Phantasmagoria

"Dearly Beloved, are you listening? I can't remember a word that you were saying..."

naranga — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:54:05 GMT

Oh hey, LJ. I don't know why my posting has slowly died off over the last year, but alas, it has. I find LJ a useful tool for looking back, though, so I still feel the urge to attempt to post. Most recently I felt this way because I went to a concert, and I realized I've documented every concert I've ever been to (basically) on here...can't stop now!

So! I went to see blink-182 on their reunion tour Wednesday. Originally, the concert was scheduled for late September, but because the shows just prior to the 4th or so of September got cancelled due to the loss of DJ AM (RIP), our show and the one in NC got rescheduled. Also, because of this, Fall Out Boy was unable to attend our show, which was lame, especially because another band scheduled, All-American Rejects, also couldn't attend because of some injury/illness of their lead singer. So this left us with blink, the other scheduled act Asher Roth (sigh), and an added band called Valencia whom Meg and Brittany have interacted with at Warped Tour, haha.

But anyway. I enjoyed Valencia well enough, particularly their first two or so songs. Asher Roth was...Asher Roth, and I didn't really enjoy that, though it was amusing because he/they got pranked twice by blink. Once, blink made the curtain fall in front of them while they were playing, and then...they sent out male strippers to them. It was amusing. And then blink. I've never been a big fan, I'm not really a fan of the whole style and I already have a low tolerance for most upbeat pop/punk/rock music (I'm too attached to classic rock). But. Brittany is a pretty big fan, so that's the reason we were going to this, and I've listened to them in the car with her, so that built up my appreciation some. And then I enjoy most music that Meg and Brittany are more fond of much more when I experience it live, so...I did end up enjoying them, and I've come to appreciate them more, though I doubt I'll ever be much of an active fan.

Besides posting about that, I guess I'll say a few words on this semester, since I have yet to do so. I'm taking Roman Culture (CLAS 1010); Elementary Japanese I (JPNS 1001); Intro to Judaism, Christiany, and Islam (RELI 1001); and Intermediate Latin II (LATN 2002). Taking Japanese and Latin at the same time is no where near as hard as I though it would be, mainly because I'm at such drastically different levels in both. But as it is, I'm fine, and I'm quite enjoying Japanese. The writing system has been a really different thing to tackle, and my Linguistics nerd is happy-go-lucky getting so far away from Western languages. Latin is Latin, same old situation as ever. Roman Culture is a lot of what I've heard before and some new stuff, but it's all right. And religion kind of makes me feel like I'm in an old school social studies class, haha, but not really. It's more interesting than I'd thought it would be...somewhat, anyway.

Other things...my niece is love. Adorable. And growing up, too far away! My brother (found Jesus) quit his job and moved to London, and is staying with my family while he does this gap year program coaching school kids in soccer through Arsenal. He's there for a while and then going to another country for a while after this training time, but he'll be gone for at least a year. No telling if he'll decide to come back, but yeah, I'm really happy for him. Uhh...I'm living in a four bedroom, four bath apartment instead of a dorm. Yay for my own bathroom and a kitchen and a door to shut people out :D I drive much more now. Good and bad thing, probably (HATE DRIVING). I'm watching lots of tv shows right now - it's a bit mad. I'm going to England for the first time in over two years for a brief visit during Thanksgiving, leaving November 20th, coming back on the 30th. I'm going to see John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles while I'm there, and I'm very excited for that and just to see my family, including my brother this time, haha.

Anyway. I had two tests on Friday, following one on Thursday and getting home in the wee hours of Thurs from that concert, and I've been feeling a bit drained since, eheh. I think things will be quiet for a short while now, besides my crazy going home schedule for the next three weeks. Going to see Where the Wild Things Are Friday! And that's all for now. Nice seeing you again.

BWAP.

"Hold on to that fee-ee-eeling..."

naranga — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:52:59 GMT

Okay, so I guess I'm going to do my Comic-Con post [sigh], haha. So much stuff.

So we left to go to preview night, Wednesday, around three or so. We basically didn't have to wait at all this year, since we were so early. Got in, got our passes, and then had several hours to blow, since they don't open the exhibition hall until six. So we sat and looked at the programming guide and such. Closer to when it opened we decided to get up and walk around to some escalators since we didn't quite know how this being early thing worked, haha. Turns out half of this huge line we passed that we all thought was for the special preview night screenings was the line just for the escalator to go down when the time came. It was a bit ridiculous, so we just chilled near the front of the line, then watched it move [never-endingly] once they opened the exhibit hall...eventually we gave up and went back aways and merged.

We wandered the exhibit hall for maybe an hour before we left. We were going to try for the WB's giant bags again [they do a different one every day], but the line was ridiculous, so we didn't bother...even though they were HP ones :( There wasn't as much free stuff this year, I don't think - we blame the economy. Mostly we were just scouting the layout and things to buy...the only thing I actually bought though was my ticket and picture for John Barrowman to sign, figured might as well.

Thursday we got up at eight something to go get in line for the huge Hall H, for the Disney 3D panel featuring among other things Alice in Wonderland with Tim Burton...we got there at maybe nine, and the line had already filled the grassy area beside the hall and crossed the street and then extended for a while. We thought we were okay, since last year we still got into Lost when the line for that filled the grassy area, went the length of the convention center, crossed the street, and extended further past the Mariott almost to the next hotel and then wrapped a little. And the room does seat 6600 or something. So we waited for two hours, and our part of the line didn't start moving until maybe twenty minutes until the panel. It hit eleven, and we were confused but thought it might be running late. But no, we waited until almost twelve, and were in the next little line to go in when a guy came out and said we wouldn't be getting in for this panel. We were pissed. Especially when later we learned that Johnny Depp had appeared for like five seconds. But we decided it was entirely the Twilight-ers fault, because they had camped out and packed the line even though their panel was the third of the day, ours the first. Jerks. [I will never forgive them!]

We remained pissed off, and left the line to go into the exhibit hall. I bought a Jack, Ianto, and Gwen TW poster and a ticket/pic for Naoko Mori [Tosh from TW]'s signing (totally didn't know she was going to be there) and Alex and I bought this set of Studio Ghibli keychains to split between us [I have a tree spirit, a soot monster, and Totoro]. We didn't stay in there long, because we were too agitated for the crazy crowds, so we went upstairs sometime around twelve and just went to sit in the room our 3:45 panel was going to be in.

We walked in on one panel, Quantum Quest or something, and then there was some "Wonder Women" panel hosted by Entertainment Weekly, about strong women in sci-fi or something. But we were pleasantly surprised because it featured Eliza Dushku [from Buffy/Dollhouse], Zoe Saldana [Uhura from New Trek], Elizabeth Mitchell [Juliet from Lost], and Sigourney Weaver. We were like o.o Haha. That was interesting. And then there was the USA Burn Notice panel, which was terribly amusing [though we'd never watched the show] because Bruce Campbell of the Evil Dead trilogy was part of it, and he was just hilarious. Some guy screamed I love you at him and he was like, come up here - and gave him money, haha. So yeah, we were surprised and entertained by those panels.

Then came the panel we were waiting for, USA's Psych panel. We heart that show, haha - it can be quite ridiculous and amusing. It featured almost the entire cast - Shawn, Gus, Lassiter, Jules, and Shawn's dad, so we were exciting. We got to see some preview-ness for the new season that starts at the beginning of August, and the Q&A was interesting. At one point Dule Hill [Gus] got up and tap-danced, haha.

After that, we went back to the exhibit hall for a brief pass, to see if would could maybe get the WB gigantabag for the day. The line wasn't too terrible but it's so awkward and packed around the huge WB booth, it just doesn't work well. So at one point they were trying to work the line out and it fell apart, and we took advantage and just got in, not too far from where you got the bags. We didn't care anymore, we would've waited, but we decided it was karma for our Twilight-induced trauma of the morning. Thus triumphant, we left for the day, haha.

Friday we were smarter, and got up at six-thirty and left by seven. We were in line for the big Hall H again by 7:25, for the 10:00 WB panel [and the following 12:45 Disney Animation panel]. We were pretty far up too, the fourth line in the green area. We ended up pretty close, in the second rows of sections, vaguely centered. The only movies we really knew about going into the panel were Where the Wild Things Are and Sherlock Holmes. The little boy from WTWTA came out to introduce some clips, and we saw quite a bit. It looks pretty great :D Then they started doing stuff for the next film, The Book of Eli. And they brought out Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, and Mila Kunis, and we were like HOLY SHIT, haha. Denzel's won an Oscar, he's freaking huge. And I heeeart Gary Oldman <3 I don't really know how I thought the movie looked though, haha. Then they did stuff for The Box, a movie made by the guy who did Donnie Darko. It looked kind of stupid. But who knows, haha. Anyway, for that they had Cameron Diaz and James Marsden [Cyclops from X-Men], so we were again surprised, haha. Then they did Jonah Hex, which looked over the top, haha. For that they had Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, and some other dude. Josh Brolin was a bit crazy, and people were gushing over Megan Fox...one guy said something really distateful to her, and got booed. Then they went to start stuff for Sherlock Holmes, and Robert Downey Jr. came out <333 We saw clips, they brought out Rachel McAdams as well, and they talked about the details of how they were handling this new version and story of Holmes. I think I'll enjoy that, heh.

