Ack ack.

I'm sick. I'm stuffy and have a fever - and not the kind Peggy Lee sang about. I've been popping pills all day.

Anyways, I haven't had an update recently because I really haven't been doing much. My life is pretty much on hold until I get my back straightened out (no pun intended). My followup appt w/ the neurosurgeon is tomorrow, so I'll find out deatils about the surgery soon.

Meanwhile, I've been doing some studying for the Java Certification exam, some rock climbing, and some other assorted tasks.

Anyways, here's the test of the day - These things are frighteningly accurate given how arbitrary they seem. Shostakovich has long been one of my favorite composers:

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Dmitri Shostakovich! I am a shy, nervous, unassuming, fidgety, and stuttery little person who began composing the same year I started music lessons of any sort. I wrote the first of my fifteen symphonies at age 18, and my second opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," when I was only 26. Unfortunately, Stalin hated the opera, and put me on the Enemy Of The People List for life. I nevertheless kept composing the works I wanted to write in private; some of my vocal cycles and 15 string quartets mock the Soviet System in notes. And I somehow was NOT killed in the process! And Harry Potter(c) stole my glasses and broke them! Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test