It's Been a While...
So, well, I posted at the beginning of the semester and now the semester's almost done with. I've not been so great at keeping this journal updated lately (obviously) so if anyone reading this is interested in seeing more from me more often, I'll pimp my tumblr (spookygondolier.tumblr.com). Mostly I reblog stuff but I have fun tags and sometimes I post life updates. I did daily updates for NaNo in November (I won again! I had a novel about rubbish college freshmen). I spend way too much time on that website.
It's been a pretty good semester, busy, and it went by SO FAST I can't believe. I didn't get a job, again, though I could really use one because I'm constantly broke and since I'm living in an apartment this year we actually spend money on food and things and go out more often since everyone has cars. Maybe next semester? Probably not, but I can dream. Maybe I'd get a job if I applied more places, but applications and interviews are hard and scary and my standards are too high and I don't have a ton of time anyway. I'm only taking 14 units, definitely fewer than last year, but I'm also on the exec board of two clubs and I have club meetings four days a week, plus some outside obligations. I'm actually involved in sort of a lot on campus. And, you know, keeping up with homework and the seemingly endless stream of research papers and essays (this is what I get for picking a social sciencey major). On the subject of majors, I also added history and French minors, so that's official now. Seems like everyone I know is freaking out about grades right now, but it's been a pretty decent semester for me academically.
It's been a fantastic semester for me socially. Living with friends is so much better than living with strangers, even if one of my roommates was sort of a stranger and is kind of weird and passive aggressive about cleaning and always disappears on the weekends. But I've spent so much time with Mitchie (my roommate) and Macey (my unofficial roommate- also we're dating now? Everyone keeps telling us so. I think they're really fed up with us and our unassertive nonsense, though I can't blame them, it's really bad and we are ridiculous but it's sort of fun to be ridiculous except when it's not). Good times staying up til ridiculous hours of the night lying on the floor, lots of nonsensical random comments, sprawling all over each other, discovering that I make a good human heater/blanket and Macey is a good human pillow, being loud and weird to the point where our neighbors probably think we have really weird sex all the time, coming up with weird in jokes. We're just weird in general, but it's wonderful. Often it's hard to believe I managed to make such good friends.
Also we went to some Homestuck meetups the last weekend of October and that was also super fun. Meeting people, dressing up, going to a haunted house place in Sacramento and then going to a tea party in the park the next day. I really enjoyed it.
Halloween was sort of fun. It was on a Wednesday, so I had class, but I went to class in costume (as a skeleton pirate- I added skeleton makeup later after class), which people seemed to like. I had a pumpkin latte. After a brief exec board meeting, a bunch of people came back to our apartment and we hung out and I watched Hocus Pocus, which I'd been wanting to rewatch and which was fantastic. Everyone else was talking, but I enjoyed the movie. Later we all ended up on Omegle video under the Homestuck tag, because two of my friends were dressed as Homestuck characters, one put on a cosplay, and it was easy to convert my skeleton makeup to Kurloz makeup. It was a chill (well, mostly, it was kind of crazy when we had like eight people in the apartment) and fun Halloween. Also we had lots of candy, so that was good.
Thanksgiving was nice. I had nearly the whole week off because all but one of my classes were canceled on Monday and Tuesday. Macey and I texted almost constantly all break, it was really funny because usually I can never keep up a texting conversation. On Saturday we got Mitchie in on it too with a group text. We had Thanksgiving at our house, and I missed most of the cleaning, but not all. We were supposed to have a bunch of people, but most of them canceled so it was just our family and our grandparents. I managed to be an utter disaster in the kitchen, so fortunately I wasn't the one doing most of the cooking. My sister and I did some Black Friday shopping at like 11:30 Thursday night at Target, and then some more on Friday afternoon so we could get a head start on Christmas shopping for people, so I could get stuff for my friends (which they opened already because they are impatient and easily tempted, but I didn't mind at all), and because I needed to observe a mall for an essay. On Saturday we saw Wreck It Ralph, which was adorable and great. So many good movies coming out in December, agh, I just want to see all of them. I saw some other good movies at home, like Elf, Bridesmaids, and Sleepy Hollow. It was a nice break. I thought it would be long, but it ended up going by pretty quickly.
Last weekend was Mitchie's 21st birthday, which is funny because they still act like a six year old most of the time. We picked up our friend from Elk Grove, their parents took us out to lunch, we dragged all the mattresses into the living room to make a giant bed again (but bigger this time because we also had our Saturday friend Everett come over), we bought a bunch of novelty sodas and a couple alcohols at BevMo, tried the alcohol (Peach Lambic was good the pomegranate beer was gross), passed the sodas around in a circle later as we played Apples to Apples, hung out with people, told a scary story before bed and then spent the rest of the night and next day freaking each other out about it, and had fondue for breakfast the next morning. It was pretty great.
