16 posts tagged “day to day”

Isn't it weird when you come upon a song that you've known a long time and realize that it kind of suits your life at that moment?  Or ...does that even happen to other people?  Well, it happens to me.  (Though it sucks because sometimes it's only like, parts of the song that fit, and other parts that are like "WTF? No way!")

Nothing deep tonight... I guess I can just update my normal life.  It's finally come to finals week of first semester.  I have my History test on Tuesday and Japanese on Wednesday, but that's it!!  How lucky.  I'll be going home Wednesday afternoon, right after my test in fact.  I'm gonna shop with me mum. 

I'm looking forward to being home, but I hope I don't get tired of it too quickly.  Thanks to my new "period-only-every-three-months-birth-control-pill", I don't have to worry about my own PMS, but I do have to worry about my mom's.  Though she's never admitted it aloud (to me at least), I think she's just as bad as I am, if not scarier.  She certainly doesn't get all weepy like I tend to.

Then again, I got weepy before I took the pill.  Now I just get bitchy.  Maybe this whole "Dragon" problem is because of my drugs... Hmm...

Anyway, continuing... Christmas is almost here!  What the hell!  どんだけ~!  I still need to buy presents... for some people... oh gosh I am so bad at getting presents... I can't ever figure out what to get... and I take too long... aaagh!!  Can't we just all skip the presents and just hang out?!  ............. ヤダ・・・それは無理だね・・・・・・

Speaking of Christmas, ... Winter.  After Christmas, I am done with Winter.  I want Spring to come and frolic about.  Alas, here in Huskerland, Winter will last through March as usual.   And I already feel the pangs of longing.  The gentle warm breeze... the smell of the snow melting... (it smells like llama, did you know this?) 

But I can hope!  For once, a few years ago, we had a very warm January.  I can dream that it would come again...
(but I probably won't be so lucky.)

I guess that's really all for now.  I need to work on getting a job.  I applied at the school library but they haven't gotten back to me.  I need to contact them.  Aaaargh.

I guess I'll start out with my deep thought for the moment and then move on to other updates.

Do you ever feel like an "adult"?

I want to ask my mom if she does.  Often, I sit here and think how impossible it is for me to ever be a "grown-up".  It's a foreign concept, a task that will never come to be - as if I'll die before I'm 21 or something.

I used to be excited and proud to be getting a year older, but at year 19 I feel uneasy.  19 sounds so old and full of responsibility.  I already don't look the part, now my mind feels like it's going to fall behind too.

Anyway, back to life.  I finally got applied for the apartment-style dorms last week - I'll find out if I get a room or not this Friday, 1 PM.  If it doesn't work out I'll be kind of bummed, but there's always next year.  Plus, living at Selleck would be really nice - on campus and everything.

I watched half of Friday's episode of Hana Yori Dango (that's number 6...already so close to being done!).  It's awesome of course, and there seems to be more close-ups of MatsuJun than usual.  Not that I mind. <3 Yep, definitely going to marry him.

I guess that's all I really have to say.  It's not that my life is completely void of anything interesting...I just don't feel like yammering on about random things I did over the weekend.  Maybe later sometime...

I AM NOT SICK ANYMORE

I still have that once every few hours slightly woozy effect, but that's probably due to too much jumping around - I haven't really done too much for four days, so.

I think I should just get to rambling.  A good friend of my mom's, Valerie, is a really amazing woman.  She's the VP of a company in California, and I only met her once for about five minutes, but my mom's told me lots about her and I'm sure she's told her lots about me, too. 

Anyway, somehow, this lady decided that a good graduation gift for me would be $200.  That's more than my grandparents gave me.  Yikes!  I was really thankful though, and gave her a souvenir from Japan as a thank-you gift.  Now, recently, she called me claiming she had something to send me.  I gave her my address, and two days ago, in comes a card.  In it is a lovely letter talking about life in general, along with a check for - prepare yourself - $300.  Out of the blue.  "Enclosed is a small check to help you a little with some of your college expenses." ARE YOU KIDDING ME HOLY CRAP!

I have to call her tonight and tell her I can't accept it...even though I doubt she will take it back...yeesh...crazy woman...my mom says that she likes to help out young ladies be successful...

In other news, uh...um...mind blank!  Oh, here, Stand Up!! episode 2 downloaded.  I just need to watch it.  OH!  And I was all kinds of excited to apply for the apartment lottery, but NOOO!  The date had to be switched to TOMORROW!!  Jerks!!!  But, something good came out of it:

If a member of your group is not a current UNL student, you will need to contact the UNL Housing office (beginning at 10 am Thursday), during regular business hours. Please allow at least 4 hours for this setup to occur.

Hooray!!  But wait, does that mean I have to call them when I have four hours free?  That would be kind of annoying.  Because then I can't do it in the morning, I'd have to wait until after class.  Jerks.

