So, I've just gotten back from Thanksgiving break, and I'm not sure what I thought of such an extended time in good ol' Manitowoc.
Wednesday night was good, we went to Manitowoc Coffee, watched Glee, and had a little reunion at Perkins. Thanksgiving itself was only so-so, I didn't eat much, which is weird for me because I usually pig out on Thanksgiving, though Lisa's cooking wasn't up to par so whatever. Thursday night was lots of fun though! Drinking with your closest friends is so much more fun than with people you hardly know or don't know at all! And we even got a ride for the night, hooray! And we have some goodies left over, hooray! Lol, so yeah, must do that again!
Then there was Friday, the day I got my hair cut. I like it, tis a good hair cut, so all was well there. Then, my mom made my family our own little Thanksgiving dinner since the boys had to work on Thanksgiving proper, and she even gave me two presents for Saint Nick's day early: Scribblenauts and the Star Trek DVD. I played Scribblenauts for hours and, though it can be frustrating to say the least, it's a lot of fun! So then, Saturday rolls around and I have to get up early yet again for an eye appointment at noon, tee hee. They upped my perscription and discovered there is nothing wrong with my right eye so that's good I guess. I can finally see! Anyway, so then my mother and I went to Maurice's and Kohls and shopped a little bit before getting Starbucks and returning home, where I played the Wii while I still could and more Scribblenauts of course. By the time my mom left for work, I was home alone and decided to watch Star Trek on the HD TV with the sweet sound system cranked up. It was epic! I love that movie! I didn't think I'd like it at all but I did! So once the movie was over I went to hide in my room (as my dad so kindly puts it) and drew some random comic thingies of some of my favorite (and not-so-favorite) characters from Dragonlance. . . which somehow included a quote from Hunchback of Notre Dame in them, lol.
Sunday I ate brunch with my mom (and a surrogate sister!) at Time Out, a place that I actually miss, though I hardly admit it. (Oh, my God, this guy just came in with Lady Gaga's Bad Romance playing really loud on his Ipod and he totally doesn't look like the type to like Lady Gaga...I am amused!) Anyway, I packed up all my crap, played the Wii one last time, then joined up with Catey to head back to Point.
Once we lost and found Catey's car keys, smuggled in the goodies, and got all our crap back into our respective rooms, Catey, Aaron, Adam, and I went to Perkins for dinner since Debot was apparently still closed. We discussed the mysteries of cheese on apple pie and just how weird Catey was . . . Then we went back to my place to "watch" Thoroughly Modern Millie. We ended up watching videos on Youtube including The Onion, the Berries and Cream guy, and Eddie Izzard (love!). I didn't get any of my paper written but whatever, twas a fun night.
I've just remembered that my fanfiction updated yesterday and I haven't read it yet! Must go do that. . . bye!
Edit: So I just started reading it and there's quote from Star Trek in it . . . hooray! :D
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
R-Patts In My Dreams and I Didn't Vomit?
So I had a number of crazy dreams last night, the most memorable of which involved a certain actor in a certain vampire teen romance series. First of all, get your mind out of the gutter, it wasn't that kind of dream (I would have vomitted for sure then) but still a rather odd one. It seemed R-P was a good friend of my brother's, and I was meeting him for the first time. It was me, Catey, Alyssa W, Jarid, and a friend of his that I don't know all in a room that sort of looked like my dorm room but we were all in Manitowoc so that doesn't make any sense (but this is a dream after all...) Anyway, so R-P comes in and we're all talking, and apparently Catey and Alyssa W already knew him and had met him before and they were friends with him too, so I was the only one who didn't know him, lol.
