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# Studying has turned into doing crosswords and pretending to study.
This is from just now. We're sitting outside the classroom we'll have a midterm in in half an hour and giving up on studying.
# Stupid snoring kept me up half the night. Need it to stop now.
My roommate's boyfriend slept over last night. I was studying, so I was up later than they were, so I couldn't get to sleep for the loud snoring coming from across the room. Then when I woke up this morning he was even louder than he'd been then somehow. He finally woke up when I was putting on my shoes to go to class. My roommate had left before even I'd woken up to head to her own class.
# #murdermonday Geez, I dunno. I'll hafta think. RT @MSI FUCK musicmonday it doz nutin 4 anyone SO I'm officialy changing it to murdermonday.
This amused me at about 3AM last night. I still haven't come up with anyone I would actually like to see killed.
# Torchwood just made me spasm in surprise. It was most uncomfortable a movement, and I should have seen it coming.
I was watching the third episode of the first season and there's a moment that I knew was coming, but it still managed to startle me. Because I was laying on my stomach and my roommate and her boyfriend were asleep in the room, my reflexive reaction was to spasm and sorta-hump the bed. It actually hurt quite a bit.
# Man, I'm still digging confetti out of my OTHER bag...
After the TMBG show at the NYU auditorium yesterday I picked up my bag which was covered in confetti and watched as a bunch of it fell in. This was a different bag than the one I'd taken to the Museum of Natural History show, which I actually did find confetti in again today.
# So many kiddies. They're so cute.
I was watching all the kids file into the auditorium. I really really need to find a babysitting job. One of the best moments was the kid next to me was sitting on his mom's lap, and after the confetti went off he was completely distracted from the music and focused solely on playing with confetti. (I'd estimate he was about 4.) Eventually he reached over a bunch and kept plucking confetti off my lap, and his mom was all "No! We don't touch other people." I laughed and said I didn't mind, then picked up a handful and blew it into his face. I have a cute picture of his brother too, I need to upload the photos from the show.
# Concert time moved. I forgot. Fail. Could have hung out with Marcos for longer.
I met my friend for brunch around 12:30, as he was visiting the city for the week. I thought I had to send him up to Grand Central by 2, because that was the original time of the concert and I completely forgot that the time had moved to 4. As I was wandering around wondering why the doors were locked, I passed by Danny trying to figure out how to get in, and ended up getting coffee with another couple who'd gotten there early and then went across the street to the Library to study a little tiny bit before heading back over to Skirball.
# Either that ambulance's siren was just awesome or the paramedics were having a bit of fun.
Walking to meet Marcos, an ambulance siren kept going in a cool rhythm. I'm pretty sure it was whoever was pressing the button amusing themselves.
# RT Watch! @Katie_Buchanan Attention World: The MOVING ON MUSIC VIDEO http://bit.ly/kAON9
I helped my friend make a music video a few weeks ago. Call time was 6am at the Brooklyn Bridge. I was supposed to be set photographer, but my battery died after one photo, so I ended up just being the pack mule. It was cool though, because it was me and two good friends. The finished video is gorgeous. I embedded it:
# @defleper I don't like any of his movies. I just liked the SNL sketch.
My friend replied about The Rock's new movie looking shitty to my below thing about his being on SNL.
# WHY DID YOU LET GERARD BUTLER SING!?
They let him sing "Music of the Night," which he butchered in that movie, and trying to sing it live while throwing in elements of how he only plays action or romantic roles was an epic fail.
# Dwanye Johnson on SNL is AWESOME!
His Obama impression was actually better than the cast member who always has to be Obama.
# @AlanGordon Musical taste is only one aspect of people. They have other qualities that more than make up for this.
He was about the third person to tell me to drop my friends because of what happened below. I was sick of it.
# <--- I am making this face right now.
My Twitter picture is my hands over my face.
# Oh god. Jonas Brothers. AND THEY KNOW THE WORDS! WHAT THE FUCK!?
After this they moved on to the Bee Gees, which was better. This was a low point of the night. My other friend and I sat there staring at each other and them with our mouths open not believing what was happening.
# Why are the people I'm with blasting Taylor Swift? WHY ARE MY FRIENDS INSANE?!
I was scared. Very scared.
