Words and a few other random things
I'll start out with the random things and place the words meme in a cut, just because that'll make reading easier.
The now "creepiest-thing-Sarah-has-seen-thing-Year" award goes to nearly a dozen cockroaches, which I saw when I turned on the light of the bathroom last night. Immediately, they all ran to the nearest wall or crack in the ground and disappeared from sight. That freaked me out enough that I got that eerie sensation on the back of my neck when something spooks me.
Don't get me wrong, I am not particularly afraid of bugs, I just don't like them indoors...at all. It's particularly unnerving that we have enough roaches hidden away in the walls that I'm able to kill a few every couple days. When I go home for the fourth of July, I'm getting some poison for them. :/ Cheap rent comes with roaches, I guess. Dad had a story for that about his first renting adventure. XD He and his brothers rented a place super-cheap and thought it was a steal...until the roaches came out at night. They didn't last more than a week. (Dad and his brothers...not the roaches, unfortunately.)
My first summer course is done. My second one begins today at 10:50AM. Bizarre time to start a class. I also need to stop by the bank and deposit two checks and write the rent check and drop it in the box tomorrow.
I go home Thursday afternoon, where there are ants and no roaches. Roaches are faster than ants, but you notice if a roach is on your arm more quickly than if you notice a couple ants on you.
My stomach has been causing problems on and off. If my stomach pains are indeed caused from stress as the K-Ville doctor decided, then the only stressor I can think of are finances. I hate money, I hate dealing with money. I hate that anything I ever want or have to do involves money. Making money, spending money, managing money, saving money, donating money, tithing money, owing money, loaning money... I don't mind the numbers. I actually love counting coins and have since I was a kid. (Which now seems like an embarrassing game) I would get out my coin jar and separate each coin into piles based on type, then I would stack them up or have them go to "war" with one another and the quarters would usually win. But back then, my nickles and dimes only got spent on trinkets and presents for other people. Now my inflow goes to bills, rent, food, clothes, books, art supplies, etc. etc. etc.
I honestly think that money has to be the only thing making my stomach flip, simply because I don't usually have issues getting assignments done. I'm not worried about much else. You can learn a lot about your money management skills with video games. I'm the type of person in video games to avoid buying anything and save my currency continually until I've amassed enough to purchase the most expensive item in game, then save several thousand more so I can buy that expensive item and have enough leftover to live on and start saving up again. I gain it by not spending at all and slowly earning it back. Every once in awhile I'll "strike it rich" with some random item and get out of any slump. Moving on...
I had a really nice birthday. :) Including several voice messages from various family members. The most hilarious one only made Rachael and I laugh. My co-workers didn't understand because they don't know my younger brother.
Rachael knows I've been going on about my amazement and my co-worker from Nepal now thinks I'm a pseudo-magician of some sort. Basically, a weeks back I got off work ten minutes early and ran to the library to get books for my research paper. The sky threatened rain and little did I know the library closed at 5 that day. The lights started flashing the minute I got to the third floor and the isle containing my books. I obediently left, only to find myself without an umbrella in the pouring down rain.
Distressed, I sat down near the fire escape steps on the north side of the library and stared at the people walking by with umbrellas and those without. I had no desire to step foot in the downpour and thought I could maybe wait it out. The sky, extremely dark and cloudy, showed no letting up.
After several texts back and forth to Rachael confirming that the rain wouldn't be stopping, I finally looked up to the sky and asked meagerly, "Couldn't you just please let it stop long enough for me to get back to the apartment?"
In less than 5 seconds, the sky brightened and the rain stopped.
I stared at it.
Then I texted Rachael.
I walked precariously back the 5 blocks or so to my apartment and went inside. There, Rachael and I decided to go out on the Square to get a pizza. A few moments later, we opened the rain and the sky had darkened and the clouds were crying again.
I relayed the story to my co-worker the following Monday. Now he thinks I'm a weather witch. I don't know what to think anymore.
Important information for anyone wanting manga: I need to know now if you want the titles you thought about getting. Otherwise these will be posted online for sale this weekend.
I'm going ahead with the words meme so I can wrap up this post and get ready for class.
Ugh, okay, I'll post the words meme later :/ I wrote up all the responses and then LJ didn't like my cut, so I need to fix that and I don't want to right now because I really need to shower and get to the bank to deposit two checks.
