Natural Disasters

It's nice to see we're mostly all on the big unknown side of life, or at least not 100% sure of what to do. It's reassuring.

Some random notes in my life:

• Busy day number 2! It's going to be like this a lot now. Tonight I had the meeting with my group for Duck TV, and the show I'm in? I'm the main character. WHAT. How did that happen?!? Obviously, I'm excited. It's not sketch comedy like I thought, it's a story. It's a bit odd to explain, but I'll be sure to talk about it in the future. Filming is happening this weekend!
• Tomorrow? Tomorrow I am gonna pass out. I haven't been sleeping well, and I finally figured out why. Way too much light floods into my room. The roommates have been leaving the hall light on, and it shines through my door. I just didn't realize that it could be messing with me.
• The next step of my Study Abroad Application is happening! I can't say much, but I'm excited! Also, I need to find odd jobs. My hours are wacko now.
• I was going to go grocery shopping on Tuesday, and I'm kind of glad I didn't now. Apparently a couple was held up at gunpoint the day at my store that day. Perhaps I'll go to the other one... Eek.

Where I come from, there aren't a whole lot of natural disasters to worry about. We don't have hurricanes, tornadoes, crazy blizzards... usually we're pretty chill. We're supposed to have a giant earthquake, but they've been saying that for decades. The only problem we've really dealt with has to do with what type of weather we're known for: rain. Most of the time rain doesn't cause that much of a problem, it's just obnoxious. There comes a time when the rain can cause some big stuff though.

Enter: The Flooding.

That's not where I am right now. My town is surprisingly okay, despite being lower elevation. The scary thing is, that's my home town. The last time Oregon had a flooding like this was about 6 years ago, and it was no where near this bad.
I was envious of them earlier when they had snow and we had rain, but now I am not.
At the same time, I kind of wish I could go canoeing in it.

Okay, I have got to get to bed. Just have to wait until 5 to be completely free tomorrow... Huzzah.

What natural disasters do you have to deal with in your town?

Running Overtime

I keep on thinking it's Saturday, but that's because my schedule today has been a lot like my Saturdays... So now, I'm exhausted. Let me explain.

Yesterday, I ran 8 miles. Normally, I have a rest day and them run a long run on Saturday. Instead, I ran an 18 mile run today. I was so exhausted in the last mile or so I wanted to cry, but I couldn't because that would take more energy.

I feel like I really haven't had a chance to stop for the day until 9 tonight, so I'm probably a tad crabby because I haven't gotten a chance to rest. As soon as I was done, I showered, drove for an hour or so, went to an art show, and... here we are. Guh.

Lesson learned? I don't think I can ever run a long run on a Friday ever again. Also, apparently I can't make weekend plans before Saturday ever again... at least until I'm done training.

When was the last time you decided to do too much at once?

Creating and Protecting Memory

My weekend has officially begun! YES!

There have been studies on how we save memories, and why we remember certain things so well. For instance, it's much easier to recall exactly where you were when a tragedy occurs like when 9/11 happened. I for one can remember where I was when I saw the terrifying incident. However, this isn't about sad memories. It's about weird memories, good memories and silly memories.

I was thinking about the first time I heard certain songs on the radio recently. For most songs, I can't really recall where I was when I first heard it, but there are two songs I remember exactly where I was when I first heard it.

First there was "Forget You" by Cee Lo Green. I was driving back to school on evening, and all of a sudden I heard that song come on the air. I thought that the radio waves had accidentally gotten mixed up or something. It was so different from the poppy stuff that was usually on the air. I didn't think about it much afterwards until I started hearing other people play it.

The other one? Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl (And I Liked It)" Or whatever the real title of that song is. Anywho, when I first heard it, I didn't think it was real. I thought it was one of those stunts radio stations do along with their terrible radio shows or something. I even remember the exact road I was driving on. As soon as I got home, I exclaimed to my sister, "You can't believe this song they played on the radio!" I looked up her other stuff, and there were some weird music videos I found... like one with a barbie doll getting revenge on a jerk ken doll. Or something like that. When I heard it, I never thought I would hear the song again, let alone hear of that Katy girl ever again. Ha!

As far as everyday memory, I am terrible at remembering anything. I forget names like crazy, I get lost because I never remember directions... Goodness. I really want to get better at remembering things. Repetition helps, right? What else helps memory?

