I have a billion books and articles to read, a midterm (12 pages long) to turn in, two presentations, and five papers (each one of t least 25 pages) to complete within the next few weeks. The story of my boring life. Nevermind the fact that I work 40+ hours and that I am feeling beyond fatigued these days. Thank God for not doing any TA work this semester. If I had to grade undergrad exams and papers I’d probably cut my veins open at this point.

For the above reasons, and more, I have been absent from this journal (and probably will be gone for a few more days). I need to ensure good grades, so that my tuition reimbursement from my employer helps me with expenses when I leave to Austria.

Speaking of the trip, I have two more activities planned and (one of them is) paid for: Tori Amos will be performing in Sweden, as part of the Hultsfred Music Festival. The festival will take place on the 16th of June and includes other favourites of mine such as The Mars Volta. Tori will be playing other dates, so I may possibly catch her show on a different date and in a different venue.

I think I will leave this post short and sweet. I am sleepy and need to get up around six to continue reading.

By the way, I am in love with latest Stereophonics. I did not expect to like it as much.

Oh, before I go, if anyone needs an invite for either Gmail or the new Yahoo! 360° blogging system, I have several of them to share with friends and cool strangers. Just leave me a comment and I will send you one (as long as I don’t run out of’em, of course).

And with that, I’m off to bed. Night, night.

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With a little bit over two months left before my short sabbatical in Vienna, I am starting to consider some of my “extra-curricular” activities while I’m there. One of the things I found today while checking the website for one my musical obsessions is that they will be playing at Club Szene Wien in Vienna on June 22nd. This will be the first time I see Songs: Ohia in concert. I am so psyched now! :)

And that’s all I have to say for today. Work was uneventful (we have some secondary audit going on now, but I don’t care enough to stress over anything now). School was rather boring, even though we were discussing a very interesting book (my mind just wasn’t into it). Now I am very tired and don’t think I will be able to read the five chapters due for tomorrow’s seminar. I am a mess.

I have added a link to my radio.blog at the top the sidebar. I’m rather impressed with the quality of this little Internet gadget (pretty good sound for files playing at 32 or 64 kb). While I love all musical styles, this time I have chosen some of my favourite downtempo, chill-out, and trip-hop. There are 32 of them available for your listening pleasure (since this site doesn’t get as many visitors anymore I am not too concerned with bandwidth issues). Below is the list of all the tracks that I have included.

  • A Girl Called Eddy - Tears All Over Town
  • Abraham - Magpie
  • Caia - The Rose Room
  • Carla Werner - Heaven Is A Word
  • Cibelle - Deixa
  • Engine Room - A Perfect Lie (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)
  • Gaelle - Love You More
  • Gare Du Nord - Pablo’s Blues
  • Goldfrapp - Utopia
  • Kelli Ali - Wings In Motion
  • Lamb - Wonder
  • Llorca - The End (Hepop Original)
  • Malia - I Miss You
  • McKay - Bluesin’ It
  • Morcheeba - Fear and Love
  • Nightmares On Wax - Thinking of Omara
  • Parov Stelar Feat. Anita Riegler - Sometimes
  • Puracane - 100 of Me
  • Rosalia De Souza - Fica Mal Com Deus (Stateless Rework)
  • Saint Etienne - Suburban Autumn Lieutenant
  • Santessa - Sometimes
  • Seawind - Loving You
  • Shea Seger - I Love You Too Much
  • Slowpho - Porno
  • Songs: Ohia - Soul
  • Swing Out Sister - Sugar Free
  • Télépopmuzik - Breathe
  • Thievery Corporation Feat. Perry Farrell - Revolution Solution
  • Tiefschwarz - Never
  • Vanessa Daou - Make You Love
  • Wax Poetic Feat. Norah Jones - Tell Me
  • Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line

Please make sure to take a minute to check the ones by Songs: Ohia (I know only a few songs that sound as sad as this one), Saint Etienne (one of their least known recordings), and Vanessa Daou (one of the most beautiful love songs I can think of).

Enjoy. Please give me some feedback on these selections; I would love to hear from others.

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Listening: In my CD changer…
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily | Heather Small - Proud | Songs: Ohia - Ghost Tropic | Waldeck - The Night Garden | Alison Kraus - Forget About It
—Reading: Part 2 of the works of Larsen and Fauset
—On The Box: Nothing for now…

I have decided to give WordPress a try. After a gazillion years of posting through Blogger it is always nice to give something else a shot. The only bad thing is that I couldn’t import all comments. At any rate, I didn’t have a whole lot of them in recent days and the old ones are probably not too important anyways. I sort of like the ability to group things under categories. I’m sure that there are other nifty things that I will eventually discover.

In unrelated news, I received confirmation today of my much planned summer project. The location is Vienna, and I will be there from the 1st of June through the 27th of August. I had intentions of leaving earlier (my goal was May 6th) but due to academic restrictions I will need to wait a couple of weeks. Three months is more than enough at any rate; I just need to get my mind away from many things and people.

I really have nothing else to write about today. I haven’t done much; this day was needed to relax from the hectic week that just ended, and to prepare for the one that awaits me: returning to school from Spring break, a second minor audit at work, and my triumphant return to the world of fitness (I cannot go back to Europe looking like the poster child for obesity). I am however excited and looking forward to all that is coming. Maybe life will start presenting me with new and happier events; maybe the dark clouds that have accompanied me for the last couple of months years will finally dissipate.

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