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nearly roadkill

hey, so i'm thinking of starting to pack my bags for japan, but instead i thought i'd make a little update because i feel like it. i'm leaving for tokyo on the 26th, we'll be there for a week, then to kyoto for about a month and a half, then i forget where we go. but anyway!

so yesterday i went on the spanking new delhi metro. me and my mum and my cousin karen and two of my mum's friends went to chandni chowk to see some temples and buy stuff. now chandni chowk is quite crowded (like most of india - what a coincidence!) but in the little paths that we have to go through to get around, there are also cycle rickshaws (not motorized ones), scooters and motorcycles.

of course, this one monkey on a motorcycle hit me in the back of the leg with his bike. so i shout out and turn around, and he looks at me for a second. he doesn't say anything, so i yell "what the hell are you doing??!"

"sorry, sorry." i turn around because i can't be bothered with apes like these, and then he says "why are you crying?"

so then my cousin gets angry and says i'm not crying, and my mum is asking what happened. i turn around and the guy is behind me again: "i was almost run over by THIS idiot!"

my mum being my mum, she goes over and starts shouting at the monkey. i join in because i've been irritated for the past few days, and i think he's kind of flustered because he's being yelled at from two directions.

at one point he says to me "YOU should have looked out!"

"so i have to have eyes on the back of my head!?!" i shouted.  it sounds really stupid but i swear on my nutsacc that he said that. ooh, he also asked me why i was getting angry.

anyway, my mum and i told him off and then he was about to leave and i taught him a Very Important Lesson. i told him: "look, be cool, man. watch where you're going."

sounds so corny! i felt like the teacher in south park, m'kay?

well, that was my big adventure yesterday.

ooh, i'm famous! there's an article on me on colgate's website about my summer project. although the guy who wrote it didn't put quotes around some of the stuff i said. oh well.

i don't wanna do my exams....

i'm doing the core japan take-home right now, it's going fine but i still don't want to do it. then tomorrow i have japanese. after that i have music history on tuesday. then my last thing is an analysis paper for composition, for thursday.

should i just dump this xanga stuff? i don't update anymore, just don't feel like it.

oh well....

zone

i got the grant for my summer project! so i'll be studying composition and instrumentation with one of the music professors here, mark volker, until july 7th!

then back home!

spring is finally here at colgate. it's amazingly sunny, barely windy, and warm. it's nice to step outside and find that it's warmer than it is inside!

put the songs that i wrote during winter break into sibelius and put that up at my sibelius music site: check it here.

then just the usual.  bhangra night  is tomorrow night! should be fun. we've got dance practice for dancefest from 3-5 this afternoon. good stuff.

i've been happy pretty much continuously since it's been sunny. took the slowest walk possible back to my room after my last class today, smiling like a monkey with thirty coconuts. if any of the nutsacc guys had seen me, they would have said i'm stoned.