It's so hard to think of things to journal about.

My life is some sort of stream of schoolwork and kitten and waiting.

Tomorrow will be the Pi Tau Sigma ( http://www.pitausigma.net ) initiation test and dinner, so I guess I'm finally going "greek".

Pi Tau Sigma is an honors mechanical engineering fraternity, for those of you not in The Know.

It's very nerdy; we had to take a piece of wood cut into the shape of the Carnot cycle , sand it, decorate it and place signing boxes on it, varnish it, and get various members and faculty to john hancock it.
Tomorrow, we will sit a test with various trivia about ∏T∑ and mechanical engineering (and thermodynamics).

Then dinner! that I won't be able to drink at :|

Anyways, the other things in my life have been
1) classes
2) tutoring
3) kitten
4) getting settled into the house here


Couple of shitty things happened yesterday. My furnace stopped working on the first cold day of the season, and I woke up to it being like 65, came home to it being 60, and woke up again to it being 55, and my car got ran into the fire hydrant in the driveway :/ so now it makes a bad noise when I turn the wheel sharp

Anyways, you may want to read the last half of this entry.

My grandma died. It's so queer to realize that I have no more maternal grandparents. It's queer to think that my mother doesn't have a mother. They talked on the phone daily. Perhaps I should talk to my mom daily now.

From the Courier:
Mary Alice Jones, 85, of Pottsville, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, at her residence.
The daughter of Irvin and Coley McQuiston Peters, she was born June 26, 1924, in Monticello. She was a long time member of the Mars Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Eastern Star. She enjoyed traveling, reading, sewing and crocheting. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Billy Warren Jones; one great-grandson, Mason Lee Cowan; and one brother Robert I Peters.
Survivors include one daughter, Kathryn Byrum and husband, Jimmy; three sons, Robert Jones and wife, Nina, William Jones and wife, Martha, and George Jones and wife, Kathrine; 12 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one daughter-in-law, Doris Jones.
Memorial service will be held at a later date. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Humphrey Funeral Service. Memorials may be made to a charity of choice.
Internet obituary and on-line guest book available at www.humphreyfuneral.com.

So, the seal on the front door is really shitty. Like, it's closed and I can see a speck of daylight down at the bottom, and I'm sitting on the couch.

Anyways, since the outside light keeps going out (we got these notices on the door saying DO NOT MESS WITH THE LIGHTS THEY ARE LANDLORD PROPERTY WE PAY ELECTRIC and of course, it stopped working immediately after that), if we have the living room light on at night, bugs are attracted to it, I guess. Or they sense the draft or something.

Anyways, at the beginning of summer, I'd see the occasional big spider. I decided to just let them go because they weren't going to do anything to me. They were definitely terrified of me.

Then, for the rest of the summer, there were these beetles. My hopes that the spider population would feast on the beetle plague were unfounded. In fact, I haven't seen any more big spiders, just tiny ones. (which I squish. They're not big enough to kill anything!) But I have to sweep out the bathroom and the front door area because for some reason, beetles only like to die on tile surfaces. They refuse to die on the carpet (which is pretty convenient).

And one night, particularly disturbing, I heard a clicking sound from the kitchen. I was in here by myself, and nothing was running. I decide it's my imagination, or next door, etc.

Next day, I'm smashing coke cans to recycle, and BAM, this guy shows up, making the same clicking/buzzing sound


I mildly freak out, never seen anything like this before, run it under the faucet to wash the bug back into the can, it tries to crawl out, so I smash it with something, then crunch the can xD

Anyways, right now, it's crickets. There are freaking crickets everywhere. Stu always has to kill a couple before he takes a shower, so there are many corpses behind the bathroom scales, in the corner behind the door, etc. There are many corpses by the front door, as well.

Needless to say, I'm kinda interested to see if any others make it before frost.

And I want to get that freaking gap sealed before it turns freezing cold.

They say my account is going to be hijacked. I get that warning every time I log in. I love getting grandfathered in on insecure passwords.


