It is the year of the ram, or is it lamb? Something along those lines. It’s the year of some animal.

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I’m alternating between feeling just completely peaceful and serene to feeling throroughly and completely rattled with everything in my life. I don’t understand it. Is it part of the teen life to oscillate from feeling great to horrendous? One would think that there would be a middle road with a balance between good and bad, happy and sad, esctatic and deeply-troubled. It be must that I am allowing myself to swing back and forth. Regardless of the cause; I wish it would end.

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I had, of course, assumed that the goddess was better than both vintage stereos and summer break. Ah, me.

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I think Norah Jones should have released her song titled “Come Away With Me” before “Don’t Know Why” because the former track is really good. No, but really, it has quite a timelessly quality and a nice quiet soundscape. I like it a lot. On the more eclectic music side, there is Buena Vista Social Club and the newer CD also by Ry Cooder named Mambo Sinuendo. That’s some good music; let me tell ya! Either way, it takes quite a while to make all these links; I guess that’s the disadvantage to helping one’s readers out. The final music thought I have is a group called “Cherish the Ladies.” This is the link to their album. Anyways, that leaves a friendly dandy music list! Here it is:

• Ry Cooder

  • Buena Vista Social Club
  • Mambo Sinuendo

• Cherish the Ladies

  • At Home
  • The Girls Won’t Leave the Boys Alone

And whoever thought up that “mind the gap” stuff in those earlier posts; that was dumb.

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If good things come to those who wait but nice guys finish last, does that mean nice guys are waiting for something good to come their way?

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Well, I really don’t have anything enlightening, funny, or even worthwhile to share. I guess that’s what happens at the end of the term. I’m suffering school Burnout™ and that’s stressful. Upcoming events include a 20 month anniversary, Valentines Day, and a chance for the rich and famous to show off winter semi-formal. These events have the potential to be enjoyable seeing as they have the ability to remove my mind from school. Also included is the possiblity of a Ben Kweller concert, but the details on that have yet to be ironed out. Luck needed, eh. Regardless, I am predicting the writing here to either drastically improve or become quite sparse when English class starts. Either option is an improvement over the limbo that this front page has been in since senior year began. People tell me its time to start having fun. Maybe my idea of fun is different than others. I sometimes wonder. I just read this article about reality shows. In some ways, it could be seen as scary and a sign of a decline in the quality of culture that these reality shows with stupid premises would hold a wide and varied audience captive. Then again, in this self-proclaimed information age; people are really looking to unhook from pop culture, the media, and information itself and just ‘vej’ out in front of the tube. Some argue Renaissance people were more cultured; but they also died earlier and when they weren’t worried about nutrition, plague, invading nations, or problems caused from the above - they had time to immerse themselves in culture. Because we are literrally bombarded everyday; I think we seek respite. Perhaps not. I gotta remember to think of a point before I start writing.

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An interesting conundrum, no?

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“If I understood too clearly what I was doing, where I was going, then I probably wasn’t working on anything very interesting.” - Peter Carruthers

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