It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Yes, the sun is finally out. The sky is clear. The air is crisp. Its perfect.
Other people's lives
Poor Karen. She found out today her advisor is switching schools in April. This means she will either have to move with him, or find a new advisor at Cranfield to work with while still communicating with her current advisor long distance. She didn't make mention of where the potential new school is (that's kind of an important thing to leave out, don't you think?). Anyway, my mind is brimming with possibilities for her - possibly some place more exciting than Cranfield (that's almost anywhere)? Or more in the middle of no where? She's had a hard time finding friends in Cranfield, maybe she'll have better luck at new school - but then she'd have to give up everyone she met at Cranfield? Maybe new school will have undergrads (and therefore more active extracurriculars)? Hm. Possibilities!
And, on another people's life, this morning Sarah didn't come to class, and Greta told me that I am supposed to tease her for it and tell her that she has an unexcused absense unless she was at Boot Camp again, and then she's just gone crazy.
I have the weirdest mind sometimes
I bought a pomegranite at the grocery store the other day. I guess I was in the mood, because I had just read an article in the NYTimes saying that it was pomegranite season and they are good for you (they have antioxidants, someone will have to explain why that is good for me). I just like the bitter sweet taste.
Anyway, last night, after dinner, I started eating the seeds for desert. For each seed I ate, I couldn't help thinking that I was condemmed to an additional month at the Queen of the Dead (a la Persephone). You shouldn't have to think that while eating desert (though if you had to do that while eating chocolate cake, the whole world would be thinner)!
Elections
Well, my vote didn't count, 'cause the Republicans basically swept Texas. I don't understand why the papers and such kept saying all the races were hotly contested and all the votes were too close to call - because nearly every major candidate won by over 10%. What was funny was the news last night was calling races with only 4 or 5% of the precincts even reporting in. I think that's just a BIT presumptious.
I feel since this was my first in-person voting experience, I should say *something* about it. First of all, talk about unsecure! All I had to do was sign a roll of paper, and then they gave me a scantron form (you know the sheets of paper that you use a number 2 pencil to bubble things in?) Then I went and sat down at a desk (with the like 4 other people who were actually voting at the same time I was) and was barely shetlered from peaking over next to me by a sheet of cardboard. There was no curtain or anything, so basically anyone walking through the door could look over my shoulder and see who I was voting for. I was very disappointed not to have a lever or a punch card or something (let alone one of the fancy computer slates or touch screens they are apparently phasing in for more civilized districts). And then I just slid my ballot into this big locked tin box.
It was all very dodgey.
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day
