Fighting the Current

Only YOU can prevent forest fires... or yard fires...

We have a metal fire-pit we set up in the backyard every once in a while to toast marshmallows. We set it up tonight and my marshmallows kept getting smoked instead of browning. My hair smells like woodsmoke. I like that smell dispersed, not when it's still slightly stinging. Nothing too interesting happened. The grass caught fire once or twice though.

Wow, I haven't written anything here in over a month. I've been busy. Yeah, that's a good excuse.

I have exams this coming week. Good thing I only have to take three of them. History, Biology, and Algebra. Almost done studying for history and bio. I need some more time on both of them though.

Saw the new Star Wars movie last night. Overall, it wasn't the best. It definitely could've been worse though, especially if they had Jar Jar Binks play a larger role. The guy who played Count Dooku (sp?) plays a shady good-guy-turned-bad-guy well. I'm pretty sure he played Saruman in Lord of the Rings. I wonder if that suggests something about him? Anyway, Yoda kicks butt. He always has, even before he got his own fight scene. He's my favorite character. He's so idiosyncratic and wise and seemingly senile.

I got a Yo-Yo Ma CD at Best Buy the other day. I am so weird. It's a really interesting CD, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble: When Strangers Meet. It's Western and Eastern and Middle-Eastern music all mixed together. The only thing I'm not too fond of on it is the entire track devoted to the Mongolian Long Song, called that because each word is drawn out to last maybe 10-20 seconds or longer. The track is only about a minute and thirty seconds though.

Anyway, I must get back to my studies. ::dramatic sigh::