What a Friday!
YES! I'm almost all caught up on my week's work! Now all I need to do is genetics reading and trying out some of the suggested problems to see if I know what I'm doing. Then I can do fun stuff for the rest of the three-day weekend!
Or at least, fun stuff in between the junk I have to do for ILEC (Ivy League Environmental Coalition) and Eco NE....-_- I really shouldn't call the stuff junk, but I think my head's still on vacation so it's really hard for me to concentrate, and I don't want to write a letter to the editor or email 8 schools to encourage them to attend an environmental conference on top of hw!;_;
Stuffed myself on Stovetop stuffing (no pun intended, I swear) today. I have simple tastes, as long as it's edible I'm happy. Two more boxes of stuffing left to go...! Then I can work on those fish sticks in the freezer.... Why am I talking about food? I'm SO not hungry. @_@ In fact I think my belly is protuding at least a foot away from the rest of me. Grotesque, no?
*after shower* Totally forgot I was writing an entry until just now.@_@ Early onset of Alzheimer's, this. Ugh, and next time, I'm eating something ELSE with my stuffing so I don't wolf the entire box down.-_- My stomach is still uncomfortably full. I'd better make myself work out tomorrow, if only for a little bit, or else I'll wind up like a Pillsbury Dough-girl, and that's only cute if you're a baby or several inches tall and a mascot for a line of baked goods.
Listening to Hanson....0_o; Wow, I remember with much embarrassment how much of a silly fangirl I was. And not only was I a fangirl, I was a fangirl in denial. I actually said to a friend of mine that I wasn't obsessed with Hanson, oh no, because I only thought their music was cool and they seemed really nice. Apparently it was not an obsession if I wasn't interested in how they looked.
Well, I guess my younger self had something of a point there, but if I'm gonna be yammering about them 24/7, it's an obsession whether or not I was obsessing over what (I thought) their personalities were instead of what their faces looked like. The obsession died a quick death though, when a friend told me that she thought I had changed (for the worse) ever since I got into Hanson. I was apparently acting meaner, or something.0_o; Yeah, so scared half to death after that, my fixation soured and I stayed away from them. I never hated them or anything, but it just wasn't the same after that.^^; In fact I'm still very fond of them, more than 6 years later, but thankfully it's not some personality-twisting mania.^^;
Thus ends random spiel about those Mmmbop kids.0_o; (Although two of them are older than me.^^;) And man, Taylor needs to stop it with the incessant MOANING! Attention hog! Let your brothers sing!
Ok, I'm done.^^;
New commenting up
Blogspeak went unobtrusively kaput sometime Monday night. It bugs me not to see a "comment" option at the end of the date and time, so I finally went and found another commenting system. Now this sense of wrongness will stop nagging at me and I can go wash my dish (yup, just one dish. And a pair of chopsticks). After that I will do homework. Yeah.
Thinking of getting a credit card of my own, because my roommate was pointing out the pros of "good credit." It was all Basque to me, but I think I'm getting the gist now. But that's that and this is this. What am I talking about? I don't know. I think I'm high on rice and eggplant. Or maybe this is the guilt-from-not-doing-hw-when-I'm-supposed-to driving me bonkers.
Stop TYPING! *smacks self*
Random second post because I can and I will
Man, I was just looking at Jen Wang's LJ (she's the artist of Strings of Fate) and her photos rock! I'm such a camera-happy person (all my friends can attest to this), but my pictures just totally suck @$$ (it's censored, it doesn't count as a curse....does it?).>_< Is that depressing or what? And it's not like I can practice all the time, because unlike scrap paper, film actually, you know, costs something. *gasp* Certainly more than I can afford, especially after buying textbooks today. (And I checked out the price for my molec. bio and genetics book: 132 bucks! WTF?? That's not a curse either.)
Speaking of money, another oh-so-interesting thing happened today that I shall relate because I don't feel like taking a shower just yet. I tried to buy a calendar to brighten up my ugly dorm walls, since they're 75% off right now and that's cool for a poor college student. I picked out the very last Tolkien calendar there and "wynded my solitary way" (only Marya will get this) to the cash register. I was expecting to pay, oh, 4 bucks for the thing.
Lady at register: *rings it up and tells me I have to pay 14 bucks because the original price was 55 bucks*
Me: WTF???????
