circle the drain

today's title comes from the song of the same name by katy perry. it has no relevance to this post at all. it is stuck in my head, though, since this girl in my chaucer seminar was playing it so loudly that i could hear it through her headphones.

it's been a little while since i posted. i know, i know - i always promise to be a better blogger, but...well, there are only so many hours in a day. and, sadly, blogging at 4:35 in the morning (when the original draft of this post was started) doesn't lead to anything coherent. trust me - i just had to delete, like, four paragraphs and a ton of unrelated gifs because of that.

before doing anything else, i guess i should recap my week. let's see...

the hall-es and i have been busy making things. to begin with, we made a master class schedule so we could stop sending out bulk text messages to the effect of "where are you? are you in class? do you want to eat dinner?" and made copies for everyone. it's pretty:

and on friday we made glee t-shirts. michelle and i had club meetings to go to first, so we didn't get started until late friday night, but here they are:

we're wearing them right now, actually, since we just finished watching glee in my room. (it was an awesome episode, by the way. britney spears night!).

the alchy roommate lost her key on friday, so we've been having to keep the door unlocked until the lock gets replaced. it really sucked since this weekend was family weekend and i was supposed to go home friday night. i ended up unpacking all of my stuff and staying until saturday afternoon since i didn't want to leave for the weekend with all of our stuff in the room. i ended up enlisting the hall-es to watch the door so i could go home, but when i repacked my bag, i left my phone charger in the dorm.

since you all know me, you should know what a catastrophe that was for me. two whole days without my phone! it was horrible. on top of that, the momster replaced the house phones with fancy new ones that i don't know how to use, so i couldn't even stay home alone since she was all "no! what if something happens and you forget how to call me?". i ended up going to an open house with her sunday. it was alright. it was in this huge house in arlington - it had six bathrooms and nine bedrooms and a jacuzzi. i mostly sat around reading while she talked to clients. however, i did perk up during her conversation with one family. they were this awkward, horribly dressed group of people that used words like "new-fangled" and "gosh darn" and "modernizated" when referring to kitchen appliances and thought the house was "nice" but would have preferred it if the owners painted the halls tangerine, replaced the beige carpet with a "nice salmon pink", and painted all the bedrooms and bathrooms purple or green. you might think they were playing a joke or something - they weren't. they were actually two million dollar-offering, house-buying serious. oh well. i guess the world needs people with hideously decorated houses as well as nice ones.

after the open house, the momster and i went shopping at tyson's. it was wonderful. there was a giant sale on vera bradley stuff so i stocked up and came away with a free wristlet, a planner (which is ridiculously exciting, since i was completely useless without the calendar in my phone over the weekend). aren't they pretty?

oh, and i got the world's most amazing computer bag. i've been using it every day since i got it. oh, and i started in on buying fall clothes just in time - it started raining the monday after i got back on campus and has been raining ever since. however, the most important purchase of the day came in food form. specifically, this food:

this is a hummus and goat cheese salad. it's got grilled chicken and feta cheese and flat bread and tomatoes and peppers and yummy dressing and is basically the most amazing thing i've eaten in my entire life. in case you couldn't tell, i like food.

since monday, i've been busy writing four papers (four! and one of them is six pages long!), outlining my take-home midterm (two more papers, due next week), and avoiding the Giant Rain Puddle which lives outside the back door of my dorm. said avoidance is mostly occurring through the constant wearing of rain boots (wonderful) and pants (horrific). at least the rain means that everyone's wearing their rain boots and carrying umbrellas. i love getting to admire everyone's cute stuff. the coolest pair of rain boots i've seen so far had a bunch of whales and rain drops and penguins on them. they were adorable.

it's a good thing i've had cute rain boots to cheer me up, since on the health front there is no good news. remember the earring that snagged on my shirt during yoga a few weeks ago? yeah, it was healing fine until it caught on another shirt (same yoga class). so, the momster came down for a visit wednesday (bearing many of the broker open panera sandwiches, some of which i am munching on right now) and took me to the doctor to get it checked out. "checking out" in this case entailed a tetanus and meningitis shot "just in case", since apparently dorms are breeding grounds of contagion and disease and having gotten them done this summer was just not enough to guarantee my health. oh yeah, and there was a flu shot and needle-tastic antibiotics, too. my arm felt like a pincushion. it kind of still does, actually.

