Entr'acte

Interview is tomorrow (today?)! I’m pretty excited since this will be more informative than most my other interviews. I have a loose understanding of what my major actually denotes but I only have a very basic and vague idea of what career paths it opens up. Hopefully I don’t sound like a complete idiot when I respond to the default “why major?” question. It’s times like these that I regret not applying to the UCs under anthropology.

I’m pretty surprised that it only takes around an hour to get to UCB. :o I can’t wait to have car-aoke with my dad on the commute. I’ll have to download some good songs tomorrow (today?) morning while cramming for that Differential Calculus midterm.

I spent my free time today reading Les Miserables to celebrate his life and works. Oddly relaxing. I haven’t had the motivation to settle down and read for hours on end but I realized how much I miss that “in-the-zone” feeling.

• I have just finished writing my worst essay to turn in for class. Dracula is just not my cup of tea.
• Whatever. It’s late. I’m tired. I’m not going to edit that crap.
• Sigh. This week was going pretty well too. That is, until tonight (or really this morning -_-).
• On second thought, my science fiction short story was a pretty bad essay too. That was rather embarrassing.
• I’m hungry but I shouldn’t eat.
• I don’t want to wake up early tomorrow and run.
• I can’t believe I have work until 7:30 tomorrow. WHY. I’LL HAVE A SKIMPY LUNCH AND DINNER AGAIN. But I guess that’s good for my diet.
• At least I’ll be able to finalize tickets for Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular tomorrow (if all goes well with my parents)! Excitement. I hope there’s still good seats left near the middle of the golden circle.
• Dumb Ticketmaster keeps blocking me so I can’t check for seats.
• Thank God it’s Thursday.
• I might be addicted to peanut butter. That stuff is delicious. I don’t know why I’m suddenly hooked onto it even though I’ve had it all my life. Strange.
• Les Miserables is really good. I’m almost halfway through that brick! But I’m really sad that I don’t have time to read it everyday. Work tires me out like crazy even though I just tell at kids to shut up. 
• I swear three kids at work asked if I did anything to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Tuesday. I told them I had a very romantic day without chocolate.

Things I did to celebrate all the love in the world today:

• Wake up to the romantic sounds of the marimba tone.
• Go for a romantic jog in the morning.
• Eat a romantic breakfast consisting of porridge, leftovers, and bread.
• Listen to a romantic lecture on voice leading in music theory.
• Eat a romantic lunch consisting of some yogurt and a banana.
• Attend a oh-so-realistic and romantic world economic conference with delegates from Catopia, Llamaland, and the People’s Republic of Beinland.
• Watch clips of romantic films like The Wolfman and Dracula.
• Romantically yell at kids to do their work at my romantic workplace.
• Eat a romantic apple for dinner.
• Go to sleep at a romantic time in the evening so that I may wake up early to finish romantic homework.

Instead of watching Les Mis with Jennifer, I watched the Phantom movie!

General thoughts: It’s different. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either.

• Singing: Rossum really likes to glissando when she has large leaps. At first it didn’t bother me that much, but she does it EVERY SINGLE TIME. Unacceptable. I didn’t like Butler’s voice either. I feel like he has some kind of a weird accent. Overall, it reminds me of a lion?! Wilson was surprisingly good. I really enjoyed his singing. Miranda Richardson who played Madame Giry didn’t sound strict enough. Jennifer Ellison (Meg Giry) did well but she doesn’t have very many lines. :c I’ve always wanted Meg to have more lines.
• Acting: Minnie Driver did an excellent job as Carlotta. I didn’t like Butler’s take on the Phantom because he wasn’t angry enough. I have neutral feelings about Rossum’s acting. Not bad, not good. I thought Wilson did well as Raoul. He seems like a sweet guy!
• Extra Scenes: That sword fight at the graveyard was vastly unnecessary. I hate how they make Raoul release the Phantom. -_-
• Costumes & Such: How could they change Christine’s masquerade dress? The pink and blue one was so much prettier. Raoul’s hair is really ugly looking though. :c The Phantom’s
• Scenery: I liked how they were able to make a lot of the sets really come alive. The opera house is gorgeous!

Is it better than the 25th anniversary edition? No, definitely not, but I do think it’s worth watching for all Phantom phans.

In other news, I just spent the past 30 minutes conversing in all caps with Jane Jun who is also a massive fan of Ramin/Phantom of the Opera/Les Miserables. She’s even going to see Love Never Dies in theatres this month so I hope we meet up there so we can have a in-person all caps conversation.

I am so glad it’s Thursday. For some reason, I couldn’t motivate myself to do more than the minimum to get by this week. It was a chill week because I slacked off but that only means all the work I haven’t been doing piles up for this weekend. -_- Stupid Iris.

To celebrate, I went to Trader Joe’s today and bought lots of yummy pita chips! I was going to get more of the Cinnamon & Sugar ones but they only had one bag left. :c

I’m starting the livestream in around five minutes!

I’m livestreaming the 25th anniversary performance at around 8PM (PST) this evening, because Jennifer has yet to see Ramin in all his glory. If anyone on here is interested, here’s the link!

(Re)Watching POTO is the perfect reward to a long Sunday of endless homework. I have yet to get through 4+ days worth of Dracula reading and essay outlining. Nor have I gotten through ten chapters of music theory in preparation for Tuesday’s lecture on Chapter 11. On the bright side, I feel pretty confident with all the different non-chord tones after that big review session last week. I haven’t finished my essay and resume for that online class either, but at least, I’m ahead of the game for Differential Equations! I’m glad Jane and I got some good work done on The Lonely Pen these past few days and I might be getting a job soon too. Excitement.

I have so much stuff to do for the next few days. :c