Happy Again

Damn what a good day! It was the day we had planned to go to Seattle, but that didn't happen today. Fine with me. I didn't feel like going anywhere. And I actually got stuff done. Finally canceled my EarthLink account, which I don't need when it isn't free and I have Ethernet instead. I also did school-type stuff, like buy most of my books and change my schedule. I no longer have a math class! Instead I have a class on the string quartet, which I'm really excited about. I have to get my books for that one, though. I didn't get them at the same time as my Hum books, because I hadn't actually registered for the class and didn't know exactly what changing my schedule would involve. Not much, as it turned out. It was pretty damn easy. I couldn't find my advister, because her office door was closed when I went by, thus leading me to assume that she wasn't there. So I sent her an e-mail saying that I wanted to change my schedule, and she sent back a message that had my PIN for the SOLaR registration thing. So tomorrow I have to go buy my books for the music class. There are two of them, both about Beethoven. Which I think is kind of funny, because the class covers several composers. At least, according to the catalog, which says the class covers Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Ravel, Schoenberg, Bartok, Shostakovich, Crumb, and Carter. Maybe we'll have readings for the others, or something. The class should be fun. I also have to get one more book for Hum, because I somehow managed to forget to pick up one of them. I was going to go to Powell's to get them, because last semester the Reed bookstore kept running out of stuff. But today I went to see what book or books I would need for Logic and what I would need for the music class. (I got the logic book. That's what it's actually called, The Logic Book.) I decided to take a look at the Hum section, and it turned out that they had all sorts of everything, so I decided, ah hell, I have to get them sometime, might as well do it now. I didn't feel like searching through the used books for a good copy, so I just got new ones for pretty much everything. I don't feel very guilty about spending a bit more, because my dad has a job now, and he was always very understanding about wanting new books. Besides, in most cases it was only a couple dollars differnce. The ones where there would be a big difference, such as with The New Oxford Annotated Bible, they had only new books.

I actually had a proper dinner today, as I went to this little cafe in NW Portland with Matt, Kristina, and Ryan. Matt and Kristina had gone before, and said it was cheap and open late but the service was horrible. Today we found out that that was because you're supposed to go up to the counter and order and then sit down to wait for it, and pay at the counter either before or after you eat. Not sit down and have the waitress come by. Before tonight, I couldn't actually believe that restaurants here close at eight, but we were driving around at 8:15 and I noticed a restaurant or two that was already closed. Ah, Portland, the city that always sleeps, as Meg says.

A bit from the conversation on the way back after dinner:

"Wellesley, the Fisting Duck" (sung to the tune of "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo")