Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
Three things today.
1: I’m back in Vancouver.
2: I don’t want to be back in Vancouver.
2 ½: In fact, I almost didn’t get on the plane.
3: I have a new New Year’s Resolution: I’ve decided that I will download a new song every day of this year, no matter how far I will have to go to search for worthy ones (usually just to YouTube).
So yeah. Hopefully by December 31, 2010, I will have (at least) 365 new songs. I also edited yesterday’s entry to list the day’s song. This will be done each day, too.
Woo.
Today’s song: Love Story by Taylor Swift
Waiter! There’s a decade in my century!
Happy New Year, you silly things! Let’s hope 2010 is kind to us all.
Oh, and hanging out with Sean, Aaron, and Megan again = awesome. Poor Sean has so much freaking drama in his life, but what can you do, eh? I just got back from their house and I miss them already.
I don’t want to go back tomorrow.
Today’s song: United State of Pop (Blame it on the Pop) by DJ Earworm
A good way to free the soul
So I’ve linked to this guy’s 2008 remix before, but his 2009 remix is pretty awesome too, so I’ll just link to all three he’s done, so you can get a good dose of awesome remix happiness before the new year.
2007
2008
2009
Haha, hey, I remember some of these
http://2010.newsweek.com/video/decade-in-seven-minutes.html
ALSO AN IMPORTANT NOTE: happy birthday, Maggie!
Time to fly!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Live on my own in a different country.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Pfft. I don’t remember if I made any resolutions.
Next year: Figure out what the hell I want, find a boyfriend, get better with R, etc., etc. You know the drill.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope.
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada (and now I live there).
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Reassurance.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
July 25th. The reason is private.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduating again and going to grad school.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Graduating again and going to grad school (I shouldn’t have).
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I got sick once, but that’s it.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My Xbox 360.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Man, I have no idea.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
A few people.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Grad school/grad school apartment.
15. What did you really, really, really get excited about?
Grad school (big disappointment), July 25th (NOT a big disappointment).
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
SLEEPYHEAD!!
17. Compared to this time last year are you:
Happier? NO.
Thinner? Probably about the same.
Richer? Yes, actually.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Math.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Care.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With my mom, dad, and a bunch of strangers. And alone, after that.
21. How will you be spending new years?
Alone.
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
In a way.
23. How many one-night stands?
Hahahahahahahaha…
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Metalocalypse!
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope.
26. What was the best book you read?
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
27. What was your biggest musical discovery?
Sleepyhead!!!
28. What did you want and you got?
Got accepted into grad school.
29. What did you want and not get?
To actually LIKE grad school.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Watchmen.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old did you turn?
I did absolutely nothing. I turned 21.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Staying with my roommates for more than half the year.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Colorful.
34. What kept you sane?
My roommates.
35. Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
None.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Not much.
37. Who did you miss?
The Papins.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Ben?
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Karma’s a bitch.
40. Quote or Song Lyric that sums up your year:
“In a rut, but what I’ve got
Is in a can, no other human
But I do get lonely, scared I’m phoney”
This just made my year
This is FREAKING AWESOME!!!!
[insert shriek of happiness here]
HOLY CRAP look what I got!!!
I completely forgot I asked for this, so it was a very pleasant surprise upon opening the box. It also made for a very amusing few minutes during which I was screaming with glee and my mom had to explain to her freaked out boyfriend that this reaction was natural.
Yay.
AAAAAAH NEW TOY
HOLY CRAP, I played with this for like 5 hours tonight.
Merry Christmas, bitches! Present-opening has been pushed back to tomorrow since I just got here, haha.
A letter to “high school me” from “now me”
Dear Claudia (January 2006 version):
Things are about to change. You’re going to finish high school in about five months, you’re going to spend your last summer free of work, and then you’re going to go to college, as planned. You don’t care about college now, and you’re not going to care during your first semester. But you will. You’ll care about it more than you’ve cared about anything in your life, and you’ll be happy later on that you don’t screw up the first semester, or quit like you were so tempted to do.
You’re going to change your major. You’re going to change your major at least eight times before you finally find what you’re truly interested in, so don’t get too attached to the psychology/theatre/music triple major. You’re not going to fight the desire to change or to take classes outside of what you’re currently supposed to be taking. Each class will lead you to the path on which you want to be.
You’re going to meet a lot of different people from a lot of different backgrounds. Some of them will be people you’ll remember for the rest of your life, and you’ll later regret how little time you’ve spent with them in college. But you won’t regret the fact that you were so focused on your studies.
You’re going to end up loving what you once hated. I know this may come as a shock to you right now, but it’s true. Philosophy will no longer be the worthless waste of time you think it is now, and math and statistics will no longer intimidate you (except for algebra—you’ll still hate algebra). In fact, these will become the things you live for in a few years.
You will love, but you will not be loved back. You will be loved, but you will not love back. And as tempting as it will be to rush things with a certain person, you will resist the urge. Patience, kindness, and being a good and reliable friend will get you both to the desired outcome. Trust me. These may be some of the most confusing emotions you experience, but you won’t let them deter you from your goals.
