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Quod me nutrit, me destruit... :/

New York City trip canceled. Will be here this weekend after all. Buttloads of homework.

Think positive. Think positive. Think positive.

Tattoos & Dancing

So I figured out where I want to go to get my tattoo done. And I figured out what I want it to say. And I know where on my body I want it, and I possibly have someone to go with. I am pretty happy with this.

I am basically only worried because:

1. I'm a pansy and I have no idea how much a tattoo hurts, although I believe I could handle it, plus it's tiny and only black ink
2. I have no idea how much it's going to cost
3. I don't know if I need an appointment (but if I go and they tell me to come back, then whatever, I'll learn)
4. My job doesn't allow tattoos (but it's an easy location to cover up and also this dude at my job got a huge thing of Jesus or something all over his chest and they were like whatever with that and it was kind of weird looking)
5. Certain people are not big fans of tattoos and I am like "oh man what if they stop liking me?" But then I am like "You know, this is going to be a really meaningful thing to me, and it's not my fault if they stop liking me just because I am letting my words out." It's going to be a good reminder to me.

I am just narrowing down the sort of font, now. Even though I won't go get this done until summer, most likely. It is just a weird subject to talk about with a lot of people, I feel like, but it's something I've been seriously thinking about for several years and I feel like it is the right thing for me. I get excited about it already.

On another subject, I'm in Dance Club, and it is one of my favorite parts of St. Mary's. I remember coming here to visit and hearing about dance club and being like "Oh my gosh mom I need to do this!" And I did it last semester and this semester and I just love it. I did ballet when I was really young, and then a combination of tap/jazz/ballet for a year in middle school. I love dancing, but I never did it in high school because it didn't fit into my schedule and because I was involved in the music department, which took up a lot of my time also. I had never done any kind of hip-hop before college, but it turned out that both last semester and this semester I got put in hip-hop dances and it is my favorite thing ever. I actually feel like I'm kind of good at it.

This semester I am doing this Shakira song and it is so much fun. I keep watching the video and being like "why can't I have practice more than once a week?" I'm super excited for the dance show even though it isn't for a while. Mm.

VIKINGS

This is what my Anthropology project that I'm hella procrastinating on is about. EGIL'S SAGA. Well, somewhat. I'm writing about an archaeological project in Iceland and it keeps tying in to this dude. PLEASE go to the Egil's Saga Wikipedia page and listen to the guy saying "Egil's saga." For some reason it entertains me to no end and I listened to it like ten times last night.

I'm really disappointed that I'm only on July 2005 of the Toothpaste for Dinner archives. I will blame it on the fact that Drew has too much sass to be able to handle too much at one time and so I'm pacing myself. Oh man.

I am already getting excited for next school year. Is that sad? It's kind of a ways away. But I am like, "oh man, I get to have a fresh start with having a clean room and everything." Well, that isn't what I'm most excited for or anything- I'm gonna be living with one of my best friends here- but still. It's gonna be awesome in all ways.

I'm gonna ask my fortune cookie magic 8 ball if next year will be awesome...

"Surely you jest."

...Thank you, fortune cookie. Thank you very much. That was so helpful.

I tried again and it said "Try the eggroll." I don't think this magic 8 ball is going to help me at all.

Friday is 2 weeks until Spring Break :) let's gooooo

Silly/Passionate

Stumbled upon this online. I love it. I have no idea who this writer is, but I think the quote is ridiculously true.

Being at college has helped me so much to open up more to people; I used to act really differently with my friends, whoever I was dating, and then with my family, but now I feel like I'm finally the same person with everyone. I realized that I could act like my real self (silly. ridiculous. full of laughing fits interspersed with anxiety fits.) and my real friends would still love me. I'm so happy about the friends I've made here and I'm so happy about who I've ended up with.

My mom used to complain to me that I didn't act the same whenever my boyfriends would come over our house, but I don't feel like that's true at all this time around. I've been clear (maybe a little too clear) about how I am to Mark, and he still loves me. I find it hard to believe. But I love that I can just laugh until I cry with him. And I do. Same goes for my friends here. I don't ever want to lose any of you.

