Stars and Confetti

What a Weekend

2011-05-06T16:49:00.002-04:00

I'm finally making a post for last week... I decided that it was now or never; otherwise I'd just forget about it/ put it off until it was too late or irrelevant. So yeah. Last weekend.

Was awesome! It started with a party on Friday, which was hosted by my future roommates and I, and took place in another friend's townhouse. The main event was playing a drinking game to the movie Black Dynamite, which is a must see if you haven't ever seen it. When I went to Tr's house for Easter his brother showed us it, and it was pretty funny. But yeah. Even with me cutting out some of the recommended rules for the game, it was still a lot. I... finished like 3 Smirnoff lemonade... things by the end of the movie, and it only continued from there. The night was really fun (sorry, no pictures though).

Then came Saturday. Every year my school, the school on the other hill and the town host a festival and concert event that's collectively called "OH Fest".

Tr and I wandered through Main Street in the afternoon, and while it was too chilly for shorts, the weather was pretty pleasant.

Then, in the evening there was the concert. I kinda only went to see Pitbull, and he was pretty good.

Then on Sunday my friends and I had a fire on Table Rock, which is a spot in the forest above the school that looks out into valley. It has a really awesome view, actually.

We has smores and had a good time embracing our pyromaniac sides.

This was our teepee of fiery death.

(Sadly, no pictures of me.) And that was last weekend.

Subway Customer Appreciated

2011-04-17T01:19:00.002-04:00

So today was Subway's Customer Appreciation Day, where if you got one sub you got a whole other one for freeeeeeeee! In light of this oh-so-delicious deal, my friends and I when on over to the Subway on Main Street and got some subs!

Poor Au looks so perplexed... she watch as I (without explaining it to anyone) went all panorama picture with my phone. But yeah. I still have a whole sub left. Guess what I'm having for lunch/dinner tomorrow.

After out Subway escapades, we went to New Dorm 1, which is where all these peeps (with the exception of one) live. We played pool...

And then Apples to Apples (no pics, sorry). Then some other peeps came and we chilled in the third floor lounge and generally acted like idiots.

Tr and his roommate gave us a finger puppet show. I think Tr's finger puppet is being help up in this pic O.o

All in all, it was a pretty decent day.

A Happy Ending

2011-04-10T16:49:00.002-04:00

This happened a month or so ago... I haven't bothered to make a post about it until :/ Better late than never, though, right?

Remember the heart-wrenching (lol) story about my ~~stolen~~ lost iPod and how I was unfairly denied winning another one (post is here if you really feel the need to read/reread it)? Well, that story now has a happy ending! Say hello to my new mp3 player, the Archos 43!

Isn't it pretty? It was definitely worth saving two paychecks for it... it's 16 GB of Android goodness. Take that iPod. Buahahaha! I won't go on about how awesome it is, but here's a (pretty fair, in my opinion) review of it: linkie linkie

Sigh

2011-04-06T23:52:00.000-04:00

Surprise, I don't have any drama to whine about, haha. Actually today was a pretty good (albeit exhausting) day.

It started with me having breakfast with the college president. She had gone down to Florida a week or so ago to visit with and alumni and parents and my own parents went to the dinner; apparently they talked about me a lot, so she wanted to meet me. I was pretty much dreading it, but in the end it wasn't too bad: she's pretty cool and reminded me a lot of my aunt. She was interested in my writing too (apparently my parents mentioned how I write on the side) so I gave her my binder o' typed up stuff: it contains a few short stories, a couple poems, and what I've typed so far of my never-to-be-completed-cause-I'm-lazy/busy story called Windsail. It's such a beast... I think the current size of it is 60-someodd pages, 10 pt, single-spaced, Times New Roman. Yeah. So we'll see what she thinks tomorrow, when I go and pick up the binder. I hope I don't really sound ungrateful; I just don't think my stuff's really good enough to bother her with; she's got more important things to do, lol.

Now on to my more... sigh-worthy news. Tr has mono. Ruh roh. He was feeling eh for a few days, during which I kept my distance, but before that there was plenty of kissing and whatnot. I told A... all she really said was "oh dear." Gah, that's not what I need the nursing student to say! So we shall see, won't we? I'm starting to get paranoid; every ache, pain and sore I'm wondering "god no do I have it?!" But I can't really do much now... well, other than keep my distance from Tr. Aaaah I don't need thiiiiis!

Summer Yearnings

2011-04-04T23:21:00.000-04:00

I am more than ready for the summer, this kind of summer:

Newest Addiction

2011-03-28T14:16:00.000-04:00

... is lyric videos. Like most things though, they are not created equal. Here are a few, however, that I particularly like:

And the best one I've seen so far:

Never a Dull Day

2011-03-22T14:50:00.000-04:00

Haha! And you thought I had disappeared from the face of the earth, hadn't you? Well, that was not the case, as you can see, though I have been too tired/lazy/busy to really blog. So let me catch you guys up.

To start, I'm dating someone, who we will call Tr. He's a pretty cool guy. To continue, S is being--to put it veeeeeery bluntly--is a bitch. Now, you may think I'm saying this unfairly, or that I'm not giving him a chance, blah blah blah, but hear me out. To start, J, Tr and I are all friends. J is an ex and he has no problem with Tr. In fact, he invited Tr and me to a little shindig that happened at his townhouse a few weeks ago. There was some drinking, some Rock Band-ing and S was there. I wanted no trouble so I kept interactions with Tr at the friend level and low-key. And S seemed pretty cool about it. And I was like "huh, cool."

The next day I went over to the townhouse to chill with J and I passed S on the way and gave him a pretty neutral "hi." He didn't say anything, but I thought nothing of it. Then, as I hung out with J, I got a few texts from him, and they went something like this:

"Where's your boytoy? If you want somewhere to spoon you are welcome to use my bed. I recommend you start by sucking his dick."

Okay, woah. Too far sir. The thing is, the texts irritated me at best. I ignored them and went on with my life. But seriously, is that necessary? If there is any ex that should hate me it's J: while we were dating S was telling me to break up with him, and in the end I did and went straight to S (not my greatest moment, but J was such an asshole then; he's shaped up since). So it irritates me that S, who I cleanly broke up with and for whom I gave the courtesy of waiting before dating again, is the one who is acting like this.

Whatever. It's his loss. He's a senior and is graduating soon; as awful as it sounds I'm not really up to the effort and drama that will ensue if I try to become friends with him again.

In related news, J moved out of the townhouse and into a (pretty awesome, if I say so myself) super single in one of the other dorms. He's been saying he wanted to move out for a while, since he's lost all patience with the guys in the townhouse (L, P and S). They stay up late and are noisy, and he hears them talk shit about everyone (especially when A is around, who J completely and absolutely loathes).

He tried to get me to take sides in regards to A, but there's no way I'm going to do that: if I ide with J (who I would side with) then I have to live with A giving me dirty looks for the remainder of the semester, and if I side with A... well, J's too good a friend.

But yeah, that's what's been going on with me. Tired of my drama yet?

Huh

2011-01-26T20:54:00.000-05:00

The campus is falling apart, I swear. First that sprinkler/heater thing, now one of the water mains broke and is letting out a little waterfall of water down one of the slopes and over the side walk. You know, the sidewalk that I usually use to get to class. By the time it's morning it'll all be slick and icy :(

Early Release -- We Struck Oil!

2011-01-25T12:26:00.002-05:00

It's funny how, not long after I decide to start posting again, exciting things happen to blog about!

Today, during class, the fire alarm went off, which was a mild surprise since I don't think I've ever had the fire alarm go off in an academic building before (always in the dorms, always a drill/false alarm/idiot-ass student). We all thought it was a drill (which I guess is why there are always drills; can't tell the difference from a real emergency and a practice run, so you stay chill either way). Well, surprise! This one was real. There was no fire, but on the first floor there was an oil spill (from the heaters, I'll assume).

What a mess! The black stuff is the oil, of course, and I'm going to guess the sprinklers went off since there was a lot of water too. I'm going to guess that it was about an inch, inch and a half deep.