Anyways.

I kinda like where my life is right now.

My job is easy. I'm sure I'll get busier as their homework gets harder, maybe after their first test xD But I don't foresee it getting reaaaaally bad. Especially not on friday afternoons xD

Apartment life is going pretty well. Leo fits in about how we expected. It's messy, and I feel too sick to clean right now, but I'll get around to it.

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop with regards to classes. Programming is still easy; circuits is a little confusing, but I got the hw done, MDC hasn't really started yet, and I'm starting to worry a little bit. The professor is notoriously bad at timing (I had him this summer, and I've heard the exact same thing from everyone else who has taken his class), so it'll probably be hellish in about a month. Lab is a mix of fascinating background info, tedious lab work, and confusing problems. I haven't done hardly any Fluids homework, nor has the prof mentioned a test. ho snap.

But I think I can handle it.

I'm still reading The Three Musketeers. It's getting really good :D

I've been sick all week (not swine flu; I'm not running a fever. Maybe sinus infection or something? I'm having some crazy drainage). I thought I was getting an ailment of the ladyparts, but it seems to have been nipped in the bud. phew.

There's only a couple of dark spots right now. The first is private, and the other is my dear old grandma.

The story of how she got to where she is right now is really too long to tell. It started last summer, and health problems, and self-identity, and things have all lead her to this bed in the hospital. Dad says hospice care is coming in to take care of her every day (well, maybe every day, he didn't specify). Stu and I went with my parents last week-end to visit her. She could hardly speak for having to breathe so laboriously and constantly wetting her lips with a wet washcloth. They said that was much improved over the last time they'd visited.

I think she wants to die. I think she doesn't really want to say it aloud because she doesn't want to hear the family's responses, but she's stopped taking a lot of her medications, eats very little, etc.

I've asked my dad, and he says he and mom haven't been pressuring her to keep living. Maybe I sound like a frigid monster, but I think that a 85 year old woman has earned the right to dictate how her life will play out. Many 85 year olds don't have the luxuries that she has had. Some of them are living quietly in their homes, where no one calls them, no one visits, they have no animals to love. Some are living oblivious in nursing homes. They no longer know who visits them, what their own lives were like, who they have loved.

Grandma Mary is a pretty short lady. I'm not for sure, but I think she's like 5'2" or so. But she was a child of the Depression, and like a lot of her fellows, is stuffed to the brim with stubborn tenacity. I don't think she likes not being able to take care of herself, but it's at the point now that she just isn't able to.

How terrifying it must be to watch your body fail as you're trapped inside of it.

Yesterday, I was in the throes of a massive allergy attack. Even after an afternoon nap, I had a hard time staying away through dinner and a movie, but somehow I managed.

We'd gotten a ruby tuesday coupon in the mail that week, so we decided to end PG's trip with a bang; went to RT for dinner and came back to the apartment to watch Dogma. Another movie I'm glad I can enjoy now :]

After the movie, we had a short pillow fight, then went out on the front step to smoke Blacks and drink the last of the mudslide. It was so pleasant, just hanging out with them, with an appropriate level of chemical alteration.

That's about as long as I could last, however. PG's bus was to leave at noon today, and by then it was 2am. Stu had filled me full of benadryl (I feel a lot better today; I've hardly sneezed at all) so I about stumbled into bed.

I guess I have simple tastes. Our housemate, Leo, went to another friend's party; we were invited, but it would've been a little awkward to bring or leave our guest (haiaznasl?). We had all the excitement I really care for in a party, anyways.

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I have a job tutoring for the ME department. I guess I should brush up on my Thermodynamics. It seems so impossible that I could be good enough to teach others, but then I think back to the tutors I've had and how they've been inept sometimes, and I think back to what my Diff E prof said about his tutoring experience; he started off terrible at linear algebra, but was excellent at it at the end.

I'm a little concerned by how much time this will suck up, but I guess I can manage for a semester. Stu did it last year. We'll see. It's 9 hours a week, spread across four days.

