School Beans

I think my only real problem with learning Korean verbs is that they're simple where English is complicated (the sheer number of conjugations in English versus only four in Korean) and complicated where English is simple (English has no levels of courtesy in the verbs or anywhere else, while Korean has about a million, and they're all extremely important). So it's hard to wrap my head around it all.

Today it's cold and damp and I really want to just stay in and drink tea. Instead I am in the library, with the taste of hazelnut-flavored coffee still lingering in my mouth from breakfast. I can't believe I keep forgetting to bring a little bit of coffee from home so I can make myself the odd actually good cup of coffee when the mood strikes me. Speaking of home, I can't remember if you're coming up here tomorrow or Saturday. Either one's fine though.

The other day I picked a song to learn and I went to the music building yesterday to try it out. It's called Powerful Stuff by Sean Hayes. It's a really fun song but I don't think it's going to work. Not because I have to translate guitar to the piano; I guess me and the song just don't really vibe. I'll have to find something else. Usually I have to be really excited about a song to be able to learn it. I learned that Adele song in like three days. If you have any ideas hit me up.

The other day I watched a really fun and awesome movie called Castaway on the Moon about a guy who tries to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge but ends up surviving and washing up on this little abandoned island right next to a city, but he can't get back because he doesn't know how to swim and he ends up being stuck there for like five months while civilization is only like half a mile away. It was funny and a little sad too and I think you'd like it even though it's a foreign film and I know you don't like subtitles.

Now that the end is in sight for school (my Foundations of Education class ends on the 3rd... that's only a few days away!), I'm starting to think about Christmas for realzls. They already have some Christmas decorations up in the cafeteria which seems extremely premature since Halloween isn't even here yet, but since I'm planning on pretty much making everything I give, I have to start thinking about it right this minute. I have some good ideas but some of them are going to be pretty hard to carry out. We'll see. I'm excited.

À demain (je pense),
-Amy

Spoilers

I don't know about you but I can name at least four seperate occasions where I was watching a show and I was like, "Oh, this actor is cool/really familiar, I think I'll look him/her up", so I do, and I inadvertently happen upon a spoiler... usually a really huge one. It happened with Jericho, Doctor Who (multiple times), Harry Potter (okay, it's a book, but still), Dexter, 24, and many others that I won't try to think of right now because they make me sad.

Anyway, all this to say that it happened again today. With Merlin. I didn't even know there was definitely going to be a season 4, I was just looking to see if it was a possibility, and on the first google result, the spoiler just jumped out at me. I was powerless to stop it! I'm... I'm sorry.

So, yes. There's a season 4, and it's airing right now. And let's just say intense things happen. I'll be nice and not spoil it for you. But the tagline is "The darkest hour is just before the dawn." And it's supposed to be much more gritty than the other seasons. and there's going to be a 5th season, too. Excited?

My quest to understand Korean verb conjugations has come to a place of stagnation. Maybe I'm looking for answers in the wrong places. After I've exhausted the abundance of confusingly-worded and heavily accented YouTube Korean tutorials, I think my last resort is going to be one of the Korean students here, even though I don't really know any of them and they've probably never tried to explain Korean verbs to a English speaker before. Reaching dead ends like this is depressing sometimes.

Ah, first-world problems.

Later,
-Amy

Vending Machine WIN

Amy, that sounds like the BEST vending machine ever.

Actually, here are the top five things I would want in a vending machine.

1.daritoes, twix, sprite, arazona tea, and nerds
2. nachos, grapes, water, easy mac, and dippin' dots.
3. hamburgers, pizza, french fries, milk shakes, and cookie dough
4. an extra change of clothes, a brush, lip gloss, makeup remover, and kleenexes.
5. blank CDs, a kitten, a pillow pet, a cheesy romance novel, and duct tape.

Thats a pretty awesome list.

Ok so about Merlin, yeah, its not all fun and games, but its still cheesy, and its still funny, and yeah that Uther episode was frreeeakyyy! But I think it gets funnier as the season progresses. My favorite being:

"What happened to you, you look like a startled stoat." - arthur
"Well you look like a bone-idle...toad." - merlin
"You're saying I look like a toad?"
"Yeah and maybe one day you'll magically transform into a handsome prince. Just...magics outlawed so that will probably never happen."

And OH MY GOSH, AMY. Morgana isn't in some stupid trance thing and shes NEVER going to thank Merlin for real and they're NEVER going to get together, gosh!
I'll say it one more time: MERLIN AND MORGANA WILL NEVER GET TOGETHER.