So, then we all wen to MacDonald's in Manitowoc and hung out. I sat next to R-P and I have to admit my dream persona thought he was pretty darn cool. We didn't talk about his career or anything, just whatever we usually talk about (which is weird considering we seem to talk an awful lot about Harry Potter, lol) and he said that we were all pretty cool at one point. This is where the dream gets fuzzy for me. Suddenly my whole family complete with distant relatives shows up and we have to go walk somewhere and drop something off before walking back across town to go to Time Out. All of the non-Lees left except for R-P, who walked next to me through the whole thing. It was weird, because my whole family was fighting about the fastest way to walk from somewhere around the Hospital uptown towards our house and Time Out and R-P just kept hanging out with me and we kept talking. Eventually he and Jarid left to go drink or something, lol, I'm not sure why they just didn't come to TO with the rest of the family but whatever. I woke up somewhere around here, and had another strange dream when I went back to sleep, but I can't really remember that one so I shan't recount it.
Right, so this weekend I had two close brushes with death, both due to extreme cases of boredom. The first one occurred on Saturday when Aaron had to work from two till eight. We ate lunch at noon and played some Smash Brothers before he had to go. So then I picked out classes and then had about three hours to laze around and go crazy . . . and yeah, I was basically dying until he finally got done (not before earning himself a poop!) and ate and watched some movies. (So far he and I have watched Muppet Treasure Island, The Goonies, Elf, and half of the Producers, which we have to finish sometime). The second severe case of boredom occured at work yesterday when my shift was from 11:00 till 4:00. It was so boring. I only checked two people out and only two people had questions to ask me. What made the whole thing untolerable was that I couldn't connect to the internet for whatever reason (seriously, what the heck? I've done it before at work!) so I basically just played solitaire on my laptop and occasionally drew on MS Paint. Towards the end of my shift I remembered that I had Maya's PDF on my laptop and had to stiffle my laughter whilst reading Amazing Bouncing Rat. It was too little, too late though, and couldn't make up for the four and a half hours I spent sucking at solitaire. I suppose I could have grabbed a magazine (you know, since I work in the periodicals department and all) but I just didn't feel like it. It would have been a perfect oppurtunity to look at the Ladies' Home Journals from 1911 till the mid '30s that we have behind the desk but...eh...as much as I would have liked to I didn't, for whatever reason. I hate it when that happens. Too bored to make yourself un-bored. Oh well.
Sigh, I wish I could have gone to Madison, but I had to work on Sunday and I had to get some classes picked out because I have my advising tomorrow. Also, I wasn't really in a party mood ( I blame my period!) though it turns out that all they did in Madison was eat food, lol. Oh well, I survived, in any case, and Thanksgiving is fast approaching! That means good food, a chance to go to MC and get a really awesomely good caramel macchiatto, hang out with the whole gang, and go out to a birthday dinner with my family. Twill be much fun, I hope.
Oh, I should pose this question, are we going to watch Glee and then go to Perkins this Wednesday as per usual? It does seem to be a tradition now :P Oh, poop, that made me hungry! And I don't get to eat until two and all my bowls are dirty! Ah!
Well, I'll leave you on that distressing note. Wow, it's almost time for Spanish! When did that happen? I suppose this was a bit longer than I had first supposed it to be. . .
Bye!
So, then we all wen to MacDonald's in Manitowoc and hung out. I sat next to R-P and I have to admit my dream persona thought he was pretty darn cool. We didn't talk about his career or anything, just whatever we usually talk about (which is weird considering we seem to talk an awful lot about Harry Potter, lol) and he said that we were all pretty cool at one point. This is where the dream gets fuzzy for me. Suddenly my whole family complete with distant relatives shows up and we have to go walk somewhere and drop something off before walking back across town to go to Time Out. All of the non-Lees left except for R-P, who walked next to me through the whole thing. It was weird, because my whole family was fighting about the fastest way to walk from somewhere around the Hospital uptown towards our house and Time Out and R-P just kept hanging out with me and we kept talking. Eventually he and Jarid left to go drink or something, lol, I'm not sure why they just didn't come to TO with the rest of the family but whatever. I woke up somewhere around here, and had another strange dream when I went back to sleep, but I can't really remember that one so I shan't recount it.
