Blogness

Apparently "100 things about me lists" are the fad among blogs. I am intrigued... however, I shall not torture everyone by posting a list in a single post. Nope. I'm thinking maybe 20 at a time. Of course you realize this is mostly due to laziness and also due to the fact that I will have immense trouble trying to come up with at least half of that. A challenge of introspection and all that.

I wish I had something interesting to say...

Commercials are starting to get on my nerves. I used to be a commercial fiend.. a commercial.. connoisseur, if you will. And, alas, the state of these mid-sitcom revelries is severe. Half of the commercials nowadays are about cars. Or stores. Or something else equally boring. I am losing faith with the mirth commercials can provide - remember classics like the "do-be-do" penguin, and the bud-weis-er frogs (before they got run into the ground). Shows like "the greatest commercials on earth" showing how advertising agencies raise the bar on enjoyment. Not any more. However, this evening I was rewarded with a commercial gem among the rough stones: a Miller (lite?) commercial. "People Dominos" - it was great. It got your attention, made you laugh, and got the point across. Heck, I even remember what the commercial was for.

Commercial people, you need to get your butts in gear!!

A new look

I've been yearning for a new look for a little while now... however, I have also been very busy. I'm fond of the pink/yellow scheme. It makes me happy.

Had thanksgiving dinner at Jon's house, it was very nice... got to spend lots of time with Chico. Wednesday we went up to Hashawa and hiked for a while (sometimes taking "shortcuts" :-P)... then thursday was thanksgiving stuff (played lots of nintendo, lol)... then friday I went shopping with his fam in the morning, then home in the afternoon.

Tired and hungry (pseudo-thanksgiving dinner soon! :D)

Stressed!!

I'm going to have a lot of stress compacted into 24 hours. Meeeh! So, if I am reclusive or edgy, that's why...

My blog is boring.

But other people actually have quality stuff! Lol.

(Instead of cleaning my room, I, of course, surfed the web)

I got an interesting tidbit off of Michael Hanscom's blog ... via the Blogger article how not to get fired.... Apparently, the creators of the C programming language and the Unix system were just playing a hoax on the rest of the world, never realizing that the rest of the world would actually take the language and run!

It cracks me up to no end... and there, ladies and gentlemen, is proof that I am the uber-dork I appear not to be ;)

I have learned both Pascal and C++ (to some extent). I can't really propose an opinion that one is generally better than the other... because I took Pascal senior year of high school (and did a smashing good job, I might add!), and took C++ as recently as last fall. The only thing that really did not make sense (conceptually) about C++ is that we were instructed to put all the functions below the actual coding. Pascal, we put them above... seems more logical to me. I still have my old pascal programs... and it's funny too, because when I was taking Pascal, Borland had essentially stopped producing the Pascal software commercially, so we had to use an old DOS version on our home PCs.

Heh heh heh. That's a great practical joke...

I need to

Clean my room. Badly.

I swear my dreams are on crack.

I had some really messed up dreams last night. WEIRD dreams. Some highlights:

• I was in my car, driving around a parking lot, finally park next to this lady; I ask her if she's staying and she says no. She's... cleaning her car out- vacuuming and stuff.


• I'm outside of a house, on the roof. There's a party. I look and see the police.. i tell the people inside, then I start running away because I was afraid that I was going to get arrested for telling them. I'm running down alleys and bouncing between things. Then Sarah comes over and said "it was no big deal, they didn't go inside".


• I was inside a store; I see these aliens walking around- an "adult" one and two "children"; Suddenly they disappear, except the little one is trying, jumping up and down.


• This lady comes up to me, straight (but kinda flowy/wavy) brown hair, just past her shoulders. She ... doesn't really ask, I just kinda know what she wants ... and she tells me how to go to this other world. I'm supposed to run over to the town, and they'll tell me how to get to [name of meadow]. I try, and I almost feel my awareness changing, but I come back to this world. Next, the lady does it with me, and we, um, shift to the other world, but we're at the meadow. It slopes down, we are at the top. We traveled around the other world, I remember stopping in a town, and we passed the meadow again to a set of stairs leading downward. She said that we had run out of time? or that this was not the time, and we shifted back to the real (being my dream) world. [my thoughts: apparently I can only journey while I'm already dreaming :-P] I think that when I went to the other world, I was "passed out" laying on the ground on a red blanket, and she woke me up. She may have been asleep too.


• Dreamt about the most messed up game ever. It was like tag... only in the weirdest setting ever. The setting kept changing depending on where you ran. I have no idea who was on my side or who wasn't... All I know is that I kept running from guys (and losing, because they're faster than me). It was really frustrating. I think that if I made eye-contact with someone, that would make them chase me, and I'd try to evade them... and sometimes it worked if I hid. Sometimes it didn't. And it was some weird "lucy in the skies with diamonds" world... there were bright pink structures at one point... I remember one point Pumba (as in a warthog) definitely was talking to me? And he said something about how jumping in the water felt good.. so I did, and it felt refreshing and wonderful! I'm sure there's much more to this part of the dream (it's the dream I woke up with) but as you can already tell it's on crack and wouldn't make sense anyhow.

Saturday night

Saturday was fun.

