Ugh.

[brinshannara]

Today/tomorrow is going to be a bad day.

My dad's mom has a doctor's appointment at 10am. Dad is in a meeting all morning. Mom can't get out of work. My brother has class. Ergo, it falls to me.

My paper's not even CLOSE to being finished. I haven't showered. I obviously haven't slept. I'm seriously considering not going to Italian and only showing up to Social Theory to drop off my paper.

Assume I (miraculously) manage to finish my paper by 6am. That's three hours of sleep before I then get up and go take my grandmother to the doctor's. Home by noon (hopefully), and I have to watch AMC tomorrow, because Bianca's gonna kiss Maggie. <G> (WATCH IT. 1pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific, ABC. WATCH!) That leaves me from 2pm until 3:30 before I have to leave for Italian. Not enough time to sleep. I'd only get about forty minutes in, and it would be restless, because I'd know I'd have to wake up.

This means going to Italian and Social Theory on three hours of sleep. Maximum.

Fun, fun.

To keep me amused and/or entertained during my paper writing, I've made a new iTunes playlist, which I'm now listening to.

And now I will talk about Wicked and AMC and The West Wing. See, Wicked, in case you didn't know (and no, jessruth, I know you know!!) is currently a fairly popular musical that describes the long-time friendship between The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, in The Wizard of Oz. And apart from jessruth's talking about it, my only exposure to it is the news that at the All My Children 35th Anniversary Concert on February 7th, Eden Riegel (Bianca) and Liz Hendrickson (Maggie) will sing For Good, a song from Wicked.

Naturally, I needed to hear this song. A friend gave me a WMA, but I can't burn a protected WMA, so I went and bought it from iTunes tonight. (Random tangent -- iTunes rocks so hard I can't even explain it. I'd had trouble downloading it while the store was having issues, and it was going to charge me AGAIN when I clicked the button again when the store was back up, which made me very grumpy. But then it told me to click the option of Check Purchased Music and it automatically started downloading the song without charging me again! <makes out thoroughyl with iTunes>)

And I'm like... I know this Kristen Chenoweth person who's one of the singers.

She's Annabeth on The West Wing! The short, short person working in the Communications department! The one who cracked me up by like, sneaking up on CJ unexpectedly in an episode a couple of weeks ago. Annabeth is cool! And Annabeth apparently spent a chunk of time on Broadway playing Glinda in Wicked! How wicked is that? (I couldn't resist. Don't shoot!) So that is just very cool to me.

For those that are interested, Eden will be singing Glinda's part, and Liz will be singing Elphaba's. Also, the song makes me cry when I think about them leaving AMC.

And, finally, before I get back to work on this paper, I did the 6 degrees meme thing again. (see previous entry):

I picked "charmed" because that was on TV.

charmed -> rogue_nightwing -> _swallow

It happens that _swallow is a friend of moireach and poisoninjest and yahtzee63. Which is, BTW, the shortest distance between me and charmed. I rock! This could be very addictive.

Okay. Back to Durkheim and anomic suicide.

Comments

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

Ahh, the goodness that is Wicked. Sure beats the pants off anomie. I hate that word. Almost as much as I hate the word "entropy". And not as much as I hate "sui generis". But Wicked. Go ahead and buy the whole OBC recording - you will not regret it. And anything you want to know about the show, the original cast...just ask.

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

And don't even get me started on how much "For Good" makes me cry. I'm gonna have to TiVo AMC just to see this.

[brinshannara]

Oh, the 35th anniversary thing (they've already done the anniversary episode) is a live event going on next Monday at Town City Hall. You should go SEEEEEEE. And somehow, surreptitiously record it for me. ;)

TiVo AMC today anyways. <singsong>Bianca kisses Maaaaggie, Bianca kisses Maaaaaaaggie>

[brinshannara]

You know I'll ask if I have any questions. Thanks. :) (And grrr, I hate the word anomie too. :P)

[trexphile.livejournal.com]

I posted about Chenoweth here and I thought I'd posted about her being on West Wing, but now that I think about it, that was during a conversation in #BONC.

I'd like to have the Wicked cast album too but there are too many other needed purchases that come before that one. Like food.

[brinshannara]

Ahhhhh. I'm only now starting to get to know Chenoweth, and getting to recognize her name. I mean, the name seemed familiar to me, but I didn't really know where from.

I probably won't buy the full cast album soon (despite jessruth's prodding), but if I do, I'll send along a copy or something. :)