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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
8:16 am	Sound and dreams Sound and dreams Dreams from last night were varied and some of them classify as good dreams and some as bad dreams. The bad dreams had the theme of: I was going to my med-surg class and for some reason had not done this project that I had supposed to have done. It involved a poster presentation (one of those massive three-ply poster boards that prop themselves up because of their three-ply-ness), and something else, maybe an exam. I had my sharpies with me and was going to try to whip up the poster right then and there but realized that there was no way it was going to happen so I just left class and went home. These bad dreams happened later on in the night I guess – I was having them when I woke up at about 5am and had to go piss. I went back to bed trying to clear my head cause ya know that if ya don’t sometimes you just continue the same dream. Well, the dream slightly changed – but the theme was pretty much the same. dreams that classify as good dreams: Also, I was at school and Clay Aiken was there – except he looked way different from how he looks on TV. Apparently he was over everyone saying that he was gay – his hair was long and gray – not in a pony tail or anything – just sort of hanging there in that bowlish shape going to his shoulders – kinda like a hippie in his late 40’s – except he was his actual age and looked it in his face. No one recognized him at first cause he didn’t look right for what everyone’s used to. Razz/Jeremy was friends with him in this dream – and they went down the hallway talking when Clay suddenly had an Embolic Stroke and died. I didn’t see this happen, but heard that he was getting all puffy and something about his penis (which doesn’t normally happen in a stroke), he was apparently getting a weird erection. There were a bunch of other school students around – not from nursing, but other majors, and they all freaked out at the sight of this and ran away. On the other end of the spectrum – the nursing students (including myself) rushed to the scene because of our great interest in this kind of stuff – one of the deans of nursing noted how nursing students rush in to see what’s going on in situations like this when other people run away. When I got over there, Clay was bloated like a balloon and his junk was kind of erected but the “head” was dark bluish. I was talking to someone later – or observing a conversation later (ya know how dreams go), about how the clot was affecting him prior to the stroke – and wondering if he could remember the last few moments. He had passed me and one of my friends when walking down the hallway with Razz, so I was one of the last few people that he had seen right before he died. I told Razz (and anyone else who was concerned) that Clay had already made it to the other side and that he was good in that, and that he was happy and peaced out. there were other bits and pieces of dreams that I don’t remember enough of to type about. Onto the non-dream reality: Yesterday Mom came over to visit Momaw and run around and Daniel came with her. This was really cool – cause I had asked mom to bring me some blank-burnable CD’s from my room but she wasn’t very good at it (she brought me one CD that already had stuff on it). I talked to Daniel before they came over and he decided to give me the rest of his blank CD’s and I gave him some CD’s I didn’t want (he’s gonna decorate his wall with them, it sounds killer). I also asked him to find my audio 1/8 inch to ¼ inch audio adaptor and he found it. I had brought the high quality one with me from home, but it screws onto things and I was trying to hook up a subwoofer and other little speakers to the Yamaha and there wasn’t a place to screw it on. He mighta brought me something else I dunno. This is cool: Daniel’s started carrying around a little pocket notebook like me except it was spiral bound. He saw my little composition pocket notebooks so we went to walmart and he got one. We came back to Momaw’s as Mom and Momaw were running around in the Jeep, and Daniel helped me out with changing the look of my Myspace. In other news – I found out how to control the sound settings of stuff using Window’s Media Player – instead of just the computer audio controls and stuff like that. That’s one of my current things. It has an SRS setting with WOW – and also a graphic equalizer so I’ve been messing around with all that. I like to change everything around for each individual song, and it also depends on whether the music is recorded live or album material. I think I was listening to Caught a Lite Sneeze from Tori Amos’ Boys for Pele album last