Mmmm, garlic hummus and garlic nan...what delicious wonders of the middle east and Asia.

[edit] I want to strangle this chick that's leaving soon (THANK GOD) because her voice is so goddamn annoying, all she does is talk talk talk talk talk talk talk, and she's FUCKING. RETARDED.

Her voice sounds like Dane Cook's impression of a girl, except ALL THE TIME. Good GOD. o_o

Ahh, a spectacularly fun concert with some of the best company I could wish for: Heather and Nick. :3

Though I've now decided...Over the Rhine is the closest thing to country that I will ever love. I like their jazzy/stompy stuff way more.

 I hate my job, but things like this make it worthwhile.

I feel like a nuisance.




*pout*

GGHHH.  I feel...so weirded out right now.

I was absent-mindedly fiddling with what I thought was just some dead skin or an indentation on my cheek or something...and then I realized that it was my scar from my surgery. BLAGH

I almost completely forgot about those little x-shaped external incisions they had to make to put screws in my jaw at just the right angle. Now I don't think I'll forget again, but MAN do I feel weirded out right now. I don't even really know why that makes my stomach turn, but it DOES.

When people only talk to me once in a while to see if things are still going okay with me and the man...it makes me laugh.

No, you still can't touch me, k bye. :3

WOOHOO I finished the Old Kingdom/Abhorsen series by Garth Nix!! After two years!! :B Now, for Abarat, probably.

I promptly went on a trip on deviantArt finding good fanart, mmm.


Oh yeah, THANK YOU GILLY FOR TELLING ME ABOUT DEM BOOKS :3

I suck at presents/writing/being meaningful.

- Put your mp3 / iPod / music player of some various variety on shuffle.
- Take the first line from the first ten songs listed / given.
- Mesh them together and make something new.

I'm sitting on the curb by the empty parking lot of the store where they let me play the organ
There are many things to talk about
Everybody cares, everybody understands
I don't need no wheels, I don't need no gasoline

There was a time when we would don our finest throwing scarves
I've been feeling down, I've been looking 'round the town
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line
I was never cool in school, I bet you don't remember me

Clap your hands if you want some
Turn your back, heart attack


...Interesting?

Quote of the day!

"I CAN'T BE EATING SUPERFLUOUS CHOCOLATES!!" - Rachel (she's getting married Sunday and has to "fit into her wedding dress")

Also, whole wheat gingerbread cake stuff is damn good.

(Ganked from synchrofreak, or Rachael)

Taking an idea from Jacqui here, doing an end-of-freshman-year entry, an overview or reflection or something.

Despite my series of panic attacks and such right before leaving for ONU at the end of summer '07, I got through my first year just fine. I made friends, I kept my grades decent. Just like he said. Just like I knew would happen. I even went to China.

I did a LOT of stupid things when I first got here, things that carried on into the following months, such as getting drunk three times a week and messing with anybody I had a crush on that liked me enough back. I wish I could take back three or...no, four of those instances, but I know I'll never be able to. Once I started seeing how everybody else got so sloppy, or how I looked fucking RETARDED in pictures I was drunk in (AKA shiny and fat), I decided it wasn't to good an idea to get drunk. Even once I made that executive decision, it didn't stick, and I drank at least twice a week anyway.

I'm really glad that I outgrew that. I'd rather hang out with my friends without tons of booze than with, in all honesty. If that's the only time I see them, where's the fun in it?

I had my fair share of academic struggles, that's for sure. Chemistry was more difficult than I thought it would be, and zoology and anatomy almost kicked my ass, but I got it under control. I conquered, somehow, despite my huge period of depression and loneliness there for a while. I almost MISSED Dan sometimes, and I tried to keep Matt close -- that ended up biting me in the ass in the long run, since I was doing too much leaning and not enough supporting. Fuck. At least that's practically over now.