That's all I know about the situation now, hopefully the school will eventually give us more info. Maybe no class tomorrow, haha.

Only A Teeny Bit Jaded

2011-01-24T19:53:00.005-05:00

Let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time there was a girl who had an iPod. As much as she hated Apple products she came to love this iPod. Then ~~this fat whore stole it~~ the iPod disappeared and never was found again. This saddened the girl.

Then one day this girl's friend, who was on the student events committee... thing, told her that she should go to the masquerade party the school was holding. The girl had little interest in it though. That was, she wasn't interested in it until she heard that the party had a mask contest, with the owner of the best mask winning an iPod!

The girl was elated. She was artistic, and she knew that there wouldn't be too many people (not too many people ever went to these events) so there wouldn't be too much competition. She had a genuine chance shot at this. The event was on Saturday around 8 pm, and she finally began to make her mask around 11 pm on Friday, along with some of her friends, who had a night to kill. They stayed up making their masks, sleeping for only a few hours before continuing.

In the end, the girl basically made two masks, completely from scratch (they were made of paper mache, spray paint, beads, ribbon, cardboard, and some sparkly stickers). Hers was the moon...

And her ex's was the sun...

So now she had twice the chance of winning, and now the two masks complemented eachother so beautifully.

The time of the masquerade arrived, and the friends grabbed their masks and headed out. The masquerade was... pretty dull (though the food was pretty amazing) and finally the contest began. There were three finalists, and both of the girl's masks were finalists! She had it in the bag, there was no way she could lose this.

That is, until the DJ decided that the winner would be chosen by the crowd via shouting. He had a little device that calculated decibels, so it seemed fair enough. And it would have been if the crowd (which was a total of 30 people) hadn't consisted of 20 of the third finalist's friends. So in the end, the girl lost to this--

And that's why I'm now contest-jaded. This happened in... November(?), but I was so pissed/miserable about the whole event, I didn't really want to relive the events so soon after.

(Sorry for slacking on the posting end, I'm trying to get back in the swing of things.)

Impending Doom

2010-12-01T00:10:00.000-05:00

I... am going a bit crazy, to say the least. Classes end the 10th (!), finals the week after, and that's it! God, I beg, pray and hope I can push a godforsaken 3.0 finally, or it may be FAU or Nova for me. How the hell will I live with myself?! I thing that the thing I worry about more than disappointing my parents is disappointing my aunt (who's not my aunt). She worked to get me into her alma mater, to get me the scholarship I got, and she's helped me along the way financially; not to mention she's let me stay over her house for breaks like Thanksgiving. I've got an about guaranteed A in at least one class, a probably B in another, but the class that's really bothering me is this godforsaken Research in Learning class. It will be the end of me raaaah!

And if that's not enough, the old iPod my aunt gave me (during Thanksgiving break, along with an external harddrive she wasn't using anymore) has disappeared. Yes, I'll put money on the fact that it was stolen. And I'll also put money on the fact that it was stolen by Se.

I'm not sure if I explained the current relationship Se and I have... When she still lived (squatted) here, she tried to steal my headphones. One day they were on the windowsill in the living room, the next they were not. I went around asking everyone if they had seen them (including Se) and everyone didn't know. So I bid my time. One night all the other roomies went out, and I started looking (though everyone's stuff--yes, I know, I'm just as bad) for my headphones. And where were they in the end? In Se's freaking purse!!!!! I took them, of course, but said nothing. At that point everyone was on cool terms with her and I didn't need the additional drama. (That plus I got my headphones back and, admittedly, she kinda scares me--she's like twice my weight, I wouldn't win a fight against her.)

So things went on and whatever and over time we discovered that Se (and D, on a lesser degree) is a serious mooch. She helped herself to A's stuff without asking, burned through her expensive makeup/perfume without a second thought, opened up and used my coffee milk (I had a serious problem with that, lol), and was a general nightmare. At this point A and I were not too keen of her (well I borderline abhorred her at this point), but D was (and still is) friends with her. Well, A finally snapped and kicked her out of her room (it was pretty passive aggressive though; she just packed up Se's stuff and put it all in the living room).

I was pretty happy Se was leaving, but I had another thing coming. D started offering her her own bed, since she often sleeps elsewhere (don't ask me where, I have no idea). I said nothing and had a "well let's see where this goes first" kind of attitude. Well it wasn't long before I kicked her out myself. One night she brought her friend over (another S, the third person with that name) and they decided that it would be a sleepover. Which would have been fine if they hadn't chatted all the way to the bed and then chatted some more in the bed! It was four in the morning when they woke me up and I had a nine o' clock class. Of course they fell asleep with no problem, but I was so infuriated that they woke me up that I ended sleeping on the couch with the TV, finally falling asleep at around six. That was my final straw. I told her she couldn't sleep in my/D's room, and since couch sleeping's below her, I essentially kicked her out of the suite.

I thought I'd never have to see her (or at least minimally), but D is still friends with her. She and Se and another of their friends chill in the room, all noisy and whatnot, and recently I've realized that they've been smoking in the room! The room reeks for like 3 hours after, and it smells awful. But anyway, to this iPod. I had it Sunday, in my coat pocket, and when I got back to the room I dumped everything that was in my pockets onto the desk, including iPod. Then yesterday when I got back to class, guess who was in the room: D, Se, and another friend. Now, I don't remember seeing the iPod then, and when I wanted it later that night it was gone. Granted anyone else could have stolen it, but due to Se's track record (and, admittedly, my intense hatred for her) I'd like to say she stole it.

RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok that's it. I apologize for the TL;DR, but I needed to get it out. I'll forgive anyone who doesn't bother reading it :)

Festive

2010-11-27T20:10:00.001-05:00

My aunt started taking out the Christmas stuff today. Now that Thanksgiving's over, there's no more obstacles in the way of the holidays and my birthday. Yay!

It's scary to think that classes end December 10th, and that I'm free to go home the week after that. Though there's still so much school work I have to do... so daunting!

Cookies and Milk

2010-11-24T21:49:00.000-05:00

So, Thanksgiving break is upon us, and I'm again spending it at my aunt's house. Though instead of catching a ride with S, or driving myself, I took a Greyhound from Albany to a town near my aunt's, which was, funny enough, my first encounter with bus travel. But that wasn't the most interesting part of the trip. In the bus stop I met up with one of my brother's friends; yes, from Florida! He goes to Albany University (University of Albany?) and he was going to his dad's house in Montreal for Thanksgiving.And he was taking the same bus as me! It was certainly a pleasant addition to an already good day.

I'll have to apologize for not posting for so long... I've been kind of sucked into Perfect World and ~~schoolwork~~ more Perfect World. I am ashamed. The thing is, every time I think "hm, I should make a post" the though of having to summarize current events hinders me. And then, like right now, once I start typing it all flows out so much easier than I thought it would.

But yeah, my aunt's house. It's soooo nice to be here, in my own room (the house has 2 guest rooms, and one of them is unofficially mine when I'm here), without noisy roommates, drama and all the other stresses that are part of being on campus. And, oh, the beautiful internet connection I have here! With a grand total of 3 users in the house, the ping is so low and allows Perfect World to run so smoothly. That plus there aren't any pesky firewalls keeping from Bittorrent from working...

But yeah, it's really nice to be here. And the real food only makes it better!

Goodbye Happiness

2010-11-08T19:41:00.001-05:00

Goodbye Happiness

I'm really loving the new song by Hikaru Utada (which is the name she's going under now). Clickie clickie.

In other news, the weather here is quickly turning for the worst. It's started to snow and the snow is actually sticking. Bleh. Snow. Bleh.

Donut!

2010-11-02T14:49:00.001-04:00

It's a flipping donut carrier. With freaking holes to lock the donut safely inside! While I don't have the money for this (or the mental instability), this contraption is pretty amusing, don't you think?

