migblog

haven't done this in a while. sorry folks, i've been terribly busy. (watch out; this might be a little long.)

let's see. after john stevens got voted off, i was rejoicing and bouncing off of the walls. (i kinda still am. i still have a lot of candy left over from a certain party of sorts, so you can imagine what sugar overloads are like.)

thursday was amazing. a whole bunch of us went and saw mean girls in wheeler auditorium for free. i guess it was proof that tina fey is a ridiculously talented screenplaywright (is that a word? whatever.). there were some terribly funny scenes, a lot of unexpected laughs that ambushed me -- the scene with the trust falls, particularly -- and it gets an approval rating of "go see it with friends in the same mindset" because it's definitely that type of movie.

the next day i went to the men's octet show, unbuttoned, which was their request show of the year. it was great; i got to see my brother sing and blow away everyone in that packed auditorium. i also got the chance to promote the fact that my brother was about to blow everyone away. and oh yeah, tic tacs are addicting.

after the octet show i headed to the vocal jazz concert, where jack and chie were performing, to catch up with both jessica and david. those kids are fantastic.

saturday morning was spent under the sun learning how to teach people some marching fundamentals; it was actually a perfect mediterranean-like day. not too hot, not humid, the sun was beating but not overbearing.

saturday evening, i went to the spring formal with lydia. we had dinner with jake and angela at the stinking rose in north beach (corso cristoforo colombo). i had the lamb shank; lydia had the prime rib. needless to say, it was so worth it.

after that, we headed to sutter to hotel rex, where the dj's playlist consisted of disco, hip-hop, cheesy pop, and -- get this -- colors of the wind from pocahontas just so misha could dance along to it. much drinks (my favorite being the grey goose and tonics) to spur the night along; it felt like we were there forever but it was a good experience nonetheless. it was a little weird seeing some people decked out in formal wear (let alone seeing them at the event), but it was actually nice to see them for not having seen them in a while.

brian wolf dancing to i will survive is forever ingrained in my memory, along with boyd and jeremy going together as a package deal, as well as the girls (meesh, angela, jan and holly) looking amazing and having fun.

today, i performed in the wind ensemble concert. i thought my oboe-playing was sub-par, but igot a bunch of compliments afterwards. the problem with those is that i never know who's just being nice and who's being honest. (they should make a device for that.)

miguel's current guilty pleasure: downloading american idol mp3's and playing them back on iTunes. (note: john stevens still sucks. and if you want the mp3's, let me know and i'll try to see if i can hook you up.)

to quote alexandra, "an as-yet-inchoate 10-page paper is circling around my head, pecking at my peace of mind." it's not exactly ten pages that i have to write, but it's a substantial piece of work that i have to produce in about twelve hours. (this, kids, is why you should never procrastinate. it gets you in hairy, time-pressed, stressful, incoherent, maddening situations.)

the next week is full of "studying" and "research" (if by "studying" i mean "doing stuff that's not at all related to school" and "research" meaning "watching movies for free and looking for housing on craigslist"), so i doubt i'll have much time for other things. i'm trying to be more meticulous with my goings-on so that i'm not exacerbating any more problems that come up.

i'm not going crazy quite yet, but i'll get there. finals can just suck it, especially since i don't have any until the second week.

wow. that was long.

time for some sort of productivity. or something.

posted by Open Source Food @ 11:27 PM