OK, well, with that said, I will re-say something that I said in the message I left you that I don't know HOW you miss took it.

The costumes I was asking you about were for this graceway party. Duuuh I'm not changing my awesome cheshire cat costume for that party tomorrow. duuurh.

PEACE

-michelle

Warm Things Like A Boss

So you know know I left you a message last night and I said that I was going to go to bed? Well I had this headache that was really annoying and I was super tired, but when I tried to sleep I guess I was too aware that it was only 9:20 and I wasn't able to drift off. So I was like, I need something to distract me to sleep, and it had to be something fun, so I decided to watch some Merlin. Now I vaguely know what happened at the end of season 2 even though I didn't really watch it (the dragon got out, Merlin's dad was around for a while or something and he died maybe, something about Morgana being missing), and I was hoping there would be some kind of recap at the beginning of season 3, but there wasn't. Good thing the plot's wonderfully easy to follow. Anyway, I watched the first two episodes while I was trying to get to sleep. It wasn't as fun as I was hoping. Mostly it was scary or awesome. Those dead people that Uther kept seeing were pretty scary and since I had all the lights off it was kind of terrifying. Anyway, I'm still under the impression that Morgana (seriously, what is up with her flashy outfits? Do we really need any more hints that she's a dark temptress of sorcery?) is under some kind of delusion and eventually she'll snap out of it and be incredibly grateful to Merlin for not killing her the millions of times he had the chance to. And then they'll hook up or something. I'm still hoping for it even though I know Morgana is the villain in all the King Arthur stories.

So yesterday I finally went and bought a warm thing at Wal-Mart because I have a jacket/coat but it is very thin and flimsy and not enough for any weather below 40 degrees. So I got this boy's thermal jacket that is so soft on the inside that it gives me little shivers of happiness whenever I feel it. Angela says that I look like a lesbian in it, which is probably true, but I don't care because I'm pretty confident with my sexual orientation and if anyone thinks I'm batting for the other team (or am I?), I don't really care either way (or do I?). Anyway. So today I'm wearing this warm thing with my awesome boots and an orange scarf and no one is warmer than me. I love it when I can cheaply purchase a piece of clothing that I know I will use constantly through the entire season and probably next year too.

Every now and again a tour of high school students looking at UCM as a prospective college comes through here (the computer commons) and the tour guide tells them all the wonderful things about it. Anyway, there was a tour just now from a private school, and frankly I was kind of thrilled by their uniforms. It's not very common to see schools that still do uniforms (usually private schools just have a dress code or something), but these ones are really nice looking. They've got a white button-up shirt, a dark blue blazer, khakis, a red-and-blue striped tie for the boys, and a red-and-blue striped bowtie for the girls. I'm sure it would get really annoying after a while to have to wear the same thing every day, but it sure looks nice.

There is a venging machine in here that sells scantrons, blank CDs and DVDs, flash drives, kleenexes, Advil, and Tylenol. It is possibly the most depressing vending machine ever.

-Amy

Dance Class Dance Class DanceDanceDanceClass

Oh hey Amy hows it going. I just had some yummy dinner, and before that I was at piano lessons, and before that I was at dance class.

Aaaah well, dance class is going really fast and its really totally awesome. I love all the girls in the class and some of them think I'm funny or something, which is pretty cool, I gotta say.

And in hip hop class we listen to cool music. Our routine song isn't TOTALLY awesome. Its little drummer boy 'hip-hop-rapper' version, which, they did a good job, but they could only do so good, you know? Yeah.

We're almost done with BOTH of our dances, and they're going to be totally totally awesome in every way. You can come to our performance, were I will first be a totally g and then I will be a totally angel.

Isn't it weird how the word gangster has changed? It IS.

But anyway I've been watching Merlin and OH MY GOSH this season is soooo epic! I can't believe it! Its not all "merlin saves the day and then no one gives him credit" anymore, its more like, "merlin figures out whats wrong and everyone fights for it and then FINALLY merlin saves the day RIGHT as uther is about to die or RIGHT as aurthur is about to get married or RIGHT as SOMETHING REALLY HORRIBLE is about to happen" and its so so so so so so so awesome and so so so so so so so so so funny!

I lerrrrve it.

Anyway I'm going to mormors this weekend and I'm exciiited! I'm also going to make some videos! Probably more covers than vlogs. I like vlogs but I like singing SOOO much more. Also I will be spending the weekend with you and Mo here. Alone. It'll be a furriil party we'll stay up AS LATE AS WE WANT. and get up AS LATE AS WE WANT BOOYAAAH!