oh, and i got elected chair of the history committee and co-chair of the publicity/member recruiting committee in circle k (key club, basically). i'm kind of excited because freshmen couldn't vote (you have to have been a due-paying member last year to cast a vote), which is why i ran for both - i figured i wouldn't get either. i tied with another girl for the last committee, but that's okay since the committee is huge and she seems like she'll be fun to work with. it's getting its own tag now since i'm sure you'll be hearing a lot about it this year.

so, i left this post before my chaucer class and figured i would finish it when i got back. however, something Incredibly Wonderful has happened.

as you should know, there was a liverpool game today against utrecht. it started at one in the afternoon. as you probably don't know, my chaucer class starts at two, which gave me barely fifteen minutes during halftime to run to the auditorium and get the game set up (and on mute) in the back row. while i was waiting for halftime to end, i happened to glance around the rest of the room at all the other computer screens on display and saw...

THE SAME STREAM I WAS WATCHING. as in, there was another liverpool fan watching the game. and he's a boy. and he's cute. and he had a steven gerrard jersey on. and is apparently a sophomore and friends with my biology partner. still don't know his name. am still convinced i have met briefly glanced at before being overwhelmed by depression at watching my team draw against a third-rate eastern european side seen the future LOVE OF MY LIFE. why, yes, this does require all caps. baby stevie g and xabeard alonso (circa 2005, also known as the best footballing year of our lives) are up there celebrating this news. however, all of you -- if you happen to see more of this wonderful species of boy in the wild, feel free to tackle them/drug them and mail them to me/offer them my number. in this instance i have no shame.

i'm going to back to watching smallville online and working on my iranian cinema paper. smallville is still silly and unquittable; my iranian film for the week is actually pretty good. i figure it should balance out.

i've been telling myself i can roll with the changes

today's title comes from hard enough by brandon flowers (from the killers) and jenny lewis (from metric). you should check it out:

so, i've officially been in college for a month. that doesn't seem quite right. strangely, i don't feel like i'm in college at all - or, rather, i don't feel the way i thought i would once i got here. i just feel like i'm home, but with busier parents and friends who never leave. i don't really know if that's good or not.

i feel busy, that's for sure. i know i don't like that. i miss being able to hermit in my basement and just read and work out and listen to music for days. i feel so behind on my racheltime. i guess i'll catch up on breaks.

i've been pretty productive today, though. i did some biology prereading and research for my chaucer paper (clucking aside, it's a hard class), and finished reading beasts of no nation for my global issues in lit class. like the painted bird, it was depressing. it's all about child soldiers and war and rape and things. and, okay, it was actually a good read. still, it wasn't exactly cheery, so i'm taking the rest of the night to chill with the hall-es (i'm waiting for them to finish their homework right now) and blog.

nothing very exciting has happened to me lately. i'm sort of getting into a routine, i guess. some of the hall-es and a few other friends and i finally had the genius idea of creating a master class/club schedule so we could stop sending each other mass text messages to the tune of "where are you? do you want to go eat? does anyone want to go shopping? does anyone want to go to the anthropology club meeting? are you in class?" etc. yeah, it only took us a month to come up with this idea - we're smart like that.

so, remember that liverpool game i stayed up all night to wait for? yeah, it broke my heart. it was still awesome to watch, though (well, at least until the 83rd minute - screw you, dimitar berbatov), especially the second half when things got interesting. i'm mostly mentioning this to get you all s-la, you're the only one i have any faith in to watch on saturday at 10 a.m.

