bleurrrgh

I think I'm getting sick. Stupid communal living.

Hungry, Hungry, College Students

College makes people hungry. Maybe it's the mandatory unlimited meal plan. Or perhaps it's the 75 minute periods sitting motionless in a desk trying to think of something insightful to say or not fall asleep, depending on the time of day/subject matter.

I've found that most of my/any college student's coversations revolve around a few basic topics.
1. Food
2. Sleep (or lack there of)
3. The Mountains of Work
4. The Weekend

These topics are not dissimilar to those seen at boarding school. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this but I should probably go read J.S. Mill's On Liberty now. I almost went into talking about 2 of the other topics on the list but I refuse to be that stereotypical.

I also really want to bake here but I feel like that would be very difficult.

The Myster

EDIT: This post was not supposed to say "The Myster" but I kind of like it. So it's staying. It seems like a combination of mystery and oyster. Which makes me think of shellfish versions of Sherlock Holmes... Oh dear I really do need more sleep, don't I?

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I've realized something about me that is probably different from most people. Well this one thing among many, of course. When I'm zoning out I think about dialogues and monologues. I create characters and plot lines in my head. I don't write down most/almost all of it because most of the ideas wouldn't hold up in a play. I've been starting to write down the good bits that my mind spews out, but sometimes it's hard to see if it will ever amount to anything.

It's weird to think about how I think compared to how other people think. Maybe everyone does this. I've never been other people haha

I should be choosing an essay topic for my Philosophy class right now...instead I seem to be philosophizing about the way my mind works. I should be thinking about the state of nature instead.

If I could write essays as fast as I type blog posts or send skype messages to my friends I'd have those 1500 words all done in no time.

Anyway, through a series of odd events I sprained my ankle and I haven't fenced for a week. I intended to go to practice tomorrow but I don't think it's such a good idea...

Mer mer mer. I'll go work or sleep now.

Busy Notes

I had a very busy weekend thay involved lots of work, some odd events and minimal sleep, so I'll keep this brief. When I find music I like I just play it over and over.


Florence + the Machine - Shake it Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCWnVznnWcs
Upbeat and not your conventional pop.

Laurena - Permafrost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyGnEDM_Ik&list=LL3speNtamOBezxIGtgeYEOg&index=3
She writes her own stuff and has a very unique voice. Becomes even better when on repeat! I want to make short films just to ultilize her songs.

Laurena - Fireflies of Montreal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpFr_PXb74&feature=related

Hellogoodbye - When We First Met
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05VaUDa6k9A&feature=feedu
This video was produced by meekakitty, who does some really asethically appealing videos. Hellogoodbye used to be the electropop band we all listened to in middle school, but this song is from their most recent album. Happy, poppy and now synth free! Not a bad change.

Sara Bareilles - Gonna Get Over You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUe3oVlxLSA&ob=av2e
Watch it. Now every time I hear this song I feel the need to dance in public. I resist those urges.

Love,
Amelia

A Glimmer on the Blog-rizon?

I'm toying with the idea of doing a blog on snacks/food & college life.
Not that I really have time, or a reason to. I just really like food. And there's lots of it at college.

Love,
Amelia

Muddling

I think muddling should be a world. Is it a combination of muddle and meddling? Yes. Does that make it any less of an awesome word? No!

"But, Amelia..." you might ask, "Whatever does this word mean?".

Well little bloggy reader, it describes ideas that have been pushed around a lot in your brain. Now that we're done with the formalities, let's get on to the good stuff.

So I've been muddling this post around in my brain quite frequently over the past week or so. I've been meeting so many new people at college, as would be expected. And after screwing up everyone's name for the 500th time, and hurriedly adding people's numbers to my phone when I don't even know their last name I've come to a realization about meeting new people. You don't have to find the people you need in your life, they find you. Not that they're actively out there with their lasers set on you in particular, but somehow I seem to randomly meet those people who get my  "Amelianess;" my own special brand of weird. Sometimes not even through clubs or things where you would assumed shared interests exist. Maybe it's that they just get it when I text "persnaps" instead of "perhaps", or that they instantly understand why the three movies I brought to college were Monty Python and the Holy Grail, UP, and The Princess Bride.

I would end this in a meaningful way, but I should be studying.

Deletion

I'm considering deleting my blog instead of letting it rot in cyber space. I have too much work to update it often. Or really at all for that matter. Fencing practices from 7:30-9 am and that means I need more sleep. Who knows, maybe this blog will come back alive. College is starting to legitimately stress me out now.

I really want to watch TV again... I haven't seen any since I got here. Ah well.
Or I want to watch The Handsome Suit again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm67VN__Nys&list=LL3speNtamOBezxIGtgeYEOg&index=30

"I can feel the bass in my waterbottle!"