Right, so this weekend I had two close brushes with death, both due to extreme cases of boredom. The first one occurred on Saturday when Aaron had to work from two till eight. We ate lunch at noon and played some Smash Brothers before he had to go. So then I picked out classes and then had about three hours to laze around and go crazy . . . and yeah, I was basically dying until he finally got done (not before earning himself a poop!) and ate and watched some movies. (So far he and I have watched Muppet Treasure Island, The Goonies, Elf, and half of the Producers, which we have to finish sometime). The second severe case of boredom occured at work yesterday when my shift was from 11:00 till 4:00. It was so boring. I only checked two people out and only two people had questions to ask me. What made the whole thing untolerable was that I couldn't connect to the internet for whatever reason (seriously, what the heck? I've done it before at work!) so I basically just played solitaire on my laptop and occasionally drew on MS Paint. Towards the end of my shift I remembered that I had Maya's PDF on my laptop and had to stiffle my laughter whilst reading Amazing Bouncing Rat. It was too little, too late though, and couldn't make up for the four and a half hours I spent sucking at solitaire. I suppose I could have grabbed a magazine (you know, since I work in the periodicals department and all) but I just didn't feel like it. It would have been a perfect oppurtunity to look at the Ladies' Home Journals from 1911 till the mid '30s that we have behind the desk but...eh...as much as I would have liked to I didn't, for whatever reason. I hate it when that happens. Too bored to make yourself un-bored. Oh well.
Sigh, I wish I could have gone to Madison, but I had to work on Sunday and I had to get some classes picked out because I have my advising tomorrow. Also, I wasn't really in a party mood ( I blame my period!) though it turns out that all they did in Madison was eat food, lol. Oh well, I survived, in any case, and Thanksgiving is fast approaching! That means good food, a chance to go to MC and get a really awesomely good caramel macchiatto, hang out with the whole gang, and go out to a birthday dinner with my family. Twill be much fun, I hope.
Oh, I should pose this question, are we going to watch Glee and then go to Perkins this Wednesday as per usual? It does seem to be a tradition now :P Oh, poop, that made me hungry! And I don't get to eat until two and all my bowls are dirty! Ah!
Well, I'll leave you on that distressing note. Wow, it's almost time for Spanish! When did that happen? I suppose this was a bit longer than I had first supposed it to be. . .
Bye!
Monday, November 16, 2009
College Killed My NaNo
Well, okay, it was a combination of a severe bout of a cold and the resulting exaustion that really killed my NaNo, but college did play its part. Suffice it to say that my would-be novel is now resting peacefully in the back of my conciousness, hopefully to be resurrected at a later date.
Sigh, and, a week and a half later, I'm still sick and my eyes still gunk up overnight . . . some residual side-effect of the pink eye that I alone (out of myself, Catey, and Alyssa O) seem to still have. Like I didn't have enough eye problems before! Oh well, I guess I just can't wear my contacts until I get my eyes properly checked out. It's not terrible, wearing my glasses, but it does make putting makeup on damn near impossible, what with me being blind as a bat and my only mirror firmly attached to the wall behind my rather large desk, preventing me from seeing what I'm doing. . . Oh well, sub-par makeup is better than permanant eye damage, right? Well that's poopy.
So, I guess I have four exams this week. . . I thought I only had two: Spanish and Teatre Appreciation, both on Tuesday. However, in reality, I have an additional two exams: Eastern Religions and Geology, both on Wednesday. So . . . I'm fucked, I guess. Well, not really. Those are all easy classes except for Spanish, and I have a good handle on them all except for Spanish and Geology (becasue I've missed like three geology classes due to sickness and other things). Also, this morning, while in Geology, getting ready to take a quiz, I spy my Eastern Religion syllabus, which is opened to the assignment page and lo and behold, our second reflection paper was due in less that two hours.
So, I took the quiz then skipped the rest of class, not entirely desirable since we would be reviewing for the upcoming exam, but whatever. I went back to my room and wrote an okay paper reflecting on the way Zen Buddhism is interpretted through modern popular culture. It sounds more scientific than it actually was, lol. My last paper was so much better, but whatever, I had had more than an hour and a half to write it. So I get to class, and we review for the exam, and he doesn't say anything about the papers, and I'm sitting there thinking "If he doesn't collect these I'm going to get so pissed!" But he did collect them, and about half the class didn't do them, which is understandable because he didn't remind us last time and really, who looks at the syllabus? Good thing I happened to glance at it. Perhaps someone is looking out for me? Or someone really wanted me to write a crappy paper about Zen in pop culture? Meh, probably not.
