Thanks to everybody who commented yesterday. I didn't realize it was that comment-worthy, but I'm glad that you all took the time comment, I really appreciated it. I'm going to start getting back to you.

I forget how soothing playing the piano is. I'm always in a better mood coming out of the piano practice rooms, no matter what kind of mood I was in to begin with, and usually come out singing or humming whatever I was playing. I got stared at today because there was this huge congregation of music majors in there, but meh. I don't care. They're music majors, not like they never walk around humming or singing.

Agenda:
- Finish setting up metro_deception
- Clean up Hidden Deceptions
- Write Lois' history for metro_deception
- Work on 12days_of_clois fic
- Work on writing group fic
- Something else? *thinks* Oh! practice the piano some more

Well, anyway, I'm on my way out, just did a quick drop by. I'm actually going to University Forum today, I'm so proud of myself! I go what? Once a semester? Well, I'm going today because our guest speaker is Ken Burns! If you don't know who Ken Burns, you need to watch one of his documentaries. I'm not a docu watcher, but man...his stuff is amazing! My favorite is his 8-parter on the Civil War. AMAZING! lol, last time I actually physically went to devotional/forum was for David McCullough last year. Bad me! I've watched a few on TV since then...(I watched Pres. Hinckley...and I'm sure somebody else...the Prophet's good, right?). Anyway, he's talking about his new WWII documentary coming out this war. Totally awesome!

Well, I think that's it. Later guys!

( Nerd Quiz stolen from potterfriendz...I'm a drama nerd? WTZ?Collapse )

Just when I think my life is going to return to a normal state, it just doesn't happen. I hit the midterms rush behind everyone else, but at this rate the midterms rush is going to last all the way through finals. Gah...

No time to write for writing group, no time to write my Clois fic, no time to even finish my R/Hr chapter. Sadness!!

Healthwise I've not been so good the last few days. Friday I finally had my appointment to talk to the doctor and...well, yeah. So he gave me three meds for my acne and one for the asthma. I haven't started the morning cream yet, but my face is constantly burning from the night cream. I know it'll pass, I've been in this stage before, my problem is once I get passed the burning/peeling stage my face tends to get worse again. Damn genetics. Asthma meds I haven't been on long enough to notice a difference. All I know is something I'm taking (be it the pill or the inhaler) is making me constantly nauseous and making me short of breath. Sometimes I can stand it, I'm fine, other times...like yesterday...I ended up taking a two hour nap yesterday MORNING! Yeah, and that nap wiped me out for the rest of the day, so I didn't make it to any classes yesterday. Sucky? Oh yeah. Today I managed to get some milk down, but I have no hopes for food at the moment.

We found somewhere to live!! It took a while. Sasha, Kendra, and I have become spoiled with our bedrooms meant for two, so it seemed that every place we looked out that claimed to have large private rooms in truth did not. We're sad, pathetic people, I know. We found this cute little house. It's a good 8 blocks from campus, but that's really not that far of a walk. Twenty minutes tops. On nasty weather days, the bus is an option. 6 bedrooms, and we're going to take the top three. The top level has its own living room and bathroom, and the house has two kitchens, three bathrooms, two living rooms, and an office for our enjoyment. The only real downside is the utilities which are through the roof (old house, no insulation). Oh well. Now it's a matter of who are the two moving in this April, and who will wait for August. It's looking like Kendra and I are moving now and Sasha will follow us. But, we are looking for 2 other roommates (one of the girls we think is staying) so...if you can put up with us...oh yeah, and if you live in Provo, that's an important key point.

Celebrated Kendra's 20th birthday yesterday. We had fun. She asked for a strawberry cake with strawberry frosting, which was entirely too sweet, but we survived. Ryan ditched out on the party about the same time I did and ended up talking to me for a little while. Kendra returned to find her present from Sasha which was hidden in the shower (don't ask). That reminds me, I took some amazing video of the two of them this weekend. Seriously, you'd think we were drunk. We blame it on too much caffeine, but there's no way caffeine does that to people I swear...it'll be up on YouTube as soon as I find a spare moment.