Back back back

It was really, really nice to be home for the weekend. I forget sometimes how much I love to be at home with my family (plus I'm lazy and I like not having to leave the house).

I was home for a wedding in Mark's family, and it was really awesome because everyone I've met in his family is just really nice to me, and it's always nice to have people interested in meeting you... but I'm glad to be back on campus now. Although now I have a lot of work to do (reading The Taming of the Shrew, primarily) so I should get on that.

Promise I'll write when something interesting happens.

V-Day Weekend

This is my Valentine's Day gift from Mark. It is a cornycopia. I told him I wanted horrible, horrible pickup lines for Valentine's Day and that is what I got. Each of the little things of corn has a massacred pickup line on the back. My favorite kinds. By "massacred," I mean we take a normal pickup line and make it SO MUCH BETTER. For example,

"You must be a parking ticket 'cause you got 'fine' written all over you. And I would go to court to get rid of you."

This is probably the best present ever.

So all in all, it was a good V-day weekend. Last night was the Chinese Food Fiasco, which involved ordering craptons of food, waiting two hours, calling them, they thought we were pick-up even though they SAID delivery, waiting another hour for the food, realizing we were missing two bags worth of food, waiting for them to deliver THAT.... at least it was 50% off. And I still have all of my cashew chicken in Mark's fridge waiting to go to the party in my tummy. (oh noooo)

So I can't really write much because I'm supposed to be reading the first 3 acts of A Midsummer Night's Dream for my English class in an hour, so I am going to go do that. Wheee! I'll write more once interesting things happen.

Blag Blog

 

So this is one of my favorite comics ever, from a fabulous little comic called XKCD and I am worried that I will get in trouble for putting it on my blog a little bit so I am hella linking it back to the comic website. Anyway, that is why I call this thing a blag. It just entertains me to no end.

Probably you do not want to imagine how full of Quizno's my stomach is right now :[ it is UNCOMFORTABLY FULL. More food than your body has room for. But it is okay because it was delicious.

I saw Fight Club for the first time last night, and it was really really awesome. I read the book last year, but I had forgotten basically everything that happens... halfway through the movie I decided it was one of my favorite movies I've ever seen. That happens to me. One of my other all-time favorite movies is Say Anything, and I've only seen that maybe two times. It just happens. I'll be watching a movie for the first time and all of a sudden I just know it is my new favorite movie.

It also gave me inspiration for my text tattoos and now I know what I want them to say (one word on my left wrist, two words on my right). I don't think I should write exactly what I want here in case I change my mind, or in case someone takes them? But I feel like I have a really good idea of what I want permanently. I am also thinking of the tattoos, like, maybe they are words that I have always had inside of me and my brain, and now I am just showing them to the surface. I don't know. I am sure it is not that big of a deal to some other people when they get tattoos but it is a big deal for me. I am excited.

I am supposed to be doing homework! I should probably do that to get it out of the way. Also I should make Valentines maybe. I am lazy. Oh well.

Fridizzle

OH MAN. I'm drinking coffee and reading webcomics and I don't know if I have ever felt this nerdy this early in the morning. This is probably a good glimpse into my future, I imagine. Or at least I hope. I hella enjoy both of these things.

Also I bought a Luna bar like this past weekend in order to eat when I wake up for my 10:40 a.m. class on M/W/F, but due to the snow, I haven't had my M/W/F class since last Wednesday.... so I FINALLY got to eat my Luna bar this morning. It was delicious. Small things make me happy.

So I finished the Natalie Dee archives, I don't remember if I posted that here, but I did, and now I am going through Toothpaste for Dinner. It is actually not as amusing as I remember. But maybe that is just because I am still in '04 and I don't think I ever even read TFD back then. Uh, I don't know. Why is this all I write about.

