synonyms.

i bought music the other day... i know that i should be saving my money for "trip" but, you know how sometimes you just get sick of the tunes in your head. you can only listen to songs so many times... and i had a little extra cash from my last paycheck. and i ended up getting like 36 songs... :) i got a little more peggy sue. and i've been wanting to get ADELE for a while... i just love love love her voice. and i found this artist pomplamoose. they do a really amazing cover of single ladies. so, all this week, i've been listening to them. so far. there are a few tunes i absolutely adore. from pomplamoose, they have this song expiration date, and the part that goes "i'd like to get over, i'd like to get over you, ooo ooo oOo Ooo" gets stuck in my head all the time. i haven't really listened to peggy sue yet. and from adele, i really like chasing pavements. and then cold shoulder. the chorus for that one is like "when you grace me with your cold shoulder, whenever you look at me i wish i was her, you shower me with words made of knives, whenever you look at me i wish i was her" honestly, i sing it all the time when i'm driving to work.

my classes started. i'm working 5 days a week (i got my first 5-day paycheck... i am okay with these new pay arrangements :) so far things have been going okay. first class: comparative religion. my professor is really in-depth. today was the third class, and we're still going over introductory things. and usually that would bother me, but it's really interesting, and it's one of those things that you can tell, when it gets to more complicated things, he's really going to take the time to explain everything so that there is no confusion. it's kind of strange though too, because he asks questions that i have no idea how to answer, and when he calls on people, they automatically know the answer. i feel like i'm coming from a completely different perspective. but, i think it's going to be good. as long as he doesn't call on me. i just have to try really hard not to make eye contact ;) second class: introduction to music. meh. i'm not too impressed. my professor is really arrogant. but i can't get out of it. and so far, nothing weird has happened. he's said a few things that i disagree with. and i think, maybe sometime we'll end up arguing. but, maybe not... i don't really feel like being made into an example. third class: english composition II. my professor is really quiet. and surprisingly i only have 2 essays to write the whole semester. which is very... easy. and i have a recitation, and quizzes and stuff, which is pretty normal. but the story and poem line up for the semester, is very exciting. fourth class: ceramics. definitely going to be awesome. yesterday was the first class. we have three projects, maybe a fourth depending on how soon we finish. and yesterday we made four pinch pots, and four coil pots. it took me 2 hours and 20 minutes. it's a four hour class, but i was really surprised by how quickly the time flew by. i'm sitting at a table with two older women, and they knew each other. they were cracking jokes the whole time. :) it was hilarious. all in all. the semester is looking really bright for me. and then summer....... it's going to be a good year.

my dad's birthday is on sunday. i was going to take him down to the restaurant, but i'm working. he said he wanted to have a family dinner. so we're going on wednesday. it's weird though, because i've never eaten there... and i don't know if it's going to be weird or not. i don't know if my boss is going to be like, oh you're free during wed. dinner? how come you aren't working? i don't know if i'm going to be stressing out that we're just taking up space... so i don't know... i'm definitely going to give them warning.