Well, that's all for now I guess.  I wish I could remember what I wanted to write about last night...(all my inspiration comes while I'm lying in bed trying to sleep.)

Well, I think it's about time that I start talking about normal, random things.

Today I guess my alarm decided to play a trick on me and not go off, so I ended up sleeping soundly through what would have been my Astronomy class.  What had actually woken me up, I think, was me somehow knocking my glasses off the desk.  It was 12:10 and I had Japanese class in 20 minutes, which I ended up not going to, either.  Dangit, I'm a horrible student!

I just finished watching last week's Grey's Anatomy episode...oh lord, I love that show.  IT WAS SO GOOD!  AHH!!  Oh, also - everyone should see Letters from Iwo Jima, because it was amazing.  I saw it last Friday and give it a million thumbs up.  (Plus, Nino is in it!!  From ARASHI!!  I am so proud of him, he did an amazing job.)

Hmm...what else...applying for housing next year is coming up, soon.  Second week of February, we can send in an application for the lottery to get into the apartment-style housing on campus here.  But, Betty & Katya (the girl who is going to live with us) are leaning more towards an off-campus apartment since there is a chance we can't get the on-campus one.  I'm not really ready for that, so I don't know what I will do if they decide to not apply. 

I'd like to live with Britni (りと～さん), but she isn't officially a student, and won't be until...what, March?  I'm not sure how that will work out.  I guess if Betty and Katya back out, I can wait until then so Britni and I can just get a normal room together, maybe in Cather or something.  Or Selleck, that'd be nice...already on campus and everything...yeah...

Uh...now I have distracted myself by looking at housing stuff.  Hahaha.  So I guess that is all for now!

U-FO!

[approximately 1 am]

just a friendly reminder to myself for my next post...when it's not bedtime

hot gimmick end - talking with Ghosts - becoming myself again - january depression - it's so damn cold - french sucks - japanese hopes and aspirations - ache for HYD - i'm doing better - except for that once in a while heart-pounding moment

[4:30 pm]

hmm.  my creative writing juices aren't really flowing quite yet.  they were last night, but I really needed to get to bed.  good thing I made that checklist.

Hot Gimmick: Volume 12

Miki Aihara

I read the last book of the manga Hot Gimmick last night.  It was really good, but of course I got reminded of things without even meaning to think about it.

At one point, the main girl character ended up realizing that no matter what she did, she still loved the main guy.  No matter how she tried to get over him or forget about him, she loved him and that was that. 

now, of course, this is just a thought.  I guess...to best explain it is what I told my mother earlier today: it's not like I can just stop liking him automatically, like turning off a faucet...but it's fading.  slowly but surely.

in other news, I got to hang out with him last night, more than I have been.  I think that's good.  because previously, in addition to talking to him so much because I liked him, we were becoming good friends.  then, last week, as we all settled in and I got head-over-heels-angsty, we didn't really talk.  I wasn't online.  I didn't go down to his room.  the few times we all had dinner, I didn't really say much.

I feel better now.

the past week and a half, I haven't been myself.  I don't know if it was just stress times period, but whatever happened, it sucked.  I'm glad it's winding down.  I just have to figure out my schedule.

yeah, my schedule.  Czech was too hard to do online, so I dropped that.  But, seeing as how without it I'm at only 11 credits, I need something else to hold me up.  I decided on a whim to go with French, but one day in that class (at 9:30 in the morning, no less) turned me off completely.  I'm not sure what it was - the time, the fact I had already missed a week, the annoying pronunciations...but I know now for sure that I have no urge to learn French.

I'm awaiting an e-mail from my Japanese teacher ...I want her to tell me that I can do independent study for this semester and have it count as a 202/204 grade...but I don't know if it will work.  If they let me, then it would be 3 credits and I could drop French without a second though.  Now, you may be thinking, "But, that'd be just like Czech, right?!"

No, it wouldn't.  Japanese doesn't count as studying.

I could watch dramas for practice, yeesh!  Speaking of which, AHH HANA YORI DANGO!! jLKD;JFALKJD the 3rd episode airs tomorrow. 

(will finish later...)

Yep, I've been slacking.

But, I've been busy.  See, look!

Wednesday, I didn't actually get out of bed until 9, but then we cleaned until about 4:30 in the afternoon. 

Needless to say, I am POOPED.

Tomorrow (today? Thursday. whatever) I'm going to sleep in until noon, then go do something with my friend Ayumi and hopefully Burichu too at about 2 pm.  Don't know what we'll do though because I think I have to pick up my brother from school at like 4...

I'm still hoping for snow today. 

Man, I love being home!

My mom had surgery on Friday, so we haven't really done anything at all...but that's fine by me.  I'm perfectly happy sitting around doing nothing, having nothing to worry about.

