Ok, so my to-do list today by 3 pm is the following:

[x] Write final paper for Philosophy on Epicureanism and "Protagoras"
[x] Look up answers to multiple choice questions for the Philosophy exam
[ ] Finish Reading Responses (1 page "essays") for readings
[ ] Study the answers to the MC questions for the Philosophy exam

Ok, so the way my philosophy final exam is set up, it's really easy to do well. The prof is great. Our homework throughout the semester was to write multiple choice questions from any reading we were assigned in our text book (not our readings... readings are like... The Apology and stuff like that). We had to write two for each assigned reading--15 total assigned. Then, our prof made study sheets by picking out the best 5-10 questions from each assignment. We were given these study sheets, and for the final exam, he will choose 20 of the 74 questions. Each of our multiple choice questions has to have page references, so it's fairly easy to look up these answers (most of the time).

However, like with any student-made exam, some of these questions are rather interesting. For example:

Plato discovers that to fulfill his duty as a true disciple of Socrates, he must: (85)
a) become a critic of Socrates
b) resort to worshipping Socrates as divine
c) reject logic
d) find a way to bring Socrates back from the dead

According to Plato the capacity to know non-sensible Forms implies: (100)
a) we should all be able to read minds
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What maxim do both Socrates and Plato assume in their defense of justice? (102)
a) might makes right
b) kill all the lawyers
c) guilty until proven innocent
d) justice benefits the soul of the just

"We don't blame a rock for falling on us, or a bee for stinging us..." why? (51)
a) they're stupid
b) they have no compassion
c) they don't have free choice
d) they're just naturally mean

And finally:

According to Jesus, the most important commandment(s) is/are: (205)
a) thou shall not watch television
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Ok, so I'm easily amused, but still. They're amusing. Admit it. Or not. Leavemealone. *pouts*

This week just really really bites. Really. So, yesterday I went and talked to parking services about the tickets that I supposedly have. They're like, "Sorry, we wouldn't just randomly give you tickets." "But I KNOW that I didn't get a ticket on this date, this date, or this date. I know EXACTLY where my car was." "Too bad. You owe us money." So I was essentially sitting there in hysterics, hyperventilating, crying, and just generally trying to deal. Too much stress compiled = breakdown liek whoa. I talked to my mom, who said that she had a bit of extra cash and would take care of it for me. That made some things better.

My mom called today and said that because she was paying for my car to be taken care of (which I'm doing tomorrow... all day...), that she couldn't afford to get my plane ticket home for Christmas. So another stress factor. She told me I would have to ride Greyhound. I told her that I couldn't physically do that. So the plan was to talk to my aunt about it and see if there was ANY way she could get me a plane ticket. That is, until I received an email about an hour ago that said the following:

"I don't mean to be a pain about this, but the time has come to get things in order where the Buick is concerned, I mean, I did offer to cover the repair expenses, seems like you could find the time to get the car taken care of. It almost seems like you aren't really too interested in having a car . . . .

I can't impress upon you HOW BAD it is for a car to just sit. Don't be surprised if more problems pop up from it's just sitting. Little things like leaky wheel cylinders, dry rotted hoses and belts. The list is potentiall endless. Plus, it seems the campus police are not exactly thrilled about the boat being in drydock.

Please let me hear from you ASAP, so we can get something going on this.
It's more than time.
Linda"

That essentially was just... too much. I felt like she was telling me how much of a failure I am, how stupid I am for everything, and that she was talking down to a 6-year-old who is an inconsiderate idiot. So what did I do but the oh-so-helpful thing but email back with exactly what I thought: (Note: in order to get the car out of tow, the OWNER has to be present--aka my aunt--and in place of that, a faxed release of vehicle note with a copy of her driver's license will do, but my aunt is out of town and said that she would be back at 10 am on Thursday, EST, and that as soon as she got there, she'd take care of it)

"Sorry, you said you couldn't do anything until Thursday morning, and I have been doing exams and stuff for the past two days. I couldn't do anything until I got the info from you, which you said would be earliest tomorrow morning at 10 am or so. So, yes, today I went to my classes. I rescheduled my Japanese oral so that I have all day tomorrow to take care of the car. I'm taking how many classes, and haven't had a break exam-wise since the 4th week of school. I spent the first free time I had this week down at the parking services office dealing with their crap, breaking down into hysterics in their office, which was quite fun.