night, and using the SRS with it was incredible, you hear things you’ve never heard before. The strings were amazing. I don’t know much about this stuff yet – please give me lots of info, those who do know – but turning up the WOW seemed to increase the separation of the different musical parts going on. For example, turning up the WOW in that song would increase the separation between the strings and the harpsichord – so you could really pick out each individually, and that’s something I really like doing. Messing around with the settings while listening to The Beekeeper from Tori Amos’ The Beekeeper album really let you hear the B3 Hammond organ moreso than before – which was really coold. So, it turns out that Liquid Fire really wasn’t birthed previously as originally hypothesized – I could feel the labor coming on a few days ago, and mostly new lyrics came on Monday and Tuesday. The title is now Black Blossoms. Today I start studying for the Med-surg exam that’s happening next Tuesday – and sometime this evening I’m supposed to meet up with my case-study group so we can piece together our paper and make any fine adjustments. Tomorrow I’m to go to Granny’s and Deb’s coming over and we’re gonna re-highlight my hair. God is love, Curtis (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
10:50 am	myspace is good So, myspace is great. I've met some really cool people on here and it lets me keep in contact with friends I'd have a hard time keeping in contact with otherwise. My springbreak's going well. I found copyright info. As it turns out, I was totally correct in that as soon as you create something and write it or record it, it's copyrighted to you. You do not even have to put down the little copyright symbol and all that stuff. You don't have to defend the copyright like you would a trademark. Enjoy this treasuretrove of copyright data: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html Much love, Curtis (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
1:09 pm	about uploading songs Currently, I'm not expecting to be uploading any songs until I have quite a few songs that I feel are album-material. Also, I need to know all copyright-related data concerning putting music up on MySpace. If anyone has the low-down on copyrights and all their little nuances, please fill me in. Much love, Curtis Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Monday, March 13th, 2006
9:28 am	Garlands "Garlands" lyrics by Tori Amos "The Winged Painter is on uptown" I said "Will you meet me to go..." Washington Square I'm racing there to get you at Noon, oh the Nocturne noon... Isabella on the way there stops me (I say) I can't stay today - I'm off in flight Towards Another Light. Rest. Youth. Washington Square, I meet you there and we go. now He's on the run He's on the run From this walking Greeting Card and Chloe's Kiss, The Wolf PIt, The Wine Harvest, and Phileda's Lesson - We're not his possession. in Winter, Trampled flowers in Winter Lovers, Circus, these Garlands - The Blue Pirouette, The Marriage, The Mimosas, Black Sun Over Paris... these Garlands - The Little Swallow, St. Paul from the Window, from the 1/2 open window. Eve incurs God's displeasure. Passion. Odysseus and Penelope, Ulysses and Penelope, The Festival In Hell. in Winter, The Winged Painter, The Winged Painter, Washington Square - Let's go see a Day in May from The Winged Painter. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
10:47 pm	We'll see how fast you'll be writing Well, I made a myspace music thing but haven't really done anything to it yet. I don't know if I'll do anything to it, but at least it's up there now. Feel free to add it - it's 2nd on my top 8! I won't be putting any music up until I have an extreme knowledge of copyright stuff - if anyone has an extreme knowledge of copyright stuff please fill me in. I also prob won't be putting anything up until I have a bunch of songs. Right now there's only one completed song that I feel I would be comfortable putting on an album - "Past Time" (originally entitled "Lone Onmyoji"). I also have about 3 other songs with lyrics -"liquid fire"; "dry ice"; "go with her" - but I think they may still be a work in process. I find that it can be very frustrating to sit down and let the bits and pieces of these songs flow through me as they tell me how they are going to fall together, but not going ahead and being born. It's tempting to just say 'this song is finished, that makes 3 completed songs!' but I'm finding that's not the way it's going. I can't tell them what to do, I'm a Tube for God. I'm starting to see the difference between actual musicians that serve the music and just people who do the music. It's like the difference between doing someone