OK well I have to finish my episode. And watch that Selena Gomez thing again. I wish my gangster side was half as cool as hers. BYE

UCM Hipster Populations

I've actually spotted one or two hipsters since I got here. I think the reason I don't see them more often is because most of the people living on campus are freshmen or sophomores, and since they're just out of high school they're still fresh off the mill of conformism. Once they're at college for a while, though, a few fall off the wagon and go for something a little more extreme (or less extreme, depending on how you look at it), and usually upperclassmen move off-campus into a house or apartment, so you don't see them as often.

Today, like yesterday, is pretty cold and dreary. At breakfast this morning my roommate was talking about how it's like this every day in Colorado, and then our friend from Nepal said that this (upper 40s), was extremely cold in Nepal. I think she's a little miserable because she knows it's only going to get colder from here. Speaking of the cold, though, today I'm breaking in the boots that Mom and Dad bought for me for my birthday. So far, I love them to bits. They're warm and the toe part is all shiny, and they lace up, and they're red plaid on the inside, and even though they probably look a little funny on me, I adore them and I hope we have many happy winters together.

I usually write my blog posts in the library because I've found that I can think of more interesting things to say when I'm not in my place of residence. I think I get inspired when I'm alone in a crowd of other people who are doing their homework. The library is new and huge, probably the biggest building on campus, and from the outside it looks sort of like a grand city hall from a futuristic utopian society. There's something otherworldly about it (not sure what, though. The color? The way the wondows are?). Anyway, there's a miniature Einstein Bros. shop just inside the door, and since it's run by inexperienced college students, every time I walk in I'm met with the smell of burnt bagels. I've come to like it, actually. Maybe now whenever I smell burnt bagels I'll be reminded of the library instead of my multiple bad experiences throughout childhood of burning precious bagels beyond retrieval.

So you know my last post about not having met a single homeschooler? Well it turns out I had met one who actually lives on my floor, I just hadn't known he was homeschooled until yesterday. I should have guessed, really, since he exhibits all the signs. And guess what? Another girl acted all surprised when she heard I was homeschooled and said that she thought I was very "socially capable." VICTORY. So I can fake social skills after all! You should be pround of me.

-Amy

P.S. I remember when Iron Giant came out. I used to watch it at Elise's all the time, and we'd quote it at each other constantly. I also remember how hugely my mind was blown when I realized that Harry Connick, Jr. was the voice of Dean. And then, years later, my mind was blown again when I realized that Vin Diesel was the voice of the giant. That movie never fails to be awesome.

P.P.S. I haven't been able to film that video yet because I had two papers to write in the last two days, so I was a little busy. It will be this week though. Promises.

P.P.S. I found out today that in Korean the word "joy" (죄) means crime or guilt. So much for having a happy middle name. This is my name in Korean: 술으븐 애미 죄. Phonetically, it's "suleubun amy joi". It sounds funny without the V.

"Kent Mansley, I work for the goverment."

First things first, last night we watched Iron Giant and even though I was making a totoro shirt (dude, its TOTORO, not TOROTO. I've been saying it wrong all along and I bet Mo was laughing silently to her self for a number of hours.) I still ended up crying like a baby. That movie is really funny, but also amazingly sad. I'm still sad about it.

Second things second: The reason those people haven't gotten onto Google+ is because its not mainstream yet. Facebook is still the thing. Hipsters get on Google+, not conformists, which apparently make up your whole school. I mean, you're like the only girl with short hair which is already telling me something about your school. ITS HIPSTER FREEEEEEE. I'm not saying that all hipsters have short hair or anything. Because they don't. I'm just saying that hipsters are different, and if theres no one different at your school, then theres no one on Google+

But yeah. Thats all I have to say. Yaaay for short posts!!!!

Homeschoolers

I thought I'd meet other former homsechoolers at college, especially at a somewhat rural college like this, but so far I have not met a single one. It's a little sad but also cool because now I can feel like I have my own little minority (being a part of a minority is underrated. We get to have exclusive parties! ...I'm so alone). The more I learn about public schooling in my classes, the more amazed I am at what homeschooling actually meant for me. It meant not only that I got to have an education that was fairy tailored to my learning style, but also that, essentially, I was exempt from all standardized testing. In public schools, the MAP test is like the most important thing for a teacher to keep in mind when she's teaching. At the end of every schoolyear (sometimes multiple times throughout the schoolyear), children are given a state standard test that determines how well they as individuals, as a class, and as a school have learned the target material. It's like the ACT, only every single year. Because the government puts such importance on these sorts of tests, the fact that homeschoolers usually don't have to take part in them is really incredible. It either demonstrates that the government doesn't care about homeschoolers as long as their parents are still paying the property tax that goes to the schools, or the government has massive faith that homeschoolers don't need that yearly assessment because they're likely to succeed anyway, whether they take it or not.

