although it's been said many times, many ways:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

to you.

love, me

ooh. Shot down.

back in O-Town. I gotta give it to ya, Jarnigan, it really is boring here. At the U there aren't enough hours in the day; here there are too many, it seems. But the lack of homework is a beautiful thing.

Can't blog anymore right now - going to the CHS girls
basketball game.

later yo.

ah, college. A place where you lose the friends you thought you'd always know, and you find friends you never knew you had. "Can I have another hug?" Priceless.

The plan for tomorrow (since I finished with finals today) is to chill out for awhile. Run some errands. Just play it cool, yo? Totally.

yay for being done with finals!! 'Twil be tres cool to hang out at home and not do anything. Main goals are to arrange a song for my acapella group and to finish the sweater for the Scrub. Also to see all the old friends - woot!

mm Tim's potato chips. original, no other. tasty.

man, you take your laptop all over campus for ONE DAY and certain buttons on the right side stop working. arrgh.

do you think butter labeled "Dec. 13" was okay to melt over popcorn tonight?

Definitely time for bed. Definitely. Most definitely.

Still listening to "Birdhouse in your Soul". I'm obsessed.

Darth Vader: I will have the penne a la arabiata.
Canteen Boy: You'll need a tray.
DV: Do you know who I am?
CB: Do you know who I am?
DV:This is not a game of "who-the-f*** are you," for I am Vader. Darth Vader. Lord Vader. I can kill you with a single thought.
CB: Well, you'll still need a tray.
DV: No I will not need a tray, I do not need a tray to kill you. I can kill you without a tray, with the power of the force which is strong within me. Even though I could kill you with a tray if I so wished, for I would hack at your neck with the thin bit until the blood flowed on the canteen floor...
CB: No, the food is hot, you'll need a tray to put the food on.
DV: Oh, I see, the food is hot, I did not realize, haha, haha. Oh, take the.. yes. I thought you were challenging me to a fight to the death.

Eddie Izzard - Circle

what a wasted 12 hours.

the coolest thing about this song is the chord changes from line to line. DL it and check it out.

I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
but I'm a little glowing friend
but really I'm not actually your friend,
but I am
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
who watches over you
make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it:
say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
make a little birdhouse in your soul
I've got a secret to tell
from my electrical well
it's a simple message and I'm leaving out
the whistles and bells
so the room must listen to me
filibuster vigilantly
My name is blue canary one-word
spelled l-i-t-e
My story's infinite
like the Longines Symphonette
it doesn't rest
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
who watches over you
make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it:
say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
make a little birdhouse in your soul
I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
but I'm a little glowing friend
but really I'm not actually your friend,
but I am
There's a picture opposite me
of my primitive ancestry
which stood on rocky shores and
Kept the beaches shipwreck free
Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off and
countless screaming argonauts
Bluebird of friendliness
like guardian angels
its always near
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
who watches over you
make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it:
say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
make a little birdhouse in your soul
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
who watches over you
make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it:
say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
make a little birdhouse in your soul
(and while you're at it
leave the nite lite on inside that
birdhouse in your soul)
Not to put too fine a point on it:
say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
make a little birdhouse in your soul

Brown Derbies' cover of Birdhouse in your Soul by They Might Be Giants

ooooh. Finals. Watch out.

I have a final paper to write, plus another research paper. Then there are two finals, one Saturday and one Monday. Some homework due Wednesday. I am going to die.

But hey, in a week, this gloom they call Autumn Quarter will come to a close, and I will be done. Woot.

Actually, life here is getting better by the day. I definitely feel more connected. Saturday evening was fantastic, mostly because I had my a cappella concert. The show itself was okay - I always enjoy singing - but the part that made me just overjoyed was the fact that so many people I knew came to see me perform. There were, of course, my high school buds, like Manzanita and Teasa and Possum Boy, but there were also new friends, like Q and BB, and LilHusky, and the clustermates of the high school buddies, and it all made me feel so loved. I couldn't believe how connected and "at home" I felt. I love familar faces.

We chose Secret Santas today, and I got this guy I don't really know. Ah well, Circuit City GiftCard time! Guys, tell me if you wouldn't use that. Or perhaps Best Buy... which is better?

