So today was an Alanis Morissette day. What is an Alanis Morissette day, you ask? You shouldn't have to ask. I'm assuming that most of you just know. But for the uninitiated, an Alanis Morissette day usually follows the kind of day I had yesterday (i.e. a I HATE GRADUATE SCHOOL & MUST FILL AN ENTRY WITH SWEARING AND THEN LOCK IT kind of day). It involves doing something for yourself (in my case I took myself out to lunch), and then locking yourself in a quiet, lonesome location (in my case the 8th floor of the science library), and singing Alanis Morisette very forcefully under your breath while you make contorted and emotion-filled angry faces and try and get your life under control.

For Alanis Morisette Day is not a Pity-Day, oh no. It is an Angry Day, but the anger boils with purpose and self-empowerment. Alanis Morisette (we're talking the Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie here, but I suppose the Jagged Little Pill could work too if you're into what's hip (or used to be hip like ten years ago)) is the perfect music for stalking around the library in the darkness searching for obscure titles. It is the "let's pull ourselves out of our state of panic by the bootstraps and do something about our life!" But do not make the mistake that this music is anything like "inspirational", oh no, far from it. This music is about buying and selling this place, this music is about having as much rage as you have, this music is about doing all kinds of crazy-ass shit and then having the audacity to ask "are you still mad?"

If I am hardened I'll have no fear of further abandonment
If I am famous then maybe I'll feel good in this skin
If I am cultured my words will somehow garner respect

If I am masculine I will be taken more seriously
If I take a break it would make me irresponsible
If I need assistance then I must be incapable

If I accumulate knowledge
I'll be impenetrable
If I am aloof no one will know
when they strike a nerve
If I keep my mouth shut the boat
will not have to be rocked
If I am vulnerable I will be
trampled upon

too close to home, Alanis Morissette! Please stop reading my mind, Alanis Morissette!!!

Oh Alanis Morissette, there will always be a time and season for your angry phrases and your songs that call up emotions but don't actually make any sense when you read the lyrics... and your baffling choice of point of view that makes us wonder if you are a 45-year-old man. Always.

My last one of these days was almost precisely a year ago, Spring Break senior year when I was writing pretty much my entire thesis at once. The libraries may change, but the endless pursuit of boring, pointless knowledge and the pure, animal, unrhyming rage of Alanis Morissette stays the same evermore!!!

There, I visited. :p
» ikimashokie on 2007-03-27 10:47:43

I have those days too. And Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is the album I wore out two years ago and haven't had the money to repurchase as of yet. She's gotten through some rough times too.
» Helena on 2007-03-27 11:31:15

Ha ha ha.. I am so drowsy right now from my meds so it was difficult to read your blog. But I did get that atlantis morssette day is angry day. I get those too. Now, I can actually give it a name. hee hee!
» kKAma67 on 2007-03-28 01:33:37

Alanis = ultimate library artist when you need to get shit done

Her and O-Zone.

Dead fucking serious. How else did I make it through the last few weeks of junior year?
» ranor on 2007-03-28 09:59:53

I NEVER ASKED WHAT AN ALANIS MORISETTE DAY WAS!

Will you write my thesis for me if I ask what an alanis morisette day is?
» Dilated on 2007-03-28 01:08:14

It's for me to read only.
Even if you managed to break the password, it'd just refer you back to my main page before you could do anything.
» middaymoon on 2007-03-28 07:28:16

About Tungsten
I knew that, but I guess there really isn't much they could do to change that. It just HAS to be W.
» middaymoon on 2007-03-28 09:09:48

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