For several years now, I've felt that I was becoming too attention-deficit to make meaningful livejournal posts, and now that the perfect medium for insta-think quick anecdote sharing has arrived, I mean, I'm into it.
Random thought while walking to the bus stop? Twitter it.
One-off link to share? Twitter.

Anyways. I still morally oppose the idea of syndicating my tweets on LJ, but if anyone is interested, I guess I can look into it. I just know that I tend to skip them all on my flist xD (maybe then I should add ljers to twitter then. . No, that would make too much sense)

Summer Session I is over and gone; I got at least one A. I doubt I got two, but hopefully Machine Analysis ends up as a B. I'll find out tomorrow, I guess.

Session II is off to a good start. Lots of people in MechiMat, a lot of whom i at least recognize, although very few are actual mechanical engineers (apparently all the civies took status summer I and are now taking either mechimat or dynamics in summer II. Poor kids). I love Jong though. A semester of Uche has made me appreciate him so much. I was so lazy a year ago! I hope I can avenge that C I made in Statics.

My life is a whorl of classes though. I'm looking forward to this week-end with Stu, and Kishi, and my family. Yes, it's still going forward as planned. Yes, I think it will wendell. No, I don't really feel comfortable discussing it on livejournal, no matter how intimate the group filter.

Last night I redownloaded Princess Maker 2, and played out a life and a half before calling it quits way too late. Got a terrible ending. Finished the second game this afternoon. Slightly better, but still bad ending. I hope the third one goes better.

Tonight I watched Twilight. The university was putting it on as a free outdoors movie, and I partook. There were many girls, a few boys, and some twelve year olds there. It wasn't too bad. the casting was incredible.

I still can't get over being tan. I keep poking my skin and watching it change colors.

and I guess that's my life since the last entry.

Summer school is death; I really enjoy it, but it doesn't leave a lot of time for thinking!

Summary of things that have been going on since the 18th:
seashell necklace turned out FAIL. I strung it all together and it just looked lame. The bits are just kinda hanging out until I think of something better to do with them. (ideas?)

I almost have a tan. Every day I look at myself and I am amazed by the tint of my skin. I'm serious. I haven't been this dark since 2005 (when I went outside in the louisianan sun every day for a month).
I'm almost losing weight. The last few days I've been kinda plateaued, so I don't know what's up with that. I'm not in any hurry anyways; There's still six more weeks of summer.

I really love living by myself right now. I am the mistress of my life and my domicile; don't have to worry about anyone barging in, and I can just not get dressed after a shower. I just love it. (I really love not having my parents around. It was always hard for me to talk on the phone or voice-chat with people knowing that they were in the house with me, or recording singing or anything. So I've been doing a lot of that. I don't know if my voice has improved any, but it's been fun.)

I've been trying to make a decision about something very important for a month; I can't really detail it here because it's too close, too personal, but idk. You all probably know what it is now anyways.

In my schoolwork, we've been using this program called Analytix. It was written in 1989 and last updated in 2002, so you can imagine what that's been like, but you can just draw almost any kind of mechanism you could dream of, and make them move. It's so fulfilling; I enjoy just sketching them out and watching them go through their circuits.

I'm doing pretty well in one of my classes, and fairly poorly in the other. I don't mind [too] much. At least not right now.

I also have no ability to string together a coherent post. Is that the celexa muddying my mind, or am I just not putting enough thought into this?
My anxiety levels are pretty incredible right now, as in, not high at all, so idk I haven't taken any the last couple of nights. We'll see how that pans out. I also don't want to make a doctor's appt to renew my prescription, which is one major aspect. (I have a few months' worth left, but I don't want to totally forget about it and find out I need some RIGHT NOW and not have any) I guess you're supposed to wean yourself off, but I cba to split the pills in half, sooooooo.

when the guy swapped out the logicboard before we realized it was the DC-in port, he of course, replaced the thermal paste. Early MBPs were notorious for their excess of thermal paste, in amounts that inhibited heat distribution rather than aided in it. I wanted to do it for a long time, but two things kept me from it: 1) my father and stu expressly forbade me to touch the logicboard; 2) I didn't want to buy thermal paste.

