Taking another step.

I am utterly tired today. This comes as no surprise, considering how at 9:00 last night, Stephanie invited me to a LOTR mini-marathon. Considering Carol's AWOL status yet again, I agreed. Besides, could anyone conceive of me saying no to the Lord of the Rings? So in the end, Aditi (that's her name, I discovered, not DeeDee. My mistake.) wanted to see part of HP: Prisoner of Azkaban, so we did, while Jenn and Steph went to pick up Jana, who was coming in from DC around 10. We ate cookies, we laughed, and we watched Disc 1 of Extended ROTK. In essence, we par-tayd! It was great. Considering Disc 1 ended at 3 AM, no way was I gonna force Jenn to drive me back to the Desolate Dorm. So armed with my hand-knit socks, I curled up under a really soft fleecy blanket and slept like a rock until 11 AM. Good times.

The other thing that is making me tired is that I have decided to get in shape for once. To commemorate this decision, I power-walked 15 laps around the track outside my dorm. Hopefully I burned a few calories there.

People who own webcams are funny...

http://www.funpic.hu/swf/numanuma.html

Dear friends,
Please be advised that the above does not in any way suggest I like that song. However, those of you who know me well will find that it actually is on my i-tunes playlist, having played a grand total of 47 times. I'm sorry, it's just too catchy. And please be advised that I have never done any of the actions suggested by the above video. No, not me! Never!

Thanks,
Annemarie

How Nerdy Are You?

On procrastination and the effects of having too much homework....

I find that when I have excessive amounts of homework (which has accumulated mostly due to my procrastination and laziness) I turn to organization. "Oh, my floor needs sweeping? What a coincidence! Psychology can wait." "Really, my underwear drawer could use some reorganizing? Sure! No problem." I realized that after I had meticulously folded every shirt in my drawer, sorted them according to style and color, and then proceeded to do the same in my closet that I have some chronic aversion to doing large amounts of homework until the pressure is insanely high and I can no longer take it. This, I know is a bad thing. But in all honesty, there are things I would much rather be doing: knitting, reading for my English classes, watching documentaries, and other things. I just find reading for the "basics" courses I have to take rather tedious. Take nutrition, for example. I like the class because of the practicality of the things I'm learning. However, the sheer amount of terminology, inherent math and science skills required makes me shake and break out into a cold sweat. Why am I taking it? It's a science that (I assumed) a non-scientific mind like mine can understand, and I need to have 4 different science credits under my belt to graduate. However, give me an essay on how the language of William Wordsworth evokes feelings of political unrest or how it reveals his inner turmoils with women, and I can go on forever.

I guess we just latch onto the things we like and we're good at. Therefore, immersing myself in a subject such as psychology is more difficult than analyzing the sonnets of Charlotte Smith. But it must be done, and instead of wasting time pondering the complexity of my aversion to lots of tedious technical reading, I should just do it. Perhaps I'll pursue history as well as English, so that I have double the amount of reading I enjoy doing!

The wind comes and goes...

I am bored out of my mind right now. I know I have homework/reading that I should be doing, but frankly, I'm not in the mood for it. I may just go to bed instead.

Despite the fact today is *bleh*, this past week was a pretty good one. I went out to lunch with Laura on Tuesday and Thursday, which is a good way to keep the friendship alive and well since we don't have classes together this semester. On Wednesday, she held a "Freaks" Movie night, which was insanely fun, I must admit. Apart from the fact that the movie was actually quite good, the company was unbeatable. Now, the low-down of both aspects:

The movie was, as I say, "Phen-OH-menal" due to the fact that they used real "freaks" (i.e. people with physical deformities and Down's Syndrome) in the cast. In many respects, it was quite sad to see these people and the suffering they endured for facts they could not alter. All depressingly poignant messages aside, it was wildly funny and even included a very scary moment where the freaks turn violent and seek revenge. Enough to haunt nightmares, that scene was.

In terms of company, I met several new people on Wednesday, these included Laura's friends Deedee (sp?), Jeff (or Utilikilt boy as I know him), Shippy (or Greg Shipman, I've been informed), and Adam (a proud Catholic). Of course, Angela, Steph, Jenn and Jana were there, topped off by yours truly, knitting all the while. It's so interesting that Jeff knits too! (We're out there, I tell you... mwahaha). Lots of chatting to be had, burned Russian Tea Cakes to go around (poor Angela and Steph left 'em in the oven too long), and an introduction to "Cletus the Fetus" completed the night.

If I haven't informed you already, check out The Llama Song. (Beware, the sound is unexpectedly loud if you choose to look at it in the Library or workplace where sounds are a no-no).

Another Weekend with Chimpanzees!

Actually, in some weird way the title is true. In all actuality, though, it refers to a Barenaked Ladies song "Another Postcard (Chimpanzees)" which is very funny. Listen to it if you get the chance. I spent the night yesterday at Laura's apartment because Carol decided to leave (again, surprise surprise) for the weekend. So we stayed up watching "101 Embarassing Sexual Accidents" and then this morning watched a terribly tacky horror movie called "Castle Freak." (Laura's boyfriend/fiancee, known as Higley brought it.) So now I sit, trying to get myself motivated enough to start my homework and perhaps get ahead for next week, which is unlikely but possible. Have a great weekend (or what's left of it).

I'm here, for real!

Hello to all again. Happy Belated New Year! I hope everyone had a great and relaxing break. My vacation was pretty good, a full month of rest and relaxation, but now I'm back in Austin. Yesterday I went out with my friend Laura, both of her housemates Angela and Stephanie, and their friend Jenna. We saw "In Good Company" which was definitely not what I expected. The plot was predictable until the end, when it was totally like, WTF? I have mixed feelings about it, because I'm not loving it, nor am I hating it. Turns out I'm not going to be living with them next year after all. I had my hopes up, so now I'm a little down in the dumps, but hopefully our friendships will remain even if it turns out we don't live together next year. They're great gals, and I was looking forward to having a group of people that would actually be around on weekends and stuff, unlike my current roommate who is gone most of the time. Hopefully I can make a few other friends, but I'm the sort of gal who prefers a small, intimate group of friends as opposed to a huge group of rather impersonal people. I prefer confidantes and companions as opposed to partying pals. Oh well, c'est la vie. In other news, the spring semester starts tomorrow, and I'm still on the waiting list for one of my classes. I'm going to go see my advisor because it's a class I really need. It's a class on the 18th century English novel, and since I'm an English major, it counts towards my degree requirements. The advisor told me that I should just wait on the waitlist, and that I had a 70 percent chance of getting into the class. I mean, it's not like I'm a business major who wants to take this for fun! This is part of my DEGREE! So off I go to throw a big hullabaloo and MAKE her put me in the class. I sincerely hope she's there today, even if it's MLK day, because the class is at 9:30 tomorrow morning, and I do need to get into the class. I hope you all feel better today than I am.