Rumor has it I'm going to Anaheim this weekend. However, I can think of four times since my last trip to the Happiest Place on Earth that the Magic Kingdom has slipped through my fingers. See? I can't even bring myself to say it. Kendra's convinced that we can do a full day in...Disneyland...leaving Friday night around 7 and coming back at some point on Sunday. I'm trying to be excited, but...

1) I can't sleep in cars, so the idea of pulling an all-nighter before a day of constant motion is not appealing. That day of constant motion followed by thus far no where to stay Saturday night and an all-day driving trip on Sunday...yeah.
2) My parents will not pay for my ticket. Kendra's convinced her parents to pay for the ticket, but she's working on convincing them for Sasha and I as well. I'm not seeing this
3) We have no where to stay. Kendra's all for sleeping in the car at a Flying J. I'm less inclined.
4) My track record. I'm jinxed. I swear, I'm cursed to never enter that theme park again, I just know it
5) If my parents found out I pulled that on a regular weekend...sparks would fly.
6) My money's running short, unless I cut into my Dermatologist money, which probably isn't a good idea.
7) I have a project due on Monday.
8) I'm seriously jinxed.
9) I've got that queasy feeling in the pit of stomach
10) I'm jinxed.
11) I had a dream last night in which LA was completely barricaded off because of a terrorist attack and I was driving, and Kendra and Sasha were both drugged on Nyquil and didn't wake up, so I was forced to come up with something to do. Well, I didn't want to just go back to Provo, so I drove home...most depressing thing in the world.

It's just not good timing...at all. I'd have to skip the synagogue trip, and I've already agreed to go to Kingman with her a week from Friday. I want to go, but so many things (beyond my personal jinx) points to us not going. I see lots of reasons why we shouldn't. As much fun as it would be, and cool as it would be to meet katshakespeare, I don't feel good about it, something's not right with doing it this weekend.

Maybe I'm just a worryer.

Lastly, this last month's updates:
- Made an HP/L&C post in mashthepotatoes.
- Made an affiliation post in mashthepotatoes.
- Surprise, surprise, another HP/L&C post in mashthepotatoes.
- Started renting Smallville through Blockbuster...I'm on Season 2 now.
- New chapter on Divorce: Weasley Style.
- Posted You Don't Know Me on 12days_of_clois.
- Started to keep track of my current reading list.

( Dante's Inferno -- stolen from strangealchemyCollapse )

Nothing like a great morning in Hebrew to turn a crappy weekend into a start off for the week. Let's just say that my weekend was full of stress and frustration and irritation and emotional lows, and well, I didn't have any ambition to start this week, not at all. Got three tests, need to go up to the health center, gotta find out how to get a new insurance card, gotta trim my hair...not exactly highlights for a good week.

Hebrew made life all better. We're currently working on the Beynim and the different types of verbs, their passive forms, etc. Not easy stuff to recognize, particularly in an ancient textual passage. Well, Carli asked Chris if he'd write a song about it and play it for us in Hebrew. Haha, Chris wrote a song on how to remember the different forms fo the Beynim to Do-Re-Mi with some amazing lyrics. They would make no sense to a person who hasn't spent the last semester and a half with us, but man...it's amazing. Viper getting into a brawl and Lambdin wearing a dress...I swear, we border on sacreligious or something...I love those guys!

Thanks to Bonnie (one of my Apt. 50 buddies) I found an odd glitch in the BYU instructor's class schedule search. It almost acts like an alumni search, but not quite. It lists all students at BYU, BYU-Idaho, and BYU-Hawaii as well as some past alumni. Bonnie found some siblings and uncles that never attended BYU. I didn't find Court, but I found Mom with her married name still living at Grandma's, Dad living in my grandparent's old house in Los Gatos, Grandpa with a huge DECEASED label but still giving his McKay building office number (he's been dead 25 years and yet they still have his office room and phone number saved?), Katie with Hanford as both of her addresses, my aunts and uncles with ancient Provo addresses and Grandma's as the permanent address, I think I found one of my friend's dad's with his address in Fresno...it's insane. So, BYU folk, go to AIM, instructor class schedule, and search. You never know what you might find.

