It's one for the Dagger and another for the one you believe

Song: "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis

March 11th

Late last night after we got home from our shenanigans, I started thinking that my roommate Andy's birthday was coming up. I checked and it was Thursday. I made the decision that I was going to bake a cake. In case you weren't aware, I gave up sweets for Lent. This was certainly my biggest challenge yet.

But I'm stubborn, and once I decide I'm going to bake a cake, there isn't much anyone can do to stop me.

I went to class in the morning and spent half of it plotting the necessary ingredients to buy at the grocery store during my weekly trip and the other half trying to stay awake. I also had "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis in my head. This will be relevant later.

Anyway, I left class, went to the store, got my goods and was on my way out when I decided to take a different route home. I knew that the route led me to my apartment, I just didn't know how roundabout it was. The sky was a bit cloudy, but I'm stubborn, and once I decide I'm going to walk home a different way, there isn't much anyone can do to stop me.

I was about halfway there when the sky opened and dumped water. There's no poetic way to say that. I was drenched; my books and folders were wet, the groceries were mostly guarded by the plastic bags they were in, but I came home dripping. I was however incredibly satisfied that I knew where that road went. Now if someone asks me where that road goes, I can tell them.

Anyway, I went to lab after dropping of my groceries. All of my folders had colored all the papers inside them when they got wet. Oh well. Shaheen and I had a great time with our non-functioning lab. I took a picture of my favorite poster in the physics lab, and a few others.

From Shots around Macquarie

From Shots around Macquarie

Our least favorite piece of equipment. It likes to just change the reading drastically whenever you hit the table:

From Shots around Macquarie

The oscilloscope or CRO:

From Shots around Macquarie

Anyway, after lab I went to my class at the gym. Then I decided that I was going to go see A Dark Day's Knight at the Lighthouse Theater on campus. I had seen signs for the show with classy taglines like "Murder. Lust. Betrayal. Jedi." and I had heard they were using reworded indie songs throughout the musical. I had to see this.

I couldn't find anyone else to tag along with me, but it ended up not mattering at all. I met Shadé at the theater while waiting to get in and we had a lot of fun talking and I sat with her and two other people we met that day (Cat and Kate). Everyone is so friendly here. We watched the show and I was completely enthralled with the production and well, essentially it blew my mind.

The songs reworked included songs by Massive Attack, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, The Zutons, Kaiser Chiefs, Nirvana, No Doubt, Bloc Party, The Dandy Warhols, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, etc. Oh, and "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis. I told you it'd be relevant later. That same song that I had stuck in my head this morning came back around to me at A Dark Day's Knight. It was one of those "meant to be" moments. I showed Shadé where I had written the song down in my "list of songs that will become blog post titles" page of my mini-notebook. Crazy stuff.

Seriously though, I really think that all fights with lightsabers should be accompanied by Muse and/or Bloc Party. The choreography of the fight scenes was phenomenal and the blacklight lightsaber battle to Muse's "Hysteria" was probably the best thing that I've ever seen done on stage.

Excellent music aside, I really did enjoy the play and I thought it was incredible considering it was student written, directed and produced. I was incredibly impressed. One of the girls from my surf camp trip Taylor was in the show and I stuck around with Shadé to tell her and the rest of the cast that they were amazing.

I went home up the hill and found Andy and a crowd of people in his room. They were waiting for midnight to come around for Andy's birthday and I joined. We celebrated at midnight and then I went to sleep.