Dark Diamond

A little creative writing for ya :)

2010-11-01T19:42:00.000-04:00

So I'm taking a creative writing-fiction class and a recent in-class writing assignment was to write a paragraph with increasingly long sentences. So the first sentence was one word long, the next was two sentences, the next was three... up until fifteen sentences. I particularly like mine, so I wanted to share it:

Tomorrow. That’s it. I’m ready now. Whatever happens will happen. Nothing will be the same. You tried to hold me back. But what future was there, but this? Pop was the sound of a soul fleeing. The blood was a violent stain on his shirt. That fleeing soul took the weight from my heavy heart. I was still, but you couldn’t handle what I had just done. You turned, ready to retch, but I was settled like a god. What is already black cannot be stained: I’m as sinless as you are. But you cannot help to disagree, I love that about you, my darling foil. Play your part and I’ll play mine, what else is there to this cold world?

It's pretty dark, not my usual thing, but it's pretty cool. I had Code Geass on the brain (?? take that as you wish) funny enough. But yeah.

And it begins...

2010-10-31T19:26:00.001-04:00

And so it begins again. The first real, super, miserable snow of the season. Doesn't anyone else think that it's too early for snow?

Lelouch vi Britannia commands you!

2010-10-30T13:47:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since I'm seen an anime as awesome, as sad, as addicting as Code Geass.

I blame my new love and addiction to this show on Sn. Last weekend he sent me the first episode, and, well, after seeing I didn't look back haha. I finished the whole show this past Thursday, and I'll have to say I got teary. That hasn't happened in quite a long time.

So if you're looking for an anime to watch, I highly recommend Code Geass.

PWI

2010-10-21T21:35:00.001-04:00

My current game addiction has been this:

Perfect World International. Think free, Chinese knockoff of World of Warcraft. With better character designs, in my opinion.

Perfect World International

Random Photos 6

2010-10-11T21:45:00.000-04:00

I think this is the last Random Photos for a while... I finish it with some funny things I've found over the past summer:

Sawgrass Mall, at some random store. Haha, ass shirts (don't mind me).

I've always found these stickers so annoying. No one cares about your kid! Apparently someone else did not approve of this sticker. Found this in my sister's friend's gated community.

NO TREE! This was at the self-checkout at IKEA (IKEA has a freaking self-checkout!) I just found it really funny that the button to reject the donation was "No Tree". I'm not quite sure if we got a tree or not.

And finally, this gem. If I had had the money...

Random Photos 5

2010-10-07T21:41:00.000-04:00

Another one pic-er. As the air grows colder, it reminds me of this:

What horror! This was taken last winter, on the first snow day my school has had in years. We had, like, 2 feet of snow. And it was so cold! Not to long ago, I was joking to S about the horrors of winter: the sunlight is cold and hard, like the ravaged world below... If you haven't already guessed, I'm not a winter kind of person.

2010-10-07T18:18:00.001-04:00

A notecard I was able to use for a test. And it still ended up kicking my ass.

Random Photos 4

2010-10-03T21:22:00.004-04:00

Today we shall look at cats!

This is my obese, cranky cat Becky. She's got such pretty grey and white markings; I joke (JOKE!) that when she dies I'm making gloves out her with pink lining.

On the other hand is Luna, Al and Pe's gorgeous little terror.She was in a rare state of rest at the moment; this was in the car as we drove to Al and Pe's apartment on the west coast of Florida. The cat and dog travel with them (and are pretty good in the car).

Here's Luna again, this time in her more common terror mode. She's so adorable... one day I'm just going to walk out of Al's place with her, haha.

2010-10-03T18:25:00.001-04:00

Key limes are not green! Raaaaaah!!!

Random Photos 3

2010-09-30T21:17:00.002-04:00

Another single photo today:

This lovely hole in the wall (lolololol, I'm hilarious) that Sn is in is the air conditioning intake... hole) O.o We had to take the grate that covers it off when we were removing the wallpaper, and I dared Sn to go into it. The air was off, but it's still so creepy. If you're not scared of having the AC machine rumbling right over your head, this is the best hiding place in the house (well maybe not anymore, since I've pointed it out).

Mails!

2010-09-30T20:16:00.001-04:00

A long-awaited package arrived a few days ago, and there was something about it that made me lol...

This was the package that I got.

Within it was this lovely piece of bubble wrap.

And this teeny piece of plastic was what it was protecting. Yeah.

In related news now my PSP again has an analog nub!

Drama Llama

2010-09-28T22:53:00.000-04:00

Boy do I have a thick slice of drama for you!

To start, S and I broke up yesterday. Well, I broke up with him. It wasn't really anything to do with him, and more to do with the fact that I've been in relationships for about 2 years straight at this point. I wanted to be single again, to flirt and to be free. Poor S, he's so sweet and definitely didn't want to split up. But if I was going to stay with him it would have been fake, forced... so I decided to just cut it off. So that's Important Piece of Info #1.

Important Piece of Info #2 is that A, one of my suitemates, is interested in a guy I shall call S2, since he has the same name as S. Now let us begin...

(I got this info from a phone call with J, so if it proves to be false, I will kill that lying fuck.)

A and Se went over to the townhouses (which I obviously didn't join them for, since S lives there) and (according to J) A started talking smack (lol) about me. According to her, I'm interested in S2, who today I was talking to (more on that in a moment), and that that was the reason why I broke up with S. I will be totally honest: I have absolutely no interest in S2, he's a nice guy but he's waaaaaaay too shy and quiet for me. So, clearly, her accusation is false. In addition to that, she said that she thought that D, my current roommate, was a horrible choice of a roommate for me, and that she's corrupted me (?). What is with this with everyone being suspicious of D? Yes, I didn't know anything about her until this year, but other than accidentally waking me up early, she's been harmless. The funny thing is that A recommended D, and was totally pro-D when she first moved in. Lol whut?

Now as to me and S2 talking today, this is what she was talking about: at around... 4-ish, I returned to the suite and in the living room were A, Se and S2. I waved them hello and then went into my room and started fiddling on the computer. From the living room I could hear them talking about how S2's frat had been basically raided by the police last Friday night. Interesting stuff, no? So I came over and sat down with them, asking questions about what had happened (apparently the frat brothers that had been in the the house at the time all got arrested) and whatnot. Then S2 left and that was the end. Apparently I seemed too interested -.-

So basically, A is a potential backstabber (and now I have to keep an eye on her, what a bother), S doesn't want me in his line of sight (understandable) and thinks I broke up with him for S2 (not understandable), and all this is based on J's word, which worries me because even though he is a good person on a whole, he does have a taste for gossip.

*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh*

Random Photos 2

2010-09-26T21:14:00.001-04:00

Another Random Photos! Yay!

Today you get a single picture:

Isn't it beautiful? This beautiful Ferrari was ahead of me in line at my sister's school, undoubtedly there to pick up some snobby rich kid, haha.

Random Photos 1

2010-09-23T18:22:00.000-04:00

So I was looking through one of my photo folders recently and found some pictures that I really liked and want to share... they are a bit random so I'm splitting them up into separate posts that I'll post on occasion.

The photos here are some pictures of skies that I found particularly striking. Both were in Florida.

This picture was taken in the early morning, when I was at a red light. I was trying to get on the highway (that rise on the right) and this sky was particularly pretty. The clouds really got me with the unusual combination of light and shadow.

A sunset pic, taken on my street. It was getting pretty dark (hence the headlights shining on the road). Aren't the colors amazing?

Another morning sky pic, though this is facing south. I had just dropped off my sister at school and was caught at a red. Those clouds! The expanse of the intersection is such a contrast to the clutter in the sky. I love it!

So that's it for today!

Obligatory Move-In Post

2010-09-22T19:19:00.000-04:00

So Wednesday, September 1st, I'm moved in, and this is the (very belated) obligatory move-in post!

The place I'm staying at is on on-campus suite that consists of two bedrooms, a little living room/common room, and a bathroom. It's, sadly, $800 more a year than a simple double (something that definitely wasn't lost on my dad, haha) but I love it! It's pretty small compared to other college housing (I have a friend with a freaking kitchen!) but other than the townhouses and the on-campus houses, the suites are the best, and they're in the middle of the campus; every academic building's no more than 7 minutes away, which is good since I hated having to traipse through the snow for 15 minutes every day to get to class.