and serving someone. There's a lot of people out there that do the music right now so I'm glad I'm someone that serves the music. It looks like I'm going to re-write the lyrics for "Liquid Fire" and currently her new title is "Liquid". I think "Dry Ice" is pretty much there except for the bridge, but I could be totally wrong, they like to surprise me. One thing with "Dry Ice" that's kinda throwing me is that of the lyrical content. This definately seems to be the most delicate part of the song-birthing process. The music just comes - and the lyrics do to, I just have to get myself where the song wants me to be. With "Past Time" it was quite simply an unpleasant process when it came to writing the lyrics. It mostly had to do with the fact that I wanted - perhaps even blood lusted after having at least "1" completed song. I think that was what made it so uncomfortable - that weird ass pressure. I spent a lot of time with "Past Time" musically and did lots of acrobatics to ensure that I was getting the right lyrics. I think I'm going to go back to that acrobatics approach for the rest of the lyrics for the other songs. As in, looking around my room and having things call out to me. Lots of different objects presented themselves to be used as lyrics for "Past Time". The "Dry Ice" lyrics did seem to come a lot easier, but I didn't do the acrobatics approach - so maybe I will be rewriting them - I'll just stand back and see what the song does - they seem to fix themselves when left alone. I think what will end up happening I'll get the music for a whole bunch of songs and then get the lyrics for the songs. That seems to be happening now as I have music for (proto-titles) 'butterfly song' and 'abandoned mansion'. I just got the first peice of 'abandoned mansion' last night. ---- In other news, I saw Brokeback Mountain and it was sad - one very memorable quote from the jack twist character though. I still haven't read any of the Silvia Browne or Spirituality for Dummies books that I got like 2 weeks ago. Tomorrow is my first day preplanning for our Med-Surg clinicals in the SICU at Cabell - I think it will be fun - we're being paired up and I'm excited. We didn't have clinical last week but we did have a 'missed clinical assignment' that's due on thursday - I'm currently at marshall (tuesday 10:43pm) because I've been working on it. I need a book for it though and none of the bookstores had it so the stadium bookstore is ordering it for me (it should be here thursday - the day the assignment's due, lol). I hope everyone's week is going freaking incredibly well. Shout out to Adam. Much love, Curtis Current Mood: artistic (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
6:49 am	almost time for the 3rd exam this thing’s long and kinda boring so ur warned. Well, I didn’t sleep tonight and that’s a good thing. I slept approximately 26-27 hours between Thursday night and Saturday morning. Like whoa, I know. What a fun sleep schedule I have! ehh, it makes for interesting things – life is good. I thought about going out dancing Saturday night, but decided not to do so. recap of last week Monday – whatever, pretended to be studying for exam 3 in 2nd semester nur med surg. Tuesday – went to Med-surg and made plans to begin memorizing ecg rhythms on the sheet in our syllabus. Wednessday – woke up late – at about 1:45pm! This is not cool on wednessdays as I need to devote the ENTIRE day to preplanning for clinical on thurday. I managed to get to cabell a little after 4 – got somewhat organized and started the pre-planning extravaganza. Thursday – got up at about 5:30am and went to drinko to print off my pre-planning stuff I’d typed at home. Clinical from 8-noon went very well, I got a special complement from my instructor cause one of the pt’s had said ‘thank you’ to me and apparently I was the first person she’d thanked the entire time she’d been there so that meant I had been all polite n stuff – that’s cool. went home and took a nap went to nur family and took an exam came home Friday – got up at like 1-something pm – went to drinko but didn’t arrive till about 4:40 – I thought it was open till 7pm on Fridays but nope, only 5. Here we are on Saturday: Got up at (you guessed it) 1pm went to drinko for a little while got home and studied more ecg rhythms decided to do stuff – called around and didn’t get anybody cept one went to borders and got a new sylvia browne book (YAY!!!) and met david there came home and we hung out with daniel and jon – good times now everyone’s asleep and I’m still up about to eat some raisin bran. *goes to get raisin bran* in other news “dry ice!” is almost finished so that’s pretty cool. I’m off to go study some more this post didn’t get posted when it was supposed to so now it’s like 4:30pm Sunday – thinking about napping now. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