Today was another one of those go go go days, ya know? I stuffed in a seven mile run right before work... which ended up going to work only with a washed faced and impromptu sponge bath-type thing. Yeah, that doesn't help the situation with my face breaking out lately.

So once again, I ask you: How do you improve memory?

Busy but Good Thing Happening

Ah... first day of summer, and things are looking good!
So I won't be able to talk about the things that happened tonight, just because I can't get to a computer. And it's twenty minutes to midnight, and... oof. There's so much to talk about, but I'll talk about it tomorrow hopefully. Hope everyone has a nice evening!

Busy Little Things, Baking for Bribery and Positive Influences

Today, because I did not have any actual classes, was thought to be a very chill, relaxed day. That was before I actually started the day. Now, I am standing here typing this blog post past nine, frazzled and confused that the day is already over.

Fun fact: I spend a lot of my time on the computer standing up while it sits at typing level on my pillow. My bed is very elevated.

It hasn't been work that has been taking up my time, it's simply been things. So many things! Hopping from one thing to another. Still, when I'm out of school I'll probably look at this time and think, "Wow, I had so much time back then."

Oh, I happened to see my aunt today! She was doing a presentation at my school for the day, and so we went to lunch. It was quite lovely. Some people of insanely positive. She is one of them. Being around her makes me realize that perhaps college has made me more cynical. Good thing or bad thing? Will it help me against the world more? I cannot say.

The day included baking as well. Tomorrow is my project, (which I'm still not sure how that's going to turn out), and she said bribing is a good thing. Betty Crocker cake mixes happened to be made in the forties too, which is just a bonus.

Cupcakes and other things in the community fridge. I worry about their safety.

Time to get ready for what tomorrow throws at me.

Are you busier on your busy days in college, or are you busier on your busy days of work?

Working Together or Working Alone

Long day is long. What can you do, right?

As I've gotten older, I've learned that I don't necessarily play well with others. I do better at things like running or tennis than basketball or soccer. Which brings me to this: Group projects and I? Do not get along.

For my History of Fashion class, I have to work with a partner to write a paper. We've gotten done with it, now it just needs tweaking. However, the process was excruciating for me. It's all about whether I'm doing enough or not, and I can never figure it out. I always stress about not doing enough, and I hate when other people try to take over. That has been a problem with this project.
Before we met to write the paper, I studied up some information. I was terrified that she was going to have researched so much more without me. That wasn't something I needed to worry about apparently, because she hadn't looked up any information.
When we finally started working on the paper through an online document, I felt like she started to take over. I had had some trouble getting into the project due to the fact that I had been sick, and it was difficult to get simple thoughts together let alone writing a paper. When I looked upon the information she had written up on the document, a lot of the information was stuff that I had already researched... that I had talked to her about before.
We've gotten most of the stuff worked out, but she's kind of made me feel like I'm doing less work than I should. And it's not fair, because the only reason it's working out like that is because it feels like she's not even giving me a chance to work on things. Maybe I should be happy about that, but you might already get why I'm not due to my personality.

Well, yep. That's just how I feel on group projects.

Other than that, just been busy. Tomorrow, on the other hand should (hopefully) be pretty relaxed. Didn't mean to talk so negatively today, whoops!

Do you work better in group projects or in solo projects?

Busy Days and Things I Have Learned From Fictional Characters

Well well well! If is isn't rainy weather come back to Oregon. I knew you'd be back.

Today has been such a busy busy day! Nothing but homework and schooling. I really don't know why it's been like this, seeing that I have less credits than ever before. I'm thinking that it's the beginning of the term, and once things get organized life will become a lot more relaxed. Right now I'm trying to get a few things organized.

• School and homework
• Trying to figure out a job/internship
• Workout scheduling
• School plans for next year
• Summer plans

May not seem like much, but for me right now it's a lot to handle. If I'm not doing homework, I'm looking for applications, or something else.

Hmm. Today is Monday, which means it's time for a Things I Have Learned From Fictional Characters. But what have I learned from fictional characters this week? Oh! I know!
I guess that this isn't from fictional characters necessarily, but they're fictional characters in my book. This lesson comes from... Reality Stars!

...Really?

Yes, reality stars tend to teach us the exact opposite of what we should be doing, but they do have one pretty good idea. That idea? When you have an opportunity, grab it!

Sure, reality stars seem to grab opportunities and never let go. Yet, when you think about it, shouldn't we all be grabbing opportunities that are presented to us? You don't what to spend your whole life asking, "What if?"
...Just don't do it like reality stars do it, because no one likes the way they do it. Seriously.

