With a cool 23½ hours remaining before the deadline, last night I sent in my entry for the Turner Classic Movies Young Composers Competition. I'm moderately happy with it, I suppose, although receiving confirmation number 00000258 does worry me slightly. I was hoping for closer to 100 entries; assuming TCM started counting at 00000001, it'll probably be 300 by day's end. (On the other hand, apparently this was advertised on TCM itself, so perhaps a fair number of the entries are complete amateurs who thought, hey, why not, how hard can it be to write music.) So, projected odds of me being one of the 10 semifinalists: 5 to 1. Projected odds of me winning it all: 60 to 1, which still gives me a $160 expected value on seven or eight hours of work, so I can't complain too loudly.
...can the Republican candidate for President be a pro-choice atheist.
--- I am green.
Kim's parents have tickets to Letterman tonight. (We think it's for tonight's show, but we're not completely sure, as he tapes both Thursday's and Friday's shows on Thursdays.)
--- Our summer vacation.
We threw around a lot of ideas on this one -- Hawaii, a Caribbean cruise, the Florida SeaQuest trip, random states we haven't visited before (North Dakota! Idaho!) -- but we decided a couple weeks ago on Los Angeles plus San Diego. I've never been, Kim hasn't been in years, it's relatively cheap (especially since we'll be using Kim's United miles for our otherwise expensive tickets), and, you know, North Dakota. Of course, Disneyland will slightly less fun than if we'd gone four months ago -- Kim actually has to pay attention to the "pregnant women should not ride this attraction" signs -- but still, it should be a fun trip.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
