- Fall quarter’s over. Wooooo, winter break! I think I came short of dominating my classes, which makes me a little sad. But that’s life: a little sad. And short of dominating my classes.
- I’m feeling a bit of regret about blowing all my cash. Hopefully the feeling goes away soon.
- Stanford women’s volleyball is dominating much unlike my fantasy basketball team. Two rounds done in the tourney so far. Will they make it to the finals and win this year?
- My fantasy basketball team is terrible with a capital ‘T’. It’s Terrible. And also pretty much unfixable.
- I should figure out something to do during break. Aside from a vacation, I have no plans for much of it.
- I rediscovered Sigur Ros this past week. Their music is pretty sweet.
- It’s really bugging me that I can’t figure out which Victoria’s Secret catalog(s) Famke Janssen’s in. What good is the internets if such a query is so hard to find?
Thanksgiving Break
A hodgepodge of updates for the week-long Thanksgiving break that we have. Mainly I don’t want to start on this Stats 315A problem set, which looks on the other side of impossible.
1) I’ve been catching up on Battlestar Galactica. Just finished season 3 and Razor, and going to start season 4 soon. This show is so serious and melodramatic. It’s pretty good, even though I think the twist at the end of season 3 is a bit over the edge. Here’s to hoping that the series ends well, and doesn’t degenerate into something Matrix Revolutions-like.
2) Polina Semionova is on the cover of Pointe magazine! I guess being the premier ballerina in Germany, this was statistically bound to happen at some point. But it’s pretty cool anyway.
3) Saw Hilary Hahn play Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto tonight, and I wasn’t all that impressed. Her technique is crystalline as always, but she still seems very icey. There’s just some emotionality that seems lacking. I’m not sure if we were all just spoiled by Perlman, but something in terms of heart is definitely lacking.
4) I might actually finish Society of Mind this week. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to read this book, but I’ll be glad when I’m done. Not that it’s not interesting or a good read, but there are other things I want to read, and it’s been an albatross around my neck in terms of casual reading. Though not nearly as bad as The Divine Comedy, which took forever and a half to finish.
5) My fantasy basketball team sucks. Hopefully Deron Williams is back for good. That would be a bright spot in an otherwise murky situation.
6) I’m still struggling to find out what is “greatest good,” in terms of what I should do with my life. I’ve never felt like I’ve had much of a calling in life, which is nice in terms of having the freedom to explore many things, but is bad in that I am beginning to feel that I am wasting a significant part of my productive years searching instead of doing. Even after this master’s program, I doubt I’ll be any closer to finding out what it is that I should be doing.
Things on my mind
- I feel like I’m the only one who thought the new Bond movie was kind of bad. Unimpressive cinematography, terrible plot. I just don’t get it. James Bond isn’t Jason Bourne. Why are they trying to make him a gritty action hero?
- Got the Big Game ticket. Can we win Big Game this year? Cal’s pretty bad, so I think we have a chance.
- Next weekend has the last home games for women’s volleyball, the second of which is the same day as Big Game. The logistics of next weekend will be quite tough.
- I think I’m burned out from too much statistics.
- Lots of people walk the dish foothills loop. I think it looks a lot better at night.
- I still have no idea what I’m going to do after school, or during the summer for that matter.
- I really wish I could write better. Gigantic mental block.
- Still really want that ipod touch skin.
- Still totally crushing on Marit Larsen like a 2-liter bottle of orange soda.