i'm getting distracted by music and all of you munchkins on oovoo, now so i'm going to wrap this post up by finally getting to the point i originally logged on to make:

it's strange how many weird habits i never realized i had. there are the obvious ones, like the whole chewing on ice chips thing (i don't care what you say, it's fat free, at least). there are some that people have mentioned that have kind of taken me by surprise, though. here's two examples stolen from my door:

and some of the hall-e's habits are rubbing off on me. like, my study habits are changing. and one of the hall-es is really into spanish music, so i've been listening to a lot of that lately. mostly that, actually. here's some of today's favorites:

six hours to go...

guess who's not sleeping tonight. yes, that would be me. i'm afraid i won't wake up in time for the game. luckily i have some hall-es to keep me company. we're marathoning angel right now. oh, david boreanaz, how i've missed you.

fell out of a daydream

today's title comes from low road by grace potter and the nocturnals. she's my latest musical obsession. and, no, ginger, i don't care if you don't like her - watch the video, anyway. here it is:

 

due to my college-bound circumstances, i've been forced to buy her albums on itunes. they were so worth it, though. i'm listening to them right now. other recent itunes purchases (since today turned into a less-awesome version of music day): sharon jones and the dap-kings, tv on the radio's return to cookie mountain (since my less-than-legal version was a little lacking in quality), and a preorder of cutie and the followills' new album. it came with a free download of radioactive, also known as the new single with the ridiculous music video.

so...what's been happening in my life? not much, actually. college feels a lot like home, but not as nice. and isn't that weird to realize? like, it's more fun and there are always people to hang out with and things to do but...i want my dogs. and my bed. and my mommy coffee maker. speaking of the momster, she's on vacation with husband number three right now and keeps texting me pictures of dolphins and restaurants and food that i can't eat. it's highly depressing, especially since - surprise surprise - i'm sick. again. oh immune system, why must you hate me? at least michelle the hall-e/neighbor has vitamin c and cough drops and orange juice and managed to turn me into a semi-functioning person today.

class was actually fun, today. my chaucer class - aka the 300-level class that my advisor warned me was really hard - was hilarious. all we talked about was rocky and bullwinkle, dante, and chickens. well, chickens and roosters. and then to illustrate how hilarious the nun's priest's tale was, the professor made us all cluck and crow like chickens and roosters...for ten full minutes. and since our auditorium is right by the building's entrance and the door was open, we got a lot of weird looks. also, since i was still a little doped up on dayquil/cough drops/vitamin c, my clucking was...enthusiastic. let's go with that word. enthusiastic enough to get me singled out with other dozen or so "champion cluckers". why do these things always happen to me?

after that, we celebrated one of the hall-e's birthdays by surprising her with sherbet and ice cream and cake. oh, and we got her a balloon and nail polish. it was fun, since we surprised her with all of this - and singing - at 12:01 in the morning.

so, in case you couldn't tell, this post was actually started on tuesday. a lot has happened since then, so i'm just going to keep typing in this draft instead of posting the beginning of this separately. let's see...

i had my stats and bio tests on thursday and friday. they were both easy. disappointingly so, actually, since (as the oovoo munchkins probably saw) i stayed up forever on thursday night rereading the six chapters covered on my bio test just in case i forgot something. i didn't. it was possibly the easiest test i've taken in any science class since elementary schools. one of the questions asked where one goes in the event of a fire (one of the answer choices involved standing in a corner). i'm a little bitter.

to cheer ourselves up, the hall-es and i went to see toy story 3. we showed up a little late after dinner so we got to see it for free, even. it was awesome, and all of the hall-es who hadn't seen it before had the decency to tear up (take that, ginger). after that, michelle and i went to our round of club meetings. the last one ended around 11:30. so, walking back to our dorm in the dark, we're a little surprised to see a huge crowd of people sitting on the ground in a circle in the middle of campus walk. oh, i think. there must be a hippie club on campus.

