Better sweet than bitter.

I've earned a solid A in art history and another A in humanities. My semester GPA equals 4.0, and my cumulative equals 3.692--or just round it to 3.7.

I just wish I could experience this end-of-semester success at an actual university (refer to the "About Me" section of my profile on the left) and after having completed more than just six credits for the term, but a long time has passed since I last had straight A's so I guess I might as well celebrate somehow.

Next up, studio art and French over the summer. In the meantime, I should send my most recent transcript to three universities, two of which I've previously attended and one of which on whose campus I've never set foot, but whose campus photographs and general prestige render it as very alluring, especially right now as its transfer application deadline has not yet passed.

Please don't call it the "Nuthouse."

I just skimmed some information about the psychiatric inpatient units at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. I thought that maybe I could take some time off from society and receive on-site care for OCD in the near future.

Playlist on the go.

Okay, I'll post just one more before I surrender to sleepiness for the night. To maintain my current iPod Touch theme (begun with the previous blog post), I'll list the tracks of my current "On-the-Go" playlist.

1. "Anak" ... Freddie Aguilar
2. "Another Day in Paradise" ... Phil Collins
3. "Beautiful Girl" ... INXS
4. "Between Two Lungs" ... Florence and the Machine
5. "Breathe Your Name" ... Sixpence None the Richer
6. "Brown Eyes" ... Lady Gaga
7. "Challengers" ... The New Pornographers
8. "Constant Craving" ... K.D. Lang
9. "Don't Forget Me" ... Neko Case
10. "Every Breath You Take" ... The Police
11. "Get Better" ... Mates of State
12. "The Great Beyond" ... R.E.M.
13. "He War" ... Cat Power
14. "Hospital Beds" ... Cold War Kids
15. "I Feel It All" ... Feist
16. "Kind and Generous" ... Natalie Merchant
17. "Lived in Bars" ... Cat Power
18. "Love You Madly" ... Cake
19. "Meet Me Halfway" ... Black Eyed Peas
20. "Middle Cyclone" ... Neko Case
21. "More Than a Feeling" ... Boston
22. "My Only Offer" ... Mates of State
23. "The Needle Has Landed" ... Neko Case
24. "Nightlite (featuring Bajka)" ... Bonobo
25. "Ode to Divorce" ... Regina Spektor
26. "Parachutes (Funeral Song)" ... Mates of State
27. "People Got a Lotta Nerve" ... Neko Case
28. "Prison Girls" ... Neko Case
29. "The Promise" ... When in Rome
30. "Pull Me Out Alive" ... Kaki King
31. "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" ... Florence and the Machine
32. "Ray of Light" ... Madonna
33. "Rise Up with Fists!!" ... Jenny Lewis
34. "Ruby Tuesday" ... The Rolling Stones
35. "Sea Lion Woman" ... Feist
36. "Sleep" ... Azure Ray
37. "Soft Rock Star" ... Metric
38. "So Long, Lonesome" ... Explosions in the Sky
39. "Star Witness" ... Neko Case
40. "Sunny Came Home" ... Shawn Colvin
41. "Take Me to the Riot" ... Stars
42. "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" ... Eurythmics
43. "Under the Blacklight" ... Rilo Kiley
44. "You Gotta Be" ... Des'ree
45. "You've Got a Friend" ... Carole King

Can't iPod Touch this--ha!

As if I didn't have enough ridiculous excuses not to sleep right now, I just downloaded the free version of BlogWriter, an iPod Touch (and iPhone) application. I write to you via BlogWriter at this very moment.

But now I've grown sleepy again; good morning.

Gotta get movin'.

I think I'll travel again. I will list the names of some prospective destinations and illustrate them.

Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain

Salvador Dalí, Galatea of the Spheres, 1952

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Jan Vermeer, The Art of Painting, circa 1666

Mauritshuis, the Royal Picture Gallery, the Hague, Netherlands

Jan Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, circa 1665

Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Diego Velázquez, The Fable of Arachne, circa 1657

National Gallery, London, England

Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jan Vermeer, The Milkmaid, circa 1657 to 1658

Tate Modern, London, England

Salvador Dalí, Autumn Cannibalism, 1936

My close friend's namesake? (Art that I like: part 1.5.)

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Guido Reni, Aurora, 1614, Casino Rospiglioso, Palazzo Pallavicini

I dedicate this blog post to my friend Aurora.

Art that I like: part one.

Julia Margaret Cameron, Elizabeth Keown, Kate Keown, and Freddy Gould, circa 1866-1868, National Gallery of Art


Jim Goldberg, Destiny's Shiny Bracelet, 1989, Corcoran Gallery of Art