GODDAMMIT! why does this keep happening? my alarm didn't go off again, which means I missed Philosophy for the third time in four classes, and then I missed French, and I didn't go to Syntax either, since I woke up ten minutes before it and I figure what the hell, I haven't missed it once all semester. But I can't figure out what's going on with all this. I mean, besides the fact that my alarm keeps not going off, I seem to be falling into a general academic apathy that's really pretty new for me. I'm not sure if it's just because I'm so busy with other stuff and my classes aren't all that stimulating right now anyway, and that I'll regain my enthusiasm or desire to put in energy when I come back next year. Anyway. I was up late last night (3:00) talking to Joel as he tried to write a paper on Blake; discussing Judaism (again, but more conclusively) and Inflight. I guess I should write about yesterday (Monday) now, and then I'll go back and write about Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday in the space provided for them.

There was class in the morning, and then I came back here to find cool stuff from my bands that are gonna be coming: ten huge glossy posters and two CDs from Infectious, a CD from Sister Blue (ten poster and 2 CDs from JBE came on Friday), as well as the Califone record and a DVD of the Sting, from Half. I ate a good deal - leftover lasagna and a tasty toasted-cheddar w/ mango chutney openface, and I decided to go to the last Culture class. It turned out to be not so exciting as I had hoped; Bruce basically just talked for the whole time, did some summarizing and gave some advice for the future, but on the whole wasn't particularly funny. At halftime Jocelyn bought me a tasty coconut-banana smoothie, and then we came back to watch 15 minutes of a video about Bourdieu, "sociologie est un sport de combat." Then I met Kate Duffy downstairs, to be interviewed for a Phoenix article about Worthstock. We wandered over here and I let her borrow the CDs of the bands that will be playing. I made a copy of the Sister Blue album, and then marked that and the extra IO and JBE discs for WSRN - using yellow paint pen! - and wrote track-by-track commentary for JBE and general guidelines for Infectious. And I took a full sheet of newsprint (ads from the real estate section) and turned it into a poster exhorting DJs to announce Worthstock. Took those up to the station to kick off the Worthstock publicity frenzy. Rachel is contributing mailbox stuffers and three pieces of chalk. I made a point of getting to African to drum, since it was the last time for that, and it was pretty fun. Class wasn't bad either. SAC meeting was very businesslike - we had an agenda all printed out and everything, and discussed policy changes for next year. I tried to practice but didn't have the energy for it, so I came home and dealt with Worthstock e-mail stuff. And then stayed up talking to Joel. And listening to WSRN - Christy played Quasi and S-K and Le Tigre announced Worthstock ("Food! Live Music! Ross's Uncle!"), Jonah had his famed pirate show (I listened, I listened, arrrr!) and then Nicole, who followed my set at the parlour sessions, played contempo R&B and gave a hilarious PSA for Worthstock, trying to read my newspaper ("let's see…Infectious Organisms, they play hip-hop…Jim's Big Ego, they'll play rock, pop, folk, and… funny, okay i don't know what that is, i'm sorry… sister blue plays the blues, inflight rock band, let's see, art…rock, and, oh, synthesized pop, i think is what that means … and then Mayfly, that's jazz, funk, soul, bluegrass, and jamming … i'm sorry, i don't know what jamming is…") That was the day; not a terribly exciting one. I'm going to write about some earlier ones now.

her transistor offers no salvation or regret
no pool, no pets, no cigarettes
just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes

there's no name
no name for the place
or pain we'll cause you
again and again
if you do not cooperate