Another boring update on life.
I need to be a grown-up and update this bitch. Really. Stuff keeps happening for me to go like "Oh, I should definitely update now!", but I never do, except for natural disasters and mindless memes. :P I don't even know what I neglected to mention anymore. I'll just keep editing this entry if I remember anything, I suppose.
I know that I was going to mention the fun night that I had with Emilee, Danielle, and Brittany R. a few weeks back. Started out going for coffee, ended up spending the night (for the first time ever with all of them and the first time for years in general) at Emilee's house. Poor Em -- her parents were out of town, and her house makes her understandably nervous, so we were all more than pleased to come over and eat junk food and gossip about regurgitated issues all night. Nice moment of teendom, and a fun chance to hang out with some of my peers. I love my younger friends, but it's refreshing to be around people who are going into the same situation as myself in a few weeks.
College. Man, I'm so eager to get there that I don't have any time to be nervous. My roommate's name is Emily; she likes Dashboard, The OC, and sports. We're kind of opposites, but I think complimentary opposites. It'll be lots of fun. Now, we were both under the impression that our room had a sink -- after all, don't all of the rooms in Carson have sinks? -- but I just called Housing today, and they were like, "Nope! You have an Enhanced Double. No sink." So that's kind of bad news, though it doesn't matter too much to me, as I'm not too particularly high maintenace wth hair and make-up and such. However, our room is apparently significantly larger than a regular double, so there is that. 200+ square feet versus 148 or something. Part of me wishes that they had just put me in Bean, just so that I'd know exactly what I'm getting myself into and I could stop panicking, but I suppose thats not fair. I'm familiar with so much at UO -- I guess this is just the karma for all those years at SEP. :P
Started packing yesterday, just because I couldn't stand watching anymore TV. We just got TiVo at Dad's (yeah, thanks for getting it AS SOON AS I'M LEAVING, you jerks!), and I'm addicted. Comes back around to my need to know everything, to not go in blind, to have all the options at my fingertips. I can know exactly what is on, what's on next, what just happened... I can even pause, just to be like, "Haha! What a cute facial expression Stephen Colbert just made! LOOKLOOKLOOK."
In any case, I'm packing books and DVDs for now, just the stuff that I won't miss in the coming weeks. It's cathartic knowing that I will not only be surrounded by my favorite things, but that they will be in one damn place. Nice.
I'm actually stressing about my lack of classes. I can't stand a slacker schedule, and mine feels suspiciously slacker-y, and it's driving me batty. I have three real classes -- Scandinavian Fantasies, Philosophy 101, and French 101 -- one stupid class (College Connections, for my FIG), and one fluffy PE course to try and help my back (Hatha Yoga 1). Three classes is not a schedule. 15 credits for all that. All the three credit freshman seminars conflict with my FIG somehow, and 18 is the freshman first term limit. Feh. I better find a good way to spend my time, or I will be a sad puppy.
I forgot to mention all the back shit, didn't I? Well, before I go to bed, I'll debrief: had a pre-college check-up at the doctor's office about a week ago. Found out that my cholesterol is fine, my LDL is bordering on being almost near high, and my thyroid is a-okay. However, according to the doctor (and X-Rays that I went to get), my back problems are caused entirely and completely by the fact that I have minor scoliosis -- my left leg is eight millimeters shorter than the right, thus making my spine slightly curved (the wrong way, smartypants) to make up for it. Call me crooked.
My problem with her diagnosis is that she straight off said that some 30% of people have the exact same curve thing going on and that it never causes the large majority of them the slightest bit of grief. Yet she refused to even consider any other reasons for my back and neck pain and just kept insisting that it was definitely my back and that I must wear a lift in one shoe. Look, I don't care about the lift. It's stupid and geeky and won't do anything for my reputation or my penchant for having both shoes at the exact same degree of tightness, but I hate my back hurting, so fine. It's sjust that she didn't prove anything to me other than the fact that I'm one in three.
I think I'm going to go get a second opinion in a month or two, but in the meantime, I'll see if a new computer chair with back and neck support plus some yoga stretching won't help with the problem. We'll see. I just feel like she's kind of The Crazy.
With that, I'm going to bed. Housekeepers tomorrow. God, there's something I won't miss. This house is so stupid.
EDIT: Oh snap! I totally forgot to mention that I got to see "Serenity"! Of course, most the people that read this already knew that or don't care, but I should at least remember for my own records that it was the awesomest experience ever. Thanks to Rachel for alerting me to it. :) I was pretty pissed/bummed that Matt went to Eugene instead of going to the movie, and I had to scramble to find someone who was free and impressed in going to the press screening, but I finally found Tim, and that was fun. I won't mention anything about the movie except for the fact that I'm absolutely itching to talk about it and see it again. Can't wait for September 30th!
September 16th - "Thumbsucker" (so me!)
September 30th - "Serenity" (so tasty!)
November 11th - "Rent" (OMGWTF, so excited)
November 18th - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (so soon?!)
December 9th - "Chornicles of Narnia" (so Christian!)
December 21st - "The Producers" (so Will-Ferrell-singing!)
