lady_sarai

I have one word for today.

Migraine.

So, having missed 2 of my classes today, going to my 3rd and final. As it's a film class and we're watching Tokyo Story (because apparently the professor has a love affair with Japan)... I'm not stressing over having to think.

Cause, yeah, ow.

I never get these things. WTF, seriously. Note the icon.

AND class goes from 6-9, so I'll miss the very beginning of LOST. Which is, like, the most important part.

I weep.

So, off to the snack bar to get a smoothie and snacks for said movie, then to class.

Steph gave me ibuprofen and it's helped, but still achy.

I whine.

I love Matchbox 20, btw. (Hence the subject of this post. Playlists are great.)

I have Ben and Jerry's chocolate fudge brownie ice cream waiting for me in the freezer. This makes me alternately hyper-happy and uber-guilty. Because since dorm fridges suck, you pretty much have to eat the whole pint once you start.

And I'm not even recovering from a love affair gone wrong. ;) But I do require vast amounts of chocolate. So, yum.

I might write.

I switched classes and am now taking a senior sem, and the prof seems really great and what's a 10 page research paper after all? My current fic is 10 pages right now. And my portfolio was like a thousand. ;) I almost wept with joy over that. I feel pathetic.

Totally have read 15 pages of Beowulf and so much better than in high school. Dude. People keep rolling their eyes and wincing when I mention it, but I'm liking it. GEEK.

We have a flood. A seriously huge one. The ice jam is right down the street under the bridge. I totally called it Tuesday, too, when Tina and I came back from Walmart and I looked at the river and knew a storm was coming Wednesday.

So the soccer field is a river. Cumberland Farms, Gifford's ice cream and McDonalds' are under water. And there's a milk truck frozen in the water, because while yesterday and this morning it was still running water, tonight it's frozen.

So although the water's going down... Route 4 through Farmington is closed.

This shouldn't be a source of amusement, but it so is. And I never made it down to look and oo and ahh and take pictures. Sadly. Now it's dark and cold. Ah well.

Two years ago, the river flooded and 39 cars were ruined when the school lot flooded, so they repaved and raised it the 3 feet it flooded. They are paranoid and make people move their cars everytime a flood threat arises, so luckily, no one is parked there now. Which is good, because it flooded at least a foot over those 3 feet.

Heh.

Was amused when Steph and Tina returned from Student Teaching and interning in a day care. They were so wiped and *both* just flopped onto Steph's bed and I thought... yeah, I don't miss THAT. Dinner, needless to say, was fairly quiet. And I played druggist and gave them both headache meds.

Sadly, I think my OBC RENT soundtrack is scratchy. Because in iTunes disk 1 is skippy. This makes me sad. (But my car plays it just fine, oddly...)

I so wanna write, but have NOTHIN'. Any ideas/requests? (I mean, besides my current piece that keeps growing exponentially and I think I'll have to break it into chapters or chunks and that's just... wow. But I'm wanting something short and sweet, tonight.)

Dancing with the Stars at 8! It's a good thing Steph's a reality TV junkie, too. Heh. Gotta love it, though, when ballroom dancing becomes cool.

Back at school, finally. Kinda-sorta watching the Survivor finale, as last week was so crazy I STILL haven't watched Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy from LAST Sunday. Oops.

( My mom broke her arm... :\ )



Sigh. So. There went everyone's weekend plans. I literally haven't stopped going since Friday afternoon and I REALLY needed some down time after last week.

( Domestic Sara! )

Random highlight, because sometimes you need to find them. And now is one of those times...



Also, I left a review to a *beautiful* fic, and it made the author happy! And I got a present because of it!! Weee!! =D I have to reply still, but I want to not be distracted by TV when I do. But I am a happy camper.

And this just goes to show that commenting is good. Because 9 out of 10 times I read a fic, I don't necessarily bother leaving a comment. Especially if there are lots of other nice comments. And quite honestly, I commented to beg for more Rentfic. ;) And it worked! ::beams::

So, feeling like I ought to comment more. Especially if it's a good fic. Because I SO live for comments, and really? I'm sure most people comment like I do. If the urge so strikes them.




...also, random. Apparently my roomie and I both left Saturday thinking the other was coming back to the room, so we left with the door wide open, unlocked and the light on. Thank God for Jenna, who shut the door and says she called me... but I never got a call, a voice mail or a "missed call."

And Mom and Ryan both claimed to call my cell phone Saturday, but my phone says they lie. I think my phone is playing mind games with me. Grr. As if something else needs to go wrong. Sigh. But thank goodness Jenna was looking out for us! Cause, yeah... a robbery would have just MADE my weekend. >.<

::sigh:: And now, of course, I want RENT icons. Mark, especially. This makes me so long for a paid account... I say, c'est la vie! (irk! I'm a fangirl!) >.

