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  <title>Kumar Strikes Back</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:25:24 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>From the University of North Texas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accepted at the University&lt;br /&gt;Offered $5,000 a year (pending my graduation from HS)&lt;br /&gt;Accepted in the the college of music as a composition major&lt;br /&gt;Accepted into the Jazz Studies program&lt;br /&gt;Accepted into the Honors College (which has the really nice dorms)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean damn,&lt;br /&gt;can I please get some GOOD news from a college sometime?</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:29:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Cleveland had like 2 feet of snow.&lt;br /&gt;But where to go to college?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man, Shakespeare just understands my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blow, blow, thou winter wind,&lt;br /&gt;Thou art not so unkind&lt;br /&gt;As man&apos;s ingratitude;&lt;br /&gt;Thy tooth is not so keen&lt;br /&gt;Because thou art not seen,&lt;br /&gt;Although thy breath be rude.&lt;br /&gt;Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:&lt;br /&gt;Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:&lt;br /&gt;Then, heigh-ho! the holly!&lt;br /&gt;This life is most jolly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,&lt;br /&gt;Thou dost not bite so nigh&lt;br /&gt;As benefits forgot:&lt;br /&gt;Though thou the waters warp,&lt;br /&gt;Thy sting is not so sharp&lt;br /&gt;As friend remember&apos;d not.&lt;br /&gt;Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:&lt;br /&gt;Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:&lt;br /&gt;Then, heigh-ho! the holly!&lt;br /&gt;This life is most jolly.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:30:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>valentines day is right up there with new years on the list of depressing holidays</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:12:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I got a warning for not having a parking permit. But, I&apos;ve gone to Bishop&apos;s office to get it like 5 times and he&apos;s never there. So, who&apos;s fault is it really? He should pay $35 tomorrow for not being around to give me a sticker.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:20:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I got into Berklee</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:34:39 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Still waiting on an email from Berklee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is anyone doing anything Sunday for the game? I&apos;m going to have middle schoolers at my house and I desperately need to go somewhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever had this inexplicable feeling that makes you want to just sit and listen to soft emo-rock and just exclaim to everyone you know (who are waiting in your mind) that you don&apos;t know if you&apos;re fooling anyone but you&apos;re really not strong or secure or content and that you&apos;re scared every minute. I don&apos;t know really what there is to be scared of. So I usually just pretend that it&apos;s not there- but sometimes it just comes at you so strong you feel like laughing or crying or anything at all just to prove you&apos;re still ok.</description>
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  <lj:music>Damien Rice</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:25:40 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>So I just have to say...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know it&apos;s a long shot, but if I actually get into Miami there is NO WAy I&apos;m going somewhere else. Well, maybe- if there are other offers. But its SO COOl! and , I&apos;m feeling a bit inferior now. Oh, well.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:50:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>one year ago, I was reading Hemingway, getting ready for the SAT and rehearsing for 42nd street. This year, today, I am sick and gloomy.</description>
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  <lj:music>Fiona Apple</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:50:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I have gone insane. For full details, try to imagine being pulled in 18 different directions by forces, each as unrelenting and unreasonable as Mr. Washington or my parents, and finally snapping. I think that&apos;s what happened- I snapped. snap.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:29:37 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Does anyone know when our revised paper for english is due? P.S., if you had my paper for the editing thing and were absent that day, and you read this, please let me know what I should fix.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:51:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>the weekend is/was a beautiful thing, before it was ruined with homework and studying. Thanks a lot, teachers whose names begin with W (Whiteside, Washington, W-Phillips)</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:55:23 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Berklee keeps sending me emails about: summer programs, live chats, etc. but nothing to do with getting in. Basically, I don&apos;t want to hear from you unless it&apos;s a yes or no.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:50:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>so many ups and downs I&apos;m very, very confused&lt;br /&gt;my phone is fixed. Well, not the same phone, but at least there is now a phone with my number. I feel like there must be tons of homework to do, but i can&apos;t remember what it is...</description>
