#84 - Had We But World Enough, and Time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.



Love poem, poem of seduction, or both? Thoughts? Anyone? Bueller?

#83 - LIST FRIDAY, Yesterday Edition

Things I Did Yesterday

• Yesterday I didn't skip any of my classes
• Yesterday I started work on the two English essays that are due soon
• Yesterday I had a headache until I went out for a walk
• Yesterday I read "Paradise Lost" out loud
• Yesterday I gave blood
• Yesterday I was a little bit offended when the nurse asked me if I had ever taken drugs or money in exchange for sex, even though it was a routine question
• Yesterday I forgot I had given blood and did heavy lifting, which made me dizzy
• Yesterday I fell asleep in the lab building while I was reading Looking for Alaska
• Yesterday the bus came exactly when I wanted it to
• Yesterday the bus came too early and I missed it
• Yesterday I deleted all the songs off of my iPod so I can replace them with new ones
  

#82 - I Like The Starbucks Here...

...that's better then the other one
'cause the other one's not as good


The Dome of the Rock* playlist

• The Bitter End - Placebo
• Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan
• Freezepop Forever - Freezepop
• Rainy Streets - Superchunk
• Range Life - Pavement
• Monday Monday Monday - Tegan and Sara
• I Will Dare - The Replacements
• Jarhand - Immaculate Machine
• Me & The Major - Belle and Sebastian
• Girlfriend in a Coma - The Smiths
• Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse - Of Montreal
• Wellington's Wednesdays - The Weakerthans
• Casino Queen - Wilco
• Take a Bow - Rihanna
• Little Waltz - Basia Bulat
• The Cheapest Key - Kathleen Edwards
• Uncovering the Old - Dr. Dog
• Never Believe - Elf Power
• Stevie Nix - The Hold Steady
• Beautiful - Meshell Ndegeocello
• One for the Cutters - The Hold Steady
• Golden Age of Radio - Josh Ritter
• Ultimatum - The Long Winters
• Shop Vac - Jonothan Coulton
• Stakeout (Donnerschlag remix) - Freezepop
• I Am A Scientist - The Dandy Warhols
• Breathe In - Frou Frou
• Five Star Day - Aqueduct
  

*The Dome of the Rock is the oldest standing Muslim structure (at least I hope so, becase that is what I wrote on my test today). It is a dome that covers a rock (shocking, I know) that Muslims believe it is the place from which Muhammad ascended to heave*, Christians think is the place where God create Adam, and Jews think is where Abraham went to sacrifice Issac. Religion is kind of crazy.


*see comments

#81 - C'mon Mood Shift

shift back to good again

Alternately this post could be titled: Argh! Art History! Argh!

So, guess what I did today? I skipped English and spent most of this morning and all of this afternoon re-writing my art history notes on loose leaf. And then I spent all of this evening typing out my re-written notes. And I still feel like a know almost nothing about the history of art. How is that possible, you ask? I am not sure, but I am pretty sure it has something to do with the astounding number of dates there are to memorize. If it weren't for the dates I would be fine. Well, the dates and the fact that apparently all Greek dudes who got sculptures made of them looked exactly the same.

On the brightside, after tomorrow I don't have to worry about another art history test until finals, and I made a really good study playlist called "The Dome of the Rock".

#80 - I Was Never That Good

...at being nice when I should

Today I was in the mall having lunch with Jamie when I overheard the following conversation:

Teenage Boy with Unfortunate Facial Hair: No way is Adam Sander funnier than Will Ferrel!

Friend who is Eating a Taco: He is! Happy Gilmore...

T.B.w.U.F.H.: Happy Gilmore is for bitches! Now, Anchorman... Anchorman like opened up my world.*

(at which point F.w.i.E.a.T., soundly put in his place, fell silent)

*Emphasis his. I swear to God, the italics were practically audible.

#79 - You Eat Apples Right?

I produce Entourage.

I watched Saturday Night Live last night for the first time in a long time. Aside from Tina Fey's Palin impression (if you haven't seen any of those go watch one right now, the lack of exaggeration required to make Sarah Palin into a comedy sketch is almost alarming), this is the thing that made me laugh the hardest: