can't complain

Well, the game developer tutorial went way over my head, but other than that, it's all good.

I bought a sketchbook today. It's fun so far. I'm glad I got it.

So far I'm still keeping up with my homework. It's inexplicable.

There are 3 options for friday. Home, The Wall, or anime. Which shall it be?

I randomly ran into the group on the way to Ben Kweller. That made my day.

I didn't go to Kittredge today, but I did get poked. Which also made my day. But, man, it must mean that on Tuesdays he has an class in the engineering building right after japanese. I guess it's not so bad for him, since he has a bike. I know I wouldn't be able to get there in time.

urk

All I can say is, damn you Sarah. I think he's cute (ok, really cute) and he probably isn't even interested. And, Jebus, triple major??? Well, whatever. I trust that you at least ascertained that he was single before you "presented" him.

Speaking of single... meh. I feel bad, a little, but in a lot of ways it's such a relief. He expected it. I don't know why he didn't call me. He has my cell phone number. Lame. Apparently we're going the "still be friends" route.

Other than that, not much new. The 25-year old (not the new zealander, a different one) is now definitely not in the picture. Thank god. And the other geek has a girlfriend, so he's gone. Sad. It's ok, because... well, nevermind.

But... yes, I'll say it, because you probably won't understand; he's cute too. So I get two for the price of one? Room, anyway.

I do find it interesting though that, on Sarah's photo album, there are no pictures of him.

All in all, though, they're all really nice and I'm glad to know them. They're the kind of people I want to meet in college, maybe. Lousy beer-drinking non-nerdy engineers.

who would want to be such a control freak?

Ugh, there are too many Christians handing out flyers. I tried to refuse one girl by saying, "Jesus doesn't love me" but I couldn't manage the glare that's supposed to accompany that phrase. So she just said something along the lines of "Oh, of course Jesus loves you!" and forced her little brochure on me. Dangit. I took my revenge by stomping on the chalk sidewalk advertisements as I pass them. I'm stomping on Jesus! Haha! Bet he doesn't love me NOW! Although one of the ads had a little stick figure Jesus with a big red heart, and he's just so cute and happy that I stopped stomping on him.

God, I'm so awful.

In other news, I keep running into people I know. It's so eerie. Becca lives on the floor below me.

So I had some easy classes today, recitation for comp sci, japanese, and calc 3 computer lab. In the computer lab we're using Mathematica. My logon name wasn't working so I shared with the girl next to me, and we tried to figure out how to display pi. I know it's possible, dammit.

I'll get a page of digits to distribute to all the nerds I can find.

It's kind of sad though, because I just keep getting reminded how much I miss my friends.

I'm going to try to send everyone at least one email.

A bad thing though - today some guy asked if I had a boyfriend (long story) and I immediately said "No." I corrected myself but I still think it's a bad sign. Maybe it's just cause I'm so used to not having one? Bah. That's a lame excuse and I know it.

hmmm

I appear to have 72 xanga subscriptions in my google inbox, 67 of which are unread. I'm thinking I'm not going to read them anytime soon.

a new beginning

So today was the first day of classes. Not too bad. It takes 5 minutes to get to any of the classes in the ECCR building (meaning all my classes except Japanese) and 15 minutes to get to Hellems, which houses JPNS 1010. I've got all my little notebooks and such. And apparently I don't need the textbook I bought for comp sci, so back to the bookstore it goes.

I woke up bright and early (6:30, which for me is sleeping in, at least compared to last year) and headed down to the gym. Boy were my arms sore afterwards. Headed back to the room, took a nice long shower, went off to get instructions about my alternate science sequence petition, ate breakfast at Sewall (hella far away and definitely not worth it... all they had was waffles), scoped out the Hellems building, headed back to the room, surfed the net for a bit, found all my classes in the engineering building, came back to the room again, and frittered about for maybe a half hour before finally heading to calculus. My conclusion: I have way too much time in the mornings.

Calculus all we did was go over the syllabus (aka the rules) and point our little clickers around. The clickers are pretty cool though, you have to admit. They not only function to record attendance but they also give the teacher feedback when he explains a section poorly! Neato frito. The last five minutes consisted of "This is a vector, children." Dear lord. Yes, I know how to add and subtract vectors. Derrh. S'ok. I've already done both homework assignments due this week. This class is going to be so awesome (read: easy).

So then I eat lunch (I ran into Aaron, which was awesome, so I sat at his table) and lose track of the time and run off to start my long trek to Japanese. I get there and there are maybe two seats left. Erk. So then the teacher makes us pair up with the person next to us and find out about them or whatever. So I talk to the girl next to me: she's an anime geek who likes video games and is a comp sci major. Slightly ... coincidental (read: creepy). But the class was fun, the teacher kept making us sit down and stand up and raise our hands. Reminded me of one class we had in Spanish in 8th grade. "¡Levántase la mano izquierda!"

I come back to the room afterwards and start on the math homework and of course lose track of time. By some miracle someone came into the room 5 minutes after 4 and mentioned the time in passing so I was only 10 minutes late.

Both my computer science classes were boring, but what do you expect for an intro-to-the-class class?

And of course I forgot to go get dinner. I think this is the second time. Gah. I should just eat as soon as comp sci ends, or something.

I feel green/Like teenage lovers between the sheets

btw

Today marks the year anniversary of my counter, that's cool. That's a lot of hits in one year. At least, I think so.

A prize for the person who got hit #5678!

And that prize is... I get to point and laugh at you. What am I saying? I do that anyway...Just kidding.

the hill

...is where 90% of my dorm seems to have gone tonight. This is insane. It's a frickin' ENGINEERING DORM! What's wrong with the world today?

Ah well. Even though they're "wild partiers" (hahahaha..) I like both of my roommates. They're very nice people. And I'm guessing that every weekend I get the room to myself. Woot!

I just need to make sure they know not to bring it into the room or pressure me into doing anything.

The thing that gets me is that I'm in the engineering dorm and there are, like, no nerds. At least, no nerds that don't also want to get drunk and party it up. Oh, well. It's ok. I'm cool. No really.

In other news, I have purchased all my textbooks. Maybe. I'm STILL waitlisted for Calc. And since I'm waitlisted I only have 11 credit hours. Which means I'm not a fulltime student. Which means I'm not fulfilling the requirements of my scholarships. Which means my mommy is worried. Bah. I'll fix it... on Sunday, I guess; you can't register for classes on Saturdays.

In other other news, there appears to be a cute 22-year old New Zealander in the room across the hall. Hooray? He stayed away from tonight's festivities, even though he's one of the few people for which it'd be legal. Interesting.

the joys of college!

Even in the quaint engineering dorm of Crosman, students yesterday evening were piling on top of each other and having dance parties featuring the popular dance tune "Rock Your Body." The hall party ended in tragedy when multiple participants grew bored. Hopefully this event will end more happily in future occurences.

Ay ay ay. Well, college is... interesting so far. My roommates are tolerable but time will tell. I've only eaten dorm food once so far, at Libby Hall, and it was pretty nice. The seating area was cute and there were grilled cheese sandwiches that reminded me of the kind they made in the school cafeteria - the greasy kind. I love that kind.

My roommates are far more social than I, and so I've been spending some time with them hanging out in guys' rooms and talking to people. Amanda's died her hair red since the senior picture she sent. The change is a bit startling. Ashley's pretty nice, and very neat, and apparently she smokes. Which sucks but whatever. She can't do it in the room and my sense of smell is warped anyway so I doubt it'll bother me. I guess she must've lied on her dorm registration form; they're supposed to pair up smokers with other smokers and vice versa.

Ashley also initiated the hair-scrunchie-on-the-door discussion. I'm looking forward to that. *cough* Uh, yeah. Or not.

I also made the interesting discovery that there appear to be only two comp sci majors of the female sex. Me being one of them. What the hell. I thought engineering was supposed to be 20% women??

However, the good news is I ran into Sarah on the way from the UMC, textbooks in tow. So her and the pillar and I shall be hanging out later in the evening. Woot.

goodbye party #2

I was wrong! I will see them again!

Wheeeeeee!

But I'm going out to dinner with my parents first because that's what we said we'd do earlier. I'm so glad I get to see peoples though. And I'm glad that she set up the yahoo group. I can write people, just like he suggested. It'll be so cool! I better bring stamps and envelopes with me to Boulder, then.

Lalalalalalalalala.

almost over

current song: the strokes - automatic stop

Well, I've been incapacitated the past few days because on Tuesday I got my wisdom teeth out. It's been ok so far, but I'm bummed about the no rice for a month. Bah.

On Wednesday is the engineering orientation, so I guess that's when I'm moving in, as well. My two roommates seem nice enough. There are various other people going to Boulder who I might see around, as well. I doubt I really will, though. Alex's surprise party on Thursday was the last time I'm going to see my friends, really. I'll see Sarah again sometime, hopefully, and I'll hang out with Nikki, of course, but not anybody else. It's ok though. It was fun, and it's probably better to not have to go through all the crappy farewell speeches. It doesn't make sense to spend the last time you have with your friends unhappy because they're going away. Save the unhappiness for when they're actually gone. Right?

And of course I still have Cyrano. I'm such an idiot. I guess it gives me an excuse to see everybody again.

Boulder will be fun, and I haven't failed at anything I've set myself to so far. I survived IB, didn't I?

so come and dance with me

I think I'm liking the Franz Ferdinand album best of the four.

So here's a new layout. Hmmm... I better make sure the fonts are variable lest Sarah be rendered unable to read it.

I got distracted so I didn't end up mailing a postcard after all. Ah, well. Tomorrow's another day.

But before I forget, the exciting news of the day: I have driven by myself for the first time! Woot! I went to Goodtimes. A real stressful drive, that. I had to go a whole... 3 blocks? Regardless, I have gone on my first "solo flight" as my mom termed it. It wasn't half bad. I think I could get used to this. Too bad I'm not getting a car next year. >.<

Man, "Such Great Heights" is so awesome too. I think Postal Service and Franz Ferdinand shall have to battle it out on my computer.

They will see us waving from such great heights. "Come down now," they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away. "Come down now -" But we'll stay.

¡música!

So I've gone and bought a bunch of cds again. All with my beloved birthday borders gift cards. Joy.

The CDs in question:

• Franz Ferdinand - Self-titled
• Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
• The Postal Service - Give Up
• The Strokes - Room on Fire

And I am now listening to them. Hooray. My dad was interested in Modest Mouse and The Strokes, but I think he'll hate them both. He's least likely to hate Franz Ferdinand. Maybe I can force him to listen to it with me.

I also got Greg the new Sugarcult album for his birthday. And a moose. The first of my souvenirs to be dealt out. Ooh - time to mail Nikki a postcard!

tadaima

Well, I'm back. Joy.

Bah. I'm tired. And I don't want to talk about the trip. Why should I bother? It's a stupid trip. I saw stuff. The pictures I took are all I really care to remember. But right now I'm too tired to wade through hundreds of pictures and pick out the best ones and crop them and fiddle with them and photoshop them and save them in another folder. I'm just tired in general.

The most interesting part of the trip was the traveling just because it was so horrible. The first two planes were canceled. The third had to go back to Denver to refuel. The other two were fine. So we got to London in time for the cruise, but not in time to see London. It doesn't matter; I'm going to live there someday anyway. I'll see it then.

Other than that there were just too many excursions, a cold, gambling, vegetarian haggis, the hot waiter, being able to drink alcohol but choosing not to.

The only thing I've learned from the experience is that travel is hell, that I have the maturity of an eleven-year old, that cruises are overrated, that Europe is pretty, and that I am far too occupied with boys. I'm tired of it.

I don't know though; I seem to be tired of everything nowadays.

I finished Cyrano de Bergerac. It was quite good. I hope I'll get a chance to return it.