Current mood:	bored
Current music:	Bryan Adams

Robespierre = Pelosi?
If you're wondering, the title of this post comes from an interesting moment we had in Euro class today, when someone asked how Robespierre came into power, and Ms. Perez' answer was this:
"He was the head of the party in power. Kind of like Nancy Pelosi." That prompted Dan Malinsky to ask what Robespierre's position on stem cell research (and everyone else to wonder how many thousands of Republicans Pelosi plans to guillotine).

Had another interesting moment earlier today - between periods one and two, when Dancing in the Dark started playing over the speakers, someone came into our Euro room for his second period class, and just as the last people filtered out into the hallways, he said "isn't Billy Joel the man?" The answer is yes, yes he is. But does he even REMOTELY sound like Springsteen? I mean, Billy Joel is the PIANO MAN! And Springsteen doesn't have an audiable piano sound to his music at all. Good Lord. What a Lincoln moment - better to keep your mouth shut and have people wonder, you know? Anyway, three Springsteen songs not appearing on today's playlist were Born in the USA - it refers to "killing the yellow man", etc. Born to Run - something about suicide. Glory Days - refers to drinking (the people are almost definitely over 21). Human Touch and Thunder Road, to my delight, made the censor's cut.

This past weekend, our Quiz Bowl team came in first in a competition of 90 teams, which rocked. Oh, oh, oh, I'm On Fire (another song not making an appearance on the playlist today, WAY too sexy). So our Quiz Bowl A-Team is undefeated so far this year (kena hura).

I've been feeling insanely stressed out for apparently no reason - it's really weird, but I think it's the college thing. I want to be there! It's still not real to me, I still haven't had that jump up and down and scream moment. I have a reading list around 20-30 books long that I can't start until summer, and that's part of it. I want to just sit down and read, or do math competitions, but there are all these homework assignments, etc. I'm really psyched to be trying out for some community theater stuff in the next few weeks, which should be awesome if it comes through (I wish I had known about these places when I got passed over for La Mancha, maybe I could have done shows somewhere else as opposed to the oligarchical LHS stage). Even if they don't come through, I will get some snazzy experience. But as of now, with only homework to do, I'm feeling as stressed as ever, and I don't even know how to cure it.

There it is.

~M. :-)