Man, I donated blood this last Tuesday, and usually things go perfectly smoothly, but this time, I've developed this humongous bruise on my bicep. I probably shoulda known something was up when I got dizzy afterwards- that usually doesn't happen either. And my arm gets numb/tingly whenever I exercise. Weird.

*On Thursday night, I watched a performance of Shen Wei Dance Arts- the Engineering Honors Council footed the bill. It was.... [weird]. I thought it'd be like a ballet or something, but it was more abstract... like an interpretive dance of some sort. No discernible storyline or definite theme- everything was very ambiguous and open to audience interpretation. There were "dances" to two pieces of music, the first of which was Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. This one was really bizarre... I kept thinking ok, any minute now, they'll pull it all together and everything will make sense... nope. When it finished, I honestly had no idea what I'd just watched. It was really wild and frenetic, but I guess it was vaguely fitting cuz The Rite of Spring is a pretty wack piece of music anyways. The second act was a little bit more cohesive, but also had no intelligible plot of any sort. It was an original piece title Folding, and it had something of an Asian motif. I really liked this piece; it was like a visual expression of something very deep from the soul that words cannot describe- the imagery was just really captivating. It was like watching a sculpture coming to life to further its power of expression. The color scheming for both acts was beautiful- the first with monochrome shades of grey/black/white, the second with bold hues in contrast with a color-changing backdrop... very painting-like. I really don't know if I'd recommend this show or not- after it finished, part of me hated it and part of me loved it, a hard feeling to describe.