It's cool that homeschooling is allowed, even though sometimes the social repercussions on individuals are a real pity. I think I'm going to make a video about it soon.

I am wearing the shirt you made me today. I had to put on a big cardigan because it's so cold, so I haven't gotten any remarks on it yet, but I'm still hopeful for the future. If I can't find the homeschoolers, I'm going to find the nerds, because we have challenged social skills in common.

I was just in Educational Psychology (I wrote a 4-page paper for it last night, and I must have been half-asleep for a lot of it, because when I went to print it this morning I had the wrong class name, teacher name, and title at the top... good thing I caught it in time), and when the teacher was talking about cultural circles he used an example from Google+, then said "who in here is actually on Google+?" and I was the only person to raise my hand. Seriously? I thought college students were the ones to pioneer trendy new social networking sites! I guess I was wrong.

-Amy

Bad Coffee Again Today

I have mixed feelings about coming home this weekend, mostly because I have two papers to write that are due on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. But I am pretty excited to see what you made for me and if it is anything like that Winnie-the-Pooh picture you made for Mo, I will love it.

I will probably call you later to get more deets on what's going on this weekend, but if I do come home, here is what we have to do:

1. Sing a song together and record it. It could be Tiger Mountain Peasant Song or anything else you think is cool that two people can sing. In a month or something we should also record the Christmas songs we've done in the past because those were fun and we got pretty good at them (also there's one that Angela and I learned in voice lessons that was really cool that I could teach you). Anyway.
2. I also need you to brainstorm with me to think of really cool Christmas present ideas that are inexpensive. I'm down with doing handmade stuff but it can't be something boring like a hat or scarf or something. I have to get started now if I want to have a present for everyone I want to have a present for.
3. You need to remind me to bring The Hunger Games and then you need to read it so we can talk about it. I don't want to play it up but I would say it's up there with Percy Jackson in my Independent Chapter Books that are Awesome category.

There was some other stuff but I can't think of it right now. I'll keep you posted.

Last night I wanted good cheer so I watched some Psych while I did my crosswords and ate the last of my birthday chocolate and went over Korean verbs (I am good at multitasking). It was funny. However much I like Gus and Shawn's banter, I still think Lassie is my favorite character, just because he's so predictably disdainful and he gets really pleased with himself when he says/does something clever.

If Sonni's getting baptized, are we going to Graceway or South Fork? Just wondering.

Later,
-Amy

This Weekend

I'm sorry to hear about all of your horrible problems with video editing programs. I've never been alone in the house so I haven't made a video yet. There's something weird about talking/singing to yourself when people can hear you. Well, actually, its weird no matter what, but I'd rather be weird with no one witnessing it.

I don't know about an XP's ability to run Windows Live Movie Maker, but I'll look into it. If it can't, I can download it on dads computer, which I'm actually using right now. I like it a lot except its huge and really light weight like it COULD be smaller, but it just isn't. Also, the keys are really loud. The reason I'm using his computer is because our laptops power cord broke, ONCE AGAIN. How many times has it broken? Like four times? I say we should just get a new computer, Its been like five years, but they don't this that. Even though sometimes when you turn it on, half the screen is black.

Anyway I made something awesome for you last night Amy, and you need to come back today to see it and take it back with you.

I know you're just dying to know what it is so here's a hint: I can't promise that it has nothing to do with something that has to do with Asian people.

Tehehehehe, you're never gonna get it (I realize that you might think that "teheheh" is another clue but its not. I will tell you outright that it is not anything that has anything to do with "TEE HEE")

You should also come back this weekend because Sydney might becoming over, but other than that we're going to be doing nothing ALL WEEKEND!!!! Beside church. And Sonni's baptism.

I might make you cookies if you come home today. Or I might make you a bagel.

"Glass of water, crust of bread." Name that movie.

"Yeah, I know," CHESTER KNOWWWS! You can name that movie too.

PEACE OUT.

