This Week’s Best and Brightest

So, I’m not going to lie… this past week was a rather full one.  I found myself making almost daily trips to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.  Why? you might ask.  Well, apparently they’ve had a spectacular music collection replete with both mainstream and not-so-mainstream goodies.  For example, Thursday, I borrowed (and ripped into my iTunes library) the opera Susannah, At the Village Gate by Nina Simone, The Music Man, and Dreamgirls. They, of course, have many more genres than musical theatre, opera, and jazz… it’s just nice to be able to explore new types of music.  Thanks Andrew… or Andy-Cizzla as I so affectionately refer to him as.

On a rather morose note, my cell phone was stolen/lost… I’m not too sure what happened.  You see, I was wearing track pants (outside the apartment…), and th pockets were so large, my phone was constantly slipping out.  So, after my friend and I had finished eating burritos, I reached for my phone, and much to my chagrin, it was missing.  Oi vei iz mir!

Friday-Saturday, Pitt finally had our Relay For Life.  It rained most of the night, but when given lemons, we Pitt students inevitably make limoncello.  People were playing football and ultimate in the mud all night.  Bands were playing from 7pm-1am, and every one had a really great time.  We ended up with around $13,000… quite a bit more than CMU raised their first year… yet another example of Pitt’s superiority.

Today, I got a new phone: an enV from Verizon.  I’d always hated how Verizon so avariciously blocks various hardware features that allowed customers from other providers send custom-made ringtones right from their computers to their phones, so I really did some digging, and I found a spectacular little program called BitPim.  I HIGHLY recommend downloading it.