Yay for room panorama!

I told a friend that this'll probably be the only place I'll ever live where I'll have such an amazing view... You can look out to the valley and the town... As much as I dislike the cold, I can't wait for fall to really set in so I can see the autumn leaves from here.

This is our dinky little bathroom. It does the job but it's pretty small to have to be shared by four people.

So that's our suite.

Running Around Town

2010-09-21T19:25:00.001-04:00

As always, I apologize for the lack of posts, but the first two (has it really only been two weeks?) weeks have been pretty crazy and I've been a bit lax on the whole blogging thing. So, yesterday I did some fun stuffs. I needed to get a book for my Research in Learning class (which is very probably not the right one -.-) so me and S went to the Small (Southside Mall, known for its size) to the Borders Express they have there.

It was there that I found this:

A Gossip Girl manga! Madness! And yet, I was tempted (it ended up being $12 so I ended up not getting it). I remember reading the series before the TV show and all that crap, it was one of those guilty pleasures. And now a manga? Why must I be tempted? And the art was pretty nice, to top it all off.

We then walked over to fye and I had to get these headphones:

So... sexy... Originally for $50, they were marked down to $20! ROXY headphones! That were pink and orange! They came with a snazzy bag too; I love them so much!

Then we went to Wal-mart, where I found this insanity:

What is this?! A freaking Barbie video camera for, like, 6-year-olds. This is nuts! I got my first digital camera at, like, 15. No child this young needs a camera. Seriously. It reminds me (though it's less extreme) of my aunt's grandneice. She's barely 7 and she has a freaking iPad! What does a 7-year-old need an iPad for?! Rah, it frustrates me.

In any case, at Wal-mart I finally got myself a webcam, after having my friends ask that I get one since freshman year.

Say hello to Cammie, my cheapie $18 webcam. Yay for Wal-mart!

So that was my Monday... sooner or later I'll actually make that obligatory move-in post...

Birth By Sleep

2010-09-16T21:23:00.002-04:00

YES!

Uh...

2010-09-09T22:45:00.001-04:00

As much as I adore the Vocaloids and Kaito (the character/voice), this has me creeped out (and ever so slightly amused):

Picture of the Day 9/6/10

2010-09-06T17:09:00.002-04:00

Someone brought this monster to the IT help desk today to get the college required progams installed. Isn't is beautiful?

Picture of the Day 9/4/10

2010-09-05T12:49:00.002-04:00

Yesterday I got a window pane to the face when I was trying to close this window. It's fixed now but I've got marks to prove my ordeal haha.

Picture of the Day 9/5/10

2010-09-05T12:47:00.002-04:00

Chilling with my roommate (the blonde one) at my bf's on-campus townhouse (even though he's not even here yet).

On the Lake

2010-09-03T18:58:00.000-04:00

I'm at school now, and while I will eventually make a move-in post, I want to tell you guys about the fun I had August 30th, which was, what, last Monday. I was still at my aunt's house then, and that day we went on her niece's boat and enjoyed a day out on Lake George.

It was pretty nice, and I even went in the water, despite the fact that it was freezing cold. The sun was out and everything... it was probably the last chance this summer I had to work on my tan ;_; It's so sad!

Has Landed

2010-08-30T12:09:00.000-04:00

So I've arrived to New York, safe and sound and I have to say I miss Florida already. The heat, the blinding light, the tropical air... while the weather up here is definitely delightful, I guess I'm more of a palm tree kind of girl.

The flights (yes, plural, my dad can't in good conscience give me a direct--and more expensive--flight) were really nice, though the landing into Baltimore (where our connecting flight was) was far from smooth. Have you ever seen a fishtailing car? Have you ever been in a fishtailing car? Now let's add 100+ mph to the speed and make that a fishtailing plane. It was.... AWESOME! Haha, it definitely was not an average landing. I don't know what was wrong with the pilot (or perhaps the plane O.o) but the landing felt faster and steeper than usual, and when we actually got on the ground the plane swung back and forth a few times before straightening out. Once we were connected to the jetway and whatnot I could see this guy with a walkie talkie checking out the wing, having the pilot open the extra-landing-wing-gear and checking for general damage.

The second flight was pretty ordinary, but it was on a less than ordinary plane:

Behold the Nevada One, one of 14 Southwest planes specially painted with designs inspired by state flags. It's kind of funny that our second plane was one of these special planes, since I was reading about the debut of the Florida One on the first flight, in Southwest's "Spirit" magazine.

So that was the flight... we were picked up by S's parents and I stayed the night there. Then, yesterday, S drove me up to my aunt's house, where I'm staying until Wednesday. Then, off to school!

Dinner and a Show

2010-08-30T10:53:00.000-04:00

Never really did a post on this (and don't really want to), but last Thursday (the 26th) S and I went to the Mai-Kai in Fort Lauderdale. I've driven past it a few times, but have never gone, and it was awesome.

It's a Polynesian restaurant, and in the center of it is a stage where you can watch performers do all kinds of awesome dances. A dinner and a show!

Mai-Kai Restaurant

Ferrero Rocher Challenge....

2010-08-27T00:11:00.001-04:00

...my sister and Sn tried to do it... and kinda failed. It was still very amusing, though.

Picture of the Day 8/26/10

2010-08-26T09:02:00.002-04:00

An early visit to the beach... By S's request

Picture of the Day 8/25/10

2010-08-25T14:13:00.002-04:00

I'm not as much against Starbucks as I am pro Dunkin Donuts. I got this shirt at a Dunkin Donuts for 3 (!) dollars.

Reciept

2010-08-25T13:12:00.000-04:00

What have I actually paid for here?! Went to Walmart the other day and between me mixing up what items apply to what coupons and the cashier being legally blind without glasses we messed up the whole purchase. I was supposed to get two things of Optifree, with a $5 off coupon, and two things of Stride, one of them being free with another coupon. But somehow... there are 5 items that were sold? I think she charged me for an extra pack of gum... gah whatever.

Sunshine State of Mind

2010-08-25T00:11:00.001-04:00

S and I went to the Keys this past Sunday for a day and had lots of (exhausting) fun. (It didn't help that I had to do do all the driving, since S doesn't know how to drive stick. But enough complaining! I definitely had a lot of fun.

The day began with a visit to the Pennekamp State Park for snorkeling. Though the weather was cloudy and the water was a bit cold, we saw a lot of cool stuff on the reef.

Yay for all kinds of fishies!

After snorkeling we drove further south and took in the sights, finally taking a break and having lunch/dinner at the restaurant Lazy Days. the food was... a bit expensive, but it was soooo good!

After that we ended our day at Anne's Beach in Islamorada. While the water was too shallow for swimming for me, it's a pretty awesome beach. There's a walkway that connects a bunch of pavilions with picnic benches under them, and most of them are right by the water. Next summer I am so dragging a bunch of my friends down there to have a day-long picnic/hangout/beach day.

This particular pavilion was my favorite since it was a ways off the walkway (there were steps on the walkway that brought you to the ground, and then you followed a little path to this particular pavilion). That plus that tree hangs right over the oceanwater... so awesome!

Whoot panarama! Courtesy of my new phone. I didn't even know it could do things like this. But in any case, this is the view one of the other pavilions gets... isn't it awesome? To the side there are stairs that lead you to the beach.

So that was my Sunday... definitely one of my best!

Pennekamp State Park
Lazy Days Restaurant
Anne's Beach

Picture of the Day 8/20/10

2010-08-20T16:17:00.002-04:00

My super fat cat Becky.

Picture of the Day 8/13/10

2010-08-13T14:09:00.002-04:00

Yay Jettas!

Picture of the Day 8/11/10

2010-08-11T22:52:00.002-04:00

A boring pic of the day, I know. Other than a visit to Ikea and some more kitchen renovation it's been a pretty dull day.

Picture of the Day 8/9/10

2010-08-09T15:57:00.002-04:00

My brother and sister in our currently empty pool. We, alng with our father, emptied and scrubbed the previously nasty pool. It was so gross and green that no amount of chlorine and whatnot worked. So we decieded to empty it and start new. Yay we're going to have a pool again!

