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Name: Alex Zalman
Gender: Male
Interests: Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle, Neo-claſſical architecture, Ornamental and outdated characters and ligatures, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
Expertise: I'm ſomewhat competant in the area of 16th century counterpoint.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
AIM:  gibicheim
Member Since:
6/28/2006
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| My finalized ſchedule
Monday:
9.00: Thoery
10.00: Philoſophy ſection
11.00: Philoſophy lecture
12.00: Linear Algebra
1.00: German
Tueſday:
9.30: Muſic hiſtory
11.00: Keyboard ſkills
12.00: Linear Algebra ſection
1.00: German
Wedneſday:
9.00: Thoery
11.00: Philoſophy lecture
12.00: Linear Algebra
1.00: German
Thurſday:
9.30: Muſic hiſtory
11.00: Keyboard ſkills
1.00: Pianiſt recital hour
3.00: Studio claſs
4.00: Muſicology colloquium
Friday:
9.00: Theory
11.00: Philoſophy
12.00: Linear Algebra
1.00: German
2.00: Piano leſſon
In other news, I feel like I'm being pulled in too many different directions: There's the part of me that wants to get ſtraight As and become a ſcholar, the part of me that wants to practice and become a muſician and the part of me that feels aſhamed at not having gone to a party and gotten waiſted yet.
Oh, and I've decided that I uſe the word "ghetto" too much, ſo I'm going to ſtart interchanging it with "provincial." Come to think of it, I can do that, ſeeing as how I'm a New Yorker in the Midweſt. | | |
| So, for this entry, I'm taking a page out of Paul's book (forgive uſleſs expreſſion) and writing an entry entitled "bad good and ugly." So, without further ado:
BAD GOOD AND UGLY
[Note: For thoſe of you reading this on facebook, ſorry if I end up tagging like, everyone]
[Note No. 2: Inſtead of having "good" "bad" and "ugly" as categories and liſting my experiences under them, I'm going to have each experience count as a category and liſt whether they are "good" "bad" or "ugly" or all that apply]
1. Conſtantly locking myſelf out of my room
-bad
2. Having people walk in on me trying to ſleep in the Willard ſtudy lounge on a Friday night (ſhirtleſs--I didn't think anyone would come in)
-bad
-ugly
3. Then ſtaying up until two with "ſophiſticated ſophomores" and CAs playing "uno."
-good
4. Placing out of 3 quarters of theory and 4 quarters of aural ſkills
-good
5. Having to take keyboard ſkills
-originally bad, now aweſome
6. On that note, getting credit for a claſs where all you do is tranſpoſe things and harmonize melodies
-good
7. Having pianiſt lunches
-good
8. Staying up until 2.00am playing "taboo" with my floor-mates
-good
9. Sock wreſtling
-good
-ugly
10. Racing down the floor of my hall
-good
-ugly
11. Hot cookie bars on Friday and Sunday nights
-good
-ugly
12. Blaſting claſſical muſic all over my floor
-good
13. Being notified that my claſſical muſic is very annoying to people on the other end of the building
-bad
14. Me and Meri unſucceſſfully looking for a party one Friday night
-bad
15. Me awkwardly hanging out with Rachel's friends
-good
-bad
16. Staying up late on a Saturday night watching "Die Walkure" in my room
-good
17. Rachel not returning my facebook meſſages
-bad
18. Taylor returning my watch
-good
19. Me conſtantly forgetting to reſpond to her facebook meſſages
-bad
20. Playing Chopin's ſecond Scherzo (B flat minor) and kicking its aſs
-good
21. Cheating on my Scherzo with the ſecond Hindemith Sonata (<33333)
-good
22. Hanging out with the girls in rogers houſe (girls dorm)
-good
23. Being facebooked by people who I thought had forgotten about me (leſs than three Maddy)
-good
24. Miſſing Rebecca enormouſly
-bad
25. Video chatting with Sophie
-good
26. Staying up until 1.30 doing homework
-good
-bad
27. Viſiting Sam and Sandra in Chicago
-good
28. Fairy tale caſtle at the muſeum of Science and Induſtry
-good
29. Running through rain that was ſo hard that I could barely breathe with Meri
-good
-bad
-ugly
30. College in general
-good
-bad
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| Meriwether: Zalman, the backround of your computer is really weird. What is it?
Zalman: It's a bunch of pebbles, and it's one of the images that comes with the computer. I've been too lazy to find a better image on google.
Meriwether: You &383hould though, this one is really weird [and ugly]
Alright, &383o la&383t night I tried a bunch of google image &383earches on a wild goo&383e cha&383e to find an appropriate image for my de&383ktop. So the fir&383t keyword I entered was "heaven." Go ahead! I dare you! Do a google image &383earch for heaven, and &383ee what comes up.
Anyways, after that I tried a &383earch for "clouds" and ended up with the mo&383t ghetto a&383&383ortment of clouds I've ever &383een. Having failed that, I eventually ended up &383ettling for Gu&383tave Doré's la&383t illu&383tration of The Divine Comedy.
That's not really what I wanted though. I wanted a picture of crumbling ionic collumns on ſome ſtone checkerboard plane that extended off into infinity while ſimultaneouſly floating through the heavens with the ſun ſetting in the diſtance. Go figure.
In other news, I ſpilled juice all over my crotch in Math claſs today and had to walk around the campus looking like a girl who has juſt had her firſt period. Fun.
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| Currently liſtening to: the Kyrie from Mozart's Requiem. Sam, if you're reading this on facebook, you muſt go to my xanga to hear this piece (again, www.xanga.com/In_Saecvia_Saecviorvm).
Me and Meri had a nice time on Friday night, baſically chilling (ſigh... yes, at Starbucks). Afterwards, however, I realized I was locked out of my room, ſo I went to the ſecond floor ſtudy lounge and tried to ſleep there. It was a little awkward trying to go to ſleep to the noiſe of people in the hallways and bathrooms near by drinking and throwing up. I didn't think anyone would come into the ſtudy lounge on Friday night, ſo it was pretty awkward when a bunch of ſophomores walked in on me in the dark, ſleeping without my ſhirt on. I ended up joining their game of Uno for a few hours though--that was pretty fun.
Anyway, I went to viſit Sam and his girlfriend Sandra the next day. It was pretty fun--we went to the muſeum of Science and Induſtry where we enjoyed (aſide from the free brownies and ſoda offered by the Univerſity of Chicago) ſeveral exhibits, the moſt exciting of which was deffinitely the fairy tale caſtle (deſpite its irrelevence to Science and Induſtry).
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/fairy_castle/fchome.html
The next morning we went to this diner in the hood. It gave me a really good idea for a movie--it's called Diner and it's about the hillarious and outſpoken crazies that make up an urban diner on the ſouth ſide of Chicago. And yes, the ſequal is called Diner 2: Back in buſineſs.
In other news, I'm ſtill ſort of wondering if I fit in at Northweſtern. It's pretty hard to figure out where you belong among 7,000 undergrads. To thoſe of you who have aſked me "how's Northweſtern?", I ſtill need ſome more time before I can back to you on that. We'll ſee.
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| This Kyrie is actually really, really cool.
-Mem
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