the new album of the week is Purity Guaranteed by Reverse Osmosis. I can't stop listening to "Lighted up" (lyrics in last post) or "Impermanent" or "Tattoo on her Heart"... man I love a cappella.

Speaking of which, I'm transcribing a song that needs to be done by Tuesday. This week also includes 3 midterms, 2 lab write-ups, and then all the regular stuff: 9 hours of labs, 10 hours of work, 13 hours of class. So, you might say that I need to get moving. And I'd agree. Time to go take a shower and then get to work.

What comes to mind today
is where I was before
sitting lonely trying to stay so drunk
waiting for somebody to leave open some door
Tuesday came and left as quickly as expected
I didn't notice that I needed it to stay
you know sometimes I need to be neglected
sometimes love looks good in gray
but
I believe
somewhere there's a vision in the dark
and I can't say
unless there's someone there with a spark
to keep me lighted up

oh Gabriel Mann, how I love you.

the OC was good tonight, you should watch it.

I went on a hike to the Olympic National Rainforest this weekend. It was really, really cool and I can't think of a better way I could have spent my time. (Except I prolly shoulda done some homework.) many valuable things were learned this weekend:
- UW owns random things you wouldn't necessarily know about. For example, a Olympic Natural Resource Center which is a really nice facility with both dorms and apartments out in Forks, Washington, which is quite underused. Yet it is still connected to UW ethernet and satellite, and is much nicer than the actual dorms on campus. If I could only find a nice summer job over there...
- It is hard to buy breakfast materials for 7 people, get everyone to equally contribute, and find food that everyone will eat. But yet people don't seem to mind giving money to a beer fund. Go figure.
- Asian Santas are rare, but if you find one, he gives you a dollar bill.
- Hand warmers are AWESOME.
- There is life without iPod.
- Four species of tree live on the peninsula: Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce, Western Cedar, and Western Hemlock (our state tree).
- Girls have a 2nd dessert stomach that allow them to eat 2 dessert mints and possibly a bite of fried ice cream while leaving one tiny bite of burrito on the plate because it "won't fit".
- When attempting to watch a movie on a computer, it would help if said computer had speakers.
- The kindness of fellow human beings is not to be overlooked. Often, it may go unreciprocated, but by all means it must be passed on to the next generations...
- Steve Trudell is my new hero.

That's all I got for now. It really was a great trip. It's always nice to do this sort of thing; it makes me really ambitious to go on more trips this summer, and it opens my eyes to possibilities in life that I never I think about while I'm immersed in my school work at the UW.

Well, one thing I didn't get around to this weekend was a shower, and it's about high time, I believe. Then dinner, and homework. Back to the daily grind...

girriffic666: im excited
girriffic666: a real job!
girriffic666: so far ive been all about the volunteer bullsh*t
girriffic666: and the very short term jobs (one day as an extra)
KillahKyla: haha
KillahKyla: yeah that's no good
girriffic666: also
girriffic666: its a symbolic step towards independence
girriffic666: something im mos def craving what w/ my heinous b*tch of a mother
KillahKyla: haha... how weird
girriffic666: yup
KillahKyla: last year it was all about hating your dad
KillahKyla: and now this year...
KillahKyla: it's mom
girriffic666: it IS funny how that sh*t happens huh?
girriffic666: i think ive come to realize that its bad to decide u hate just one
girriffic666: they're both my parents
girriffic666: i hsould hate them both
girriffic666: PLUS dad's gotten way better about the gayness
girriffic666: that was the big issue last year w/ him
KillahKyla: hahaha, i should quote you on that
KillahKyla: i think I will
girriffic666: YAY
girriffic666: i love makin' the quotes!!!
KillahKyla: :-)
girriffic666: *sigh
girriffic666: im a proud panda

when's the last time I had a deep, soul-searching, honest, REAL conversation with someone?

I want to have one again. Maybe this weekend. I'm going on a wonderful hike to the Olympics. Should be fantastic...

I'm tired, and I still have hours of work ahead. I don't know how I am going to do this. Really. Seriously.

Oy vey.

BlakMetalKrieg: a day without you may as well be an eternity...
BlakMetalKrieg: :-D

I hate my lack of ethnicity. All my babies are going to be at least a quarter SOMETHING. Preferrably half. Mixed race babies have a higher chance of being beautiful, wouldn't you agree? I refuse to let them all be 1/8 German, 1/16 Irish, 1/16 Scottish, 1/4 French Canadian, and 1/2 other assorted whiteness, like me... actually, that probably won't happen, seeing as how I'd have to marry somebody with the same mix of inheritance as me. NOT a good idea!

"It's the first rule of genetics, spread the genes apart!" -Eddie Izzard

Time to do my lab write up somewhere where I won't be so distracted... I think I know where I'm gonna do it, too... the same place where I'm going to go get chai...

is there anything wrong with not wanting to do this anymore?

thanks to kyle for being the first to post comments on my blog. you get a treat or something. What do you think about Cadbury Creme Egg Omelettes?

My plan today was to go to Starbucks, drink coffee and work on math homework. Doesn't look like that's going to happen now. Why do Sundays always make me lazy? I guess I can just stay in McCarty and do homework, or go to the library. Doesn't seem like very much fun, though...

