Holding Pattern

It's been a busy busy month of July, what with the moving and the wedding and the musical finishing and all, but now I'm safely back in North Carolina and I have... not all that much to do.  Oh, I still have some music to work on, but I no longer have any huge thing looming... except for moving up to DC in 17 days.  I suppose I'll just enjoy my relative downtime while I have it.

One thing I've been able to do is watch a lot of TV commercials, which I haven't done all year since I didn't have cable.  I try to use what I learned getting a degree in marketing to figure out why on earth some of the commercials are as bizarrely bad as they are, but I guess I'm just missing something.  A lot of the yogurt commercials, especially, seem to be pushing a really negative portrayal of women in general as ravenous dessert-eating fatties who can be easily tricked by dessert-flavored yogurt.  And this advertisement works.

I signed up the other day for my orientation activities- I like the way they've planned things out.  The day before "orientation" starts I'll be going with a small group from my section to volunteer at the Food and Friends organization in DC, which sounds like a great way to help out and start getting to know classmates.  During orientation itself there are several small tours led by faculty members... jogs around monuments, bike-rides, civil war tours, tours of detention centers, etc....  The tour I picked takes us on a backstage tour of the Harmon Center and gives us free awesome seats to a production of Julius Caesar.  Backstage tour and free tickets at one of the best Shakespeare theaters in the country?  Well, I GUESS that's alright.

Also I went to the dentist today and, while I had an excellent checkup, they did note that I had a lot of red wine stains on my teeth this time.  THANKS Brian and Kay.  All your fault.