So now I am sitting in the lab on the third floor of the CCC killing time until Spanish, which will be yet another review class. Sigh. Boring, but necessary. Really, who gives a test that includes all of the preterite, the imperfect, the subjunctive, formal commands, and informal commands? Way too much to keep straight. (haha okay, the kid in front of me is playing some farm game on an Asian website and is petting cute little sheep! tee hee!)
Oh, and I just realized that I won't be able to say goodbye to Kory :( Sad. Well, I guess I'll say it here. Goodbye Kory! *hugs* Have fun in Twin Cities!
I think that's all I've got for now, toodles!
Sigh, and, a week and a half later, I'm still sick and my eyes still gunk up overnight . . . some residual side-effect of the pink eye that I alone (out of myself, Catey, and Alyssa O) seem to still have. Like I didn't have enough eye problems before! Oh well, I guess I just can't wear my contacts until I get my eyes properly checked out. It's not terrible, wearing my glasses, but it does make putting makeup on damn near impossible, what with me being blind as a bat and my only mirror firmly attached to the wall behind my rather large desk, preventing me from seeing what I'm doing. . . Oh well, sub-par makeup is better than permanant eye damage, right? Well that's poopy.
So, I guess I have four exams this week. . . I thought I only had two: Spanish and Teatre Appreciation, both on Tuesday. However, in reality, I have an additional two exams: Eastern Religions and Geology, both on Wednesday. So . . . I'm fucked, I guess. Well, not really. Those are all easy classes except for Spanish, and I have a good handle on them all except for Spanish and Geology (becasue I've missed like three geology classes due to sickness and other things). Also, this morning, while in Geology, getting ready to take a quiz, I spy my Eastern Religion syllabus, which is opened to the assignment page and lo and behold, our second reflection paper was due in less that two hours.
So, I took the quiz then skipped the rest of class, not entirely desirable since we would be reviewing for the upcoming exam, but whatever. I went back to my room and wrote an okay paper reflecting on the way Zen Buddhism is interpretted through modern popular culture. It sounds more scientific than it actually was, lol. My last paper was so much better, but whatever, I had had more than an hour and a half to write it. So I get to class, and we review for the exam, and he doesn't say anything about the papers, and I'm sitting there thinking "If he doesn't collect these I'm going to get so pissed!" But he did collect them, and about half the class didn't do them, which is understandable because he didn't remind us last time and really, who looks at the syllabus? Good thing I happened to glance at it. Perhaps someone is looking out for me? Or someone really wanted me to write a crappy paper about Zen in pop culture? Meh, probably not.
So now I am sitting in the lab on the third floor of the CCC killing time until Spanish, which will be yet another review class. Sigh. Boring, but necessary. Really, who gives a test that includes all of the preterite, the imperfect, the subjunctive, formal commands, and informal commands? Way too much to keep straight. (haha okay, the kid in front of me is playing some farm game on an Asian website and is petting cute little sheep! tee hee!)
Oh, and I just realized that I won't be able to say goodbye to Kory :( Sad. Well, I guess I'll say it here. Goodbye Kory! *hugs* Have fun in Twin Cities!
I think that's all I've got for now, toodles!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
At Work
So, right now I'm at work, I just made my Personal Quota Part 1 for the day (I do quotas in two parts now. . . yeah . . .) and there are only five or six people on this floor and no one is checking anything out and I have nothing to do! I fear lingering on the internet as I probably shouldn't be on here, but oh well, I'm bored.
So, last night my mom calls me and informs me that the weekend everyone is coming to Point (the 14th?) is when my parents, Jarid, and my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Lisa are going to celebrate Jarid's 21st birthday, which is on the 9th. This makes me sad, because I will miss out on the festivities. But oh well. Tis fine.