I find it interesting that apparently my f-list hasn't been entirely honest with me. I've been online occasionally over the weekend, checking emails and getting ducks in a row for back-to-school stuff (y'know, housing, financial aid, all that FUN stuff)... and so I'll do I quick swing through LJ and check the handy-dandy f-list... but I went on today and had to go through a couple *pages* of previous friends' entries I hadn't seen.

Apparently everything posted Friday onward just showed up today, for me. This is odd. I find it odd. Anyone else find this odd?

Huh.

Mom's on vacation this week, so we're having quality time. Which today means staying home and baking muffins and a late birthday cake, since my grandmother had made my favorite Norwegian pastries ON my birthday. Yum. And reading. But I'm online. HEH. Because, you know, not long before going back-to-school and work and Real Life takes over, and instead of reading the PILE of 'to-read' books, I may as well go online. Heh.

On the upside, Ariel and Theanna are online, and I love talking with my girls. =D

Also, I want to write. So.

Here's an idea: Reply with a request. Anything. Provided I know what you mean... (I'm in a very HP place, if this helps, but I can be slightly flexible.) heh. I may well do something for you.

Ooh, lookit!! New Marta art! Spoileriffic art, though... But SO perdy. Pardon the drool.

Ariel, shut up. I hear you, you know. "Won-won," indeed. Bah. ;)

Also, was on the phone for 3 hours and 51 minutes today with Dell Tech support. Good god. Ryan managed to get a virus on Mom's computer, and it made it impossible to even sign on, so I called. Yeah. Talked to India. They were very nice.

( Hopefully marginally entertaining account of the joys and wonders of Dell Technical Support and How I Contributed to the Economy in India. )


AND, ee!! ( Spoilers for the JKR interview that is highly spoilerific, but insanely fun for detail-hungry me... )

Okay, so maybe it was a little more spoilery than I had planned when I started. But still. I feel happy. Ariel, stop saying that. I know you're mocking me. I have telepathy that way.

And now, to bed, so I can be at your house at 9:30, so we can make the age-old decision: IHOP or Panera before movie?

I love my girls. Had a Ton O Fun todays, dears.


Stupid creepy waiter.
"But... I... I just got that ketchup out of the bottle!"
"Well... maybe he thought you rejected your french fries for your salad."
"Do I LOOK like the kind of girl who rejects french fries?! For SALAD?!"

"Theanna's on top. Sara's in the middle..."
"And Ariel is on the bottom."

If they were REALLY psychic, they'd have read in the cards that we wanted our tarot cards read. Stoopid people.

"This is not a museum. Feel free to buy something." (ACTUAL sign in a store. Stuck-up SNOBS.)

"From Away." =D

Hunting for sunglasses, then necklaces. Salt-water taffy! Ice cream! SODA. Clean bathrooms. Comfy couch!! Air conditioning!

Enchantments. Dude. (And how many times did I ALMOST buy this necklace? What, 5? =P Glad I finally did.)

Um... shoplifters will be prosecuted. But I went back! I DID pay for it! Does that still count as shoplifting? Stealing by accident, what?




I love you like I'm BLIND.






FRIDAY, girls. FRIDAY. Boo-yeah, midnight release party, here we come. In costume. Cause we established our geekiness when The and I gave Ariel the finer details of the origins of Scott Summers' mutation and traumatic childhood head injury, and Ariel told us all about dying her own cloth to make costumes.

Yeah, we're normal. Just... leaning.

And musicals.


Road trips with best friends ROCK. Day trips to Tourist Traps rock.

"Are you from here?"
"Well, from Gorham."
"Oh.... where's that?"
"Down by Portland."
"Oh, I'm from Connecticut."
::cricket::
"My fiancee is from Connecticut."
"Right then, I'm gonna swipe your credit card and back off now."
"We think you should."
"He's From Away."

I'm betting the people in that store can always tell who is from Maine and who isn't, based solely on their reactions to That Shirt.

"'From Away?' I don't get it. Weird shirt."
as opposed to us.
"OMG! Leik, totally!"
"FROM AWAY!!!" ::hysterical laughter::
"That's the best shirt EVER! I wish I WERE From Away just to wear that shirt!"




Yeah. And, you know, I miss my deep-fried carbohydrates. I mourn my french fries.


I love you girls! ::hugs:: Can't wait for Friday and more fun!!