Today I woke up around a lovely 12:55 pm, though I'm pretty sure I was randomly awoken by noisy people upstairs more than once.   Oh well!

I headed upstairs first thing to veg out in her bed.  We popped in The Santa Claus, to which she ended up falling asleep during.  So, the movie got paused and I got to eat some lunch. 

My mom meandered downstairs to the kitchen a little while later, and we we ended up making Christmas cookies.  There were some lovely no-bake types, followed by peanut butter blossoms and cherry mash bars.  Depending on various things tomorrow, we might go for the kolaches.  But, those take an entire day due to the damn dough having to rise...

It seems that we might get snow this coming Thursday.  I really hope it turns out that way...I mean, I'd be at my dad's house...but that's fine.  I'll probably cry of joy if we get some.  It'd be perfect timing, too!  Christmas is already so close...

I have a feeling that these next few weeks are probably going to go really fast.  Dang.

[edit]

Forgot to mention - I've already failed.  I'm on AIM right now.  I guess it'll just have to be "not be on AIM as much as I normally am"...

Ugh!  I'm so tired!!  My Japanese exam took an hour, but I went through it without pausing so...yeah.  But, I am just so close to my break!  It'll probably be about 40 minutes until my dad gets here...and then, I'll be home free...away from this angst-ridden place called a dorm!

My goal is to be as far apart from AIM as possible over these next three weeks, but seeing as how the only times I am usually on at home are late at night before I go to sleep...

It's gonna be difficult.  I'll be bored.  I can't fall asleep before midnight, what am I gonna do?!  Geh!

Oh well!  Chalala! 

Cats don't like showers

I love how college is filled with all sorts of delicious, high-school-y drama. 

I don't feel like typing about it, and I'm not too stressed about it, but it is SO annoying!  Boys should just not be dumb.  End of story.

In other news, I have finals this week!  Wow!  First will be my lovely International Relations (POLISCI OMG!) on Tuesday.  Next will be a final draft of my independent project in English, due Thursday.  Finally, I finish off the week on Friday with a Japanese final.  Pretty easy, huh?

Polisci I'll have my study group for, so I'm not too concerned about that.  English, pft - I just need to finish the paper.  And Japanese?  My only concern there is that the test starts at 10 am.  WHY SO FREAKIN' EARLY?  GUH!

Also, I very much adore my roommate <3  we just get along so swimmingly.  I'm glad that I'm so lucky!

Dang!  Suddenly, my period decided that it was time to start today.  I hate when that happens!

I didn't even get the warning sign of PMS.  How weird.

Unless my PMS this time around was just me feeling haughty and "pssh, I don't need Boy L!" types of moods.  I swear, if I get all weepy again this time around...just, gah...slap me or something.

Also, because it's the first day of my lady problem, I get some major lower back pains.  ANNOYING.

In the meantime, the past three nights have been amazingly boring.  I don't remember the last time I've felt so bored for such an extended period of time.  It's probably karma or something...damn.

I feel like I have many things to do, and that I should be thinking about them and planning them out because there's such a multitude of it...let's make a schedule!!

Here's what I have to do:

English:
Do workshops.
- Kate
- Marshall
- Dustin [don't have his paper?]
- That other guy
Opposition paper.
- Do Friday during day.
- Due before Friday the 1st at 5 PM
Research for paper.
- Uh, ASAP
Revisions, two copies.
- ??
- Due Thursday the 7th
Final draft
- ??
- Due Thursday the 14th
Reading Responses?
- Thursday
- Tuesday

Japanese:
Skit.
- Practice and memorize
- Tuesday 5th
- Thursday 7th
Workbook.
- IA, IIAB, IIIB, IVB
Final.
- Friday the 15th at 10

International Relations:
Finish up paper.
- Tomorrow after English
- Due, well, tomorrow.
STUDY!
- Who knows when?
- Test is on Tuesday the 12th at 3:30.

ENT:
The Oven.
- Wednesday the 6th, 5 PM

Other:
I-House.
- Amnesty International, Friday at 7 PM
- Set-up at 3
Football.
- Saturday, 7 PM, ABC
Betty's Dance.
- $3
- Friday & Saturday, 7 PM
Movies on ABC.
- Friday: HP1, 6:30
- Saturday: HP2, 6
- Sunday: HP2, 12
- Sunday: HP3, 4 and 7 PM
- Monday: Year without Santa, 7
- Monday: Rudolph, 8
- Tuesday: Night before Xmas, 6
- Thursday: Santa Claus Coming, 6
- Thursday: HP3, 7
- Saturday: Night before Xmas, 2:30
- Saturday: Year without Santa, 4
- Saturday: Santa Claus Coming, 5
- Sunday: Scrooged, 1
Betty.
- Present
- Also, cake
Secret Santa.
- Sometime before Wednesday the 6th.

Now to just make it into a day-by-day format that isn't as cluttered as my agenda.