Picture of the Day 8/8/10

2010-08-09T00:08:00.002-04:00

Our funfetti cake kinda crumbled... It's not pretty but it's definitely still tasty.

Picture of the Day 8/6/10

2010-08-06T16:28:00.003-04:00

Just got my wisdom teeth removed...

Picture of the Day 8/4/10

2010-08-04T15:30:00.001-04:00

NEW CELLPHONE!!!!

Picture of the Day 8/3/10

2010-08-03T22:49:00.001-04:00

Drawing and music. I tried painting on Photoshop, but the new method isn't working for me. So much frustration!

Picture of the Day 8/2/10

2010-08-02T23:18:00.001-04:00

Mini Wendys frosty, courtesy of Sn. Yummy!

Picture of the Day 8/1/10

2010-08-01T22:54:00.002-04:00

This pretty much sums up my day :(

Picture of the Day 7/31/10

2010-07-31T22:20:00.003-04:00

Fried yucca, cajun chicken soup from Pollo Tropical and orange juice. A meal that makes this sick person happy.

Picture of the Day 7/30/10

2010-07-30T03:02:00.002-04:00

Playing crazy late-night Apples to Apples at the local Dunkin Donuts.

Picture of the Day 7/29/10

2010-07-29T23:31:00.003-04:00

Sooo ghetto. The whole entertainment system has been dismantled for the whole painting thing and to see the new episode of Futurama this is what we have to do.

Picture of the Day 7/28/10

2010-07-29T12:36:00.003-04:00

Apologies for not sending this one out yesterday... I saw these little duckies and their mom at the edge of a mall parking lot after dropping off my sister.

Picture of the Day 7/27/10

2010-07-27T02:21:00.004-04:00

I know its a bit early for a picture of the day but this one is perfect... Me and my sister are painting the interior of the house and it's quite the project... We stayed up till 2 am for one wall.

This is my sister, as we were painting. She was wearing the sunglasses because the light was in her eyes, the mask because she was sanding another wall, and the brush is, clearly, for painting.

Picture of the Day 7/26/10

2010-07-26T21:31:00.002-04:00

My mom and I went to TJMaxx today and we found this Hibiscus juice... stuff. Let's see how it tastes.

Picture of the Day 07/25/10

2010-07-25T15:48:00.002-04:00

Redoing the kitchen... Sarcastic yay for spackling.

Picture of the Day 07/23/10

2010-07-23T21:09:00.003-04:00

Sn and I are hanging out watching TV. Yay for free hang out events!

Stress

2010-04-16T01:31:00.000-04:00

I am stressed out of my mind. It's that time of the semester that everyone's preregistering for classes and I'm just going nuts. It's not only the fact that all the psych classes I need/want to take are filled already that's driving me nuts, it's also the fact that I don't really know if I'll still be in the same college after this semester.

Thing is, I have a $9,000 / semester scholarship (from the school) that demands a 3.0 GPA to keep. The first semester, freshman year I totally blew it, and destroyed my GPA; I've been trying to pick up the pieces ever since. This whole year I've been on academic probation because my GPA is below the requirement and it's now at a 2.894. So I basically need to get a B+ / A- minimum for all my classes. I know that I... probably... can do that. But the fact that there is so little space for a mistake is scaring me poopless.

An Update

2010-04-05T16:24:00.000-04:00

Yay! I found my notebook! And the money was still in it!

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But I missed both episodes of Big Cat Diary :(

Watching the Sun Go Round the World

2010-04-05T15:37:00.000-04:00

Life is being a bit craptastical right now... but it only started about, say, 30 minutes ago. Before I start my whining, let me tell you how my Spring Break went, which was last week.

The Friday before last I went to S's house for the night, mainly to to pick up Pokemon SoulSilver! Yeahya! It's really awesome too, since I essentially got the game for free... I'm part of a survey site (u.talk.back) and I had finally gathered enough points to get a $50 Gamestop gift card! Yippee! So that felt really awesome. On Saturday, S brought me back to school (which was eerily empty by now...) and I stayed there for most of the week, playing SoulSilver until I beat the main storyline part (that was around... Wednesday? Thursday?). During that time all I really ate was pizza (that I had ordered on Sunday; I got two pies and slowly finished them off over the days), Easy Mac, and my roommate's fiber bars (don't worry, I replaced the ones I had eaten). I was a total hermit for a few days, not leaving the dorm and not even leaving my room except for to go to the bathroom/take showers and to microwave my food.

Then, on... Friday (this past Friday) S surprised me by coming to pick me up so I could stay with him and his family for the weekend, including Easter. It was a pleasant surprise, since I was expecting to spend Easter holed up in my room. On Saturday he and I, along with a friend of his and his girlfriend (I had met both of them at an earlier time) to some sort of comedy show (which was, interestingly enough, in a Best Western). The show was really good, and the comedians managed to pick on everyone in the audience, mainly because there were, like, twelve of us (you can decide whether that was a good or bad thing). And then on Sunday S's mom prepared quite the Easter lunch/dinner... yay for real food!

So why am I now, just a day after all this fun, feeling craptastical? Well, as awesome as the weekend was, it totally messed up my procrastination plans for doing homework that I had been assigned during the break (raaah why do teachers like doing that?!). We got back to campus around 9 PM... I couldn't concentrate until midnight...then I took a 5 Hour Energy and was so giddy I couldn't think straight until around 2 AM. So I started the essay I had to do at around 2. And I wrote the godforsaken thing until 7 in the morning! I took an hour and a half nap, and then went off to classes.

But that was okay. I mean, I have had plenty of sleep the whole past week, so it isn't too bad. Plus I was able to cash in my work study checks so I have a bit of extra monies... but then, after my last class (which was the one I needed to write that damn essay for) I lost my notebook! With my money in it! And and my stories and writing and ideas and whatnot! It's probably still in the classroom, but by the time I realized it was gone the next class had already started in the same room.

So now I am sitting around in the computer lab downstairs, writing this and waiting until 4:15 (I checked the times for the class) when the class gets out. I hope hope hope nobody took it!

Song of the Week - April 4th

2010-04-04T12:01:00.001-04:00

Happy (late) Easter!

Portal Gun

2010-03-30T11:17:00.001-04:00

I don't know if posting Youtube videos all the time is annoying or not, but if it is, I'm sorry! But these videos are so awesome! Especially this video... they did a really awesome job on the editing/special effects. I never actually played Portal (maybe it's time to swipe my brother's copy...) but I know enough about it/have enough friends who played it to appreciate this video.

Aaaaah!

2010-03-25T11:14:00.000-04:00

The Hovercats are coming!

Yes, I do find this amusing, actually.

Brainsplosion!

2010-03-24T09:58:00.001-04:00

This. Is. AWESOME!!!!!

For more about this, clickie here.

Glowing Clothes? Hell Yes!

2010-03-23T11:11:00.001-04:00

Former Project Runway contestant Diana Eng unveiled her Fairytale Fashion Collection last month, and some of her pieces are AWESOME!

Especially this:

Glowing clothes that are sexy and ridiculously awesome at the same time? Count me in!

Check out this video to see more of her supercool creations of fashion and technology:

Wind and Rain

2010-03-22T22:22:00.000-04:00

Raaaah, I know, I know, I'm a bad blogger >:( Finally, here's how the Boston trip (which happened on the 13th) went:

The day started at 6:30 AM, which wasn't very good since I had gone to bed at around 1 AM. So I was sleep deprived at the start. Then, around &, I went to S's room to help him find his glasses. We ended up finding them, but they were broken (they had somehow ended up on the floor, and I'm assuming that someone took a hearty step on them), so he ended up wearing contacts. Finally, around 7:30-ish, we got in the car and got coffee and doughnuts (yum). By 8 we were on our way.

However, Saturday may have been the worst day to go. Only a half hour or so into the trip it started drizzling, and the rain followed us all the way to Boston. But we continued on.