I realized that, more than even after I dumped Dan, I am not exempt from anything. I'm human just like everybody else. Wait, did I ever doubt that myself? No, but I guess I put out the air of know-it-all without realizing it. I didn't think I'd hear that from anybody ever again, but sure enough, I got that from three different people this year. It stung.

I try to be compassionate and all that, but I also don't put up with bullshit, and I do have fairly high standards for the people I keep close.

I'm going to miss everyone here like hell for the next few months. Thinking about leaving for home tomorrow gets me choked up, because I know I'll end up just as miserable and alone as I do every fucking summer, whether or not I'm working or have a boy. It doesn't help enough.

Jacqui, Briar, Lukas, Dave, Nick White, Jack, Biff, Kevin, Tim...heck, even Skinny.

I fucking love it here. I don't want to leave. I'm sick of moving, I'm sick of packing and driving and going through the motions and never seeing any of the people I care about...I drifted so painfully far from my high school friends this year, and that is my biggest regret, other than not being able to be there more for Stephen and Jessica and Jane, the three newest additions to our family.

Rachael, Helen, Chelsie, Carlina, Alicia, LIndsay, I miss all of you. It hurts how much I do. I wish I could hang out with you guys every day...I wish you could be here with me to love it as much as I do. Rach, I'm OVERJOYED that you're going to be nearby next year, you have no idea. <3

I miss my girlies, and I'm going to miss my boys this summer. I'll miss everybody and everything, as a matter of fact.

Working full-time and going to classes in either the morning or evening (right before or after work) for four days a week, over two months straight? Thinking about it makes me sick.

It's been an epic year.

Finals week. I'm pretty damn sure I'm ready for 'em. :P

Monday: 10:30 - Profession of Pharmacy 3 final
Tuesday: 10:30 - Non-western music North India listening quiz, and 2-3-page paper due
                 1:30 - Anatomy/Histology final
Wednesday: nuffin'
Thursday: 1:30 - Chemistry final, comprehensive and standardized

Been keeping a nice, steady schedule of studying, but now I am thoroughly convinced that they refrigerate the third floor of the library. Whenever I stay up in one of the private study rooms for more than an hour or two, I get FREEZING COLD. Odd.

Things are wonderful though. :)

Must...resist...urge to play with 2 dozen new Prismacolor markers...due to 9 pages of writing and a chem exam tonight...

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU CLAYTON!! :D

I got a 91% on the last practice chem exam I took. Woo!

ALL YOU GOTTA KNOW THAT THIS IS WHERE THE PARTY'S AT

I just need to post this for a friend of mine...IS THERE NOWHERE SAFE FOR HTML ANYMORE?! :(

Holy poop, it's early.

Gonna try out this whole running thing, see what it's all about.

EDIT: Ran for a bit, and now my pulse is about 132 beats per minute. Noooot good.

Okay, okay, I think I get the point you're still trying to make. I'll leave you alone.

...Things with Lukas are going better than I could've imagined, anyway. :)

Despite the goose poop that is now populating campus, this is definitely my favorite time of year. Everything's coming out of the doldrums: leaves are budding, birds singing, the sky's actually BLUE and the grass is GREEN...No more grayscale world. I think the only thing I miss about winter is the dead silence you get to experience first thing in the morning, or when you go out back in the middle of the night.

There's just something about all this color and life that immediately improves my mood.

Not sure if anyone else goes through "seasons" of music like I do, but I've found that to be an interesting phenomenon too.
For example:
Winter: Elliott Smith, Low, Nick Drake, some folk, Belle and Sebastian, The Decemberists
Spring: R.E.M., Ben Folds, Spoon, Barenaked Ladies, Bloc Party, Gorillaz, Jamiroquai
Summer: The Aquabats, The Phenomenauts, Daft Punk, Beck, Led Zep
Fall: Loney, Dear;  Moby,  Muse, Quasi, Radiohead, Sean Lennon

But sometimes I mix it up anyway.

'Tis me beerfday!