I'm going to be taking a break from the internet for a bit. I'm just in a bad place right now and I really need to focus on other things. For those who have my number, text me if you need me.

I'll try to comment as much as possible on very random days, but for now at least for a bit I won't be updating.

After thinking I was going to end up stranded in Fayetteville, I managed to get back to Philadelphia in one piece. Flights were being pushed back in ridiculous amounts in Fayetteville airport. One plane was supposed to depart at 3:05pm and didn't leave till 6:50pm. Those poor people. Mine was also pushed back from 5:50 to 6:30 requiring me to run through Atlanta airport to get to my Philly flight. The funn thing? I was in terminal C, my ticket said the plane to Philadelphia was in terminal A so I ran there as fast as I could. Got to the gate only to find out that my plane switched gates and was now in terminal B. So I had to run all the way back, 10 minutes remaining on the clock, got there, almost gave up getting there because I was in so much pain from running in the terminals, got on the plane and then we proceeded to be stuck for 30 minutes because 20 people from the flight were missing. So I ran. For nothing.

Bitches.

While in Fayetteville, I got to play Sims 3 which was quite awesome if I do say so myself. Matt had already made a family with him and I as the parents SO I went for a different family. A Blasian (Black and Asian) family. At the end of it all, I had 5 kids: James (the eldest), Marla, Norah, Zoe and Rosie (Norah, Zoe and Rosie are triplets). Sims 3 comes with a prize after gaining how ever many lifetime achievement points you earn and you can buy a fertility treatment that can cause your sims to have twins or triplets. I knew my sims wanted 5 children so I figured it was best to go this route and the triplets were a pain in my ass! They were either lonely, hungry, or they shat themselves. It was still great fun and Hiroshi and Tabitha (the parents) were always laughing, which was kind of annoying. Tabitha was a chef and Hiroshi was in politics and Tabitha went to Japan to study Japanese cuisine and met Hiroshi there and that's how they got met andyesIactuallymadethisallupandsubsequentlywroteitintheirbiographiesIknowIamaloser.

Matt's mom ended up getting her license so she is now offically a psycho therapist. Which is nice, but she might move to Switzerland. Matt JUST got in state tuition and got a job and he doesn't get paid enough to live on his own. His mom has offered to help him pay his rent though, which is good, I think. Hopefully she doesn't leave the country though. She wants me to visit again and it'd take me quite awhile to go see her if she's in Switzerland! 

Which actually is going to sound odd now that I bring up the fact my folks have put a deal on the table for me. If I get a 3.0 I get a plane ticket to Australia (or where ever) and if I get a 3.0 in the spring semester then I would get $1000 or if I get a 4.0 $1500. So I need to get on that majorly.

I also decided I wanted to be a librarian and possibly be a librarian for the UN. Which would be great. Matt's mom already offered me a place to stay so I could study for my masters in international relations and intern at the UN if she does go to Switzerland. I've begun to learn French and Spanish, ultimately putting Japanese on the back burner for a bit, but I think taking a break from the language will help me become interested in it again because I was running a bit thin on the language love. I think if I master something easy first then I will feel confident enough to take on Japanese again. Plus, French and Spanish are pretty damn close to one another so I should be able to speak both of them relatively quickly, especially with the fact my mom and Matt both speak French and my dad and his entire side speaks Spanish.

We're going down to North Carolina to Wilmington to visit some of my mom's family. I hate family reunions because I'm just going to be around a bunch of people I don't know asking me things and making assumptions about me. I think, though, I could try to be more friendly and practice my charisma skill networking skills so that people won't think "something is wrong with me" like my mom and sister says. Meaning I'm basically a social retard to others. We'll have to put Harvey and Wiley in a kennel though, which I hate because I'm going to miss them a ton and you never know what goes on in those things.

Beyond all of this, Temple still has me on a bill for classes I'm not taking this summer (will take them next summer or something, need to re-work that).  I need to go there on Wednesday and give them a piece of my mind. My dad and Wiley both have poison oak, so I have to go wipe down everything so that my mom and I don't catch it. My sis comes back on Wednesday from Atlanta (she went to go visit her boyfriend) and then Thursday is Harvey's 4th birthday. We're having a bit of a party for him. Yeah, we're those people.