The trip was pretty predictable until we were near Boston and Google Maps told us to take I-95 north. Oh 95... you are a friend and an enemy, a guide and an obstacle... I have taken I-95 many times going to and from New York... in fact, at home it and its "offspring" road (as I like to see it as) I-595 are the major ways I get anywhere. But it's a blessing and a curse. It can be notoriously congested and more than once I've had to dodge derbis flying across the road.

But I digress.

So once we got onto 95, things got messy. in the area that we were in, I-95 and Route 128 merged together as the same road for a while. So when Google Maps told us to go off on exit 26, the disaster began. You see, our goal was to go up to Salem and then take the train down to Boston; that way we had easy parking and a fun train ride.

But we ended up getting confused and we took the first exit 26, on I-95, which we later found out was the wrong exit 26. So instead of ending up in Salem, we ended up in a town called Waltham (I think), which we ended up wandering through for... more than an hour, I am sure. The problem was that after we got off on exit 26 we were supposed to get on a Main Street, which would lead to a Boston Street. And, naturally, Waltham had a Main Street that turned into a Boston Street. Finally, after going to a Walgreens to consult a map (which we didn't buy! Raaaargh!), we realized our mistake and hauled our confused butts back to I-95.

The funny thing is that the October before last (in 2008), I had gotten lost going to the suburbs south of Boston to visit a Florida friend that went to school there. And on the way back to my school, I ended up getting sucked into downtown Boston and was finally spit out in Cambridge (after losing an hour and a half and almost a half tank of gas). As I tried to get my sorry butt back on the Mass Pike, I wandered through Cambridge and the town(s) west of it until finally getting back to safety on I-90/Mass Pike. The crazy part was that on this second trip to Boston, as S and I wandered though Waltham and the surrounding area, I realized that I had been here before. Yes - I had gone through this same area trying to get home during my first visit to Boston. I didn't really have a chance to revel in the irony as we were driving, though, since we were too busy trying to get the frick back to a road we knew.

In any case, this story doesn't end here! After retreating back to I-95 we ended up overshooting the exit we were supposed to take, so we had to backtrack... but we finally managed to get into Salem! But our troubles did not end there: we continued to wander around in Salem, trying to find the train station. What happened was that we overshot the directions (again) because all the damn roads changed names every, like, 3 blocks! Rrrrraaaarrrggghhh! And then we kept going over the road we needed to go to because of this overpass... thing... by the time we got to the train station and parked, it was 4:30 PM. Yes, a trip that was supposed to take four and a half hours (according to that godforsaken Google Maps) ended up taking EIGHT AND A HALF HOURS! And then, to add insult to injury, we missed the train by, like fifteen minutes or something stupid like that, so we had to wait for an hour or so until the next train.

After finally getting to Boston, things went (mostly) as planned. We were going to go to the aquarium, but by the time we got to Boston it was waaaay past closing, so we had to nix that. Since we hadn't eaten anything since 8 that morning (with an exception of an additional doughnut each) we set our eyes on finding ourselves some food. We ended up eating at a little hole-in-the-wall place called Bella Vita (in the North End, of course, since that was the only area that I even mildly knew) and the food was super tasty there (whether this was because I was starving or not, I do not know). Then we went to the docks to say hi to the sea lol. I have to say that I don't really like the ocean in the north... it's cold and gray and angry :( But it was nice to smell the salty ocean smell, I'll have to say that I've missed it.

After seeing the ocean, we went to Mike's Pastry, which both of my Boston friends demanded we go to. We got two cannolis, though we didn't eat them there since at this time we were cold, wet, tired and not really willing to wait for a seat. Mike's Pastry was packed!

So after getting the cannolis we went back to the train station to wait for the train back to Salem. The thing is, during this whole adventure, it was raining. So by the time we called it a day (we got back to Salem around 11 PM), we were very wet, very cold, and very tired. Naturally, the trip back was ridiculously, insanely, ludicrously easy, with the only stop being a gas/rest stop where we took a nap at a Holiday Inn parking lot (haha I learned this trick from my cheap dad, on a trip to New York >.<). We finally got to S's house, which is in Albany, at around 4 AM (two more hours and I would have been awake for a whole day! *cry cry*).

And that ended our Boston trip... Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I was pretty sick (which was no surprise with all the running through the rain and walking around freezing wet). but I have finally recovered! Yay!

And that was the madness that was our Boston trip!

Song of the Week - March 21st

2010-03-21T22:03:00.000-04:00

Awesome song, and even more amazing choreography!

Another song that has an even more remarkable video:

Song of the Week - March 14th

2010-03-14T21:42:00.000-04:00

I am a bad fan. I didn't realize that Mute Math had a new album out until about 3-4 months after it was released. And guess what I did the moment I discovered this? :D

Boston!

2010-03-13T00:03:00.002-05:00

Raah I'm going tomorrow (well I guess today). Expect lots of pics!

Spring Ahead

2010-03-10T21:42:00.001-05:00

Spring is definitely in the air. I've seen the sun for more than two days in a row, and Sunday was the very first day I heard birds singing again! It's been warm outside too (warm as in in the 40s-ish).

Today, also, is S and my one year anniversary. Yep, a whole year. Which I find ironic since we've been having a bit of problems lately. Well, perhaps they are a little more than "a bit". I'd rather not go into details, but it involves a lot of fundamental things like the time we spend together, the fact that his friends are being assholes to me (perhaps that's a bit biased, but at this point all I can do is see them as assholes), and the fact that we aren't as comfortable together as we used to. It's good to know, though, that we are working on fixing these problems, or at least working our way around them.

But enough of relationship gloom! I have other gloom to talk about. This beautiful shirt--

Has been ruined!

I hate the campus washing machines! This is my second more expensive shirt that has been ruined because some neeeeds to use bleach and has to spill drops of it everywhere! This was either caused because of bleach residue in the washer, or there were bits of bleach on the top of the washer when some impatient jerk took out my washed clothes and put them on the washer so they could use the washer themself.

Gah! I hate bleach! And I just got this shirt during Christmas... I must have worn it a maximum of 5-6 times. I actually wore it today (I was in a rush and couldn't change by the time I noticed the spots), but I'm not sure if I can again. I got this beautiful shirt at Pac Sun, it was part of a buy one get one half off thing... so in the end it's $25 gone, wasted. I really don't want to give up this shirt, though... it's so pretty! The thing is, are the bleach spots too noticeable?

This Cake is no Lie

2010-03-09T22:29:00.001-05:00

Life's going... ok. If I feel really up to it, I may talk about the dramas that's been bothering me lately; but for now, I'm in the mood for positive stuffs!
This weekend the third floor of my new dorm hosted a game night! They offered Uno, Apples to Apples, Phase 10... but most importantly, they had video games galore!

(It's hard to see, but the last pic has an Ezio skin... Little Big Planet style! Yay for Assassin's Creed!) I didn't bother playing any of the video games... too long of a wait. But I did enjoy a good game of Phase 10!

Last night, I missed dinner and had to make some microwavable food (yum). As I went down the stairs to the ground floor (where the kitchen and the microwave are) I saw this:

It's a... cake. I'm still not sure what to make of it. Why was there a cake (with icing and sprinkles and everything) on emergency water pipe? It looked so darn tasty... Funny thing is that when I went to the kitchen, there was a pan soaking in some water that definitely looked like it had baked this cake. But why is it here?! One of life's mysteries, I suppose (I should have taken it, lol.)

Last, but not least, I got the new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, today. It's kind of a disappointment. It's so... slow. All of it. No awesome "Feel Good, Inc" or "Dare" like songs. It definitely made me sad.

Song of the Week - March 7th

2010-03-07T21:38:00.000-05:00

Oh my god I can't believe it; I've never been this far away from home.

I first heard this song in S's car... he had finally gotten an iPod and his friend had filled it up with music; clearly he has good taste!

Hill Of Dreams

2010-03-05T17:28:00.000-05:00

Let me tell you a story: Once there were two roommates wondering where they should live for the next year. Currently they lived in New Dorm 2 which, along with its twin dorm New Dorm 1, was the furthest dorm from the rest of the campus.