Oh, also, my mother said that one of the ladies from Chairs for Charity called and is going to mail me some copies of my poster for me to sign. Supposedly, people will be bidding for them at the auction! Yipes! I have a crappy signature though, so that's not cool. You need a long name (or at least, not a ridiculously short name like mine) to have a cool signature. Sigh. Oh well.
I think I'll do some microfiche now, as I can't seem to make myself write any more in my NaNo at the moment.
Toodles.
Edit: Oh, so I guess I just agreed to work an extra hour today from 4 till 5 to help somebody out. Why do I do these things? All I'm going to want to do then is take a nap! But I figured that Catey had choir anyway until 5:30 so whatever. Sigh. I really should be NaNoing! And I have a really hard psychology exam on Tuesday! AAAAAAAGH!
So, last night my mom calls me and informs me that the weekend everyone is coming to Point (the 14th?) is when my parents, Jarid, and my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Lisa are going to celebrate Jarid's 21st birthday, which is on the 9th. This makes me sad, because I will miss out on the festivities. But oh well. Tis fine.
Oh, also, my mother said that one of the ladies from Chairs for Charity called and is going to mail me some copies of my poster for me to sign. Supposedly, people will be bidding for them at the auction! Yipes! I have a crappy signature though, so that's not cool. You need a long name (or at least, not a ridiculously short name like mine) to have a cool signature. Sigh. Oh well.
I think I'll do some microfiche now, as I can't seem to make myself write any more in my NaNo at the moment.
Toodles.
Edit: Oh, so I guess I just agreed to work an extra hour today from 4 till 5 to help somebody out. Why do I do these things? All I'm going to want to do then is take a nap! But I figured that Catey had choir anyway until 5:30 so whatever. Sigh. I really should be NaNoing! And I have a really hard psychology exam on Tuesday! AAAAAAAGH!
Monday, November 2, 2009
NaNo Time! A Quick Update!
Hey all! This is just a short little update/ disclaimer to tell everyone that I probably will not have much time this month, as it is National Novel Writing Month, for blogging. (As opposed, to Alyssa, who appears to be doing a NaNo log on her blog, I haven't seen it yet but I swear I will as soon as I've made my personal quota for the day!)
The only thing of interest lately in my life was this past weekend, where Kory, Catey, and I drove down to Madison to join up with Dana and Alyssa for some Halloween partying: Madison style. After a memorable Friday night (well, more memorable for me than for certain members of our party) we had a rather tame Halloween night due to dead parties and the cop infested Freakfest bringing the whole vibe down. Oh well, we stuck it to the man by sneaking Dana and Alyssa into out hotel room anyway. :P The photos are all up on Facebook; most of them hilarious! Though of course wall know what happens when you drink to much (coughCATEYcough)! Really though, it was a fun weekend, even with all the not-so-fun and slightly terrifying parts.
Oh! I wish I could see the pictures those Indian fellows took of us as we were waiting in the bus shelter to warm up. I'm so sad that I forgot his name :( Vashim? I don't know. Something with a V? Does anyone remember? Oh well, it doesn't matter anyway. Goodbye!
The only thing of interest lately in my life was this past weekend, where Kory, Catey, and I drove down to Madison to join up with Dana and Alyssa for some Halloween partying: Madison style. After a memorable Friday night (well, more memorable for me than for certain members of our party) we had a rather tame Halloween night due to dead parties and the cop infested Freakfest bringing the whole vibe down. Oh well, we stuck it to the man by sneaking Dana and Alyssa into out hotel room anyway. :P The photos are all up on Facebook; most of them hilarious! Though of course wall know what happens when you drink to much (coughCATEYcough)! Really though, it was a fun weekend, even with all the not-so-fun and slightly terrifying parts.
Oh! I wish I could see the pictures those Indian fellows took of us as we were waiting in the bus shelter to warm up. I'm so sad that I forgot his name :( Vashim? I don't know. Something with a V? Does anyone remember? Oh well, it doesn't matter anyway. Goodbye!
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