Stupid Technology

So you know how you were talking about how you have no way to edit your videos because Windows Movie Maker won't open them? Well I downloaded it because I heard that you can do split screen videos in it (two videos playing side by side), and I was stopped up completely by the fact that it's not compatible with .mp4 videos. So I looked around FOREVER online for a free video file converter that actually worked, and when I finally found one, it took forever to convert the videos I wanted to use, and by the time I was able to open my videos, I was so frustrated that when I couldn't get split screen to work I gave up completely and went to watch a movie instead. I might try to make it work again today, but it was essential to the video I was planning all week to make so that may be slightly postponed.

Anyway. That said, I highly recommend for you to download Windows Live Movie Maker, because it opens any video file and it's about a billion times easier to use for simple things like trimming and adding titles and words and things. It just doesn't do split screen, which just really is not cool.

So That list of things to do before you have kids was pretty cool, but I've already done most of those things. Everything except 6, unless my own room counts, 8 because it's impossible, 11, 12, 13, and 14. My list of things to do befor eI have kids is probably a mile long, and most of it has to do with traveling, writing, and the crazy and eccentric things I'm going to do when I live alone. Stuff like that. I went to this career fair yesterday (it was lame, the only people there were corporations like Honeywell and insurance companies. I guess it was sort of like a career fair for people who are about to graduate), and the only interesting booth there was one looking for people to teach English in Japan, all expenses paid. It looked like a pretty sweet deal. It would be pretty cool to just set aside a year after I've graduated to go teach English somewhere, not to get money but just to enjoy another culture. The cool thing about speaking English is that it's a global language, and there's always somewhere in the world that's going to want someone to teach it to their kids. So there's another thing I'd probably want to do before I have kids.
So the other day I read The Hunger Games (in one day). It was awesome. It brought me back to the Percy Jackson/Alex Rider/Redwall days when I would regularly gobble up a book in one day just because I could. Anyway, Hunger Games was really, really cool and I think you'd love it. Lately I've realized that I'm a reactor. When I watch things or read things, I outwardly react in a way that my roommate probably thinks is really weird. I can't help it! I did a lot of laughing, sounds of dismay, etc while reading my book, so you know it's good. It's my dream to one day be able to write a book like that, that gets people so involved with the story and the characters that they don't want to put it down. It'll probably take me a while to get there. I think the first step will probably be to find someone who will read my writing and be willing to get down to the nitty gritty of what's wrong with it with me. Someday.
 
Anyway, I have to go to Environmental Sci now and get an A. I only got 88 on the last test which is inexcusable because it really is an easy class, so I've got to step up my game and take better notes this unit.
 
Laters,
-Amy

I'm glad to hear that your roomates and biz are calling you mom. Angela had her time being called mom, and so did Diana (except shes actually a mom so it doesn't really count), and now it is your turn.
I'm sorry to say, though, that I do not hope to follow in your footsteps. Its not really a dream of mine to be called "mom" anytime before I have kids, and so i won't be being called "mom" for another fifteen years or so.

Did I just say I'm not going to be a mom until I'm 30? I may have. Maybe I won't. There are so many things to do before settling down and being stuck at home 24/7. I must say, caring for a child is great and all that, but the thought of being tied down like that doesn't intrigue me one bit. Not one bit.

Here is a part of the wonderful list of things I want to do before I have kids.

Actually I'm going to do two lists. This first one will be:

Things to do while I'm still single

1. Go to a movie alone.
2. Try water skiing, wind surfing, jet skiing, and tubing.
3. Set up a mouse trap. (I'm picking from a list, btw. But when I saw this, I realized, yeah totally, thats like a big part of growing up)
4. Live alone.
5. Watch as much reality TV as you want.
6. Be a good wingwoman. (dude. DUUUUDE. I'm already a SWEET wingwoman)
7. Attend a wedding alone. 
8. Take advantage of the whole bed. Put your pillow in the middle and do the starfish. ( I saw this and it made me lawl. I totally need to do this! I'm totally a "my side of the bed" kind of girl, and I sleep alone! MY BED IS HUGE. Every time I turn over I'm like, "Helloooo over there, stuffed St. Bernard! Hows it goin' over there in China?")

Things to do before having kids (single or not)

1. Get ice cream in the middle of the night.
2. Eat waffles for dinner.
3. Stay at an amusement park until it closes.
4. Get so engrossed in something that it keeps you up all night (NOT homework)
5. Jump on your bed.
6. Decorate your own home JUST the way you want it.
7. Sing as loud as you can along to songs while in the car by yourself.
8. Get really good at a sport.
9. Eat cheese dip for dinner.
10. Go to a double feature.
11. Go to the mall and go absolutely crazy. (its kind of like a dream of mine to be given 500+ dollars and left in a mall....)
12. Have FOUR cats.
13. Get a little dog.
14. Have crazy girl slumber parties like once a month.
15. Watch the entire season of any show in one day.
16. Have a craft day once every week or two.