...and then three of the hippies turn around and wave at us, and we realize we know some of them. it turns out that after our epic halloween idea thursday afternoon (we're being the disney princess ensemble - i'm jasmine!) the hall-es who didn't have club meetings decide to wander around campus. and somehow or the other they ran into friends and friends of friends and started a disney song hippie circle. one of the hall-es even has the disney treasury songbook with sheet music and lyrics for all of the songs from every movie. we made our way through a ton of them, scared a few passersby, and talked a few more into joining us. and then someone started singing airplanes and one of the new friends mentioned that if you look at the sky for eleven minutes, supposedly you'll see a shooting star. so, being sensible people, we all lay flat on the ground in the middle of campus walk at 1 in the morning to look for shooting stars...but all we saw was airplanes. and then lauren the hall-e had the bright idea to take us on a field trip to the old amphitheater (it's in this out of the way corner of campus on a hill backing the woods, and the back of it is crumbling off the hill so they decided to stop using it and let it just turn into creepy ruins) where we...were creeps, actually. it's good to know that i'll never have normal friends.

after that, we drew inappropriate chalk people outside the auditorium and hung out a little longer, before finishing a knight's tale (where i had the incredible brainwave that ginger could be the ginger in the movie. well, if he was angrier and cooler. maybe our goal should be to turn him into the ginger from the movie?) and watched get smart. oh, anne hathaway. your bangs are such an inspiration to me.

today we woke up in time for brunch. i broke a flip flop (that's the third pair since june. what's going on here? it's like karmic retribution since lulu isn't here to eat my headphones) and left my starbucks mug on a bench (it's okay - it was still there when i went back for it). mornings suck. we're doing homework now (or i'm supposed to be, but i figured i'd take time to finish this post since i've been such a lazy blogger) while we wait for our laundry to be done. and then we're going downtown to get stuff to make t-shirts for our glee watching party (next week! i'm so excited i'm just going to use a few more exclamation points! like this! !!!!!) and stationery (so i can write you all letters/send you postcards, etc.) and random things.

i'm going to go do my homework now. i really don't want to have to spend my whole weekend worrying about it. but, before i go, i'll leave you with a few more songs:

idk, idk. blame the hall-es. 

oh, and this:

that's right - 8:30 tomorrow morning. liverpool v. manchester united. don't forget to watch.

p.s. i'm watching this game right now. you should, too:

click this

this. click it. i think it's awesome. you should, too.

i'm about to start a movie with the hall-es, so no real blogging for now. i'll update later. au revoir, mes amis.

praise the lawd

cutie and the followills are back. the new album releases on october 18, just five little days after my (18th!) birthday. best prezzie ever? i think so.

anyway, they have a new music video. watch it.

dear all,

it appears that my gentle hint from the last post was missing a few key components. so here:


R-wa
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON 1536
1701 COLLEGE AVENUE
FREDERICKSBURG, VA. 22401-4661

well, maybe that address should include my actual name. this is the interwebz, though, and you should all know who i am.

p.s. someone make mona start blogging.

counting up the minutes til i get along

today's title comes from uncharted by sara bareilles. my preorder for kaleidoscope heart came through today, so at least i can get some new music at college.

i've had a busy few days. remember how i went home for the weekend? well, originally i was supposed to return to school sunday night (i had actual, set plans and everything - we all know how rarely that happens). this happened instead:

in other words, the momster bribed me with food - specifically, the chocolate volcano at don pablo's. and then, just to be on the safe side, she had a glass of sangria. to those of you who don't know the momster that well, i'll let you in on a little secret - half a glass of even the weakest alcoholic drink has her giggling and talking to potted plants left and right. needless to say, i wasn't going back to school sunday night. i guess that was good. it gave me time to enjoy oovooing with a decent internet connection (question: how much do i hate my dorm's wifi access? answer: more than you will ever know) which is good, since i got into a giant, pointless fight with about 75% of my followers over the weekend. sorry about that, guys. it's all at&t's fault. maybe next time the momster marries someone i'll just text you my freak out instead of attempting to call. i'm still right and also five years old. na na na na boo boo. that's been resolved, though. i think. if only some of them were free to oovoo in the afternoon. it's when my internet's the best because i'm usually everywhere but my dorm room (and everywhere else has better internet).

continuing the story of my adventures at ho- oh, who am i kidding? it's time for doggy picture spamming. i haven't been able to do this in ages.

