O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud-
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says, 'I burn.'
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use Language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end
And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.

by the Frost. I am liking that one a lot today. We're singing a version of it in choir, and it's a very pleasant relief from all the christ this and sin that we're otherwise singing. I guess that's what we get for doing our concert with a christian church choir. And I mean, they're very nice, but it makes the repertoire a bit lopsided, and it's lopsided to begin with since so much choir music is christian anyway that it's hard to keep a balance anyway. I think for our concert we have the christian requiem plus several other christian songs, one jewish anthem, and then this one, which we're not singing with the other choir. Hmm. Oh well. At least we have more variety in what we sing at services. And the requiem is very beautiful.

Sleepy girl! Instead of going to bed when I got home last night, I stayed up drawing ansi. Not much ansi or very impressive ansi even. It makes me want to do more, maybe design something to be transferred to some physical medium. Although first in line there is a series of four ansis I want to do as a quadtych in acrylic, and another one I want to get on canvas.. I feel like my ansi will disappear if I don't transform it somehow, because it's a medium so dependent on out of date computing platforms. Sigh!

I can't believe it's friday, it was so monday yesterday. 5 more weeks on the school merry-go-round. I have a bio midterm next week which I thought was the week after, doh. So I have to study for two midterms this weekend, bleargh! But then I guess I won't have much studying the week after. Hoom hoom.

Probability of precipitation: 90%. Hmph! So much for a walk. Maybe I'll hit the aquarium and do my lab. Or just do more math. I want to go running, even in the rain, but there's no time or energy for it. 5 more weeks. Hurry up.