Last night was my first venture into weekends at college. We had the big 2500 person fall dance where they outfit a huge gym with club quality speakers/lights/lasers (it also felt like the Sahara with rain forest humidity). I did not have high hopes for it, but it was in fact, awesome. Many (most) people were... at a different level of consciousness than I was, so I was a strange combination of amused and concerned for them. They may not remember their actions this morning, but oh, I will.


This is a picture from last year's big fall dance.

Also, I woke up at 6:30 this morning, three hours after I went to sleep. My internal clock is essentially useless. My plans for this weekend include getting ahead on work, because the work load in college is a little intense, going to brunch and finally seeing the end of Tangled! I think I've seen the beginning 3 times now, but now I will be able to finish it.

The food is also really tasty here. There have been chocolate-strawberry-banana crepes, Thai peanut chicken pizza, sweet potato tots and other things I never expected to see from a dining hall.

I am going to crash so hard this afternoon. Bring on the caffeinated kettle corn!

P.S. No Saturday classes! I think this weekend thing and I are going to get along just fine.

College

I moved into college today. I'm incredibly tired and I just got out of a Residential Life meeting. Hopefully I'll have the energy to update this soon.

Love,
Me

Today

Today I set off for college wth a car packed to the brim. Updates to come!

Why I am (Sometimes) Stupid and So is Packing

A clarification on the title, packing is in reality, almost always stupid. Packing for college is very different than packing for a long trip. For example, I spent a month as an exchange student in Japan last July. You would think packing for a month long trip would be fairly similar to packing for a new residence, except the latter would be on a larger scale. If you did think that, you would be horrendously INCORRECT. There's something totally different about trying to pick up your entire life and squeeze it into half of a 13' x 15' room.

So now, moving on to why there is a little hedgehog of shame, seen above. I have a list of stuff categorized as "To Find" and one of those things was my camera charger. It seemed a simple enough task. I knew that I had brought it back from Colorado, so by process of elimination, I knew it lurked in my house. This would seem to be no problem, except that my house eats things. I recruited help in my search, but to no avail. Neither of us could find it. And then, about 30 minutes later, I decide to check the box I had designated for electronics. Of course, I had already packed it away in the appropirate space, but for reasons unknown, it materilized on my list. Ah, well.

There's also a hurricane coming towards me. Hoo-rah. Hopefully I'll have electricity...

Feeling Punny

Did you know that another name for a pun is a paronomasia? To me that sounds more like a disease than a twisting of words. Maybe it's appropriate though because some people do find puns rather painful. I used to be one of them, and then suddenly one day... KAPOW I'm punning it up with the rest of them. So just for all three of you reading this (maybe more..?) I found a lovely pun! Jokes and puns are always better recieved in person, but when I read this it made me laugh out loud. And no, not in the LOLLAMA (the phrase you use when someone sends you a funny internet photo of a llama or alpaca) sense, but in the quietly-chuckling-at-my-laptop kind of way. It may not amuse anyone else though.

Without further ado, A PUN!

There are two guys who have been lost in the desert for weeks, and they're at death's door. As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a small tree off in the distance.

As they get closer, they can see that the tree is draped with rasher upon rasher of bacon. There's smoked bacon, crispy bacon, life-giving juicy nearly-raw bacon, all sorts. And the smell... oh, the glorious smell!

"Look Pepe," says the first man. "It's a bacon tree!"
"You're right!" says Pepe, "We're saved!"
Pepe doesn't wait another second. He runs up to the tree salivating at the prospect of food. But just as he gets to within five feet of the tree, there's the sound of machine gun fire, and he is shot down in a hail of bullets.

His friend quickly drops down on the sand, and calls across to the dying Pepe.
"Pepe!! Pepe!! What on earth happened?"
And with his dying breath Pepe calls back: "Ugh, run, run!! It's not a Bacon Tree after all..."












"...its a ham bush!"


To avoid plagarizing someone else's silliness I found this at badpuns.com. If you're looking for an example of my original punnery, see my blogger profile.

By the way I'm having pizza today! You may say, why Amelia, that is not so interesting. But I will tell you that I will finally be having my ULTIMATE PIZZA with the three toppings I love but have never had together. I may take a photo... updates to come haha.

Also, ONE WEEK until I depart for college-land. That's all. Besides that there was an earthquake today.

Oh the damage that was in D.C!

Photo from http://bit.ly/pNevem

Car Music

When you're driving in the car, you can't just have any music. Certain music is "car music" and others are distinctly unfit for driving to. Previously I had been listening to my copy of the Killers' "Day and Age" in the car. It's a great CD in general, but also good driving music. The problem is, the CD is only 10 tracks long, and I'm not a fan of the last song.

So hence, I decided to make myself a lovely mixtape. I know it's not really a tape, but mix CD doesn't sound very nice, now does it?