I finally bought the Billy Joel CD I've been wanting for forever and a day - it's called Fantasies and Delusions: Music for Solo Piano. It is absolutely gorgeous. It was only 7 bucks - a nice change from the $20 it was when it first came out.

Just got back a half hour ago from bubble tea with a guy I met in the DC++ hUb. Smart thing to do? Prolly not. Fun? Definitely. nice guy, that Brahms. Screen names are so misleading.

til later.

I tried to discover a little something to make me sweeter
oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
i'm so in love with you
i'll be forever blue
that you give no reason
you know you're making me work so hard
that you give me no soul
i hear you calling
oh baby please
give a little respect to me
and if I should falter
would you open your arms out to me
we could make love not war
and live with peace in our hearts
i'm so in love with you
i'd be forever blue
what reason could drive a man to forsake his lover
that you tell me no soul
i hear you calling
oh baby please
give a little respect to me

RO's version of Wheatus's A Little Respect

i can hear your bare feet on the kitchen floor
and I don't have to have these dreams no more
i've found someone just to hold me tight
hold the insomniac all night

another reason to go to USC: the acapella is better. however, I did talk to my small group director today, and he's heard a lot of the BOCA stuff, and wants to do more pop stuff (if not all pop stuff). plus, small group is significantly better than the large group. So. yeah. there's hope.

know what's fun? late-night prank calls using sound boards. we haggett people are such dorks. :)

k, well, I've successfully stayed up until after 1 AM for the third night in a row now. I really need to break this cycle - if I keep it up I'll get sick again. my roommate said I'd probably get pnemonia. Sounds accurate to me.

although she's none the wiser
although we've barely met
i can recognize her
from the treatment that I get
so it's my duty to advise her
if she breaks the rules i've set up
although I'll admit it hasn't happened yet
i believe she's lying
i trust her to undermine my faith in her in time
i have every confidence that she'll dismantle mine
given time
as sure as she is sitting here
she's sure that she's awake
as soon as we're committing
we're admitting our mistakes
so of course it's only fitting
that the course we're going to take
is drawn and we're apart and slamming on the brakes
i believe she's lying
i trust her to undermine my faith in her in time
i have every confidence that she'll dismantle mine
given time
that's a given
given time

haha! I got away with TWO audio posts! you guys , if and when you call it, keep pushing "1" and get more posts! this is good fun.

yeah. Thanksgiving. I was happy to be with family and friends. At the same time, I now realize I could never spend an entire summer in Oly anymore, unless I'm working. It's too much.

Weird. That's how I feel.

turn down the lights, turn down the bed
turn down these voices inside my head
lay down with me, tell me no lies
just hold me close, don’t patronize
don’t patronize me
‘cause i can’t make you love me if you don’t
you can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
here in the dark, in these final hours
i will lay down my heart and i feel the power
but you won’t, no you won’t
‘cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t

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please, PLEASE open up new A sections for Chemistry 152. PLEASE.

I'm hoping home will allow me to get some good sleep. Ah, home... I love you.

close your eyes
and take your last breath
rest your head and sigh
the end is the beginning
and everyone between
some lost, some lost
and you won't feel a thing
and you won't recall
anything at all

Howie Day - Perfect Time of Day

You wouldn't believe the bags under my eyes. Really, they're like their own entity or something.... like frickin' rings on a planet. My cold won't let me sleep at night... one evening it'll be a stuffy nose causing my misery, and then the next night I'll be hopped up on Sudafed and it's my cough that's preventing me from attaining sweet oblivion. It won't go away - it just likes to change up the symptoms so it's not just the same old crap every night. How thoughtful.

Cannot wait to get home and see my family and friends. I visited some new buddies over in Bremerton this weekend, and I loved the feeling of being at home. Car rides instead of long walks in the cold. Homes instead of dorm rooms. Denny's instead of late-night chicken strips and fries at T-Caf. It was a nice break. O-Town will feel 100 times better, but Bremerton was a nice appetizer.

Three days. Until then, I have stuff to do (German paper due in a little over an hour). Gotta get to work. Later dudes.

(no music right now - there will be time later)