LoNg RamBlinG IncoHERenT EntrY
I feel invisible today. Insignificant. If I disappeared, would anyone care?

Gah, I'm probably just tired. I'm on one of my "off" weekdays, when I have an 8am class and get almost no sleep. For some odd reason, there was no biology class the last two sessions. I missed class before that, and I've gone to school the last two days at 8am, and find the room empty. Weird. Did she go on vacation and I just missed the announcement? No more 8am classes. I won't go to class before 11am next semester.

Got the new Belle and Sebastian album and a new Yo La Tengo EP. Actually, I didn't buy them, but got them from the radio station. I'm reviewing them for cataloging purposes. And also, I get to review a couple CD's for Flash, the entertainment section of our student paper. Great deal. I get first pick at any new releases that arrive in the office, which I can then copy for my own use before the go back to the station.

The new B&S is quite good. It sounds a lot different than their older stuff, but mostly because of the spiffy plastic production. They take some interesting new directions with their work, and there's hardly a single bad song on the record (unlike their last album). Those who wish B&S still sounded like "If You're Feeling Sinister" may not like it, but hey, that's progress. The Yo La Tengo EP is only six songs, but it's amazing. They do a cover of Bert Jansch's "Needle of Death". Jansch, as it turns out, is an English folk artist who is cited by Dylan and Jimmy Page as influences, and his folk guitar style predates Nick Drake by several years.

Up until recently, I've forgotten how great a good new record can be. It's almost transcendent to discover a new album, which you spend the following days getting to know like a new significant other, the memories of your beloved in your mind at every spare moment. Truly, music is one of the only true sources of joy and solace in my life.

I've got a gigantic bag of cookies. I mean several pounds. Tonight, we had to close the KUC grill early and go work the pep rally. Apparently, they started charging for admission and food this year, so few people show up. We've got all this food, and much of it goes to waste. The leftovers include a shitload of cookies, which we just helped ourselves to giant bagfuls of.

I'm gonna need a lot of milk. I think there's a cow or two on campus.