Music/Books/Frisbee

Lately I've been listening to - The Bad Plus, a jazz band that do crazy cool covers of songs you know, Paul van Dyk, trance music, and my roommates country band playing Ophelia in our apartment a lot. links - badplus

I've been reading - Usher by B.H. Fairchild, an incredible and super heady book of poems that are just out of this world, links - The Gray Man ; Frieda Pushnik . I also just read a little 7 comic series called Eternals, written but not created by Neil Gaiman. Also read Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic which was okay, but he has way better stuff out there.

I got the job as the prose editor for our school's Literary Magazine, The Leviathan! I'll send y'all issues when I start working on them next fall, it should be pretty fun - it's a good group of people working on the magazine.

One of my friends, Lisa Sundeen, and I are currently working on a big project to move to paperless teacher evaluations which would be posted online for students to see, so that you could know how a teacher or class is rated. We are modeling this loosely on Pomona's one, but our goal is to make it the standardized version of class/teacher evals for all classes so that teachers aren't doubling up with their own evals.

Got a costume tournament in kansas this weekend - i think we have 9 people going which should be tough but fun. Bravo early tryout scrimmage against mamabird tomorrow night. That's about it. Everybody post - it's good for ya.

What's everyone else reading/listening to?

spring break

I went halfway down the baha peninsula with about 40 other kids. Legitimately one of the coolest places I have ever been. Every day the most pressing thing we had to do was wake up before the fish taco stand closed (and get these great lunches for less than four dollars). The whole place was actually ridiculously inexpensive. In total everything was about two hundo, gas, insurance, food, drink, stay. We had 4 super nice houses in a villa directly on the beach and I was staying in the best one with a close group of friends from school.



But in the end the thing I will probably remember the most was the bio-luminescence. I had never even heard of it before this trip and the ocean was full of it every night. One night me and Brett decided to go out and the ocean was like a swimming pool (in that there was no wind, no waves) and the night was very dark so it was perfect for seeing the luminescence. We went out on a kayak and the ocean was breathtaking. Each paddle stroke lit up the water like a sparkler and the wake of the boat was this explosion of white green light. When we got going fast enough the front of the kayak rose up and a this ball of light filled the gap, also enough light was created that the bottom of the ocean (5 or 6 feet) was clearly visible as if we had flashlights covering that area. People from the shore watched us go back and forth for about fourty five minutes it was that enthralling.
like this - but way cooler - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN1Yxq8KMsw (1:12 is particularly good)
We played a lot of magic, settlers and cornhole.
I also learned how to drive stick (sort of).

happy birthday

mom and mr spiva!