But yeah, I'm running with half-speed fans, just interneting like usual, with the laptop on my lap, not on a book, and it's chilling at a cool 54°C. I am so happy.

Hopefully I will be able to photoshop now without having to worry about getting into the 85°C+ range.

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Today has been a nice rainy day. I woke up this morning to a half dozen little blackbirds playing in the water on the back patio outside my window. It stopped raining by the time I went to class, but it was so much cooler. When I came home, it started sprinkling a little harder, but I just opened my umbrella and it was pleasant :)

Oh, yeah.

Ever since we got back from Florida, my laptop hasn't booted from battery. Pretty annoying, because if I unplug it, boom it shuts down. And magsafe adaptors are made to be easily unplugged, so. . .

I've been trying to get the guy at the computer store to replace the logicboard (and buy a new adaptor, which is probably why it doesn't work. The LED stopped lighting up a while ago, and now it won't hardly charge my ipod)
Anyways, he's very nice, has heterochromia, but is completely incapable of remembering to call me when he says he will. I, not wishing to make a nuisance of myself, of course have let this drag on for two weeks, so monday I believe I will call him early on and ask if my part has come in and then bring it with me to school so he can replace it while I am en salle de classe.

I need to pick up a new set of earbuds for my ipod as well. The wires are starting to show :X (guess I shouldn't've been so rough on them)

ANYTHING ELSE FROM APPLE WANNA BLOW UP ON ME, HUH?!

:)

This summer is turning into a France-in-America repeat of last summer except without having to be thousands of miles away from everyone (merely hundreds), and without the overwhelming anxiety.

There are the diet and the hw similarities, but also just being able to sit with my window open and listen to people living around me. There were some people moving into one of the units across the parking lot, two guys playing guitar and singing on a porch, kids laughing and shouting.

And a girl in rollerblades going to check the mail and enjoying the immersion.

Now that the initial sadness has released my limbs back into movement, I feel a little better! I even worked on my first hw assignment tonight (well, not very much on it xD) and made dinner for myself. I've gotten all my clothes put up and only have basically one more box of junk to sort out. I've got an idea for bus routeage and reduced my book price by $100.

Here are pictures of the apartment as it stands: (if I spell it appartement, realize that a certain amount of the brainspace necessary for spelling has been taken over by french spellings in lieu of english ones)
( YAYTIME )

So yeah, settling in pretty good.

It took me until today to catch up with lj posts from when I was gone. Now I have to start reading to catch up on what I missed while I was catching up.

I felt like such a tard commenting on things from the 8th, but you know, things happen.

I spent today/last night making the house, the car a better place after their week-long neglect. The dog and the carpet and the floor got vacuumed (mussie loves this), the dog got washed and brushed (he has so much hair), the yard mowed, the oil changed, tires rotated, car washed, car vacuumed, car dusted/armor-alled, and there's still so much to do.

Summer school terrifies me for a number of reasons--

I won't get a summer to myself. I guess you could say my summer has already happened, crammed into one week

I will be living by myself. No stu, no dorm. It's freaky and I don't know if I'll be able to feed myself. Well, and still manage classes.

Having to do class work without the safety net of the ME friends I've been accumulating or stu to make me study/do hw

Getting my fellowship to pay for summer living expenses.

At the worst, I'll lose weight, have to drop classes, and have to dip into my savings. Not exactly the most terrible thing that could happen to a person. That's a good way to think of it. I've already started logging my food for the summer. (I was doing it very good last summer then stopped when school started because I was so busy)

Oh yeah, final grades are up: four As and one B. My best college semester ever! It's nice to finally see some payback.

