Only one full day of Welcome Week is left and I couldn't be more excited for classes to start. I was finally able to get a copy of the anthology I needed for my American Literature class, I'm halfway through my Jewish History reading, and I'm psyched beyond belief in regards to everything else. I know, I know, this is ridiculously nerdy and I ( Read more... )

All right, so that job interview I had scheduled for today? Nailed it, and the woman I spoke to called me within half an hour to let me know that I was hired. They're paying me $9 an hour and I get to do (what sounds like) interesting things. Say it with me now: sweeeeeet! It was all pretty exciting, since this means that I get to start working ( Read more... )

For those of you somehow not in the know, the album XO, by the now deceased genius Elliott Smith, is an incredible, fantastic, amazing album. Absolutely phenomenal, and I say all this even when ignoring the emmense sentimental value that it has for me. True, the lyrics are very, very sad but the music is beautiful and Smith's voice is just perfect ( Read more... )

Listening to the 5 Songs EP by the Decemberists will always make me think of the summer before I first came to AU. That was when I first really started listening to them, and that June my dad and I went to see them at the Great American Music Hall in SF. Plus, that was the summer when I downloaded these songs and started listening to them all the ( Read more... )

Well.

I tried watching The Nightmare Before Christmas last night but I was only able to get so far as Oogie-Boogie's song before I had to turn it off and just go to sleep. That's how tired and jet lagged I was: I couldn't make it through The Nightmare Before Christmas. Riiiidiculous. Except after I went to sleep I kept waking up at the most ( Read more... )

Well. I'm still jet lagged, though the three+ hour nap I just got up from did me some measure of good. Though then again it did take me a substantial amount of time to find my other Birkenstock shoe despite the fact that my room is really, really bare and should therefore be a very good place for finding things. Oh well ( Read more... )

I'm psyched. Not really about the packing, or the flying, or even about Matt D. offering to drive to the airport so that we can smoke together right before I leave (I, personally am not too keen on the idea of checking in stoned, but he made the point that I would definitely go to sleep easily - oy). But I am so, so, soooo excited about watching ( Read more... )

Well. Once I finally got out of bed (at the ripe hour or 11:00 or later!) I was actually able to shift my lazy ass into gear and get all my laundry started. It's been sitting in my hamper for ages and ages, just waiting to be cleaned. It'll be nice to have a dresser filled with clean clothes. Except wait! The dresser in question will be in ( Read more... )

I go back to school in 58 hours. And no, it didn't take me very long to figure that out. I'm just that excited. Hella excited, as a matter of fact. I'm going to have to get that word out of my vocabulary ASAP. It really doesn't make any sense but it's such a NorCal thing and I really picked it up again without realizing. By the time I noticed it ( Read more... )

Went to the A's game tonight with Matt D., Ruel, David, and Sam (from AU). Casey also showed up eventually, high as a kite. Really don't have much to say about the experience other than that it turned out to be a really lousy game. The A's were leading 2-0 until I don't even know what inning, when the Orioles - the oh-so-hapless and failing Orioles ( Read more... )