Uh. I actually have no idea where that came from. Ignore me. Although it does beg the question: should I start titling my post with song titles from now on? Hmm. Something to consider.
Anyway, before I really delve into my recap, I should probably take the time to mention what was probably the most exciting part of my week: inspired by this tutorial, I painted my nails to look like tuxedoes. Yes, I now have fingernails that are so freaking stylish, they look as if they wandered right off the pages of GQ magazine.
...Actually, they look like they were still slightly malleable when I went to sleep and so now they have a few wrinkles in them, but whatever, that's only noticeable if you're really looking closely.
[Under the cut: Photos of the aforementioned nail art, the recap of my week, pictures of food, my Awesome Tower of Recycling and Procrastination, and a brief digression on the matter of going to the grocery store.]
I mixed colors together, so I have magenta, dark purple, and turquoise. Pretty awesome for something done with toothpicks and a paintbrush that was really never supposed to be used for nail polish, huh?
Okay, anyway. On with the week!
I was running all over the place this week, with a Wesleyan Musical Theater Collective meeting on Monday, to a bellydance practice on Tuesday (that unfortunately got cancelled, due to conflicting room reservations), to a Q&A session, a conversation about food, and a reading, all on Wednesday, a Q&A with Johnny Temple and dinner with a friend on Thursday, a Friday visit to the Davison Health Center and the Career Resources Center, and finally a TypeClub meeting on Saturday. Overall it wasn't a bad week, although all of this "Be here! Be there! Be everywhere!" has made it a bit tricky to do homework.
And anyway, now we (hopefully?) have fresh blood for the WesMTC, which ought to add an interesting dynamic to our whole crazy "Let's write a musical as a group without killing each other!" concept. Let's hope the second time around ends with as little homicide as the first time did.
The Q&A and reading were both with/by Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose name I still am not completely sure how to pronounce, but who seems like a pretty cool dude and writes like a dream. (Oh, talented people, how I envy you.) The reading itself was fine, but I found myself enjoying the Q&A a lot more than I expected to, for something that I had to attend for class. I enjoyed the required Q&A (with Jim Shepherd) I went to last semester, too. The nice thing about a lot of the writers I've seen speak is that they all seem to have some semblance of a self-deprecating sense of humor, which is something I appreciate in other people. Maybe I should go to more of these things, even when I don't have to. Hmm. Something to consider!
The conversation about food, which I unfortunately had to leave early so I could run all the way across campus to get to the reading, was for the thesis of a fellow anthropology major, which is pretty awesome. Food and anthropology! One of my favorite things and one thing I like a lot!
Oh, and I also had a test on Tuesday about the post-cranial axial skeleton + the os coxae, which for those of you who don't spend too much time thinking about your bones (the un-fun ones, at least) means the vertebra, sternum, ribs, sacrum, coccyx (and no, I never stop giggling at that word), and your hip bones.
Basically, take this picture and subtract the skull, the shoulderblades, the clavicles, and all of the limbs, and boom! Post-cranial axial skeleton!
Where was I? Oh, okay. So classes on Thursday, blah blah blah, but two of my classes got cancelled so I decided that I could go to a Q&A with Johnny Temple, who went to Wesleyan at one point, used to be in a rock band, and founded Akashic Books:
the proud publishers of a bunch of books I don't think I've heard of, but also that literary classic:
I'm actually not being facetious, here; I think that book is genius. When my sister has kids and enlists me to babysit, that's totally what I'm reading as a bedtime story.
Anyway, I partially went to see the talk because a friend of mine is considering starting up an independent publishing house and I wanted to see if he had any relevant business advice, but in the end I had to rush off after about 55 minutes so I could go meet a friend for dinner.
Also on Thursday, though, came the second most exciting part of my week, which was — well, maybe I'd better take you through my thought process, first. So my flatmate and I have, over the past few weeks, acquired a ton of recycleables that we have yet to take to the recycling bins, despite the fact that they're essentially ten feet from our front door. We're lazy, okay, and they don't smell like regular trash does. So sue us.
But there I was, sitting in our main room and procrastinating on doing my homework, when I looked over at our giant pile of bottles and cardboard boxes and I thought, "I should take that to the bins."
Then I thought, "...Or I could Jenga the hell out of it."
This is the sort of thing that happens in my brain. When I have leftover scraps of food on my plate that I don't want to or can't eat, I make food art; when I have recycling, I apparently make recycling castles. So it goes.
The Two Towers, aka my first attempt. Not bad, balancing wise, but I knew that I could do better.
ONE TOWER TO RULE THEM ALL. Also, I would like to point out those two milk cartons balancing on top of each other. Take a closer look:
Yeah. To be honest, I didn't actually believe that that would work.
Of course, our recycling pile keeps growing, so yesterday I had to restructure the tower slightly to accommodate for the few other things we finished off:
I'm awesome. It's okay, you can admit it. I promise I won't let my ego swell up too much.
On Friday I had to go to Davison Health Center because I had this odd constriction in my throat that, while it wasn't keeping me from eating, was certainly making it a bit uncomfortable. The nurses took some bloodwork, and it seems to have gone away for now, but I'm still sort of curious as to what it was. I also dropped in at the Career Resources Center, partially because I never have before and I thought I should at least take advantage of all the helpful things Wesleyan offers. It was pretty cool; the people they have working there are really nice.
That night I also went to a party where I got to spend about 2 hours talking about television, which to be honest is really all I ask out of life.
On Saturday, as I said, I went to the second TypeClub meeting. I don't know if I've mentioned TC before, but it's a newly created design and marketing collective, and I'm really excited about being able to join just as it's starting up. I really enjoy design, so I have high hopes.
Then I did laundry and made dumplings, both of which were clearly excellent choices. Having clean clothes and being well-fed = a sure route to happiness. True story.
The dumplings, right before I steamed them.
After steaming, before eating. Actually, no, I'm pretty sure I ate one before I took this picture. Whatever.
True story: these dumplings are actually the direct result of my inability to control myself when getting groceries at Weshop. Last semester I was actually pretty good about it — sometimes, at least — but this semester I have all the rollover points I didn't use last semester, which means I'm pretty flush, which means I have far fewer reasons to control myself, grocery-wise. It's getting to be a bit of a problem; I'll go in for milk, bread, and lettuce, and as I'm strolling the aisles, I'll go, "OOH THEY HAVE WONTON WRAPPERS, THEY'VE NEVER HAD THOSE BEFORE. I SHOULD BUY THEM." And then, "OOH THEY HAVE CHIA SEEDS, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY THOSE. I SHOULD BUY THEM." Followed by, "HEY, CUMIN IS A REALLY HELPFUL SPICE, RIGHT? I DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT. I SHOULD BUY THAT." And, "OOH BLUEBERRIES I LOVE BLUEBERRIES, I DEFINITELY HAVE TO BUY THOSE."
The wonton wrappers led to sesame oil, which led to tofu and scallions and ginger and... well. I have dumplings now!
But yeah, one of these days someone is going to have to hold some sort of grocery intervention. Anyway! I hope you guys all have an excellent week; I'm going to stop procrastinating and do my homework. Or, more likely, pretend to do my homework while actually wasting time on the internet. Shh.
[Original tags for this post: authors and stuff!,Food, LOOK I DID THINGS, more food,my grocery shopping misadventures, my priorities are the best priorities, nail polish,people who talk a lot who aren’t me, pretty pretty pictures,procrastination is perfection,RECYCASTLE, the human skeleton,things to do when you should be doing other things (like homework), wesmtc]
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