TODAY IS FRIDAY AND I KEEP FORGETTING! And then I remember! And I get SO. EXCITED. I need to lay off the caps lock, but I am hella caffeinated up right now and I CAN'T HELP IT. Aghhh.
There was supposed to be a comedian on campus tonight, but they canceled it because of the snow. But that's okay because I am going to the Vagina Monologues instead and I am super excited. There is a staircase here on campus that leads up to the dining hall, and they are currently using it to advertise for the Monologues, and so there are like twenty paintings of vags on the walls. It's pretty awesome. Also probably kind of awkward for some people, but I find it awesome.

Anyway, I'm just writing my blag this morning to take up time until I have to leave for Spanish. And until I finish my coffee. Although I don't want to go into the kitchen to wash my coffee mug because then I will probably go through the recycling bin and the trash because I saw a water bottle in the trash and a container full of chicken or something in the recycling. I really need to stop looking.

This weekend, I will be powered by the hope of getting Chinese food on Sunday. Oh goodness. I want me some Chinese food for half off. I WILL GET MY CHINESE FOOD FOR HALF OFF.

Also, today, I am more excited than one person should ever be for going to Walmart. It's a little bit sad. But I haven't been off campus since I got back from winter break, y'know? And I ran out of yogurt and peach cups after like the first week :( I have a shopping list. And a few dollars left on my Walmart gift card (classiest Christmas gift I received). So I am READY. Oh goodness. Oh goodness.

So this Sunday is Vamlumtimes Day (Valentines. But I insist on saying it the Teen Girl Squad way.) and that is a pretty okay thing. I am just having a little bit of a hard time with not  being home for it, 'cause it'll be weird. I don't know. Maybe that is just me. At least I get Chinese food. And next weekend I am going to a wedding! For some people I have never met! But it is okay 'cause it is Mark's cousin and so I can just pretend to be an undercover spy or something and it won't matter if no one knows me. And the weekend after THAT, I am going to New York City on a bus trip with my school (except my roommate is the only person I know who is going) and I am super excited about that. We're seeing Avenue Q (I have no idea where) and that should be good. Then I can finally understand everyone else's references to it! Yay!

So that's the plan for the rest of my weekends in February, basically. I am WORKING FOR THE WEEKENDZ. Oh grosh. I am going to re-read this post later and be like "what, no more blogging while coffee-ing." This definitely sounds like it will be my future. I aspire to be doing the same thing when I am in my 20s. Heehee. Will update more throughout the weekend. :)

Hot damn

No class tomorrow! AGAIN. I am enjoying this snow day thing. Although it isn't snowing, yet, it's just sleeting. Which makes it fun to walk home. You can slide, and stuff.

Update on the Natalie Dee archives: on March 2009. So, close to done. And then it'll be onto the TFD archives. I am a NERD.

I am trying to do homework for tomorrow, sort of. I guess not for tomorrow since there's no class. I just mean so that I don't have to do anything on my day off tomorrow. But I probably will not get much done, since I have zero motivation all of the time.

Anyway, one of my big things lately has been thinking about tattoos. I am really into the idea of text or literary tattoos. This is my favorite site to look at them, and I have been trying to figure out what mine would say if I got one. For the longest time I wanted just a heart on my outer left wrist, but now I am thinking about getting words or a single word on my inner left wrist, and possibly on my inner right wrist as well. I just really love words and I am trying to find what the most important sentiments to me are, and how I'd put them in simplest terms to put on my skin permanently... I want them/it to be reminders to me about how I want to live my life. Y'know. It's exciting to me.

This is one of my absolute favorite text tattoos I've seen (from The Perks of Being a Wallflower) because it's simple, but an amazing quote, and I am also a big fan of the font. I am a huge, huge, huge font nerd. That is also one of my biggest problems about this tattoo decision. There are SO MANY font choices.

Anyway, I'm going to try and finish up these archives and do some Anthropology homework.