The internet has become boring to me, so I think I'll go read some books for right now, try to reawaken my passion for reading. I'm also thinking about not doing literary concepts because I really want to do the hard English and not analyzing theories and texts. However, I'm not sure if I should or shouldn't. Decisions, decisions.

I'm loving the show Hung. It's great :D 

I have so much to do Academic wise. I hope I get organized enough to do it....bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. i am oddly motivated though.

real entry on saturday. sorry for lack of updates/comments. i'm on vacation~

break free from technology.

lulz, not really I'm going there to play Sims 3, OH SNAP.

Other than all this, I had a dentist appointment and two grandmothers driving me up the wall. I try to comment on all of your ljs but sometimes I haven't the FAINTEST idea what to say so pardon me if I never really comment.

Next Tuesday, barring anything sucky happening this Friday as mentioned in the medical portion of this journal, I'll be heading out to Fayetteville, NC for a much needed vacation. I'll probably try to stay away from the compuer and focus on my studies and maybe some video games. But I'm mostly just going to chill. I so, so need it after all of this.

i have jury duty.

so this means that I'll probably be slow on commenting on some of y'alls ljs. I think we'll be done tomorrow though, and I totally plan to tell you about my three excruiciatingly painful jury experience full of cold court rooms and colder judges fun filled days of jury duty. Something you should all do.

Because you need to serve your country.

Yes.

Anyways, after jury duty I will be heading out to THE ARMPIT OF AMERICA New Jersey to see No Doubt in concert and they have Paramore as their opening act. I only know one Paramore song so I'm betting that I'm going to be pumped for that one song and then staring blankly at the band as they play the rest. I hope to take photos. It's for my sister's birthday. She wouldn't have known about it had I not found out about it online so she should be kissing my ass but she unfortunately is not. Oh man, my ass..reminds me I need to work out badly. I got this spare tire thing going on with my stomach. It's so bizarre. I'll do that Friday. Need to hop up on that wii fit.

Tootahloo~

So, I'm finally trying to beat Final Fantasy 7 after several years of owning the game. It's proving quite difficult. The higher in level I get the harder the monsters seem to be AND THAT JUST ISN'T FAIR.

The purpose of this post is to ask for music recommendations! What music is good to listen to? I'm not big on rap/hip hop unless it's a woman! I don't know why that is, but that just how I roll. Indie music a plus. Music in different languages a guaranteed orgasm.

What say you? /Bill O'Reilly

Ever since I saw Zen up in New York, I've been craving Gushers candy. I can't seem to find them anywhere in Philadelphia.

This makes me a sad panda.

I was killed today in a body sculpting/pilates class. I. Feel. Pain.

So to combat the pain tomorrow I plan to totally clean the entire house. It's in need of a good scrubbing and my room isn't so messy that it will consume my entire day.

This is a short post. Oh, Meg White got married in Jack White's backyard ! Congrats! NOW PUSH OUT SOME BABIES. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs released the video for "Heads Will Roll" and now I really want to play with glitter.

ON TO COMMENTING. AHOY.

Short update is short.

I got my grades in and I'm pretty happy with them! 

Third World History : B (I so thought I was going to get a C)

Geology: C (I thought I was going to fail this class..)

English: B- (Again, thought I was going to get a C but I didn't! I guess that last paper I wrote was a little more cohesive than I thought...)

Art and Society: A (OMG. HELLO A. I HAVE MISSED THEE)

This summer I plan to work on my wpm and keep my room clean and do some drawing practice. I might not be able to take the two summer classes I picked this summer due to not having enough money :X I'm going to try to figure something out before they cancel the classes. Wiley is sitting here looking at me. I need to finish cleaning my room and ridding my room of this past semester. My mom and sis put my dad's computer desk into my room so now I have a desk again! Woo hoo! He also put in the AC unit, which seems like a bad idea right now because it's actually chilly outside. Need to take up the window so I can keep those damn bugs out! 

IF YOU DID NOT SEE GREY'S ANATOMY TONIGHT YOU JUST MISSED THE BEST FINALE EVER.

HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.

Spring 2009 is OVA~

Now I can relax by...DOING MORE WORK 8( I have some reading I have to do in order to feel better about being an English major. Which is weird that I feel that way, but I guess it's okay.

LJ is doing something weird. Some people are putting their journals on "Friends Only" but I can't view them even when they're under "mutual friend". I think it might be a lag in the system and they've removed me? 

Either way, now I have the time to catch up on commenting instead of just making entries.

I haven't been doing much except sleeping and eating. I spent all day Sunday writing a paper and I wasn't done with it till 7am. I did manage to sneak in at least an hour of sleep though, but it only made me feel worse. Luckily, I managed to get it all done, I feel really good about my geology exam, but I've felt that way before on a lot of things, and well, they didn't turn out exactly how I wanted them to.

I am off to comment on friends long neglected. Forgive me folks! For school is evil and time consuming. So is battlestar galactica.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/35006660.html

So I came across this today (I like gossip, shoot me) and I found it kind of disturbing...While I'm not up to date on comics in any form and I am not a staunch feminist either, I'm not exactly sure what is the problem with this comic book.

I LOVED Sex and the City, and I thought it was pretty feminist in nature. Women, enjoying sex. Talking about it, the stigma of their enjoying it, the emotional baggage that can sometimes come along and can sometimes not. Yet many people deem the show as not feminist enough, that they were just a bunch of whores with men who took care of them (which isn't true. Miranda made partner at a law firm, Samantha owned her own PR company, Charlotte WAS a museum curator but she DID quit her job to be married because she thought she was going to have a baby, and after she tried to get another job no one would hire her because she had too much experience, and Carrie was a writer, published her own books, and yes, while she was in debt 95% of the time, she took care of herself and bought her apartment after Aidan (DOUCHE) tried to kick her out of it). Even Miranda commented in the second season she was tired of how the women talked only about men, and what about them and their wants and needs? 

So where does this comic come in? Well, the people at Marvel are touting it as a Sex and the City inspired comic. The superheroes not only talk about their crime fighting, but their love lives as well, and maybe even some shoes. Women are up in arms about this because it's not feminist enough. I can say I am bothered by all of the comic book women across the board having the same body shapes (the classic hourglass figure). That much is true about me and which is why I'm a big fan of indie comics. However, what the superheroes talk about in the comics is not something I'm bothered with too much, you know why? Because its real.

Women talk about men/women. We talk about our relationships, our problems with it, and hell we throw out a "Isn't that outfit cute/disgusting" once and awhile. We also talk about our jobs and we have plenty of other women friends who do the exact same damn thing day in and day out. So why can't the female heroes do that as well? What the HELL are they supposed to talk about? I need them to be everymen/women. I'm not going to able to follow the fucking comic if they're talking about Neitzeche's "Birth of Tragedy" and the Apolinian and Dyonisian drives for 25 pages (okay, that's a lie, I have been reading "Birth of Tragedy" and I can follow it thanks to my teacher, but I think you understand what I mean). They talk about their jobs, they obviously have inner conflict just as many of the male superheroes do ("I'd like to sleep with Lois, but my Kryptonian strength would snap her in half...I know, I'll become a human!" was obviously Superman's thinking in Superman 2).

I want a comic that represent me and what countless of other women go through. I'm damn sure that many of the women I know are not thinking about the next feminist rally and how to beat patriarchy with their friends and what they aren't getting now in correlation to men. We're thinking "Is he/she going to call?" "Do I look okay?" "Damn, that burger was fucking AWESOME" "I really need to take a shit right now." Because that's life for the majority of us. I like comics that delve into real life, and if comics aren't feminist enough, then neither is real life, so maybe we should all just walk around naked with no makeup or cologne and populate by picking someone to give us their sperm in a hospital and having a doctor impregnante us if we so choose to have a child (cause you don't have to have a child, you don't. Anyone who tells you that is a liar. On the same token, anyone who tells you that staying at home with your kids is stupid, is, well, stupid). Cause then it would take away all the guess work on figuring out if we're attractive enough, and if he or she is going to call, and we could just work to be equal, and think about deep thoughts and who is screwing over who this time and how we're going to fix it.