What's been filling up your plate recently?

The Topic of Twitter

Oof. There's just something about Wednesdays, isn't there? It's like my week just builds up tension until Thursday, then there's a sigh of relief.

Now let's change to something completely different, shall we?

Technology is an incredible thing. It's amazing how ideas have been formed and molded into something no one thought was even possible ten years ago. (Perhaps even less than that!) Just think of the telephone. First there was the simple idea of communicating with someone far away without shouting to them in the distance. There were people who actually did that, it's true. That led to the telephone... which led to the cell phone. I didn't think I was supposed to feel old at 19, but I remember when there was a CAMERA on a phone! First you can take it anywhere, but now you can take pictures too? Then we take a look at today, where I pretty much could live on a desert island with only my cell phone. Plus now it's "You don't even have a camera on your phone? Poor thing!"

With the world become a technological utopia, there are some forms of technology that I have not latched myself onto. Sure, much of the rest of the world has attached themselves to these things, but there is one specific technology that I simply haven't gotten into. This is going to make me sound like an elderly person who just doesn't understand what "the Facebook" is, but I just can't into one thing:

Twitter.

The more I've thought about it, the more I've kind of wanted to. But the thing is, I don't really have any use of it. From my understanding, it seems only useful for celebrities to make people know even more about their lives or those who write witty one-liners.

Twitter doesn't seem like a bad thing. I've heard stories where Twitter can help peoples' businesses, or help them earn revenue in ways no one has thought of before. However I don't have a business to make. I suppose the business I could be promoting would be myself, but I'm not sure what I would say.

So, I ask you Internet: What is the point of having a Twitter if you are not:

A)A celebrity who has millions of people wondering when they brush their teeth
B)Someone promoting their business, or a business promoting themselves or
C) A narcissistic person who just thinks the world needs to know how they're feeling 24 hours a day in 140 characters or less.

I'm not hating on you if you do have a Twitter. I just don't see the point in having one myself, but I'd like to know if there would be a good reason to have one.

(Besides, I blog about my life. I think about songs I would use in my biopic. I tend to have the looming idea of self-importance, something that is indeed Stuff White People Like. I've got the narcissism thing down pat.)

Therefore, I ask What's a good/bad reason to have a Twitter account?

A Busy Day

Whoo. I have been go go going all day long!
Before I start, I would just like to say what I spend a Friday evening doing.

I spend an evening in a fort, listening to/reading Harry Potter to some Harry Potter newbies. Yeah, that's how we roll.

It simply has been one of those days. A summary of the day would be this:

• Wake up
• Go for a run/Do planks
• Shower
• Eat Brunch/Lunch with hall
• Drive to Corvallis
• Do some clothes shopping
• Get fabric for costume design
• Eat American Dream
• Watch the girl's Civil War basketball game
• Watch I Am Number Four

And now we're here. I think I need to pass out... But Center Stage is on! Goodness.

Worries about School, Ridiculous Scenarios and Things That Moms Say

I have come to realize that Wednesdays are my busy days. Wowee. For some reason my teachers seem to think that it's a good idea to give even more work as time passes. Some teachers think they're the only ones who give homework, don't they?

Pretty much all day I worked on homework, woo hoo. Lately I've been getting the feeling that I'm reverting back to my early high school days, yet I've been doing a lot more work. You see, I did not do very well in school during my early years. It was okay, but definitely not spectacular. I just feel like all of the work I'm doing isn't adding up. I want A's, dangit! I could be worrying about it too much, but I can't help it.

All day I was stressing and working, freaking out about school and such. Then, right after stepping out of the shower, the fire alarm went off at 7:30 at night. I grabbed a coat from my room and headed outside, towel still on head and nothing underneath. Some people might think that this would tick me off, but you know what? It actually made me... cheery. It was just such a ridiculous scenario, that I couldn't help but smile. Seriously, I looked like a flasher! How goofy is that?

My mom borrowed my car today, and I talked to her for a bit. Sometimes my mom can be a funny lady. We're talking about school or something, and she stops mid sentence and says,
"Hey. Have you tried getting together with that guy?" *guy at the main desk downstairs*
"He's got a girlfriend. I know right?"
"Dang. I just saw his face and thought, 'Oh ho?' What's with this school?"

Ah, mothers. Gotta love them.

