today

well, today was a good day. i feel i had a breakthrough with my ochem last night, i wish i would have had a chance to study, another day or something, before my midterm this morning, unfortunatly, that was not the case. i do feel i understand the material though, and i also have this great feeling of appreciation for the beauty that is ochem and i want to study it more. i think tomorrow i will continue to pour over the book and try to glean as much as i can from it while im riding the understanding wave. i would have gone to the library today to do so but i had babysitting and had made plans with laura to see Phantom of the Opera downtown. speaking of which, it was good. im very torn on a few issues in it, like how christine cant ever seem to decide which guy she wants to be with and how the phantom is such an unnecessarily cruel guy at times, sure, he had a rough childhood, but thats no reason to kill people who see you. also, i dont like how christine allowed herself to be objectified. yes, she is beautiful, but simply no one wears revealing clothing outside while its snowing, thats dumb. also, she says she simultaneously wants freedom and wants someone to guide her and hold her and all that which sounds like she is just being childish to me. despite all that though, the magnificence of the costumes, sets, voices, actors, etc. definitely outweighed anything negative, it was very enjoyable to watch.

Im very tired. i have had about 4 hours of sleep each night for the past two nights, due to ochem and also due to kuvienga at 6 in the mornings. i was talking with laura about why ive been doing it since ive been kinda busy, and i guess when i would only get 5 hours, and i wanted to do kuvienga all week this year, i decided missing an hour of sleep really wasnt all that bad, difference between waking up at 5:45 and 6:45, really not that big. So now im going to go to bed and wake up in 5 3/4 hours for kuvienga (probably followed by going back to bed until class at 10:30). but yeah, it was a good tuesday.

amusing sidenote: walking behind pairs of people when its cold and snowing is really funny because you get to see them try to talk to each other by turning their shoulders to see each other around huge hoods. reminds me of fargo, its funny, and im sure i do it too.