I guess it really doesn't make any difference to anybody--you, grandma, mommy, anybody... that I'm taking almost double the normal course load so that I can save everybody money on the extra year of school. Then, on top of that, I go get a job that pays less than minimum wage just so I can stop being any further burden on anybody. I feel bad for anything I've asked of you guys, I honestly do. I HATE relying on other people for things because so often, at least in my experience, that leads to problems. Such as relying on my mother to do things like get me a way home for Christmas. Things go wrong. Everything in this city is open from 9 to 5. I have class from 10 to 5. In order to get the car taken care of, I have to physically go over to the place. Which means I either have to walk the 3 miles there (which takes more time than would be possible to go in the morning to take care of it BEFORE class), or find someone to give me a ride. I'm sorry to rant, but I'm really really stressed right now and honestly hate being treated like I'm an inconsiderate idiot. Yes, I should have taken care of it before. I fully intended to. Every time I said, "I'm getting up tomorrow to go take care of this because I have some time to," I had work the night before and then had to work on homework for classes and then would oversleep when I meant to get up to take care of the car. It's not an excuse, but I am seriously having issues with sleep, so it just adds to my dilema.

Anyway, I AM taking care of it. I asked for your help, and I'm sorry if it inconvenienced you. I now feel like a spoiled little brat to essentially freak out and then ask you to still take care of the Buick, but I honestly can't afford to do it myself, and like you said... it can't just sit there. I was going to go delete a lot of what I said, but I really do mean it. I really am upset with the way things are right now. Every time I get contact from you or Grandma, it seems to be that I feel guilty for everything I've ever asked for, or I'm being lectured for how I've done something wrong. I really just can't handle that. I have enough criticism from people who aren't my family. I really need SOMEONE in my family to be there. I can't rely on my own mother, I don't talk to my father because he's an asshole, Grandma's half senile, Shaun I can't call because I risk having to talk to my dad, so that leaves you. I'm sorry you're the designated one. You've always been there for me when I needed you. You're the one I rely on when everything else in my life is falling apart. So I'm sorry I went/am going off, but when everything is going wrong right now and I get an email from you that just makes me feel like SHIT, I can't handle it. I really can't.

Sorry and thank you,
Lindsay"

So once again, I'm collapsed in hysterics and feel like shit. Yay for life.

So, my roommate's an anthropology major and this year is her senior year unless she decides to do med school, and then she'll be here next year too. So, for one of her exit requirements, she has to write an ethnography. It's a huge research project that she's been doing the research for all semester, and it's due on Thursday. So she has to actually sit down and WRITE the thing. So it's Tuesday now. She's bitching about how she's going to have to stay up all night on Wednesday, but see... what if she actually worked on it these past three nights instead of playing WoW? No, she couldn't do that. So she was up until 5:30 this morning, playing WoW, with the sound on, with the lamp at the foot of my bed on, and asking me QUESTIONS every 5 minutes.

Well, here's the problem with this: I WAS IN BED TRYING TO SLEEP BECAUSE I HAD A FINAL AT EIGHT THIS MORNING. So, when my alarm went off at 7 (because I wanted to hit snooze once or twice and then have time to grab coffee on the way to class), she bitched. So I turned off the alarm. Unfortunately, I hadn't gotten my snoozes in so it didn't register that I had turned off the alarm, so I didn't get up. I missed my final. And now she's moaning because I'm making noise typing at 12:30 p.m.