Started my 12days_of_clois fic. I figured it was time to start seeing as I'm the one going first. I think my plot idea got me in over my head. So far I'm still pretty much in the introduction and I'm over 1000 words in. To get Lois and Clark to their intended destination is going to take at least another 600 words or so, and then I know getting them out of that predicament is going to take approx. 10,000 words, give or take. You guys on the site, if it ended up being 14,000 words or so, do you think that'd be too long to get people to read it?

Alas, I'd love to keep rambling, but there is history to be done! Later, guys!

I'm on campus with no real desire to go home just yet. I'll have to in about twenty minutes, though. I'm supposed to record Gilmore Girls tonight and didn't have time to set the tape up before I left.

My weekend was extremely unproductive. I had a paper to write and the apt to clean for cleaning checks. Can I just say I think cleaning checks are stupid and retarded? I'm going to clean when I want to clean, but because I know in the middle of the month I have to clean, I put it off until the middle of the month because what's the point? Really, I'm an adult, I know when my room needs to be cleaned, thanks. It also always comes at exactly the wrong date which just pisses me off further. Truly, I hate cleaning checks. In the meantime, we failed it today because we had no desire to clean up. I'm about done, just have to finish up a few dishes then clean up the bathroom, which is never too bad.

In the meantime, I did actually get my paper written, but it was a two hour job. I would've given it more, but I really couldn't think of a topic. I stared at my notes all weekend trying to find a topic, and I just couldn't think of a good one! This is Dr. Walker, he thinks very highly of me, and I wanted to give him a good paper. Well, I thought my end two hour result deserved a low B. He thought it was a middle grade B. He was amazed that I would give it a lower grade than he would and thought that showed that I was actually thinking about what I wrote and not just putting any old crap down on the page and that I showed some editing skills (though admittedly I don't totally see how). He also said it was an A idea, but I needed more details, and after I told him it was a matter of taking too long to choose a topic, he was so excited that that was my main problem. When he asked me what I was thinking of doing after school, I told him creative writing and hew as disappointed because that meant he had no where to send recommendation letters to. I told him grad schools would be good! =D He also offered to look over my fiction writing any time I wanted him to. I told him briefly that I attended a writing group every week and thought that was great, and requested that I actually bring my stuff to him to look over. DUDE! What an offer! That, my friends, made me all warm and fuzzy inside. I also told him that my dad said hello and after I said my dad's name was Jeff he could actually remember him. "White/blond hair, tall, glasses. Yeah, I can totally see that you're his daughter now." He had my dad in his Tolkien and Lewis class as an undergrad nearly 30 years ago. I swear that man is a genius...

Haha, can I say I love eHarmony? I don't do any couple matching on there, but it might be my favorite online personality test. I retook it and compared it to the one I took as a freshman...it's fascinating to see how the two are so completely different and yet so obviously the same. I convinced Kendra to take it, too, and we realized just why we get along so well. I don't know, I think it's fun looking at that sorta stuff.

Academy of Art University is calling me again to see if I still want to register. I DO I DO I DO, but guys, I can't afford you. Besides, I'm not going to transfer now. But I was assigned a counselor, so I think I might call her and see if I can just take some random summer classes. The timing for their summer classes is almost perfect for the time I have off this summer. I could go home and stay occupied with a couple of film or liberal arts classes, and it wouldn't be that expensive for just one or two classes. I think the parents will dig it, and it means I'll come home, another thing they'll dig.