# A line? What is this foreign concept? Empty amusement parks FTW.
At Six Flags it was rainy and cold, so the first line we encountered all day was making me impatient.
# Tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. Check.
Kingda Ka at Six Flags in New Jersey. 45 stories tall/128 MPH. It's over in like 20 seconds, but it's probably the second most awesome adrenaline rush I've had after bungee jumping. I almost didn't do it too, but then one of my friends decided to so I sucked it up and am so glad I did.
# @SpectralSpark SPOILERS.
I thought my friend had posted a spoiler for a show I'm a couple episodes behind on. I went back and re-read it later and it turns out that in my It's-7am-and-I-just-woke-up-after-about-4-hours-of-sleep stupor I misread the word "religion" as "rebellion." I should probably apologize to him for that.
# Hmmmm, thinking of heading to bed. Getting up around 7 for SIX FLAGS. First, a little more Friday night loserdom. #LOFNOTC
LOFNOTC = Losers of Friday Night On Their Computers. It was accidentally started by Amanda Palmer over the summer and it basically ends up being a bunch of drunk people celebrating being in on Friday night. I wasn't drunk, but it was still fun.
# @amandapalmer For even more indoors fun...Uncomfortable Plot Summaries! http://bit.ly/NFfY #LOFNOTC
Yeah, there were a few things related to LOFNOTC this night. They kinda explain themselves for the most part.
# I'm very glad to finally be able to participate in #LOFNOTC. It started 5 months ago...
# RT: @amandapalmer WE WILL USE CAPS LOCK WE WILL STAY AT HOME WE WILL TAKE NO PRISONERS!! ALL HAIL #LOFNOTC!! HTTP://TWITGOO.COM/4DJ5E
# Joining the ranks of #LOFNOTC! Woo!
# Hey, remember when the Blue Scholars played in my high school's gym? They've come a long way...XD Good on them.
Blue Scholars are playing CMJ. I was amused and had a burst of Seattle pride.
# Looking up CMJ bands again. Some of these bands have practically no online presence. It's insane.
I like that my task for work is sending a list of bands I like or want to check out to my boss. However, some of them only have like one song on their MySpace which just doesn't make sense in this day and age.
# That was fun. Now, food, back to NY, and work for a couple of hours.
# Hanging out at the World Cafe. Lucero will play on Live at Noon soon on WXPN. Take a listen.
Trip to Philly was spend entirely at WXPN, but it was really fun. I got to meet the programming director of the station, and the Universal Music AAA radio rep.
# First cab ride of the semester. Stupid, unreliable L train.
I left at a good time to get me where I needed to meet my boss at 9:30 for our trip to Philly, but the L train was just sitting down the tunnel and didn't move in 7 minutes so I wasted $2.25 swiping in just to leave and find a cab. I ended up only being a couple minutes late and the timing worked perfectly because Thaddeus was a little late too so he only had to wait for about a minute for me to finish getting our coffee before I came out and hopped in the car.
# I wish he would stop implying that blogs are an inherently inferior form of music writing.
We have this one awful class on Thursday evenings. It's supposed to be a writing class but none of us feel like we're actually learning anything after the other 4 required writing classes. Especially because the teacher is veering off in a completely different direction. It's become that the people who got the best grades in the other classes are almost failing for some unknown reason.
# Wish I had a drink. Coffee or tea would be very nice right now.
At the beginning of the above class. I just wanted something to keep me occupied in some way. I'll have to remember to bring a paper with a crossword in it next class because I'll go crazy if I give the teacher my full attention.
# Walking to class is gonna be fun considering the mini-adventure that was walking across Union Square to get food. Wish I had wellies.
It was raining harder than it really had so far this year. I don't currently own an umbrella so it was a ridiculous adventure even walking three or four blocks to Wendy's for food. Luckily by the time class rolled around the rain had let up quite a bit.
Well, the midterm is over. I think I did pretty well, but there were definitely some things I could have studied better. Like the specific terms/acronyms rather than just what they meant when applied. I think overall I'll be fine though. One down, two? to go. I have to double check for a couple of classes.
Now, transferring some money onto my ID/into Campus Cash so I can get food before my next class. I left my wallet at home. Luckily the internet is awesome. I needed to put more money on my ID anyway for laundry so it's really just win/win.
