So today has thus far been an uneventful day. I woke up at 7:56, 4 minutes before my alarm, and I remembered to turn it off today. I went out to the kitchen to eat some honey nut cheerios for breakfast only to discover that Jessie and I have some uninvited guests. Despite the fact that I conducted genetic studies on fruit flies in high school, I was not pleased to see the swarm of them surrounding the mound of dishes and pop cans in our kitchen. But, seeing as how I was too tired and too lazy to take care of it, and as I was far too excited to see "Benny and Joon," I went into the living room and ignored the swarm of red and white eyed, straight and curly winged insects and enjoyed my breakfast.

The movie was as magical as I first remembered it, only for some reason it didn't strike me to be quite as charming as "Danny Deckchair," a cute romantic comedy I picked up at Family Video last night. Any movie where a man flies away in a deckchair tied to massive helium ballons wins in my book, especially since the balloons were yellow.

I then sat around for a while, playing games, and listening to music, and then took a shower. I then tried to read my schoolbooks, but was constantly reminded that my 9th grade biology project followed me to Grandville so I finally decided to clean up the kitchen. I must say, fruit flies move pretty slow and are quite easy to kill. I should probably wash my hands before I eat anything. It's amazing how no matter how many fruit flies you kill, more just keep coming. I hope they didn't lay any eggs.

Well, classes have started (again) and I am finding out that I am going to have LOTS of extra time on my hands this semester...which pleases me greatly. I have class from 3-9 on Mondays, and 3-6 on Wednesdays...which gives me a full day to do just about anything I please! Tuesday and Thursdays I work from 8-12 then have class from 1-2:15 then 4-5:15. Once again, I feel like I'll have more time than I can deal with. Then Friday, I work! Wow. I don't think I could be more pleased with my schedule so far. I may end up adding hours at work but I probably won't. It'll be nice having like 6 or 7 hours in the morning do just relax and take it easy (and study I guess).

This weekend I saw a most magnificent movie, probably the best one I've seen all summer (though Finding Neverland, House of Flying Daggers, and A Very Long Engagement were all very good). I saw The Phantom of the Opera! And to be perfectly honest with you, I am now quite obsessed with it. I've listened to the soundtrack (which I purchased off of itunes) who knows how many times (Music of the Night I've listened to about 34 times), and I've seen the movie twice since I bought it on Saturday (yeah I bought that too, the 2-disc version). I'm already preparing to buy tickets to see the show when it comes to Kalamazoo in the spring. so far, Jenny, Tod, and Ben are on board. Anyone else care to join? We're supposed to be able to get student discounts too. Those of you who are students...plus if we got a big enough group we could get a group discount. I want to sit right where the chandelier falls on my head.

Wouldn't it be great if life were a musical? If there were instances in our days where words just simply weren't enough and we were so overcome by our emotions and passions that we just burst out into song or poetry?

I would like to hear the music of the night.