winterophelia | Entries tagged with break

Jonathan and I finally made it to Valkyrie last night. It was pretty good and my problems with it were few and nitpicky. Also, Eddie Izzard fuck yeah! Elizabeth and I are going to see Repo! tonight. Hopefully this will be more successful than last time. I don't want break to be over, but I miss dance parties and being around people a lot.

In academic news, I can't even make myself do a really shitty job of typing this stuff up so it looks like I've actually been doing something instead of staring blankly at my notes for the last 3+ hours. I can tinker with it later and turn it into something resembling a coherent paper. Good God. Just get on with it, woman. Before it puts you to sleep.

( In which I try to motivate myself )

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: dining room table, home
Current Music: Flogging Molly - If I Ever Leave This World Alive | Powered by Last.fm

New Year's was tons of fun. Pretty much everyone was there and we had a really grotesquely adorable toast after midnight about being friends for a long long time. Pool, Rockband, Tropic Thunder, booze, and a wonky air mattress. Pretty sure I left my camera at Andrew's house.
I had a phantom hair moment the next morning. Waking up I thought "Shit, all my hair is matted to the back of my head. Tangles. I'll have to shave my head." Then I remembered.
Also, I love Jenny Tang.
Nothing has been accomplished. Well, I've read some stuff I wanted to, but aside from that, very little. My cousin's wedding was really nice. My mom and I went downtown for a while the morning of and looked at all the monuments around the mall, the dinosaur bones at the Natural History Museum, and split up going to the Native American and Air and Space Museums, respectively. I have pictures somewhere. The dance after the wedding had a pretty awesome playlist that Lizzie and George came up with and concluded with everyone who was still there gathering around the dance floor, glasses raised, singing Piano Man (sorry Mitchell).
Elizabeth and Jonathan came over the other night and we watched rifftrax and went through our respective /co/ folders. Jonathan is now addicted. Heh heh heh. I'm starved for contact with people my own age. Going to Repo! with Elizabeth tonight. Perhaps I'll see if anyone else wants to come.
I really hate trying to write this paper with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. I'm waiting to hear back from the Vandy reference librarian as to whether they can help me or not. Guh. From time to time I get paranoid that people are looking at what I'm doing and it's not work, but I don't work here anymore. Paranoid a little?
It might be time for a lj layout overhaul.
Soon it will be sushi time.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Location: Upstairs.
Current Music: Get It Up--MSI

I can't sleep. I tried my usual insomnia medication (one dose of RDJ, preferably in a depressed or alcoholic role, applied directly to the brain), but it didn't work. Lay here for about an hour, maybe an hour and a half--nothing. Ann's coming to get me in t minus five hours to go shopping. I really should try and get some rest.
In other news, I'm home now. 11 hour trip door to door. I hate flying so hard.
Starting to sense that my parents are going to have me watching Rachel Maddow every night, which I'm more than okay with, especially after her report tonight about Obama inviting Rick Warren to participate in his inauguration.
Last week of school not as movie and drunk filled as Mike and I had hoped. We did watch TDK rifftrax which were very good, and I drank a little too much. Unfortunately we then showed Mitchell the Iron Man rifftrax and played the drinking game as well. I rolled around on the floor a lot afterwords and pet my door affectionately many times. I think we ended up watching the I Want Love video at least twice as well. Then I was sick in the morning. Gotta stop doing that.
My eyes are starting to get a little fuzzy, perhaps even a bit bleary and sleepy? Is it too much to ask?
I'm going to try sleep again.

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: hooooooome

I'll just leave this here.

It sums up fall break pretty well.

Mike just said the dorkiest thing that he's said in a long time. "D20 Modern: Wonder Boys Edition. You got the dog, and the guy, and Katie Holmes in your attic...Oola, there's a lot of NPC potential."

Edit: Film blog has been updated.

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: scottscottscott

Wow is being a heinous bitch. I don't know if it's because of my lousy interwebs connection, my dying processor, or the just the ridonkulously high population of Org. I needs me a new computer something fierce, though.

I'm really looking forward to getting back to school, but it always seems like as soon as I make up my mind that I'd rather be there than here, I spend time with my friends and don't want to leave them. On Tuesday I went to work with my mom to use Vandy's t3 to see if wow was just acting funny because of the 56k at home. I ended up going to Opry Mills with Rose, Nick, Chris, BJ, and Andrew--later joined by Sarah, Elizabeth, and Christi. I bought a new, gaudy-ass belt, ginormous rainbow hoop earrings, and a blizzard shirt, all from the sale rack. After touching lots of things in the mall, we went to the clubhouse thing above Andrew's giant garage to play rockband. BJ, Chris, Andrew, and I all got fairly intoxicated and started falling all over the place and were generally v. silly. It was a lot of fun.

