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Seasonal Affective Disorder sucks.
I feel like I’m living in Gotham City.
I miss my unseasonably warm November weather. D:
The floor lamp I’m borrowing from Avery helps a lot since it brightens up my room, but I still crave sunshine and long daylight hours.
I also miss wearing my sunglasses and not wanting [...]
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Another lovely photograph by the amazingly talented Kendra. (I highly approve of the Naruto and Bleach fanart in the background.)
It’s drizzly and dark out. I caved in today and bought myself a new umbrella.
I shelved books for two hours and I’m pretty much convinced that the brown carts are possessed.
I’m trying [...]
Apropos nothing, have a picture of baby!me looking like a happy walrus.
I was an adorable baby once I actually had hair.
(I was a preemie so I didn’t have hair until I was eight or nine months old. Trust me when I say that I did not pull off the bald look very well.)
I’m back at [...]
I have a Pokédex app (in French!) on my iPod Touch.
On a scale of 1-Nerd, what does that make me?
http://thelostlolli.tumblr.com/
Greatest new timewaster.
Oh dear.
(Also, prepared to be spammed.)
Dear Creeper Who Went Through All My Original Writing Crap,
I hope you’re not judging me.
<3,
Stacy
Watch Princess Mononoke, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Ponyo. Preferably with friends because you don’t want to break a tradition!
Read Neil Gaiman’s works. (I know, for shame. I read half of Good Omens and I remembered liking it.)
Watch Heroes and see what all the fuss is about. And also because Masi Oka is adorable.
Watch Criminal Minds [...]
ANDREA: I just realized that there are very few people in this world who I would not make out with if they offered to buy me a cupcake in return. I guess they would have to be utterly atrocious. I am a cupcake kissing slut.
1. Andrea and I made it safely back to Ithaca!
2. My parents have been trying to feed Andrea and I me delicious home-cooked food every five minutes. It’s OH SO VERY DELICIOUS (tonight’s dinner: king snowcrab legs, chicken wings, rice, shrimp, and grilled lamb, and sweet potato tapioca soup) but I swear to god I’m [...]
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“It’s just, ” you say, stumbling over words, “I have… conversations… with him in my head all the time. Do you think that’s weird?”
Your roommate eyes you from across the room, her expression blank as she puts in her earrings. “I think that’s relatively normal.”
You sigh from your bed, stretching out [...]
So, I was looking up clips of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to support my Polisci paper and ended up watching the wrong clip on the 2008 Beijing Olympics controversies.
The next thing I know, it was an hour later and I had five tabs open about the Chinese gymnastics team. I now know lots [...]
SUMMARY OF OUR EX-ROOMMATESHIP/FRIENDSHIP
ME: I love you.
ANDREA: I’m hungry. I mean, I love you too.
And then Andrea proceeded to eat all the snacks in my room and steal my chai latte and run all over Merion with me chasing after like she had stolen my firstborn.
Dear Facebook Lurker(s),
You. Yes, you. I know you just clicked here from my Facebook profile and now I am curious as to who you are and whether you’re a repeat visitor and if we talk regularly.
Also, provided that you’re not a creeper and you don’t think I’m a weirdo– I think we should a) talk [...]
Freshman year and nearly one semester of sophomore year of college under my belt, you’d think I’d figure out my study habits by now.
Example: I’ve only recently figured out the best way for me to memorize Chinese characters- copying characters over and over can only do so much. I try to visualize the characters in [...]
Conclusion: I deal with stress in really weird ways.
Okay, some of them are really average.I blog, listen to music, drink copious amounts of caffeinated drinks, update Facebook, and generally complain to anything and anyone within a 100 km radius of me.
However, I also deal with stress by:
Giving people piggy back rides1.
Giving people massages.
Comforting others.
Handstands/headstands against [...]
I’m flummoxed by how certain I sounded in my paper proposal and how confused I am right now.
Fail, self. Fail.
Hello self, you have to write a fifteen page paper.
It’s due Thursday with the extension you were granted for being a vessel of the flu.
This means you should start researching and writing the aforementioned paper and [...]
Because I live under a rock, I only just found out that there’s going to be a live action film adaptation of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad.
This is a dream come true for me. Rock music (and it better be rock music or I will be so pissed), struggling musicians, coming-of-age journeys… three of my favorite [...]
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She thinks he thinks she’s perfect, but he doesn’t.