After that came time for the Disney panel, and we got 3D glasses since they equipped that room for it this year. It was pretty awesome, they announced they're making Toy Story and Toy Story 2 into 3D and showing them as a double feature, and showed us scenes. They talked a little bit about Toy Story 3, and then they said they were doing Beauty and the Beast in 3D as well, and showed a scene from that. It looked beautiful, haha. I had a moment of Disney childhood wonder. Then they talked about a Christmas movie they're going to do for ABC Family called Prep and Landing, about the elves who go and prepare the house for Santa's arrival, haha. It looked good. And then they talked about their next movie, the first hand-drawn one in years, The Princess and the Frog. We got to see two scenes from it, and it looks good :D Set in 1920s Louisiana <3 There's a Cajun fireflower and a Jazz playing alligator and such, heh. After that, they brought out the phenonemal Hayao Miyazaki. We were very excited about that, haha. We got to see a scene from his new movie Ponyo, and it was just pretty epic.

We were meant to go to the Bones panel shortly after that [with David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel], followed by the Dollhouse panel, but Disney went over, and we didn't want to miss Miyazaki. But it was all good, because it'd been a good day, I'd already seen David Boreanaz last year, and we didn't expect too much excitement from those panels anyway. So we went around and finally took these swag tickets we got from the Burn Notice and Psych panels previously to the fulfillment room [Thursday the lines were ridiculous] and got our Burn Notice t-shirt [in large, eheh], and our Psych t-shirt [also large], mini-comic, and magic eight ball [which is pretty awesome]. Then we went around the corner and chose a random bit of wall to sit and eat our sack lunches and drink our juice boxes, haha.

While we were sitting, we noticed press people sitting and waiting in chairs outside the rooms across from us, and one door was behind a curtain. After a while, I heard someone shout out, "Cameron!" and I looked up to see Cameron Diaz walking swiftly from behind the curtain, not ten feet from me, haha. I was like ALEX. So we preceeded to watch as we ate, and next we saw Eliza Dushku of Buffy/Dollhouse fame...she walked three feet in front of us. Then Paul Bettany, who we assume was there for Ironman II. After that we noticed Alan Tudyk, that spazzy actor recently from Dollhouse [you'd recognize him] walking, all incognito in his sunglasses and cap. After a little while we decided to stop being creepy and get up to go back down to the exhibit hall, but at the same moment we stood up I noticed Alan Tudyk coming back from the direction he went in...so we decided, he's going our way, STALKER TIME. So we followed behind him giggling, then went WAIT, camera. And as we were nearing the escalators Alex started recording a video, haha. We decided to stop then though, because...we were stalking. But he got on the escalator beside ours, haha, and we saw him leave as we reached the bottom.

Then we proceeded to go to the exhibit hall and spend about a hundred dollars between us in less than five minutes, haha. We stopped by a DW/TW action figure booth since I had been pondering buying the Face of Boe [but he was $30 and I decided to get him later for cheaper online], and instead saw the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and Jack's vortex manipulator packaged together for twenty, and decided to buy them together and each take one [I got the wriststrap]. After that we went to buy these flashdrives called mimobots that are like little characters. They have a whole Star Wars line, and some tokidoki and original artists ones. I got a tokidoki one called Mr. Phantom X, and Alex got the limited edition Comic-Con Star Wars one - Darth Vader with Luke's face under it. Mine's 4GB and hers is 8, and that was about 80 bucks right there [the limited edition was ten more than the regular 8GB price].

Saturday we got up at the same time to come and get in line for Lost. Our spot ended up being, after we were condensed, somewhere less than half-way back in the grassy area. We got there a little before eight for the eleven o'clock panel, so we waited. Alex's older cousin met up with us, and then her brother and his friend a little later. We ended up pretty far back once we were actually in the panel, but we settled on those seats since there were five of us, and we weren't going to get many options, so we saw in front of one of the screens hanging from the ceiling. The panel was quite amusing, haha, they showed some fan made things like a Jack/Sawyer fanvid, and did a gimmicky thing about locking up the script for the final scene of the show. Originally it was just the producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse again, but they had Jorge Garcia, Hurley, come up during the fan Q&A to ask a silly question, and then had Michael Emerson, Ben, come up to comment on what he was doing. Later James Ford, Sawyer, came out, and then Nestor Carbonell, Richard [they did a skit with him and eyeliner because he looks like he wears it]...and at the very end, Dominic Monaghan, Charlie [or Merry from LOTR!]...because they've been hinting his character [my favourite!] will be back <333 [He died].

Anyway, Alex wasn't feeling well, so we decided to just go and get my autographs done and then leave, instead of waiting around forever for the Fringe panel way later, that we were already indecisive about. So we fought our way over there since it was noon on probably the busiest day, and I gave Alex my camera to be at the ready. John Barrowman was sitting there with his partner Scott Gill [his manager was there previously so I thought it was a bit neater this day], and I gave him the photo to sign [Alex was taking pics], and he could personalize it this year [couldn't last, don't know what changed] so I showed him my name tag and he was like, "Cay-llie?" - pronounced it wrong, haha. So I corrected him, and then asked if I could get a pic with him, and we both leaned over a bit awkwardly for it, heh - I touched his arm lightly for balance :P Then we went over to Naoko Mori and her bouncer or something was like, this was last her one, she's going to go for lunch and be back...and I was like D: because Alex really didn't feel well, and I wouldn't want to make her wait, and then it was the last day they were doing the signing. But then I looked over and Naoko was going - "one more...just one more," all trying to convince him. I was like YOU ARE AWESOME. Haha. [I later found out that Alex had put on her sickly face - not even really acted 'cause she was really ugh - and Naoko looked right at her for it, haha, so we think that was the winning factor.] She actually started making conversation with me right away, haha, and I mentioned we came from Lost, and we babbled for a few seconds about that, before Alex took our picture. So Naoko's officially awesome now :D

After that...Alex dragged herself home, eheh [our traveling process was walking ten or so minutes to the trolley, taking it, waiting to be picked up and driven back to her house], and then we proceeded to get her some drugs and take a pretty decent nap before some of her family came over.

Sunday we got up the same time, got there a little bit later due to traveling details, and were in line for Doctor Who by eight. The line was already pretty long, more than we probably expected. We sat and did a rousing crossword puzzle together, haha. We got in pretty quickly after it firsted started moving, and ended up with seats in the last row of the front sections, on the left. Alex and I had brought our various gadgets, and she shined it up and you could actually see the light of the sonic screwdriver on the ceiling of the ballroom - which is really high, higher than a movie theatre or anything. Heheh. But yeah. We waited, and then there came Russell T Davies, Euros Lyn, Julie Gardner - and David Tennant. You bet we screamed, haha. He's adorable. One of the first things they did was show the trailer for The End of Time, Ten's last special. Ohmygod, so exciting. We were like, oh look, Donna and then - MAAAAAAAAAAASTEEEEEEEER. <333 There was constant loud cheering, haha, and then David was like, I think we should see it again, haha. So yeah. We were reeeally geeking out. It was a fun panel, and then right before they left, they aired the trailer for the Waters of Mars...which didn't make sense to me, haha, showing them in reverse order, but whatever. So much love. DT is awesome.

After that we decided to just stay in there since we didn't have anything pressing to do and didn't want to have to possibly fight to get back in. So we moved up maybe seven rows until we had pretty great seats on the aisle and then sat through several panels, one regular length and three half-hour ones. First was American Dad [Alex wasn't too happy since she kind of has a grudge against Family Guy/Seth MacFarlane]...it was insane, they basically did their upcoming Christmas special for us. They did a reading of the first act [which was just surreal, watching that], showed an animated storyboard [animatic, they said] of the second, and then showed the finished third. It was - insane. It dealt with the Rapture and the Apocalypse and had Jesus fighting the Anti-Christ. We were like o.o Then there was the Paper Heart panel, with Charlene Yi, a quasi-documentary/movie about love. It was a bit insane, and they had a guy ask Charlyne Yi to show us her penis...and she got confrontational and she was like, I have a VAGINA and proceeded to stand up - revealing she had a large penis strapped on, haha. We were like O.ooooo but it was hilarious. Anyway, the movie looked interesting - it has Michael Cera in it, too. And at the end, she threw [per request] the penis into the audience. Then there was this Mystery Team thing, that started as a sketch comedy thing online, and is now going to be a movie. It was kind of interesting, and they had one of their guys wearing a ridiculous moustache and stuff and acting ridiculous, pretending he had hit his head recently. They were pretty funny. After that was Alien Trespass, a 50s style alien movie - not a spoof, it's given straight, but it ends up being funny anyway. Eric McCormick was there for it [Will from Will & Grace].

