Super Glamerous

I miss this. Semi-anonymously spilling my soul into the abyss of the internet. I should do this more often. Although I'm not surprised I don't, I was always horrible at keeping a diary as a kid. But let's try again, shall we?

So I've started my second year of college. It's been fun. I still haven't gotten into any shows, but whatever. I'm doing crew for Into the Woods and that should be fun. (Of course I would prefer to be acting in it, but this is what happened and I'm okay with that). I seem to have adopted a policy of "It will Happen when it Happens" and if something doesn't work out for me then it just wasn't meant to be. There are so many things in my life that are beyond my control and based on chance, so it's a lot less stressful to not try to control them.

I just realized while typing this that I happen to be wearing both a nose pore strip and some crest whitestrips. At the same time. Boy do I feel glamorous about that... I'm also currently not wearing any makeup, to add to the glamor. They should just lock me up for impersonating Lady Gaga I'm so glam right now. Wow.

Anyway... I forgot what else I was going to say... So I'll leave it at that. Farewell.

Sure it's a hick town, but it's MY hick town!

Clearly I am not keeping up with this as well as I'd hoped.

Right now I'm only doing this as a way to distract myself until my sister is done with the shower. I just finished a workout video (P90X Ab Ripper X, it's super intense and now I'm going to be sore for days but it's so worth it) and I was all ready to hop in the shower only to find that she had usurped it while I wasn't looking. Harumph!

So today is the fourth of July. Independence day. The day that our founding fathers decided they'd had enough of England's bullshit and signed the Declaration of Independence all those years ago (234 to be exact). So I'm going to watch our dinky town's parade with my parents and grandparents (and my shower usurping sister) in order to remind myself how much of a hick town this really is. But hey, it's my hick town and I still love it, and I will miss it if only for the people here that I actually like. Like you two, the only people who actually read my blog. I love you and I'm going to miss you when I leave for good. A lot.

Well, it sounds like the shower is finally unoccupied, so I'll go wash myself off.

*Edit: Nevermind, it wasn't. I had to go tell her to finish up...

Summer Sleep/Work schedule

I'm falling into old habits again. I stay up late doing essentially nothing on the internet because momentum doesn't let me get up to get ready for bed. Then I stay in bed until noon for the same reasons. Then I can't really get going to do anything until late and all I really feel like doing is loafing around the house. I'm giving myself a little bit of a break on that regard because I really haven't been home like this in nine months, and I'm still getting used to being back here. Although, I still haven't seen two of my best friends since getting back (read: You guys, the two people who actually read this thing). I really want time to hang out with the two of you soon because I miss you, and it's stupid that I've been home almost a week and haven't seen you yet. That is partially my fault, though, I could call you and initiate something.

I had a job interview today (actually yesterday, but that's a technicality). I start work on Monday if the other place I applied to doesn't call me back by then (or maybe even if they do, the job I just got seems like a pretty sweet deal). It's looking more and more like I'm going to take this job, and I am excited for it because it's something I'm interested in and care about to some degree, but the only problem I have with it is the hours. It goes from about 1:30 to 10pm Monday through Friday all summer, which is a little bit more than I was prepared to work. That just leaves weekends and mornings for doing other things, and we all know I'm not a morning person. Regardless, I'll probably still take this job. I am just a little upset, though, that it will cut so much into my summer...

"To-do" list items completed today: 6
Random Fact of the day: I wore shorts in public despite my unshaven legs.

When I wasn't even paying attention!

So I'm going to backdate this one a little because today was an important day that I let slip by without documentation! Not only was today the first anniversary of this blog, but it was also the official last day of my freshman year of college. Tomorrow I'm going to Disneyland to celebrate. Because honestly, why not?

Days until summer (by "summer" I mean "when I get home"): 3
Random fact of the day: When I watch too much anime, I start to feel like my life is an anime. Although, that holds true for anything, really...

Phew!

