well, had no idea where they were.  anyway, dave and michelle and jess showed up to see me, as did neal so that was very very very cool. the show went ok except they had to cut one of my songs because our ado annie had no voice.  oh well.

neal came back and then we went to ben folds that night.  wow.  that was so cool.  if the ben folds and a piano live tour comes anywhere near you, GO TO THE CONCERT.  trust me, it's awesome.

so last week i managed to avoid the "thursday all-nighter" which has become a kind of tradition in the last three weeks.  yuck.  this of course keeps me from going to biochem on thursday (because of work) and friday (because i'm comatose).  basically by the time exam time rolled around i had been to two biochem classes out of 10 for the material on the exam.  yeah.

(trivium: on the last biochem exam i had been to 3/4 of the classes and i got a 75 on the test)

so i basically crammed the night before (yay for great study habits), and i ended up getting a 74.5 on this one (avg: 71.8).  so honestly, not that bad of a grade (still not good, it's a solid B).  i kind of wish i had done worse so i'd learn my lesson.  maybe i'm just a really good guesser.

before getting grade back:
tom (to pete): maybe i'll just luck out (leaves)
pete (to kelly): knowing him, he'll luck out.

i know i can't rely on my apparent sponge tendencies for long, however.  i think i need to face the fact that i have terrible study habits.  and in a place like this, how smart you are really comes second to how well you study.  speaking of that i found an interesting link from neil (with an i)'s profile.

now i don't know this kid, but personally i think that this achievement is not necessarily a testament to his personal genius (although that probably is a factor) but rather to his tremendous study habits.  also, it proves that ivy league classes are total bull shit.  can you imagine taking 60 credits at hopkins or mit and having a 3.99?  *scoff*

anyway, i guess i better get to rehearsal.  more to come later tonight, i promise!