Yup. Three classes at Manhattan (as many as I could take as a part-timer) and one at SUNY Purchase. I'm certainly getting a flavor for different types of colleges... the former small, private, and Roman Catholic affiliated (in stark-enough contrast to my medium-sized, also private and although not officially affiliated decidedly Jewish alma mater), the latter a public state school.
Hm. I'm sitting here realizing that if I had typed this earlier in the week, like I originally wanted to, it would have had a more negative vibe to it... I was bummin' about my physics problem set, freaking out a little about money, and I guess just generally disappointed that I wasn't spending enough time on homework. Truth be told, I haven't had that much so far... the quizzes in Radiation Biology have been pretty easy, we've done most of the "homework" for CoSi in class... but still, there's obviously a lot I could have been doing, like just reading the textbooks, or studying for the GRE, of course, or even more long-term stuff like getting organized to apply to these grad programs...
Anyway... here it is, Friday, and, per the usual, I just feel better. Short of the "yay, the weekend's here!" feeling, I opted not to go see Eureka Gold in the city on Wednesday so I could have a solid night to work on homework (although there was a brief impromptu chili party at Jacobs' up the road in lieu of the concert) and that felt good. I handed in my problem set before heading into work today (I've said it before and I'll say it again: thank god for a flexible boss/work schedule). The problems seemed to get easier as I went along, for the most part, which was deceiving. I could have felt more confident on 3-4 (out of the 14) problems, though. In the coming weeks I'll be able to hit the professor's Thursday office hours, now that Rosh Hashanah has come and gone, so I feel good about that too.
When I moved into Kevin and Rob's, I cleaned out the storage room and made it into a kind of study. I have yet to reattach the door (someone removed it at some point), but even without it I think it's proving to be succesful. All that's in there (other than some storage stuff) is a desk, bookcase, and an only-so-comfortable chair. I -go- to the study, to study... it just seems to work.
The new living sitch is good. Rob and Fitz are my friends, we're all just on the same page more, blah blah etc. Heh. The one last thing to take care of is the fact that my room has no real fourth wall... maybe too hard to explain here but basically what past occupants had used as a "wall" was three large moveable closets, side-by-side, coming just shy of the opposite wall but about three feet short (ha! That was the name of a band we played with once) of the ceiling. I had envisioned a Home Depot-y solution, but haven't had the time to really focus on it... I hope whatever I come up with is feasable/will work (block out noise), and I hope our (thus far pretty lax) landlord won't mind...
The Olive's gigs these past few weeks have been really pretty fun. Just, mostly "on." Good jams... and accurate, energetic versions of the covers. Seth and I have been teasing Pink Floyd's "On the Run" (the fast synth-and-hi-hat track on Dark Side) after our usual "Breathe -> Time -> Breathe" medley. This is a testament to how fast the two of us can play! ...alright enough bragging. Heh.
Last weekend was fun. We discovered two new bands and hit the Village pub crawl for a buddy's bachelor party. At the end of the night we made our way to the Bowery Ballroom (cool venue!) to hear the London Souls and the aforementioned two bands (which we had actually discovered the night before in Ridgewood, NJ at another show), Land of Talk, from Montreal, and Cloud Cult, from Minneapolis. Land of Talk was real indie-sounding and just, cool, very tight... a female-fronted power trio; Cloud Cult took a small page out of the Sigur Ros book, kind of "dreamy" rock/pop, and among other things, have two artists paint live on stage during their shows! Pretty cool.
