I just got back from seeing the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra perform Hadyn (Symphony No. 60 in C) and Mahler (Symphony No. 4 in G). Haydn was fun--very spirited, but Mahler was amazing. There were tears involved. I felt like my roommates watching The Notebook.

midterms are over. now i have papers. like the one due tomorrow morning-- ten pages of research on . . . something. let's hope i find the assignment sheet soon. i think i just wrote 6 1/2 pages on 'the dynamics of Greek-Turkish strategic interaction in the context of geopolitical...' for nothing. and i almost understood it too!

this morning i got up at 6:00 AM. well, my alarm went off at six--i got out of bed closer to 6:27 AM. mornings are not my time. then i went and stood in line for about an hour -- without caffeine-- to see John Edwards in my school's auditorium. why on earth he came here i have no idea, but he did and my friend got me VIP tickets up front (and Josh Hartnett was there) so i went. it was quite exciting. but really, 6:00? that time should not exist in the morning. last week Leonardo DiCaprio came at 5:00 PM. much better planning time-wise, but too many squealing girls with obnoxious flash cameras!

enough procrastinating. back to figuring out what i should have been writing about all afternoon. then it's sleeptime.