Thursday, February 11, 2010

Weekend Plans

I AM GOING TO THE BSO TOMORROW!!!!!!!!! I am so incredibly excited. This will be the first time I that I go to see a real orchestra. I'm so excited that I allowed the previous sentence to start with "this" and to continue without a noun immediately following the "this." Moving on. They are playing some 20th century Berg stuff - not exactly sure what - and then Renee Fleming is singing Strauss, and then they will be performing Mahler 4. MAHLER! And the best part is that it's free! A friend of mine got free tickets somehow - maybe it was miraculous or something - but now we're going to an amazing orchestra concert for free. Tomorrow evening pretty much couldn't get any better.

On a different subject entirely: our school cafeteria is so very odd. If you ask for a few eggs, they give you what cannot possibly be any less than half a dozen, and they look at you strangely if you ask for any less. The same is true for pasta, various entrees, and occasionally stir fry as well. Moreover, the food doesn't really taste good at all, so I am seriously contemplating selling all my meal points and creating a food budget to buy and make my own food. Ok, so that won't actually happen, because I'm probably too lazy to get around to doing it, but it would be pretty fun. But that's enough complaining. It is what it is, and so there's not really anything to complain about.

And finally, a note on the fact that I seem to lack the ability to speak English. Or maybe it's slowly deteriorating. I speak in what could potentially be called Freudian slips, but they're not really Freudian because they don't reveal anything about my inner soul or whatever it was he thought they indicated. I just use the wrong word. For example: "One time I couldn't remember where Detroit was, so I had to ask. Honestly...I couldn't believe I forgot...I mean, I'm not that dumb. Actually, I'm quite good at geometry." Yeah. That was supposed to be geography. I am quite certain I have never seen the person I was talking to laugh that hard ever. Note to self: if ever you give a public speech, make sure to be very, very careful and rehearsed so that you don't make weird word substitutions. If not, at least I'll be laughing along with the audience. :)

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