this is lulu. you might remember her.

this is lulu bitchfacing. you might remember that, too. 

this is cookie. he was too sleepy to look at the camera. i like to call this his donut position. 

i did laundry. cookie and lulu slept on my laundry. cue redoing my laundry. i should've gotten cats.

after her exhausting nap, lulu got on skype. or maybe i got on skype and let lulu flap her ears at the screen. something along those lines, anyway, 

this is my mailbox.

it's empty. this is a hint.

i came to the painful decision that two doors of shoes was excessive and sent some home with the parents. this is all i'm left with. i feel so bereft. 

i just thought this was cool. 

this too. it belongs to sarah the hall-e.

i got back to campus at 8 a.m. on monday. which meant waking up at 5. which meant that i was one very grumpy rachel all day.

you might be asking why i had to be back on campus so early. well, oh wonderful Hypothetical Question Asker, it's because i had a bio lab from 9 to noon. it was horrible. we had to scrape the inside of our cheeks for skin cells. and then we had to examine fungus and bugs under microscopes. oh, and we had to squish a live termite and look at that, too. luckily, the boys across the table from us offered to do the termite-squishing for us - just watching it was gross. my professor was completely zoned out all class, too. whenever my partner and i would go up to ask how to do something or if we were doing something right (or, later, what to do when we were done) he would just smile and nod and stare at his computer screen. i'm still not sure if he was smiling and nodding at us or whatever he was working on. it was extremely annoying, at least until the end when we interpreted the smile and nod to mean "yes, you can leave forty five minutes early since you're already done with the lab. go forth and frolic and get those pesky images of squished termite out of your head before lunch." all of that can be included in one slightly dopy smile-and-nod, right? right. 

i had my bio lecture after that, and then i finished reading the painted bird. i've probably already told you this, but i'll say it again since it's that important - never, ever read it. it's terrifying and traumatic and after i read it i couldn't get to sleep. we talked about it today in my global issues class. the teacher's pretty weird. he walks around the room carrying the podium in front of him. and, okay, i have some pretty weird habits, but..does he really have to stand behind the damn thing all the time? he nearly hit me in the head with it! and he actually did hit two kids last class. i hope someone steals it. 

in other school news...hmm, what other school news is there? um, i had funnel cake for dessert today? too food-related? um, i went to my chaucer and stats classes today. they were okay. my chaucer class is actually called chaucer and his age and is all about chaucer and his contemporaries and the works that influenced him and the historical context of his major works and...it's great. i love it. we spent the whole class talking about dante, so that was fun. i went to stats after that, which wasn't fun at all. we're talking about things like normal standard deviation and distributions and other mathy-sounding words. there are graphs. and numbers. and my professor still won't make eye contact with any of us. i can't wait until i'm done with that class. 

oh, and by the way, i cut my hair. or michelle cut my hair. in my dorm room. while my roomie and a few of the hall-es watched. it was kind of silly and reminded me of the oops incident. anyway, i have bangs now. they're fun. and, don't worry, i taught the momster to use skype just so i could get her (and the lulus' and jim's) opinions. three of the four seemed to be in favor. that last one, though...well, just look at her smooshy little bitchface:

oh, and speaking of skype, leanne has one! go add her. and then someone should corrupt her/teach her to use oovoo. and by someone, i mean you, s-la. 

i went to yoga on monday. it was awesome. we all fell asleep a little during the relax-y bits, but the actual poses were fun. well, except for the half-lotus when my earring snagged on my shirt and my ear started bleeding all over the place. the rest of it was fun, though. we're going again every friday and monday. oh, and mondays are going to be aikido (which is this weird japanese martial arts thing sarah wants to try). and in more rachel's-actually-being-active-oh-my-god news, i'm hiking on saturday. i don't know where, though, so hopefully the hiking buddies won't let me get lost since i won't be able to get home. (it's probably going to happen. we all know how bad my luck is)

by the way, if you see something weird on my profile, don't worry - i'm not cooking. well, not cooking for real. the hall-es and i have decided to document our adventures in attempting to cook in a dorm. who knows how this is going to turn out. but if you have recipes, hand them over! we need suggestions. so far we've got a list, but it's pretty short. we've got a movie list, too, so send suggestions for that, too. 

