( or there's a heart in this shot... )

I can't tell if that was on purpose or if I'm magical or what. XD

As you can probably guess, I watched Hello Dolly today. And spent the rest of the day, after watching it, making screencaps & icons of Cornelius Hackl. Because I lurve him.

Don't worry. I also did my laundry and made dinner. I'm not a complete loser.

I've got so many answers to find.




I'm being pulled by the desire to watch The Rescuers Down Under (that's what she said) so I think I must go do that.

+ Woke up early to go to the DMV and take my road skills knowledge exam for my learner's permit again. I have such horrible test anxiety that I fear I will be taking this exam for the rest of my life. Studied studied studied for a solid week beforehand and felt really prepared, only for them to tell me that the cameras weren't working so I'd have to come back. Fate either doesn't want me to ever drive or just didn't want me to take the test today for some reason... So I'll be going back next Saturday (at 8 a.m. X_X) to try to take it.

+ Went with my sister to get her car inspected. It failed the emissions test because the check engine light was on. Luckily, my sister's car is still under warranty, so we took it to the dealership to get it fixed. They told us it might take an hour or three. We gave them the keys and walked to IHOP for lunch. Then walked all the way back to our apartment... Then took three-hour naps. Still no call. So she called them. They had lost the paper they'd written her number on. Sigh. And they didn't have the part they needed. So no car till tomorrow. And we were stuck walking everywhere. So-o-o, we walked back to the dealership, got her other keys so she could drive the car at my parents' house, and walked back to our apartment. At this point, I wanted to do an angry dance. Then it started pouring down rain. Fabulous.

+ After we commandeered my parents' car (one of two), we went to Blockbuster and rented What About Bob? (funny!) and had Mexican casserole for dinner.

Today's movie title would be "Anti-Climactic" because we did all this stuff, went all over town, and nothing came of it. Except for Bill Murray and casserole.

But that's okay. There are much worse ways to waste a Thursday.

Best Quote From Today: "I can't remember the other Jackson boys. There's Tito and Jemaine... Wait, no. That would've been The Conchord Five." ~ Mom

I spent last night on the couch at my sister's place. Today, my daybed and dresser were delivered. I think I'll be moving into her apartment on Monday. :D It's partially nerve-wracking but it's also kind of fun. Her cats are so cuddly and my room is nice and big. But it's definitely an adjustment.

She also doesn't have cable with Cartoon Network yet. So I'll still be hangin' with my parents on Sundays so I can watch The Mighty Boosh. XD I am a dork. But it amuses me so. We'll be getting Cartoon Network ASAP. And HBO if the guys say they're coming back ever. Otherwise it's not worth it.

This entry is boring. How can I fix that?



At least that's in your head now...?

I'm currently drinking a tiny Diet Coke. It's funny to see it on my desk next to my regular-sized Dr. Pepper. Jamie offered it to me and I was unable to say no. So I'm gonna be highly caffeinated. Woo!

I just wrote my last college paper, ever!!! And it did not suck. It was ten pages and took about four hours. Mom was acting like it should've taken a bunch of days, but that is not how I function. I get shit DONE.

Kathy just came back and we had a giggle fest for several minutes. SO EXCITED to go skating with Alan and the gang tomorrow. :) It's like Cool & The Gang. Only cooler.

Still drinking my Diet Coke. Wow. Talk about restraint!

I finished reading a book that I needed to read for my paper due Thursday. And wrote a response paper to When The Levees Broke for extra credit. All within about an hour.

Since then, I've been vegging in our living room. Listening to music. Yelling through the screen door at the frat boys. Wishing I knew how to turn water into Dr. Pepper....

And now Kathy's back and singing while she tries to finish her "fucking PA". She hates her major, so she's probably going to change after this semester. I'm so going to have to visit next year.

I'm getting really excited about living with my sister, though!!! I think my mom is, too. But she was being all weird on AIM today. She kept saying things like "I won't be able to cook for you". I told her that we'd still be visiting every weekend to steal her salsa and she said "I hope so".

