Today was very enjoyable. After studying? this morning, I met Michelle at Koerners after she finished her Latin exam. It was her last exam as an undergraduate, all that remains is her thesis. We shared a pitcher of beer, and decided on a (drunken) whim to, upasses in hand, galavant off to an ice cream shop near her house. I had Tiremasu. It was excellent. I had to run, however, to meet Reed at Tina’s house for a guitar lesson. I was 40 minutes late, but they had forgotten I was coming, and should I have arrived at the correct time I would have found an empty house. After sharing an enjoyable dinner with Tina, I attempted to show Reid some basics on the guitar. His sense of Rythm is excellent. However, his fingers are small and this makes things difficult. I will perhaps consider getting him lighter gage strings for his guitar as to make it easier to fret chords. We wrote a song with the chords I taught him. Since I have nothing pressing to do, I will transcribe it here (hopefully the formatting will work out).
Em
It was a dark and stormy night,
Am
complete with thunder and lightning!
E
But it was happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy
A
happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy
Em
It was the time of the battle between
Am
the guys and the other guys
E
And they were happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy
A
happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy
Reid especially likes the “guys, and the other guys” part. Is it cacaphonic? It’s certainly not traditionally poetic, and I think that’s why he likes it. I hope very much I have the oppertunity to rent the room in their basement, it would be beyond excellent living quarters for the summer. Close to UBC, the dirty house, work (well, not to far from it at any rate), and friends (mostly UBC, North Van, Some Van and East van. No Surrey. Some white rock though).
Only a Northern Song 