1:10 am	All is One, Spiritual Person Another semester, and the light at the end of the tunnel has turned into something different. It is no longer the brightest thing there is - being to me before as something so far away, it is now a different place on the chess board of joy and somewhere Curto is heading, but during the trip there are so many other lights - several of them right here right now at the time, everytime. "The LORD is my light and my salvation..." -Psalms 27:1- There are butterflies everywhere right now. Some book I have to read for Nursing family has 'butterfly' in the title and a picture of a butterfly on the cover. Then we have "Sleeps with Butterflies" from Tori's new album that has made an appearance recently. One of those fun little 'enter your birthday things' popped out "Butterfly" as my power symbol (and also "February" as my power month). There is an element of a sonic girl that showed up several months ago with a feeling of "butterfly" attached to the element. We have to make a creative project about the Nursing family 'butterfly' book so maybe that girl will be birthed before then and she will be what I present for the project. I'm finished with my pre-planning for today's clinical (as it's now Thursday, according to the time) but I'm still up so I decided to type up an entry. Pre-planning has become a joy - there's no trick to it though. I'm reminded of when I enjoyed my chemistry classes. The quality of my nursing work has been kicked up a notch. God is Love, Curto (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
12:52 pm	pretty cool, very accurate check this out http://www.crush007.com/love.cgi?id=1136044322dde (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 9th, 2005
12:50 pm	Funnerstuff and Finals So the semester's pretty much over. I just took the last final for OB, all I have left to do is the practice test thing on the NClex program and keep on trying until I get at least an 850 - then I e-mail those results to Debby. Now I'm setting goals - the girls are making me do it. I don't know how many, but songs will be written over the break. I already told my OB instructor (Debby - not to be confused with Aunt Debby) that I was writing a 'pelvis song' inspired by her class and that I would e-mail her the file of the song when a file's ready. I found a fairly good recording of my first song - previously entitled "Lone Onmyoji" - on my computer a few days ago - alas, it still has that unregistered N-track *chimechimechime* about every 45 seconds throughout the recording. That's just stupid. HERE'S SOMETHING PEOPLE CAN HELP ME WITH - I'm sure there's a way to just record through a mic directly into your computer without using one of those programs designed specifically for home music recording. Does anyone know how to do that - and where it could be accessed on windows. This way I could record and put onto CD or e-mail as files without the *chimechimechime*. The Yamaha Uprights in Smith (or at least the yamahas there that I've played) have a muffled component to their tone. It is different - at first I didn't think that I liked it but now I just think that it's different. One of my childhood friends from esquire is in the nursing program and I didn't know it until just the other day! very cool - she's getting married to one of my cousins - matt chapman - and she has a baby grand that I might be able to go and play sometime. She lives like 1/2 mile away from my house. So, OB had poster presentations on Wednessday 11-30-2005 at cabell. Here are some cool pictures This is me with my poster - you can see a little of my hands on interaction stuff at the bottom of the pic! These are some peeps from the pt. pleasant classes - I'd never met them before. They were right across from my poster and we talked bunches. That's Mrs. Robinson on the left. She was my clinical instructor for Mother/Baby and she is cool. This is our awesome group pic taken at Cabell after the presentation. There's Debby in the front middle - she freakin rocks! I have loved my classes this semester! much love, Curto Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Tori (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
