Should I be here at the present moment? Most likely not. Nevertheless ... first things second, second things first. School can wait, or at least, it had better, seeing as it took up more than its fair share of my life this past week. Now is some quality ME time.

And belated MEME time. Hence:

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now.
Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs.
Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.




1. "DEAD END" - DBSK - Because it's new. And because my common sense is telling me to wait for the cheaper Korean edition of the "Five in the Black" album to be released before buying, but the rest of me is all but dying in the process of waiting.
2. "Begin" - DBSK - Still ultimately one of my favorite DBSK songs, even alongside the appeal of their faster-paced works. My Jae bias might also have some hand in this.
3. The "Winter Sonata" soundtrack in general - Appreciation of beauty. Simple as that.
4. "Mood Rings" - Relient K - Universal truth in a nutshell. A peanut shell, if I must be specific.
5. "Choosey Lover" - DBSK - No explanation necessary for this one, I hope.
6. "Balloons" - DBSK - Alright, really. As if anyone really expected DBSK to take up less than half of this list.
7. "What U Want" - CSJH - I always did prefer this song over "Boomerang" or "The Club," for some reason.

I don't believe I will tag anyone at the moment. I might use the threat of doing so as leverage later on, though, so those on my f-list who haven't already done this ... beware? XD;

My Harvard interview was just this Tuesday, the 13th (how appropriate). I hardly dare say myself whether it went well or not; it wasn't disastrous, that's all I will venture for the time being. If Harvard does end up accepting me, then perhaps I can [mentally] laugh and grind the fact into Stanford's metaphorical face. If not, I will still count my blessings. After all, I have no intention of actually going to Harvard, whatever the case may turn out to be. Besides, if I am not mistaken, Kurt Vonnegut's novel Jailbird (fiction, of course) provided an intriguing breakdown of the humble population of the Federal Minimum Security Adult Correctional Facility. There were at least eight Harvard men tossed in there, the book's protagonist included. Plus an abundance of Ph.Ds, doctors and dentists enough to go around, too many lawyers to count ... Cute, if not precisely the best incentive for going to Harvard, or even for entering a particularly lucrative profession.

The irony in this? My interviewer (an attorney, incidentally) and I actually had a fascinating little discussion on Vonnegut, both of us being, naturally, avid readers. I don't recall whether I specifically brought up Jailbird. Just peachy for me, if in fact I did.

To conclude, a self-diagnosis (as good practice for when I will be a doctor, possibly also holed up in the Federal Minimum Security Adult Correctional Facility):

I am currently suffering the combined symptoms of senioritis and anti-senioritis. Just enough of the first to make every iota of schoolwork feel like the culmination of all tedium. Just enough of the second to be motivated to sacrifice life and limb in getting said schoolwork done to the best of my ability, solely for the purpose of proving to myself that I DON'T have senioritis.

What shall I do? Well, there isn't much that I CAN do except ensure that I don't allow the senioritis infection to overpower the anti-senioritis before the end of the school year -- or at least until the latter half of May, when AP exams will be over and done with. Or at least just for a couple more weeks, until spring break. I am a believer in incrementalism. That, Wicca, and world peace.



And in case I am struck by lightning or otherwise rendered incapable of showing up on LJ on the 21st ... ^-^ Happy birthday, Bel.