My hallowe'en costume was very nice but ultimately mostly an annoyance. Almost no one at school dressed up, a man followed me down the street making fun of it, and I ended up ditching it under a chair at the amusement park where we went to see lame haunted houses. Alas! Next year I will dress like a "pharmacy student" maybe. Wait actually next year hallowe'en is conveniently on a sunday, so I can forget school and dress like an idiot in the evening if I please.

I am finally well! To celebrate I went to get a flu shot, a sort of insuring the burnt-down barn move but who knows, maybe I got the uncommon flu. It was a nice excuse to skip class, anyway.

There are only four more weeks of class left! I realized today while researching drugs for an assignment that school is going really well. I mean, I have a bunch of lame classes, and too many of them and stress stress stress, but on the whole I'm really happy about the whole affair. Things are interesting and manageable and I can wear jeans every day and read about fabulous things all the time. I have even managed to mellow about grades and money a bit. I am full-on expecting next year to be a happy party. Yay!

And it's sunny out. For winter hey, it's not bad. (Once it stops being summer, it is instantly winter in my mind. I do not recognize autumn, and spring is only the period between daylight savings and june, when rain and clouds are tempered with the optimism that increasing hours of daylight bring.)

I finished my sweater and wore it to biology class today. Someone passed me a note saying "nice sweater! :)" - my classmates have been watching me knit it all semester as I ignore the instructor. Now I am working on a scarf instead of paying attention.

I have such a crush on Purcell's "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary." The crazy kettle drums, the story behind it, it's all fab. (Her body was kept on ice for 2 months while he composed appropriate music. Then a few months after that he died and they played the same music.) But anyway today's crush is because I just noticed one of the tunes in the middle is titled "O, I'm sick of life." I'd never really listened to the words before, but yes, it's a lengthy choral work involving a massed choir singing about how life sucks and they want to die. Brilliant! It's so.. teen angst.