The housing hunt continues. It has been narrowed, though. I've discovered I don't just want a private room, I want a spacious private room. Therefore, most of the condos around aren't going to work. Sadly, I've narrowed it down to about three places: Riverside Condos, Old Mill, and...CARRIAGE COVE! Yes, I'd move back to the old APT a 35 minutes walk to campus. But the more I look at it...the better the deal looks. I look at how much most places charge for the size of their bedrooms and...not so much. Old Mill has bigger bedrooms, but the bathrooms freak me out. I might learn to like them, though... I'd love Branbury, but rumor has it they're on the verge of losing their BYU approval again. Riverside is the one place I haven't officially looked, but definitely need to.

Well, I successfully wasted 20 minutes. Now back home to record Gilmore Girls and study Hebrew verb forms and probably to do some writing =)!

My current feelings are expressed well in a Divine Comedy skit from last year. "Bah! is a completely sentence. B is the subject and ah is the verb." It makes no sense, but man, that's how I feel right about now, that all your feelings and everything about them can be expressed in a single word that really had no meaning to begin with.

I was awake til 4:30, maybe even later, talking to Kendra, trying to help her sleep. Her alarm went off at 5:45. I don't know if I really did sleep before then or not. I did at least get myself 3 hours by skipping Hebrew. Well...sort of 3 hours. Closer to 2 and a half. Bad day.

Spring is in the air! I know, it's February 5th, but really! I mean, it's 34 degrees outside! That's two degrees above freezing! Dude! It really did just feel springy today.

Man...stationary is not a good idea right now.

It's gonna be a long day. Have a paper to write before 3, stuff to read for that class, then class, then pay rent, then clean apt, then find the brain power to do my Hebrew translations (ha...ha...ha...), then FHE in our apt tonight. Bah, I tell you! Bah!

Lastly, I have welcomings to make! First, welcome to ladymirth who shares many of my obsessions and called me on my exaggeration last week with DH, welcome welcome! Also, welcome to potterfriendz and gmurray122. Potterfriendz added me after seeing some graphics and gmurray122 is a Superman fan, also been keeping me up to date on the sadness of Barbaro. I was rooting for that horse! Also, welcome to admiral_sab, fellow L&C fan who recognized me from R/Hr obsessiveness. Yay for us! Oh yes, and lastly welcome to luprand, one of my fellow writing group buddies with gab and tibek and fault. yay!

Where had January gone? I mean, seriously. Where has the month gone? It's seriously went poof!

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Life around the apartment has been...interesting. The stories certainly racked up this weekend. Seriously, all you have to do is mention the boot around our apartment and we both die of laughter. Perhaps I will share that story with you another time. =P bwahaha

And, since January is coming to a close, just a quick rundown of my various updates:
- Userinfo and journal layout almost done. Userinfo is particuarly ammusing at the moment. It's so only half done. Take a look if you're curious starrylites
- starlit_grphcs got a face lift. I'm much happier with the graphics now.
- I officially joined the Dark Side that is Smallville. I'm hooked to the show, even the soap opera. *sigh*
- new L&C video about 70% done. Kinda stuck currently
- Wrote my piece for 12days_of_clois Got to post it on the 2nd.
- Made a very Lois & Clark post in mashthepotatoes.
- Posted an Elizabeth Swann tutorial in mashthepotatoes.
- Posted icons and banners of OotP, Smallville, and POTC in mashthepotatoes.


Oh, and a new friend to the group! Just throwing a hi there and welcome to katshakespeare! She found me on 12days_of_clois and we obsess about the same things. Go us!

I walked to school in -4 degree weather. For you people that live in the Northern USA (or you Canadians who I accidentally excluded), you're used to this, I'm sure. For me, the Californian who grew up wearing a sweatshirt only when absolutely necessary (and sometimes not even then...yeah, I'd wear short sleeves when it was 38 outside with 80% humidity). When it's -4, you really can't not where a coat. This is tramatic for me. I was so tired of taking the stupid thing on and off earlier today that when we came out of Barnes & Noble I said screw it and didn't put it on. Yeah, it was 5 degress, but you know what? I don't care.