I'm really pissed off. I'm going to go to another section of lab and see if the TA will let me take the final there (different TA, but I know her). The down side, is that this is really the only free day I have until Thursday to do anything and I REALLY need to take care of my car. I'm so stressed right now...

Ok... so... life just really BITES right now. Here's my dilema:

1) The motor services people think I have NINE parking tickets. (Yes, I have a couple, but not NINE. And they're not outstanding--yet.) So what do they do but tow my car. So I have to go down and get them to delete a bunch of parking tickets, thankyouverymuch.

2) I have a hold on my school account so that I can't sign up for classes because I haven't signed up for enough classes for my financial aid for next semester to be valid. Ok, so I can't sign up for classes because I haven't signed up for classes o.O

2b) Because I can't sign up for classes, my financial aid for next semester isn't confirmed yet, which means that even though I am currently in surplus of money to them, it shows up that I owe THEM money. So, I get to go try to discuss logic with these people.

3) I'm really pissed that I get paid LESS THAN minimum wage. Dude, it's illegal. I get paid $4.20 an hour. Minimum wage is more than a dollar more than that an hour. I don't get to keep my tips, even though when either Megan or I, or especially when we're BOTH working, we get twice as many tips as anybody else. We're both going to tell our boss that if we don't get a raise of some sort, we're going to quit. It's too stressful to block out 5 hour shifts on two hour notice for less than minimum wage. I understand that the restaurant isn't exactly... thriving. I mean, it's not doing BADLY, but it probably only brings in about $4000 a month, which probably barely covers overhead, but still. Working 20 hours a week shouldn't get me EIGHTY DOLLARS. If I were doing full time, say... that would be just over $500 a month. That's insanity. That would be a salary of $6000 a year. Ok now I'm descending into like... meaninglessness, but still. *whines*

4) Until I get my car like... FOUND and everything settled, I can't get my car FIXED, which means I have no way to get to Vegas for my flight HOME for Christmas. Which makes me stressed. There's always the backup plan of the Greyhound, I guess... but I need my car :(

5) Megan and I saw this cool thing on Food Channel that we wanted to make as gifts to our friends, and well... they got dead. Conclusion: trying to make meringues without an electric mixer is a BAD IDEA. Two hours of whipping the freaking eggwhites to death and then they collapse.

6) Last night, I fell asleep while studying for my ochem exam, so I woke up barely in time to run to the exam, so there was very little prep work.

So, I figure some really good stuff has to happen soon to reestablish the equilibrium of the universe *nods*

So last night I got back from the Union's Thanksgiving dinner, when the phone rang. I answered to this little kid's voice. He said, "Lindsay... will you go to the movies with me? I want to see Harry Potter." "Puru?" "Yeah?" "Ok... when?" "I don't know. Look up the times and call me back, ok? Call me on Megan's phone, ok? You want to go, really?" "Ok, Puru. I'll call you back. Give me just a couple minutes." So... I went out to the movies with a 9-year-old. I feel special :D He was really adorable *nods*

I have never before posted lyrics to a song, but there's always a first, right?

How many times have you heard someone say
If I had money, I would do things my way.
But little they know, that it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten, with a satisfied mind.

Money can't buy back all your youth when you're old
A friend when you're lonely, or peace to your soul.
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times
Compared to the man with a satisfied mind.

When my life is over, and my time has run out,
My friends and my loves, I will leave, there's no doubt.
But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time,
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind...

I feel old when I think that my friends could die. I don't like to think about it, I think, because people go on forever, right? There's some cliche quote that I think goes something like... live each day like it's the last, but dream like you'll live forever? I wonder how many of us do that without knowing... or how many of us do only half of that. I think I just think everything will go on forever. No wonder change always surprises me...

Things change so suddenly... and somehow, in retrospect, things make sense. Irony gets us all, I think.