I need to read Chapter 12 for o-chem.

bleh

bleh

bleh

KillahKyla: 1. math homework
KillahKyla: 2.shower
KillahKyla: 3. nap
hanging onacliff: well, i'd say do the first one, then wait for me to show up for the other 2 ;-)

On the iPod today: "In My Life" by The Rasmus...
Because even if they are Finnish, they're better than Linkin Park.

BLIEAGH: did you watch american idol?
KillahKyla: nope
BLIEAGH: aw
KillahKyla: no time tonight
KillahKyla: was it good
BLIEAGH: one guy was so amazing
BLIEAGH: and one girl was super hot
BLIEAGH: and good
BLIEAGH: but 16
BLIEAGH: so less hot?
KillahKyla: haha, way to make yourself not sound like a pedophile
BLIEAGH: yeah, I'm good at it?

This is a hoax:





Just read about it here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/bonsai.htm

FINALLY got around to changing my template so that my comments are enabled. HAWT! So you guys can all leave me one. Or two. OR A BILLION.

Today I wanted to wring several necks. Here's a list:

Neck #1: My o-chem professor's, who decided to write an impossible test and then NOT show up on test day so we couldn't sulk in front of him. Furthermore, there are no more chem lectures this week. The entire week! He cancelled them ALL! Not that this is a bad thing; I think I quite like it. But still, he's giving us a chance to cool off for a week so that we don't jump him in class with switchblades or chloroform from the NMR machine. That's my theory, anyway.

Neck #2: If the NMR machine had a neck, I would have wrung it. Stupid thing didn't save my data and I'll have to spend another half hour of much-needed lab time to acquire it again. Also, it made me miss bio lecture.

Necks #3 and #4: Those of the girls who walked down the hall as Ashley was sitting outside her door, getting counseled by a friend over the phone. This would have been innocuous enough if it weren't for the fact that one of the girls' cell phones hadn't gone off loudly, prompting the guy on the other side of Ash's line to ask what the noise was. Ashley explained that it was just "some girl's cell phone going off loudly", which was a perfect explanation and not said rudely at all. As I listened from the study room where I was doing math homework, one of the girls rudely mimicked exactly what Ash had said, and then called her a name as they walked into their room and closed the door. I was shaking with rage as I left the study room to go stand in front of their door for a minute, wondering if I should have a little chat with "Casey" and "Dana" for being rude, unsympathetic morons who had no idea what kind of a bad day Ashley was having, and who had no basis for the comment they had made. Instead, I listened as they said something about "the stupid tall girl out in the hall" while they were in their room, and then I went and sat next to Ashley, deciding to let it slide even though I was still trembling with anger. But then, three minutes later, one of the idiots poked her head out the door. Usually I'm not one for confrontation, but this girl was asking for it as she requested in a snooty tone:
"Could you guys try and keep it down?"
I couldn't take it any more. "Could you try and be less of a bitch?"
The girl, looking a bit taken aback: "That wasn't me, that was my roommate."
My adrenaline was going. "Well, maybe you could please tell her to tone it down, then."
"Whatever, she started it." The girl motioned to Ash sitting on the floor.
"All she did was tell her friend on the phone what the noise was, because he asked. She didn't say it in a mean way."
"She rolled her eyes!"
Ash interjected: "I was laughing. I wasn't being mean..."
Me: "She was just explaining to her friend what the noise was about. Is that wrong?"
The girl: "Okay. Fine. Sorry 'bout that."
The door: SLAM.
Idiot.

Neck #4: Andy's, for being insensitive to anyone and everyone, but especially to females, and ESPECIALLY to Ashley.

Neck #5: Ashley's, for giving Andy another chance. But I don't really blame her for that. In fact, I'll change the "neck-wringing" thing to something less harsh: next time we share a pint of Haggen-Daas, I'm eating more than my fair share. So ha. :)

Well, now that I spent 20 minutes on that instead of on my studying, I guess it's time to go to bed. Why does the time after midnight seem to just fly by?

how can I possibly function on so little sleep?

Thursday I napped from 8 to 12:30, and then I stayed up until 6 doing my lab report. Finally I got to sleep for another 2 hours or so, skipping math AGAIN. Friday, I was going to go straight to bed after my lab ended at 7:30 but somehow I ended up going out with friends to the hookah bar. (Which was excellent, and I don't regret it, and I'm going back again sometime with friends. Definitely.) Slept from about 3 to maybe 11, and then it was time for my a cappella retreat at Samir's house. This was definitely worth the time and the effort - we started sounding really good by the end. We also had some much-needed bondage time over pizza, the movie Pootie Tang, and then later the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Hutch Theatre. It was a wonderful evening, and I finally got to bed around 3.

The next morning, I woke up at 10:30 on the dot, which is funny, because that's the exact time I was supposed to be at work. So Michelle's boyfriend drove me so I could get there asap (which was extremely nice of him and I need to get him a gift of thanks) and I worked. Thank goodness selling parking passes doesn't take a whole lot of thinking or consciousness.

After work, I was zonked out by 3:30, and despite my attempts to wake up to go study for o-chem, I didn't get up again until 8. So I spent the time between 8 and 2:00 am trying to absorb as much knowledge about o-chem as I could. Didn't help, though - our professor this quarter is insane and only tests on crap that's not in the book. bleh. At least I got out of work 75 minutes early today.

Well, two more midterms to study for (thursday math, friday bio), and also a math homework problem set and a lab write-up. Life these days is insane, but I'm trying my best to roll with it.

can't wait until summer.