On revelations, not epiphanies. Actually, ramblings.

So, it's been a while. Every time I hear that phrase, I think of that old Staind song that was oh-so-popular back when we were in high school. Hmm, haven't heard it in a while, perhaps I shall go and hunt it up on the computer.

Anyway, Spring Break was a very long one and a half weeks ago. I can hardly believe it. It seems so far away already, and I have literally had just six days of school. And it's not like I even attend 50% of the lectures. What did I do? I slept, ate delicious food at home, did some inane little things, and hung out with some friends. All in all, I lazed around for a week. And it was wonderful. I do miss old spring breaks, though, when everyone had spring break around the same time and I got to see more of people, instead of hearing via facebook or gchat that their spring break ended as soon as mine began, or that it ended even as I was beginning to prepare for finals. But that is neither interesting nor useful in any way, so I'll leave it at that.

Relevant to Spring Break but not quite is that fact that I spent, at the very least, 18 hours in a car listening to the radio over the entirety of spring break. I imagine that's not that much longer than the average commuter who sits stuck in traffic five days a week, but it did mean that I had to listen to several songs over and over again.

According To You - Orianthi

Allow me to introduce to the number one most overplayed song this Spring Break -- Orianthi's According To You. Now, before I looked up this song, I had never once before heard of Orianthi. I must admit that I found this song, at first, rather catchy. And then I put it out of my mind because EVERY SINGLE RADIO STATION, literally, played it at the very least, twice a day.

Then, last Wednesday, I was driving back from the airport after dropping my mom off, and this song came on the radio...again. Well, if you know me at all, I really like listening to the lyrics of songs. So I had all these scenarios in my head about the story behind this song. The obvious one would be the crappy relationship she's in, where her boyfriend is complaining about everything that's wrong with her, whereas there's this mysterious other guy who apparently loves everything about her. Then there's the question of whether or not she's still into the guy who hates everything about her, with the one verse that sounds like she's finally telling him off. Then, I thought, wouldn't it be really crazy if this "you" she's referring to her is actually herself. Maybe someone with a self-confidence crisis or something? Which is unlikely, because she refers to this "you" as a guy. Layers, perhaps? But whatever. Like I said, this is what I'm thinking about on the drive home. You know, in case school wasn't enough to think about.

So I came home and looked up the music video. Which consisted of a punk-rock-looking girl playing the guitar with some random hand showing me the chords in the foreground. Disappointed. I really was. I'd spent a good ten minutes thinking about this song, and they give me a girl playing a guitar in a garage and a photo shoot or whatever. Really? I'd like some closure, Mr./Ms. Songwriter, on what you intended for this song to mean.

In other news, we're studying endocrinology and metabolism this quarter (along with neuro, yay! and a couple other things irrelevant at the moment). So in one of the lectures, we talked about energy intake and expenditure, calculating BMI, etc, etc. So as I'm sitting in the library the other day, not wanting to study, I decided to calculate my own BMI. Which is not exactly good news. If I did the calculations right (which is also questionable, since my arithmetic has seriously deteriorated since I started using calculators), if I gain about 10-15 pounds, I could be considered "overweight". Ahhh! Okay, have decided to start going to the gym in the mornings and tennis on Saturdays. And eating healthier. Seriously. I always say this, but I'm really going to be on top of it this time.

Uhhh, yeah. I think that this post qualifies as rambling after an early morning workout. It does not qualify as revelations, much less ephiphanies. 'Til next time, which may be soon, as tests start again next week.