Our Reckless Abandon

Guernica

So we're drawing Picasso in my drawing class right now.

My teacher talks way too much, it's quite distracting, and everything he say is somewhat redundant. I just pop my head phones in my ears and drift off to art land.

I kept Andrew Bird's "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left" on repeat.

Right now I need to be doing 17 pages of my Spanish workbook that is due tomorrow and I put off until the last minute. As always.

Today in class Senior Everet (the funniest teacher ever, by the way) was going over a worksheet we did in class and he asked for volunteers to read off their answers.

Silence. All except for that awkward feeling and slight sounds of people moving around uncomfortably to look around and see who will raise their hand first.

I love that moment there. That little bit of awkward flowing through the air. I kind of laugh on the inside when it happens, I'm not sure why. Maybe because of the fact that people are so self-conscious around their peers that they wont even raise their hand to answer a question for the fear of maybe getting it wrong.

Anyway, he called on me, and I like, kind of quietly laughed about the whole situation and looked at him and I could tell he was thinking what I was thinking: People are funny things.

"Why are we alive?
And here's how they replied
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died"

- from A Nervous Tick Motion of the Head to the Left

Later days.

Song of the Day: "Everything's Just Wonderful" by Lily Allen. May I just say that Lily Allen is kind of amazing and brilliant? I love her music, despite her excessive use of the f-word haha. By the way, if you click on the song you can get it from me.

Film of the Day: Once (2006). Glen Hansard was originally just going to make a promo video for his solo music career, but it turned into a feature film with a storyline and Academy Award winning soundtrack. SO GOOD.