College Life Update

Well, it's the first week back at college, and things have been going pretty well, namely classes are seemingly easy thus far, and I've had lots of free time. Also, last night at the Michigan game was the final of the karaoke competition in which I was a participant. The prize was free books, and I won! It was very nerve racking, as I was going to sing "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash, but alas, I was informed at hte last minute that they did not have it! This threw a wrench in my plans, so I instead sang "Show me the Meaning of Being Lonely" by the Backstreet Boys. I wasn't ecstatic about this, as it's not uptempto, and neither were the male members of the student section, a sizeable portion of whom started doing the 'chomp clap' (very bad) at me in tempo to the song. To tell you the truth, I thought I'd lost, but the other guy wasn't really a singer, so maybe that's why I won. Who knows. I feel relieved, but somewhat ambivalent at the same time.

Today's Music
Incubus - Megalomaniac

Today's Poetry
Rests Squarely on the Shoulders Of...

Letters written in cursive,
splashed upon the sink basin,
peeling with water electrolisis,
slowly performing syntheses of hypotheses,

lifting myself up, as an atlas shrugging,
ready to meet a new day head on,
adroit, convalescent, halcyon,
sinews singing at the dawn,

a colossus of rhodes,
top dismantled from its base of gold,
testament to an era bygone,
fortune faded, physique depleted,

with hearts composed of uranium, tungsten, and miters,
weaving a canon of menlo park meets magistrate,
with bowed heads, assertions now lie prostrate,
filling us all with penchants and proclivities to self-deprecate,
is it any wonder we self terminate?