My alarm went off at about 8.45 because I was thinking about going to check out a place for formal with the girls... but then I remembered that this was the first day in a while that I had to sleep in... so I slept in. Got up at like 10.30 or so... and wound up going to brunch with Ivy and Bayley. I was psyched- the old omelette man was back!! He is way better at the omelette thang than the people they tried to replace him with. Although, he is kinda freaky because he's flirting with you while you're trying to give him your omelette order. But it's all good because I finally got to fulfill my craaving for breakfast :)

After that I went down to the football game to meet up with Jon and Brad.. it was SO cold down there. My ears were in agony... When they went up to pick up the meal-exchange from glar, I went to get something warm for my head. (A) I don't know where my scarf is. I know it's here, I just don't know where; (B) apparently I don't have ear-warmers here, though. So I wore my yukon hat (one of those with the strings with poufs at the end) ... but it didn't really do a knock-out job about keeping my ears warm... I guess it was something though.

Jon and I decided, since the game was boring, and the air was cold, to come back and take a nap at about 2. Wound up sleeping till 4... well, I slept till around 3, then Jon slept till four. Not to mention I was miss popular... I got like four phone calls in an hour?!

Jon left to go to church at 4, so I decided to finally run the errands I've been meaning to run the entire week. Yay for productivity. After Jon came back at about 6.30, we decided we were hungry and drove up to safeway to get some food. He bought starbucks for us while we were there :) Yum!

At 8.30 we went down to Frederick to see a band who was family to one of the guys in Alpha sig with Brad and a guy from their national. It was in this restaurant called the Bentz Street Raw Bar... interesting place. The band (The Westcott Brothers) was awesome. They played a sort of bluegrass/bluesy type of music, not necessarily my thing, but they were really talented. Of course, we got there after missing the street twice, once because we couldn't find it, the second time because Jon said that it was a different street :-P

After we got back (at around 12) Jon and I went down to LGP's [lol], and hung out for a bit. It was one of the guys' girlfriend's birthday parties, but it had wound down by the time we got there. The night turned out to be Jon, Guy, Pat, and I sitting (well, I was sitting...) in the kitchen just talking the night out (till about 3.. 4?) ... and somehow I wasn't even dead tired. Who knows why.. lately my latest has been about 12.30/1.00, heh. But anyhow, wound up not going to bed till 5 because Jon and I were talking for about 2 hours about random stuff when we came back from the house. Latest I've stayed up since the random Baltimore trip at 3 in the morning. Well, I think that night I was up till 6am. But still...

And yet I still got up at 10.30/10.45. But as of yet, have not done any work. Need to do that... I have an econ TEST tomorrow!

No Hobbits for you!

Lord of the Rings!


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I don't think it fits, I'm just posting it because i'm glad the creator had the sense not to put hobbits in the pic. I hate hobbits.

It really does fit, though... [i think]

You are Form 1, Goddess: The Creator.

"And The Goddess planted the acorn of life.
She cried a single tear and shed a single drop
of blood upon the earth where she buried it.
From her blood and tear, the acorn grew into
the world."

Some examples of the Goddess Form are Gaia (Greek),
Jehova (Christian), and Brahma (Indian).
The Goddess is associated with the concept of
creation, the number 1, and the element of
earth.
Her sign is the dawn sun.

As a member of Form 1, you are a charismatic
individual and people are drawn to you.
Although sometimes you may seem emotionally
distant, you are deeply in tune with other
people's feelings and have tremendous empathy.
Sometimes you have a tendency to neglect your
own self. Goddesses are the best friends to
have because they're always willing to help.


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Interesting night!

So, yesterday was Homecoming, which was very exciting. I was part of the group that was in the parade for Phi Mu... I think our car looked absolutely awesome (wish I had some digipics), but we didn't even place.. *tear*. Other than that, though, the day was lots of fun! We had a lot of Alums come back, even some who pledged Fall '88! It was really interesting talking to them. We wound up winning Best Letters (booyah!) and the Brant Cup (the most prestigious award a greek org. can win here) again!! It was very exciting. Went out with Heather and Fallon to Applebee's, then after I came back Jon, Brad, and I went over to Lee's and hung out for the night.

However, all that is not the exciting part!

At about 5.45 in the morning, I slowly wake up because of the multitudes of firetruck sirens that are driving by, at least 10 trucks in like a 10 minute interval. I'm laying there worried that any second the fire alarm is gonna go off, so... I get up and I look out my window, (which faces south-southeast), and I didn't see anything. Yet I hear another firetruck go by... and it probably wouldn't have been such a big deal, but the firetrucks were stopping close by somewhere. So... I'm getting a little worried. I go to the bathroom, turn out the lights and look out that window. first, I see a bright light in the northwest, but it doesn't really look like a fire. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I see a pulsating yellow light on smoke coming from behind Gill gym somewhere. This freaks me out. So, I grab Jon and make him come with me to see where the fire is. We turn the corner of Gill Gym and the North Village wasn't on fire (thank God!), and I couldn't see the fire on smoke anymore... but then Jon and I hear a chainsaw. So we walk past the apartments to the drive (across from physical plant services)... and there it is. A really bad fire in "the projects" of westminster... about one hundred yards away. They had PA ave blocked off right past the drive where we were... I'm just glad it wasn't school. That's what was freaking me out the most... worried about people at school.