"YAY! I'm gonna be sick!"

I've been kind of nauseous for the past two weeks. To the point where I can't necessarily eat because I'm afraid I'll throw up. Maybe it's just stress?

I'm looking for snapshots to send in for my passport. You don't even know how tempted I am to send this one:



I'm runnin' on 2 hours of sleep and I'm doing superbly. It's scary.

I also need a copy of my birth certificate. Certified. $10.50. Bleck. This is becoming extremely pricey. Hoorah for impulse study abroad buys. WOO!

I have to get the ball rolling on this passport thing, though. It could take up to 8 weeks to get it in and my trip is about 12 weeks away. Wow. Scary. I'm so excited!

Walkin' on sunshine! Woaaaaah!

AHHHH!!! *runs in circles!!!* *trips over mongoose in middle of floor* *gets up, commences to running in circles again!*

Okay, so it's pretty much official. I'm studying abroad in London/Dublin for Winter 2005/2006 term! THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ODD AND ECCENTRIC BEHAVIOR, HERE I COME!

I should hear back a couple of weeks after the deadline (October 3rd) as to if my program actually made the student cap (which my representative says it looks okay righ tnow, but my alternative is just as exciting as the first: Rebels, Rockers, and Revolutionaries: London's Literature of Protest, which is a class about William Blake, Virginia Woofl, Zadie Smith, Caryl Churchill, and the music of the Beatles, the Sex Pistols, Radiohead, the Clash, and Cornershop). Then I have to apply for a loan, which I will get, hands down. I can taste the damn tea and crumpets. I can't wait to taste real English tea!

My family don't know yet. I'm sure they'll be disappointed that I am overloading my financials (I still have to pay off my car), but quite frankly, I don't give a flying fuck.

I should go do some homework before we run off to Berea. At least I THINK we're still going to some lecture about Hume? Aren't we Daniel?

Toodles!

"...keep my face blank as a stone that just sank until not a ripple remains...

...And so begins the longest weekend EVER...

EVERYONE is gone. I mean, not ONE damn person I know stayed here for the weekend. Daniel and Stephanie went to Gatlinburg, Kristin's going to the Gorge (last I heard), most people are going home, etc. etc. I know someone who is going to FLORIDA. For a WEEKEND. Don't know WHY, she just IS. I think that point wins my case in itself.

Plus side, it's free laundry weekend.

*5 hours later* ...WTF, man... WTF.

The power went off while I was typing that up at around 5 something. Now it's 10:13 and I just came back upstairs and I was still logged on, but the computer was off. People had messaged me on AIM and everything. Fucking weird.

Well, I have quite a bit of homework to do and I plan on spending the majority of my weekend doing it so I can have SOMETHING resembling free time this coming week. When people are here.

Toodles.

"...and everytime i blink, i have a tiny dream..."

Who the fuck would name a hurricane Ophelia? Is Shakespeare so far out of our memories what the hurricane powers-that-be don't realize that OPHELIA is the name of a character that DROWNS?! Especially in the wake of Katrina? *thuds head on desk* Sometimes, I really wish this head thudding would put me out of my misery.

I should be getting Lappy the Laptop back soon.

ALMOST FRIDAY!!!

Toodles, my adoring audience.

"...i've cut all of the pertinent wires so my eyes can't make that connection..."

I'm sore from doing yoga last night. I was listening to Ani Difranco real loud last night and Marissa was like, "Shae's having a feminist rant night, isn't she?"

Damn straight, Marissa. Damn straight.

I stayed up til 4 am talking to some friends on the porch. Topics of conversation consisted of favorite movies, music, 80s fad, etc., most awkward/funniest sex stories, etc. etc. One guy that I had just met told NUMEROUS fucking HILARIOUS stories. Especially about this friend he had growing up. They were all playing hide and go seek in this empty 2nd story apartment when they heard the land lord and potential renters/buyers coming up the stairs. The new friend and one of his friends darted into a nearby room, and one unfortunate soul ran all the way down the hallway to the far end, where he opted to hide in the closet. Of course, his room was the first they came to, and of course, hte closet was the first place the potentials wanted to look. At any rate, long story short, the door opens, a small child darts out of the closet and out an open window, and runs to safety down the street. Let me reiterate. A small child DARTS out of the goddamned CLOSET, through an OPEN WINDOW of a SECOND STORY APARTMENT, and off to safety down the street while the landlord and potentials peer uneasily from the said window. Of course, he breaks his goddamned ankle, but that wasn't exactly pertinent information at the time.

"This apartment also comes with a crazed midget!"

At any rate, I've made a curfew for myself after sleeping until 12:13pm today. MY LAST CLASS ENDS AT 12:15!!! :'( I need to fucking get some priorities straight.

Happy hump day to all and to all a good night!

Tally-ho!

Between classes again. This is the most unbearable break in the history of unbearable breaks. I'd rather have classes back to back than have 2 hours to decide that I don't want to bugger with going to class. Rip the bandaid off quickly. That's the only way to do it.

Our extra credit assignment for Social Deviance is to do something deviant. *LOL* "BUSH SUCKS! *dart*" I haven't yet decided my deviant act or where/how it will go down, but I think this is an incredibly awesome assignment.

Wow, my life seems incredibly boring.

They had this freakin' annoying "Ice Cream Around the World" ice cream social in my dorm last night. You had to get the spoon at the front desk, the bowl from the 4th floor (there's no elevators in my dorm. Oldest on campus.), and guess where the ice cream was. Go ahead. Guess. IN FRONT OF MY DORM ROOM!!! "I just want to sleep! Is that SO wrong?!" To participate in an "ice cream social," you have to have the desire to be social. Which I lack. Why can't I just have ice cream?

I'mma go read something. Per usual. *wave*