I don't think I'm coherent, but... I'm sad. Are people I've lost touch with the equivalent of dead to me? I mean, they might as well be, right? Regrets really suck. I want to minimise them. Someone who really earned my admiration definitely lived larger than life. I want to be like that. I want to pack as much life into whatever time I have. That way, nothing is too little. Now my only question is how :)

After being locked out of the bathroom AGAIN tonight, I decided to talk to our suitemate about this locking out thing. We've been locked out of the bathroom 3-4 times a day daily for the past couple of weeks. So I knocked on her door and very nicely requested that she try to remember to unlock the door. To which she asked why, if we knew how to pop the lock, it was such a big deal. So I explained that we were being late to class in the mornings because we couldn't get in the bathroom. "You can pop the damn lock. Bye." and slammed the door in my face. This is my oh-so-mature response:

So, lovely happenings in my world. After getting a new computer (that seems to be functioning! Yay!), my car is now acting up. It won't start. It's not a problem with the battery, and when we add starting fluid, it'll start but won't stay started, so the fuel line must be clogged somehow. Unfortunately, I can't do that myself, so I have to take it to a mechanic because there's not a surplus of gearheads on this campus. *pouts*

In other news, I have a new addiction that I'm completely ashamed of. I blame Spaz. Her and John sat there in pchem for how many weeks talking about Warcraft so I'm like, "What the hell?" So now I've been playing that and I'm a pathetic addict. *cries*

Other than that, I'm craving a milkshake.

I want to whine about work, so I'm gonna.

Last night, because it was Monday and it's usually really really slow on Mondays, Atul had only me working up front. The "waitresses" at my work do the normal waiting on tables, bus all of the tables, do the hostessing, take any takeout orders there might be, and that's about it. Except that last night, it was unusually busy for a Monday night, and so I had to do all of this for about... ten tables at once. They were fairly staggered, but it was still kind of exhausting.

The first people in last night, though, really really liked me :D Yay for warm fuzzies! They liked that I was... caffeinated. Plus, they got two glasses of wine each, and a bottle of champagne between the two of them. They were pretty wasted by the time they left. Sort of worried me...

I am alive and computerless. My computer's motherboard short-circuited. Yay. Gateway can die now.

I'm getting a new computer now and it should be here like... Thursday or Friday :D *bounces about*

Let's see, other than that, I guess life is goodish:

Working at the Indian restaurant is entertaining, but my clothes smell funny.

This weekend we carved pumpkins and mine has Oogie Boogie on it :D Megan did an alien and Spaz carved a kitty in to hers.

We've been staying up really late recently... not always a good thing methinks. Lots of Food Channel. Megan's got me hooked on this one series by Bujold. It's really good methinks. Nice schizo main character :D

Other than that, it's midterms time and I'm a bit stressed because of the hours the computer labs are open and when I have class, so it's hard to actually do my homework when I want to.

I'm sad because next semester I can't take Japanese or Philosophy, so I'm going to have to take icky classes instead. Cry for me :(

Life is generally good--but I snapped my glasses in two, so I'm having to wear my contacts :\ That wouldn't be so bad except that it's so dry here that they irritate my eyes. So it's either itchy eyes or blind eyes. I'm getting my good kind of contacts soon though--my mom is going searching through Seattle for my missing prescription as we speak :D

I need to get my passport soon. I really want to go to BC over winter break, but I can't without my passport methinks. :\

So, Wednesday night, I decided that since my printer wouldn't install right and that it had been a while since I'd cleaned up my computer and the drivers for the printer and my CD/DVD-ROM wouldn't work, that I was going to reformat. I moved all of my files to my external (I remembered--too late--that I forgot to transfer my mIRC logs over, but decided that I'd live), and started to reformat.

After I finished that the first time and realised that I'd forgotten to unplug my external harddrive and it had therefore put all these Windows files on it, I disconnected everything and started over.

