I wish

There is nothing that I want to do more right now than sit down with the Cities 97 Sampler 10 and cup of piping hot tea. I'll just close my eyes and enjoy the delightful sounds of "Walking in Memphis," "Sunny Came Home," "Closing Time" and "Miles From Our Home" and not think about impending physics quizzes and neuro tests and chemistry quizzes. I will drink Good Earth Tea and put just a hint of honey in it and tune out the world. But alas, the call of homework and life beckons too strongly for me to actually do this. Damn. :(

YAY!

I found the chords to "Kansas." :D :D :D :D :D :D I am so delighted. Happy. :)

The Final Countdown

Labs take forever. Literally. You get into lab at 1:15 and then get out at the end of time at which point you have to ask yourself "WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYY?" Having a super cool lab partner helps a ton. At least you can spend from 1:15 until the end of time with someone enjoyable- so you don't want to jump out of the second story window, roll a bit and then get up running away from the building as fast as your broken leg will let you. Music also helps.

On Thursday in lab, disaster struck. We were roto-vapping what we already knew to be a rather fickle product when the keck clip broke. Now, roto-vaps have round-bottomed flasks attached to a suction thingy, spinning in a tub of water. So what happens when a roto-vap keck clip breaks? Why, all of your product goes into the water and you dump it out and try to work with what little product remained in the flask. Which is very little. Painfully little. Ultimately we ended up having to scrap the whole enterprise and just get data from another group working with our compound. Which was rather disheartening. And immensely frustrating. I mean, you spend from 1:15 to the end of time and all you have to show for it is NOTHING. Bleh. Of course, it didn't suck as much as it could have because I had "The Final Countdown" stuck in my head the entire time. :) Which would seem unfortunate, except that when I think of "The Final Countdown," I think of Gob from Arrested Development. And then I think of Arrested Development. And then I laugh. Or I just think of the sheer epic of that opening bit. And then I want to go for a long run or get into a boxing match.

So, when in lab, just think of "The Final Countdown" (or something equally awesome) and all will be well. Maybe. If you've got structurally sound keck clips.

Kansas: It's usefulness knows no bounds

From what I've seen on TV shows and in movies and from a few overly mushy friends, songs are a very important part in a relationship. I mean, I'm all for friends having songs that they enjoy in particular, and if that friend happens to be your significant other than, well, more power to you. But the gushy, "oh-my-god-it's-our-song-'cause-we're-all-madly-in-love-and-nonsense" seems rather silly to me. That opinion will probably change should I ever "have a song" with someone but for now, it's what I'm going with.

Now, that's my take on "our" songs, they are silly and have the potential to ruin awesome songs through melancholy association when things go sour. However, I whole-heartedly approve of break up songs. To be used frequently. Break up songs can be used to express mild-facetious disapproval in all sorts of situations. They can be hummed, whistled, played or out-right sung. They are totally awesome. And if break up songs are awesome than "Kansas" by Vienna Teng is super-mega-crazy-for-realsies awesome. It's not bitter. It's not filled with regret. It, like pretty much (scratch that--ALL) of Vienna Teng's music, is insanely beautiful. It's slightly haunting. It's powerful, yet discrete, so you are humming it and those in the know say to themselves, "daaaaaaaaaaaamn" and those not in the know are thinking, "la la la, nothing out of the ordinary going on right now."

But wait, doesn't using it several times a day dilute it's power? Nooooooooooo, that's just silly. The great thing about great break up songs is that they are great all the time. They are never not appropriate. So find a good break up song and use the hell out of it.

Quick note: 1) if you are the frequent recipient of a break up song, don't be a little b**** and call "no Kansas" when you totally deserve it and 2) don't actually break up with people by song. That's lame. Really really lame. Like breaking up via text. Only douchbags and pansys do that.