Please Yes Please

My mom sent me this picture yesterday. It's of the road outside my house at home and I love that it hasn't even been plowed yet... since here at college they were planning for a "blizzard," and we only got a few inches, I was sort of bummed that they got 3 feet at home. Even though I wouldn't have gone outside anyway, if there's gonna be hype, I want to see some snow worthy of panic.

Anyway, the news about there being no class today sort of destroyed my motivation to finish my Spanish reading yesterday, so I'm attempting again to do it now so I can go hang out with my friends later. Snow days are for hanging out. Mmhm.

Also, this is probably not interesting to the world but it was so exciting to me: you can turn in gold seals (the things under the lid) from Nutella jars and GET MERCH. Oh man. I'm so excited. Mark and I have been going through Nutella and pretzels like fiends this weekend, but we only saved one of the gold seals, but at least that is a start to the collection. I'm mad excited.

I am also mad hoping for snow Tuesday night. I bank on any rumors of snow that I hear because I am a lazy butt.

I need to get people to actually read this, and then maybe I will get ideas for things to write about.

(On June 2006 of the Natalie Dee archives. Progress.)

Snow

I TOLD YOU NOTHING COULD GO WRONG ON A DAY THAT BEGINS WITH NUTELLA-SCRAPING.

Classes canceled tomorrow on account of there barely being any snow on the goddamn roads. Not that I am complaining. It just took away all of my motivation to do my homework, however.

I am eating astronaut ice cream. Do NOT abbreviate it into one word. You will regret it.

Nom nom nom

Scraping the last of the Nutella out of the jar with a spoon and beginning my readthrough of Natalie Dee's entire comic archive.

I will let you know if anything could possibly go wrong today.

England

Also I thought of some real subject matter for a post so I guess I will write about that now.

Yesterday I turned in my application/deposit for Summer Shakespeare! Basically, I am freakin' out a little bit because this means I get to go to England this summer. For seventeen days. To read Shakespeare and learn about Shakespeare and see Shakespeare plays performed in a recreation of the Globe Theater. I CANNOT IMAGINE A MORE WONDERFUL THING AND I GET TO DO IT. It is going to be so glorious. I am so excited. I am also super dorky for wanting to do this, but hey, I get college credit for it. Yessir.

I'm currently taking a class about Shakespeare (Shakespeare, Sex & Gender), and so I'm pretty lucky that I'm reading a lot of the plays in that class. So if we see any of those plays I will be so ready. Awesome.

DID YOU KNOW: Coffee makes you have to pee and I am already tired of having to get up from my computer and walk down the hall to the bathroom because I am LAZY. And wow. It is almost 10:00 and I can't even tell because the blinds are closed. This has not been a productive day and there is nothing wrong with it. Only regret: that I have not gotten around to playing Animal Crossing yet today. I promised myself that I would. I suppose I can do that when I return from el baño...

I also might type in Spanish here sometimes. That is okay. It is not as if anyone is going to read it regardless of language.

Nerdiest Day

I am having the nerdiest snow day ever.

I have been reading webcomics since I got up. It is not an exaggeration. I have been reading the entire archive of Married to the Sea all day and I am almost done. I'm pretty excited. Which proves my nerdiness. I'm attempting to get completely caught up (since it's updated daily and I want to get it done today) so that I can add it to my list of webcomics that I check every day. I already check seven every day so this would make it eight.

And sadly, when I finish these archives, I will not even be done; I'm going to try and catch up with Natalie Dee, Toothpaste for Dinner and Superpoop as well. 'Cause I used to check all of them every day. They're hella good.

So my nerdiness-level is also going up because Mark is across the room watching anime. So. There is a whole lot of nerdiness in this room and it is not dissipating one bit.

I guess this blag blog is not about anything in particular. But I'm Captain. And this is my blog. (Or a log. Like. A pirate captain's log. On a ship. Get it.) I just like to write, and I don't know if anyone is interested in my life, but anyone can read this jank if they so desire.

So, uh. I'll be updating whenever. Yeah.