The Recess... (welcome to the alcoves of my mind)

Today was productive...Sort of

Today I scaled new heights of productivity and procrastination.

The day started out well enough. I had been up until 2 a.m. typing up notes for my music industries class, which I have an exam on next Monday, so I slept in until about 10:30 this morning. Lauren and I had plans to study today so I went over around noon, armed with my books and the will to open them. All in all I think I fared well. I got through one of the tougher readings for music, theories by Theodor Adorno, a Jewish communications scholar living in Germany during the 1940s and 50s. He seems to have a rather cynical view of capitalist structures (can't think of why!) and an even lesser opinion of popular music. The only thing is, in his era jazz was considered popular music! I mean, if the man were still alive today his head would explode! I find him really frustrating to read because he makes these stark value judgments about art as 'high and low' culture, which is a ridiculous notion in itself. Well, that's not totally true. I mean, different forms of entertainment appeal to different types of people, but he makes it seem as though you have to be smart to enjoy Mozart, and you have to be a mindless patsy to consider the cinema 'art.' What a butt-head.

Anyway, I'll save the communications babble for the exam. Going on...

The weather was totally crap today. Lauren, Marc and I had simply accepted the tipity tap of freezing rain on the windows as part of our study session background noise. It wasn't until Lauren went to drive me home that we realized just how awful the conditions were. It wasn't rain, and it wasn't snow. It was falling ICE, which basically created this thin, hard-as-a-rock layer over everything (the car, the road, ME!). Both Lauren and I got home safely enough though, but it was definitely not an evening to be out driving unless absolutely necessary!

When I got home things became...less productive. I watched Mom bake shortbreads (and by 'watch' I mean stand there and eat them while she's not looking) until I got so full of sugar that the only real course of action was to go torment my cat for AN HOUR. That was fun :D. We got new rugs for the front hall, and ever since then Ginger does this thing where he goes and sits right in the exact centre of it. He doesn't lay down, he doesn't go to sleep, he just SITS on it, as if he's got little kitty hemorrhoids and the carpet is his Preparation H pillow. The most annoying thing is that the carpet is directly across from the couch where I like to watch television, so he now spends hours on end sitting on the damn rug STARING at me while I watch the tube! I threw my socks at him 4 times and then chased him into his litter box...Oh, good times.

Oh, and I also did this tonight. It kind of all started with someone telling me I should change my MSN picture, since my hair isn't blond anymore and I don't really look like I do in the old one. I tried to take a picture of myself with my digital camera, but when you take your own pictures they always turn out really close and weird, so I gave up on that. I got a brain wave when I saw my little Merry and Pippin action figures, along with the Cookie Monster finger puppet, staring at me from atop my computer monitor and, shortbreads still on the brain, I had an idea. Granted, my time probably could have been better spent doing ANYTHING else, but hey, if my efforts of procrastination put a smile on your faces, that C+ in music will have all been worth it.

Heehee, g'night folks. Off to work tomorrow. Can anyone say 'shoot me?'

posted by Megan at 1:06 a.m.