So now finals week is coming up. I only have one final, but two more papers to go. I've started on both, so hopefully it shouldn't be too overwhelmingly stressful as long as I manage to actually focus on not get distracted by Tumblr or random Youtube videos like I did tonight. I think the collective atmosphere of panic and studying frenzy should help motivate me, so there's that.
It's been a pretty good semester, busy, and it went by SO FAST I can't believe. I didn't get a job, again, though I could really use one because I'm constantly broke and since I'm living in an apartment this year we actually spend money on food and things and go out more often since everyone has cars. Maybe next semester? Probably not, but I can dream. Maybe I'd get a job if I applied more places, but applications and interviews are hard and scary and my standards are too high and I don't have a ton of time anyway. I'm only taking 14 units, definitely fewer than last year, but I'm also on the exec board of two clubs and I have club meetings four days a week, plus some outside obligations. I'm actually involved in sort of a lot on campus. And, you know, keeping up with homework and the seemingly endless stream of research papers and essays (this is what I get for picking a social sciencey major). On the subject of majors, I also added history and French minors, so that's official now. Seems like everyone I know is freaking out about grades right now, but it's been a pretty decent semester for me academically.
It's been a fantastic semester for me socially. Living with friends is so much better than living with strangers, even if one of my roommates was sort of a stranger and is kind of weird and passive aggressive about cleaning and always disappears on the weekends. But I've spent so much time with Mitchie (my roommate) and Macey (my unofficial roommate- also we're dating now? Everyone keeps telling us so. I think they're really fed up with us and our unassertive nonsense, though I can't blame them, it's really bad and we are ridiculous but it's sort of fun to be ridiculous except when it's not). Good times staying up til ridiculous hours of the night lying on the floor, lots of nonsensical random comments, sprawling all over each other, discovering that I make a good human heater/blanket and Macey is a good human pillow, being loud and weird to the point where our neighbors probably think we have really weird sex all the time, coming up with weird in jokes. We're just weird in general, but it's wonderful. Often it's hard to believe I managed to make such good friends.
Also we went to some Homestuck meetups the last weekend of October and that was also super fun. Meeting people, dressing up, going to a haunted house place in Sacramento and then going to a tea party in the park the next day. I really enjoyed it.
Halloween was sort of fun. It was on a Wednesday, so I had class, but I went to class in costume (as a skeleton pirate- I added skeleton makeup later after class), which people seemed to like. I had a pumpkin latte. After a brief exec board meeting, a bunch of people came back to our apartment and we hung out and I watched Hocus Pocus, which I'd been wanting to rewatch and which was fantastic. Everyone else was talking, but I enjoyed the movie. Later we all ended up on Omegle video under the Homestuck tag, because two of my friends were dressed as Homestuck characters, one put on a cosplay, and it was easy to convert my skeleton makeup to Kurloz makeup. It was a chill (well, mostly, it was kind of crazy when we had like eight people in the apartment) and fun Halloween. Also we had lots of candy, so that was good.
Thanksgiving was nice. I had nearly the whole week off because all but one of my classes were canceled on Monday and Tuesday. Macey and I texted almost constantly all break, it was really funny because usually I can never keep up a texting conversation. On Saturday we got Mitchie in on it too with a group text. We had Thanksgiving at our house, and I missed most of the cleaning, but not all. We were supposed to have a bunch of people, but most of them canceled so it was just our family and our grandparents. I managed to be an utter disaster in the kitchen, so fortunately I wasn't the one doing most of the cooking. My sister and I did some Black Friday shopping at like 11:30 Thursday night at Target, and then some more on Friday afternoon so we could get a head start on Christmas shopping for people, so I could get stuff for my friends (which they opened already because they are impatient and easily tempted, but I didn't mind at all), and because I needed to observe a mall for an essay. On Saturday we saw Wreck It Ralph, which was adorable and great. So many good movies coming out in December, agh, I just want to see all of them. I saw some other good movies at home, like Elf, Bridesmaids, and Sleepy Hollow. It was a nice break. I thought it would be long, but it ended up going by pretty quickly.
Last weekend was Mitchie's 21st birthday, which is funny because they still act like a six year old most of the time. We picked up our friend from Elk Grove, their parents took us out to lunch, we dragged all the mattresses into the living room to make a giant bed again (but bigger this time because we also had our Saturday friend Everett come over), we bought a bunch of novelty sodas and a couple alcohols at BevMo, tried the alcohol (Peach Lambic was good the pomegranate beer was gross), passed the sodas around in a circle later as we played Apples to Apples, hung out with people, told a scary story before bed and then spent the rest of the night and next day freaking each other out about it, and had fondue for breakfast the next morning. It was pretty great.
So now finals week is coming up. I only have one final, but two more papers to go. I've started on both, so hopefully it shouldn't be too overwhelmingly stressful as long as I manage to actually focus on not get distracted by Tumblr or random Youtube videos like I did tonight. I think the collective atmosphere of panic and studying frenzy should help motivate me, so there's that.