In other news, I am terrible at sewing. Anytime I go into my costume design class I feel like an idiot because for some reason, I can't work a sewing machine. I believe tomorrow will be a day of Internet teaching videos. Curse you french seams!

What goofy scenario have you been caught in recently?

Just a Little Thing to Boost Your Spirits

Who out there is excited that the week is halfway over? Other than me? I'm quite pumped indeed. (I'm not sure if those words all work in the same sentence.)

The fates seemed to be trying to test me today, trying to bring my mood down. At times, they were pretty good at it too. They happened to start my day off right, with my Clinique clarifying bottle falling to the ground and breaking even before the clock hit seven.

My poor bottle!

I managed to salvage some of it, but it was not a happy thing.

It appeared to be one of those days where the key phrases were, "Well what else can happen today?" and "Oh, there's another thing that needs to be fixed/printed again." Pretty much a lot of things that didn't need to happen to make me busier.

However! As I started to prepare things for tomorrow, a song came on to my ipod that made me light up. I couldn't stop myself. I started to dance like a buffoon around my room, a big goofy grin on my face. After my jam session, I thought about all of the little good things happening in life. I got a lot of work done today. After classes tomorrow, I'll have no more homework for the rest of the week. I have only one class on Friday that starts at 11:00. My weekend is going to be amazing!

Take it from Calvin and Hobbes, they know what they're doing.

Thinking about all of the little bad things is draining. Thinking about the little things that are good is energizing! I'd rather have energy than be a lifeless shell of myself.

If you're wondering what song made me jump up and dance, I was jamming to Love Like Woe by The Ready Set. I don't know what is about that song, but pretty much every time I listen to it, I want to dance! Fun fact about me: I enjoy a lot of music that some may call seriously bad music. Like, music that is extremely ridiculous. Although, I do like tasteful music as well.

Speaking of which, I really like the free song of the week Marathon by Tennis. It's very old fashioned, but in a good way in my opinion.

That's all I think I have for you today. Get ready for the weekend!

What song just makes you want to dance?

Repeating Myself and One Odd Rooster

... I'm really having difficulty thinking of an eloquent way to start this post. Well, I guess that was it.

Can I just say thank freakin' goodness that tomorrow is Friday? Do I even need to say how today was a seriously busy day? I didn't think so.
Part of the thing that made the day busy was last minute work that I had to do. Long story, but at least I get paid which is always a positive.
Despite being a hectic day, I was able to get a four mile run in. Sweet.

There is a rooster that crows around 1:00pm on the outskirts of Monmouth. Why do I know this? Because for a few runs of mine I have heard it. Weirdo rooster, why do you crow then?

Can you tell that my thoughts are scattered? I thought so. Let's call it a night, shall we?

Donating Blood and Late to Class

Whoh! Today has been quite a hectic day, that's for sure. It feels like I've been on the go all day. Well, let's see how it went:
7:00-8:00 Get ready for class
8:00-11:00 Class
11:00-11:40 Run 4 miles in 35.16 minutes, grab some food
11:40-12:05 Eat
12:05-1:00 Shower, get ready
1:00 Take off to donate blood
2:20-3:40 Class
3:40-7:45 Do some homework, make a class schedule, chill
8:00-9:00 Glee!

Yep, I did donate blood today. It's the second time I've done it. The reason I originally signed up was because one of my hall mates was like, "Hey, I want to donate blood but someone should do it with me." I said I would, but I would sign up at 1:15 instead of 1:30 so I'd be there with her for a little bit but I had class at two. Turns out the hall mate got sick and didn't want to do it, so there I was, early even to donate. I thought, "Oh, I'll have time before class, right?" Wrong. I got out of there and into class at 2:20, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible in a bright red coat, soaking wet from the rain outside. I was kind of peeved during it at first, but afterwards it's kind of funny. Plus donating blood is really not that bad. I was thinking of never doing it again, but maybe I will!



Here's the Battle Wound


So my first tardy to college was due to being a good Samaritan. I think I'll live.

I've planned out a schedule that would be wonderful for next term... I would like to think it's a for sure thing, but getting to register on the last day doesn't make this idea promising. Let's be positive about it though, shall we?

I received a package today, and this beauty was in it:

Can't wait to read it because 1)It is my absolute favorite magazine and 2) Harry Potter. 'Nuff said.

Oh, also tonight's Glee? AH MAN. SO GOOD. I just- AH! Can't even talk about it.

It's time for me to buy some delightful music online now, and plan out some B and C schedules...

Have you ever donated blood?