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I have spent (seriously) a day and a half mucking about with CDs and music files and ripping music files from CDs to my hard-drive, in order to create a Pretty-Boys-in-Makeup playlist.

It is 65 songs long[1], and amounts to about (maybe a little under) four hours of music.

Ye gods...

I am, perhaps, a little bit obsessed.

Currently running through the thing to see if it flows decently.

[EDIT: Okay, it flows fine, so far. The only jarring bit is I've got "I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You" (Savage Garden) sandwiched between "Minority" (Green Day) and "Under Pressure" (David and Freddie), and I think it would flow better if "Under Pressure" and "I Knew..." were switched.]

One of them is the 5-part "Jesus of Suburbia" piece by Greenday, which is just about 10 minutes long. This is unfortunate, because it means the first 20 songs don't quite all fit on one CD. Not all of the files are Mp3 format, though, and this may be part of why only ~~twenty~~ nineteen songs will fit on the CD.
Any thoughts on this? :-)

In other news: I finished showing "Nazi Occult Conspiracy" today, and it wasn't a complete disaster! Yay! :-D People actually had questions and I was actually able to answer them. Yay! :-D

So that went well enough. Hurrah. :-)

Now to type up my Choir Meeting notes. Whee! :-)

- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

[1] It contains songs by My Chemical Romance, Greenday, AFI, 30 Seconds to Mars, Fall Out Boy, the Killers, the Rasmus, Savage Garden, Green Day, and David Bowie.
I'm not entirely sure that Savage Garden really fits the theme, but we'll see how jarring it is as we go along. :-)

Current Music: Was It A Dream - 30 Seconds to Mars ("Pretty Boys in Makeup")

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Sooooooooo... In the interests of getting some extra pocket change, I am editing (re-writing) the essay of a friend of a friend.

Having managed to lose the document twice (first to hitting some random key on his laptop and gods-only-know where it went, second to having the file-path turn randomly invalid on me, thus seriously not being able to *find* the damn file *that I saved*...) I am really beginning to lose patience with this thing.

I don't think it wants me working on it. (If this is the case, then call it mutual feeling. Bloody hell... :-P)

- TTFN,
- Amazon.

Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: On A Day - Emilie Autumn

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So, today I did the other half of the lecture on Women and Religions.

And I figured out what I did wrong.

Today, I had too much material.

(Yay! -- Except for the part where we ran out of time... er... But. Better! :-)

So that... sorts things out a bit.
If I end up filling in for this lecture again, then: Yay! I'll have a better idea of how to divide it, should I be doing it for two lectures instead of one. :-) Hurrah! :-D

In addition to a much-better-lecture, I also have the contact information (sort of) of one of the students, who wants to keep chatting with me. Yay! :-) So we'll see if we can get in touch with each other. :-)

Paul and I may (or may not) go down town tomorrow and check out the ice sculptures, it being the last weekend of Winterlude and all. :-)

Note to self: I need more dried shiitake mushrooms (and bread, and dishwasher detergent... yes, you all need to read my grocery list... What am I thinking... <*sigh*>)

In other news, I've had the grand discover of a make-your-own internet radio station. Yay! :-D Sadly, I don't seem to be able to get any, say, Puccini on there. But I've got cruxshadows and apocalyptica and bella morte and what-not, so that's pretty good. :-)

Hm. I think that is all.

- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: Heaven's Gaze - Cruxshadows (Paradox Adendum)

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'Hokay, :-)

So, last night I had dinner with Paul at 8pm.

It was fun. :-D

I must crow with delight: My husband got me Iron Maiden (live after death) for Valentines' Day. :-D
He is the coolest husband in the world. (I know that some of you folks with husbands of your own will disagree with me on this point, but did they get you Iron Maiden for Valentines' Day? No. I rest my case. ;-)

due to high winds and driving snow, we decided not to take a look at the ice sculptures. I would like to get around to doing that, though. :-) And possibly going skating (for the first time in a couple of years), too. :-D

I got Paul The Joy of Sex[1]. He was quite delighted and said that he could look at that book for hours. ( TMI? )

Also, yesterday:

I did a lecture on women and religion.

And boy, did I ever suck. :-P

How is it that a lecture I scripted to last 1.5 hours (that worked last Summer, and last Winter), only lasts 45 minutes today?

Eugh. :-P

So I felt horribly inadequate. (They were all, like, 'dude, we just had the mid-term. Getting out early is *not* a problem... But I was still upset). Hopefully I will do significantly better on Friday. That is the goal, at any rate. :-)

In other, marginally related, news: There was a hell of a tall gal sitting in the front row. She talked a lot (thank goodness!) Turns out she's a composer. She stuck around of a couple of minutes after class and we had a short chat about Feminist Music Theory. I don't entirely understand it, but I'd like to hear more.

Anyway. Today I have work (10-4, or there-abouts... Yay! Money!) and will be picking up a shirt for my Mom's birthday. :-) My spiffy Iron Maiden CD is sitting inside Paul's work bag. As are my shmancy Lindor chocolates. (I want my chocolate, dammit. Even if it's way too early to be playing my CD yet. ;-)

I may go discount-chocolate-shopping today. :-)
Anywhoo, that is all. :-)

- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

[1] It occurs to me that The Joy of Sex is the inspiration for Jacqueline Carrey's Les Trois Milles Jois (no I can't spell... sue me) in the Kushiel series. :-)

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: Hallelujah -- KD Lang ("Hymns of the 49th Parallel")

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The lecture went much better today. :-D Yay! :-D

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