He knows her flaws just as well as she does (maybe even more because he relates to her more than she’ll ever know).
She’s narcissistic and petty, intense and terrifying, and obsessed with promoting her image. She measures her self-worth in academic excellence, in [...]
Writing papers would be so much easier if I wasn’t so obsessed about finding le mot juste (the right word, expression, turn of phrase…).
I would like to think that as a whole, my papers aren’t terrible if not just because I’m very good at getting my opinion across and (over-)analyzing what needs to be analyze. [...]
So, I now have a new rule: I am not allowed to update Facebook before I’m sufficiently caffeinated. Otherwise, things like this can occur:
Stacy Z. Doing the walk of shame from your ex-roomie’s room to your own room down the hall is awkward. 2 hours ago via Facebook for iPhone
And then, the comments:
Nan: About time! [...]
Try to get as much work done as possible.(15 page paper! 5 page paper! Chinese homework!) This might be problematic because my cognitive ability has been massively compromised. Case in point: For the past hour, my thoughts have been wavering between “I have pretty hair” and “why are there penguins tap-dancing in my skull?” so [...]
Stacy’s Lesson of the Day:
DO NOT BUY FOOD WHEN YOU’RE OBVIOUSLY DELUSIONAL AND SICK.
I slept through all four of my alarms today1. I sort of feel like something the cat dragged out. I have flu-ish symptoms (please don’t be swine ! please don’t be swine!) so I’m quarantining myself to my room and praying that [...]
I was about to go to bed but made the mistake of checking my RSS feed and, well…
Sarah Palin: I’d Like to be Chief of Staff :
Asked if she could “have one job in the White House tomorrow, what would it be,” Palin responded that she would like to take over from Rahm Emanuel.
“It would [...]
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I have this insatiable craving for peppermint hot chocolate right now. Last year my parents got a pack of Stephen’s Gourmet Candycane Hot Cocoa mix from Costco. For some reason, no one else in the family liked it which meant I brought all of it to college with me! It was so [...]
Okay, so I’m looking over my Chinese 2nd Midterm test and noticed that my professor wrote “sorry” above one of my short (60-80 characters) answers. Upon closer inspection, I realized it was for the question “What do you look for in an ideal boyfriend/girlfriend” and I had written “我以前的男朋友對我不好，要是我新的男朋友是一個好人，最理想不濄了“(translation: my ex-boyfriend didn’t treat me very [...]
Sunshine. Disney songs. OLIVIA Lufkin songs. Writing mediocre original fiction. Classical music. Cartwheels. Lame jokes. Zombie movies. MLIA. Good deeds. Peace/love/understanding. Acapella groups. Helium balloons. Ice mochas. Le Petit Prince. Newsies. Brand new pens. Chai lattes. Scent of parchment. Bookstores. Handstands. Cupcakes. Long solitary walks. Ice skating. Sexual innuendos. Bubble tea. Wandering around Chinatown. Wang [...]
you’ve got a face for a smile you know
got a world of chances for you
Emily was usually the best person to go to when a relationship went bust. She just had a way of stating things that made Rachel realize how ridiculous she was acting (in other words, bluntly and tactlessly).
“So basically what you’re [...]
One of these days I will
Stop getting butterflies in my stomach before presentations. (Public speaking. Ugh. I’m fine one-on-one or in small groups!)
Be able to eat breakfast like a normal human being.
Remember to eat, period. I’ve been terrible about remembering to eat go to meals this semester. I have four Post-It notes on my desk [...]
I’m starting to think that my subconscious is that annoying guy who always cracks lame jokes that nobody thinks is funny, but he thinks that he’s an absolute riot. :|
Yeah.
I took a nap earlier and had this pretty damn awesome dream and if it had actually been real, I would be far less stressed and [...]
Maybe I lied a little in my last post.
Regina Spektor can be overrated (just a little, you know the type who’s obsessed) but that doesn’t mean her music isn’t fantastic.
I’ve had this stuck in my head all night:
and it breaks my heart, and it breaks my heart
and it breaks my he-he-he-he-heart
I remember one of the [...]
Powerpoint (or the Apple equivalent, Keynote) is the devil.
Ice mochas are delicious.
The weather forecast looks pretty good for this week, hurrah~!
