Thursday, April 15, 2004
listening to: urinetown, run, freedom, run!
*yawn* so i have an 11am appointment with professor perri (el profesor que esta todo encima de mi kool-aid.) and i set my alarm for 9, and it seemed to me like there was a good reason for it. but this morning at 9 i was like "... huh? it's not going to take me 2 hours to get ready..." so i re-set it and went back to sleep for another 45 minutes. (just in case i remembered a reason for setting it so early.) and then i did, but it was just that i needed to run next door to read to spellcheck my spanish paper. ("read", by the way, is the name of the dorm next to mine. i just realized that that sentence looks really confusing if you don't know that. anyway, there's a computer lab in read, and their version of word has spanish spellcheck. unlike sam.)
but, that took like 5 minutes. yes.
i was really amused also, because yesterday i was looking for the lid to my nalgene, and i coooouldn't find it. but this morning, i stretched my arm out under my pillow and... yeah, there it was. (it reminded me of that scene in
dogma where she finds the maracas. except, i'm pretty sure that the voice of god didn't put a nalgene lid under my pillow.)
dude, so you know the song "origin of love" from
hedwig? (just smile and nod if you don't.) aaanyway, i totally didn't know that was from plato. well, not the song itself. although it would be AMAZING if plato wrote rock musicals. but yeah, i'm sitting here reading the
symposium for humanities, and all of a sudden he starts talking about there being three genders, and... yeah.
for another thing, the shape of each human being was a rounded whole, with back and sides forming a circle. each one had four hands and the same number of legs, and two identical faces on a circular neck. they had one head for both the faces, which were turned in opposite directions, four ears, two sets of genitals, and everything else was as you would imagine from what i've said so far. [...]
after much thought, zeus had an idea: "i think i have a plan by which human beings could still exist but be too weak to carry on their wild behavior. i shall now cut each of them into two; they will be weaker and also more useful to us because there will be more of them. they will walk around upright on two legs. if we think they're still acting outrageously, and won't settle down, i'll cut them in half again so that they move around hopping on one leg.
like whoa!! (i really hope that someone else didn't know that, because i'll feel reallly dumb if i'm all excited and everyone else is like, "duh renata, of
course hedwig and the angry inch references plato.")
with that, i'm off like a bride's nightie.
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