Mute Math!

Mute Math is back from a hiatus of sorts with a new album and a tour!

Of course, I am inordinately thrilled about this, and looking forward to what will be my fourth or fifth time seeing these guys go crazy. If anyone is awesome enough to know and appreciate the wonder that is Mute Math and wants to come along for the concert, you should let me know. We have been known to coordinate the wearing of suit vests to such events in homage to the stylish apparel of the band, and to throw pre-concert parties during which we buy such vests at thrift stores, or go out for food before the show.

Being OCD and something of an HTML junkie, I find it necessary to point out that the minutes and seconds on the counter below are inaccurate. For some reason, the creators added those displays without adding parameters for them in the code. I abhor the use of extraneous variables.

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Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

Disregard that last post. I have decided that the majority of my life will likely be spent working at some sort of career. By sub-optimizing my life for the time being, it is probable that I can improve the "career era" of my life.

I am not a cynic. I am fricking brilliant.

However, it has also been brought to my attention that the qualities that make me think in this way also tend to make me seem irritating or uninteresting to the types of people I appreciate and prefer working with. How's that for a catch 22?

Whatever. I'm still pretty brilliant.

The Deep End of the Kiddie Pool

Here's the deal: if you read my blog at all, it's probably for the movie reviews because lately that's all I've posted. Great, awesome, marvelous. If that's all you're here for, pass this post on by.

Anyhow. This is my first summer taking classes... well, at the actual "in my major, hard work, and generally boring" kind (even physics seems boring with an inept TA like mine making it more work than it should be). I like taking summer classes in foreign languages and Flash animation, but that's a different thing entirely. And I'm getting behind in my languages because of the "real" classes I have to take.

It sucks. It's just more of the same old stuff. Which likely has more to do with it sucking than it being summer. Because I've been in school for four years now, I feel like I've served my sentence, and I have probably two or three years tacked on for what? Mediocre behavior?

What I mean to say is, I have two midterms this week that I should be studying for, but I've been studying for hours already. I should be fixing my bike and playing ultimate and taking up aikido and eating grape-flavored popsicles. After four years in college, I should be doing those things when I get home from work instead of getting home and getting to work.

I don't think cynics should go to school for more than four years. I don't think cynics should be engineers (even though they're probably the best for the job), since I don't think cynics should be engineering students. By all accounts, I lack the optimism to be anything but an interpreter or a graphic designer. Of course, objective masochist cynic that I am, it just wouldn't do to go through anything less than hell to pursue something that really makes little sense. Besides loving ME, but I don't know if that really counts as sense.

I guess all I'm saying is that I'm going to buy some grape popsicles, go out swing dancing til all hours of the night next week and then skip class on Friday, and basically act my situation instead of my age.

Also, if you haven't seen "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" yet, please do. If you don't speak British, I can provide subtitles.