5.28.01

wow, 5.28 already. the days are slipping past quickly, in that lazy-summer vacation sort of way. i’m not working terribly hard at the the idaho shakespeare festival yet, so i have a lot of my days free. i’m kind of lonely, but i’m also getting a lot of down time that i really really needed. tasks i’ve assigned myself for the summer:

-study for the GRE so that i can really whomp it when i take it later this summer. sibling rivalry is driving me at least as much as the desire to get into a good graduate program.

-work out a bunch and get back in shape. there were formative years in my life in which i thought of myself as a runner, and that was central to my identity…now i’m only a person who runs, or, lately, not even that. a person who once ran, and is now woefully out of shape. of course, i can blame my balance disorder for side-lining me, but the fact still remains that i’ve grown fat and lazy, like a cat in the sunshine.

-finally learn to play the guitar. i have lessons with the Guitar Nazi on mondays. it’s unfortunate that my nickname for him has stuck, since he probably is a nice man. we just got off on the (very) wrong foot involving some miscommunications about my first lesson, and he turns out to be a deeply anal retentive person about scheduling and billing, not to mention practice schedules. imagine my surprise when i met him and discovered that he actually has a hitler moustache. now there’s no going back; he has become the Guitar Nazi.

-read all those big books i bought in iowa city (see 5.7.01), in order to justify having to drag them all over from iowa to sf to idaho.

-convince nick to go backpack around europe with me in the fall. actually, that part of the plan is pretty much taken care of i think. the more difficult task is figuring out how the hell i’m going to pay for it.

-convince everyone in the bay area (and iowa) to come up to idaho and visit me, because i miss them all terribly already.