Elisa - Eppure Sentire (Un Senso Di Te)

a un passo dal possibile
a un passo da te
paura di decidere
paura di me

di tutto quello che non so
di tutto quello che non ho

eppure sentire
nei fiori tra l'asfalto
nei cieli di cobalto c'è

eppure sentire
nei sogni in fondo a un pianto
nei giorni di silenzio c'è

un senso di te
c'è un senso di te

eppure sentire
nei fiori tra l'asfalto
nei cieli di cobalto c'è

eppure sentire
nei sogni in fondo a un pianto
nei giorni di silenzio c'è

un senso di te
c'è un senso di te

un senso di te...

my new favourite song of right now...
it's italian and i'm having difficulty translating the lyrics, due to not knowing Italian beyond a variety of pastas and musical terms. i've got most of it, thanks to babelfish, but the poetry of it does not seem to be there yet. if i get it, i'll post it.

i like it because it is moving; both rhythmically and emotionally dynamic. it's nothing fancy or groundbreaking, just... optimistic sounding.

not sure why she does that weird microphone waving thing effect, but i suppose it proves she's actually singing. look around on YouTube for studio versions.

psyched

you know what's a great way to start your first day of post-graduate education? waking up at 5 am because your alarm clock is screwy and changes the clock time if you change the alarm time too fast so i woke up an hour earlier than i wanted to on top of having trouble sleeping that night even though i tried to get to bed early in preparation of today's long day of lineups and information overload.

this year is going to plow past me so fast i will only really be ready for it after it has come and gone. first practicum in 6 weeks! Tuesdays and Fridays go from 8:30 to 10:30 and 3:00 to 5:00, one 2 hour lecture for each Teachable (English/Physics). Thursdays are the worst: 8:30 to 12:30 and 1:00 to 5:00 for a 4 hr Teaching Seminar and a 4 hr Psychology of Learning and Development lecture. Wednesdays are the best: 8:30 to 12:30 for my only elective, Drama Strategies for Teaching. everything is the same for next semester, except no class on Wednesdays and School and Society instead of psych. if anyone wants to hang out for lunch on TU/WE/FR, let me know.

chatted up some familiar faces (even one from high school, whom i've talked to maybe 2 times before) and got to know more recent ones a little better. don't actually know anyone in my cohort (YR/Durham region) yet. the new people that i did meet are all in different cohorts; slight chance i'll see them in a Teachable, if i remember what they look like and what their names are.

subwayed back to Scarborough with Helen, a UTSC classmate of the same program whom i only started talking to today, which made what would normally have been a snoozer of a trip rather pleasant. at every junction of the trip, i tried to gauge where the doors of the subways would stop by looking at the dirt patterns of the platforms and the arrayment of commuters (Psych powers) and got 2/3 tries; on the way to school this morning i guessed them all (2) correctly by intuition, which is cool but not as fun.

ouchies

i don't follow celebrity stuff that much, but i was browsing around looking for The Office updates when i decided to check on Pam Beesly's MySpace blog (Pam, played by Jenna, will often post while filming background scenes because pretending to work in an office is really just as boring as working in an office -- but their computers work). anyways, now i am vicariously crushed. click here if you are a snoop (it's not a spoiler, but it spoils something inside, that's for sure).

Kestrel (Alpha)

i write this post from Opera 9.5 Alpha, a public pre-release build of Opera's latest development, codenamed Kestrel. since it is an alpha-build, it is bound to be buggy, but so far i haven't had any problems with the usual browsing experience. i'm not a power-user by any stretch of the imagination. download here, from the Opera Desktop Team blog.

there are new features galore and most of them look promising. there isn't anything as big and flashy as Speed Dial, but mostly little minor usage improvements (click for video preview). my favourite so far is drag to scroll (opera:config#UserPrefs|ScrollIsPan).

the big thing that no one else really cares about (since only one or two other people reading this use Opera =P) is how my blog looks in the archive section:

Opera 9.23 vs. Opera 9.5 rendering of Blogger Archive Arrows

the downward pointing arrows render correctly, but the horizontal arrows are not. the top and bottom halves are overlapped, thus forming some manner of squished arrow. this is corrected in Opera 9.5.

most of the real changes are taking place under the hood, so everything is faster with an even smaller memory footprint. the mail client, M-2, as also been improved. i will likely begin to use it when 9.5 is truly released.

more than words

maybe it's because of the people i grew up with, or maybe it's because of my personality and predispositions, but i get rather jealous when people don't tease me. granted, not everyone is the type to do so; everyone expresses love in different ways. i can't take a compliment to save my life (a simple 'thank you' would suffice), but i just happen to be the type of person who truly appreciates the gesture of being farted on.

a good, loving inside-joke-jab-at-your-quirks is really quite rare and uplifting, in my opinion. it translates to, "i've taken the time to know you, all the good and the bad, and i wouldn't change you for the world," with varying levels of intimacy. so if i ever tease you, it's because i love you -- and possibly because you are an easy target.