Apparently I Love to Waste Time

So I'm in London. While my first week here was very busy, my second one has been more relaxed, and I find myself with quite a bit of free time during which all I want to do is relax and waste time on my computer. Don't get me wrong, I've seen plenty of London in my short time here, and I will continue to do so. However, I find that I need time to recharge my batteries, and I cannot constantly be on the go. There's so much to do here, but I feel like I can take my time with most of it-- especially the things that are right in the area.

Anyway, that brings me to this: Polyvore. I love shopping. I love clothes. I love making pretend outfits for myself. Hence, I made an outfit based on that picture of a model in rococo attire in the middle. Like it? Hate it? Don't care? At least the internet is keeping me amused while it's too cold to go traipsing about the city, and while everyone is doing their homework. Tomorrow we have a walking tour, Tuesday we're seeing a play and maybe going to Harrods, Wednesday we have classes, Thursday we're going to Liverpool and it's Karaoke Night, and then I have no idea. We need to plan a trip to Ireland sometime soon. In any case, it looks like I'll be busy enough again soon.

Untitled by Dani Lee featuring a platinum necklace

"Why, thou silly gentleman!"

Well, I seem to have time on my hands, I may as well blog right? The trouble is that nothing much has happened since I last blogged. Finals are coming nearer, obviously. It's really hard to think that in a little over a week, I will be done with this semester and back in Manitowoc. And it's really, really hard to think that in a little over a month I will be in London for the duration of a three and a half months.

D8

Yeah, that's supposed to be a shocked/surprised face. That is the face I will be making when I board the plane on January 14th. Speaking of which, we are having a little meeting tomorrow night with the group, but Catey cannot be there. I'm kind of nervous. What if everyone's... undesirable? lol. I'm going to be spending a lot of time with these people, so I had better like them! Though, there's little chance of that. I generally hate people. Mostly because most of the people around here are douchebags and tools and not at all my type of person. I crave cool people! People who will get my random references to Shakespeare and old movies! Lol, that may be a little too much to ask. Besides, it's not as if liking Shakespeare and old movies means someone is cool or a good sort of person. It does tend to help though, lol.

So, I guess I'll wrap this up (I haven't been to Wrap it Up in a long time!) and go play Animal Crossing or something. I should probably start studying for finals soon but... eh. I've got all weekend, right?

Here's to the Fall 2010 Semester! The least eventful of them all!

P.S. -Everyone needs to stop giving me chocolate! And snacks! And...juice boxes!!!!

I'm Still Doing This Blog Thing I Guess

Well kids, it's been a while. This semester is almost over and I haven't blogged a word since what, July? August?

Let's see. Well, my last entry was compaining about my roommate. She's not that bad, actually. She's a damn sight better than my last one. We don't talk at all, but she's at least curteous and usually out of the room, which is good because I like my solitude. However, tonight she is doing something that is kind of annoying and that she's done one time before: going to bed at seven at night. It's weird, but I'll just assume she's been up for a while and really needs it. Thus, I finished be homework here in the lab in the Smith Hall basement, where I am currently writing this blog.

I can't wait for this semester to be over! It's been going fast enough, which is weird considering that I haven't had much to do. I've been working every other weekend, been to Madison twice, been home a few times, but I haven't seen much of Adam since he dropped, nor have I seen Kory's new room at the old U of M, nor will I for, well, a year!

Because I'm going to London in the spring!!!!!!!

I'm so excited. Also nervous. But mostly excited. I'll have three roommates but...one of them will be Catey, my dear friend! And I'll be in London! Did I mention that? For three whole months!

I'm going to miss everyone so much come this spring! I hardly see you all nowadays, so it won't be too different. Still, there will be an ocean between us rather than just a few hours' driving, but that' what the internet is for, right?

Anyway, what's been going on in my life?

Not much. I tried NaNo again this year. I got more than halfway there before my story came to a crashing halt and the amount of school work became overwhelming. It's an idea that I'd like better as a play, though, which I may attempt to write someday. Some good came out of it though. I miss writing, and it gave me the oppurtunity to be creative, which I don't get too often when I'm busy with school. Oddly enough, as soon as I scrapped this year's NaNo, I got a new idea for a story. I don't think I'm going to write it out though. It would probably work better as a comic, so maybe that will be my project over this next summer. Or not, we'll see.

School's been alright, I guess. I'm doing well in all my classes. I may be getting some Bs this semester though, potentially in Environmental History (because my big paper sucked), Spanish (because I made some stupid mistakes on the midterm), and Biology (because Feldman is just... ugh!). I wrote an awesome paper on King Lear and Kurosawa's Ran, though, lol. I'm kind of really proud of it and am going to add it to my collection of awesome papers I've written about Shakespeare. Be jealous :P

Anyway, I've been really in to Florence and the Machine lately. Lungs is just an amazing album that always takes me on a magical journey (and no, I don't care how corny that sounds, it's true.) I've also been digging Regina Spektor more and more, especially the songs where it's just her and her piano. She has such amazing story-telling skills! And I've found a fun Irish punk band called the Tossers that are awesome (and predate Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys) But alas, just as I am discovering all kinds of music that I love, my iPod dies. For no reason. It's just dead. It is pushing up daisies. It has bought the farm. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-iPod.

So I'm thinking about getting a Zune. We'll see how that turns out.

So yeah, this has been all over the place, but I've nothing else to do right now. I've been feeling like reading the old Dragonlance Chronicles again... and Legends... too bad they are at my house in Manitowoc. Oh well. I guess I'll end it here before another random thought comes...

Why does everyone think strawberries are so delicious? They're disgusting!

And Christmas! I'm excited for my Jane Eyre stuff and my Golden Sun game! And Fantasia on DVD hopefully! And hanging out with my family, which was kind of fun on Thanksgiving (shots with my mom and Kristin!) and will hopefully be fun on Christmas too!

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!

I AM SO EXCITED I'M GOING TO MEXICO TONIIIIIGHT!!!!!

:D