This time, however, a few minutes in, I realised that my computer refused to acknowledge that it was plugged in. So I played with it for a few minutes, then decided to see if there was anything wrong with the part on the computer that you plug the adapter in to. Well, sure enough, the post in there is rather wobbly. In fact, it's wobbly enough that my computer won't plug in at all and I can now not use it! So my computer is dead. I think I'm going to go buy a screwdriver tonight and see if there's any way that I can get to that area and get the little part from Radio Shack that will let me redo that. That way, repairs would cost... about 12+3+5?= about 20 bucks? That's not that bad. Considering the bulk of the expenditures would be on a soldering iron. YAY LINDSAY CAN SOLDER! But this is all very optimistic since I had a tech guy in my Japanese class look at it yesterday and he's like, 'Yeah, getting to it is going to be the problem." But I figure that we can use the Mechanical Engineering motto in this case. "It doesn't work? Then you need a bigger hammer!"

So, until I can get that fixed or get anohter computer, my internet and computer stuffs are limited and I am le deeeeead. I'm so utterly pathetic :(

Anyway, I started my job at the Indian restaurant last night and that was great. We had three people from Scotland come in--it's rather amusing that we get a large quantity of British people in the restaurant. Smart one me just realised last night why Flagstaff would have a lot of tourists O.O I feel special. (The giant ditch 50 miles up the road would be the cause of this if you didn't catch that. I forgot the Grand Canyon existed...) So we have different spiciness levels on our food: Mild, Medium, Very Spicy, and British Spicy. These people decided that they would try "Very Spicy" because they are used to spicy-like stuff and were discouraged from trying the tongue-incinerating British Spicy level. Evidently, it was a little more spicy than they expected though. I giggled. They had these huge ass beers too O.O. But that's beside the point. I was highly amused.

I tripped over a table last night though. Oh, and I bussed every single one of the tables because Megan decided that she was too special to do it. I shall get my revenge soon enough :D

I got a job today.

I went in to the restaurant, the manager came up, shook my hand, we sat down at a table, he goes, "What's your phone number, what are your available hours, and what's your name? Do you have a problem with the pay?" I go, "Nope! Here's my info" and then I was hired. Yay for... an easy way to get a job o.O

I start working next Wednesday. Yummy Indian food :D whee!!

So this week has been rather sucky for me mostly because I don't feel well, I've had a few quizzes and a number of tests, and had my chem lab go horribly wrong. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when today after philosophy class let out, one girl walks up to me and goes, "Just so you know, I totally agree with what you were saying Lindsay! Rock on!" and I'm like, "o.O Thanks?" I mean, I had just been participating in class as usual.

Today's discussion was on a part of the Republic that related the soul to a city's hierarchy with reason being ruler of all other parts of the soul, namely "spirit" and the appetitive element of the soul. So my argument was that this isn't logical because there are certain times when we disregard what is rational for our emotions--namely what the spirited part of us is willing us to do. Some guy came up with a reply to that that, "Well, then reason is saying that instinct is right, so reason is still the ruler." My argument, in essence, was that if it's subconcious, that's not really rational and so it is our instincts ruling rather than reasoned thought. Anyway, it was getting complicated and the prof really wanted to use Spock vs. Captain Kirk references and it was really... strange.

The reason I was so surprised by this girl's comment though was because I haven't talked to her at all this semester, I didn't know that she knew my name even, and it was just rather... strange... to me. Anyway, we walked back towards our dorms (her's is one north of mine) and with a couple other people from the class, we discussed our goals in life (all three of them are philosophy majors and are totally set on living in a cardboard box) and just people's general attitudes.

Evidently, the reason this girl was happy and wanted to give me a pat on the back (metaphorically) was because the argument had, as usual, descended to two people--me and a guy named Collin. Collin is quite bright, but is not open to ANYBODY else's opinion. He argues because "he's right," not because he wants to see which argument is stronger. The girls find him particularly condescending and were happy that I wasn't that way.

Anyway, it's nice to meet some new people. Unfortunately I have no idea what this girl's name is and was too embarassed to ask. I was proud though :D Yay for inflated ego!!

