Things I want right now:

1. Cardigans (not the band. the article of clothing)
2. Diet Coke even though I stopped drinking it
3. Maybe some chocolate, I always want chocolate
4. To look like Marina
5. To not have a stuffy nose/head
6. Summer
7. Sandals that don't cut my damn feet up
8. A hammock

SGA, SMP, other acronyms

SGA: Voted for my senator in PG next year. I'm probably definitely going to end up with the same girl I have in QA this year, because she's the only one running besides write-in... I guess she was pretty good. I enjoy her emails about SGA meetings sometimes. But I think I get more information from Ken Benjes' blog where he writes during the meetings. I am so sad he won't do that next year :[ I've considered trying to be involved in SGA, or at least attending meetings, or alternately becoming involved in the Programs Board. Maybe eventually!

SMP: The school has sent out like 20 emails about SMP presentations, and I kind of feel like I should maybe go to some of them. Some of them actually do seem interesting. And I feel like the seniors deserve people to go see what they've been working on.

IRGC: It's really goddamn cold.

Monday! Monday!

This is the very second to last Monday of this school year. This is the last Monday of classes, and my 10:40 class was cancelled this morning! This is the best. Totally the best. Do you want a rundown of the next two weeks for me? Because I think you do, and otherwise why would you be at this blog.

TODAY IS MONDAY! Second to last Shakespeare class :[

What else is going on this week:

• I have to go to some financial aid info session sometime this week. I don't really know why, considering it is about changes for next year and I don't even know what's going on this year, but I feel like it is my responsibility to go. I also feel really accomplished if I go to boring meetings. It makes me feel smart. So I am going to that either tomorrow or Thursday.
• Glee is tomorrow! Oh Glee. I love you so much. Don't ever leave me. Gleeve me?
• Also tomorrow. I have an Anthro quiz and a presentation in Anthro. Man, that class is not fun sometimes.
• Psychology paper due Thursday. Should really get started on thinking about that since all of my original ideas for it got rejected.
• Summer Shakespeare meeting on Friday! Sometimes it is upsetting that most Fridays from 3-5 are taken up by these meetings, but it is okay, because in less than two months I will be in England and none of you jive suckas will be.
• Saturday is MORE SHAKESPEARE! Going to see Hamlet at the Folger Theater with my Shakespeare class. Hella excited for this.

So basically this week is like Shakespeare, and more Shakespeare, and then some other classes sprinkled in between. Isn't sprinkled a nice word?

In other news that isn't about school:
I am getting pretty interested in minimalism. I've been trying to get rid of a lot of stuff this past year, and I don't think I am going to be like hardcore-owning-less-than-100-things minimalist, but I really like the idea. We don't need as much as we have. It also sort of goes along with the eating simply thing- eating whole foods, blah de blah. Both are pretty difficult to initiate at college, so I'm glad I'll be heading home soon. I am getting interested in so many new things!

This combines two or more awesome things!

http://www.troundup.com/2010/19/make-lemonade-from-t-shirt-hell/

Favorite things included in the above link:
1. Troundup
2. Trying to eat stuff that isn't chemicals
3. Tshirts
4. Also lemonade is pretty good

Oh man. Oh man. I check this guy's blog every day and I think that if I knew him in real life we would Totally Be Friends. Well I sort of do know him in real life. I can recognize him on campus. It is a bit like seeing a local celebrity. Put it this way: when I went to Otakon last year and my friends saw the guy who created 4chan, they were like "PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE!" and I did not even know who they were talking about. So actually maybe it is not at all like seeing that guy, but whatever, I don't really have anything else to compare it to. He is like a local celebrity.

Aw come on

In trying to explain how people regulate the risks of forming close romantic relationships, Sandra Murray and others note that an ironic theme runs through much of the research: "The relationships that have the most potential to satisfy adult needs for interpersonal connection are the very relationships that activate the most anxiety about rejection." We are, to put it mildly, darned if we do and darned if we don't.

NO. Come on, psychology textbook, don't make me realize that I will have some sorts of anxiety for EVER.

Well, at least I feel like I have a better grasp on my thoughts about relationships now. Hooray for Social Psych!

ALSO I changed my blog font from Arial to Georgia and oh my goodness it was so exciting. This font is so much better. It is a good thing that Blogger only offers me a few font options, otherwise I would never leave this room because I would be so excited about finding the perfect font. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.

Shirts!

I GOT THIS SHIRT YESTERDAY. Or it was ordered for me. Either way. It is from Threadless, and it is totally super awesome. The last time I tried to buy it it was sold out, so then a few days ago I got an email from them that was all "hey we reprinted this design you wanted!" even though I do not want to spend any money right now, but, you know, Cialdini's norm of consistency for compliance...