Near the end of your first year in college, you’re going to start hearing things that aren’t there. You’re going to be scared, you’re going to feel distracted, and you’re going to be medicated. Again. But you’re going to take yourself off of them. Again. Spring 2008 will be the highlight of your college career in all aspects of your life. It may not feel that way when you’re looking forward from 2007, but it will be.
You’re going to work hard and graduate a year and a half ahead of schedule with a 4.0 and a degree you couldn’t care less about. Then you’re going to graduate again in the spring with both a degree and a minor you adore. You’re going to barely get into grad school, and though you’ll be glad to leave Moscow, you’ll wish that you could spend a little bit more time with the things with which you’ve grown comfortable.
You’re going to go to Canada for grad school and you’re going to hate your first semester. You’re going to hate it so much that you seriously consider quitting at least five times—to the point where you’ve stood outside the Registrar’s office with the intent to withdraw yourself from the program.
But you’re not going to quit, at least the first semester. Trust me. As bad as it gets, you somehow reason yourself into staying. You will get A’s in all of your graduate classes, but that won’t be enough to convince you to stay. You’re going to go home for Christmas break, and you’re going to wonder if you should even go back.
And right now, I really, really wish I could tell you if you’re going to make the right decision, or what the right decision is. You’ve trusted your intuition so far and it’s gotten you where you’ve wanted to be…but in this case, I can assure you that you won’t really know what your intuition is.
All I can say is that you should wait. Wait and see what happens. Because honestly, I have no idea how it’s going to go down.
I wish I could help you, but I can’t. After all, I’m just you. Not very helpful, is it?
Good luck,
Claudia (December 2009 version)
*farting noises with mouth*
Yay, everyone else is on break but me…
And when I start classes everyone will still be on break…
And none of my band friends will be in Moscow when I get home…
And I have to proctor a 3-hour final starting at 7 tonight…
Apparently the Competence Train doesn’t stop in Vancouver
A YouTube video in which is represented every mistake in every Infancy paper I read this semester.
SEIZURE TREE!!!!
FREAKING FANTASTIC!
Dear Universe: Please Cut it Out
I swear to god.
So apparently—contrary to what I was told when I first got here—if I want to get a MS in statistics alongside my PhD in quant psych, I’ll have to essentially take double the stats classes. That’s right: the stats classes I take to fulfill my quant degree DON’T double count to fill a stats degree.
What the fuck. Really? Is that how we’re going to play it up here?
Oh, and add on to that the fact that I’ll have to pay double tuition. Yeah.
Thanks, universe! I’ve always wanted a big steaming pile of Karmic shit for Christmas!
Fuck this noise.
The 10 Undergraduate Commandments
- Thou shalt read the syllabus.
- Thou shalt write legibly.
- Thou shalt stay within the designated page limit.
- Thou shalt not contest every point missed on an exam.
- Thou shalt not blame thine TA for thine crappy test grades.
- Thou shalt consult thine textbook before asking stupid questions.
- Thou shalt not have to consult thine TA regarding what constitutes an “introduction” paragraph.
- Thou shalt use proper spelling, capitalization, and grammar in thine emails if thou wishes a prompt response.
- Thou shalt staple thine stupid homework pages.
- Thou shalt not assume thine TA has nothing better to do than to grade thine test.
More IRC! More IRC!!!!
These are fun.
TECC: |:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|
TECC: oops, soz. wrong window.
Fuhrur: why in the fuck would you type that to anyone?
Kaltorak: every 7 out of 6 days is a bad day for my typing skils.
Kaltorak: oh my god.
limi: does anybody know where the Table of Contents generator is, to save me of the embarrasment of talking to a virtual paper clip?
jsCLASS: lets talk about my johnson
Mercster: small talk, eh?
jsCLASS: fuck
jsCLASS: owned
Merlin: Good news, in case you were worried that Rodney King was done entertaining us, he got drunk and plowed his SUV into a house at 100 mph
sComps: christ.. dead?
Merlin: yes, Christ is dead, but thats 2,000 year old news. King just has a broken pelvis
nyetwerk: why is it that they always make the stupidest person on a project team be the leader?
DocRadium: what are you in charge of now?
(morganj): 0 is false and 1 is true, correct?
(alec_eso): 1, morganj
(morganj): bastard.
LuciferOmega: STEPHEN HAWKING’S PRO WHEELCHAIR 2!
punchcard_w0rk: i think i will form a computer addiction recovery group.
punchcard_w0rk: call it “users no longer enslaved to electronic technology”
punchcard_w0rk: or UnLeet
Kupo: man
Kupo: Firefox can fuck itself
DarknessTear: It can? So THAT’s what the Firefox logo is doing.
hehehe8383: school was pretty fun for me cus of the teachers =P
hehehe8383: like i remember this one time in like 5th grade or something
hehehe8383: i got a bloody nose in my math class and i had on a white shirt to boot
hehehe8383: so i went to the nurse for like 10 min. while i was sittin in the nurses office, the period was over so my class left and another class came in
hehehe8383: but i still had my books there so i had to go back in
hehehe8383: so i walk into the classroom with blood stains on my shirt and holding a blood spotted tissue up to my nose
hehehe8383: so the teacher pointed at me and she goes “see what i do to kids who dont do their homework?”
