yay I don't have to leave the country

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

I suspect I got the first commander-in-chief question wrong, but I'm not motivated enough to look it up.

Home sick from work today. I feel like somebody is driving ice picks into my sinuses and my right ear and I ache all over. I really do not want this to be the case. More juice, another cup of gypsy cold care tea... I absolutely have to force myself to dance sometime today as well, otherwise my saturday party performance will be sucktastic. Blah.

I'm in love with the samai drum solo on Shake Me Ya Gamal. It's going to take a lot of studying to do it justice--a samai is a 10/8 rhythm--but I will make something of it, oh yes I will. I feel like my improvised drum solos have been too scribbly lately (well, they probably always have been but I'm just now able to recognize it) so this will be a good exercise in discipline. Not that I'm dancing to any drum solos today, mind you. I think if I can make it through my slow sword piece two or three times I'll consider myself adequately prepared. Although balancing something on my head when my head's relation to the rest of my body is shaky to begin with will be interesting. I repeat, blah.