updates, updates, updates. my grandmother died four days before christmas, while i was on the plane from albany to florida trying to see her one last time. the weather was beautiful and so was the eulogy. i brought my grades back up, which is fantastic. i'm now a head of the radio station here, i'm playing lots of squash again, and i just bought tickets for a tilly & the wall show march 22nd at the middle east. in a few months, i get to hang out with kimya dawson and probably play with her baby, who's named PANDA, by the way. we thought we should book Panda Bear for a show and then just have Panda the baby sit on stage for a while, but we decided it was exploiting the baby a bit. we were only kidding anyway. i'm getting continuously better at guitar. i've recently discovered that crooked teeth is incredibly simple to play. my piano is also improving. i've started to feel very smart in my film classes. i know everything that's being discussed. i can say, "ah yes, truffaut WAS a cinephile, and that is clearly a reference to a lumiere brothers film" or "you know, man with a movie camera is rather similar to ballet mecanique." i feel like i'm finally starting to fit into the knowledge part of my major, not just the hands-on aspect. i was invited to be one of twelve students in the school to work on a permanent sculpture on campus. it's exciting, but the task is daunting. we have this huge aerial space to fill, but we can't hang anything from the skylight...so we're going to have to create cross cables and attach a motor to that and from that hang our sculpture and...oh, it will be lots of work. but it counts as a class, which is spectacular. i'm living in an off-campus apartment next year, and couldn't be happier. we can have pets there! i want a pug. a little pug puppy named something absolutely ridiculous, like "floral pattern" or "buttons mcsnazzy." i need to clean my room. there's clothes and sand all over the place. i'm going to florida for spring break so that my grandfather can go back down there. he's in connecticut since my grandmother died and he can't be down there by himself. sam and i will go down there march 2 or something like that, and we'll take care of grampa. we will fish with him and drive him to the american legion for lunch and regulate how many snifters he has. he can see moose and tess and all of his other yacht club friends, and it'll be good for him. i've recently become addicted to the wicked soundtrack and voxtrot. ALSO, the gauntlet is back on. i know it's terrible to be so excited about something like that, but oh well...i am ECSTATIC. okay, i have to go to a screening and shoot a music video. au revoir. reminder: i should get back into french.