Awwww. ♥


In other news, my friend Tara is about to play Jemaine as Tweedledee in Tell A Tale!!! I, of course, play Bret as Tweedledum. :D Enough links for ya?

I did not do anything today. Well, I did, but nothing of importance. It felt so weird because I usually have had something planned for the weekend. :( Instead, I just watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall, had a good ass dinner of celery, carrots, a sandwich & Nutter Butter, and then vegged with my roommate and her friends for a while.

We're thinking of sleeping on our back porch tonight. If it doesn't feel too weird to do so... we do live next to a frat, after all.

I also spoke to a couple of ducks!

Duck: Quack, quackquackquackquack.
Me: Oh really?
Duck: Quackquackquack...quack.
Me: That's fascinating!

People were watching. It was a party.

Okay, here's a meme I stole from wandersfound.

Rules:
* Post the names of 20 of your favorite musicians.
* See who can guess which is your favorite song by each.
* Once someone guesses right, bold that row and upload the song

1. Flight of the Conchords ~ Jenny sunnyringo ♥
2. Video Kid [hint: There are a lot of TV shows that utilize this.]
3. Uni & Her Ukelele ~ Metaly of Unfinished Songs sunnyringo ♥
4. Barenaked Ladies [hint: It sounds like something you might say to your dog.]
5. The Who [hint: Ukulele.]
6. The Beatles [hint: Fruit.] ~ Strawberry Fields Forever pineapple_sky ♥
7. Donovan [hint: Alice in Wonderland.]
8. The Monkees [hint: It's in/on Head.] ~ As We Go Along illusionedwords ♥
9. David Bowie [hint: Spiders.] ~ Ziggy Stardust pineapple_sky ♥
10. Prince [hint: Fruit.] ~ Raspberry Beret pineapple_sky ♥
11. Queen [hint: Transportation.] ~ Bicycle Race pineapple_sky ♥
12. Elvis (King. HA!) [hint: Umm...Love. XD]
13. Van Halen [hint: Inappropriate crush...] ~ Hot For Teacher kalaidascopeeye ♥
14. Talking Heads [hint: Crazy.] ~ Psycho Killer pineapple_sky & kalaidascopeeye ♥
15. Elton John [hint: Specific.]
16. Billy Joel [hint: Austria...?] ~ kalaidascopeeye ♥
17. Lily Allen [hint: Failed attempts at picking girls up.]
18. John Lennon [hint: Something to aspire to.] ~ Working Class Hero emeraldqueene ♥
19. George Harrison [hint: Looking back.] ~ When We Was Fab pineapple_sky ♥
20. B-52s [hint: You're WHAT??] ~ Love Shack makebelievetree ♥

Have at me! XD

HAPPY DAY MEME, DAY #3:

"'The falcon cannot hear the falconer.' That makes me think of Will Forte."


It's been a pretty good, productive day, despite the cold rain. My American Lit professor can't push our third paper back past Monday and I was like D: because there's no way I'd be able to write it this weekend. But I can write it tomorrow!

I critiqued the story that's being workshopped on Friday today, so I'm all set for that class. I'll have to critique another story on Friday night for Monday, but I think I can read and critique before the concert... I just can't focus enough to write a paper. You know?

All other classes are no problem. :]

It just feels so weird to already have Friday's story critiqued. Now I don't know what to force myself unwillingly to do for the night. XD I'm not even gonna think about the paper till tomorrow... Four pages on Hawthorne and another author I can think of to compare Hawthorne to. Maybe Thoreau, but that would be weird.

When my professor asked me if I liked Thoreau, I so felt like saying. "Yeah! His descriptions are very thoreau." Y'know... like "thorough"...

But I didn't actually say it.

I think one of the main things I hate about being sick is the fact that you sleep and rest all day, so you're wide awake when you need to sleep for class/work the next day. Last night, I kept having bizarre Watchmen dreams before actually getting sick. I feel like blaming Dr. Manhattan. But, luckily, resting helped and now I just feel sleepy and a bit drained.

