it's the new blue, you know

Ever get tired of existing?

I'm writing an entry instead of writing my overdue paper, which is always such a good idea.

And why *aren't* people constantly medicated? It makes life so much *better.* I just couldn't get into a daily regiment of self-medicating, which makes it a moot point, but really. Drugs = awesome. I'm a complete lightweight, cheap date when it comes to caffeine, and I really enjoy the perks of only needing a small cup of good coffee to stay awake and focused all night. I really wish I could bring myself to have even a cup of coffee everyday, but then I'd develop a resistance to caffeine and that would be *terrible.* After advancing to entire jugs of large carafes of liquid java, I'd then be forced to forage for methamphetamines and bankrupt myself getting Adderall illegally on a highly competetive campus, and then where would I be? (Skinny and poor, really. Key word being poor. Or is that skinny?) I wonder if there are people out there who feel peppy and organized and *awake* like I am right now...all the time. I'm so fucking jealous.

It would really be not a good idea to admit to being on anything more illegal than caffeine in this very public livejournal post.

I'm now wondering if it was my incipient mono that was making me so lazy and uncaring and tired about school and life in general, instead of PMS or SAD or really, my innate lazy and apathetic nature. In any case, I'd like for all that to be over soon, thanks. (Because I'm really in my heart-of-hearts peppy! And social! And caring about stuff! I swear!)

Most of this post is dedicated to my love for Hal, my first emoporn crush. However, it's also dedicated to my unending hatred for having to write a paper on him and his emoporn relationship with Falstaff, because I would just like to veg out, plz. Actually, I'd like to write stories. Damn.

My graaaaades.

So depressed.

Have got into a car accident that was my fault.

Am feeling like a really fucking moronic asshat.

That is all.

Grarrrrgh!

So annoyed at my grades! Read: annoyed at myself for my grades. Well, for one grade, because the other grades (Oceanography and Japanese were pretty much given and well. :shrug: ) But Social Psych!!! Arghhh!!! It was SUCH AN EASY CLASS! Rawrr rawrrr rawrr rawrrrrrr. It was just a cumulative effect from both Oceanography and Japanese that sunk my GPA and I'm really annoyed that I care about GPA but I guess I do.

(NOTE: Future me! Don't let your friends' thinking you're a COMPLETE slacker to make you believe you really ARE one.)

The GPA is not bad. Just.

Mediocre.

(AND I SOUND LIKE SUCH A GRADE SNOB KILL ME NOW.)

Next grade-school year me: please redirect your attention back to this LJ post and REFLECT! Be all GRRRR!!

But you know, I guess in a way I should be proud I got the grades I did based on the amount of work I put into school...?

Gah! :newspaper smack!!: NO!

WORK HARDER NEXT YEAR. Care about grades when you're actually in the classes!!! (Actually, you know...WORK.)

I'm so hopeless... ¬.¬;;

In other news, we've got an investation of hairy, wriggly, black CATERPILLARS that are EVERYWHERE. I mean, this is not your average, "Oh, look there are caterpillars on the ground," but a fucking OH MY GOD MY FACE IS CRAWLING WITH FIFTY CATERPILLARS I JUST BRUSHED UP AGAINST.

These mofos? Otherwise known as tent caterpillars. They form an army line like two inches deep of pure caterpillar up a tree, where they simply destroy the tree. You can tell which trees are infested because its leaves have been stripped bare. Also, there are caterpillars HANGING AT FACE HEIGHT. Yeah, you read right. These suckers LEVITATE.

This is SO totally why I don't believe in God. What the hell happened to God making insects crawl TWICE? :
"the living creatures of every kind that creep." Three verses, and 24 hours later, He makes "all kinds of creeping things of the earth." (from Slate Magazine - Blogging the Bible)

They were REALLY bad two weeks ago, webs and caterpillars and STRINGS of CATERPILLARS, as in a string made up of caterpillars hanging from trees. Not to mention underfoot, squishing, and in dorm rooms, between pages of books, IN YOUR BED OMG. :cry:

The buildings and grounds people cut off the lower branches of trees where the brunt of caterpillars were a week ago, but they didn't get to the top branches, where there were still caterpillars whose silk could still reach face-level and below. Still, there was a vast improvement in the quality of life last week.

Today, 9:00 AM.
Me: Doo dee doo. :does wary caterpillar check, eyes straining for tell-tale little glimmerse in the air signifying enemy presence.:
Me: :goes on my way.:

Today, 10:00
Me: Returning from Japanese oral exam. About to head for front door.
Curtain of caterpillars hanging down from silk thread that moves with the wind: *EXISTS BALEFULLY TO DESTROY YOUR LIFE*

Let me say it again:
These caterpillars? Levitate.

Think about it.

You eye those newly leafed trees warily: Fucking trees with their fucking caterpillars.

Every time you see a nice leaf blow past, you flinch--"OH GOD CATERPILLAR!"

The slightest tickle and you're slapping at yourself wildly, screaming at passersby: PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD: CATERPILLAR CHECK.

Imagine this a campus-wide phenomena.