I'll finish this post later, and because it was requested THERE WILL BE A JOKE IN MY NEXT POST.

Now because I feel guilty for short changing this post, a gif....

Well, the gifs aren't working... :(

Naw Peas.

The End? Or the Beginning?

Please excuse the seemingly cheesy title for this blog post. You may go "Echhh what a TERRIBLE and PREDICTABLE title about the end of SUMMER. And stop CAPITALIZING random phrases. It's RATHER odd."

By the way, if you do make an "echhh" sound, I hope it sounds like it does in this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgrZ5Dtsi-E&feature=mh_lolz&list=FLNHHUqSZRguA

Well on to the actual post. The end of this summer is quite different from most of the others. I mean sure, the weather's still warm, I'm procrastinating from things like I do every summer, and they're still showing only reruns on TV.

I found this bird on stumbleupon, one source of my procrastination.
This picture combines two things I love, cute things and cupcakes.

P.S. This is my desktop background

The main difference (besides my newfound CSI: NY addiction) is that I'm not just going to a different school at the end of August, but I'm going to a different city, and a different home. My friends have just begun to scatter about the country (and some around the world) and a strange mix of excitement and anxiety has set in. I want to yell out to them "Don't leave! Why are you leaving for college/boot camp/New Zeland, so soon?" It makes me realize that I too will soon be somewhere else. Part of me insists that I don't want to pack my things into a car and go five hours away.

Well, actually I really do want to go to college. But it's just so intimidating trying to figure everything out. And college will mean homework again. Can you really call it homework if you only go a different building on campus to do it? I'm not sure dormwork or stuff-I-wrote-in-the-library will catch on as well as homework did.

Addictions

Okay, so I'm not really addicted to anything. But I do have a number of things I sort of collect.

The first (as promised) is rubber ducks.

This picture shows probably about half. Please note that's about 3 rows deep.
Anyways, those are my ducks. There's not much to say about them except I have an odd variety of them and the sheer number is quite large.


Secondly, I own a lot of nail polish. Probably about 70 bottles? I usually have a different color of nail polish for pretty much every week. I won't go on about this one, because it's a tad boring, but I thought it deserved a place on list.

I also just bought some really rad socks. They have sheep and robots on them. Just not on the same pair.

This was oddly short and poorly written. Please forgive me!

Quick Quacking Update

I'm really tired and my face is partially numb so I'm not quite in the blogging mood.

I plan to to a more detailed post on this topic later but I'll give you a sneak peak.

I collect rubber ducks. I don't know why. Or how. They just sort of accumulate.

Anways, now here's a duck haiku.

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.


Look, a duck! A duck! Right there!

Oh wait. Just a rock.


That was terrible. Please forgive me.

Uninspired Title

Sure, I could write a blog post called "The Joys of Eating Mostly Pudding" or "Golly Gee Willikers, My Face Sure Does Hurt!" or even "A Thesis on the Effects of Watching CSI on the Mind" but those would all seem to be too similar to all my other posts that I wrote post-op.

So  I will only leave you with the fact that tomorrow I will be touring 62 people coming from Korea. I won't be the only tour guide, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Hopefully I'll come away with some good stories to tell.

P.S. It took me over an hour and a half to eat a bowl of ravoli for dinner.

Foooooood

So I took the day off from work because truthfully I don't think I had it in me to be nice to demanding strangers today. I've loved my job this summer but I'm pretty sure having a bruised, pained chipmunk-girl in the office would have been bad for everyone.

Besides watching a lot of CSI NY and some random free TV shows that were on demand, and figuring out my new computer, I made a list of everything I wanted to eat throughout the day. And I hope to eat all these things in the next 22 days before I leave. So I'll look like a chipmunk even after the swelling goes down haha.

And now, a few obese selections from my list of....

 "Tasty Noms That I Cannot Eat at This Point"

1. Burgers. Note: On CSI Vegas they kept talking about In-and-Out Burgers, Animal style and now I'm intrigued. Unfortunately, all of their restaurants are on the West Coast. Ah well.
2. Sushi (All kinds)
3. Paninis (Like the Turkey Artichoke Spinach one from Panera)
4. Ceaser Salads
5. Pizza
6. Crispy Crab Rangoons
7. Cupcakes. With pink butter cream frosting. Why pink? Because I said so.
8. Pad Thai
9. Crepes
10. Fresh Tomatoes (Not unhealthy like most of the list, but still so good in the summer)
11. Enchiladas
12. BBQ Pulled Pork

 Aaand now I don't feel like ranting about food anymore. :P


P.S. Here's a photo of some pasta I ate in the spring. Love at first bite.

Things You Learn

Things I learned today:

1. The ability to chew is a blessing. Appreciate it!
2. Just because you are perscribed a medicine doesn't mean it will cure all that ails you
2a. Such a medicine may in fact make you more ill
3. I can only watch so much TV
4. Blogging is really hard when your face/mouth/teeth/soul hurts
5. Pain makes me over dramatic

aaaand that's enough for now.