That was the bad part of the day.

The good parts of the day are that BRET & HANNAH FINALLY GOT MARRIED (AND THEY'RE EXPECTING)! ♥ And that my professor was a total sweetheart and let me email him my assignment even though he usually doesn't accept that. And that Dad's home from San Antonio and he had fun. And that tomorrow's Friday, finally.

So, all in all, though I was sick, the day was actually not too bad. Things really improved when Kathy got back from class. She gave me crackers and made sure I was alright. :)

I think I shall have good dreams.

Today kicked ASS, despite me feeling like I didn't actually accomplish anything...

* I had an adorable dream where I had a little black kitten named Digby who was only, like, a week old. He was dependent on me and wouldn't let me put him down, and he was eating tuna out of my hand when I woke up. :)
* I learnt about my deafness in Psychology and was wowed.
* I made my African American Literature professor laugh, then laughed, which made her laugh more.
* I had banana pudding!
* I vlogged the most random vlog, ever (so far)!
* I wrote a great five-page paper about Blake and Wordsworth in an hour!
* I made a really, really obscure reference to two words from a Black Seeds song that really aren't all that memorable, and the best part was that I didn't even realize it - I just said it, then when I edited I laughed and laughed.

I do love whenever I have a paper, because I always take an hour and end up with the rest of the night free. I need to stop worrying because it ALWAYS ends up like this. XD

Today's vlog:



There was something else I was going to say, but I can't remember!

!!!,
Sar Bear

Right, well, I would create Punctuation Pie Day. A day were everyone utilizes punctuation to crazy degrees while consuming large portions of pie. I can see pie eating contests with posters that proclaim: "PIE! EATING! CONTEST!!!!!! ARE? YOU? ELIGIBLE?? THINK. YOU. HAVE. WHAT. IT. TAKES?!?! ....,,,,,,"

I refuse to ever answer these seriously. REFUSE.

To do:

+ Laundry Doin' it!
+ Get dinner before I starve to death. And die or something.
+ Watch Forrest Gump Pushing Daisies.
+ Icons?
+ Study? Maybe?

FOTC won 4 NZMAs yesternight!!!! Woooooo!!!! Their acceptance speeches make it even more exciting, cos damn they're funny and cute and wonderful. I get the feeling that they're having more fun filming this season. Possibly because they're better known and have more say in the process? Just a hunch.

Have you seen that Igor movie yet?
It's cute. I haven't seen it. Just a hunch.

Ba dum tish.

Everyone seems to be having a bad day today except me. I've been dancing alone in my room for hours. Though, to be honest, that's my daily routine, but. Shh.

BE HAPPY, PEOPLE! ♥

Me: Hee, you're so short.
Christina: Shut up.
Me: (stretching her leg over a mud puddle) I mean, you're not that short. You just have short legs.
(Christina hops over the puddle. I laugh at her.)
Christina: Shut up! You're so mean!
Me: I'm just kidding...You still make really good sandwiches.
Christina: Why do I like you?

Oh, Christina the short. Christina the loved. Christina the quoted a lot in my journal. ♥

I had a long day. I didn't get back to my room till 8:30--which means I was just in time to catch The Office. Whew! Ceanna, her parents, Sarah and I all went out to a Japanese steakhouse and ate lots of food. Followed by cheesecake. So I did get cake. Yeees! Then Ceanna and her parents took me shopping for mah art supplies. Double yeees! So now I'm good to go with that. :)

I am a really weird person to shop with. Ceanna and Ginny can back me up on this. I am odd. Tonight, I found myself doing something that interested me. When we entered Walmart (grr hiss), I was wearing my sexy red coat over my sparky green sweater that I love dearly. About five seconds later, I took the coat off and carried it in my arms around the store. Then, we found some supplies and I carried them around for a while until Ceanna's mom found us. Then I put them in the cart, still holding on to my coat (Don't Let Go The Coat... XD). We took off again in search of some shampoo for Ceanna. Then we went back to her mom and only THEN did I put the coat in the cart. I couldn't just put it in the cart with the supplies. I had to hold onto it. Why? I have no idea. I'm bizarre. I must have a coat-clinging issue.