Then, finally, it was time for the combined Being Human/Torchwood panel. I think I'll end up watching Being Human. They had the three main characters there and showed a lot of footage. They were quite fun, particularly Russell Tovey, who kept joking. That was a good time. For Torchwood, people were surprisingly civil, thank God. There was a moment at the beginning when people said "We - We want - We want Ianto Back" or something, and then booing when Ianto's death was first mentioned, and maybe two times when people yelled "We blame Russell," but overall it wasn't tense or anything. And Russell was like, that's okay, blame me. John was of course silly and amusing and a bit outrageous and cheeky. He kept calling Euros hot [John said whenever he was silly Euros would ignore it and just be all serious and like...Moving on.], and one time he told the moderator, "Don't worry, you're hot too," and totally made the guy blush and have to pause for a second, haha. I thought the questions were good and all of them are good speakers, so there were good answers. It was adorable when JB talked about finding out about Jack's actions and worrying that people wouldn't like Jack anymore, haha. I could ramble, but I think I'll cut that off there, haha. [I think John looks particularly good this year :)]

After that we went and redeemed our American Dad tickets - we got four pins - then went to the exhibit hall for a last pass. Alex bought one of those Voodoo doll things, called Lucky - who looks quite like Buddha, haha. When we decided to call it quits, I noticed a DW shirt on the way out, so we stopped. Alex noticed another that was a TARDIS one, but it was sold out except for like, an XL. So I decided to get the first one, with Ten on it and various season three creatures in the background. Alex got one to cash in on the deal, a Blackest Night one from the recent, pretty sweet Green Lantern storyline. The guy was pleased with us buying two and said something like the Comic gods were smiling down on us. Alex says perhaps they were, since after we had left [sadly! :(((] and got off the trolley, Alex's mom was just getting there, and when we got in the car, Don't Stop Believin' was playing, haha.

Anyway. That's my second Comic-Con experience. [My last for a while, probably, my mom said no next year]. It was even more busy/crowded and such this year. We saw more celebrities. I now have gotten 3/5 of the former Torchwood team's autographs, haha. I don't know if I'd call it better, but it was certainly great and fangirl-pleasing. And Alex is going to sleep so that's all I'm saying, haha. Gotta go home tomorrow.

BWAP.

Torchwood panel pics, Comic-Con '09

naranga — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:31:55 GMT

All right, I'm posting a few of my pics for fandom's sake. I'll post all my Comic-Con pics later on facebook or something, and do a full post about it all here as well, probably. But this is all for now.

BWAP.

"I came here to make you dance tonight!"

naranga — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:26:26 GMT

I is an aunt!!! My sister just had her baby - Anahi Grace Alejandro :) I've only gotten second-hand information, but she's six pounds and some and thus apparently tiny. Jolene's okay. This is all I know...but I'm very excited! ^^ I get to see her in a week and four days-ish.

I approve of her birth date, as well. 4/27/09. We haven't really had any April birthdays in my family, so that's good. She's consistent, too, because she's an ox by Chinese zodiac standard, and a Taurus by the western one, haha. And oh, there's the fact that she shares her birthday with Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, who I just saw in concert Thursday, haha.

Eeeeeheehee. It's unreal. I can't wait to meet her :))))))))

BWAP.

"Steer clear of the sun, or you'll find yourself in the sea..."

naranga — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:26:05 GMT

So, goings on...it snowed Sunday [freak weather in Georgia this year, seriously], and in Athens we got like four inches. It snowed from noon to midnight, and stuck around pretty much completely for a day or two and then started melting, but it still wasn't completely gone by the time I left Friday. I went out and stood around in it when it first started sticking, and then I went out again to walk around once it was pretty thick...It was crazy, tree branches kept snapping. There was a tree down across my normal path to class, and then when I paused under a magnolia that had already dropped a couple branches, I heard it start again and scrambled forward and a very large branch dropped behind me >< Eheh. So that was scary. We had a tree fall on a powerline in the intersection out of my dorm, that was crazy. A lot of places lost power, ours flickered a lot but I think they had backup stuff. God, and after the day it snowed, the ice sucked - I fell once -_-; Some places the ice just completely coated the sidewalk. But anyway, it was still pretty cool, and I liked just watching the snow out of my very large dorm window, heheh.

[I took what pictures I could take quickly, since my batteries kept going flickering dead and alive, heh.]

School-wise, things are going okay. I've done very well on all my tests so far [that I know of, still waiting for results on the two recent], so I am pleased. The marine biology lab can be a bitch. I enjoy it and I don't. We had a lab report we had to due, and now we have an assignment over spring break, and we're going to have a 'make a fish' [-_-;] project due this month as well. I'm enjoying mythology and psych, and Latin...and my tree class, heh. We just finished Caesar in Latin, and we're going to star our Ovid poetry-ness.

I had my advising appointment Thursday, and I'm all ehh debating, heh. I told my lady that I think I want to minor in Latin, but she asked me and I agreed that I might want to switch them around and major in Latin instead...which I guess would be if I were going to flat out teach Latin [my only realistic job idea so far]...blegh. And so I guess I'm trying to keep my options open a bit, which makes me feel even more restricted and whaaat about what I'm taking next semester [since I have the majority of pre-major crap done], heheh. I'm trying to decide if I can stomach a non-Indo-European language on top of more Latin next semester [and then there's the debate about which one of those to take anyway] - and besides, if I don't major in Ling., I don't need that. Soo yeah, eh.

But yes. Home for spring break, now. Went and saw Watchmen with Meg and Kevin and Steve and his wife Friday. It was almost exactly what I expected, good and bad. I'm good with it, really. I might ramble about it more later...but yeah, there were KIDS in that theatre with their parents, god. I don't know what the fuck they were thinking. Sex and exploding!gore and darkness and violence and nudity and swearing. NOT in ANY WAY kid friendly. ANY WAY. RRRRR!!! Heh.

Uh, trying to cram as much as I can in this week, I guess. I bought my Comic-Con four day pass, so I'm officially going again - wooooooooo. Freaking awesome. 40th Anniversary as well. Yay Alex! I think we're going to try and buy plane tickets tomorrow. [There might be more rambling about that as well, maybe.] Seven weeks until I have a niece!!! I'm trying to go see her [Anahi <3] as soon as I get done with finals. And oh yeah, I signed a lease on an apartment for next year. Four bedroom, four bath. Rather small, but really, all I want is a kitchen, my own room, and my own bathroom. I don't care. I picked it mainly too because they do a random pairing thing, no roommate seeking required.

Aaand I guess that's all I want to say right now.

BWAP!

"You just accused the Dalai Lama of potential cannibalism."

naranga — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:53:49 GMT

I guess I should post about college-ness...I realized I haven't put what classes I'm taking or anything. So here it is:

LATN 2001 - Intermediate Latin I - 9:05-9:55 - MWF
CLAS 1020 - Classical Mythology - 10:10-11:00 - MWF
PSYC 1101 - Intro to Psych - 12:30-1:45 - TR
MARS 1020 - Bio. of the Marine Environment - 1:25-2:15 - MWF
+ MARS 1020L - 2:30-4:25 - T
FRES 1020 - All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From Trees - 12:15-1:10 - W

So yeah. Things are going well. Not too much of a work load...It's nice not to have Latin homework four days in a row again, heh. We're translating a portion of Caesar's account of his invasion of Britain, right now, just had a test on that. We have to translate two passages we've done from there, among other things - last night I typed up my translations and just went back through the Latin text afterwards, trying to read it, and I was surprised how well I knew it. It's not so much that I can read it [I kind of can...it's hard to explain, haha], I just remembered it after I looked at the form and a couple words in each sentence...I was like, wow, memory. Go you. ...[And I miss my crazy old guy teacher from last semester, haha].

Mythology is a bit of reading every night, I'm surprised that I'm keeping up. I'm a geek, I like knowing this stuff, I guess. Yay for exposure. And woo for not being lazy [so strange]...regular pop quizzes are a good incentive, heh.

Psych is interesting, as of course it would be. I think he's a really easy teacher; I just took a test in there Thursday, and it was basically what was on the study guide he gave us. Oh, and we have to complete 6.5 hours of research stuff - basically we have to be their guinea pigs and sign up to participate in experiments. I've done one online and half of another so far [two hours worth]...it's kind of neat, haha. I'm getting them all out of the way in the next couple of weeks...I'm a bit excited, teehee.

Um, Marine Bio...the class looks to be pretty straightforward, the teacher's a sweet guy. The lab is kind of meh - we have a quiz every week, but they're easy I guess. It's just annoying, having to review every time for the last week as well as prepare for the upcoming lab. And it's long. And I just hate labs. But yeah, we've been looking at cells and things under the micrscope, which always blows my mind, haha.

And the tree thing...jeezus, I feel like such a hippie. -_-; He loosely assigns us readings, and I think he's too science-y and doesn't get that some of the things are like, technical gibberish, haha. But it's cool, we sit around and talk about trees. Eheh.

So I'm handling it all well, yep...I'm amazed that I'm reading and doing my homework timely, and the studying for tests things [continued from last semester] - it just really psyches me out. I'm continuously surprised at myself, haha.

But yeah. That's all I want to say for now, I suppose.

Except - omg, Torchwood trailer. Exciiiited, haha. And damn, I'm watching a lot of tv [Monday - House, Tuesday - American Idol, Wednesday - American Idol and Lost, Thursday - Bones and Supernatural, Friday - Monk and Psych...and occasionally Daily Show and the Colbert Report, at night]...it's a bit mad. But I'm enjoying them all, mostly.

And yeah, that's it. BWAP.

"..."

naranga — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:29:39 GMT

I'm doing so well lately. I lock my keys in my car at the worst possible time. I knock my laptop of my bed, to its near death and its coma for a week. Today, I went out and somehow lost my UGA card. I called places I went, and the gas station I went to said they found it. I went there, got it, went to pull out of the parking lot...and hit someone. And the front end of my car is hanging off...bumper, a headlight, some kind of fluid [freon I think] leaking out, the grill...everything below the level of the hood. It's sitting in that parking lot waiting for my parents to come up tomorrow.

Yep. Doing a great job.

BWAP.

