I can feel the soil falling over my head
Apr. 10th, 2009 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ferrumaeternumArrrgghhh! I haven’t had as much as a mild cold in over a year, but I somehow contracted strep last weekend. (I suspect it’s from the guy who sneezed on me in the crowd at the Morrissey concert, since I started coming down with it on Sunday night.) At first I figured the sore throat was just from fatigue, since I’d been up 'til 5:00 AM writing that midterm I put off when I had a week to write it. By Tuesday my throat was so swollen I could barely eat and ended up sleeping through two of my classes because I had a high fever, joint and muscle pain, and nausea. After class on Wednesday I went home to go to urgent care, and by then my tonsils, ears, and nose were infected in addition to my throat. I’m not contagious now, but I feel bad about all the people I may have unknowingly infected as I also went to most of my classes on Thursday. Catherine is also home this weekend for Easter, so I’m not sure if I should take a chance and hang out with her when the end of the semester is upon us. I still feel like crap, so I’m thinking not anyway.
But at least I’m getting $168 for my tax return after not get anything last year! The timing couldn’t be better with my next tattoo appointment a few weeks away and will cover most of the cost if not all of it.
Remember my astronomy professor I complained about all of last semester? He was just featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for having a record amount of students drop his class and the lowest GPAs of any subject taught at the university! I guess this justifies all the bitching I did. It’s no less than he deserves, though.
I’ve also been obsessively listening to Eluveitie’s new album, Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion, that leaked. I figured a Celtic folk metal band doing an acoustic album couldn’t go wrong if they tried, and it’s even better than expected. (Then again, I do love straight up Celtic folk music as it is.) It still has lyrics in Gaulish and their signature darker pagan feel to it, but very minimal use of harsh vocals. There are several lively jigs and reels with plenty of flute, tin whistle, and pipes as well as slower, mysterious, ethereal songs. I particularly like "Carnutian Forest", "Momento" (bagpipes!), "The Cauldron of Renascence", "The Arcane Dominion", and of course "Omnos":
Anyway, Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it and a happy belated Ostara to my fellow pagan friends!
But at least I’m getting $168 for my tax return after not get anything last year! The timing couldn’t be better with my next tattoo appointment a few weeks away and will cover most of the cost if not all of it.
Remember my astronomy professor I complained about all of last semester? He was just featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for having a record amount of students drop his class and the lowest GPAs of any subject taught at the university! I guess this justifies all the bitching I did. It’s no less than he deserves, though.
I’ve also been obsessively listening to Eluveitie’s new album, Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion, that leaked. I figured a Celtic folk metal band doing an acoustic album couldn’t go wrong if they tried, and it’s even better than expected. (Then again, I do love straight up Celtic folk music as it is.) It still has lyrics in Gaulish and their signature darker pagan feel to it, but very minimal use of harsh vocals. There are several lively jigs and reels with plenty of flute, tin whistle, and pipes as well as slower, mysterious, ethereal songs. I particularly like "Carnutian Forest", "Momento" (bagpipes!), "The Cauldron of Renascence", "The Arcane Dominion", and of course "Omnos":
Anyway, Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it and a happy belated Ostara to my fellow pagan friends!