Roommate 1 wanted to go to New Dorm 1 next year, since her boyfriend was going to live there. Roommate 2, however, wanted to stay in New Dorm 2. She was at least a little jaded that her own boyfriend (and the other people she thought she was the closest to) was going to be in Exclusive Dorm next year, somewhere near the rest of the campus where Roommate 2 couldn't really live near. It ended up being up to Roommate 2 ro choose where they lived since Roommate 1 wasn't able to go to the dorm picking date they were assigned. In the end, they got room 300 in New Dorm 2.

During the course of the semester, Roommate 2 realized how bad of an idea living in New Dorm 2 was. While the two roommates were on the same floor as many of their friends, their friends lived on the southern end while the roommates lived on the northern end.

Instead, between rooms 300 to about 315, there were only two other people the roommates knew. Other than that, that end of the dorm had obnoxious Sophomores and trampy Freshmen. Some of the obnoxious sophomores, ironically, had lived with the roommates last year in the floor above. To think that the roommates had hoped to never see them again.

Throughout the semester, the "Assholes" of the third floor gave the other inhabitants of the floor nothing but grief and frustration. They would leave their doors open and call to each other across the hall, they ran around yelling late into the night, they would have little pow wows in the middle of the hall, making it difficult and awkward for anyone to walk by. The roommates' friends on the other side of the hall even called Campus Safety on them a few times, with complaints of noise.

Recently, one of Roommate 2's friends, Ch, finally got sick of the assholes and decided to move to New Dorm 1. that was enough for Roommate 2 to finally want to leave. Ch was one of the few people in the dorm that talked to Roommate 2 on a regular basis (he also was a Psychology major like Roommate 2). Roommate 1 was more than willing to leave, and two days later they were all moved in to New Dorm 1.

And it's beautiful!

My roommate's side of the room.

My side of the room.

And what a lovely view! (In the last room the configuration of the furniture was all messed up and my roommate's dresser ended up covering a good par of the bottom of the window.)

On Wednesday, me and Roommate 1, Au (haha her initials also are the periodic table symbol for gold) went on a mass exodus from New Dorm 2, with the help of friends and boyfriends. We are now happy inhabitants of room 200, which, ironically, is exactly like our old room... it's actually kind of creepy to wake up, with everything the same (except for my bed; it's not lofted this time) and have a completely different view from the window.

Sorry for no before and after pics, but most of the differences can't really be photographed (well, the Assholes can be photographed, but I'd rather not go there). It is so delightfully quiet now, both bathroom showers work, and there are no lightweight Freshman girls puking in the toilets!

In regards to all this, it was a very good thing to move; I have no regrets. What a wonderful thing it is to sleep without people talking outside your door at odd hours of the night!

Cat, I'm a Kitty Cat!

2010-03-02T10:15:00.001-05:00

If you can tell me where the title came from you get a prize.

Here's a super-cute (as in so cute you're not sure you should squee for the next hour or puke) kitty video my sister sent me:

Gorillaz

2010-03-02T00:47:00.000-05:00

I just found out that their new album, "Plastic Beach," comes out the 8th (9th for the US). I can't wait. The single "Stylo" sounds pretty cool.

This Weekend

2010-02-28T22:14:00.001-05:00

Had lots of excitement!

First off: MY EYE IS FREE, FREE! After almost a week of something scratching in my right eye it is gone and I am freeeeeeeeeeeee!

Starting Thursday, we had a half snow day (which is pretty rare for my college).

Friday we had a freaking whole snow day, after getting over a foot of snow. Even rarer! I got some pictures of the madness:

S's van, as we're trying to dig it out.

Sooo much snow! I don't think I've ever seen so much. You, like, sink into it; it's ridiculous! S and I had to dig his car out so the snowploughs could clear the parking lot, and the poor van had so much trouble getting free!

Saturday S came over to my room and we chilled and watched TV until the early morning. Around 4-ish in the morning, we decided that doughnuts would make the TV-watching experience even better, so we drove our insomniac butts to the 24-hour Dunkin Donuts. We ordered inside (there wasn't too much deliberation on what to get; the pickings were pretty slim at this hour) and when S was getting ready to pay we realized that they don't take credit cards (the machine was down due to the weather). S had 2 dollars in cash, so while I hung around the Dunkin Donuts he went to Wal-Mart to get cash -.- But the doughnuts were soooooo good.

Sunday S and I went to his house for his grandmother's birthday. The actual event was cool (his family is pretty nice) but I especially liked the drive to and from. It was good to get out of this college town!

Well, there you go, that was my weekend.

Song of the Week - February 28th

2010-02-28T20:17:00.000-05:00

A little different from my usual selections, but definitely a beautiful song. When I was younger I had to take piano lessons (for, like, eight years) and while I hated the lessons with a deep, undying passion, I now have a love for piano pieces. And this one fits the bill.

Dancing!

2010-02-26T21:30:00.002-05:00

If my DDR pad ever dies on me (god forbid) this is what I would do to it. It's a pretty badass tote!

Make one yourself!

There Be Snow

2010-02-25T14:00:00.002-05:00

And a lot of it! Enough for the college to even declare a partial snow day... apparently that hasn't happened in years!

In other news the new post editor for Blogger is really aggravating. Grrrr...

This Weather

2010-02-25T00:03:00.001-05:00

Is going to be the end of me. Either that or my eye. More on that one later.

On to the weather. It started snowing big time last night (you know downpours? Now make that snow) and has snowed through the night. It's snowed on and off today also. Actually, I think it's snowing right now. And if that's not bad enough, we're expecting 13-18 inches from tonight through Friday. And to make it all the more fun, it'll be super windy. Isn't time for us to, like, start thawing out? I want spring to come, or at least for to not be winter. I want better weather. Nicer weather.

Another thing that's been bothering the hell out of me is my eye. Ever since last... Friday, something's been stuck in my right eye, driving me near insane. I've tried everything--eye drops, flushing my eye out with water, trying to poke it out--but nothing works. I ended up going to the on-campus clinic to see what they could do to help. They did all the fun basic things (like making sure it wasn't a really weak pink eye, or some kind of other infection) and decided that while there was a teeny tiny scratch on my eye (probably caused by that godforsaken whatever it is that's suck in my eye, or from me trying to get said godforsaken thing out of said eye) that's not the true cause of my discomfort (GAAAAHHH!!!). They didn't find anything else, but gave me this eye ointment that has antibiotics and whatnot, so hopefully it'll help. If not I'm supposed to go back Friday (in the snow?! Super fuck!). Then, next stop: hospital! Or ophthalmologist. Yay spending money on doctors! Just what I need.

And if my day hasn't gone bad enough, the right speaker on my laptop's not working. I'm praying to God (and any other deity that'll listen to me) that it'll be a warranty repair, or something that's easily repaired, because I didn't buy the additional repair warranty for it (again, money is an issue). I mean, since I work in the tech department, perhaps they'll give me some leeway, but once needing new parts comes in (that they don't have extras of lying around) I'm pretty much screwed. Raaaah I don't like you life!

PS-Another lovely problem I've discovered is that I can't upload new images on my comic's website due to the campus network's firewall. RAAAAHHH!)

Song of the Week - February 21st

2010-02-21T17:32:00.000-05:00

I first heard the remix version of this song, and really fell in love with the vocals, so I had to hunt down the original and see how it sounded. While this is on the edges of my usual taste in music, I really like the chorus.