Oh, and I also spent some time walking around with the hood part on my head, wearing it like a cape. I was Coat Girl: Keeping The World Warm. The only problem was that the fake fur was covering my eyes. So I was a blind super hero. But it worked for Daredevil. ...I'm such a nerd. Wow.

Oh, and then I ran into a side-mirror on an SUV. I just walked right into it. It hurt, kinda. Ow.

And THEN I came back to my room and had to color and cut out a larynx for my Voice For The Stage class. Yep. We're making larynxes...larynxi?...tomorrow. I naturally colored mine green. And named it Larry. Larry the Larynx.

You know you love it.

Personally, my own larynx has a name too. Laura.

I'm going to stop now. I'm scaring myself.

Have a nice day/night/afternoon/evening! See you tomorrow in my (late) p.m.!

♥ ,
Sara

P.S. I just told my mom about Larry the Larynx. Her reaction: "Why am I not surprised?" Hee hee!

My mom just said "Silverfish and ugh!" I am highly amused.

Okay. Sorry. Hello. I just woke up about 45 minutes ago. And I'm already fully showered, fully dressed and fully contacted. I'M READY!!!

...Too bad we're not going anywhere till this evening.

I think I'm going to write today. I'm on the loveseat (of hope and wonder) so my dad is no longer leaning over and looking at my screen. Now I just have to worry about my mom...But she doesn't seem to care. So I've got that going for me.

Every morning, "Who Are You?" scares me awake. It starts with a crash of Keith's cymbals so it always makes me jump. Then I smile cuz I realize what it is.

Last night was better than the night before last...at least as far as my chest goes. And it doesn't go very far because it doesn't have legs. So yeah. I'm more worried about John now. But he'll be okay. Because I will force him to be okay.

I just had a thought.

...Oh, you want me to tell you? Okay. I thought that maybe I could do a show with my digital camera. Sort of like what I've been doing. Only more frequently. Like episodes. Hmmm. But I'd have to have some exciting things to say or do. So we'll see. But I've already got a title...

Random Fun With Sara

Because it makes sense.

And jillo_loves_dom wants me to do a voice post in French. So I may be doing that next time I'm alone...That sounds depressing...But it's true. I wouldn't speak French when people can hear me! Which kind of defeats the purpose. But yes. I think that would be fun. I can show you how badly I speak French. Mais oui.

I think that's all for now. We're going to have waffles! With our new Belgian waffle maker! Yay!

I'll be back later tonight, as usual. :) Have a lovely day or night or what have you. I can't keep up with all these time zones...

Remember: There's no "I" in team. But there's a "Me".

Love & Waffles,
Sara

I told Rachel, Dallas and my French professor about Stella today. I even had a conversation with Rachel about Stella's school situation and Rachel agreed that it was unfairly limiting. So now you've got me, Ginny, Ceanna, Rachel, Dallas and my French professor wishing the best for you, wifey. ♥ My goal is to create a small, dedicated army of Stella supporters and demand that things be changed for the betterment of Sweden's student society.

Vote for me.

In other, non-society-altering news, I am sitting here in my Health classroom, writing all this into my notebook. I realize, of course, that you are reading this on my LJ, but I just thought I'd let you know that this post is brought to you straight from the fingers of my right hand. My currently aching right hand. Writing fast can hurt.

My health professor is about to show us some really disgusting pictures of people with infectious diseases. Oh boy. It's one of those things where my imagination is imagining that they'll be bad but the actual pictures will be even worse. And she just called one "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever". Doesn't that sound fun? Last class, she showed us a photograph of a little boy with Chicken Pox in his mouth. And I nearly died.

Today wasn't that bad, though, considering how many classes I had to live through. The day went by pretty quickly. I learned how to position lights in theatre. I laughed a lot. I watched a DVD about performance artists.

One cool thing that happened today was that I thought in French! I was thinking about The Muppets and suddenly realized that everything I was saying in my mind was in French. And that made me quite proud.