This is the color of the lightning I just saw

It was followed by a huge spray of sparks (normal yellow)

I've googled for green lightning, and mostly it's people saying it's an arc off of power lines, but all the pictures they have are from ground level. I live on the 6th floor on a tall hill and saw this down in the valley, and it looked like the other lightning bolts that hit the ground, I thought. Plus there was the whole spray of sparks as well :p So I don't know if I buy that.

mom told me once that as I become an old lady, I'll spend less time shaving my legs and more time tweasing my mustache. DAMMIT MOM, DON"T CONSIGN ME TO SUCH A CRUEL FATE.

Anyways, I had a highly productive night, involving a discrete take home quiz, diff e homework, putting up my clothes, and getting a shower.

I hadn't realized how addicted I have become to my thrice weekly showers. That may not sound like a lot to you guys, but I've gone many many years just twice weekly. In fact, I skip my drill on Fridays to be able to fit that third one in.

There's like three weeks left in the semester. Two of classes, one finals. Then it's apartment move in time. It's so crazy.

I feel like I haven't hardly had time to think the last couple of weeks. I haven't had any big projects, but the whole momenta of my classes have been rising to a crescendo, and it's hard to keep a handle on.

I had two tests last week, and will have two tests in the next two weeks, but I haven't been told when yet. (grrr). I need to do some massive writing for my final submission for Creative Writing (my second story was much more well-received than my first one :)), various homeworks, lots of studying for finals. It's really kinda overwhelming.

I'm really behind in my blog posts at WILT, as well. But, I have drafts for the 8th through the 13th, so now that I've gotten up to the 7th posted, it should be easier to get through those. (phew).

Finally heard back from two places I'd tried to get something with for the summer, two negatories, which is kinda good, because I need these summer classes to stay ahead xD I definitely want to apply for the USRP (nasa!) again next year though.

So yeah, busy busy busy. I'm really looking forward to living in the apartment all summer (we're planning to sign the lease on monday, I think). I already told my parents they should come visit me a lot xD

So my roommate has turned into über-bitch, so I've decided to turn her passive aggression back on her until school's out. If she wants to write facebook notes about how I eat too loud, I'll give her something to write about 8)

Anyways, things are getting kinda hectic as the semester draws to a close. I have a solid idea for my Creative Writing story, but I just don't feel like devoting time to writing. I pumped out nearly half of my quota yesterday, so I don't feel sufficiently pressed for time.

However, I do feel pressed for time with regards to Dynamics. we have a test on Friday on all the material I understand the least. *lesigh*

In non-schoolwork related matters, stu's roommate has gone on a sabbatical from pot, so he's actually kinda pleasant to be around. He doesn't talk to himself about random things, for example. Apparently he's trying to get clean incase he needs drug tests for summer jobs. Whatever it takes, man.

This week-end was pretty fun. It was the big frat-party week-end, so we had a lot of fun going out and watching how crazy it was out there. Hundreds of drunk college students ripe for the plucking.

Stu and I went to Old Navy on Sunday and i got the awesomest shirt ever. I like it a lot.

anyways, I've bored you all enough here. blaaaaaaah bedtime

Man, apparently I hadn't read ljfriends since the 25th. Left belated comments where necessary. (skip=400 before I got back to where I'd seen last)

Anyways, things last week were Sinusitis (I assume), and Two Tests.

Diff E test went over very well (97%), the Thermo test, not so well (54%), but I still have a B in there, thanks to curvature and my stellar score on the previous test.

I had a Dynamics quiz that kinda scared me straight and so I read a chapter from the book while stu drove the last leg back tonight.

I really didn't want to leave the house. Everyone got up late, and then we had a breakfast lunch of pancakes and bacon (I made the pancakes and they came out so well!), and it was just so nice at the house, and I took care of my potted plants (I think the carrot I left in one of them last semester is growing! That, or it's queen anne's lace, which apparently looks just like carrot, but there WAS a carrot there before!)

