"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
--Roger Ascham

10.04.2002

Watching... Bridget Jones's Diary
Feeling... excellent

The orchestra concert went really well, I think. Very very good. Also, amaretto sour is very very good. I have to get started on some work tonight, but there's nothing wrong with a little non-work to start me off, right? Here's the Friday Five:

1. What size shoe do you wear?
Women's 9 ~ 9.5
2. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
At school, I have maybe ten pairs. At home, there's a mountain of shoes that may possibly still fit.

3. What type of shoe do you prefer (boots, sneakers, pumps, etc.)?
No shoes is my preference.

4. Describe your favorite pair of shoes. Why are they your favorite?
My Kmart knock-off Adidas. They are sooooo comfortable and never once rubbed holes in my feet. Unfortunately, I love them so much I won't wear them anymore (they're too old, and I would be sad if something happened to them).

5. What's the most you've spent on one pair of shoes?
Probably around $75 on some tennis shoes. I never spend much on non-tennis shoes and my penchant for Adidas and Sketchers is a wee bit expensive.

10.01.2002

Watching... Gilmore Girls
Feeling... good

I love the Gilmore Girls. It's so funny. I would also like to say that I made an excellent dinner tonight. It was filling and included most food groups. Yes, it was my usual bachelor-burrito, but I threw in enough things that it was nice. And I feel a little gourmet and wanted to share.

9.29.2002

Listening to... Here's Where the Story Ends by The Sundays
Feeling... like I need to get down to business

I have so much work to do! I have a quick addendum to my Friday Five... I also tidy up my room when I need to relax. It's not that I find cleaning relaxing per se, it's more that extreme clutter is stressful to me. It's a healthy way to procrastinate, I think. While I was home this weekend, I finally paid a visit to the Book Sale place that's been there for a while. I guess they have low over head, so the books are overstocks and very cheap. I got four books that are of questionable entertainment value. I tried to pick Victorian looking novels (which is my passion second to Austen). I got...
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Castle Rackrent and The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

I've read Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and liked it (unlike all of my classmates). I don't know that any of these are Victorian, or will even be interesting; but the whole lot of them cost $12, so I figure if even one is good, it's probably worth it to have the options. I guess I'll just knock out Silas Marner and maybe Jane Eyre, then dig in to the new stuff.