a barely legal reflection

barely legal is over.

this makes me really sad. i always feel that way after a performance...after working so hard to get everything just right, it's suddenly over. i feel especially sad about this, though. it's my last barely legal. it was so much fun to be in, so funny to watch the other skits...and now it's done.

furthermore...i felt better about my role in barely legal than i've felt about anything i've done in a long time. usually i'm so nervous, unsure, and self-deprecating about things i do. i never feel quite right about them.

not last night. i felt really good about my role. i haven't felt so confident about myself and my abilities in years. sure, i've faked it every so often, but this was the real deal. i actually felt sure of myself, for once...it's a really foreign feeling. i like it, though, and hope i experience it again soon.

turing test

wow. today's Dilbert strip was the first hilarious one i've seen in months.

iHave an iPod, and other stories

things that make me happy:

• having a functional iPod again. i'm sure you all remember my little rant last weekend about my iPod refusing to sync up with all the music i had on my computer. that made walking around and taking the bus this week really, really boring; i've become so accustomed to being able to listen to music and podcasts on the bus. after negotiation class today i went to the apple store in the mall to talk to a tech. i told the tech all the stuff i did last weekend, and how it was to no avail. the tech was amazed that i had actually tried to fix it. he checked to make sure it was on warranty still [it was.], and just gave me a new iPod. that was it. it was quick, easy, and painless. i hooked it up to my computer, booted iTunes...and now, i've got an iPod with all my music on it again. [squee!]
• this video. it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside:
  
• vitamin water. the fact that there is now a vitamin water machine in the law school is bad news, because i keep buying the tasty stuff. it's so refreshing. it's so expensive...but the fruit punch-flavoured "revive" water tastes wonderful.
• boomshine. it's the most addictive flash game ever. i started playing it last year, and played until i lost the link to it a few months ago. i rediscovered it today linked off of something else, and i had forgotten how mesmerizing it can be to watch all the chain reactions of exploding, colourful dots. it's simple, tricky, and impossible to stop playing.
  
• the fact that i'm leaving for minneapolis in only four days.
  

things that don't make me happy:

• being tired from a thirteen-hour weekend class.
• knowing that i'm going to be inundated with work through wednesday.