I read On the Shores of Silver Lake and was struck by how much I really really like it. The Ingalls first get to Dakota Territory, and the family is finally grown up into the structure it takes for the rest of the books; carrie is no longer the piddling baby and begins to have her own character, Mary is blind, and Laura begins to break out into fanciful visions and simile. It's wonderful, and I find myself thinking back to when I first read these, and how much they had to have influenced me.

OH btw, big thing
Stu and I went to look at a couple of apartments on Friday. One of them was shitty, but the other was pretty fantastic. I imagine after some haggling over the terms of the lease and it will be wonderful. We've started looking at furniture (my brother's gf has some stuff to sell from her deceased mother's house in particular) and imagining how to lay things out, how to do lunches, how to do transportation, etc. It's been very exciting. My parents and stu keep remarking on how relatively unexcited I am, but I think it will build. My typical timidity is just manifesting itself, and my natural reluctance to think any further ahead in the future than a month.

not really important, I just think it's funny: I shaved my legs on stu's bed this evening while they were studying for their midterm tomorrow. I was bored as poop and I saw his old razor (he got an electric one, and this one still had a fresh blade) so I resorted to my old pasttime of dry-shaving. Of course later it itched like a mother, so I applied some of my Touch of Pink lotion, and then of course it BURNED like a mother, but it's all good now.

even though it will cut me out of summer-stu time, I'm sure, I am super happy that he got his internship:D AND, he told them he couldn't start until the end of may, leaving us plenty of time to go watch a shuttle launch in Florida :D :D:D:D:D I hope my parents are willing to go, because this has seriously been on my to do list since idk like fourth grade, and there may not be any more launches after next year! (hard to say for sure. Look how long they've been planning to take the Hubble out of commission)

Um, so Spring Break starts tomorrow. I'll be in Ohioland, dunno what we'll do, besides stu take over my laptop to play ff7 >:[[[[[[[ I guess I"ll probably finish wild arms and do some reading, and study for diff e and thermoxD idk. It'll be cold, but hopefully it won't flood at home like it did last year xD

I think I might have a chai tea addiction now :X I read on the wikipedier that you could make it with tea and eggnog, so I'll have to remember that come Christmastime.

My days have degraded into a simple pattern of play study study sleep. I got a little frustrated at knowing exactly what I would be doing on each day, but I think that was because of spring break being so close. ( This is how my weeks go: )

But you can see, the fact that I can so easily define my week can seem a little irksome at times. But it gets the job done, and I don't go too crazy from frustration. if I didn't have CW, this would be a breeze, but trying to fit creative thinking in with all the math and engineering is HARD!

But yeah, my life is peaceful barring our pothead friend. He gets on my nerves so much now. He's just a big dumb-ass. When we rode with him to look at apartments (god no, please no) he was just one inane statement after the next.

I've also been wondering if the citalopram is impairing my ability to think sometimes. I find that I'm not as glib, but maybe that's just lack of practice. After all, all the BS I had to write for AP tests wasn't all that great anyways, I've found.

For some reason, I haven't been able to concentrate long enough to write an lj entry this week. Semagic Xjournal has sat open for several days. I kept up with WILT though xD

Anyways, this week was pretty good. I feel incredibly on top of my homework. I had two tests this week and I think I did pretty well on both of them. I got my thermo homework done on time, was going to go to office hours for diffe just to hang out until I realized he doesn't have them that late on fridays, etc. supa student.

We had a couple of days of beautiful weather, then there was epic storm last night and so it's cold again. *lesigh* My feet remember the barefootness though. SOON MY TOOTSIES, SOON YOU WILL BE FREE.

It's okay though, my feet had already started getting tender from my flipflops.

Anyways, I downloaded some songs by DJ Satomi (Waves, Wonderland, Castle in the Sky) and um, you can see on my last.fm that I have somewhere around 150 scrobbled plays for him. I think I went a little crazy from listening to just those three, which is why I am forcing myself to listen to something else now. I definitely haven't been able to stop whistling/singing them.