11:14 pm	yo a single thought is panging through my head from the phone call that just ended on my bed. and now my head that hurts has blossomed ease in a time when I haven’t had to add the please. this second call has ended in my chair and now I sit running fingers through my hair. it was found then lost again in this holy land comprised of sin. the dizzyness that chased me down for hours now in my aether mound has shifted twice in 10 minutes time into hellish guilt I’ve claimed as mine. for years now my armor has been this and that but that has past and now my core is shining strong Liquid Fire penetrates the throng and now I watch her do her thing she will do this and claim a king but transformation sought me out in lusty whispers and the occasional shout. to bring to another place me to me, face to face to this era when love and action meld this Flare knows ‘only action’ failed. the prophetess sings that thing to her it is time to be The Beekeeper so God has led me to this and that and Privia, yes, that’s a fact and Ivory in plastic form to help them heal where they have torn. in those days they sing along on horses whose gallops ride the song past Dim’s army – it’s standing still they choose to ride and not to kill. and those nights when I touch his face All is Love unlocks a grace and, yes, my fears begin to melt Everytime your soul is felt. so take me to another place me to you, face to face by Curtis Chapman (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
10:07 am	Check this out. An Evening in Rome With a Painter and My Musician. By David France I watched an old painter paint. He was good. The bristles of the brush flowed like a breeze on a warm summer night. The paint gave the white canvas justice and much needed life. The colors he used were cold and not bright just like the story of that sad painters life… I asked the painter why he was so sad and he replied, “My child this art is only an expression of my soul, to fill the void of a deep dark hole. Go unto the world my child, when a vast beauty has taken your breath you will know all that is left is the beauty before you…. That night I watched a musician play. He was amazing The sound of the piano melted my shell. I was filled with unimaginable beauty and a great sadness. I was a mere mortal not meant to hear the music of the heavens. I listened and I appreciated him, appreciated what he had given me. That night I was given the greatest gift short of a love spell, I was given sheer beauty. My eyes were closed and so were his but the eyes of our two souls were wide open, and it was at that point I realized, We were one soul in two bodies. I heard the music fade and I knew what was before me…. Beauty, and… “David, Get up! You are going to be late! Alright, mom. (Comment on this)
10:05 am	yay it's thanksgiving break i think Wow – dreams last night. There was a way to clone and make little babies of yourself – in the dream babies were different – they were kinda like little rubbery jumping creatures. They were really tiny – mine got loose and it was really hard to catch – I think somehow it ended up in my mouth and I accidentally ate it. another dream I was on this journey back home and I came upon this area that had become a desert. I got up on this ledge and told the people they should move out of the dried up river. I said “let there be water” and there were these huge influxes of waves and the river wasn’t dry anymore haha. I had a bunch of other dreams too lol So I’m pretty sure I’m in my thanksgiving break now and that is very cool. Today I’ll be sweeping the house and journeying out for a little while for varyous tasks. This week has been cool – yesterday I successfully (I think…) APA-ified my OB paper. Yesterday I really listened to “Hail To The Theif” –Radiohead- and I love it. Current Mood: happy Current Music: "Pretty Hate Machine" -Nine Inch Nails- (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
12:35 pm	gotta love dancing Last weekend was great. Well, Friday I didn't do anything - I didn't even go to the typical borders/ihop - mostly just cause I didn't want to. I've propositioned the "let's start this thing at 7PM as opposed to 10-11PM that way we'll have more time and we won't be doin' our stuff in the middle of the night". This proposition was mostly met with 'huh, that could work' and 'what about razz' - and I might mention that razz has been absent for like ever now. Speaking of razz, I sent him this myspace bitchslap message: From: Curto Date: Oct 31, 2005 8:14 AM mr dazzle has dissappeared off the face of the planet and has inconsiderately not responded to any of my communication attempts in prob about a month bitch slap I recieved this response from Razz: Nov 1, 2005 3:46 PM I apologize, good sir. Computer gaming and a resurgence in partying have monopolized my time lately. I will make an effort to be seen in the future, in an attempt to avoid any further bitch slappings. So, it is good that the beloved Jeremy (yes, I called you Jeremy) the one and only 100% straight boy that comes to borders/ihop on friday nights has finally made it known that yes, he indeed still lives. Perhaps it is unsettling to