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  <lj:music>luther vandross</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:09:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>soo tired&lt;br /&gt;the happy comes and goes. Sucks when it goes. Really, I can only keep the happy when I&apos;m at school.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:59:32 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>a lot of things don&apos;t make sense these days. I feel like I&apos;m slightly falling apart and just barely holding it together physically and emotionally with a big smile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. my phone broke, but i doubt anyone has been calling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the weekend should be longer than the week, in my opinion</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:31:20 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>have you ever just wanted to punch the closest thing?&lt;br /&gt;maybe its just me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. I think I broke my knuckle.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:57:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>This week has been crazy on so many levels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every day seems to start out ok, but by the end I am left wondering why I even bother doing anything. It&apos;s bizarre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish I knew where I was going to go to college. Either that, or everyone would just stop talking about it.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:57:14 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>some folks seem to think i only got one problem&lt;br /&gt;i can&apos;t find nobody as crazy as me</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:39:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>what a stressful month this is&lt;br /&gt;and what good is any of it? in the end we&apos;re the same as we were in december, but a little bit older.</description>
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  <lj:music>John Mayer. Always John Mayer at times like this.</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">John Mayer. Always John Mayer at times like this.</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:33:09 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>You wander down the lane and far away&lt;br /&gt;Leaving me a song that will not die&lt;br /&gt;Love is now the stardust&lt;br /&gt;Of yesterday&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I wonder why I spend&lt;br /&gt;The lonely nights&lt;br /&gt;Dreaming of a song.&lt;br /&gt;The melody haunts my reverie</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:48:52 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>thus school will soon begin again.&lt;br /&gt;and the homeworks are still undone.&lt;br /&gt;and I&apos;m having a very unhappy new year.</description>
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  <lj:music>Chick Corea and Return to Forever</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:53:19 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>When Winter comes, it doesn&apos;t ask&lt;br /&gt;It just walks in where it left you last&lt;br /&gt;You never know when it starts&lt;br /&gt;Until there&apos;s fog inside the glass around your summer heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something&apos;s missing&lt;br /&gt;And I don&apos;t know how to fix it&lt;br /&gt;Something&apos;s missing&lt;br /&gt;And I don&apos;t know what it is at all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&apos;t be sure that this state of mind&lt;br /&gt;Is not of my own design&lt;br /&gt;I wish there was an over-the-counter test for loneliness like this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something&apos;s missing</description>
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  <lj:mood>defeated</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:39:15 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>anyone else have nothing to do new years?&lt;br /&gt;except college applications&lt;br /&gt;and reading for whiteside&lt;br /&gt;yeah didn&apos;t think so</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Christmas came and went. Soon, I will get a saxophone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Break sucks. Not as much as school, though. And I have to read a ton of stuff for english.&lt;br /&gt;Instead, I plop and sit and watch the hallmark channel. Or lifetime, oxygen, something. Quite a depressing existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it&apos;s much too early in the game&lt;br /&gt;Oh, but I thought I&apos;d ask you just the same&lt;br /&gt;What are you doing New Year&apos;s eve?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight&lt;br /&gt;When it&apos;s exactly twelve o&apos;clock that night&lt;br /&gt;Welcoming in the New Year&lt;br /&gt;New Year&apos;s eve&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I&apos;m crazy to suppose&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;d ever be the one you chose&lt;br /&gt;Out of the thousand invitations&lt;br /&gt;You received&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ooh, but in case I stand one little chance&lt;br /&gt;Here comes the jackpot question in advance:&lt;br /&gt;What are you doing New Year&apos;s Eve?</description>
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  <lj:music>Diana Krall</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:57:15 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Yesterday was fun. I hung out with Zaire and Caitlin and Sara M (who I hadn&apos;t seen since 7th grade)- it was cool. Caribou, Taco Bell, Guitar Center, the like. Today, David and I worked out and got veggie burgers. And I traded Derek a cornet for a trumpet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said that, I hate my parents with a passion. They are tyrannical and unfair. And completely unsympathetic. And anytime I don&apos;t want to do what they want me to do, they say that I&apos;m just selfish and make me feel unfit to be a human being. But I&apos;m tired of listening to them. So I don&apos;t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;College apps are depressing. You spend hours upon hours doing them and making them perfect, and you get rejected anyway- all the time and energy wasted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Hold me... I&apos;m a fermata]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Nothin&apos; new for New Year&apos;s for me&lt;br /&gt;It don&apos;t mean nothing if you&apos;re crying all the time&lt;br /&gt;And there&apos;s no one there to see your tears&lt;br /&gt;And so, to my reflection in the window&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll raise my glass and make a toast to you&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve never known a man to be heartbroken&lt;br /&gt;My someone that he never even knew&lt;br /&gt;All I wanted was an angel that I don&apos;t expect to see&lt;br /&gt;And I&apos;ll be singing &apos;Auld Lang Syne&apos; alone)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know what we have to read this break? How much Milton? Frankenstein? Which Frankenstein- old or slightly less old? Independent novels, etc? Other things I forgot?</description>
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  <lj:music>This Christmas (Will Not Be A Very Special Christmas At All)</lj:music>
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