Okay, random. But I've been looking about, reading fanfics and such, and ran across a picture of Haruka. And went... huh. Whoa. Because, Ariel and Theanna, if you want to have an idea of what the famous Joyce looks like... she IS Sailor Uranus. And I apologize for mentioning Sailor Moon, girls. Resist the temptation. ;) But, yeah, despite the fact that Joyce would be caught dead before wearing the fuku... dress her in baggy clothes and sweat shirts, and give her a tongue and lip ring and a Yankees tatoo on her leg, and you've got Joyce.

Now I'm not sure I'll be able to look at her with a straight face next time I see her. :P Because it is an EERIE likeness.

Found in several lj's tonight. Dude, so true.

I solemnly swear that when I discuss spoilers or potential spoilers related to HBP, I will put them behind an LJ-cut tag for a period lasting until at least four weeks following the release of HBP, possibly longer if a significant portion of my flist is still reading or hasn't read it by then. If I fail to do so, it will be because of a coding error, which will be fixed as soon as humanly possible because I will always check my entries upon hitting "post". I'll iron my hands for good measure.


(I may just avoid the internet until I finish it, but I will be nice and cut spoilers. So please, do the same.)



Also, at the beach, a little girl ran up to our male camp director and pointed at his legs, yelling "Harry Potter Hairy Legs!!"



Yes, and today I dealt with the biggest nose bleed I have EVER seen, and the Teen Xtreme camp invaded our space, their director yelled at one of our counselors, a parent or two got ticked off at me for not knowing when the bus from swimming lessons would be back, and many small children did NOT use their indoor voices in the gym.


I do love working with first and second graders. I do.

But darn, that 5 year old bled a LOT. On the upside, I now know what to do in nosebleed crises.

So, slept through my alarm this morning.

I NEVER do this. Gah. Luckily, the brother hadn't left, and woke me at 10:30, saying "Mom says you have to be at work at 11."

Oi, so there you go. Got to work at 11. Good thing camp is located 2 minutes down the road. Got there, got on the bus, took the kiddos to Shaw Park... ate in the grass, played games, played in the river, took a nature walk, played in the industrial/farm-sized sprinkler... went back and went to Sweets N Eats for ice cream... walked 20 small children down the road and across the street...

And then endured TORTURE.

We watched the Spongebob Squarepants movie. >.<

God, save me. I did survive. Barely.

Then, planning for *actual* camp, which starts Monday. Got home about 8pm.

( Camp related stuff )

And I get to go to work at 7:30 tomorrow and OPEN, which means... I have to decide if the kids are playing on the playground or in the other room... except they took all the video games and stuff, so it may have to be the playground.

Hoping I'm not by myself all morning. Heh. (Well, I know I won't be, but still.)

Then, going on a field trip to the movies to see Madagascar. Woo! I am excited. Get paid to go to a movie. And watch 20 kids. Heh. Not bad. Then, I get to leave.

So, tomorrow afternoon, I have to... deposit a check, get some cash, fill my gas tank, clean out my car, pack clothes and beach things, get some snack foods... and meet Steph at 5. Then head off for Thetford, Vermont!

Woo! 8 friends in a cabin for a weekend. We shall see. Back at some point Sunday, so have a marvelous weekend, all.



( The weekend... ) So. This should be an interesting weekend.

Okay, first off, totally spoiling it for anyone who didn't watch AFI's 100 Years 100 Quotes special tonight.

But I'm totally proud of myself for guessing it early on.

And it reminds me of Ariel... who I give about 2 seconds to guess what the # 1 quote is.

Yes, that's right.

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

:) Well chosen, in my book. Others from Gone with the Wind included "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!" and "After all, tomorrow IS another day."

Made me think of you, sweety.

Also, DUDE!!!! Leik, OMG!!! THEANNA!!! ARIEL!!! EVERYONE!!!

LOOKIT!!!

They're making a sequel!!! DUDE!! What did I say? Did I not throw out my arms and proclaim "Door! Wide open!! Sequel!!" :D

I am beyond happy. Best of all? Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman have SIGNED!!! :D

Pardon my glee.

And the JOKER...

Okay, off to find some fics now. ::cough::


(Also, there is no Batman drabble community, did you know that? This upsets me. I'd like one. Or I'd like to find it and know how I've missed it.)

( Interesting work news, Ariel and Theanna... email or call me if we don't connect tonight online... )

And, like my new icon? Made it in about 15 minutes. Ha, that's why it's not great... But it's fun anyway. :-P





Edit:But ack, I weep!!!! :( Alan Cumming won't be back for X-3!! NIGHTCRAWLER!!! I have to go mourn now....