"Well I will never end up like him...behind my back, I already am."

naranga — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:26:17 GMT

I locked my keys in my car :D While my parents are out of town. And my car keys have my house key on them. And my dog is locked in my house.

Yay speedy locksmith! [Got there in sixteen minutes, offered to lube my lock (ahaha) on top of less-than-a-minute unlocking service, $40 :D] And Kevin for chilling with me, after discovering my idiocy when we were done at Moe's and BAM.

Yep...not the first time, probably not the last. Probably won't be under as horrible circumstances as this time...hopefully. [KNOCKS ON WOOD]

BWAP.

"Nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy..."

naranga — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:06:31 GMT

Wow, it's been ages since I posted o.o Over two months. Uhh, what's happened. We had a bit of a mad Halloween-ness...Meg and Brittany dressed up as people from Motion City Soundtrack - Meg's wig thing turned out perfect for Justin Pierre - and made me do sooomething, so I just threw on everything orange and ended up a Japanese cat girl. Or something. I don't want to talk about it, haha.

Um, school went okay. I improved in Astronomy and ended up with an A-...so far I know I have As in Ling and Latin, but American Government isn't up. I think I'm doomed to some kind of a B in that one, which is a bunch of crap, but you know...I'm not bothered. Woo for being through with my first semester of college \o/ [Well, kind of my second what with my previous credit, heh.]

My sister and her husband and new puppy came for Thanksgiving ^^ That was great. That dog is crazy but awesome. And Jolene has a baby belly, heheheh.

Hmm, the day after the Cobra Starship concert peoples went to [but I wasn't able to go to :C], they came up to see me - it was a nice "surprise." [I figured out they were coming beforehand, heh].

I spent my 19th birthday [the 12th] taking a Latin final, heh. That was kind of lame, not having presents or friends or such on my actual birthday, but yeah. My parents came up the next day and we went shopping.

And yeah, I got done with my last final [they all went okay, I suppose] Monday afternoon, and came straight home. And got my birthday present - my wii! :DDD It's quite fun...been doing sports with my dad, haha, and some with people when they've come over...I've also got Animal Crossing, which is just awesome - love that stuff, heh, and definitely something to keep me busy. But yeah, since I've been home I've done something every day, haha. It's quite crazy...boo not being lazy, heheh, but it's been cool. Done stuff with several people. And then yesteday my parents and I and some family friends met up with my brother in Atlanta to go see that King Tut exhibit...it was neat, but not too exciting, heh...seen more of the same in other places, and more impressive stuff. But it was nice to do as a family.

And then last night was my late birthday party, woo. Meg, Jess, and Sky came and then Kevin came and we watched the Dark Knight...Brittany came late [she had been working], for a little while - couldn't stay too long either because she had to work early in the morning as well. I got some really neat gifts from peoples...we ate cake...and just hung out, heh, then Brittany left and we turned on Love Actually, which only Meg and I stayed awake through, haha [it was expected]. But yeah...Jess left early-ish, Meg hung out for a while, Sky a little bit longer, and then I took her home. It turns out her new house she's just moving in to is right next door to my old friend Liz's, haha. So crazy.

And oh yeah...before I got there and was given the tour, we missed the turn and went down the next road and another to turn around in a dead end...and there was a turkey. A freaking turkey. And I couldn't finish turning because it was walking around the car o.o Then when it got to the back, it pecked my freaking car!!! And came around to my side and pecked again. It was totally attacking my car. I honked at it and Sky tried to distract it and watch it through the window, and as soon as it was kind of in front I finished turning and got the heck out, haha.

Yep. Freaking bizarre. Pretty sure it's illegal too, to have a turkey in the city limits. Especially one that attacks cars.

But yes...Christmas shopping basically done, ready for that. All the friends' presents have been given, I think they went over well. :) Now maybe I can really bum around, haha...we'll see. That's all on the menu...besides my parents' trip to Louisiana...I'm not sure if I'm going or not. Jo was going to go up and meet us there, but now she's saying maybe not - which deeefinitely leans things towards no. We'll see.

BWAP.

[P.S. Oh look, new mood theme :D Captain Jack Harkness, mmm. Ahaha.]

"Let this world be done with me..."

naranga — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:21:46 GMT

I went to a pumpkin patch Friday :) I went manic with fall/Halloween-love last year, and I decided I really freaking wanted to go to a real one, pumpkins-on-the-vine and all - and just, sit or something. Wait for/worship the Great Pumpkin! But alas, it did not happen last year. So I was more determined this year, and I searched for ones in Georgia and found out there's one quite near here [Athens, that is]. So my mom and I decided to go Friday when she came to pick me up, before I went back to Warner Robins. It was beautiful :) We got three pumpkins, including a rather large [twenty-three pound] one that is green. It was a fulfilling experience, but I'd like to go to one and just sit in it on Halloween night...heh. I told my mom she should grow her own little patch - and that is on my list of things to do/have sometime in the future [along with my library].

Looky at the pumpkin patch. And the pumpkins we got.

Other than that...Brittany and Meg popped over that night...they decided to throw an impromptu party for Gabe of Cobra Starship's birthday, so we each got a cupcake and put candles on it and blew them out. It was odd, haha. And we played pool. Nothing much else happened.

But yeah. School-wise...when I found out that I had an American Government test coming up, sandwiching an Astronomy test, I just knew that my other two classes would follow suit. And they came through, with spades. I have a Linguistics quiz this Friday, a Latin quiz Tuesday, an American Government test Wednesday and next Friday, an Astronomy test Thursday, and a Linguistics midterm also next Friday. Woo. -_-

Still don't know if I want to come home this weekend - 'cause I definitely can't next weekend [I'm coming home for 'Fall Break' (we get Halloween off) the following weekend, and then I also have to be down there the weekend after for Meg's birthday]. I have all that crap coming up, but really, that's not going to factor that much into my weekend anyway, as much as I'd like to tell myself it will. The HoG is this weekend, and I'd like to go see the band play exhibition, 'cause I still haven't seen their show this year and I don't when else I'll be able to.

But yeah...we'll see. BWAP.

[Ohhh - and last night - House and Wilson looooooove].

"I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had..."

naranga — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:41:58 GMT

So, for the update on recent interesting events [or well, times where I actually did something not routine].

It was lame because the internet in my dorm was out Thursday and part of Friday, but I had a test to study for for Friday [I had the essay part Wednesday] in American Government, so I did some serious studying - on and off from four o'clock to one something. Which turned out to be totally unnecessary -_- It was a few very main court cases and terms, I swear. Then several boring hours later I had another Linguistics quiz, which was okay. And my mom took off early and came to get me, so I actually got home pretty early that evening [my mom joked that she was skiving from school, heheh].

Saturday morning I got up just before ten and picked up Sky and went to Waffle House with some pit peoples for the pre-comp thing. Woo hash browns and cramming into booths and such. Sky and I went after that to see Brittany real quick - she got her lip pierced, woot. Then I spent the rest of the day chilling with my parents - had an hour and some nap. We totally all watched Doctor Who together :D Bwahaha. And then later, we randomly watched the Sopranos, wtf - and of course, it had to be a random episode where it is discovered that a main mob dude is gay. There were no comments or discussions about it though, so it was okay, heh. Then around one a.m. I went to pick up Sky from the band room, and we showered and - had grilled cheese, heh, before going to sleep.

We got up this morning at nine -_- [No sleeping in for me this weekend]. Jess got there and we left pretty much around 9:30, traveled to Macon successfully, saw Meg's dorm real quick, and got into her car for the rest of the way. We got up here to Athens exactly when Meg and I predicted, 12:15, heheh. Jess and Sky were starving, but we just went ahead into the theatre. We sat there for quite a while, then finally the previews came on, watched those, and then it was time for the feature presentation...except it wasn't Rent. Which we figured out as soon as we saw "Meg Ryan" come up on the screen, heh. Everyone was like WTF >:O So several people left and told people, and then some dude came and said they had switched theatres, which is a bunch of crap. The sign still said Rent outside, and people had been coming in right up to the previews.

But yeah. After that panic, we finally saw the recorded Broadway performance. Loooooooooove. I love musicals, I love theatre, I love RENT. No one will ever be the original cast for me, but everyone could sing the parts right and well, and I was generally pleased. It was great to finally see the Broadway version fully-fledged, after listening to the deluxe recording for so long and only seeing and having the 10th anniversary semi-performance to go by. Woohoo. Very emotional, heh. <3

After that we parked a bit away and walked into downtown and wandered a bit, until we settled on this place Jessie's been to before, Five Guys Hamburgers and Fries. Oh my god. SO GOOD. The hamburgers were delicious and so tender, and the fries were pretty sweet too. Very, very nice. From there we walked down to this awesome store I've informed people of before, Junkman's Daughter's Brother. It is the best, coolest store I've ever been to. Yep. Everyone loved it as well :) As soon as the time is right to buy things, I'm definitely doing so [I want a Queen or Freddie poster they have, and they totally have a Torchwood one - waaant (they're so awesome for having it)].

But yep, that was pretty much it. Meg drove me to my dorm, and they helped me carry crap up here and saw things, and then they left. And I'm chilling once again, half-watching House [it's the ep where Wilson moves in with him at the end, heehee].

Yay for a great day. BWAP.

P.S. Looky what Sky got me from AWA! Soooooooo cute. I loves him. I have named him Pan [Sky came up with that].

