what the hell? its really beautiful when i go to class at 9 am, and then it is already cloudy before i even get out of my first class. i then go for a swim and it is cloudy, and as soon as i step out of the gym, it proceeds to be bright and beautiful again. this elusive good weather…i bet it’ll rain in a few hours.

school school school, i just go there. i figure all the time i’m going to class, i should just be reading in the library, cause more than likley, i can learn enough out of the book. i figure just reading will keep my brain active enough….but i guess then i wouldn’t know what was on the tests. and since basically testing is the only form of evaluation, i would be shooting myself in the foot. there really has to be a better way to gauge your learning and proficiency in a subject than 2 tests. i mean, if you turn in all the homework and labs and do all the quizzes, that’s about 30% of your grade. the other 70% is mostly 2 tests and a final.70% of your grade depends on 3 days of the class. i really think that’s pretty rediculous.

but yeah reading, i have become more of a voracious reader than i have been in a long time. days back in high school when i would fall asleep everynight reading a book. i remember always waking up in he middle of the night with my reading light blasting in my face, my book on the floor, and drool all over me. now that basically has been replaced by the library here, minus the reading light though. i finished of mice and men yesterday and that was really a good book, i swear i almost cried when i got to the end, the metaphor was just so powerful that it took me completley off guard. but yeah, i picked up another bulkier book this time (i’ve mostly been reading short stories or novels, the kind that are barley 200 pages or something) called The Fountainhead. i really hadn’t heard much about it at all, just that a bunch of people on the internet seemed to reccommend it, and i started reading it today, and went through a 7th of it (100 pages) and this book is really good too. its one of those books that seem to put things in perspective for a bit, like after you finish reading it for an hour or so, you walk around kinda aloof, still digesting everything that you just took in, but at the same tiem you feel really good and happy. i don’t know how to explain it, its just that kind of book.

oh man, i went to the greatest resturant tonight. (i love it when my parents come up). we went to a place called the kyoto steakhouse, where they have the hibachi’s right in the middle of the table, so you get your own personal cook who whips up all your food in front of you. and not only was it some of the best food i’ve had in awhile, but the cooks are completley rad. this guy was throwing around his spatula and his meat poker thing like they were toys, he was just flinging them all over the place, it was great. my favorite move was when he flung spun an egg on the hibachi, flung it up almost to the ceiling, then caught it on the back of the spatula. then while the egg was still spinning, he threw the egg back up again and turned his spatula sideways and let the egg fall on it, splitting the shell in half and leaving the egg perfect on the hibachi. it was relaly impressive to say the least. not too expensive either, considering how good the food was and how much they gave you (it ended up being about 15 bucks for me).

but i am ruined now, cause i stuffed myself full, then thought it would be a great idea to go swimming after that, and i didn’t cramp up or anything, but i was definatly not in top form, and it was much more tiring, cause all that blood that’s supposed to be delivering nutrients and oxygen to my muscles was off trying to digest the first meat i’ve probably had in a week. so i am pretty tired right now…i should probably do some hw or something…

but yeah before i do that, i had one more thing i just thought of, i know most of you reading this have heard me going on about the avalanches and everything, but i don’t think anyone really digs them as much as i do. regardless, this is my blogger and i’ll damn well write about whatever the hell i want. but yeah, i noticed that most of the tiem i have a cd that i listen to alot for a bit, and this is one of those guys, but the one thing that was different was that the songs i get stuck in my head with this cd aren’t the ones i like the best, they’re the ones that i listened to last before i turned off my cd player. this caught me off gaurd today, cause most of the albums that i’ll listen too have a few songs that just shine above the rest, and i would listen to those ones more than the other tracks. this one also has ones that shine above the rest as well, but i still just listen it throguh everytime, and even the ones that i don’t think are teh greatest still stick in my head after listening. its interesting to me….