those concerned that there has been a resurgence of BOTH computer gaming and partying (which probably equates to drinking lots) simultaneously. While I do not drink and do not have anything against drinking - Curtis hopes that Jeremy is not becoming an alcoholic. Curtis would also like to add that he thinks that maybe he has read somewhere that drinking can result in acutely increased anxiety and perhaps Jeremy shouldn't drink because of that. Curtis doesn't know why he is talking in the 3rd person and it's starting to creep me out now so I'll stop. So last friday I just stayed home (I think I did go to Marshall during the day though). Saturday morning I had a call extravaganza and I randomly called several people stored on my phone. Among them was Razz, I think Sara (though I did not get a returned call from either of those apparently inconsiderate individuals), Jeff the Emo-esqe (who shall now be known as such as I will be communicating now with at least 2 jeff's), Lara, Joe, Chealsea (lara's sis), and maybe others. I apparently woke Jeff the Emo-esque up as he was sleeping in from his frodo hotel party the night before, haha, it was funny on my end at least ;) Later in the day Lara called me and gave me a potential run down of the day. Joe would be getting off work at 4 - he'd meet up with lara and maria and then we could all go shopping for Halloween Costumes. Unfortunately, Joe wanted to go to magic makers in huntington and I hate that place with a Holy passion - so Maria would call me from her cell when they were heading from there to the mall and then I would meet them at the mall. Joe called me later and I exlained to him the plan and for some reason he was going to take an hour to shave - so it would be 5:30pmish before he even left his appartment. I'm like 'whatever' as I still had to take a shower and get ready myself. I later thought that maybe he'd need an hour to shave because of his draq-queen/transsexual theme he was dressing as. Later he told me that he had already shaved his body earlier in the week - so who knows why it was going to take him an hour to just shave his face - freak - and I most certainly did not probe the issue. Also, Joe is straight and I think that needs to be said explicitly - though he has (for the past 3 Halloweens at least) dressed in a drag/transsexual theme. It was practically 8pm before I was informed that they were heading towards the mall - and I didn't leave for few minutes after that. I located the crew in Hot Topic where they were looking for things - both Maria and Joe found a great deal of their outfit in Hot Topic and I think Lara got a tie there. I didn't get anything as I didn't want to spend that much money and wasn't sure what I was going to dress as anyway. I was wearing Jeans and a plain white T as a backup plan if I couldn't find anything I wanted to wear. I sorta wandered around hot topic and saw aunt teresa and chip there getting some stuff - so that was cool. We kinda talked and teresa told me she was going to be a geisha girl and that is so cool. My little cousin was gonna be a power ranger - haha. If chip was gonna be somethin I don't remember him tellin me what. I found some cool wings - feathered red angel wings, they had white ones too, and some other wings that could have been used for an outfit but I decided not to get them. Some of them were marked down but still I didn't want to spend hardly any money. We eventually left the mall and went to walmart where I got my costume pretty quickly and easily - some slick material shorts - white with some blue stripes - and a slick material shirt. I was originally planning on being a go-go boy with this gettup but looked more like a bicyclist or a surfer - I really looked like a surfer when I put my sunglasses on. After we got all that stuff we went to Maria's Appartment and I must say that Maria is the bomb - not only because she just simply is the bomb but also her appartment is kick ass and I had a great time being there while everyone was getting ready. My outfit took about 1 minute to get on a few more minutes cutting all the tags off - it worked out perfect and was so awesome and even better cause it took hardly any effort to get it together. Maria, joe, n lara all liked it and I explicitly remember lara saying that it exceeded her expectations, lol. While everyone else was getting ready in maria's appartment we listened to nine inch nails "pretty hate machine" very loudly and it was great. I think it taught me how to dance like I used to again - with the tae kwon do movements. Also, after the album was over we watched some live NIN stuff - wow... I hope maria can burn me some of that on a CD cause it was just incredible. Really, that was one of the most