Thursday, Feb 26:
What a rotten Psych mid-term. I hate multiple choice questions where you have to be sure on 2 different facts to get the one mark and only knowing 1 means zero. I thought .5 was supposed to round up to 1, ya bastards!! That’s what we learned in Math anyway. I didn’t study nearly as much as I should have.. but I thought I knew much of the stuff the questions involved, just crazy ass wording and stuff I couldn’t remember that could’ve been BS but I wasn’t ready to discount because I didn’t think I knew the material well enough. It got to the point where even the questions I should have been sure about, I was really unconfident about. I guess it’s multiple choice, so things might work out in my favour, but Eeeeee. Well that was the bad stuff, I just had to get out of the way. Now onto the good.
To balance out any bad marks I might be worried about getting… I got 87% on my Film midterm, which ain’t too shabby, I mean sure I would’ve been disappointed with that mark in high school, but here that’s enough to definitely brighten one’s day. Then, after a CMST tutorial where my T.A. had already affirmed that he is super cool by just being generally interesting, humorous and impressively skilled at summarizing long bits of articles very briefly in a meaning-based instead of content-based manner, I got my essay outline that was due 15% of my mark back. 15/15! 100%!! Soooo happy with that. I mean, I had no idea if mine was good or bad or what, but I guess it’s a good one. I wasn’t even sure if they were allowed to give out perfect marks on big projects like that, and for me to be the recipient? thrilling! Haven’t gotten my comp lit essay back, I might have if I had gone to tutorial but I was sleeping after a rather late night of studying.
In more geeky news, I finally got a rip of Fear of a Black Hat! (really funny movie, basically Spinal Tap about the rap industry). See I’d been trying, encouraged by Ronnie who was really keen to see it, to download it on soulseek for almost a month. Not the commonest thing online… being a fairly obscure 10 year old movie and all. But one guy had it and pretty much no one else. The problem was, he was a rather pretentious fellow who refused to let me get up in the queue. Perhaps it was presumptuous of me to ask, but I mean I was trying to get something that wasn’t available anywhere else, and I share more than 15000 files and allow far more downloading from me than most people, and am polite and help people if they have problems getting my files, and add people if they ask… I thought it could be one of those karmic balance things. So much for that though. This dude was like “sorry you don’t have anything I want. I only trade” and then he intimated that he didn’t even look at my stuff because he has “better sources”. So basically I could never get to the front of thi guys queue because otehr people would get in front of me, or my computer would fuck up and I’d go back to the beginning. But that was last week. And this is a good week. So… this week I found another guy with it, sent him a message thanking him, then he unshared his movies, but he asked me what I was trying to get, and I told him, so he put it back up for me. Such common decency feels so maximized when it shines against pretentious bitches like that other dude! Thus my faith in humanity is restored, plus I have Fear of a Black Hat to watch, and I also had luck trying to get Spinal Tap as well, which until I put it there yesterday was curiously and unacceptably absent from campus filesharing. So that’s good.
Jared made a very lovely flash animation ad for our play. It’s available here, and if you see that and don’t want to see the play, well there’s really no hope for you. Before rehearsal last night I was feeling a fair bit more stress and anxiety than I’m used to. Partially the impending midterm test that I had very little time to study for, largely due to said rehearsal, and also because I was rather inexplicably freaking out about choosing my major for next year. But rehearsal was so damn fun, I pretty much forgot all my woes. We have so much energy, and the cast is each and every one of them very great, it’s a great joy to be a part of. It’s really coming together I think, though everyone keeps cracking up on stage when things go wrong, or when things go right; it’s a very vibrant experience. We all love working on it and think it’s hilarious, though sometimes I wonder if it will all be lost on the audience. I hope not. After the rehearsal last night I was so pumped it was a little hard to calm down and study.
So today, I had to go grab some insulin before going to dreaded English class. I was a bit late getting to the pharmacy and they told me it would take 15 minutes to process, which would make me late for class, but I didn’t care too much. So I wandered around the student centre for a bit, and ran into Crystal who was in Gut Girls with me; we talked about people trying to get in touch with her for a bit because she’s also to be an ASM on Lysistrata, and then someone from those display tables that always fill up the MUSC announced a “sub-eating contest”. Intrigued, Crystal inquired as to the nature of this occasion. Basically, they gave us a free subway sub combo (with drink and fries) and whoever managed to eat the sub fastest would get to keep a nice big mug or a ball-cap (all with the CH logo). Crystal’s friend declined, but as far as I was concerned it seemed an awful lot like what is referred to as a “win-win situation”. So we gobbled down the 12″ subs really fricking fast. It took six or seven minutes in the end, though no one was actually timing… I dunno how fast that sounds, but I will tell you it’s pretty fast. We were practically tied almost the whole way through, but I ended up swallowing my last mouthful before she swallowed hers. It was very intense, and how exciting! They let Crystal have a prize, too, which was very gentle and benevolent of them, and then they made us hang around so they could get a picture of the participants (god, and the photographer, only knows what they plan to do with the picture and how much mustard was on my face). So I was very late for class, but big deal man.. free lunch! free mug! free fun! good times!
Tonight I’m going to see Jesus Christ Superstar with Mau.. that’s the play that forced Erin to stay here and slave away her reading week. I am sure it will be a funtastic experience. So that’s another thing to be happy about.
And tomorrow… Kevin is coming up to visit me from ole London, and we are going to see Max Graham DJ at the Sole Nightclub. Now that he’s out earning 20 bucks an hour it will be nice for him to have a small experience of Rez life, and it will be lovely to see him, and Max Graham will of course be fantastic. He plays such a lovely style of music… trance-like but not cheesy and lame, melodic but with a heavy beat that you can move to, and still gritty sounding. Just hope it’s not some greasy ass club like the last one. I’m sure it will be awesome though. and now, to top everything off, it’s the weekend!!
OH yeah.. and it feels like spring outside! and that’s fuckin sweet! ya gotta love it.