hehehe8383: i swear to you, this kid next to me had a MORTIFIED look on his face as he started scribbling stuff down on some incomplete worksheet =P
magothy: is there an irish expression for hangover?
tReMeR: morning
rock: hey
Capn_Panic: hey
Shockster: hey
Capn_Panic: it’s fat albert!
tumnus: i just set my clock the easiest way ever
tumnus: i waited until it was midnight then i plugged it in and left it
Xetrov`: im gonna go try out this “physical activity” shit i keep hearing about
mh_: str8 up mf i was afkin 4 a sec & that mutha goes all stfu on me
mh_: wtf? 4 nothin at all
* harm consults Oxford’s Non-Abridged Gangsta Abbreviations Explicator
mh_: gtof
* harm consults harder
Robohunk: A friend of mine took an exam in his French class while on acid once. When friends asked him about it later, he said, “I think I did pretty well. I wrote this great story about a thunderstorm.”
Robohunk: The professor called him into his office soon afterwards and showed him the test. It was a piece of paper covered with the words “Noir noir noir, noir BLANC!!! noir noir noir noir noir, noir noir noir BLANC!!!” over and over.
* Nastard is now known as fuck
damn: what kind of nick is that?
fuck: if i know
Silvercrush: I craved a little man in woodshop today
Silvercrush: omg… carved :(
DocGonzo: i need to shoot myself in the face… i accidentally typed “the” instead of “teh”, so i backspaced and fixed it
aspuffnstuff: The third one looks like something they used in Star Wards
aspuffnstuff: *Wars
alykat: lol “star wards”
alykat: an epic about a hospital set in space
alykat: “use the forceps, luke”
volcanogirl: come.. to the bed pan. the bed pan!
aspuffnstuff: OBGYN kenobi!
Vod: that sentence is even more screwed up than even mine usual are
(Mutiny) Atarax: you ate a americum disk from a smoke detector?
(Atarax) Mutiny: yeah
(Mutiny) Atarax: why?
(Atarax) Mutiny: I thought it would give me special powers.
(Mutiny) Atarax: what did it do to you?
(Atarax) Mutiny: well, it didn’t give me any special powers, but it didn’t kill me either
(Atarax) Darwin must be spinning in his grave
(Atarax) “why is that fuck still alive”
More Whose Line is it Anyway because it’s important
This whole thing is freaking great. Colin + Ryan = awesome hilarity.
Instant mood lifter
Hahahahah, oh my god.
Yay for Leibniz. Descartes’ is pretty good, too.
Holy probability density function, Batman!
1. Here’s a survey! Are you ready?
BRING IT ON!
2. What was the last sentence you wrote?
“BRING IT ON!”
3. Was your last kiss a mistake?
Hell no.
4. What is worrying you right now?
School. As always.
5. Aside from this survey, what are you doing right now?
Dinking around with StumbleUpon and dreading school tomorrow.
6. What’s your favorite song?
I’ll give you one guess.
7. What was the peak of your popularity so far?
1st grade. I was the “queen” of our little game we had going. But it all went downhill after that, because the game became uncool, as did I.
8. What is the most attractive hair/eye color combination, in your opinion?
Blonde hair + blue eyes = freaking hot. Damn Scandinavians.
9. Have you ever been “the other woman?”
I’ve certainly felt like it.
10. Describe your first kiss.
Hahaha. He was in drag. I was in drag. “Sex Tonight” was blaring over the speakers. Need I say more?
11. Describe your last kiss.
Covert, but passionate. Perfect in its own little way.
12. What was your favorite childhood movie?
Toy Story. Best Pixar movie ever.
13. Who is your best friend?
I don’t really have one.
14. Which do you pay more attention to in songs: the rhythm or the lyrics?
The rhythm by far. Regardless of the lyrics of a song, if it has a crappy beat, I won’t like it.
15. How many ex girlfriends/ex boyfriends do you have?
Three.
16. What is your favorite subject in school?
Statistics!
17. Redheads or blondes?
FREAKING TOUGH CHOICE. Blondes, but only by a little.
18. Summer or winter?
Summer.
19. What’s your GPA?
That’s a complicated question. Just looking at grad school, it’s a 4.0. With the first degree, it was also a 4.0. With the second degree, though, it was a 3.98 (damn you, linear algebra, damn you!!).
20. What are your five most played songs?
Sleepyhead, Sleepyhead (Jazzsteppa Remix), Lights and Music, Fireflies, and Atlas. Yeah, I’m an electronic whore.
21. List a lyric that reminds you of someone special.
“Why’d you have to be so cute?
It’s impossible to ignore you
Must you make me laugh so much
It’s bad enough we get along so well
Say goodnight and go.”
Or pretty much the entirety of Imogen Heap’s “Say Goodnight and Go”
22. You’re finished! Are you happy?
Pah.
STATS MARATHON
Holy crap, I’ve never taken a 5 hour final before.
What’s even better is the fact that it was a 5 hour stats final.
Wow.
Sorry, I can no longer think straight.
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