I started my research today. Here are the highlights:

1) I burnt myself with HNO₃ in various places. Yay!

2) I labeled things.

3) I filled things with water.

That is all.

Today I found the passage in Life of Pi that was on the IB English exam. It makes a lot more sense with the background and it also has a lot more meaning this way...

Today I overslept for ochem lab. The TA was late though, so it worked out ok. I cut myself with steel wool. It hurts.

Tonight we had a fire drill because someone who was making the following plus some for two total meals left stuff on the burner to go get more stuff to make:

1) 4 pork chops

2) 3 pork loins

3) a big pot of potatoes

4) A pot of carrots

5) Pasta

6) Bread

I'm not sure what she was missing that she had to leave, but we were outside in the cold (YAY IT'S GETTING COLD!) for 20ish minutes while the fire department fixed things.

I'm tired.

HOL has been lovely lately... It'll be good, I think. I'm proud of my house and how it's standing up to things. We're all pulling together to get stuff done. It's good. Sometimes change lights a fire under your ass :D

Someone called me their friend today :D I considered this person someone I liked and would like to consider a friend, but I wouldn't call them that without some sort of affirmation as I only ever talked to them in class before today. Yay for warm fuzzies!!

I had the absolute worst coffee EVER today. It was sickening. I'm sad.

I really don't want to do my philosophy homework :(

This weekend, I've been quite productive I think. I did most of my homework Friday night while watching Aladdin. Then HOL stuff took over.

As far as HOL is concerned, this weekend was a pain in the butt. On Saturday, after a four hour long meeting that should DIIIIIIIIE, Gryff's new Head of House was finally determined. That's all well and good, but emotions were running high and we're not exactly a patient group, so it was a bit stressful.

Last night I wrote the next Arith lesson and the Arith OWL lesson. I also posted the September Den Challenge, and did some other stuff. It was a lot of work, but I finally got it done, so I'm happy.

Other than that, life has been pretty normal. I took out the trash today. My roommate and I aren't the neatest of people and haven't taken out the trash since we got here :\ We umm... just kept on making new bags of stuff, so it was definitely in need of being cleaned out.

Life is boring. I finished Speaker for the Dead and am now finishing up the Life of Pi.

My school has one really cool thing we have every week. On Wednesdays, the Modern Language department puts on a film for the community. Last week it was a Japanese film entitled Taste of Tea. It wasn't strong on plot, but the themes were great, and it was a good laugh. You should all watch it. This week's movie is a Native American film called Naturally Native. I haven't decided if I'm going to go watch it or not--it depends on how busy I am :\ But I am hoping to see it. I'm excited for this opportunity.

I got my research :D WHEEE! Now I get to like... do fun stuff in labs and try not to screw up. But instead of it being "go through and follow these instructions" it's actually figuring something real out. I think I'm going to enjoy this. Yay!!

I'm a bum and it's great.

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I've babbled about this with at least a few friends, but anyway. I feel like posting about it because it's news for me, and well... I feel bad for never updating.

I called my roommate on Thursday afternoon. I had an open mind, I went in to the conversation going, "I am going to try my very best to not scare her off with loudness, etc. I am going to find SOMETHING that we have in common. I am going to be optimistic. Let's see how much depth she has to her."

Let's play a short game of Fortunately, Unfortunately:

Fortunately, we have something in common.
Unfortunately, we only have one thing in common so far, after an hour phone call.
Fortunately, it's something Aisha spends a lot of time doing.
Unfortunately, it's watching tv.
Fortunately, I like tv as well.
Unfortunately, I forgot to ask her what shows she likes to watch.
Fortunately, she's bringing a tv, radio, microwave, and fridge.
Unfortunately, that leaves me with an extra tv.
Fortunately, Missa's going to babysit it and I can live without my personal tv.
Unfortunately, I was right, Aisha is pretty much a complete jock in every sense of the word.
Fortunately, they require all of the athletes to log study hall hours in the library, so she won't be getting back to the room until like... 9:30 every night.
Unfortunately, she gets up earlier than me.
Fortunately, it's only an hour earlier.
Unfortunately, she turns on the radio while she's getting ready.
Fortunately, it's only an hour earlier than my earliest class.
Unfortunately, she listens to pretty much only R&B and that's not exactly my genre of choice.
Fortunately, I can always get back at her on Wednesday mornings when I have my 8 am lab, if it comes down to that.
Unfortunately, that would probably screw up a whole lot of roommate dynamics.
Fortunately, I am going to maintain an open mind and TRY to make this whole thing work.

Top 10 reasons why I'm worried about rooming with this girl:
10. We so far only have one common interest.
9. She says "ax" instead of "ask" and that's a major pet peeve from growing up in Georgia.
8. She was very adament about me not bringing a lot of stuff because she didn't want our room really full--I pack a lot :\
7. She eats breakfast of eggs and bacon which she cooks in the microwave like... every morning.
6. She seems to want to make me her little project and introduce me to the school a lot.
5. The phrase "Wow, you seem like you talk a lot" got mentioned about twelve times in the course of the conversation.
4. She laughed at me and teased me for "being really smart and always studying" and was worried that I was going to make her be quiet all of the time.
3. She seems to pick up and drop boyfriends constantly. I'm not looking forward to potentially learning what it's like to be sexiled.
2. "I know everybody who's anybody on campus. I know the whole football team, but not a lot of the basketball team. We hang out a lot. It's fun. All I do is practice, study, and sleep."
1. "I'm not a big computer person. I know how to write papers. I learned how to send an email just a few weeks ago!!"

*facepalms*

Today I got a letter from school about my dorm. I now have an assigned room number, an address, and my new roommate's name and phone number. Sounds absolutely fantastic, right? Well, I was excited. I don't know why, but things like this excite me.

So tonight I decided to google my roommate's name. It turns out that Aisha, my new roommate, is a very talented member of the track team. She did a ton of sports in high school and has a few of NAU's records for track & field. So what does this do to me? "This sounds like a bad joke: 'What do you get when you put a geek and a jock in a dorm room for nine months?'"

Now all I need to find is that my suitemates are a goth and a prep, then we'll have a bunch of major stereotypes and all will be absolutely hilarious.

Now, I'm not going, "Oh! We're not going to get along! This is horrible! How can I possibly associate with someone who plays sports?!" I am however going, "Well, this might be rather difficult to find commonalities between us because sports seem to be a rather large part of this girl's life."

Life is beautiful!

So evidently I'm really good at not updating. Let's see...

I'm working on trying to get stuff to do once I get on campus at NAU. It's really amusing, I don't know how many emails have started with "Hey! I'm friends with Twinkie! You should let me _______" but I can now buy my books for next semester, can drive down there (Wow, who ever thought GETTING TO school would be a problem?), and am excited for school to kick my ass :D I really want to go back to school...

I'm so bored and feel like a lazy bum. I hate being in the house with my mom and she's driving me CRAZY. I think I want to find something to do next summer away from here because almost everyone seems to be making plans to not come back next summer and I might as well DO SOMETHING with my summer other than be here, lonely, bored, and hating life.

And on the not-so-slightly geeky side of things: I'm really excited for Gryfftoberfest and I think it's become my personal goal of the next month or two to make it the best one we've had yet.

Yay for life! Oh, and I'm officially unaddicted to caffeine and more officially nocturnal *nods*

So I made a new layout because I was bored, but need new icons. This is my accomplishment of last night.

I am officially addicted to caffeine and that can't be a good thing. But coffee is yummy. So poodle on it.

I am reading Life of Pi and enjoying it so far.

I have lots of bug bites *whines*

I am practically nocturnal and I should probably change that :\

These are the important tidbits of my life right now. Oh, and I'm a lazy bum *nods*