Like the Handsmaid Tale, it's already happened.

Please look at my school, height of caterpillar infestation. Commiserate.

I was outraged, but now I just have this deep, deep sense of foreboding about the direction this country is headed.

From today's Washington Post:

New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon.

Washington Post article: Forever Pregnant

Then they proceed to quite nicely dress it up and say that it's because it's for the health of all those unborn babies, and it all sounds almost reasonable while you're in the thick of the reasons. But something grates and then you read Salon's rebuttal article, which sums up the indignation you're still reeling over.

For serious, no Western European country is as crazy as bugfuck America.

Rawrrrrrrr. Being a girl sucks SO MUCH sometimes. WTF hormones?!!

Am right here, right now, at this moment very cranky at the entire world.

There's a poetry reading by Louise Gluck right now (Poet Laureate) and I was going to go, but got the location mixed up with somewhere else. I mean, by the time I realize (after getting to the wrong place), it's already 4:15 and that would mean going back up to my dorm to look up the location and then go back to the general vicinity--and what the fuck ever. Waste of time being so late. And normally, this wouldn't even faze me, but I am SO. FUCKING. ANNOYED. right now.

This in addition to throwing a tantrum yesterday that my mom repacked shit I wanted to leave at home and her leaving out my sandals. SO IRRATIONAL and I KNOW it but I can't help but feel so ANGERLY.

Seriously. Where are the "placate hormonal women" drugs on the market right now??

Why? Why??

This happened last semester too: a really annoying cold hit right before finals.

This time, the flu the DAY BEFORE midterms.

I think it a VERY sad state of affairs that I have (almost) no problem skipping class to sleep in, but can't make myself ask for an extension on the in-class midterm when I'm all ache-y.

But anyway, school has been LOTS of fun. (Even with the all-time low test score of 63 on my first Oceanography exam. Ha! Above 60--the magic number!) I have done a 180 with my japanese class, and there is much love for it. <33 That move from the 9:00 time slot to the 10:00 one made a world of difference. My sensees are amazed.

Though :choke: I scheduled my plane on the day of the midterm oral exam PLUS I missed today's evaluated individual meeting because I collapsed (well, more like gingerly crept into) bed after morning classes and didn't wake up until 5. I am feeling grateful to escape from Yamamoto-sensee, Kagaya-sensee, Hosaka-sensee AND TA O'Donnell-san's disapproving eye(s) for spring break. There are a lot of profs for a class of 8.... (Then the class is further split into half on Mon-Wed-Fri so there are only 4 students then.)

We'll see how it turns out.

I saw this go around, and I thought I'd try it out.

Johari - personality
Nohari - flaws

Anonymous is fine. =)

I am picky...

The Priss Deliberate Brutal Love Dreamer (DBLDf) Mature. Responsible. Aristocratic. Excuse me. The Priss. Prisses are the smartest of all female types. You're highly perceptive, and confident in your judgements. You'd take brutal honesty over superficiality any time--your friends always know where they stand with you. You're completely unfake. Don't tell me that's not a word. You're also excellent at redirecting internal negative energy. These facts indicate people are often intimidated by you. They also fall for you, hard. You have a distant, composed allure that many find irresistible. If only more of them lived up to your standards. Your exact opposite: The Playstation Random Gentle Sex Master You were probably the last among your friends to have sex. And the first to pretend that you're pregnant. LOL. Though you're inclined to use sex as weapon, at least it's not as one of mass destruction. You're choosier than most about your partners. A supportive relationship is what you're really after. Whether you know it or not, you need something steady & long-term. And soothing. ALWAYS AVOID: The Playboy, The Loverboy CONSIDER: The Manchild Link: The 32-Type Dating Test by OkCupid - Free Online Dating. My profile name: cinderfalling

so school's back in swing, and I just dusted out my wallet for 3-day ski passes, a sushi boat dinner, and massage lessons taught by the local spa place.

Camille's gonna teach me how to snowboard, and just to be on the safe side, I got the 3-day pass instead of the month-long ones. We always have next year. =)

I'm also taking sledding! I wanted to take figure skating, too, but schedule conflicts... So sad.

(Look at me go! Miss Northeast Transplanted from Cali!)

Free University's awesome--those are the random-ass classes taught by mainly students, but the massage class I'm taking is professional. Ehehe. I'm also taking Italian Cooking and Knitting for begginers. Also want to take this Beyond HTML class that teaches CSS, which would kick ass because I've been meaning to learn it for years.

I've been mainly posting to friends' blogs... But no more! Welcome me back, Livejournal, unto yon arms!

In other news, I totally missed my 9 am class today because I accidentally set my alarm for 7:45 PM instead of AM.... D'oh. Oh well, it was only Japanese... The bane of my life. But really! This school is so damn evil and shortsighted: they schedule classes THE DAY AFTER you're scheduled to get here. As in, I had classes at 9 AM after 16 hours of traveling and 40 hours of being "awake."