And thats my list, for now. I hope you like it. I love writing lists, its so satisfying.
You should make cookies or something at college. I know you don't want a microwave or anything, but if you got a little microwave oven, just THINK of the possibilities! You could make cookies, chicken pot pies, casseroles, pizza, corn dogs, ANYTHING.

When I go to college, I'm gonna be cool like that. Speaking of which, I think we're coming over there in two weeks or something. make sure not to have any homework. Eh haha just kidding, have all the homework you want, me and mo will walk around the sweet campus and buy ice lemonades and "UCM MULES" shirts. It'll be great. They have ice lemonades, right? RIGHT? They better, or college is totally not worth it. I'm not walking up and down four flights seven times every day if I can't have some delicious cold thing.

You should get a mini-refrigerator. Then you could have candy bars and juice and cheese balls and salsa and guacamole and the works. Yup. I've got all the best ideas.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BACONHAM LINCOLN???

Peace out sister.

It's a battlefield out there

So you know how I linked you to that song on Facebook and you thought it was totally sappy? It is totally sappy. I'm pretty sure the only reason it made me emotional at the time is that I was PMSing majorly. It's a hormonal battlefield right now. This post may or may not be coherent as I'm heavily medicated at the moment.

Now that it's the middle of the semester, things are getting harder in my classes. I'm going to have to step up my game a little. I didn't do spectacularly on the last two tests I took and it was probably because I thought they were going to be as easy as the tests I'd had before them. I'm determined to get an A in all my classes because if I don't then everything I've said about college being easy will make me look silly. And I do have a solid A in all my classes except Ed. Psych, so it shouldn't be too bad to get up to snuff.

But speaking of classes, I just went to my Library class and it was, if possible, even more ridiculous today than it has ever been. I don't understand how any self-respecting instructor could actually recommend this to the school as a required class for everyone. It makes even the goody-two-shoes students (read: me) want rebell violently.

So you'll be completely unsurprised to hear that my roommate and her friends actually call me Mom now. I'm not really sure how it started, but it almost warms my heart.

-Amy

P.S. What should I draw on my window with the window crayons you and Angela sent me? I was going to do a pumpkin but I don't have orange or brown, so that's too bad.

Hustle

Today I did a lot of stuff. Some of the stuff was even school! I had a test in Ed. Psych. I feel like I did pretty well on it, but I probably got some terms mixed up along the way. I also worked on this song thing that was inspired by your song thing for a couple more hours. Tomorrow I think I will be finished with it, and I will make a video. It's been a while since I made a video. I don't really have an excuse except that most of what happens to me that I want to talk about is only mildly interesting at best (and never funny).

The thing about college (there are a lot of things about college actually. This is just one of them) is that people here don't know how to 1) keep it in their pants, and 2) keep the resulting drama to lower than a dull roar. At least it keeps things interesting? I guess living in a co-ed hall doesn't help much like Mom says, but I'm pretty sure the drama permeates everywhere, even the all-girl halls. I am pretty immune to drama though, so I'm good. I guess there's one good thing about keeping to myself all the time.

Today I also went on a toiletries run to Wal-Mart. I don't know about you but I can survive on very little. The things I absolutely can't do without here at school are q-tips and toilet paper, both of which I was horribly low on. This is the third time I've bought toilet paper, so I think I'll make someone else do it next time. I also bought a toilet brush because I think I'm the only person who actually cares about having the bathroom clean every now and again. As you know I'm not the most bathroom-clean person, so that's saying a lot about my suitemates. Now that I'm showered and the bathroom's clean and all my homework can wait until Sunday evening, I'm ready for a relaxing weekend. Hopefully it'll turn out that way. I think there's homecoming or something like that (I had no idea that homecoming happened at college too, and I still have no idea why), so there probably will be a lot of people here.

I need to go water my sedums. They say sedums are the easiest plants to have, but I obviously am not too great a plant parent, because my sedums are getting a little brown around the edges.

Laters,
-Amy

"nerds" is blurred

I KNOW RIGHT? I love that song. Love it.

Speaking of songs, yes, I did kind of upload that Gaga thing on a whim, but there was no one in the house for like five hours and what was I supposed to do, stay home and knit? No! I have potential, I have a life! and it has always been a life long dream of mine....

You know how sometimes you watch videos and you're like, "eeeehhh that person sounds off tune!" well, heres the truth: in real life, I didn't sound off tune, though I may have in the video.