I leave you with...one of my favorite of the TMBG pictures from yesterday:
This is from just now. We're sitting outside the classroom we'll have a midterm in in half an hour and giving up on studying.
# Stupid snoring kept me up half the night. Need it to stop now.
My roommate's boyfriend slept over last night. I was studying, so I was up later than they were, so I couldn't get to sleep for the loud snoring coming from across the room. Then when I woke up this morning he was even louder than he'd been then somehow. He finally woke up when I was putting on my shoes to go to class. My roommate had left before even I'd woken up to head to her own class.
# #murdermonday Geez, I dunno. I'll hafta think. RT @MSI FUCK musicmonday it doz nutin 4 anyone SO I'm officialy changing it to murdermonday.
This amused me at about 3AM last night. I still haven't come up with anyone I would actually like to see killed.
# Torchwood just made me spasm in surprise. It was most uncomfortable a movement, and I should have seen it coming.
I was watching the third episode of the first season and there's a moment that I knew was coming, but it still managed to startle me. Because I was laying on my stomach and my roommate and her boyfriend were asleep in the room, my reflexive reaction was to spasm and sorta-hump the bed. It actually hurt quite a bit.
# Man, I'm still digging confetti out of my OTHER bag...
After the TMBG show at the NYU auditorium yesterday I picked up my bag which was covered in confetti and watched as a bunch of it fell in. This was a different bag than the one I'd taken to the Museum of Natural History show, which I actually did find confetti in again today.
# So many kiddies. They're so cute.
I was watching all the kids file into the auditorium. I really really need to find a babysitting job. One of the best moments was the kid next to me was sitting on his mom's lap, and after the confetti went off he was completely distracted from the music and focused solely on playing with confetti. (I'd estimate he was about 4.) Eventually he reached over a bunch and kept plucking confetti off my lap, and his mom was all "No! We don't touch other people." I laughed and said I didn't mind, then picked up a handful and blew it into his face. I have a cute picture of his brother too, I need to upload the photos from the show.
# Concert time moved. I forgot. Fail. Could have hung out with Marcos for longer.
I met my friend for brunch around 12:30, as he was visiting the city for the week. I thought I had to send him up to Grand Central by 2, because that was the original time of the concert and I completely forgot that the time had moved to 4. As I was wandering around wondering why the doors were locked, I passed by Danny trying to figure out how to get in, and ended up getting coffee with another couple who'd gotten there early and then went across the street to the Library to study a little tiny bit before heading back over to Skirball.
# Either that ambulance's siren was just awesome or the paramedics were having a bit of fun.
Walking to meet Marcos, an ambulance siren kept going in a cool rhythm. I'm pretty sure it was whoever was pressing the button amusing themselves.
# RT Watch! @Katie_Buchanan Attention World: The MOVING ON MUSIC VIDEO http://bit.ly/kAON9
I helped my friend make a music video a few weeks ago. Call time was 6am at the Brooklyn Bridge. I was supposed to be set photographer, but my battery died after one photo, so I ended up just being the pack mule. It was cool though, because it was me and two good friends. The finished video is gorgeous. I embedded it:
Click to view# @defleper I don't like any of his movies. I just liked the SNL sketch.
My friend replied about The Rock's new movie looking shitty to my below thing about his being on SNL.
# WHY DID YOU LET GERARD BUTLER SING!?
They let him sing "Music of the Night," which he butchered in that movie, and trying to sing it live while throwing in elements of how he only plays action or romantic roles was an epic fail.
# Dwanye Johnson on SNL is AWESOME!
His Obama impression was actually better than the cast member who always has to be Obama.
# @AlanGordon Musical taste is only one aspect of people. They have other qualities that more than make up for this.
He was about the third person to tell me to drop my friends because of what happened below. I was sick of it.
# <--- I am making this face right now.
My Twitter picture is my hands over my face.
# Oh god. Jonas Brothers. AND THEY KNOW THE WORDS! WHAT THE FUCK!?
After this they moved on to the Bee Gees, which was better. This was a low point of the night. My other friend and I sat there staring at each other and them with our mouths open not believing what was happening.
# Why are the people I'm with blasting Taylor Swift? WHY ARE MY FRIENDS INSANE?!
I was scared. Very scared.
# A line? What is this foreign concept? Empty amusement parks FTW.
At Six Flags it was rainy and cold, so the first line we encountered all day was making me impatient.
# Tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. Check.
Kingda Ka at Six Flags in New Jersey. 45 stories tall/128 MPH. It's over in like 20 seconds, but it's probably the second most awesome adrenaline rush I've had after bungee jumping. I almost didn't do it too, but then one of my friends decided to so I sucked it up and am so glad I did.
# @SpectralSpark SPOILERS.
I thought my friend had posted a spoiler for a show I'm a couple episodes behind on. I went back and re-read it later and it turns out that in my It's-7am-and-I-just-woke-up-after-about-4-hours-of-sleep stupor I misread the word "religion" as "rebellion." I should probably apologize to him for that.
# Hmmmm, thinking of heading to bed. Getting up around 7 for SIX FLAGS. First, a little more Friday night loserdom. #LOFNOTC
LOFNOTC = Losers of Friday Night On Their Computers. It was accidentally started by Amanda Palmer over the summer and it basically ends up being a bunch of drunk people celebrating being in on Friday night. I wasn't drunk, but it was still fun.
# @amandapalmer For even more indoors fun...Uncomfortable Plot Summaries! http://bit.ly/NFfY #LOFNOTC
Yeah, there were a few things related to LOFNOTC this night. They kinda explain themselves for the most part.
# I'm very glad to finally be able to participate in #LOFNOTC. It started 5 months ago...
# RT: @amandapalmer WE WILL USE CAPS LOCK WE WILL STAY AT HOME WE WILL TAKE NO PRISONERS!! ALL HAIL #LOFNOTC!! HTTP://TWITGOO.COM/4DJ5E
# Joining the ranks of #LOFNOTC! Woo!
# Hey, remember when the Blue Scholars played in my high school's gym? They've come a long way...XD Good on them.
Blue Scholars are playing CMJ. I was amused and had a burst of Seattle pride.
# Looking up CMJ bands again. Some of these bands have practically no online presence. It's insane.
I like that my task for work is sending a list of bands I like or want to check out to my boss. However, some of them only have like one song on their MySpace which just doesn't make sense in this day and age.
# That was fun. Now, food, back to NY, and work for a couple of hours.
# Hanging out at the World Cafe. Lucero will play on Live at Noon soon on WXPN. Take a listen.
Trip to Philly was spend entirely at WXPN, but it was really fun. I got to meet the programming director of the station, and the Universal Music AAA radio rep.
# First cab ride of the semester. Stupid, unreliable L train.
I left at a good time to get me where I needed to meet my boss at 9:30 for our trip to Philly, but the L train was just sitting down the tunnel and didn't move in 7 minutes so I wasted $2.25 swiping in just to leave and find a cab. I ended up only being a couple minutes late and the timing worked perfectly because Thaddeus was a little late too so he only had to wait for about a minute for me to finish getting our coffee before I came out and hopped in the car.
# I wish he would stop implying that blogs are an inherently inferior form of music writing.
We have this one awful class on Thursday evenings. It's supposed to be a writing class but none of us feel like we're actually learning anything after the other 4 required writing classes. Especially because the teacher is veering off in a completely different direction. It's become that the people who got the best grades in the other classes are almost failing for some unknown reason.
# Wish I had a drink. Coffee or tea would be very nice right now.
At the beginning of the above class. I just wanted something to keep me occupied in some way. I'll have to remember to bring a paper with a crossword in it next class because I'll go crazy if I give the teacher my full attention.
# Walking to class is gonna be fun considering the mini-adventure that was walking across Union Square to get food. Wish I had wellies.
It was raining harder than it really had so far this year. I don't currently own an umbrella so it was a ridiculous adventure even walking three or four blocks to Wendy's for food. Luckily by the time class rolled around the rain had let up quite a bit.
Well, the midterm is over. I think I did pretty well, but there were definitely some things I could have studied better. Like the specific terms/acronyms rather than just what they meant when applied. I think overall I'll be fine though. One down, two? to go. I have to double check for a couple of classes.
Now, transferring some money onto my ID/into Campus Cash so I can get food before my next class. I left my wallet at home. Luckily the internet is awesome. I needed to put more money on my ID anyway for laundry so it's really just win/win.
I leave you with...one of my favorite of the TMBG pictures from yesterday: