Spent the two days in NYC with my grandmother and my uncle (my mom’s side, and actually– she’s not my actual grandmother but it’s a very long story and I don’t want to get into it).
I got my hair colored and trimmed at my favorite salon, Beauty & Styling House. James is an incredible sweetheart. [...]
I have too much zombies on the brain.
I just misread a Subway facebook ad as “eat flesh” .
I need to go to bed.
So after re-reading my Zombie Survival Guide and watching Shaun of the Dead, I started thinking about what would happen if there was a zombie outbreak tomorrow… would I survive?
And the answer is “probably not, I’ll be screwed.”
First, I considered my living situation at home.
I live in a two-story house in suburbia, Ithaca surrounded by [...]
I think I take it back.
One of the things I miss when I’m at school is listening to Tiffany playing the piano.
She coax out old melodies and tinkers with them until they form new ones with talent I will never possess.
The notes float up to my room and even though everything is rough and unfinished, [...]
ME: Want to watch a zombie movie with me?
TIFFANY: No. I don’t like zombie movies.
ME: … D:
Guess I’m watching Shaun of the Dead by myself then. (I still need to see Zombieland.) And yes, the catalyst that started all of this was rediscovering my copy of the Zombie Survival Guide.
Hanging out with my friends is like breathing sunshine.
I’ve missed them.
Our antics are borderline childish more often than not, but we make each other laugh with occasional witticism and a healthy helping of easily misconstrued sexual innuendo jokes.
It feels good to be crowded on my bed in front of someone’s Macbook, watching an episode we’ve [...]
Asian mothers are beyond terrifying when angry.
Annnnd this is when the honeymoon period starts to wane and I start pining for Bryn Mawr again. I love my parents, but I swear they still treat me like I’m fifteen.
So it’s Christmas break and I’ve been catching up with old friends.
I swear I have an sign above my head, visible to everyone but me, that says MAH COUNSELLING QUALIFICATION. LET ME SHOW YOU IT. They tell me their life stories, and their deepest secrets that they’ve never told anyone else ever.
As a result, I [...]
She hadn’t touched her piano for two years when she comes back home for Christmas break.
The piano sits in the living room, a reminder of her passed accomplishments (and failures, because like everything else– she didn’t stick with it). All the award certificates in cherry wood frames hang above it and guilt seeps into her [...]
Resigning myself to sleep before I fall asleep while doing something stupid (have you ever fallen asleep while taking a shower or a bath? Kinda awkward when one’s sibling bangs on the bathroom door to inquire whether or not you’re still alive, but it’s not necessarily unpleasant).
There’s a book I’m dying to read but I’m [...]
I’m currently at Josh and LiPing’s house, surrounded by the world’s two most adorable toddlers– Ethan and Lucian.
I think my heart bursts whenever Lucian smiles. He has the sweetest smile, and since I’ve only seen him during the holidays, he gets very shy and bashful around me (he always buries his face when he catches [...]
Likes:
Whenever iTunes shuffle reminds me that T.M. Revolution, Two-Mix, Do As Infinity, Ellegarden, and Asian Kung-Fu Generation made/still make pretty excellent music.
Oh my not-so-secret anime fan past. :P It’s a pity that I’ve outgrown most anime and manga (Sailor Moon being one of the very few exceptions– like, no, seriously– you diss Sailor Moon [...]
There are many disadvantages to having good memory.
I’m terrible with formulas and data, but I’m good with remembering names and details about people and events. (Which is probably why I usually do well in history.)
Having good detail memory, however, can sometimes come across as creepy so every now and then I need to tell myself [...]
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I always forget how dependent I am on caffeine until I go home.
At school, I don’t think twice before drinking English Breakfast tea (lots of milk, one sugar) in lieu of actual breakfast, two mini-cups of Coke at lunch, and more likely than not– a pick-me-up (chai or a mocha) in the afternoon [...]
The intro (actually the entire backing track/instrumental) of Muse’s “Sing for Absolution” and Jay Chou’s “Drifting [Piao Yi]” are almost identical.
Interesting, since the two songs are of two completely different genres. It’s also a common riff– but still.
Love me faster than the devil
Run me straight into the ground
Drowning deep inside your water
Drown in love and memories
Getting my headphones before my family kills me for playing this song too many times on repeat! (Yes, I like it that much.)
I’m going to try to find a way to rip the youtube version. I [...]
Dear Seasonal Affective Disorder,
Oh, bite me.
(I wish I could go hibernate for the rest of winter. Today Matchbox Twenty came on the radio and I started getting weepy. Matchbox Twenty.)
10 things you want for Christmas
1. A donation to a charity of your choice.
2. Posters for my incredibly bare room.
3. Calligraphy pens
4. A moleskine sketchbook
5. To be as flexible as when I was twelve. (I’ll settle for being able to do a full split again. :| )
6. A cohesive healthcare plan for the U.S.
7. A [...]
“Happiness,” she sighs, “is Starbucks and Christmas music.” Her fingers are curled around her peppermint mocha.
Her best friend stares at her, unimpressed. “You are ridiculous.”
Not missing a beat, she replies “Your face is ridiculous” and enjoys the moment while it lasted.
Confession No. 24343
I totally teared up while listening to Muse’s cover of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”.
… It’s a pretty epic song?
What would I do without good literature and good music?
I’ve forgotten how satisfying good literature is.
Good writing makes me so happy. I was telling Johnathan the other day how good writing is a killer turn-on. Hee pretty much “…” for five minutes while I tried to explain. :P
I’ve been devouring words since I’ve gotten home, [...]
Falling in love with Rie Fu’s music all over again.
I remember I was obsessed with this song back in 10th grade.
No wonder, since the lyrics are beautiful.
Good Things
Hanging out with Maria. I adore her, it’s so easy being friends with her and I like that, a lot. I love friendships where we can go from not talking for weeks and fall back into a easy, laid-back friendship with no awkwardness.
Drugstore shopping is ah-may-zingly therapeutic. I bought new shampoo (Organix Tea [...]
GUYS LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY HELLISH TRAVELING EXPERIENCE.
First off, I called for a cab and the cab accidentally picked up someone else so I had to call a second cab. We somehow managed to beat rush hour traffic to reach the bus station on time. My bus? … Not on time. It was [...]
Things I Like
Eating mantou with Andrea at 2:30 AM while bitching about how Thomas Friedman is a pompous ass. (He totally is. He’s a complete smarmy bastard and I’m so glad he got pied in the face at Brown.)
Daft Punk. I had their music sitting in my iTunes library for months and months before I [...]
I’m a little in love with this cover.
Just a little.
(Especially the chorus when Matthew Bellamy goes “And I love you, baby/And if it’s quite all right/I need you, baby/To warm the lonely nights”.)
Polisci paper, right. A night of Muse and furious typing!
I think the internet just decided it’s too fucking cold to come to my room. D:
Endgame
Awkward moments define my life. I just hit ’sent’ for one of the most awkward emails I’ve ever written.
I have one more final exam, and one paper to go. I have two word documents open on my laptop (one of the study guide for the Geology exam, the other of the Polisci paper) and [...]
I think Andrea and I stumbled upon this on YouTube and then decided we had to watch My Lucky Star ((Don’t get me wrong, I really do like My Lucky Star. Do you know how hard it is to find an Asian drama that is charming, not depressing, has an interesting plot, interesting characters– and [...]
One hour before my Anthro exam and I just discovered that the back of my Anthro text has detailed notes and drawings of hominins and premodern humans.
That probably would have been helpful six weeks ago.
Way to go, me.
I’m totally listening to my Life is my Catwalk playlist to motivate myself.
And I swear I’ll go study after posting this.
So, this. I found it on Van’s FB page.
I’m amused and appalled.
I mean, I like Merlin (which is a terrible, terrible show)– but this is just… terrible without the funny. (And yet I want to watch it?)
I wish teenage Cary Elwes could have been cast as Link. [...]
… I dreamt about Sailor Moon and terrorism.
My subconscious is terrifying.
Also, I think that due to the WTF nature of my dreams, they’ve been leaving me more tired. D:
Before I fell asleep last night (or rather, early this morning– I got back to my room at 4: 45 AM) I was thinking about Nick and [...]
Okay, my Anthro Final review is only half-way done and it’s already 10 pages long.
I think I’m calling it a night.
Crossing my fingers that I won’t dream of either a) hominins, neandertals, pre-modern humans or b) BILLY IDOL.
If I could special-request dreams– I wouldn’t mind dreaming about Derek Morgan. :D
I bumped into Melissa downstairs in [...]
Today I’ve consumed:
A grande non-fat white peppermint mocha
a grande chai
half a bottle of Pepsi
8 oz of Coke with lemon
I have a bottle of Lipton diet lemon ice tea (I wish they had regular– this tastes awful) in my bag and I’m determined to study like hell for my Anthro final.
I don’t think the human body [...]
Dear subconscious,
… What the hell was that?
Okay, I know it’s finals week which means that you’re bound to make up crazy things just to make me freak out a little. (I still remember the cannibalistic hominid dreams from midterms!)
But Billy Idol?
Billy Idol.
I just had to Wiki him, but uh, surprisingly enough– you knew what he [...]
I’m currently sitting in Magill and getting distracted by the wicked cool Chinese calligraphy exhibit instead of, you know, actually being productive1. I am actually really impressed by some of the scrolls– one of them looks to be a scorpion and the tail is made up of Chinese characters. Another one like it is a [...]
Two things unrelated things that give me butterflies
1. Crushes/infatuations
2. Chinese oral exams
I feel like I have a colony of Monarch butterflies in my stomach.
Leaving the five idiomatic stories to the last minute (to translate, summarize, and memorize) was probably a poor life decision.
(No, seriously. I only remembered I had to translate them at midnight . I translated two, spent an hour watching Criminal Minds with Andrea, and translated the last three in twenty minutes.)
Surprisingly enough, I think I [...]
Explosions in the Sky– Your Hand in Mine
Sometimes, lyrics just aren’t necessary.
This song is everything you want it to be.
But to me, this song is the definition of love.
I imagine it to be a retelling of a love story in three parts:
1) falling in love
2) miscommunication
3) eventual heartbreak.
(I don’t mean this in a depressing way [...]
Park that car, drop that phone,
Sleep on the floor, dream about me
–Broken Social Scene– Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl–
The rain seeps in through everything, my rainboots, my socks, chilling me to the bone.
It’s not as melancholy as it sounds, since the pitter-patter of rain drops provides a beautiful soundtrack to a night of [...]
Accomplishments of today:
Went to Anthro review session and actually retained information + took notes.
Finished the written portion of my Chinese exam. (And then my brain stopped functioning. I kid you not. That monster was five freaking pages long.)
Completed two hours of shelving at the library. I do enjoy getting paid.
Rewritten part of my notes [...]
Every time I update my Facebook status, I ask myself before posting, “On a scale from 1-10, how ridiculously nerdy/lame do I sound?”
And the answer every time is “very”.
Current facebook status: Stacy wishes she were secretly saving the world every day to explain her less-than-stellar academic performance and frequent absences this semester.
(Unfortunately, I am no [...]
I need to make a list of reasons why I’m awesome and tape it to my door.
I’m mentally, emotionally, and physically drained.
I’m usually a pretty chill, cheerful person by nature but I’ve managed to through an impressive number of tissues today.
All I want to do is pass all my classes, go home, and sleep all [...]
Today:
iGoogle weather lied to me. It said it was 79 degrees outside so I cheerily sprinted out the door of Merion in a tee and a thin black cardigan… into the freezing cold. (It’s sunny, but it’s actually 32 degrees out.)
Woke up at 10 AM because yesterday was the last day of classes for [...]
Just got back from the Extreme Keys acapella concert and caught sight of my reflection in the mirror while walking up the stairs in Merion.
I nearly screamed, “Oh my god, it’s Shan-Yu!”
(My bangs have not been cooperative lately.)
Yeah, I think I’m okay now. :)
Also, I witnessed what had to be world’s most awkward break up [...]
Today’s accomplishments
Went to my last Chinese drills section of the semester.
Did not break down crying during said drill section.
Managed not to spill my cup of tea on my lap during bumpy Blue Bus ride.
In other words, as well as can be expected.
So right now I’m curled up in bed, trying my best to keep myself from falling apart because I feel like my heart is splintering apart.
Surprisingly enough, I’m not stressed out about academics, even though I think I should be (and so does my body).
My subconscious has a twisted sense of humor.
I had a dream [...]
GOALS:
To limit my time on Facebook to twice a day. (And turn off Facebook mobile notifications.) Semi-hiatus, ahoy!
To ignore tumblr.
To ignore Twitter.
To ignore my Google Reader ( including all my political blog feeds). :|
No YouTube.
No iChat/AIM.
So there goes most of my distractions…
Only this blog is safe. (If I don’t have an outlet where I [...]
Verdict: I have the world’s most comfortable bed (also, I am a lazy bum).
But no, really. My bed is insanely comfortable thanks to my mattress topper (those things make my life better), my surprisingly soft Target sheets, and my fluffy pillow. Every morning, I wake up and I spend about ten minutes wondering why the [...]
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How many hours or days of music: 19.2
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