Chipmunk Cheeks

So I know I said that I was going to post everyday but I got out my wisdom teeth yesterday. I feel that this is a fair excuse. Yesterday I felt absolutlety terrible. I won't go into the gorey details (and gorey they are) because that would not be fun for anyone. I've noticed that since I've lost my ability to chew, I have been wanting to eating everything that I can't have. Today I've been craving evrything from crunchy ceasar salad, to hamburgers with bacon and bleu cheese. And pizza has been sounding pretty good too.

I actually have a pizza goal to establish before I go to college. My top three pizza toppings are meatballs, mushrooms and onions. Oddly enough, I've never had them all on one pie. So hopefully when I regain the skill of chewing, I shall consume my dream pizza.



I won't make this a rant about how my mouth hurts or how I'm getting continually puddler or how my totro DVD won't work. I am getting a new laptop today (FINALLY!!). My Dell XPS died right after finals ended and I was really sad. It was only 3 years old and I loved it but I later learned that the hard drive had died. Dell lost my trust because I loved my computer and they broke my little technological heart when it spontaneously died. So I found a little Sony Vaio on sale and hopefully we will get along splendidly.

It's also Shark Week. Huzzah for distractions. Disney movies work well too.

Youtube and Large Burritos (Spiffy Things)

Why, hello there!

I thought today I'd talk about things I like. Because work yielded no interesting tales.

Maybe this will become a weekly thing if my life is uneventful?

In no particular order, my list of spiffy things!

Ikea... is such a lovely place. It's a huge store and everything is oddly modern with funny fake Swedish names. And they serve meatballs. Really, really good meatballs. See even the pillow in the catalogue is excited about Ikea! (Well it didn't start out that way, but a little bit of Sharpie and green pen quickly remedied that problem)

Chipotle...is what I had for dinner. Their burritos are hugenormous and absolutely delicious. I only discovered them this year because there aren't really any in my town. It was so large I couldn't finish it, but that just means lunch tomorrow! Chipotle is also awesome because my one friend who is gluten/dairy free can eat there too! So many choices of what to stuff into your taco/burrito/other tortilla-based-dish! Huzzah!

The Vlog Brothers. I also just learned about them this year, but I watch their videos on Youtube right after they come out. Definitely look them up if you haven't before. They are an odd mix of comedy, social commentary, and random goodness. What started out as two brothers keeping in touch with each other ended up as giant society of weirdly awesome people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyQi79aYfxU&feature=channel_video_title

That's all for today. I have to go research laptops now!

P.S. Coming up on the "Things that are spiffy list" is potentially Domo-Kun, Mac and Cheese, Pixar, aaaaand who knows what else!

Blogger Life: Day 2

I've decided that I'm going to attempt daily updates at my blog, even if I am just talking to the void that we know and love as the internet. Seeing that today was Monday, I went back to work. I only work half day, so it's not really bad at all. Merging on the higway during rush hour certainly is not my favorite pastime, but ah well. We do what we must.

That sounded really melodramatic. My life is not that woeful in reality.

But anyway, it's amazing what some people will do to get their kids into college. Some parents start preparing kids to get into the right high school (so they can springboard into the Ivy Leagues) as young as 9. I would have gone a little crazy if that was my childhood. When I was 9, higher education was not really on my mind. I was more focused on things like Mac and Cheese. And new SpongeBob episodes (which are not bad things to focus on).

I also had coffee this morning. Which may sound pretty typical and boring for most, but I'm personally more of a tea person myself.  When blog posts are reduced to discussing the day's beverages, you know it's time to stop writing.

Amelia v.s. Adult Life

Today marks me not only turning 18 ½ , but it also means that there is now only a month left until I leave for college. Both of these things are a little scary, but mostly exciting. The fun things of adult life so far have been paychecks and well... being able to tell others you're an adult now? When I was boarding a plane the other day the woman scanning my ticket asked me if I was "at least 12." Really? Really? Just when I had started to feel all mature about being able to drive myself to work and doing other fun adult things like opening bank accounts, this lady questions my maturity. I mean that would mean I look like a tween, not even a teen.


I also just realized writing an angsty blog post isn't really the pinnacle of maturity/a good counterpoint to being called 12. Alas, alas.


Anywhooo...


I think the reason I started this blog was because:


1. Tumblr bores me
2. I've been reading too much Hyperbole and a Half
3. It's another way to procrastinate from doing real life things

This post was seeming kind of random, so I thought it desevered a random picture. When I took this I never intended it to be blurry, but I actually think I like it better than the clear images I have.


Hmm this is ending rather anti-climacticlly... hopefully more interesting posts to come in the future!