Started out today by contemplating the nature of humour. This is me being thoughtful in the shower again. I have to stop that. They say that brevity is the soul of wit. Sometimes true... maybe mostly. Here's the thing, though... If everyone were always brief and attempting to be witty, almost all people would fail. It's somewhat necessary to have people blathering on into oblivion so that the funny people have a backdrop, something to play off of. So it seems that most of the time I'm relegated to be the foil for someone else's with. That's fine with me.

Then I started considering that there are actually a whole bunch of people who think I actually manage to be amusing. My friend Karen told me at one point that I'm the funniest person she knows. (I think that rather scared me.) I came to a second conclusion: humour must be somewhat relative. Hanging around brunchers online means that I have way too much competition. No one is funnier than Spatch. There are so many people who have so much better humour that really one just has to ask why one should bother. Around school, though, I'm apparently decent. Also, some people are just inherently more receptive to some people's humour, of course. So basically I just have to find people like Karen and dupe the poor fools forever. Mwa ha ha ha. Right.

Really, though, I laugh a lot these days. Morde'an's humour really catches me. Laughter is good. It's more rest than I get anywhere else now.

Concert tonight went... okayish. I was really a bit disappointed. It's so hard to hear things in the hall. I knew I needed to hear what was going on in the Shostakovich, but I just couldn't. Impossible, really. I played all my completely exposed things confidently and well in the Benson, but I missed that part in unison with the saxes because they all didn't come in. Eh. And intonation in general... But it wasn't terrible, I suppose. I'll try and be happy until I hear the recording. Then I'll whinge. But now... sleep before tomorrow's philosophy midterm that I'm going to suck at. G'night.
posted by Unknown at 10:11 PM