entertaining weekend. i went to clint's birthday dinner at the kit kat club. it's a place with astonishingly good drinks and mediocre food and a drag show every half-hour. i had a lemon meringue pie martini. it came with a froth on top that stayed intact throughout prolonged sipping, thus definitely conveying the "meringue" theme, while the "pie" theme was reinforced by the graham-cracker-crumb rim job (oh god, sorry, not what i meant, but i think i'll leave it and see if i get crazy google hits). i mean crumbs ON the rim of the GLASS.

anyway. i was broke after dinner, barely had money for the bus home, and had to stand up in heels on the bus. suck-o. slept well though.

saturday morning i busted some brunch with atool and erik. yummy yummy cultic vegetarian brunch. lazed around their place for a while and met the roommate. all was good.

our class is done with the german textbook and we are now doing practice exams, the real exams from the past 3-4 years. i haven't felt so stupid in years. probably since the last time i had to do a greek sight reading exam. i actually cried last night simply because i couldn't translate the damned paragraph. i mean, these things make NO sense. for example (zum Beispiel): "We want to predict the historical development from the transformation in the attitude of people toward music in the duration, and to imagine first only the unheard-of diversity in the effects of which music is capable. Hardly any other art had such an immediate influence on the human soul, and namely in good senses as well as evil ones. There is music of repulsive triviality and alarming depravity."

obviously this is a problem with my translation SUCKING, but still! does that make sense to anyone else?? oh, here's a winner: "At first we must simply put up with a given and indisputable fact that certain arrangements of tones in many people, of which we approve, that they possess a special sensitivity for music, emotions and feelings, possibly arouse also thoughts."

i am so glad i have class today so i can relieve this horrible suckingness.