Inexhaustible variety of life

I'm back in school, and my science teacher set her hand on fire.
Oh, and I'm sewing a marching band uniform for my drum major's stuffed animal. It's sort of a mini- mascot for us. Any tips?

(if you click on them, they go to the page on flickr they were posted on ~~credit)
Songs:

• Be Good (RAC remix) // Tokyo Police Club
• Lemon Tree // Fools Garden
• Your English is Good // Tokyo Police Club
• Ievan Polkka // the Miku Hatsune Vocaloid one
• Map the Soul // Epik High *
• With or Without You // Breathe Carolina (cover)
• West Coast Friendship // Owl City
• Lunacy Fringe // The Used
• Animal // Miike Snow
• Shake It // Vitamin String Quartet (cover)

* It's in Korean. The worldwide version is in English.

Books:

• I don't know. Any suggestions?

Quotes:

• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way. -- J.D. Salinger
• You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. -- C.S. Lewis
• This was the art world I'd been dreaming of, where God-given talent was considered an unfair advantage and a cold-blooded stare merited more praise than the ability to render human flesh. -- David Sedaris
• I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wish I wasn't so sheltered, had some culture, etc. Or at least something to ponder. There's been a lack of ambition in me lately.

So how are you?