The remix:

Yesterday

2010-02-18T12:32:00.000-05:00

Urgh... yesterday was so exhausting. It's my "bad day" and it's seriously exhausting. After class I took a nap... for like four hours (thereby missing dinner) so me and S went to the on-campus "restaurant" for food. And McDonalds. God I forgot how good McDonalds can be (yay chicken nuggets!). Then S and I went to my dorm to do homeworks... until 2 in the friggin morning! And then we managed to talk about ideas for writing a book together (which has a main purpose of being a mindfuck), and then S finally left around 3-3:15. But it doesn't end there! S went off to his car to find his iPod and couldn't find it at all. Then he calls me to see if I know where it is, since I was the last one with it. I have no idea where it is, he has no idea where it is, and he ends up having me go out to the car to help look for it (at this point I had been all ready for bed, so I had to change). I get to the car, I look around and can't find it. Then I ask, "Did you check all your pockets?" He says that he did, and starts pulling out stuff from his pockets... and guess what he found in one of them? His iPod! Gah! Frustration! (Note: I still love him even though he manages to drive me nuts like this.) So by the time I got to bed it was around 4.

Other than that, yesterday it snowed ALL DAY, on and off. It would "drizzle" snow, then it would "downpour" snow, then there would be a lull and then it would start up all over again. I really don't like snow, I've realized. Yes, it does have a certain magical feel to it on late nights, before everything has been plowed and salted, when it's just you and this silent world... but otherwise it sucks. Though it was not as bad as it would have been if it was warmer, and all that snow had been rain.

*sigh* So that was yesterday. What will today bring?

Lucky

2010-02-16T18:21:00.002-05:00

This makes me teary every time I see it... it's so sweet, so sad!

Classes!

2010-02-15T19:42:00.000-05:00

So~

First day of classes went well; I think I'm going to enjoy them (if not, easily tolerate them).Though I was mapping out my schedule and I realized that Wednesdays are going to suck big time. I have classes from 9 to 3... without a break in between!

Waaah how did I manage to make such a big scheduling mistake?! I realized (like, yesterday) that I have on class that's on Monday and Wednesday, and another class that's on Wednesday and Friday... so where I would have a lunch break on Monday and Friday, I don't have it on Wednesday. That plus I only have one class on Tuesday and Thursday, for an hour... how did I fail so poorly at this class planning thing?!

In any case, the classes I'm taking this semester are: Social Psychology, Development of Sexual Orientation, Intro to Business, Experimental Statistics, and World Religions.

I have homework to do already (yay.... dammit) so that's all for today!

Song of the Week - February 14th

2010-02-14T12:19:00.000-05:00

For Valentine's Day, something cuter than I usually like. S declared this as one of "our songs" a while ago, and while it has been wholly overplayed, it's still a sweet song.

Sleep Walk With Me

2010-02-13T19:40:00.000-05:00

First off: yay 100th post! I can't believe I've gotten so far. Usually I have a short interest span for things like diaries or journals, which this basically is... but here I am!

Second off: You know that story blog that I was fighting with? Well, it's up and ready to go! Head on over to The Somnambulist! There aren't any story posts on it yet, just an introduction, but I'll be starting it very soon! I hope I can get Blogger Mobile to work, too (raaaah T-Mobile and your message blocking!) and then I'll start using it as I intended. But until then I'll be posting via the web.

Finally: Valentine's Day is tomorrow, though S and I have decided not to really celebrate it... we're just going to enjoy each others' company. And Monday classes begin again. After two weeks of really doing nothing, I'm glad to have classes start again (watch: I'll be eating those words about a week from now). Tomorrow I have to go to my work study at 9 and learn how to work some new program or whatnot. Waaa so early!

Also, I created a formspring, for shits and giggles really.

Hope you guys have a good Sunday!

Well Spent?

2010-02-13T00:38:00.000-05:00

Holy crap.

I've spent like four hours trying to get Blogger to cooperate with me. I'm trying to design another blog, a kind of "story blog" where I'll, bit by bit, compose a story. But Blogger has been so difficult! Gah!

At least it's (mostly) done and (mostly) looks satisfactory. But so frustrating!

And My Shameless Fangirling Continues...

2010-02-12T20:23:00.000-05:00

It seems that I haven't gotten over how amazing Assassin's Creed is just yet since now my computer now is all Assassin's Creed themed.

I got the wallpaper here, and the Winamp skin here.

Even Firefox is AC-themed.

For the Lulz

2010-02-10T22:22:00.004-05:00

A few videos that I've found recently that are especially amusing:

This is pretty badass, if you ask me. Usually game-related raps are mediocre at best, but this one definitely makes the grade!

This video my dad--my dad!--called me--called me!--and asked me to see. It looks like a Superbowl commercial, but nether of us are sure. Definitely amusing!

And, finally:

and

If only we had commercials like these in the US!

Pregnant

2010-02-09T19:59:00.002-05:00

Not me, of course.

I was recently traveling through the labyrinthine recesses of Facebook to realize that one of my middle school friends is pregnant! Really? Pregnant? She's only a little older than me... I don't think she's even 21 yet. And she's pregnant?! It kind of scares me to think that (though she's one of the first) my age group is getting to that point where people are getting pregnant.

God, is she even ready? I know I still have a severe disliking for infants... and toddlers... well, children in general.

It's pretty scary, really.

Song of the Week - February 7th

2010-02-07T12:36:00.001-05:00

I'm loving Cascada's shoes, lol.

It's a Plane!

2010-02-06T11:19:00.000-05:00

I WANT THIS! Soooo badass.

The Boeing Store

It's Starting Off as a DS Year

2010-02-04T11:53:00.005-05:00

Why is it that there are never any video games I want during Christmas, but once I've run out of Christmas money there are like twenty games I want?! (Well, actually there are just two...)

First and foremost, I MUST find the monies for:

Pokemon SoulSilver yeeaaaah! I'm a hopeless Pokemon fan, and of all the games, I loved Pokemon Silver the most (probably because it was all about Lugia...). And finally they've come out with the remake! Plus it now comes with this interesting pedometer thing, so you can level your Pokemon as you walk... which is perfect since my campus is so spread out. And if that wasn't awesome enough, if you preorder it through Gamestop, you get:

This superfreakingawesome figurine! Which would be an awesome addition to the Lugia figurine collection I've got going...

Other than Pokemon, I'm also looking forward to Ōkamiden: Chiisaki Taiyō, which is the sequel to Okami.

While it's not even in Japan yet, it sounds like it'll be a pretty cool game. I mean, with a main character that looks like this--

It's at least going to be adorable. The only thing I'm worried about is that it'll be just like Okami, mixed up a bit... but I suppose we'll see, no?

Oh Dear...

2010-02-03T12:00:00.002-05:00

A bit crude, but definitely funny. From Assassin's Creed 2.

Watch live video from wafflezone's channel on Justin.tv

Tehehe...

Flight

2010-01-31T22:46:00.000-05:00

So I've returned to New York safe and sound. God is it cold here...

It's great to see S again... I missed him big time... last night we chilled together and watched the Death Note live action movie; it was great (even though I fell asleep halfway through--good thing I read the manga before). Then today we saw the second movie... while the ending is different than in the manga/anime, I'll have to say that it was still good. That plus the English dub was pretty darn good too.

But I'll have to say that the most amazing part of these two days (other than seeing S again) was the flight up.

First off: window seat both flights, baby! I didn't have a direct flight; you have no idea how happy I was to get the window seat for both flights. The first flight brought me from Fort Lauderdale to Newark and the second one from Newark to Albany.

Second off: HOLY FREAKING CRAP I COULD SEE LIKE ALL OF NYC AS WE LANDED AND TOOK OFF FROM NEWARK!!!!! Sorry for the crazy caps but it was so freaking awesome! I'm dying to go to New York City (I want to go the first week of February, since we don't have school for that week) and I could see it, in all it's glory. I could even see the Statue of Liberty, which was a little green dot among the water. It all was soooo awesome.

And, finally, third off: the second plane was a small propeller plane, which don't go that high, so I could see everything below--cities, roads, hills, sometimes even cars! At one point I finally decided to pull out my camera and take some pictures.

Remember this bridge? Does this--

Jog any memories? It's the Tappan Zee Bridge! I can't believe that I actually was able to recognize it from the air.

There is something so... amazing, so magical about seeing cities spread out below you like this... everything is so small, like miniatures, or doll pieces.

Another landmark I recognized. It is right here:

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It's the part I-87 that splits; go east and you're on your way to Boston, go south and you're on your way to New York City.

Waaah it was all so cool!