"Don't fall away and leave love bleeding in my hands, in my hands again..."

naranga — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:10:46 GMT

Your result for The Heart Test...

Lonely Heart

You are 50% Independent, 50% Idealistic, 90% Intimate, and 80% Indulgent!

The Lonely Heart

Dependent, Realistic, Intimate, Indulgent

You are the most misunderstood of hearts, the Lonely Heart. Your desire for love and your want of harmony and intimacy are all very loving qualities. At the same time you are very down-to-earth, which may present a more cold or hard demeanor than you actually possess. Your qualities are all of the quieter types, so you may be shy, leading to difficulties in love, which is hard for you, being so caring as you are. You want love, but your realistic nature may work against these more idealistic desires.

Matches for the Lonely Heart:

The Healers's Heart

The Healer's Heart is both realistic and values harmony, just as you do. The Healer is more passionate than you are, but you can appreciate this quality. The Healer in independent, and while you may wish them to dote on you more, you can can appreciate their self-sufficiency. The Healer will always be there for you when you are down, and you will find that they make a wonderful match.

The Patron Saint's Heart

The Patron Saint is, like you, dependent, realistic and values harmony. The Patron Saint will understand your more down-to-earth views as wells as your need for love and want for unity in a relationship. The Patron Saint is more passionate than you are, and this is something you can definitely appreciate. The Patron Saint's protective nature will leave your lonely heart feeling loved, and you will appreciate them watching over you, as well as the fact that they seem to understand you well.

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Your exact opposite is The Lively Heart.

Avoid Explicits if you can. You need love and the feeling of being loved, and an Explicit may not understand or appreciate this, leading to conflict. Idealists may also be difficult to get along with if you are stubborn. But if you can adapt and appreciate their ways of thinking, a relationship with an Idealist can work.

Take The Heart Test at HelloQuizzy

"Do you want to go back? You should have known that the butterfly in reverse here is me..."

naranga — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:50:41 GMT

I failed my Astronomy test today :( It's not official, but we could keep our actual test sheets, and he posted the answers online. I missed exactly 12/36, heh, so a 66.6 [and on forever-ish][and well, technically that's a D, but whatever, heh]...it was annoying 'cause like half of those answers I either had it narrowed down to two with the one I didn't pick being the correct answer or I just did something stupid. If I had missed six less, I'd've had a B, heh. But yeah, it's okay because what would be the final is optional and can replace the lowest test grade...I just gotta do better in the future. I'll try to understand things better as he's teaching, I suppose. I'm optimistic in the 'it's possible' way, you know, heh.

I had a Latin quiz today, too. It went about the same as last time. It's annoying, making little stupid mistakes, heh. As long as he's not stricter, I'll probably do the same, but whatever.

I was excited for Supernatural's season premiere today :) I enjoyed it. This season looks to be interesting.

Got another test next week, in American Government - essay Wednesday, rest Friday. I feel the same way about that one as I did about Astronomy, heh -_-;

But yeah...it's all reasonable, and I was excited for Supernatural, but it's just a sad day.

BWAP.

/EDIT + meme/

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

Wet, wavy-ish hair, heh, pajamas...[so often a band t-shirt], listening to music, in my dorm room. There's my sink...and yay orange sheets...heh.

"Betty won't stop listening to modern rock..."

naranga — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:44:05 GMT

So I enjoyed the concert, for the most part. The whole line up was I Was Totally Destroying It, Dear and the Headlights, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, and Motion City Soundtrack. The venue was really small as was the stage, and I swear there were definitely less than a hundred people there...over fifty but under a hundred. So we were always reeeally close to the bands, which was sweet.

For the first three bands I was a bit bleh because I was tired and automatically achy, I swear, haha, but I did enjoy the music. IWTDI [teehee] and Dear and the Headlights [they reminded me a little of Phantom Planet :o] were good, but I was irritated at Margot and the Nuclear So and So's because they had a looot of people and took a long time to set up - and there were also technical difficulties, so they were pissed too, haha. The singer totally got pissed at the weak mike [which was made worse because everything else was freaking loud] and shoved it over. The keyboardist walked off because there was no sound for the keys. So they had a greatly reduced play time anyway, with all the difficulties, but I guess they were cool. They had a violinist and a trumpet player, which was neat, but oh my god, the drums' bass was like, I'M POUNDING YOU IN THE CHEST loud. So...yeah, heh.

And oh yeah, there was this group of four girls that shoved themselves into the crowd over time, and one girl was always moving for no reason and bumping into me, and the whole group was talking, aaaaaaaall the time - even when people were performing. You know how loud you have to be to be heard, and without even trying to move closer to eachother? Oh my god. What they were even there for, I don't know.

But yeah...then before Motion came on, the room was all of a sudden more crowded, haha, and we were pushed more toward the middle and Meg got separated from Brittany and I by two people. Then they came out, and the crazy mosh-ness started. It was generally in the middle, but for at least the first half of their set we were pretty close to it and getting shoved quite a bit - and Meg was totally gone. We slowly got shoved back and to the left, so eventually we were pretty safe from the craziness, but we found out later that Meg got pushed up right against the stage, craziness. But yeah, we rocked out a bit, heheh.

The lead singer, Justin, was wearing a Sirius Black shirt, haha...and he was amusing, I liked his little comments. And dude, the freaking crazy keyboardist [who in less crowded circumstances does like, hand stands on his keyboard] made that mouth-popping noise...with his ear. It was freaking weird, haha. I really enjoyed them, even though I'm still not sure I like them recorded...I don't quite understand that, heh, but the energy and everything and the liveness made it enjoyable.

So yeah...we sat around for a while because Meg was exhausted, and a lot of the bands were chilling around...we were surprised when we saw one by one Motion people kind of mingling...we hunted them down as we discovered them and got pictures with them [excluding the singer, boo] :D And then we walked back to where Meg parked and made our way to Atlanta to Meg's brother's place, where we stayed the night. We got there at one something, I think, just before two. I think we all slept crappy, heh, and kept waking up...but magically my back [that has been hurting just about all week] is better, so...woohoo, heh. We left there just after 12:30 today, and now I'm home, woo. Just sucks that I'm only here for like, twenty-four hours ><; Heh.

Yep. That's my report. BWAP.

"Just like the waves down by the shore..."

naranga — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:19:21 GMT

Laaaptooop is fixed [I really should name my laptop >:)] :D For real this time [knock on wood...seriously, do it - I'm watching you]. After spending almost four hours waiting on it, heh. But hey, I'm not complaining. I feel very relieved, heh. Don't try and keep Callie from her reading/fanfiction/obsessions. She might combust. :O

Ah, I can now relax...Friday is when Brittany and Meg are coming up for the Motion City Soundtrack concert up the street, then we're going to go stay with Meg's brother in his apartment in Atlanta and head to Warner Robins in the morning. Yep. [I'm going to have so much washing -_-; Heh].

Mmm, macaroni. BWAP.

[the sound of panicky!ahhhh in my head]

naranga — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:01:22 GMT

So my laptop has something up with it - I say a virus, because that's what things tell me, but then everyone else says something else, so - yeah. I wanted to just say screw this, and go home and have my dad work on it. But no. My dad found out where the campus computer help-y place was, so I went there after my last class and waited for two hours while some chick worked on it. She gave it back and said everything was cool. 'Cept it wasn't. I had the same problems, ran scans and came up with more shit. My parents at this point say 'it's too late to come home,'
when it's like six o'clock. They say wait until morning. So I go back up there - they're closing in thirty minutes, she can't fix it in that amount of time.

I came back to my dorm and took a nap...woke up, took a shower...watched Monk and Psych. Read a tiny bit, tried to go back to sleep. Couldn't. So I'm in the basement of O House...at close to one in the morning...in my pajamas...hair partially dry...yep.

When I talked to my dad last, he asked me when I was getting up, mentioning that computer help place, and that if it didn't work getting something to put my files on. I'm like, what happened to me coming home? I can understand if I were to get things fixed, but if not? HELL NO. Fuck you. Nice way to say something without saying it.

So yeah, fuck that. I really don't want to be here without a laptop, and I'm just frustrated and really don't want to deal with any crap tomorrow. I've been half-seriously considering driving home myself tonight [when I'm not even allowed to make that journey yet by myself at any time, heh]. It would be an adventure, I'd get home without dealing with shit, and I'd get that experience out of the way.

But yeah. BWAP.

"And make me aware of being alive, being alive..."

naranga — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:21:34 GMT

So, I am suitably ensconced in my classes by now. There's a routine and everything...it's going okay.

I went home again this weekend, because it was a three day one. Saturday Meg and I went out to eat at Moe's with Kevin because it was his nineteenth birthday, woot. That was fun, chatting and such. And I admit I did like that burrito - rice and cheese [and chicken]? And something bread-ish? Sounds like me. We also walked to BAM, where I tragically forgot I was wearing my Marvel shirt I got at Comic-Con and pranced obliviously in the manga/comic section -_- [sigh]. We leftly shortly after I remembered.

Oh, and that night I called Alex, who [having previously watched only series one and two of DW and one of TW prior to Comic-Con] has now finished Doctor Who in a roundabout order, and is going to catch up on Torchwood. So we had a rather lengthy and comprehension dorky discussion of that ^^ Yay.

Then Sunday we all went out to eat at Olive Garden for Jessica's birthday...mm, good food...and then went bowling. Jessica was appropriately eee over her gifts [Meg got her several things with Joe Jonas' face on them...], and once I got into the swing of bowling I did okay [after not having bowled for seriously probably seven years]...and I actually won, too, haha.