Also have finished a draft of an original short story--slashy and future-tech! (Would anyone be interested...?) (never mind that it was for class) and have a yen to complete this other story, with these characters, you know, Blood and Ishuca and Blood-clone? That would really be some kind of kickass. Because OMG. It's been so damn long since I've finished anything closely related to fannish. And it hurts my soul.

And yea, our (mysteriously white British) forefathers proclaimed that Thanksgiving would be a bountiful harvest with a cornacopeia of goodwill admidst the the snow falling like fat jujubees and blanketing the earth like Santa's North Pole.

...help. Everyone's home for holidays! I don't know how to deal with snow!

I need to go walking in this weather, cuz I'm housesitting for a professor and his BEAUTIFUL Alaskan Aleutian(?) dog.

And my English professor invited the losers not going home for thanksgiving over to his.... I will probably be going, yes. (Him and all his extended family.... GAH.) And he was like, Spring, I feel like we didn't have enough time to go over your story in class, so do you want to go over it over break as long as you're on campus? And I'm all MEEP. (Because I really don't want to out and say Audrey and Seth have mad gay sex in the story though the professor was the one to point out all the unintented gay bits in class. BWAHAHAHA)

Ok, yeah. I like the Japanese language, but I never wanted to actually visit Japan. This article just heightened my anxieties.

New York Times - Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan

Stuff like: A young Japanese woman in the comic book "Hating the Korean Wave" exclaims, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" In another passage the book states that "there is nothing at all in Korean culture to be proud of."

ánd:

The two comic books, portraying Chinese and Koreans as base peoples and advocating confrontation with them, have become runaway best sellers in Japan in the last four months.

Really? Bestsellers? No joke? Not an exaggeration?

( Article here )

O'REILLY: All right, the Providence Chronicle is reporting that Rhode Island state senator Michelle Rosenthal, a Democrat, is proposing a law that levies a fine on all dog owners, or as she calls it, a "breeding tax", on all dog owners who don't have their pets sterilized. This is so typical of the Democratic mindset, folks. There's not a problem in the world that they don't think can be solved with more taxes. But more than that, this confirms what I've suspected for a long time: Liberals hate puppies. It's only a matter of time until Rosenthal and other ultra-liberals like her start demanding mandatory abortions for all dogs.

What could be more American than a boy and his dog? 95 percent of Americans identify as fluffy puppy lovers. But these radical-left, fringe groups that want to destroy the American way of life--they've gone after the flag, they're going after Christmas, and now they're going after puppies. And that's not right.

Because I am bored and want you all to suffer along with me, here is the transcript to the Homecoming halftime show as performed by the Williams College Mucho Macho Moocow Marching Band.

( Homecoming 2005 - Harry Potter and the Sears Cup )

Oh, you can also see the pictures I took here:
http://williams.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000203&l=2e32a

You don't need a facebook account to see it.

IT'S SNOWING.

:tries not to hyperventilate:

...cool.

Oh god. How is it already Wednesday? Tomorrow is Thursday, due date for paper and Indian dancing and the day after that is Friday and the day after that I will be drunk off my ass. Time is moving by very ultra fast. Good thing?

Genital mutilation yay!

You're unfit to get knocked up if you're not married, so don't even try, missy! No intrauterine insemination, donation of an egg, donation of an embryo, in vitro fertilization and transfer of an embryo, or sperm injections for you! And that goes double for you damn sparkly gay folk who're just looking to adopt and carry off our precious hetero children.

From the Journal Gazette:
The bill then requires “intended parents” to be married to each other and specifically says an unmarried person may not be an intended parent.

A doctor can’t begin an assisted reproduction technology procedure that may result in a child’s being born until the intended parents of the child have received a certificate of satisfactory completion of an assessment required under the bill.

The assessment is very similar to what is required for infant adoption and would be conducted by a licensed child placing agency in Indiana.

[...]

A description of the family lifestyle of the intended parents is also required, including individual participation in faith-based or church activities.

But yeess...but that's not the point! You see, Sen. Miller says:

“We’re not trying to stop people from having kids; we’re just trying to find some guidelines,” she said.

She did concede it would stop single people from using methods other than sexual intercourse but said “all the studies indicate the best environment for a child is to have a two-parent family – a mother and a father.”

[...]

“There’s a concern that there’s no regulation over this whole industry,” [Sen. Gary Dillon] said.

It's an industry now, eh? Whole big baby-making PLANTATIONS.

Two links here:

http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2005/10/3/223530/406
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/12813691.htm
Uhm. So. Indiana: pretty fucked up. The fact that this bill even came up on the table? So much cry.

So: can someone just tell me it's just a hoax? That, "OMG, Spring: you're sooooo gullible!"

So the Japanese 101 gets rented ipods this semester. Yes, WTF yes? But in a good way. I was expecting stinky old used ipods but no! They're iPod NANOs! They're so tiny and...and tiny! I hope to god I don't lose it. Also, another part of the iPod WTF is...they're synchronized to one of the teacher's computers, so I think technically we're not able to import music into them. ???? What's the point of having an iPod if....?!! So any iPod savvy people on my friendslist??? I'd dearly love to actually use the damn thing cuz it's pretty cool. And I can get bragging rights. ;)