I think I might do more of that stuff if I can swallow my fear and embarrassment.

You don't have to come back this weekend, because we're going to be gone a lot. If you want to come home, thats cool. You can take me to cedar ridge and you can also take me to buy a present for Katie.

That is all.

And all your stuff about "nerds" is...

There are so many different kinds of nerds its ridiculous. Theres those really smart nerds like the Green bros. I'm not that kind of nerd....at all. I like Doctor Who. I also like ridiculous songs with ukuleles. 

Baconham Lincoln.

Peace out

Best day

I pretty much agree with everything you said in your last post, mostly the parts about talent envy. Usually I avoid that sort of thing by passively avoiding people around me who are talented and only concentrating on talented people from afar, like on YouTube, because if I don't know them I don't get as depressed.

So today has been pretty awesome as far as days go. Classes were cancelled in the morning because of this college function, so I went to get donuts with a few people in my hall, and then when we got back I went and printed out some sheet music. It cost $0.60. I feel robbed. However, it was totally worth it because I went straightaway to Utt (for a music building, it doesn't have a very musical name) and got to work! You should know that the vigor with which I set forth was entirely inspired by your awesome and unexpected video that you posted this week of you Gagaing it up. I am working on something similar but it will take a little while to put together. Anyway, I was so involved in learning this one song that before I knew it, two and a half hours had gone by. I rarely get so lost in something that I completely lose track of the time, but it happened today and it was great.

One of my main issues with nerdy shirts is that if I wore them no one would understand the nerd in-jokes. I have met a few nerds since I was here but they are all nerdy about things I don't understand. So I figure it's pretty unlikely that I'll meet someone who's nerdy about things like musicians on YouTube or British and Asian television or writing stories about all the adventures they wish they could have. If I do meet that person, though, I'll probably be so happy that I'll propose immediately.

The song you linked was beatlicious. I am putting it on my mp3 player straightaway. I have a playlist called Dance, and everything in there is phantasmagorical. I think I used that word slightly incorrectly, but I don't care one bit.

I can't help liking school. The weird thing is that most of the time it's not the actual school that I love, only the good feeling that comes when I do an undeserving amount of work and still get an A. Sometimes I think that colleges sacrifice a lot of potential smartypants in order to make sure that no one gets left behind. That's why all the lower-level classes are obscenely easy. It's sort of depressing. Another think I like about school is the fact that I'm here, but since I don't have any obligations here, I get to spend all my time engrossed in my own betterment. So far it's working out really well. That probably means I need to get a job. Also I'm thinking about joining this honor society. They don't really do anything but it will probably look good on my resume. Thoughts?

-Amy

Asian Shirt

Wait a moment while I watch a friend of a friend sing Wicked songs like a BOSS...

Ok, back to the blog.

Um, you really likes school, and its weird to me. Really weird to me.

Heres why I do't blog very much: because I can't be blogging and logged into Youtube at the same time.

Speaking of youtube, yesterday I made the "nice guy" picture on my shirt and its legit. I'm calling it my "Asian shirt" and I'm planning to cover it with all sorts of asian youtubers inside jokes, and it will be the best thing that ever happened!

I wore it last night and I esplained it to nicole and she thought it was pretty clever...but no one else got it. Thats the problem with wearing nerd shirts, you're always like, "oh maaan, I'm gonna meat some real nerds if I wear this doctor who shirt. They're just gonna come out of the woodwork!" and then nothing happens and you just feel like a weirdo.

Yeah so last night was youth group and it was pretty totally amazing.

You know how you watch really talented people play piano, or really talented people dance or sing or do whatever really good, and your initial thought is, "OH. EM. GEE. THAT IS SO AMAZING! THAT PERSON IS AMAZING." and then that kind of boils down to a slight resentment and jealousy and a feeling that I like to call, "stage longing." that happens after you watch movies like "never say never" and, even if you didn't want to be a performer before, you want to after. Well theres this kid that plays drums at youthgroup, and I think that my whole experience getting drums and learning how hard they are really made me appreciate and notice drummers even MORE, and so whenever there is a really good drummer, I think I really notice it more than other people.

And anyway, this kids birthday was yesterday and he turned fifteen. GOSH. DARN. I HATE THOSE YOUNG TALENTED PEOPLE! thank the lord Justin Bieber is older than me or I really would be having trouble ever doing anything. I dunno, theres something about talented people that are younger than you that is, at first, really cool, and then really really REALLY discouraging. So yeah, hes a totally awesome drummer, and I turn to nicole and I'm like, "that kid is totally awesome!" and shes like, "he just turned fifteen! today!" Like, what? I wasn't even talking about that! I was just saying I'm jealous of his superpowers! Gosh.