Lady at register and her friend: That's the way it is.
Me: WTF??????? (Of course that was only my expression and not what I actually said.)
LAR: *in some effort to be consoling* Maybe this is because it's art.
Me: Oh? Maybe... *thought* What are you an idiot if that's art then the Monet calendars should be worth thousands of bucks blah blah blah blah....!!! *end thought* Er...I don't want it.
LAR: Oh? You don't want it?
Me: *more thoughts* Hell YEAH! *end more thoughts* (Oh, I'm answering that question the Chinese way, aren't I? If I were really speaking English I'd say, "Hell NO," I think. Ah whatever.) No...sorry.
LAR cannot figure out how to take the price off and neither can her friend so they have to call someone else over. This someone else was obviously more proficient at scanning in prices because she rang it up and told me that I only had to pay $4.01, which is good and logical. She was also more in touch with the conditions of a college student's pocketbook, the result being that she sympathized with my decision NOT to buy the thing if I had to pay 14 bucks.
Seriously, a 55 dollar calendar? I want to say that the lady was on crack, but that would be awfully crude of me. Maybe she just had a really, really bad morning. Yeah. I am becoming less and less forgiving the older I get. I hope I don't turn into a jaded old crab by age 30.
Will now thoughtfully sign off.
First day of classes
My Roman history professor on Julius Caesar: "He met with a bad end...an overdose of daggers."
LOL, I thought that was so hilarious.^^; History with a good instructor is truly heaven. The key words to that statement is "good instructor." I won't go into the horror that was my AP European history class in HS. Advanced placement my foot! (I'd use another body part, but I think one of my New Year's resolutions is to ease up on the cursing, especially in front of siblings with virgin ears.) Anyway, physics also sounded interesting, I think we're headed toward stuff I didn't learn in HS, which is always a Good Thing (tm). Japanese seemed as usual, i.e.-fun.^^ (What can I say? There's a reason I want to take it for four years.)
I just finished watching the latest episode of Hyakumonogatari (Hundred Stories), and it's sooooo cool. I love this series to bits.^_^ You keep getting the feeling that there's something bigger involved and it's right at the edge of your vision, so you don't quite know what it is... In fact, this series gives me the same sensation as reading Yami Wa Tsudou, and since I've dedicated an entire website to that manga, it should be pretty obvious that the mystery is what I'm after.^^; It drives me nuts that they don't explain everything, so I go and make up answers. Matantei Loki: Ragnarok (at least the anime) came close to doing that too, but the manga series isn't over yet, so I'm hoping all will be explained there.^^
And that had nothing to do with the first day of classes except in the loosest fashion (I watched the show today). I think now I'll go draw or write or something fun because we didn't really get any hw and that will change very, very soon.
It really sucks that I always get these little witty gems of ideas while rushing to class, which means it's impossible to pull out a piece of paper and jot it down unless I want to be late. Then I forget all about it when I come to chat about nonsense in this blog or in my handwritten journal. So that's my excuse for boring everyone to death, yup.
Ja mata :) <--hey, look, I'm using the "American" smiley as opposed to the Asian smiley! (That's this thing = ^_^)
Back to the rat race, ver.2
Dang, I'm so dumb. I closed the browser by accident while typing this huge pre-beginning-of-classes entry and clearing out the inbox and figuring out my work schedule and answering emails (in other words, multi-tasking)... I guess it should come as no surprise that I would do something like that when I was barely paying attention to what I was writing.@_@
Er...I think I was yammering, in a typical nerdy manner, about how excited I was at the Ancient Rome class and the Research in Animal Behavior class I'm taking.^^; I believe I sounded very enthusiastic, but you'll just have to take my word for it, since the entry is lost forever... *melodramatic*
I was also listing all the stuff I ought to do tonight, since it's my last night of freedom (*cue melodrama again*), but that was really long and boring so I guess it was a good thing that I closed my browser.^^; Maybe it was my subconscious trying to prevent me from posting an entry that'll put everyone to sleep....
Several jokes caught my humble attention during the course of my break (my sister and my roommate would know about them), but I'm too lazy to type them out now. Besides which, I think I told one of the jokes to my friends several times already, it's probably getting old.^^; Maybe I'll type out the new ones tomorrow....
Until then. Have a happy Sunday night.^_^