I read this thing on Monday night, I think, about tattoos and started thinking about the one I've been thinking about getting. Everyone I've asked has said that a tattoo on your palm is a bad idea, but I still want further opinions xD (for reference, this summer I was doodling on my hand in class and realized I liked the way a little black heart looked on the pad of my left index finger)

I'm going to an interview tomorrow for a position doing peer mentoring, which is what stu's been doing the last year. I dunno, I kinda want to work, but I kinda really don't. I'm so lazy like that. I gotta have something on my résumé though.

I found out that i knew most of the words to somewhere over the rainbow today. This makes sense, because I was half convinced to try out for the school production of the Wizard of Oz back in 11th grade, so I probably learned the song for the auditions (that I didn't go to) I would've been a kick ass glinda.

I've spent a good deal of the week-end AP grinding in ff5. I've got about 5 or so classes mastered per character by now. Mmmm Bal Castle.

Anyways, the week-end was fairly fun, apart from what I just said. Friday night, stu and I continued our quest to find interesting places to eat in Fayetteville, and we found a doozie. Bizys Neighborhood Grill is on the rich side of town (it's in a strip with a Harps that has chandeliers.) We only spent about $20 though! it was nice. They had an open rafter ceiling, modal lighting, crayons and paper on the tables, and a steak/seafood special for $10.

Since we were already on that side of town, we decided to take the highway to Rogers instead of the interstate, well we decided to see if the highway would infact lead to Rogers, and we passed the Botanical Gardens of the Ozarks which looked like it would be interesting in daylight. We made it to Springdale where we were officially back on the beaten path (Well, I was), went through a little Hamlet called Bethel Heights, almost made a left turn on a creepy narrow road, then took the next left for great justice, as it was a road that goes straight by the mall we were hoping to find. It was kinda like that scene in The Long Winter where Laura and Carrie are going home from school in the blizzard and they just barely happen to touch the last storefront of town before being lost on the prairie. Phew.

Anyways, we only went to two stores, since it's more of an outlet mall, where everything is all spread apart and annoying to walk between. 3/4 the time was spent in Sephora, where I finally made purchases (:D), and the rest was spent at Best Buy where I made no purchases, but managed to surprise a clerk by going from dSLRs to touchscreen cameras xD I explained about my need for portable cameras but he still seemed amused xD

I spent a long time playing with the current gen MBP. Oh god, I want one. When I got home, mine felt so thick and clunky. *cries* I love you macbook, I really do, but. . . Your brushed aluminum is getting scratched up, your screen is a little too small, your touchpad doesn't click as well as it used to, and it would be neat to not have a separate button there ;o

I did decide that I will not be getting an MBA if only because the touchpad click button is like 1cm thick. I can't hit that!

Anyways, we came back, and what we did, I don't remember. I probably played ff5 xD

One of those nights, we watched A Beautiful Mind, and it was a wonderful wonderful movie. I could sympathise so much with Nash's character. I don't have schitzophrenia, but I do understand his drive to do something unique, as well as being controlled by your own mind.

I think my classes prospects look pretty good this semester. All five of them will have due assignments, or some sort of accountability, and that does wonders for my study habits. I'll have to bite the bullet and team up with a guy who isn't popular, but I knew last semester I should've done this, so I can't make any excuses. Besides, I am awkward myself, and have no room to avoid him because he's awkward.

I also started thinking about extending my college stay to the five year plan xD There are so many more classes that I'd like to take than I would have time for. I would have to pay for two extra semesters, or however long, but it's tempting. I've e-mailled some people in the Honors college some questions I have, and asked stu and my dad what their thoughts were, but nothing is definite yet. I just had the inspiration when I noticed that one of my critical classes would have to be delayed a year because one prerequisite isn't offered in the spring.

I had a beautiful dream this morning. It involved stu's sister as the princess of Hawai'i, stu as someone approximating Lelouch, and a battle with a sea monster featuring Princess Cornelia.

There was a beautiful open field, cross country bikers, a wedding, and some nakedness and thoughts on the duties of the noble.