Grandma's surgery went well. The doctors are confident that they got all the cancer. Very happy news! Way happy news.

I just bought myself The Jerusalem Bible. It has books in it I've never seen before. Well, I knew they existed, but I'm used to the King James Version. We had to buy something that wasn't the KJV for Bible as Lit. Should be interesting.

Anyway, off to square dancing. Yee haw!

Just put hpcast_hush for adoption. I also deleted hprpgicontest. I feel better.

mione_stills is being handed over to Dena and I get to be just sort of helper. I like it better that way. On that same note, I left my left icontest today. *sniffle* I'll miss them, but I just don't have the time and making graphics I didn't necessarily care about I think is what put me in my bad rut there for a while.

I have all the text for my profile finished (but not edited). I doubt anyone will ever read it, but I like having it there, makes me feel complete or something. Now I've got to decide what I'm doing with the layout. Shouldn't be too bad.

Trying to use tags again, mainly because I like the cloud effect on my journal that tells me how many times those tags are featured. Funny thing, Harry Potter is number. I never would have guessed =P

Also have links updated so they work with my various friends filters. I don't know, it probably doesn't look that much different to the rest of you, but to me it's feeling alot more organized.

Classes are continuing to go well, one thing I'm very happy about =)

Well, one class down and two to go on the day. Nothing to really report as far as that goes. I've only been to Hebrew, it's the same class except for two new guys who seem like they'll fit in just nicely, and so yeah, it'll still be my favorite class I'm sure. It's kinda nice though because our classroom is nearly twice the size it was last semester. We got some stares, though, because the basement of the Clark Building is supposed to be quiet and ha, we weren't. Some of those stares we got were amazing. More later once I've been to the rest of my classes.

It was crazy yesterday. Got to church and my buddy LB was there from Freshman year, said she was visiting the guys in Apt. 57. I just assumed that was Steve and Ryan, seeing as we were all dorm buddies together. Well, she comes up to talk to me after RS and we give each other a hug then I start talking about Steve and Ryan and she's all, "but I came to visit Scotty and Brandon and Tyrell and" which is when I cut her off. Just then the guys walked in for Sunday School and they all yelled my name and waved. "FRESHMAN REUNION!" Yeah, so hey, I now know like 10 guys at church, five of which just showed up and I knew by default. Silly returning missionaries.

Let's see...otherwise life is good, I guess. Fixed Grandma's printer yesterday, so that was happy. Rowdy was glad to see me as always, but maybe a little more glad than usual. I heart that dog. Forgot to pay rent, though, so the late fees aren't cool, but meh, no biggie.

Anyway, the computer lab's pretty full so I'm gonna go find somewhere else to hang until 11:00. Woohoo! History at 11 with 1/2 of my Hebrew buddies. Yay!

- Left hogwartsishome. I wasn't participating at all, and found myself getting annoyed by the sorting posts. That's a pretty sure sign that it's time to say good-bye. It was fun being a Ravie while it lasted.
- Profile is under construction again. Since I'm not really in icontests these days, seems silly that I've got that much stuff devoted to it. Probably won't do much with it until I get back from Christmas.
- Still working on those finals. Gonna study for British Lit and Geology tonight, probably take them both tomorrow, then Church History Thursday morning. Going to Grandma's to watch the Las Vegas Bowl Thursday night.
- Got to get Christmas presents squared away. Some might be belated presents, I'm afraid.
- My internet's back!
- While I had no internet, I made another Lois & Clark music video. I love opinions, but you of course aren't expected to watch it. I realize I have a very weird fandom these days...and 10 years too late.
- Posted my first batch of icons in almost three months. Crazy, huh? Anyway, they're over here. I'm sure some of my followers thought I'd died or something.
- Any of you iconing people that watch this interested in taking hpcast_hush from me? My will for icontests is dead and I just don't have the time on top of that.