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TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY.
FIRST: my mom got a job, my mom got a job!! Here at the U of I! Now she can leave the insanity of Tucson and come back to the place she calls home. SUPER HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
SECOND: I got a job, too! In addition to teaching in the second half of summer, I’ll be working as a data analyst for the College of Ag from May through July. Now I can finally get some real experience with real data (and lots of it!).
Better brush up on my SAS.
WOOHA!
WOOO USA
HI PEOPLE!
I have returned to the states and am now sitting in my dad’s basement.
We totally need to do something fun while I’m back.
Sorry this is short, it was a long ride down here.
Today’s song: Kids (MGMT cover) by The Kooks
Appropriately, my summer begins today
Sort of. I’m still technically “enrolled” in my thesis, so I still should be doing research.
Which I am.
What joy.
But at least there are no more classes until September, so I’m FREE FROM CAMPUS! I’m coming back to Moscow on Sunday. Be prepared.
I also had an exceptionally strange dream last night. I can’t really say much about it except for the fact that it involved a lot of whipped cream, nudity, and swimming pools.
That is all.
Today’s song: Jukebox (Radio Edit) [Feat. Nicco] by WaWa
If night falls in a forest and a tree is still standing, does it cast a shadow?
Oh goodness, Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is hilarious. It’s putting me in the mood for NaNo, which is both good and bad, ‘cause right now I have far too much calculus to do to have any free time to write, which is bad, but it’s also making me think of new ideas, which is good.
Yeah.
Anyway.
So here is a list of things we need to do while I’m back in Moscow:
- Rock Band party
- Drunken party of insane fun (you all know what I’m talking about) in my basement. This time you’ll all need to stay the night, ‘cause I want to drink, too. This could be combined with Rock Band party easily.
- Go on a mini road trip. Because mini road trips are great.
- Screw around in the park.
- Screw around in Shari’s.
- Get naked (could be combined with any/all of the above).
- Drag show (I’m assuming I’ll be there for Pride).
Sound fun? I think so. I miss you weirdos.
Today’s song: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood by Santa Esmeralda
New job review!
So either last night was a really easy night, or this job will consist of me sitting on a couch for 11 hours, reading.
I’m cool with that.
New job!
Wow…well, getting a job this summer was a LOT easier than it was last semester. Second place I went to and I got it.
Now I will work at Seubert’s the in-home care place right next to Subway. I start tonight, actually, and I’m working from 8 PM to 7 AM for a lady. I shall review for you tomorrow!
The psychology student is noticing something
Everybody’s depressed, it seems. Including me. It kind of sucks, really.
Time to chill to music and try not to think about life. Sorry this is so short.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Okay. Now there’s sort of a light at the end of this never-ending tunnel of depression that I’m going through at the moment. Apparently, my dad knows one of the ladies who works over at the school district, and he got into a conversation with her in which was mentioned my future career goals. Well, this lady, according to my dad, does basically for the school district what I want to do, and she was very interested in meeting me. So I called her and we’re setting up a meeting for next week.
An internship is a possibility.
Sweet.
Yes, my blogs are short. I still feel like crap. Deal with it.
Stupidstupidstupidstupidstupid
So.
Because I’m a stupid, worthless, hopeless piece of crap who is afraid of math, I decided to drop Linear Algebra.
Go ahead and laugh, I deserve it.
Hellooooooooo Linear Algebra…
Haha, hooray for more school. Abnormal Psychology looks fun and interesting. Linear Algebra, on the other hand, does not.
I get it, I just don’t like it. And I’d forgotten how much I loathed the setup of math books.
Blah.
Sometimes I have the answers. Other times I’m just a toaster.
You know our road trip video that I made that was 40 minutes long and took about 400 hours to download and/or play? Yeah. I finally got the brilliant idea that I could chop it up and put it as sections on YouTube. Genius, huh?
Here they are. I am the best filmer ever. Period.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
I’d say either Part II or Part IV is the funniest, but that’s just me. Hell, you don’t have to watch ’em at all (except for you, Amy and Shannyn, you fools were there and I expect my award-winning filming to be appreciated!).
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Technically this video was made on the fourth, but I was not near a computer at all on the third in order to post an actual blog, so I’m putting this for the 3rd anyway. Deal with it.
Amy, Shannyn and I go on an overnight road trip to Coeur d’Alene and stay at a creepy motel. It’s grand fun. This video is mainly for them, not because I don’t want anyone else to see it, but because it’s probably boring as hell to everyone who wasn’t there. Plus, because I’m not able to get it on DVD with my computer, I’m giving them this link here to download it to their computers. It’s about 40 minutes long, meaning that the download time is very, very long. So basically, watch it if you want, but beware: it’s probably very boring to you (except the part where I almost take off my shirt completely).
Edit: this is now on YouTube. Read August 7th’s blog and see!
Precious, precious time…
Well, crap. If you’re all wondering, this is what I do with my time now and what I will probably be doing with my time M-F for most of the rest of summer.