About two hours ago, I left my last class of my freshman year of college! Woohoo! Now all I have to do is take my two finals on Tuesday and pack everything up and I'll be all done! I just have to get my hands on a few boxes...

This afternoon I decided to finally download google chrome, just to see what all the fuss was about. It's a pretty good browser. It takes a little getting used to, but it automatically imported all my bookmarks and everything from Firefox, so that was convenient. I mostly wanted to try it to see if I could upload videos faster on youtube, because generally it takes at least an hour, depending on how big the file size is, and I'm impatient, and chrome's big thing is that it's super fast. So I tried it, and the test video only took like 20 minutes, but it was a raw file straight from my camera and it was a lot smaller than the size my videos normally export to, so I don't know if it really did anything. I'll have to try it out again later when I have a real video to put up.

Anyway, I started cleaning up my room earlier (before class) to try to get it ready for packing, and it's amazing how much stuff I can hoard after only nine months. I ended up throwing away a bunch of empty containers and assignments from fall that I could have brought home with me over winter or spring break but didn't for whatever reason. I also realized that I brought a bunch of stuff like folders and extra binders that I didn't end up needing (I used spiral bound notebooks for class, they were a lot easier than binders). I also kept my notebook from last quarter here, when I totally could have brought it back either time I went home after winter quarter. I don't even know... There's just way too much stuff here, and it's hard to get rid of it without having the boxes to pack it away in yet. Tomorrow I'll go get some, and then I'll start sending stuff home.

Days until Summer: 7

Random Fact of the Day: I got extra credit in my psych class for just showing up last Thursday.

So close to being done

I have four more classes, one discussion, two papers, two finals, and a four-hundred-mile drive separating me from my summer vacation. I've pretty much mentally checked out at this point. It's so weird thinking about moving out of here in a week and a couple of days, but it's going to happen whether I like it or not. I meant to send a box of stuff home last weekend, but that didn't happen. I need to buy more boxes. I need to write my papers. I need to stop starting these sentences with the letter "I."

Days Until Summer: 9
Random (tmi) Fact of the Day: I have to go to the bathroom.

A ... girl?

So I pretty much fail at the whole posting every other day thing, but I guess I would rather have something interesting to say than put up some crap for the sake of putting something up. Maybe I'll do that in August for BEDA...

Anyway, today I was in a production of Peter Pan that had been reduced to about 30 minutes. I was a mermaid. It was fun. We performed it at this ghetto school carnival in Santa Ana, and there was a little girl there who absolutely loved mermaids, it was adorable. We (the mermaids) came out before the show to get the kids excited and we asked if any of them wanted to learn how to walk like a mermaid and this girl immediately raised her hand (and she was the only one, there were only about 8 people in the audience at that point) so we taught her the mermaid walk. And then after the show she poked her head through the curtain to see us again. So adorable!

Then, this evening we performed a raunchy version for the people at our school. There were maybe fifteen people there, at the most but we were mainly doing this one for ourselves anyway because during rehearsal we kept thinking of ways that the show could be more "adult" in some parts. So the mermaids got turned into total sex pots and it was really fun and we gave random lap dances to people in the audience and we groped Wendy. Also, in reference to the title of this post, one of my (five) lines is "A girl?" after Peter tells us that, oh, that's only Wendy after she interrupted his story, and in the kid's version I say it like "A girl? Wow, I've never seen a real live girl before (because I'm a mermaid and everyone else on this island is a boy)!" but in the adult version I say it like "A girl? Wow, I'm getting all kinds of excited for this girl here that I never got excited for for Peter before, this is sexy awesome!" I thought it was funny, even if no one else got it. Maybe it's just difficult to inflect that much into two words.

Days until summer: too few because I'm not ready for finals yet and too many because I can't wait for summer!
Random Fact of the Day: I have five unused tampons, soon to be four, because I forgot I needed them when I was already at the store on Wednesday so now I have to make an extra trip tomorrow and it's really annoying.