On other news, I was listening to the Peter Pan soundtrack like constantly, until about tomorrow morning, when I got a part of this cool song we danced to in Hip-Hop, but I didn't know what it was called, so I just searched the words I remembered and after about fifteen minutes of shady blogs and youtube videos, I FOUND IT! Before I give you the link, I need to tell you something about just how awesome this song is:
There are few songs that I can listen to on replay and every. single. time it makes me want to dance like a maniac. And there are very few songs that I can listen to replay. period. Ok so here it is. Bask in the awesomeness.

Oh and apparently that artist is christian! Ha! Sweet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETuhIHqJ0Rg

ohhhhh oh oh ohhhhhh.

Don't worry, I'm still walking down the isle to Peter Pan. Though no guarantees about my first dance.....(BTW spell check sucks. I wrote "garantees" and they didn't even have "guarantees" Ugh. Was Steve Jobs in charge of that too or has it always been that bad?)

Yeah Steve Jobs died. I've never owned anything apple...but...I'm sure..

No Steve Jobs was great I'm sure and I really like his style, and the style of his products, but gosh, I hate everything else about apple.

You know, Mo has an Iphone, (she bought in the airport, ha!) and so theres no music on it, right? WELL WE CAN'T PUT MUSIC ON IT. BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ITUNES. and we can't get itunes because we don't have ipods, and parents would have to do all the paying, and they won't do that, and ya da ya da ya its annoying. Also we can't get her a sim card without shipping it in, because you can't open iphones.

Anyway.


What do you know about Baconham Lincoln??

PEACE OUT!

Sundry Items

Usually family non-communication doesn't actually bother me that much because chances are that when there's an important piece of information going around (or rather, not going around), it doesn't directly affect me. For instance, the fact that Diana's pregnant, while totally awesome, wasn't a matter of life and death if I didn't hear it right at the moment that everyone else did. In the same way, almost every piece of Family News isn't something that requires my attention or participation right away, so I don't have to be devastated every time I hear something through the grapevine two weeks after it's happened.

That actually turned out sounding kind of heartless, but what I'm trying to say is that Family Non-Communication is just, y'know, whatever. I don't mind it all that much. However, if you get a boyfriend or decide to move to Africa to be a missionary, I'd rather hear it from your own lips than two weeks later through the grapevine, if you don't mind.

So you know how I returned here early after the wedding yesterday so I could do my laundry? It's a good thing I did, because I had so much laundry that the load was really big, which caused it to take two dry cycles to actually get dry (and even then the towels were still damp). The dryer costs a buck in quarters and the washer a buck twenty five, which means that I ended up paying $3.25 just to replenish my supply of clean underwear (which was distressingly low). The money situation in itself was a crisis of sorts as well, because I started out not having any quarters (or any cash at all), so I went to the ATM on campus, which if you know anything about ATMs, only dispenses money in increments of $20. I then took the ol' Andrew Jackson to my dorm hall's front desk to ask for some quarters, at which time they told me that they can't break twenties at the front desk. How messed up is it that the ATMs only give you twenties but the college won't break them? I just really needed quarters to do my laundry! So I went back to my floor and asked about ten people if they could give me change for a twenty, and everyone was so poor apparently that they didn't have any cash. By the time I was able to start my laundry it was 8:00, and it wasn't finished until half past ten. In hindsight I probably should have slept during those two and a half hours, but I have this rather ungrounded paranoia that someone will steal my favorite clothes between the time that a load is finished and I return to the laundry room, so I have to watch the clock and always be on time. So instead of sleeping like I should have, I sat in the hall library trying not to laugh uproariously at this show I was watching so as not to disturb the one other person who was actually studying in there.

So you know that case study paper on Isabel for my Ed Psych class I was telling you about? Well I just got it back and I got 24 out of 25 possible points on it. YEAH. I'm going to get an A in this class even if it kills me to do it. Here's what I love: when I get a good grade on a paper, the best thing is when the teacher hands it back and it's underlined, commented on or has pretty little stars by the sentences or ideas that they like the most in the paper. So later when I'm feeling morose about my academic ability I can read through it and get a self-esteem boost because my teacher thinks that I have good ideas about abstract and hypothetical thought processes in children who are going through the concrete operational stage of life.

Hooray, academia.

-Amy