memorable things of the night was seeing that stuff on her computer. When we left her appartment, joe lara n maria were all at least somewhat intoxicated or buzzed and I don't drink so I was the driver - of maria's car as mine has so much junk in it nobody would be able to fit. we went to our intended club destination and it was sooo packed. One of those nearly impossible to move around nights it was so packed - but my slick material outfit let me slide around through the crowd fairly easily, haha. Melissa Lucas was there and that was awesome cause it's probably been over a year since I've seen her - much love to one of my first hags! I didn't watch any of the shows but danced and talked with people. Jeff (not Emo-esque) was there and that was cool cause I hadn't seen him in a long time. He got my numbers but hasn't called me yet (I hope he does cause I didn't have my cell so I couldn't take down numbers). Also talked with Brad and gave him my cell number - he called me monday but I haven't called him back yet - we're gonna hang out sometime - he can tell me more about what he's been doing since he graduated. I also met a whole bunch of people - several jon/john's I think and also Mark from Myspace so that was cool. At some point in the night, Joe became very ill related to his alcohol consumption and spent probably several hours in one of the stalls in the girls bathroom throwing up or just passing out or whatever. Since it was the night that we set the clocks back an hour we got an extra hour to dance and hang out - so that was cool. After it closed, the people next to the exit door handed out these little halloween treat bag thangy's with condoms, candy, and (lol) flavored lube. Lara was pissed cause she didn't get any lube so she went back in and they gave her another bag. I also ended up with two bags cause I had left and came back in - I told them I had already got one but they gave me another one anyway cause they rock. I drove us all to taco bell where we waited in line for probably 45 minutes or so. In the line, Me, maria, and lara had sex conversations and of course sex conversations are always super fun. Joe didn't participate cause he was still passed out - and once he had to open up the passenger side door and throw up in the drive through lot - haha, that was great. When we got up to the ordering speaker, lara started cackling - laughing in a really outrageous and psychotic manner - all kinds of things just became really hilarious and we were all laughing for like 5 minutes and could hardly get our order in. It was all extra funny cause there were like 20 cars in the line behind us and some of them were starting to honk and yell at us - which just made me laugh even more. I drove maria's car back to her place and me and lara transferred over to my car - joe was going to stay at maria's (note that maria's boyfriend, also named joe, was also there already) and lara was going back to her and brandy's appartment which was already in huntington. I cleared out a place for her to sit and took her there. I came home and slept wonderfully. Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Monday, October 24th, 2005
2:32 pm	new music Whew! Relief… The 2nd draft of my 409 paper isn’t due till next Monday. I had got an e-mail from my instructor last week but hadn’t seen it for some reason – too bad I didn’t find it till today! I had some mild stress over it over the weekend (the kinda stress where you’re like “crap, I need to do this” but you don’t do it). I’ve been listening to new music – new music to me anyway – this stuff has all been out for a while: 1. NIN “Pretty Hate Machine”: WOW. So not what I was expecting. It’s like 80’s-ish dark synth pop(or alternative?)rock (but I don’t really know what I’m talking about genre-wise). 2. Radiohead “OK Computer”: I like it but I haven’t really paid that much attention to the lyrics yet – the music is great. I think I heard some Wurlitzer or Rhodes in there. 3. Radiohead “Hail to The Theif”: Haven’t look at the lyrics at all yet, but I like the music. So, why is it wrong (according to hardcore Christians) for a band to be named “Nine Inch Nails” when the holy icon for Christianity is a Cross (like the one Christ was crucified on)? Only one exam this week! Much love, Curto Current Mood: bouncy (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 21st, 2005
