Oh my.. Lobster night at UIUC. Most of the residence halls server Lobster. It was mildly incredible. I didn't eat any because lobster looks disgusting and I don't like sea food too much. Some people went a little overboard. One person was about to eat ten lobsters. For some reason all seafood disgusts me. No wonder why the Jews don't eat most sea food. They secretly want me on their team.

Contact paper is neat. I bought a roll from Meijer's and covered most of the front of my door with it. I think I will cover the back of the door later. The nice thing is that it's open doors on Tuesday so my door will look pretty. I think Frank Herbert has really neat ideas about leadership. I shall strive to be more like his ideal (Leto Atreides I).

I'm listening to Bjork's Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet). I like the song very much. A long time ago I imagined having a huge office and a bunch of musicians that would play for me when I asked them to do so. I'd have them play this song a lot. As far as the non Quartet pieces go, I'd have my spies capture a cellular sample from Bjork and quickly generate a duplicate that has all of Bjork's memories with a slight adjustment making her loyal to me (otherwise she might choose to flee and become a real musician). I will at least try most of this.

Well I'm back to 4.55 GB of Hard Drive space. It really isn't that bad. It just means I had to let go of some MP3s. I went to Mail Boxes Etc., which was very helpful. I shipped the drive to Seagate and it came out to $21.22 which covers packaging, shipping and insurance. A bit pricy, but for a $540 (actually shit... that was $590... oh well hope nothing happens to it) hard drive I think it's okay. The drive will arrive next Thursday and they ship me a new one a week later and I should get that around 21 October. That's a long time I guess. But I can wait.

This week has been considerably easier for me. Nothing too big is happening. Heather is having her best friend visit her tomorrow. Some of the showers stay relatively clean. My softsoap has tiny beads oof Vitamin E that supposedly get absorbed by my skin. I personally believe that the shower washes them off of me.

Caltech started school a few days back. That also means I have to find a computer for Molly soon. Speaking of computers, I got an RMA number for my hard drive and I am thinking of shipping it out soon, except... I now can no longer re create the defects that I was experiencing. In fact my hard drive makes normal hard drive noises. I have no idea if I should cancel my RMA number or just wait a few weeks. I think I'll wait until a week from now before I ship. It turns out that 75% or so of my MP3s will fit on my old drive, so I'm not to worried about shipping this bad boy... Hopefully tomorrow they will debrief me on how long a replacement will take, etc. If it doesn't take too long, I may just send it out right away whether or not the problems occur. If it's like a week or something, I'll try to push my drive over the edge before sending it.

My brother bought me some shoes the other day, they should be arriving sometime early next week.

My life isn't that exciting. Imagine if I was so silly that I updated this page daily. You could take this entry and split it up among the days and just read these crappy one or two line things that describe my life. Suck, no?

I've decided that tonight I may want to take a walk around the quad around 10:30 at night. Just to see what it's like walking around on campus. They recommend not to. So well... gee I don't know why the hell I'm doing it, but I think I will. I don't exactly believe our schools outrageous night crime.

Nevermind, I don't have shoes and it's bitch-cold outside.

That song that I couldn't find the title of, (after Spy) I think is Mr. Tambourine man. That's what I thought he was singing when he said "Jingle Jangle." Adam sent me the lyrics to verify my findings. It is by Bob Dylan (not William Shattner:))

To sum it up, the concert ruled. I walked to Foellinger Auditorium with a group of Allen Hall residents who were going as well at about 7:30. I didn't buy anything, so I sat down. Third row from the stage on the right (facing stage). It was too near the speaker, but my ears acclimated to the loud sound during the opening act, Michael Shelley. He and the band he had was okay. It's that alternative filler music you hear on the radio. He was funny so that was nice.

They Might Be Giants finally came on stage at about 9:15 PM. They played Dr. Worm, New York City, Particle Man (with Kumbaya towards the end), Mammal, She's Actual Size, Twisting, "The Famous Polka" played once at normal speed, then sped up, Battle for the Planet of the Apes (I was a person, and yes... People did win), Spy, some song that I don't know the name of (one of the lines was "hey mister please play a song with the jingle jangle"), Lie Still Little Bottle, Birdhouse in Your Soul, The Guitar and the Conga. I followed the Conga, but didn't really Conga. The problem was, is when I tried to get back to my seat, I couldn't because the people in charge were telling everyone to go to their real seats, unfortunately mine was a third row seat. I managed to get back, they played Ana Ng and Pet Name while I struggled. They followed that with Spiraling Shape, Shoehorn with Teeth (which is neat live), She's an Angel (everybody loved this, but does everybody know my Angelic friend?). They shot confetti out of a cannon for James K. Polk. This was about the time I was thinking that the next song would be Why Does the Sun Shine and it would be the last. Well it was, kinda. We demanded encore (like in every concert) and they came back (like in every concert) to do two more songs, Istanbul and Dr. Worm again (with a little bit of "The Boys are Back in Town" thrown in).

The show was great, and I suggest all of you to see it. Here are tourdates for places where I know people:

Now I will try to regain my hearing.

I didn't mention it in the last entry, but on Monday Katie Romportl turned 19. For those of you who don't know Katie Romportl was part of my graduating class at Hopkins High School. Congratulations Katie.

I finished my speech yesterday. I feel more free. Although now I have to do Laundry, read Chemistry, do four hideous problems of math and write a two page paper by tomorrow. I'll try this one step at a time. I came up with this idea. If you have public showers with partitions like at my school, bring a bag of rocks into the shower. Throw rocks over the partition until you start seeing red on the other side. I haven't tried it, and I don't think I will. It sounds a bit evil.

I am on the road to fixing my hard disk problem. It skips a lot less now that I figured out a bit more about drive termination. I think I'm on the road to having a healthier hard disk.