all fancy and shit

kiel: feeling a lot of things: up and down are cancelling out.
kie: my newly mini-blinded room
kio: ben folds five: she don't use jelly (cover of an early-90s rock song played lounge lizard style. it is great.)

well. raj has set up a linux box in the house and we are now online. i have some free time this week, so i decided to install movabletype and play around a bit with hosting my own weblog. no, i am not a heartless digital monster.

our server can be accessed at sarek.gotdns.org but there's really not much there yet, til we get everything set up. by the way, if you know who/what sarek is you get points. leave a comment!

thursday was the halloween party, for which i bought WAY too much beer. like $120 bucks worth. and i got $30 back in the pot. oh well. at least the mental notes pitch in for alcohol for parties. and they clean up too, that's a plus. which reminds me.

MENTAL NOTES CONCERT -- NOVEMBER 15 -- 8 PM -- BLOOMBERG

in my last weblog entry i said the 16th. it's the 15th. friday night. speaking of notes, i don't like the idea of the concert being this early in the year. true it frees up study time at the end of the semester but GREAT GOD MAN! we're doing SEVEN new songs! still, we're making great progress and the show should be musically spectacular as always (with n00b13$ prominently featured, actually). so that will be fun.

and i can't say enough about greg's arrangement of *song title*. it is just amazing. it's a really cool song, too, although (fortunately) i am unable to identify with the lyrics. :)

speaking of sarah, did you know we've been going out for two years? i don't remember if i mentioned that or not. so that's cool.

the parents were here this weekend. we went to see rumors on friday night. sweet lord almighty was that good. two for the tango alumni dave klein and tom west held large roles (it's kind of an ensemble cast, much like tango) in this neil simon farce and they were played beautifully. my hat is off to these fine gentlemen, as well as to the rest of the cast.

i'm telling you i should take 3 spanish classes next semester, graduate with a b.a. in spanish, and travel the world. screw this work stuff. actually i recently found out that after this semester i only need 28 CREDITS TO GRADUATE. this is over three semesters and will get me double majors in chem e and spanish. that makes me happy. this is of course, assuming i PASS the classes. my last thermo test was terrible, as (probably) was my kinetics test. and this semester, since i dropped spanish (gracias a Dios), i don't have the handy GPA booster that A's in 3 or even 6 spanish credits usually gets me. so basically i will have to get BETTER grades in chem e subjects than normal to maintain the same gpa, which i'd like to be BETTER anyway. sigh.

speaking of THAT, for your procrastination needs: the spring 03 course schedule is up. not that you care, but here's what i'll probably be taking (which i just decided right now):

540.304 : transport phenomena ii : ostermeier : MTW 9 (aaargh!)
540.306 : mass transfer and separation processes : betenbaugh : MTW 10, F 10:30-11:30 (freaking friday class! ugh...)
211.433 : taller el teatro en español : encinas (mar te quiero!) : MTW 12
212.484 : from manuscript to copyright and beyond: the life of medieval iberian text : altschul (that's a maybe) : Th 3-5
540.5xx : chemical engineering research : ostermeier: whenever i feel like it

that brings me to a light 16 credits. that would be pretty cool. but you know i'm gonna throw something crazy on there. maybe i'll take the f-cape and try and see if i can place into intermediate french. a bit pretentious of me, but hey. feel free to suggest fun classes, but i think if i have that much room i'd prefer to take another language.

i think it would be fun to be a linguist. what with all those words and all. maybe i'll take a cog sci class like i've been aching to do since my freshman year. hmm. none of them look very interesting. damn! latin and greek are at the same times as transport and separations. hmm... i know! i should take hebrew! should i take biblical or modern? that would be cool, but i shouldn't tell my parents.

see, my cousin went to upenn (back in the 60s) and she was pre-med. then she fell in love with this rabbi and ended up majoring in hebrew. well, she eventually got her MD, but she converted to judaism. now i think that's fine, if you want to do that go right ahead. however, she came from a family that was very catholic (we followed the teachings of Cathol...) and this did not sit well with everyone. she died a few years ago of a stroke, and one of the things that she requested (in her infinite wisdom) was that she be buried a catholic (of course her reasoning was that it would be much easier on the family.) that's janey for you. yeah but i think it would be fun to take hebrew. haha! then i could re-enact the camp david accords with parkinson and crawford.

well, that being said, i think i'll turn in. i have to update all kinds of things ere going to bed, and this was only supposed to be a short entry!!