the duhks

Last Saturday I spent the night in Raleigh after one of the greatest concerts I have ever been too, The Duhks. I hadn't heard of them until last semester when my friends from Ashville were going on and on about this folk band. My one friend had seen them open for another band and got their cd. I heard it, fell in love, and they are amazing in concert.
The lead singer is phenomenal; her and her brother, who is the drumer, are French Canadian. So one of their songs is completely in french(a language I much admire... but kind of fail at). They have a fiddle player. I will be the first to admit that I'm not overly excited about fiddles; they have a good sound and are like basses to me, essential but not a main sound. But no, the fiddler was amazing, she could make such amazing sounds come out of her instrument. It makes me want to play the fiddle(almost). The banjo player was halarious to watch; he had crazy, curly hair and glasses and bounced around alot.
sometimes at concerts, especially small ones like the berkley cafe, they can ramp up the sound so it just loud and overbearing(kind of how it was for the band that opened for the duhks). But not for the duhks, their sound is just so pure and the lyrics deep. Its amazing; I'm in awe. I suggest that anyone that like music, real music, listen to them, especially their fast-paced world cd(that one's my favorite right now).

All year i thought that I got really lucky. I live on north campus; last semester i could roll out of bed and be in my nine o clock class in 10 minutes. If I was hungry then i could be at Lenoir in 4 minutes. But this semester I have business 100. So i have to get myself up and dress for my eight o clock class by 7:30 or else I'm late. I figured out today that not only is it a 20-30 minute walk up and down the giant hill but also it is six flights of stairs up from the parking lot I cut through. I learned this today when i had to walk down there at 5:30 in the misty/rain wonderland. i thought about using my friend's bike but i'm pretty sure i'm too lazy to ride it back up the hill. i think i might figure out the bus system; i fail at buses.

i will apologizes for the lack of caps in the last half of my post, because about half way through my computer started acting weird. now every time i hit shift my internet goes back a page. this is annoying ... and slightly unsettling.

folk belief

Eating ginger to cure motion sickness

This was the first inauguration that I have ever watched. Obama is now the 44th president of the united states. It is pretty cool to think that I voted in a monumental election such as this.
Obama's speech was very powerful; he uses words in a way that he appeals to everyone. His voice fills the air. He did stumble on the actual oath, but that kinda thing happens. The priest stumbled too trying to get it straitened out.
The woman who was reciting the poem was professional... but she sounded machine-like. Though I did really enjoy the reverend's speech. He likes rhythms. "when yella will be mella, when the red man can get ahead man."
I did think that they drew it out a bit. I realize that it is nice to have Obama walk Bush out of the White House, but I don't want to watch 20 minutes of it.

I have decided that I have an immense joy for procrastination. Unfortunately it never ends amazingly. I think i told myself once that I was going to try to get better at this, but I have managed to put off working for the greater part of three days. long weekends are nice. I have noticed that when I am attempting to not work then television shows that I am sick of seem more entertaining. My iTunes shuffle seems to give me all the songs I want to hear. Even people I have no care to see, I am willing to have lunch with. In my process of not doing things today I planned to go to the mall, but the car had a dead battery. After fruitless attempts to jump it, my friend and I resigned to wondering in the bookstore on franklin street. And hey, since we were out, we decided to just go ahead and get dinner. That was almost a productive decision. At least this weekend i had probably the least amount of work that i will have all semester. It would be stupid not to take advantage of that, right?