Rope

If you are going to stand up from the chair and kick it as hard as you can in order to send it airborne before colliding with the wall, but would like the chair to suddenly jerk about abruptly in its trajectory and fall to the ground with a disturbing clamor, it is necessary to first tie a rope from the chair to any fixed object, like a shelf. Make sure you use a strong knot-tie on both ends of the rope. Also, see to it that the shelf is properly fastened to the wall, otherwise you run the risk of having the shelf be torn loose from the wall, and the chair will not stop abruptly midair.

i don't know when the last time i laughed this hard at something online was

Branner Hall, room 170 here I come. Yes, that's the room across from Kennell (the weird, old resident fellow) but I think I can handle him. Plus, this room is a corner room, so it has 2 windows. The other RCC room only had one tiny window.

Changes in Branner:

• They renumbered the entire building - it used to be that even rooms were on the right side and odd rooms were on the left. Now, low-numbered rooms are on the right and high-numbered on the left. I guess it makes more sense this way, but it's less nostalgic for me.
  
• The third floor is coed - and has one bathroom. We'll see how this works out - I think I would have been slightly freaked as a freshman sharing a bathroom with guys. But that's the way it's going to be.
  
• There's an elevator. It goes from the ground floor to the first floor on the right side to the second floor. My half of the first floor, however, isn't handicapped accessible.
  
• The laundry room will have 8 washers and 16 (sixteen!!!!) dryers. Best of all, next year laundry will be a flat fee added to housing costs - which means UNLIMITED use of washers and driers. Maybe I'll do my laundry more than twice a quarter now.
  
• 802.11b wireless throughout the dorm, courtyard and dining hall!
  
• They're testing a new system for the outside doors. You either wave or swipe your ID card at a reader and it unlocks the door!
  
• Alex is the first female RA *ever* on the third floor.
  
• New dining hall - they're cooking in Branner, rather than shipping from Manzanita - but they restored the actual dining hall to its original glory. It's GORGEOUS, not sterile like I'd feared.
  
• The courtyard between the lounge and the dining hall is BEAUTIFUL. It used to be run down and shitty, now it's amazing.
  

It's gonna rock. I'm so excited. :D :D :D

* nimble|stonerd cuddles kat and goes to sleep

*giggle*

of course i just randomly got sick today. i love it when that happens. one minute you feel fine, the next minute you've got a bit of a drippy nose, and the next, *wham*. full-blown cold.

t minus 18 days until I leave for Europe... exciting! that means that finals start next friday though - I only have 2 finals, one on the monday after that and one that can either be friday or monday. I'm planning on taking it on friday - though it's a morning final on friday and an afternoon one on monday - but it'd be nice to have it over with so I can spend the weekend cramming for e14. Yeah, that class that's kicking my ass but I haven't tried to do anything about that.

mmm, safety dance. "we can act if we want to, if we don't nobody will, you can act real rude and totally removed and i can act like an imbecile." :D downloaded that video today. hilarious, hilarious shit. :D

WHERE HAS MY MOTIVATION GONE??? I suck.

I need Patrick from 10 Things I Hate About You to show up in my life right about now. Yeah.

i haven't heard that song in ages, but for some reason it randomly popped into my head when i woke up this morning (or, more accurately, this afternoon). Jesus, it's already Tuesday, that's the problem with 3-day weekends. I need to get cracking on that paper that's due on Friday... and all the other shit I have to do this week. It's gonna be a busy one. Dammit.

a friend in need's a friend indeed
a friend with weed is better
a friend with breasts and all the rest
a friend who's dressed in leather

a friend in need's a friend indeed
a friend who'll tease is better
our thoughts compressed which makes us blessed
which makes for stormy weather

a friend in need's a friend indeed
my japanese is better
and when she's pressed she will undress
and then she's boxing clever

a friend in need's a friend indeed
a friend who bleeds is better
my friend confessed she passed the test
and we will never sever

days dawning
skin's crawling
days dawning
skin's crawling
days dawning
skin's crawling
days dawning
skin's crawling

pure morning
pure morning
pure morning
pure morning

a friend in need's a friend indeed
a friend who'l tease is better
our thoughts compressed which makes us blessed
which makes for stormy weather

a friend in need's a friend indeed
a friend who bleeds is better
my friend confessed she passed the test
and we will never sever

days dawning
skins crawling
days dawning
skins crawling
days dawning
skins crawling
days dawning
skins crawling

pure morning
pure morning
pure morning
pure morning

a friend in need's a friend indeed
my japanese is better
and when she's pressed she will undress
and then she's boxing clever

a friend in need's a friend indeed
a friend with weed is better
a friend with breasts and all the rest
a friend who's dressed in leather

-placebo, pure morning

meet me in outer space we could spend the night watch the earth come up i've grown tired of that place wont' you come with me we could start again how do you do it make me feel like i do how do you do it it's better than i ever knew meet me in outer space i will hold you close if you're afraid of heights i need you to see this place it might be the only way that i can show you how it feels to be inside of you how do you do it make me feel like i do how do you do it it's better than i ever knew how do you do it make me feel like i do you are stellar you are stellar how do you do it make me feel like i do how do you do it it's better than i ever knew how do you do it make me feel like i
do

and so now i have not one but two completely inappropriate crushes.

wonderful.

jamie: he overclocks....
kat: and he has sex
kat: i don't get it

yum. angsty alternative. I just randomly started reading my blog from last november - what a different world it was. It's so weird the way life evolves such that we don't really think it's so different from day to day, but slowly phases end and begin... man, i used to be so eloquent in my blog. I wonder if I can get back there.

I think it's not so much unhappiness that forces me to blog, but loneliness, which is entirely a different matter.

So anyway, I'm listening to angsty alternative and reading my blog. On a sunday night that is really a saturday night.

In the words of the amazing strong bad, check me out. no, seriously, check me out.

I am awesome again today.

That is all.

it's been said that i only blog when i'm unhappy.

i started blogging, and look, i'm unhappy again.

things wrong with my life:
1. my boyfriend broke up with me and now i am empty
2. my back hurts like fuck (i think i have a pinched nerve)

empty. lonely.

words just don't suffice.

"losing love is like a window in your heart" paul simon

Branner Staff 2003-04.... w00t!

"Initiation" was hella fun. They blindfolded us in our dorms and drove us around enough to confuse the hell out of us, and then took us to the Gates of Hell, where we finally got to meet everyone. Funny story: At one point JP shared how he'd pissed behind the bushes while Branner was at the Gates of Hell before classes started freshman year, and then it turned into a staff initiation thing. Every guy, and two girls (Britt and I, go us) pissed in the bushes. What fun. =D

I am awesome today.