Did you know they're making a Curious George movie? With traditional animation, instead of crappy, creepy CGI? (Also Will Ferrell, but that's beside the point.) It's cute. Awww.
I know that I was going to mention the fun night that I had with Emilee, Danielle, and Brittany R. a few weeks back. Started out going for coffee, ended up spending the night (for the first time ever with all of them and the first time for years in general) at Emilee's house. Poor Em -- her parents were out of town, and her house makes her understandably nervous, so we were all more than pleased to come over and eat junk food and gossip about regurgitated issues all night. Nice moment of teendom, and a fun chance to hang out with some of my peers. I love my younger friends, but it's refreshing to be around people who are going into the same situation as myself in a few weeks.
College. Man, I'm so eager to get there that I don't have any time to be nervous. My roommate's name is Emily; she likes Dashboard, The OC, and sports. We're kind of opposites, but I think complimentary opposites. It'll be lots of fun. Now, we were both under the impression that our room had a sink -- after all, don't all of the rooms in Carson have sinks? -- but I just called Housing today, and they were like, "Nope! You have an Enhanced Double. No sink." So that's kind of bad news, though it doesn't matter too much to me, as I'm not too particularly high maintenace wth hair and make-up and such. However, our room is apparently significantly larger than a regular double, so there is that. 200+ square feet versus 148 or something. Part of me wishes that they had just put me in Bean, just so that I'd know exactly what I'm getting myself into and I could stop panicking, but I suppose thats not fair. I'm familiar with so much at UO -- I guess this is just the karma for all those years at SEP. :P
Started packing yesterday, just because I couldn't stand watching anymore TV. We just got TiVo at Dad's (yeah, thanks for getting it AS SOON AS I'M LEAVING, you jerks!), and I'm addicted. Comes back around to my need to know everything, to not go in blind, to have all the options at my fingertips. I can know exactly what is on, what's on next, what just happened... I can even pause, just to be like, "Haha! What a cute facial expression Stephen Colbert just made! LOOKLOOKLOOK."
In any case, I'm packing books and DVDs for now, just the stuff that I won't miss in the coming weeks. It's cathartic knowing that I will not only be surrounded by my favorite things, but that they will be in one damn place. Nice.
I'm actually stressing about my lack of classes. I can't stand a slacker schedule, and mine feels suspiciously slacker-y, and it's driving me batty. I have three real classes -- Scandinavian Fantasies, Philosophy 101, and French 101 -- one stupid class (College Connections, for my FIG), and one fluffy PE course to try and help my back (Hatha Yoga 1). Three classes is not a schedule. 15 credits for all that. All the three credit freshman seminars conflict with my FIG somehow, and 18 is the freshman first term limit. Feh. I better find a good way to spend my time, or I will be a sad puppy.
I forgot to mention all the back shit, didn't I? Well, before I go to bed, I'll debrief: had a pre-college check-up at the doctor's office about a week ago. Found out that my cholesterol is fine, my LDL is bordering on being almost near high, and my thyroid is a-okay. However, according to the doctor (and X-Rays that I went to get), my back problems are caused entirely and completely by the fact that I have minor scoliosis -- my left leg is eight millimeters shorter than the right, thus making my spine slightly curved (the wrong way, smartypants) to make up for it. Call me crooked.
My problem with her diagnosis is that she straight off said that some 30% of people have the exact same curve thing going on and that it never causes the large majority of them the slightest bit of grief. Yet she refused to even consider any other reasons for my back and neck pain and just kept insisting that it was definitely my back and that I must wear a lift in one shoe. Look, I don't care about the lift. It's stupid and geeky and won't do anything for my reputation or my penchant for having both shoes at the exact same degree of tightness, but I hate my back hurting, so fine. It's sjust that she didn't prove anything to me other than the fact that I'm one in three.
I think I'm going to go get a second opinion in a month or two, but in the meantime, I'll see if a new computer chair with back and neck support plus some yoga stretching won't help with the problem. We'll see. I just feel like she's kind of The Crazy.
With that, I'm going to bed. Housekeepers tomorrow. God, there's something I won't miss. This house is so stupid.
EDIT: Oh snap! I totally forgot to mention that I got to see "Serenity"! Of course, most the people that read this already knew that or don't care, but I should at least remember for my own records that it was the awesomest experience ever. Thanks to Rachel for alerting me to it. :) I was pretty pissed/bummed that Matt went to Eugene instead of going to the movie, and I had to scramble to find someone who was free and impressed in going to the press screening, but I finally found Tim, and that was fun. I won't mention anything about the movie except for the fact that I'm absolutely itching to talk about it and see it again. Can't wait for September 30th!
September 16th - "Thumbsucker" (so me!)
September 30th - "Serenity" (so tasty!)
November 11th - "Rent" (OMGWTF, so excited)
November 18th - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (so soon?!)
December 9th - "Chornicles of Narnia" (so Christian!)
December 21st - "The Producers" (so Will-Ferrell-singing!)
Did you know they're making a Curious George movie? With traditional animation, instead of crappy, creepy CGI? (Also Will Ferrell, but that's beside the point.) It's cute. Awww.