Snow and things

There's something...right...about walking in snow. It's a wonderful feeling - the slight compression under the feet, the absolute silence. It's peaceful, purifying. I also have listened to softish acousticy/countryish music walking back to ML from campus both nights - Mark Knopfler's Ragpicker's Dream on Thursday and Lucinda Williams's Essence tonight. Very peaceful and relaxing. Have I mentioned I really like snow?

Afterlife was very good in a very different way. Very slice of lifeish, showing these people and their memories. Not the sort of afterlife I'd want - I don't remember that way. I remember things in bits and pieces, not in whole scenes. During the movie I tried thinking back as far as I could. I remember my kindergarden teacher calling rubber bands "elastics" and telling us we couldn't call them that, but she could because she was from Rhode Island. And I remember scooters in preschool with Christian (I think his name was) and the grid of the tiles on the floor being the center city street grid. I have a few other memories of preschool - the room with the children books, and (I think) walking down to the bathroom everyday to drain the "juice" out of the yogurt that was part of my lunch.

Dead White Men #3

Pezel - Intrada
     Canadian Brass
Palestrina - Assumpta est Maria
     The Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips)
Monteverdi - Possente Spirito
             Orfeo son lo
             (from L'Orfeo)
     Nigel Rogers, Orfeo
     Chiaroscuro (Nigel Rogers)
     London Baroque (Charles Medlan)
     London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble (Theresa Caudle)
John Taverner - Mass "The Western Wind"
     The Choir of King's College (Sir David Wilcocks)
Giovanni Bassano - Hodie Christus natus est
     The Monteverdi Choir (John Eliot Gardner)
William Byrd - Ave Verum Corpus
     The Choir of King's College (Sir David Wilcocks)
Felice Anerio - Venite ad me omnes
     Choir of Westminster Abbey (Simon Preston)

Am I a horrible person...

...for doing this? (look in the comments)

In Which Mark Recounts All of the Things Physically Wrong with Him

Around 9, during Wind Ensemble, my back started acting up. Let's just say it hurt. A lot. I think the tylenol has whipped it into shape, but we'll see how well it holds up.

I should sleep more.

Cancelled my doctor's appointment. Rescheduled for next week. Didn't feel like driving in the snow.

Generally didn't do as well today on the cup drill as I did yesterday, but my third rep was pretty good. I suspect I threw my ankle a little out of whack power-walking up to campus in order to get to Underhill in time to get CDs/vinyl for the radio show.

Haircut over break. Don't let me put this off.

My throat still tickles. I suspect it's beceause I just shredded it with a sneeze that got caught back there. I'll recover.

I'm better off than this list makes it seem. No need to worry.

300!

This is my 300th post. I'm celebrating with statistics. It took me 1304 days to get here, or an average of a post every 4.34667 days. I posted twice as many times last month as any other month. 2/1/05 was the day I posted the most, posting 6 times. Counting this post, I've posted as many or more times today than I did in 8 months in which I posted. Counting this post, I've posted as many times today as I did in the year starting August '02.

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