the dreaming tree

dear girls,

please stop with the tight or/and low-cut shirts. it’s not helping. thank you.

management

i’m not a huge bach fan, but you simply can’t beat the sonatas and partitas for solo violin. i just started learning one (partita no. 3 in E major), and it’s, at the same time, fun to play and ridiculous hard. and it’s not even the hardest one. these works are just about the closest one can come to perfection in music, in my estimation. they’ve got everything: fast, slow; joyous, mournful; simple, profound. i can’t wait to meet this guy in heaven.

in other news, i think i’m going to cut my nearly shoulder-length hair back to this:

it’s time.

laura pahl, student at eastern illinois, is a plagiarist.

how could someone really be this dumb? i wonder how the school will handle it. i wonder how laura will handle being exposed. it’s entertaining, but also a sad indication of students in our country…though perhaps not often this extreme. simply stunning.

(i found this at geof’s site, but i wanted to post it here, too, for those that don’t read him.)

so here are my predictions for how the 2005 major league baseball season will turn out:

NL:
east: mets
central: cardinals
west: dodgers
wild card: braves

AL:
east: yankees
central: twins
west: angels
wild card: red sox

i wish i could put the rangers in there, at least at wild card, but until they drastically improve their starting pitching, i can’t do it. it really sucks to have one of the best lineups in the american league combined with pitiful pitching. sometimes i feel as if i could help them out on the mound. hm…maybe i should start working out…

there is apparently a group that wants to change the easter bunny to the garden bunny. now, i’m not really an easter bunny kinda person, just like i’m not really a santa claus type of person, but what is the deal here? it seems that the easter part offends some people. not that a bunny has a whole lot to do with easter, but why should they be offended? no one is forcing them to celebrate, or participate, in what the easter bunny represents. (actually, i’m not sure what it is intended to represent, and i’m quite sure that the tradition of a bunny has nothing to do with Christ rising from the grave.) so why? if you don’t like that people are celebrating easter, choose to ignore it. i see no sense in trying to repress something of this nature, other than bringing attention to yourself. i don’t think a case can be made that it is unfair to non-christians for there to be an easter bunny. it isn’t a question of political correctness. no one is being intentionally excluded. and i don’t think anyone is being forced to acknowledge the truth of easter through an easter bunny. i’m not really worked up about this, just confounded. everyday someone thinks of something new (or old) to complain about and demands they be accomodated. get over yourself, please.

oh, and happy easter.

all the brackets i filled out for march madness are screwed. it’s time for baseball season now. actually, college baseball has already started, and the razorbacks are no. 5 in the nation after taking two of three from the gamecocks of south carolina, then ranked no. 2. that’s pretty awesome, especially after the ridiculous basketball season. oh, and not that i’m a huge track fan, but we just won our 40th national championship a couple of weeks ago, so that’s pretty salty. i’m feeling the razorback love.

i need something philosophical to discuss next time. hmm…

spring break starts today and you know what i’m doing? i’m staying in fayetteville to work. yes! monday-thursday, 8-5. this is gonna be the best spring break ever! if i’m lucky, i won’t even hang out with anyone all week. i’ve even got work i can do for school, once i get home from work. shibby!

i just filled out a ridiculously long survey…and then it got deleted. and i don’t want to do it all again. so i’ll just write about something else. i wish i had a girlfriend. this is selfish, i know. and what do i want a girlfriend for? not so i can say i have a girlfriend, or so i can have someone to makeout with…no, i just want somone that i feel that close to again. i want someone to be concerned with me, to desire me and what little i have to offer, to hold me close when i feel unhappy…but i also miss being able to devote myself, in turn, to all the needs and desires of someone else. but maybe i’m not ready for that, or am not capable of providing that. like i said, it’s a pretty selfish wish, and i realize that i could be in this position of singleness for a very long time, so i don’t need to be dwelling on what i don’t have. i wish i could just abandon these selfish desires and be content with the situation. after all, i need a lot of work, and sitting around feeling sorry for myself sure isn’t advancing the cause. but that’s my heart. God save it.

i’m in love with a girl
who doesn’t even know my name,
but that’s alright,
cause i have tried, but
not seen and deciphered

and how long will i spin
in a cycle of lost causes
and broken hearts?
cause i don’t know
how much more i can take

as i slide back and forth
between waves of distress,
and feel vainly devoted
to a promise beyond
my understanding

i’d rather sing and dance,
and laugh outloud,
and write a song
that i’ll only play for you
when we fall in love

but even as i write these words,
my mind speeds down
that lonely desert highway,
while my heart strains
to hitch a ride home

so here’s to you,
my love,
when you hear me
i’ll be screaming:
she’s mine forever

and you will be mine,
until time no longer matters
and our hearts are melded into one;
and this is not just love,
this is romance

i hate it when teachers only give a couple of tests the entire semester. tomorrow i’m having my first test of the semester in a particular class, and it’s just kind of annoying to me. it’s not that i can’t handle it, i’d just prefer to have a few more chances in case i screw something up. but hey, this is college, right? so i better just shut up and do the work.

by the way, songs for a new world is an excellent musical, as is jason robert brown’s other one, the last five years. actually, the last five years is simply astounding. i love it. for those that don’t know, it’s about two lovers who meet, fall in love, get married, and separate within five years. it’s told from their two perspectives…only the story starts at the end of the relationship and goes to the beginning in the part of kathy, and in the part of jamey, from the beginning to the end. so the story crosses in the middle, at the only time that the two singers sing together. it’s very complex and very rewarding to listen to. i’d love to see it on stage sometime. and i highly recommend it.