Consumer Report

I purchase music via iTunes, and it's irksome.

It only has about half of the songs I look for, and it has annoying crap like the following. I want a song called something like 'Zvezda Rok 'n Rolla' by a Russian group called Leningrad. It's on the Everything Is Illuminated soundtrack, and it's worth dropping 99 cents on. As you may have guessed, iTunes didn't have it when I searched for it. The part where I'm getting truly screwed is that iTunes does have it, they have the damn file somewhere up their musical anus, but it's not in the United States store (Which would be the colon, probably. I'm not too strong on anatomy.) It is, however, in the German store. Unfortunately, I'm not authorized to purchase from the German store. I suppose the euro really is dominating the dollar, at what must be 40-1 or so.

I used to really like Apple, but this situation coupled with their lack of flexibility regarding music I've purchased makes me gnash my teeth.

Not Listening to: Leningrad- Zvezda Rok 'n Rolla

Listening to: Clem Snide- Your Music

I appreciate what you're doing, but really...

I have a lot of down time at school. When considering AP US History, AP Literature and Composition, and Microsoft Excel and Access, I'm looking at almost two hours of dead air. Sometimes I draw pictures or write short stories, but I was wondering if anyone has some practical/interesting ideas for how I should spend my time.

I'm considering writing extensive critiques of my teachers, but the mere fact that I have time in the class to blow writing about the teacher already makes a nice little statement in and of itself. I might do it anyway, because in all frankness, these teachers deserve to be critiqued. Their write-ups will probably have a sort of expose feel.

Listening to: Sufjan Stevens- Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)

We don't offer a postgraduate year.

I'm currently giving colleges a thought, but the only two I've really considered have been University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Duke University. Those are both great schools, and I'm sure I'd do well at either one, but Madison is really large, and Duke is really selective. I've been told that I'll be able to get into Madison on the grace of my test scores, despite my 3.2 cumulative GPA, but I'm not too sure about being able to go to Duke. It helps that I have a relative there, and that again, my test scores aren't too shabby, but I highly doubt they'd accept me.

So I'm faced with just two colleges that appeal to me, one that may not return the sentiment, and the other that might not be a good fit anyway.

So, which others should I consider? I don't want to go to a different Wisconsin school, and I don't really want to go to Minnesota, so where should I head?

Maybe I'll go to Iowa.