awesome song, gets its own post, etc.

click the play button. go on, click it. oh, and then youtube all of her amazing covers. there are a ton of them, or i'd post link to those, too.

long as i can see the light

today's title comes from the song of the same name by creedence clearwater revival. it's old and you probably already know it, but i'll post it anyway since i'm bored:

i came home this morning. it's...odd. yeah, that's the best way i can think of describing it. odd and quiet, actually. i guess i got used to always having something to do or someone to talk to or people just randomly popping in to say hi. i almost wish i'd stayed on campus for the weekend, but...air conditioning. and dvr. and a mattress larger than a postage stamp. those are pretty nice things, too. besides, the momster wanted me to visit and...okay, i'm still mad at her and she's still trying to bribe me happy and i don't know if it's going to work this time but...well, i'll give it a chance. at the very least, i have my dogs.

speaking of the lulus, we had a good walk this afternoon. let me correct that - cookie and i had a good walk - lulu sat down in the middle of the sidewalk about five minutes in and had to be carried the rest of the way. i guess that was good for my nonexistent arm muscles. well, it was until she started nibbling on my headphones. then i had to turn off my ipod and put it in my pocket and that was no fun at all. but she is being extra cute to make up for it. i'd take pictures but she's sleeping on my feet and i'm too lazy to get up. maybe there'll be some tomorrow. if there aren't, the only reason she looks cute is because her fur is growing back in so she looks a little less like an alien.

i went out to lunch with all of the parental units. all. you can't begin to imagine how awkward it was. if ever i see any of you in person, you'll get the full story, but until then? well, just picture this:

and then multiply the awkwardness by a thousand. that's pretty much it. i guess there's a reason famiglia sounds like a disease?

anyway, one of the best things about being home is the unrestricted access to music. i've been completely out of the musical loop lately. anyone got any recommendations?

while at school, though, my ipod's been on shuffle 24/7 just so i could have a little variety. i've been rediscovering some old favorites like today's title song and these:

i'm going to go do my laundry (for free! oh joy), grab some ice chips (i've been slowly training the hall-es to remember to pick up a cup or two for me whenever they're near an icemaker, but there's still no replacing my icemaker) and a few snacks, and curl up to my television screen for the night - we've got one in our room, but there's never any time to watch it (and no fios or dvr).

oh, i almost forgot to share the details about my iranian revolution seminar. we're watching a movie about a cow. just about a cow. i don't know either. at least writing the paper will be easy.

look at me updating

let's just get the school stuff out of the way now, okay?

remember how i said stats was stats a few posts back? well, that's still true. it's bearable. i've got stats friends now, and even a walking buddy who's in the chaucer class i have right before, so all is good in the world of math. well, sort of. it's a strange, strange class. for one thing, the professor seems to be terrified of all of us. he's little and he stutters sometimes and he won't make eye contact with anyone. i kind of want to adopt him or take him to an animal shelter or something. but then he gives us a quiz - the bad: we have one every class. the good: they're partner quizzes and you can use your calculator. - and i get over the whole wanting-him-to-be-a-self-actualized-person urge. alas for my fleeting bout of goodwill.

and whan in septembre with his shoores not-so-soote...okay, so that was only 2/3 chaucer and 1/3 rachelism. whatever. you get the general idea. the general idea being that reading chaucer in the original ye olde english is très, très difficile (oh, and sarah and i have been helping stella with french - it's surprisingly fun). luckily, our pronunciation isn't graded, or anything, and we get to use modernizations with our reading. unluckily, we all still had to sound borderline mentally challenged while sounding out all the words as a class yesterday. the teacher is still cray cray, though. so is some of the class, actually. we've figured out that if you mention a random, obscure historical or literary fact in class, sturtz 2.0 will immediately pick up on it and start tangeting. and, yes, tangeting can be a verb if i want it to be. so the chaucer friends and i have decided that if we get stuck in class/forgot to do the reading we're just going to start blurting out random things and hope she goes along with it. i can't wait to try mentioning rasputin next class. i'm hoping for an angry anastasia-related rant, since when one girl mentioned king arthur, sturtz 2.0 went off on all of the bad movie adaptations of the story for a good hour. it was like nap time.