I have a bunch of little things I want to do before going back. I should make a list. I accomplished one of the two goals I set for myself over break (finishing all of Battlestar) and came close to reaching the other (lvl 55, not quite 60). Oh well!

Current Mood: mellow
Current Location: home
Current Music: news hour

Break is kinda slow. On Saturday Emily, Patrick, Elizabeth, Sarah, and I went to Madison to the library book sale. I found some records and a book on Scottish heritage. Ended up wandering around Madison, Emily, Sarah, and I bought a load of random shit at Ragstock including pinstriped overalls, a jumpsuit, and a fancy kimono. We also ran around the library a lot. That place is so awesome. Emily and I played wow for hours until I drove Patrick to the bus station at 4am. Last night, Matthew and I played all of Halo 3 in one sitting (Ward left me his xbox). That's the first game I've played all the way through.

I called my mom this morning and she told me my aunt died in the early morning. She had a good long life, but I feel bad that I didn't get to spend more time with her.

Current Mood: lethargic
Current Location: w3l
Current Music: Daily Show

My power cord, it is dead. Not having a laptop after having one for a long time is really weird. Not being able to just get online and look stuff up is exceedingly obnoxious. Perhaps now I'll actually get work done, unless I spend all my time here in the computer lab.

I went home on Wednesday and was whisked away to my aunt and uncle's house by my relatives, where we just kind of sat and watched tv until bed.
Thursday I got up earlier than ever before (like 8:00am), drove for a long time, puttered around the house, ate a whole whole whole lot of food, and puttered around some more before bed.
Friday, we made a course dinner (I made potato leek soup), I ran into Ms. York at the store, and more puttering. We did not play pounce at all and there was no cousins-only outing, which really sucked. Thanksgiving was just kind of weird and rushed this year.

Saturday I finally went to my house. My mom and I ate a whole bunch of samples at Costco for lunch. I met up with Kira, Christi, Elizabeth, Blake, Nate, Kevin, Bryan, Caitlin, and Becca in the park where we hung out for a long time before going to Nate's for his birthday party-thing with his family. We gave him his own laptop for his birthday (it was still warm). We MST3Ked Mission Impossible 3, which was actually good and really entertaining. We also watched Slither and Sarah Brown came by for a bit.

Now I'm back in Beloit and I have so much crap to do in the next few weeks, but I think I'll be done on the 15th and then just be hanging around here...maybe I can steal the free trial of the wow game from Veronica.

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: computer lab, chapin, beloit, wi
Current Music: nothing :(

This shirt rocks beyond belief. Is it dorky that in order to remember the html for a text link I think "a, holy roman empire, f"? If that made sense....

So, New York. It was cramazing, to use Christina's word reserved for really truly amazing things. Pictures forthcoming.
List of stuff I bought?
Bruce Springsteen shirt. Michael Jackson ala Jackson 5 shirt (for Maya). Weird-ass olive green studded strap-y chaps. Awesome black biker-type semi-capriish pants. White long dress with pink straps and pretty flowers. Green sweater with red hammer and sickles all over it. That might be about it. I also bought a lot of coffee and food. That's where most of my money went. Food.

Winter break can be summed up in the two perfect moments I had during my time away from Beloit.
First, when we were at Bryan's apartment, at one point we were all in a huge group hug, holding on to one another, most pretty damn tipsy, yelling--not singing--the words to Tiny Dancer by Elton John. It was beautiful. In that one moment I felt so happy and content.

The second instance occurred in New York. We went to the Imagine stone, which had a peace sign made out of flowers on it. The whole atmosphere there was relaxed, but quiet and respectful. A 20-something guy, there with a few friends, had an acoustic guitar and was playing and singing (not badly, but not really well) Love Me Do enthusiastically. It was really quite an experience.

Classes this term:
Monday: 10-11 Art History Survey I, 12-1 Russian Revolutions, 2-4 American Rock History and Culture
Tuesday: 12-1 Research hour for RR/Nothing.
Wednesday: 10-11 Art History Survey I, 12-1 Russian Revolutions, 2-4 American Rock History and Culture
Thursday: Nothing.
Friday: 10-11 Art History Survey I, 12-1 Russian Revolutions

( Pictures????? )

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: The Libertine--Patrick Wolf