10:00: wake up (don’t worry, the lateness is justified)
11:00-12:15-ish: rec center
1:30-3:30: English 208 (ends June 13)
5:00-12:00: work
3:00-10:00: sleep
That’s about it. And that’s why I check Facebook/MySpace/email so late at night and am really never online during the day. Ha!
The quest for quarters often leads one through many couches
Hooray! So I think I’ve got a job, finally. So the only place that worked with my school schedule was Wendy’s so that is where I’ll be spending quite a lot of time for the rest of the summer. Orientation is Sunday!
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Why are my blogs getting shorter and shorter?
Günter! Fetch the dry cleaner!
It’s summer school time tomorrow! Why, you ask? Because of this:
CURRENT AMOUNT OF CREDITS: 52
CREDITS NEEDED FOR JUNIOR STATUS: 58
CREDITS TAKING DURING SUMMER: 6
I just hope my grades hold up from last semester. I’m still waiting for 3 classes…I’ll keep you all (even though none of you care) posted!
This blog = short because I’m working on stuff for tomorrow’s.
Just living life
I have Type A personality. Very much so. So my decision today to just live life in the moment this summer (for what’s left of it anyway), goes against everything I stand for.
But I think it’s a good thing. This’ll be my last free summer, considering I’ll be getting a job (finally) and going to college. Therefore, I just want to relax for these next few weeks before I dive head-on into an intense year of college and an intense life. My book can wait, my attempt to build a perpetual motion machine can wait, and my goal to create a new governmental system can wait.
I’m just going to relax, make a few Lego movies, lay around…those kind of things.
Yay.
Comment on my blog, damn you!
Ahem…enough said?
Sorry, I’m lonely. Anyways, today is the 2-month anniversary of my blog! Hooray!
LEGO MOVIE UPDATE: MONTH 2!
Erm…nothing yet. Mainly because I don’t have any female Legos. But thanks to eBay, that will change in 2-4 weeks.
NOVEL UPDATE: MONTH 2!
Erm…nothing yet. Mainly because I don’t have any female Legos. But thanks to eBay, that will change in 2-4 weeks.
Oh wait.
BOOK LIST COMPLETION UPDATE: MONTH 2!
Do you need to ask? My books are a month overdue, though.
ORGANIZING MY CRAP UPDATE: MONTH 2!
Hooray! Finally something I’ve (sort of) done! Be proud, young ones, be proud.
…and comment!
The lonely summer of an only child
When I was younger, I used to think that “only child” was pronounced as “lonely child”, and I actually think that this pronunciation is more accurate, in a way.
Every summer, I get out of school and stay home while both my mom and dad continue to work at the U of I from 8 until 5. So I basically have 9 hours each day to do…whatever. So in an average summer, I have 495 hours of complete aloneness.
Obviously, this gives me plenty of time to do experiments, make movies (Lego movies!) and otherwise just mess around. However, after about 1 1/2 months or so, some sort of psychological phenomenon occurs–I go insane.
Some documented proof that this occurs around the middle of the month of July:
1) The Desert: late July of 2005 (I think…it was made at 1 in the morning )
2) Attempt at making a flying machine: August of 1999 (unsuccessful, obviously)
3) Hiking with Altoids: A Documentary: a strange movie made in late July of 2000
4) The Grandpa Twins: another strange movie with sock puppets made in July of 1997, I think
And these are just the ones I remember.
I kinda like the craziness…I come up with some pretty cool things. Plus, I don’t have to deal with any siblings!
My “to do” list for summer
Nagasaki!
So summer’s here. We graduate officially tomorrow, but I wanted to make my little “to do” list today and put it up here, with hopes that it being made public would motivate me to do some of the stuff on it for once.
So here it goes:
* Claudia’s To Do List for Summer *
– Make a summer to do list (wee! One down!)
– Write a book (this has been on my to do list for years. I can do it; I just procrastinate
– give away/give to Goodwill/take to landfill all my old crap that I won’t ever need again
– get stuff organized to take to dorm
– make a pop-up book about my friends
– Lego movies!
– throw a graduation party for my friends
– get a tattoo!
– read a couple good books
I just realized that I have a lot of lists in my blogs. Oh well. Obsessive-compulsive.
Reading!
Since I’m finally finished with all my writing and project stuff for school, I could finally start reading for pleasure again this weekend. I just finished All Quiet on the Western Front—the 56th read book on my “College Recommended Books” list.
I’m so well read.
Makes you wonder why a certain someone won the “most likely to read every book in the library” award thingy in the yearbook and not me. It’s kinda strange, considering this person:
a) is someone I’ve never seen in the library…ever (and I’m always in there),
b) is one of those people who pronounces “library” as “lie-berry”, and
c) is incapable of operating a Xerox machine (see “Incompetent people suck” blog).
Eh. Oh well. I have light-up shoes.
In gear for a nerdy summer!
Hehe. So last winter I created a very abridged version of Hamlet using Legos (it was about 5 minutes long).
So, to follow this trend, I am setting a goal: this summer, I shall create abridged versions of several classic pieces of literature using only Legos, a camcorder, and some creative license.
I will now be taking suggestions.
If any of the books you suggest end up winning me an Oscar, I’ll thank you in my speech.
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