I don’t know if I’m just really tired… or if I’m actually reading my Chinese textbook correctly. Zhang Tianming was bored and flipped to a news channel that blamed MTV for showing a cartoon– that [...]
bury it
I won’t let you bury it
I won’t let you smother it
I won’t let you murder it
our time is running out
our time is running out
you can’t push it underground
you can’t stop it screaming out
Stephenie Meyer has somewhat tainted Muse for me for some obvious reasons (hint: I detest Twilight with every fiber of my being [...]
Sarah sips her ice mocha, wishing that the caffeine would course through her system quicker. Her Econ class is in fifteen minutes and god help her, she needs to be awake and articulate at 8: 15 in the morning because half her grade is based on fucking participation.
Eva makes a small sound of surprise across [...]
1. Why do I always leave things to the very last minute? Geology poster project, I’m looking at you. You were not nearly this intimidating last night. (… That’s what she said.)
2. One of these days, I will have a dream that does not involve academia.
I don’t know if there’s something in the water or [...]
I ended up having to retake my 2nd Chinese midterm. Sadface. At least it’s over with (for real this time) and I got confirmation from my Chinese professor that she received it.
Take that, Blackhole Underneath my Professor’s Office Door!
Doodled over my planner in lieu of getting my poster done for Geology (I have several sources! [...]
I’ve been on a Joanna Wang kick. There’s something about the drawl in her voice when she sings that adds character to the song. I was listening to her acoustic cover of the same song and remembered thinking that if her voice was slightly more conventionally beautiful, I probably wouldn’t have noticed her music.
Similarly, I [...]
“This doesn’t come easy for you, does it?” he asks, breaking the comfortable silence between the two of them. He’s fascinated (his homework lay untouched) , watching her tackle her programming homework.
She looks up from her laptop, blows her bangs off her face, and smiles ruefully. “No, it doesn’t.” Wisps of hair have fallen out [...]
I turned in my written exam today and slid it underneath Chiang Laoshi’s door and apparently she can’t find it.
I’m about ready to cry, guys. I thought Friday the 13th wasn’t going to affect me at all– but I WAS WRONG.
If it’s not there, then I don’t know where it is. Plain and simple. I [...]
Here are the things I love:
The red-gold-brown of fallen leaves that crunch underneath my boots when I trek across campus.
The seasonal pumpkin flavored pastries and lattes.
The heady scent of wood-chips and inhaling cold, crisp air on evening walks.
The silky texture of my cashmere wrap, its weight on my shoulders.
The elegant picture of Bryn Mawr girls [...]
I’m not a fan of the music video– it’s bland and nothing exceptional but oh, this song.
Cause even if my heart should break
You’d be the best mistake I ever made
Joanna Wang’s voice is a cross between Fayray and Norah Jones’s. Her voice manages to be raspy and soothing at the same time.
Man, if she had [...]
Forget butterflies in your stomach, I feel like I have a colony of ants crawling all over my skin!
I need to relearn how to relax before taking tests.
Listening to Chinese oldies and feeling a little homesick.
I grew up listening to songs like Yue Ding/約定 and Zhu Fu/ 祝福 and while the music isn’t exactly my cup of tea, it makes my heart ache. My dad is big on music so he had tons and tons of Chinese CDs and karaoke music videos [...]
I plan on conquering the world (or at least mastering the Chinese language). After my nap.
Because the Geology test I just took? Made my brain go fizzy-pop.
I know loads about volcanoes, sedimentary deposits, and earthquakes. We were not tested on any of those topics. I’m pretty sure on one of the questions, I more or [...]
Okay, so here’s the plan.
I’m going to hole myself in my room and NOT LEAVE1 until I finish reviewing four chapters of Geology and have memorized my Chinese monologue and all the grammar structures from the past three lessons.
Now if the people in the Common Room would suddenly develop bronchitis, my life would be complete. [...]
Um, not that anyone really needs (or wants) to know what’s in my underwear drawer, but how nerdy am I for wanting to buy this bra just for its name? It’s fortunate that my size is out of stock.
I’m still adjusting to Daylight Savings. I’m not used it to looking so dark so early so when I took a nap this afternoon and woke up at 5:30 PM, I nearly had a mini heart attack because I thought it was much later1.
Then I wandered into Andrea’s room looking very disheveled and uttered this [...]
I’ve decided that between my three part Chinese midterm (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) and my Geo test (Wednesday) I am not going to have a social life this week.