I am a psychology snob. :[

Well, anyway, I didn't technically order it because Mark bought it, and I bought him another shirt from Topatoco, and we will totally trade when they both come in the mail. It will be so much fun. I think that I am also waiting for another shirt in the mail, possibly. Oh. Yeah. I am. I forgot that I bought a Woot shirt the other day. So I am looking forward to that as well, and I really need to stop buying so many things.

Also did you guys know that the band Born Ruffians is super awesome? I had one of their albums but hadn't listened to it all the way through until yesterday. It is SO MUCH FUN and it is good music.

I said

"Why can't I swallow my feelings? I don't have time to be depressed."

I don't know what's wrong with me, or why I can't deal with it properly. I don't know if my bad reactions are the cause, or just the effect.... I am all kinds of a mess, but I have too much work to do to deal with my personal problems. Is that backwards? But how am I supposed to have time for my emotions when I have so much class work to do.

Jackie

So visualize success but don't believe your eyes
There's a world of wisdom and pain to despise
And when people get paid just to set you straight it means...

I don't know what it means, I guess.

Sometimes

Sometimes I wish I could try on a new persona for a day or two. Like, what would it be like to be social in college? I don't even know what people DO at parties. And I know this persona doesn't go. But it'd just be interesting. I want to get into other peoples' heads and see why they do the things that I think are stupid.

Idea

I think I would maybe like to just move out of the country and go to somewhere in the United Kingdom. And maybe stay there. I cannot handle being here right now.

8:50 a.m.

WHY are 5/6 washers already filled up? And I think the one that eSuds says is available is just broken. Does everyone in Queen Anne really wake up this early and do laundry on a Tuesday? That's weird.

So I left tech week at around 12:20 last night/morning, came home, took a shower, got in bed by 1. Woke up at 8:10 to register for classes. I got into three out of four, and I'm hoping I get into Chem. Although I'm confused because the section I'm trying to get into is NOT in a lecture hall, I don't believe (I think it's where I currently have Anthro) and so I am worried there won't be as many seats. Although I know it can hold more than 12. And I know they're reserving spaces for freshmen. But anyway, I emailed the professor, and darnit I need to get into Chem so they can just let me do that okay.

I guess I will study, wait for a washer to be open, do some laundry, keep studying. I have tech week until even later tonight- I'm on clean up crew so I have to stay after everyone else is gone tonight- so that might be a bummer. But it's fun, sometimes. I will just bring stuff to do, homeworkwise.

Hello, Hell Week

This week is going to be really tough.

It's tech week for dance, which means there are rehearsals every night from 8ish- past midnight, and I have a ton of quizzes, tests, and papers, and I am just a busy busy bee this week. And I am hoping I can hold it together until next Sunday- then I'll be done with so much stuff! I am excited for the dance show though- it's just a lot of work to get there.

Also, this is what was running through my head quite randomly this morning while getting ready. Remember that jump rope song, "Cinderella dressed in yellow, went upstairs to kiss her fellow, by mistake she kissed a snake, how many doctors will it take? 1, 2, 3, etc." That randomly popped into my head, and, as I often do while I should be doing other things, was all kinds of analyzing it. That is a pretty weird thing for little kids to be playing to. And it's vague. For example, what kind of snake was it? How did she mistake a guy for a snake? Kissing a snake doesn't necessarily hurt you. Maybe Cinderella deserved it. Maybe she was cheating on her fellow with that snake. Also, I think it is bad that the better you are at jumping rope, the worse Cinderella's injury was. That is selfish and mean. Probably you should just stop jumping because maybe Cinderella doesn't have health care and can't afford to go to even one doctor. Did you ever stop to think of that? Did you?

Ohio

I never thought I'd be so determined to get to Ohio, of all places.

Hello, Morning

I am supposed to be taking a shower. I just do not have the motivation. I will take one later! I promise. Maybe. I have to go the gym at some point and then I will have to take a shower. What is this, this is not interesting blog material.

It is THURSDAY! It is also April. And I am going home tomorrow, and I am going to see Vampire Weekend with Mark, and it is just going to be a fabulous time. It will, it will, it will.

Got stuck behind a tour group on the way back to QA from Campus Center this morning. That was interesting. I really enjoy seeing who is a tour guide here, and what they say, since now I go here... I'm considering maybe being a tour guide myself eventually. I really like the school, and I'm a nerd about learning its history, so I'd probably have a lot to say.

Do you know what is next week? It is the dance show, that is what it is, and all of you should go. It is going to be HOT. And also a lot of fun.

I need to do some Psych work, and then maybe pack up some stuff to take home tomorrow, and maybe review some Anthro. Things to do, things to do.