The now "creepiest-thing-Sarah-has-seen-thing-Year" award goes to nearly a dozen cockroaches, which I saw when I turned on the light of the bathroom last night. Immediately, they all ran to the nearest wall or crack in the ground and disappeared from sight. That freaked me out enough that I got that eerie sensation on the back of my neck when something spooks me.
Don't get me wrong, I am not particularly afraid of bugs, I just don't like them indoors...at all. It's particularly unnerving that we have enough roaches hidden away in the walls that I'm able to kill a few every couple days. When I go home for the fourth of July, I'm getting some poison for them. :/ Cheap rent comes with roaches, I guess. Dad had a story for that about his first renting adventure. XD He and his brothers rented a place super-cheap and thought it was a steal...until the roaches came out at night. They didn't last more than a week. (Dad and his brothers...not the roaches, unfortunately.)
My first summer course is done. My second one begins today at 10:50AM. Bizarre time to start a class. I also need to stop by the bank and deposit two checks and write the rent check and drop it in the box tomorrow.
I go home Thursday afternoon, where there are ants and no roaches. Roaches are faster than ants, but you notice if a roach is on your arm more quickly than if you notice a couple ants on you.
My stomach has been causing problems on and off. If my stomach pains are indeed caused from stress as the K-Ville doctor decided, then the only stressor I can think of are finances. I hate money, I hate dealing with money. I hate that anything I ever want or have to do involves money. Making money, spending money, managing money, saving money, donating money, tithing money, owing money, loaning money... I don't mind the numbers. I actually love counting coins and have since I was a kid. (Which now seems like an embarrassing game) I would get out my coin jar and separate each coin into piles based on type, then I would stack them up or have them go to "war" with one another and the quarters would usually win. But back then, my nickles and dimes only got spent on trinkets and presents for other people. Now my inflow goes to bills, rent, food, clothes, books, art supplies, etc. etc. etc.
I honestly think that money has to be the only thing making my stomach flip, simply because I don't usually have issues getting assignments done. I'm not worried about much else. You can learn a lot about your money management skills with video games. I'm the type of person in video games to avoid buying anything and save my currency continually until I've amassed enough to purchase the most expensive item in game, then save several thousand more so I can buy that expensive item and have enough leftover to live on and start saving up again. I gain it by not spending at all and slowly earning it back. Every once in awhile I'll "strike it rich" with some random item and get out of any slump. Moving on...
I had a really nice birthday. :) Including several voice messages from various family members. The most hilarious one only made Rachael and I laugh. My co-workers didn't understand because they don't know my younger brother.
Rachael knows I've been going on about my amazement and my co-worker from Nepal now thinks I'm a pseudo-magician of some sort. Basically, a weeks back I got off work ten minutes early and ran to the library to get books for my research paper. The sky threatened rain and little did I know the library closed at 5 that day. The lights started flashing the minute I got to the third floor and the isle containing my books. I obediently left, only to find myself without an umbrella in the pouring down rain.
Distressed, I sat down near the fire escape steps on the north side of the library and stared at the people walking by with umbrellas and those without. I had no desire to step foot in the downpour and thought I could maybe wait it out. The sky, extremely dark and cloudy, showed no letting up.
After several texts back and forth to Rachael confirming that the rain wouldn't be stopping, I finally looked up to the sky and asked meagerly, "Couldn't you just please let it stop long enough for me to get back to the apartment?"
In less than 5 seconds, the sky brightened and the rain stopped.
I stared at it.
Then I texted Rachael.
I walked precariously back the 5 blocks or so to my apartment and went inside. There, Rachael and I decided to go out on the Square to get a pizza. A few moments later, we opened the rain and the sky had darkened and the clouds were crying again.
I relayed the story to my co-worker the following Monday. Now he thinks I'm a weather witch. I don't know what to think anymore.
Important information for anyone wanting manga: I need to know now if you want the titles you thought about getting. Otherwise these will be posted online for sale this weekend.
I'm going ahead with the words meme so I can wrap up this post and get ready for class.
Ugh, okay, I'll post the words meme later :/ I wrote up all the responses and then LJ didn't like my cut, so I need to fix that and I don't want to right now because I really need to shower and get to the bank to deposit two checks.