global issues in literature remains depressing. the book we're reading for that class is horrifying. this is it.  it's so bad that none of the lit friends, or the roomie (who is also in the class) can read it before going to bed. oh, and then we get to class and have to watch this movie:

cheerful, non? as you can imagine, dinner once again required to-go boxes.

after all that came the fun stuff, though. i restarted watching sherlock holmes with the hall-es since we'd put off finishing it for so long that the people who hadn't seen it before couldn't remember anything that had already happened in it. oh, and we did touch ups on the nails for everyone not me, before commencing a three person operation to get joanna to let someone paint her nails. can you believe that a manicure-hating person exists? yeah, i couldn't either. eventually we just sort of held her hands down and got to work - sarah buffed and filed, i painted, and michelle did designs. it turned out pretty well, so if this whole college thing doesn't work out we figure we can open a nail salon. there was a luau off campus after that. details about that aren't really bloggable, but the alchy didn't come back until morning and the creeper story has a sequel. i'll fill you in during breaks. oh, and since i went through all the awkward trouble of introducing all of you via oovoo, i'm expecting news roundups in the form of blogs. i'm still not refriending you on facebook, though.

anyway, i just woke up, so nothing interesting has happened yet. au revoir, mes amis.

just another weird day

today was interesting. it started off with youtubing and brunch in the morning with my roomies and some hall-es. then the momster, who had a real estate errand to run in richmond, showed up so i could go with her since i didn't have class in the afternoon. the drive down was fun. it's strange - she did something cray cray again and then made me even angrier by trying to buy my approval, but i still miss her. go figure. we had a mother-daughter spa day in richmond - manicures, pedicures, and my first ever grown up facial. my face feels funny. oh, and i have no calluses, so running with sarah and lauren tomorrow is going to be oh-so-very fun. we stopped by panera to say hi/have lunch with jenibean and meggo since i wanted to see what their campus looked like/be able to visit them on my own. i'm thinking that probably won't ever happen again. we got lost three times even with gps, and the third time was in a really sketchy area. other than that, it was nice seeing them again, even if it took me like five minutes to recognize jenibean when she was standing right in front of me.

after that we had to speed back to campus since i had my anthropology club meeting (the topic was memes!), photography club meeting, anime club meeting (that's right - i joined it. one of the hall-es forced us all to sign up so she wouldn't be alone, but the anime we watched was actually interesting and about kidnappings and the mafia, so i don't think i mind it much), and dinner plans with the hall-es/random other friends to get to. oh, and then we went to the outdoor movie night in ball circle to watch the sandlot, but i cut out early because the cray crays wanted me to get on oovoo. bad idea, i must say. this is like the third time i've blown off plans with my new friends to say hi to the old ones, and it's starting to get annoying. like, i'm making an effort and all, but i guess it's not really a big deal if we don't talk every day/week/month etc. i mean, there's still breaks. besides, i'm having a horrible week parentally - money aside - and putting up with half an hour of "you're frozen" when i could be making/hanging out with new friends is...yeah, unappealing. actually, it kind of sucked. so i was emo for about five minutes and then me and the hall-es grabbed ice cream/stuck our heads in the freezer because it's just that hot out and started youtubing. somehow we ended up watching gabriel iglesias videos (tangent: michelle was convinced he was called julio iglesias and kept trying to youtube him instead) until...now, actually. we're about halfway through the playlist. i'd post one, but embedding from the phone is hard. if you haven't (and you probably have - everyone has) go watch his stuff.

p.s. i'm trying to blog more often. maybe i'll pick nanoblogmo up again this year.