But yeah, that was the sum of that business...I stayed up pretty late that night doing various things, including starting to watch another British tv show for unknown [or dubious] reasons. Then I got up and gathered things and left by four forty-five or so to go up to Atlanta and pick up my mom from the airport, yay. After we did that we went over to Kirt's apartment up there, and mom divied out some goodies - Skips [omgomgomglove], chocolate, and other gifts [another John Barrowman cd, ...series three-ish clingy stickers of DW [haha - they are on my fridge! pic on fb], an orange bag, etc.]

*And then...my sister called my brother and he put her on speaker phone - and she told us she's going to have a baby.*

Eeeeeeeeeee. Heheheh. My mom cried 'cause she was overwhelmed and such - I think the first thing she asked was what about the dog?! haha. I'm excited and weirded out, heheh. Yay cute half-Mexican little baby...that will live too far away ><

But yes, exciting news. I probably won't come home this weekend, though I would like to see my mom >< I'll probably just wait until next, when Brit and Meg are coming up for a concert on Friday, and go home with them on Saturday. Bah.

Two quizzes this week - Latin one tomorrow, eep. BWAP.

"And if I wanted too much - was that such a mistake, at the time?"

naranga — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:11:02 GMT

I love nothing. Can I do nothing forever? That would be fun. Thanks.

BWAP.

"And it's sure hard to know which way to go when you've barely begun..."

naranga — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:05:29 GMT

All righty, so here's a bit of a progress report.

I went to two days of Persian, then decided to drop it -_- That's really something that should wait until later, especially if I'm not doing a Linguistics degree after all. I replaced it with American Government, which puts me down to only 13 hours from 14 ['cause Persian is a four hour course], but I don't care. I'm not adding another class on top of this. I already have 16 hours, and having not only two language classes but two four hour classes, four days in a row, was freaking me out, even beyond the holy crap Persian thing. So yeah. I'm sad, because I really would like to learn that, but it's not for now...and I know a little bit anyway :D Heheh.

But yeah, now I've been to all of my classes. I went to Astronomy for the first time yesterday, and American Government for the first time today since I just added it. They're both huge classes, like 250 or something. But I don't care...they're also both classes with the same idea of you get three tests and the final, I think. But whatever. I looked up the American Gov't dude, and they said your grade depends on the TA, so I'm kind of o.o but I'm not going to worry yet, heh. I like the Astronomy teacher, but the American Gov't dude doesn't look exactly thrilling. We talked about the Declaration of Independence today. ...Woohoo. -_- It's gonna be like all the civics shit I've learned all over agaaain, dammit, haha.

So now my final [I hope] schedule is:

ASTR 1010 Astronomy of the Solar System TR
LATN 1002 Elementary Latin II                        MTWR
LING 2100 The Study of Language                MWF
POLS 1101 American Government              MWF

So I only have two classes on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, woo. Now I have a day or more between classes for everything except Latin. Makes me feel better, heh. It's lame that my "breakaway session" for Amer. Gov't is at 9:05 [also that I don't have only one Friday thing but two, and they're like three hours apart, heh], but that just shows you that I'm now spoiled, haha.

Oh yeah, STILL haven't gotten the books I ordered a week ago. I've had to go buy the Latin stuff he didn't have listed, and now the American Government crap, but I still need the Ling one and the Astronomy one [and the Persian one to take back]. I think I'll be fine not having them the next two days now, but eh. They better get iiin. </div>

In other news...I found the kitchen the next floor down and microwaved some Spaghetti-os yesterday and made macaroni on the stove today :D haha. Woo. Oh, and how about this morning - at FIVE A.M. - the fire alarm went off. And we had to evacuate from the ninth floor [the top floor] down all those stairs in our pajamas. And when we were coming back in, they totally still wanted to see our IDs, and a bunch of us were like - uh. They said "you need to have them next time." Yeah, because I'm randomly outside at five a.m. in my pajamas for no reason. And because I keep my ID in my pajamas. And because next time, when there actually is a fire [we got an email today saying it was a faulty smoke detector on the fifth floor], I'm not going to immediately flee because I'm on the TOP floor, instead I'm going to search for my wallet so I have my ID and can get back into the burning building.

Anyway. That was fun. Things are okay, now it's a bit more settled. I'm still coming home this weekend, though.

BWAP.

"I'm going under, I'm suffocating..."

naranga — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:28:01 GMT

Holy crap. I am overwhelmed.

Linguistics - okay. It sounds like it might be a little bit abstract and vague and crazy analytical, but okay. Not freaking over that. The teacher's not a professor, he's a pretty young guy...

Latin - WTF, WHY AM I IN LATIN II?!?!?!?!? I took two years of high school Latin two years ago!! Ahhhh. I vaguely remember stuff but that doesn't mean I know it. And I don't have the book that he wants because he didn't have anything listed - 'cause, like I thought, he's just using the book from Latin I...which the bookstore is sold out of. So I guess I'm gonna try somewhere else. But he wanted us to look at stuff tonight! Agh. And oh yeah - the professor is FREAKING CREEPY. He's a little old man, and he apparently has these outfits - suits - he had a white and black striped suit with a yellow handkerchief in the pocket and a red bow tie. And he has this sweet little voice and smile - with scary teeth. He called out every one's names and then did that little smile after every one, and I was fighting to hold in my laughter at first - but then he just started freaking me out. Mr. Rogers gone sadistic killer, in my opinion.

Persian - What the hell did I get myself into. The guy's from Afghanistan. And the whole time he would just say phrases in Persian and keep repeating them and then make us repeat them back, do little conversations and such. I got the general ideas after he repeated them enough, but I don't know them concretely. And I swear, barring a couple people, that class was people who have taken Arabic or something, were older linguistics people - like beyond undergrad age [my ling professor was in there with me!], or were from somewhere in the Middle East themselves.

So yeah. Oh my god. I feel way behind in Latin and Persian. In both classes I was thinking about dropping them. But I don't know what I would do. I don't want to feel as panic-y as I did in those classes this whole semester, I'll go crazy. And those two classes are four days a week!

And yeah, I think I want to change my major. 'Cause I don't think this is for me. I didn't know what I would do with my life with this, and so I'm still not gonna know what I want to do. I don't even want to go to college, really. Can I pause and rethink everything?

Ah >< BWAP.

"But in those dreams were hidden dragons..."

naranga — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:36:18 GMT

I guess I should update, heh - it's been a while. Since I've been back from California there has just been some lazing and hanging out with peoples. Sky spent the night once, Kevin and I went to see Step Brothers and watched Gabriel, I hung out with Meg and Brittany a couple times - just Thursday we went up to Macon to an awesome pizza place called Ingleside [omg breadstick!love] and Brittany spent the night, and Saturday I got up [so early, after going to bed at six] and went to the band's Family Day [I sat with Kevin and Maria and then I dragged my marimba back <3]...etc.

But yeah, the big story is that yesterday I moved into my dorm up here in Athens. Both my parents came up, and my brother came over from Atlanta, randomly, heh. Jeez, I felt like I had so much crap, haha. But yeah...I have my clothes and my shelf-things in my closet set up, and my desk and fridge and bed and everything, but I don't have any posters up yet 'cause you have to have these special sticky things. I might post some pictures anyway...mah. And oh my god, because I got here after her, I have the top bunk. And it is FREAKING high up there. Not that it's a problem [well except the awkwardness of getting up there (with my laptop) and then feeling stranded up there, haha), but jeezus. Anyway.

My roommate wasn't here when we got here, but she came to get something after we were about finished unpacking. We left after that and went to eat at Ryan's [mm sweaty rolls], and then Kirt left and we went to Wal-Mart to get a few things. I forgot my apple juice jug I've used as long as I can remember :O And we got some extension cords and stuff. After that we came back to my dorm, and my dad set up the printer and stuff, and that was it. They left...

And then I realized I didn't have my cellphone :D Haha. So yeah, I had a bit of a freak out and walked swiftly down the stairs, but they were gone, so I had to come back up [I used the stairs again o.O it was okay until like, floor seven, then I was like, damn, maybe not] and call them on my suite mate's cell. I went down there and we checked my car, but I definitely left the phone at home [as confirmed later, heh]. My mom decided to leave me her cell, but yeah, that was frustrating.

After that I came back up and my room mate was here - with her boyfriend. That was awkward, especially 'cause she was on the phone to her mom or something...but then later they went away and she came back and asked if I would be uncomfortable with him staying the night. I was like - uhhh...kinda, yeah [YES]. So they camped out in her car for the night o.O [wtf].

So yeah. That was that...I actually went to bed before three and got up at twelve something. Haven't done much, went to go and pick up my books but they're not there yet >< Had a floor meeting that was okay...made a web of string that shows how connected we are! And my room mate went to sleep at about eleven, and I didn't go until one or two [look at that, though, so early!] - so hopefully I didn't disturb her.

Now it is Monday, and I couldn't sleep past when my room mate got up at eight something >< So I went ahead and did some computer stuff then got on a bus to East Campus to get my parking decal :D I didn't die, and my car wasn't already fined or anything, haha, so it's cool. First class starts at 1:25...

Craziness. BWAP.

"Marry, shag, or throw off a cliff?"

naranga — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:04:59 GMT

Soooo, Comic-Con is over. Overall, it was pretty damn awesome. I have about two regrets, haha.

