Bummin'

Bad news. It turns out that I have a calf muscle strain. Bummer. It hurts enough that it prevents me from taking a full step with my left foot. That will put a dampening on my practice participation. Enough about that.

There are these two girls in my Chinese discussion that just drive me nuts. One of them has the wooooooorrrrrrsssstttt American accent. It literally gives me a headache. Now, I understand that different people have different levels of language-acquisition skill. All languages have nuances of pronunciation. I also understand that some people can't decipher well between very similar sounds. Fine. But could you, at least, try not to beat the spoken Chinese language to death with an American flag? Now, the other girl....I don't even know what to say. She doesn't know words. That's it. I don't know how she passed the first semester of Chinese. When we have to read texts in class, she gets (maybe) one out of every 10 or 11 words. Some people are bad, but I don't know how you could be THAT bad.

On a similar note, there are two girls in my Computer Science lecture that also happen to drive me absolutely insane. Both of them are PSEO kids; let me just preface with that. But they always sit together and talk about everything the professor covers in lecture, which would be fine. BUT, they are so goddamn loud. Seriously. Can you whisper. Is your body capable of that? I don't care if you don't get the material. That's not my problem. But, I shouldn't have to hear it when I am on the opposite side of the room. This is me wanting to punch you in the face -___-

A quick departure from the complaints. I've been feeling rather eclectic lately in regards to my musical tastes. There are two excellent pieces of orchestral music that have been growing on me: Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring", which was originally written as a ballet and which caused riots in Paris when it debut, and Gustav Holst's "The Planets". Aside from that, I've been listening to a lot of Scottish folk music, principally by Jim Malcolm. But, some of the stuff is much older music. And lastly, good old 1960's rock music (The Zombies, The Beatles, The Monkees, The Yardbirds, The Who, etc.).

Have a good one