7:22 am	something cool I haven't blogged in a while. Umm, this week has been cool - two exams. I got to play with little babies in the NICU this week. I'm sweeping the house today and then going to marshall to do some research and whatnot. That Everwood show is good. Interesting dream from a few days ago: I was somewhere and there was this guy playing the piano (this is one of Daniel's friends actually, I don't know him well but he was in my dream) - he was playing "Garlands" from the Tori's The Beekeeper bonus DVD. He wasn't singing the lyrics, just playing it. Interesting: Yesterday I was playing and that one very recognizable piece of Garlands came to me - I played it. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: NIN "Pretty Hate Machine" (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 15th, 2005
9:23 am	this is actually yesterday's post that I didn't post This week has been cool. It encompassed interesting and fun things – I have an urge to play Final Fantasy VI. I have my piano set up so I can just turn around and play it while at the computer. I have some school stuff I’m gonna do sometime over the weekend and two exams next week – research on Monday and OB on wednessday. 1st clinical day of interacting with babies was yesterday morning and it was overall pretty cool. I’m learning “honey” now. super glad to have a bed. I was about to get some new pictures o’ me up but Daniel’s spending the night elsewhere tonight and I think he took the camera with him Current Mood: yeah! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 9th, 2005
7:25 pm	title I didn't go to borders/ihop friday. I'm thinking we should change it and have it earlier in the day instead of so late cause people sometimes have to work early saturday morning. Also, I think it's lame to wait till 11pm to do stuff - that's just really late people. There's no reason to jack up sleep schedules if it's unnecessary. Ermm - friday I took back the "Piano for Dummies" book that I got on Thursday - though I didn't take back "Play Piano in a Flash". The latter one is very good and the Piano for Dummies seems very lame, and the "humor" in the Dummies one is very forced and lame. I think the dummies books remind me of walmart - the current trend of depersonalization and all that junk. I got "Tales of a Librarian" music sheets and am currently working my way through "Precious Things" - but it could easily take me a month to learn it. From what I could find, "Tales of a Librarian" is the only Tori music sheets that Borders had, BUT I had looked it up previously on amazon, and it turns out it's the one I would want! It has all the songs from "Tales of a Librarian" and also the songs from the bonus DVD: Pretty Good Year, Honey, Northern Lad, and Putting the Damage On. Yesterday (Saturday) was great, and was comprised of downloading net stuff (legally), playing piano, and watching TV. New Naruto on yesterday and I also watched Full Metal Alchemist for the first time and absolutely LOVED it! Tomorrow I'll be working on the surfactant project. Current Mood: kinda somethin bouncy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 7th, 2005
8:19 am	pink paper Yesterday rocked. Debby was right, the mother baby instructor is very cool. We got oriented and toured. It's a cool unit - very different feel from all the other units I've been on. I think the NICU was my favorite so I look forward to my rotation. Also, the instructor let us out early cause we were done, so yay for that. I went to borders. I'm learning to read sheet music now. Daniel wants to sleep on the floor on some futon-ish thing now, so instead of moving my bed back in my room we just moved his bed into my room - and I think it worked out way better that way. I like his bed. Current Mood: euphoric Current Music: "Hotel" live -Tori Amos- (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
6:11 am	oatmeal creampies! It has come time for me to again pull myself away from the computer. I will still be on but just not wasting as much time just sorta staring at the screen or whatever I do for hours on end. Also, maybe I can remember to sign onto aim whenever I'm online from now on - cause I keep forgetting! Today's my first day in mother baby and that means I have to start wearing my nursing uniform again! The scrubs we wore in labor and delivery were so comfortable, I wish we could continue wearing them. I didn't go to church last night so I guess that means I'll be there sunday. I've consumed 12 or so of the giant oatmeal creampies in 3 days. It's been glorious. Current Mood: yay for milk too (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
10:37 am	I don't think the high schools are teaching kissing technique anymore Have you guys seen the way people in high school are kissing? It's frightening, like they open their mouths as much as possible, and there you go. It's like complete tongue, as much tongue as possible, and nothing else but tongue and zero head movement. They'll stay that way for minutes. It's not hot. Current Mood: happy happy Current Music: Final Fantasy V and VI Soundtrack (Comment on this)