Okay, I've already written about Thursday. So Friday, we got there before the con opened [it opens at 9:30] and got in line outside the biggest panel room, Hall H. It was freaking long already, but Alex's friend was in line so we snuck there, heheh, and just before this guy got there and was monitoring it. [That was the only time we did that.] But yeah, they started letting us in when the con opened, and we got in there with two hours to wait until the Watchmen panel began. :D I used the free wifi, bwaha, and read some fanfic [which I thought was so enormously dorky of me...reading fanfic in a convention].

We got to see a different "trailer" for the movie, but jeezus, it was pretty long and extensive for a trailer. The whole idea of Watchmen is awesome, and the movie looks like it could be great. The whole cast was there, which was cool. Especially since it includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan [John Winchester], eeeeheehee. I do appreciate that man, heh.

After that, we went around the exhibition hall, checking things out. That place is freaking huge, let me say. And omg, ridiculously crowded. [100,000+ people is a lot.] I think Alex got a poster of one of the comics she likes, Invincible, signed by the artist in that time, and that was when I went and got Gareth David Lloyd's autograph [...for the first time...see Saturday :D]...I think he said to me, "There you go, dear." I was like <:D God, those boys are beautiful.

We wandered until about 4 or so, and then got in line for the Bones panel, which had a surprising line o.O I really didn't think that many people would go for that in that kind of convention, but there were a lot of older people - and I imagine I underestimated the Buffy/Angel fans who went just for David Boreanaz...which was partially my reason for going :D Loved Angel [NOT Buffy], but I do rather like Bones as well. But yeah...I think they were late for some reason, and so they were showing us part of an early episode of the next season [just not the premiere], and we saw like twenty minutes. I kept waiting for them to stop, haha, and they finally did. Now I really want to know how that ep ends, haha >< But yeah, then there was the panel, and David was there, as well as the actors that play Dr. Saroyan, Sweets, and Angela. David is very full of himself -_-; [not that I didn't know that before, heh].

Jeez, this was a long day, because we were staying for a screening that night. We wandered for a little while, then went to the mall nearby for food. By the time we got back, it was sometime before eight, and we got in line for the screening of this cartoon movie the Next Avengers [which had some hilarious moments...like Thor on an 80s cartoon rainbow]. It was amusing because people were so surprised by the length of the line, heh, and we were like...yes, it continues.

The reason it was so long was because they were screening a couple episodes of the British show Spaced, that was the beginning of the Simon Pegg & co collaborations [woooot Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz]. The panel for the show was during the Watchmen panel, and the tickets for the signing were being sold when we were in line, so we didn't get to do that, but Simon Pegg and his director dude and the girl from Spaced came and spoke a little before the thing started :D It was awesome, because he totally started a finger gun fight [that is featured in the show], and the people that had seen it before were like BAM stand up and started shooting right back, haha. They were hit and fell down, haha, and the director stayed down for a bit, heh. It was awesome, and then they left and we watched three episodes of the show, which was hilarious, just as those movies are. We got out of there at midnight o.o [We were at Comic-Con for like, sixteen hours :D]

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Whew. Then there was Saturday.

We got there at nine, and we were going to go to the Heroes panel [which was in the huge Hall H like Watchmen], because Alex watches it and it was before the Lost one :D And Lost fans are freaking insane. And we knew they'd be doing the same thing, heh. So you know that line to get in on preview night? Well, we were walking, it did some crazy loops in the grass again, went down the side again, but this time, instead of getting to the back side and stopping a bit way through, it went all the way to the end of the building - and we were like, um, where does this end? It continued on the other side of the road, went through this tree-y place, got to this corner - and continued all the way down these docks, to their end, and then started to curl around again a little, maybe thirty people or so, which is where we got in line. We were beyond the huge convention center, beyond the Mariott next door, and all the way to the next hotel. That is the longest line I've ever seen. We were driven by morbid curiosity though, and figured we'd get into Lost regardless. The line started moving bit by bit at 9:30, when they start letting people in, and we got in at 10:25, with five minutes until the panel. I documented our journey with pics from when we first got in line till we got in. And when we did, everywhere was mostly full except this one little section, so we guess there were probably two hundred spaces all together, and people came in after us too. So we now know just about how many people six thousand five hundred are. We walked past all them all, sat in a room with them, heh. For future reference -_-; Jesus.

So the panel started, and they brought out the entire cast, and everyone was already fangirl/boying to death, and then...they showed us the entire fortyish minute premiere episode for the next season o.O I was like...wow. And I've never even seen the show before ^^; It was crazy dramatic, heh. After that, they brought out the cast again and did the usual Q&A, but jesus, those people were really stupid and just went up to say something [which you're not allowed to do, they screen you but people just make up stuff and then do whatever, sometimes] and they got booed. But yeah...Milo Ventimiglia, eeheehee. Oh! Some girl came up and totally said, I'm really vision impaired so I can't see you, and I'd really like to [totally not allowed]...and so he went down to her and took a picture. Yeah. O.o

Theeen was Lost. Damon Lindelof, one of the creators, and Carlton Cuse, an executive producer, were there, and they were really fun and funny, heheh. There was this whole Dharma thing, which I'm not going to explain, haha, and then they did Q&A the rest of the time, because they haven't started shooting yet. It was great because they had gifts for everyone who asked a question, and some were crazy or funny, and they were always amazingly appropriate, haha. One time they were gonna give this guy a Jack figurine, but Carlton was like, I really don't like this, 'cause I don't think it looks like him. So they were all arguing, and it was hilarious 'cause the guy was like - dude, I'll take it, but then they went something like, well, let's see - and Matthew Fox [Jack] came out :D That was cool.

After that, we didn't have anything else to do, but the panel in there after the next one was the Disney Pixar one, and we wanted to do that, so we stayed...for the Teriminator Salvation panel o.O We got to see the premiere of the trailer, and we left a message on Christian Bale's phone, heh. The director Joseph "McG" Nichol was there, and he got steadily more obnoxious, heh. The rest of the cast was there too...but yeah, that was...yeah. Heh.

The Disney Pixar one was actually really interesting, just listening to him answer the questions, haha. We got to see twenty collective minutes of the new movie Bolt, which was amazing of them, and it was neat because different parts of the clips were in different stages of production, so we saw storyboard and partially colored stuff as well as finished bits. Then we got to hear and see the first of this new movie Up from the creators of Monsters Inc., which looks awesome too :D It's about an old man who puts balloons through his chimney and flies his house away to these mountains in Venezuela. I was intrigued.

[Oh yeah, after I left the hall, I realized I left my camera in there O.O I was like ahhhhh, and I got someone to escort me back in (so I didn't have to wait in line, and so I could convince them I wasn't lying ^^;) And I had to find my seat again in that giant room, heh, and someone was already there. I asked them if there was a camera there, and they were like :O and I freaked but they were like, oh yeah, here it is! I had left it on my lap under my bookbag, and I forgot and when I stood it fell. Whew.]

After that, we were finally out of that Hall H [four hours later, heheh], and went back to wander the exhibition hall. I got a Marvel characters t-shirt and Alex got a Flash one as well as a Jiji cat plushie [from Kiki's Delivery Service], which is adorable. Aaaaaaaaand :D I left a message for Meg the day before asking if she wanted John or Gareth's autograph [she gave me money to get her stuff], and she said yes to John, but if she didn't get the message to me in time [for Friday, John's last day, but not Gareth's], that Gareth would be good too. She didn't, so I bought her something awesome and then I went back for Gareth instead at this time on Saturday and got a different picture [I'm actually keeping this one, not the first, heh], and right before I went up I saw someone take a picture of him - which I TOTALLY did not know was allowed! So I got Alex to get my camera out of my backpack and asked him, and he was like sure, and then he kind of gestured at me if I wanted to be in it and I was like Oh! but inside I was like YESAHHOMG...so I went and crouched near him and kind of half put my arm on his back, eeeeheehee. I touched him, haha ^^ I was fangirling on and off for quite a bit after that, heh.

Oh yeah, regret #1 is that I didn't get a picture with John >< But I didn't know, so eh. And still, I saw him that close and Gareth that close, and touched and got a picture with Gareth, so it's still eeeee.
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After that, I think we just came back to the house and chilled after being exhausted the day before and then having to get up early again. And then there was today, Sunday -_- The only thing we really had to do was Supernatural, and wrap up our Comic-Con wanderings. Since the Supernatural panel wasn't really early, we decided to try and get a bit more sleep [and I didn't insist on waking up too early because I felt bad for dragging Alex to this :\], and get there an hour early. When we woke up around ten, we realized that in all the craziness of the past couple days, I had remembered the Supernatural time wrong, and it was an hour earlier -_- So I was antsy like crazy, and we got in line right when the thing started >< The line was still longish and the room was small [it should be in the ballroom next year!], but I decided to hope against hope, and I had to try and wait, no matter how late I got in [I wouldn't have minded even a few seconds ><]. We got to the last corner though, and they started only letting in one or two people at a time :C I could hear the music and whoever was talking loud [not Jensen or Jared], and it was so evil. When the panel finished, we were fourth in line. I was freaking disappointed that I didn't get to see them or the stuff for next season, and disappointed in myself >< Stupid memory lately.