Sounds like fun to me.

I'm a feminist, I want equal rights. I also enjoy wearing a pretty dress and talking about boys. I like seeing that in my comics because I can relate to it. If you don't that is fine. Don't try to change my entertainment to something I can't relate to because it's more fair and equal. Because guess what: for as much as we complain we're being sexualized and treated unequally, a good chunk of us do the exact same thing to men. We sexualize them, and we degrade them too (they just don't let you know it :P). I think that's pretty unfair. Comic book men have ripped muscles and rarely let their emotions get in the way, which doesn't seem right because men are driven by emotions as well. Comics don't represent men fairly, just like they don't represent women fairly. At least the women have more realistic storylines than the men.

SO. WHAT AM I DOING?! NOT MY WORK. HUR HUR HUR.

I have three papers, and my geology lecture final. I just got done with my geology lab final and if the lecture final was as easy as that one, I'd be the happiest person in the world. So I'll be spending time this weekend doing all three of my papers so that I can spend the last week studying hardcore for this geology lecture final.

I also need to make icons...but I come home and I go "NAP TIME!" and then proceed to just lounge around after a good two hour 30 minute nap <.< >.> <.<

Next week I'm heading up to NYC to hang out with Zenobia~ . I hope I don't catch swine flu, but with her busy schedule and mine, I don't think we'll be able to leave her dorm (which sucks because I want to hang out in Willamsburg and see if I can't convince Brian Chase to get a divorce and marry me. I'm sure Matthew will understand).

I also decided that I won't be getting my Japanese writing certificate. I WANTED IT, but I also do not have time to get it T_T I'll just get it after I finish my degree. Maybe head over there and do one of those language intensive classes.

Well, I must write my reading response for the week and then read today's homework. Then go home and do some laundry. I've run out of clothes and I'm sitting here butt naked in school.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF MY FELLOW FINAL SUFFERERS! Especially those doing Japanese/Math. THEY'VE BEEN EXPELLED FROM THE DEVIL'S BOWELS!!
 

Summer Session 2

9:00-12:00 Intro to Vis Lang: Drawing

1:00-4:00 Intro to Vis Lang: Design

Fall 2009 MWF

11:00- 11:50 English Literature

1:00 - 1:50 Japanese Intermediate 1

2:00-2:50  Technical Writing

5:10 - 7:40 Computer Applications (5:10 - 7:00 on Wednesdays; No class on Friday)

Fall 2009 TR

8:20 - 10:50 Intro to Vis Lang: Painting

    Oy, I'm going to be busy next year. This semester seems to feel better, work wise. Unfortunately, I feel as though I haven't really done any work this semester and the feeling has me in a tizzy. I have three papers to write for my finals and two geology finals (one for lab and one for lecture) which are pretty much going to make or break me. I have to get an A on the final geology lecture test so that I can pass the class with an A because everyone, or at least the majority of the student population, have been getting piss poor grades on the tests (myself included, all Ds ._.;;) and he said if we passed this final one, then can get an A in the class. He also might possibly still curve the grades.

My dogs are sick (both have possibly throat infections and Harvey has an ear infection), Matthew is sick and so am I. He and I both got ear infections but I somehow managed to get a stuffy nose and sore throat on top of it all.  I have 20 days to study for my tests/do my papers (well, 13 really for Third World History) so when I'm done cleaning my room and putting my laundry to wash, I'll be getting started on those. I've been on the Crunchy Roll forums reading about how other people study :X if there is anything I know how to do, its procrastinate by reading how other people study when I should be doing my own but I read theirs for inspiration.
 

I haven't even had much of a social life. I think I'm going to go to the launch party for this magazine on campus, just to see what one is like. Also make some contacts, so I could get a job somewhere. Next two summers are internships. I'm wondering if Temple includes your summer grades into your semester. I know they don't use it against you for academic warning/probation but I'm hoping they factor in so that I can raise my GPA.

I shall now go eat a hot pocket and cranberry juice. Then finish cleaning and all my other stuff.

*cough* 8(