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I don't mind them at all. I've just heard their songs so much that Beatles lyrics are just as much a common part of my working vocabulary as Seinfeld references.
 
I visited Boston University this weekend. Their English department has some incredible faculty, and they specialize in historical approaches to literary theory (which I already was somewhat aware of, but had a newfound realization upon speaking with many of the professors and current grad students). I seriously think I would highly benefit from studying there, since they have about four or five professors that I could conceivably envision sitting on my dissertation panel.

And, on top of all that, Boston is fucking sweet.
 
How does one deal with bands crossing multiple decades? Just when they started/put out their first full-length? Tool would be on my 90s list, along with like... Suffocation or something.

This just in the Onder news: Suffocation will play Obscene Extreme this year. Yay. Along with fucking Drunen Asphyx Deathhammering.
 
Just came back from my Tower Simulator test which I have to pass or I get kicked out of this training program. I got very stressed halfway through because I forgot the proper terminology for a specific command and everything went to shit after that. The airtraffic just piled up while I'm trying to direct everyone and all the while I have two examiners furiously scribbling notes as I'm fucking it up. In the end I think I managed to do a decent job somehow, but when I asked them if my performance was "passable" they ecstatically told me "of course" which I think is a load of shit. I'll see if I end up back in square one in California come Wednesday! These last couple of days have been very catastrophic, but we get a week-long break on friday, so I will be smoking copious amounts of sticky icky and go snowboarding to compensate.
 
Wheew I passed. Unfortunately two of my classmates didn't, so they were told to pack their bags and leave. What's even worse is that they were hired by another company for this program; one which requires them to pay the company back several thousands of euros for the expenses they've paid for. Talk about a shitty situation.
 
I'm seriously considering studying a foreign language next semester. The problem is I'm torn between German, French, and Italian. I think I prefer them in that order, but I can't decide.

Italian is supposed to be easiest and French people wont want to practice with you because you'll be sodomizing their language with your tasteless anglo-american ways.