After that we went back to the exhibition hall to check out if they had the big WB bag for the day [the Supernatural/Smallville one, they did one every day including preview night - we got general WB ones then] but they were out until later, and we weren't staying, so that was out. We also heard that Jensen and Jared were signing, and I knew that wasn't happening, but we were at the WB booth for the bags and saw that they were doing it there, which was stupid, because that booth area is small and right in the middle of things. By the time we were there, the line had already capped [it wasn't even that long]. I think they really underestimated Supernatural, between the room they provided and that situation.

But yeah. So that killed my last Comic-Con day. And of course, that's regret #2. I've been trying not to dwell on it, and just take it in stride, heheh. :\

After that we wandered for like five seconds, but we'd seen everything and didn't have anything else we wanted to revisit or buy, so with the level of ridiculous crowdedness, we just bid the con farewell. It really was a fantastic time, and I saw so many celebrities o.o The best event for me was definitely the Torchwood panel, and of course the signings with those two. But yeah. Great time, especially to spend with Alex. :)
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Now, I think we might go see the ocean tomorrow, just to see it. And laze, 'cause we've sure been active the past four or five days, heh. Her mom and everyone are like, you don't want to see/do/go? We didn't do much before Comic-Con either, and I'm cool with that, because I came to see and be with Alex, and believe it or not, doing nothing together has been really fun. Really fun. Satisfying, you know. I remember thinking about this right before Comic-Con and realizing wow, I've been completely happy since I've been here, just about. I've just enjoyed hanging and all the little hilarious comments and stuff. So yeah. I'm cool.

BWAP.

[fangirl screaming]

naranga — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:25:05 GMT

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I got John Barrowman to sign my copy of his biography today :DDDDD Meaning, I looked into his eyes and was like two feet from him O.O I didn't go for Gareth David Lloyd yet, but I think I will eventually 'cause he's there the whole time. But eeeeeeeeeeeeee, oh my god, eeeeeee. That is one beautiful man.

And the Doctor Who and Torchwood panels? Hilaaaaaaarious. Russell T. Davies couldn't make it but Julie Gardner, the producer, and Steven Moffat [who is taking over as head writer of DW from RTD and has written eps like Blink and Girl in the Fireplace, etc. that are awesome] were there for the Doctor Who one. Steven Moffat is hilarious, and they were both well-spoken. Seeing Moffat makes me feel pretty good about him taking the reins. And oh! There's been a really short preview out for this year's Christmas special, but they showed us a longer trailer, bwahaha :D. As for the Torchwood panel, Moffat left but Gardner stayed - and John, Gareth, and Naoko Mori [Tosh] came in. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. God, it was just all so hilarious. So much innuendo in one sitting. Including Jack/Ianto, haha. They were all great, eheheh. [I has pictures :3 - captioned with comms in mind, not all - me-like, heh]

That was just an amazing time. So fun. Eeeee. Good day ^^

Oh, and by the way...we went in before the DW/TW panels to get seats, and Stan Lee [Marvel dude] and some dude from Virgin comics were there, and let me just say...Stan Lee is a jerk, haha. Very immodest. Like, he was being that way jokingly - but not. >.>

Anyway. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. BWAP.

EDIT: OH YES. I just remembered something...Naoko Mori and John Barrowman were in the West End production of Miss Saigon way back when, and someone requested they sing a song from it, and they diiiiiiiiiid :D So I've heard John Barrowman sing live too ^_^ So pretty together. [Seriously, musical ep of Torchwood.]

"On the stereo, listen as we go - nothing's gonna stop me now..."

naranga — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:30:28 GMT

Callie is in Califoooooornia. Extremely nice weather, been pretty cool or at least breezy the whole time. Alex and I get along just the same...we've done some little stuff but the rest of the time we've just been doing our laying around reading/laptop-ing/watching movies, etc. We went and saw Mamma Mia, and saw the Dark Knight in IMAX, which was epic. Might say some thoughts about that later. But yeah, I'm really enjoying it ^_^

BUT! Omg, today was preview night for Comic-Con. We got there a little after it opened - and it was INSANE. Last year there was a record number of people there, I think around 175,000 - and I really think this year is going to be bigger. The line when we got there was crazier than it was eventually, but it went down the entire front of the convention center twice, went through this grassy area in a series of several crazy loops, went down the entire side, and wrapped halfway round the back. It got moving better once we were in line a little while though, so it took just under an hour. [Keep in mind, this line is only for four day memberships, not single days].

But yeah. It was crazy crowded in the exhibition hall. I got this giant bag [like, almost to my waist from the floor] from the WB place and some other free stuff. Lots of stuff to buy, I'll be going back.

We got the event guide though, and we've planned out the major things. Tomorrow we're doing the Doctor Who and Torchwood panels, as well as trying to get stuff signed by John Barrowman and/or Gareth David Lloyd [Jack and Iaaaanto] If I can't get anything signed for some reason, I'll still get to see them, so I'm cool. [Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Steven Moffat, and all the Torchwood peoples except Eve Myles (Gwen) are going to be at the Torchwood panel]. Friday we're going to the Watchmen panel 'cause Alex has read it and I'm definitely going to, before the movie comes out [click the link! watch the trailer!]. We'll probably go to the Bones panel as well [David Boreanaz, ahhhhhhhhhh <333]. We're going to do some kind of preview thing that night for the new Simon Pegg [Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz] movie Spaced [and we're also going to try to get him and Edgar Wright to sign stuff, eee]. Saturday we're going to the Heroes and Lost panels, possibly the Disney Pixar one, etc. And Sunday is the Supernatural panel, with a preview of next season and BOTH Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles there. Ahahaha, looove.

Can you say starssss? And total geekfest. Omg. So excited ^^

BWAP.

"California, California, here we come!"

naranga — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:04:37 GMT

So it's been a busy bit. I went up to Athens Sunday night for orientation the next morning.

God, so much pointless crap and waiting and such. I was really tired at the end of both days...jeez, is Athens hilly. And I swear, that's the end of my random socializing for a while. The food at UGA is amazing, I do have to say...and one dining hall [not the one directly by me, boo] is open 24 hours a day, bwahahaha.

I toured Oglethorpe House, my dorm [known as O House...], and yes, my dorm room is that small. Jesus. It isss one of the better places - it has a bathroom shared between two rooms [four people] instead of a community one for a whole hall. And apparently it has four more feet of space than the others in its community, haha [THAT SPACE WILL COUNT]. Something retarded...there's only one place to plug in your tv to the cable...and that one place does not have an electrical outlet near it. The nearest is on the opposite wall!!! WTF. I'm going to need an extention cord in addition to my extra-long internet one.

I signed up for classes and I'm taking [at least how I have my schedule at the moment] ASTR 1010 - Astronomy of the Solar System, LATN 1002 - Elementary Latin II, LING 2100 - Study of Language, and [because American Government is full and I didn't want to burden myself with another big core class I don't want to do, and anyway, I already have 16 hours of credit, pssh] PERS 1001 - Elementary Persian I. Can you say that's freaking exciting?!? [Yes, I am a supreme dork.] My earliest class is at 11:00 on Tuesday and Thursday - the other days? 1:25, I think. And I have only one class on Friday. This is like Callie's sleep schedule dream.

Concerns awoken by this trip? 1. Holy fuck I'm moving to Athens. Two hours away. Alone. As we first drove in there, I was kind of freaking out. But it got better. Kind of. 2. My major may have to change. But I REALLY DON'T WANT IT TO. Yes, I fucking know it might not be as practical as engineering, or medicine, or some other shit, but I'd rather shoot myself now than slave away at school being miserable, to later be miserable day in and day out as well, until I die. I'm just trying to find something that I won't completely hate, and Jesus, at least what I'm currently spouting isn't as dead-end as an English degree. I really feel like there's no job choices out there for me anyway. 3. I can't stand people. Really. I can't. Not just in the whole, I hate humanity, people are obnoxious way either. I can't be around them for too long at a time or I get - anxious, or something. I need alone time. And I don't know how I'm going to deal in that sense, up there. [No, I do not plan on having a social life, and I am perfectly happy there.] Also, I keep thinking of Jo, and I know all that crap was there before she went, but college didn't make it better. 4. Ah. I am lazy. Classes, crap. Do I know how to study? I don't really think so. Shit. </div>
So my feelings for college are a mix of doubting/tempered excitement and an almost resigned fear that I'm going to lose it.

But yeah...I got home Tuesday at six something, and a couple hours later, Meg, Brittany, and Jessica came over to spend the night before I left. We did various things, I read the book I made for Jessica [our whole 12 year story written out children's book style on construction paper and illustrated with little doodles and printed images, then spiral-ish-ly bound and the front and back laminated] out loud to all of them, and then the next day Jess and Brittany and I chilled a bit and then Brittany stayed for curry - which was phenomenally awesome today. Ohmygod. Meg popped in to get her leftover curry and play pool and give me money to buy her something later, too.

And now, just after I'm done with Athens and crap, I'm going to California :D/D: Leaving here at four, flight's at 8:10 - I get there at 9:35, though the flight's four-ish hours. Trippy, not used to going that way in time, heh. My dad's coming in from his trip at seven or so, so he's just not going to go all the way through and come sit with me instead, which is a neat [non]coincidence. But yeah...woo Alex, woo Comic-Con!, and the Dark Knight, and such. I'll be back late Tuesday the 29th, but I'm staying in Atlanta with my brother that night, and coming home the next day. So yep. See yous guys later.

BWAP.