7.11.2005
happy birthday!
Happy Birthday to my brother Andrew, who turns 24 today. He's the med student, and I wish him all the best as he goes off to the Himalayas on Saturday for a medical volunteer thing. In truth, I have no idea what he's doing, but it sounds impressive.
Worked for college today. Boring. Now I'm cleaning my room and packing it up for my friend to cart bits of it away to his place for the summer. This is the first time I've packed myself out of a place without the benefit of a car to haul remainders home in. Princeton? I drove. P. school? I drove. Tanglewood? I drove. Heck, not being able to decide on a spur of the moment when I leave Oxford drove me nuts this year. It used to be "I'll come home Friday or possibly Saturday depending on how I feel - if I've had a rough day and need the rest, then I'll start driving really early on Saturday." The decision would be made a full 4 hours before I'd have to hit the road. Now, I have the dates for when I have to be back in Boston, and I'm pretty sure I'll be leaving Oxford on December 15th. That's a full five months away!
While I pack, I'm listening to one of the funniest writers out there: Sarah Vowell. She's the voice of Violet in the Incredibles, but she's gained a lot of fame as a contributor to This American Life, a public radio show broadcast from WBEZ Chicago. This episode talks about music and the lessons that taking music lessons might have impressed upon us when we were kids. Absolutely hilarious. Click here for the actual episode.
Worked for college today. Boring. Now I'm cleaning my room and packing it up for my friend to cart bits of it away to his place for the summer. This is the first time I've packed myself out of a place without the benefit of a car to haul remainders home in. Princeton? I drove. P. school? I drove. Tanglewood? I drove. Heck, not being able to decide on a spur of the moment when I leave Oxford drove me nuts this year. It used to be "I'll come home Friday or possibly Saturday depending on how I feel - if I've had a rough day and need the rest, then I'll start driving really early on Saturday." The decision would be made a full 4 hours before I'd have to hit the road. Now, I have the dates for when I have to be back in Boston, and I'm pretty sure I'll be leaving Oxford on December 15th. That's a full five months away!
While I pack, I'm listening to one of the funniest writers out there: Sarah Vowell. She's the voice of Violet in the Incredibles, but she's gained a lot of fame as a contributor to This American Life, a public radio show broadcast from WBEZ Chicago. This episode talks about music and the lessons that taking music lessons might have impressed upon us when we were kids. Absolutely hilarious. Click here for the actual episode.