Tonight, I may work on my website. I'm hopefully going to update tomorrow for December, since my layout currently says "Happy November". But only if I can do all the updates I've been planning. Also, my January layout will involve a really bad pun that came to me this morning.

That's all for now. I have to see scary disease pictures now. I'll most likely be back later tonight.

Vi ses! :)
~Sara~

P.S. Don't ever ever ever EVER get meningitus! x_x

Snagged from boydsbabe:

( another one-word meme thing )

PLAH. I went to bed last night at approximately 4:06:45 a.m. I have no idea why I stayed up that long. I was eating popcorn, but that's not a good reason. But I had fun giggling with my roommate. So it was okay. ^_^

I need to count the number of songs that involve murder on my iTunes. I know it's probably big, but I don't know how big. And these things interest/amuse me. I think John brings out the merry murderer in me. *evil grin*

So. Today I have to go to the gym. I only have today and tomorrow and then I'm DONE with the gym forever. Or, at least I'll be done with being forced to go. So, pretty much done completely. Heh. I hate gyms. They're so...gym-like. I work out on my own terms. IE: I don't work out. :D But I keep losing weight, so something's working right for me. Maybe it's the "only eating one meal a day" part. And I walk a lot.

Wow. That paragraph was long and uninteresting. Sorry.

I'm going home tomorrow evening! Weee! And I only have two classes--both in the morning. So I'll have a lot of afternoon to just chill. Then my bus leaves at 5. I'm gonna get my guitar! I'm so excited. Hopefully I won't get so frustrated that I throw it across the room...again. As Pete Townshend has taught us: guitars can only take so much.

I need to pack. Hmph. I think I'm gonna have to do what I did last time and just pack my laundry into a suitcase. Cuz I haven't done my laundry. Or I could do it now...or tonight...Hmmm. Nah, too lazy. >_<

I think I'm gonna go watch "Albuquerque" one or eight more times.

Have a splendid day/night/whatever! ♥

~Sara~

I think I'm starting to get a cold. Either that or I'm just really hungry. I felt ill in Theatre II this morning, which could partially be due to stress. This week is pretty stressful, though I'm slowly getting through it alright.

I got my Wellness Passports done, so now all I've got left to worry about is
+ going to the gym five more times before November 21st
+ going to see The Wild Party on Thursday
+ buying a bus ticket for Spanksgiving break
+ studying for my final health exam before the (final) final

My finals are gonna be hell this year. First of all, I've got two on one day at the same exact time. So I'll have to resolve that. And my God, Meaning & Morality final is pretty much gonna make or break me. *sadface* But, here's the good news: I got a B+ on the stupid theatre "project"!! 20% of my grade! Yay! So my grade in that class will be good.

Ugh, I'm so tired. I hate being tired. I'm tired but I'm not, if that makes sense. I'm hyper and excited and happy to be back in my room finally, but my body's like "Sleep now!" So, naturally, my brain and my body are going to do battle. And my brain always wins. Why? Because my brain controls my body. Well, my brain and my heart share that duty, but my heart's currently watching a romantic movie and crying it's little heart-shaped eyes out, so my brain is left to do the work.

I love personification, don't you?

Today, I saw a squirrel. I looked at it. It looked at me. And for a split second, it followed me. And I felt like calling it to me and petting it. But then it ran off in search of nuts. *sigh* It always ends that way.

Now, to the point...now that I'm halfway down the page. Oy. Anyway...THE POINT! Here's a cute questionnaire thingie I'm filling out for spidergremlin. Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.

( i miss him so much when he is gone, but when he's near me i don't let on )

Anywho, that's that and this is this. I bring you Chapter 14 of Disillusions of Grandeur! Yaaaaay...I got kind of carried away with this one cuz I had about three hours to write it, so...yeah. Enjoy! ^_^



( i'm a musician, not a magician )


~Sara~

P.S. I've you're reading this, you've been tagged! So do the 6 random things about you. C'mon, it'll be a party! :)