Songs on Repeat
1.Tegan & Sara– Nineteen
I felt you in my life
Before I ever thought to
Feel the need to lay down
Beside you
And tell you
I feel you in my heart,
And I don’t even know you
And now we’re saying
Bye, bye, bye
2. Mumm-Ra–She’s Got You High
She’s got you high and you don’t even know yet
She’s got you high and [...]
Claire, Emily, and I watched Kiki’s Delivery Service which is amazingly charming and sweet. I love Miyazaki films, they make my heart swell three times its normal size.
I think Miyazaki Movie Night (yes, with all caps!) will have to become a tradition. I hope we can watch Howl’s Moving Castle next– I have such a [...]
I need to watch myself.
I know most of my faults very well and I keep track of them.
For example: I’m self-deprecating (and I’m working on that, thank you very much) and I’m afraid that I’ll self-deprecate myself to death one day. I’m unbearably self-conscious and always nervous (especially around people I want to impress). They’re [...]
Okay.
You know those terrible Harlequin romance novels where the heroine gets so thoroughly ravished that she can’t walk the next day?
That’s how I feel right now.
… Fuckin’ lunges.
My body is still displeased with me from my work out yesterday (note to self: work out more often!) so I’m currently walking like a bowl-legged cat. I’m sure it’s very attractive to those around me.
It’s also 19 degrees out and with windchill, it feels like it’s 6 degrees out.
Time to break out my leggings. [...]
Letting Go (11.2007.)
So you’ve been seeing him for two years. Two of your best years, two of your carefree years, two of your pretty years when everything is toned and perky and you’re never going to be as thin or as beautiful as you are now. But now he’s gone (gone gone) and it hurts [...]
After a long hiatus from working out (not including my few measly attempts at running over winter break that could be more accurately described as “jog/walk/run/walk/walk/jog/maybe think-about-running-some-more” while listening to cheesy techno-pop music) I had my first Project Fitness class today and we did lunges, squats, and even more lunges.
My thigh muscles are currently saying [...]
I’m a terrible person so I find dead baby jokes funny. Dead baby dreams? Considerably less so because you can’t just turn it off.
Welcome back, screwed up subconscious. I have not missed you.
1. I have more classical music than anyone I know (1.27 GB, 202 songs as of now), but I am completely hopeless at the piano. It’s amazing how bad I am after all those lessons… I also cannot sightread even if my life depended on it.Woe.
2. I’ve realized this: I’m learning mainly for my parents [...]
This is going to sound terribly narcissistic of me, but while I was going through one of the original fiction pieces I’m working on I came across a phrase that made me blink.
It’s one of those lines that just makes you pause and think, wow, did I really write that?
“This is your life, unraveling at [...]
1. iPad? … iPad? Seriously, Steve Jobs? I’m an Apple geek through and through but no.
2. I am embarrassingly excited for Zombieland when it becomes available on Netflix. I may have a slight obsession with zombie movies (I find them hilarious, okay?).
3. Words cannot describe how much I want the weekend to be here already. [...]
Andrea: I really hate how hard it is to get to the new Chinese classroom. You have to wander through the labyrinth, only instead of a minotaur you have to face CHIANG LAOSHI.
This was the funniest thing I heard all day which speaks volumes of how terrible today was. :(
I love my parents.
My mom managed to catch me right before my shower and I now have strict orders from my parents to:
1. Buy myself a cupcake.
2. Not go to work (“You make your own hours. You can shelve books tomorrow,” my mom said, quite firmly).
They also told me to expect a call from my [...]
I just spent the last ten minutes reading Naruto spoilers on Wikipedia (“WHAT? _____ died? ______ died too? Kishimoto, why do you hate me?”) because I’m about three years behind (“Sai? Who the hell is Sai?… And what’s up with his obsession with penis sizes?”) and now I’m trying to decide if 4 AM is [...]
Same universe as A Thin Line Between Drunken Teenage Passes and Hate.
Ethan was having a Really Bad Day.
One of those days when your puppy was not only run over, but run over by cars driven by clowns and then shot and eaten by Bigfoot, at which point your fish died, came back to life, and [...]
Apparently someone sitting in front of Kathy during Inglourious Basterds complained about my hiccuping (I think I hiccuped like, three times during the movie) and now I’m back to being insanely paranoid that I annoy everyone around me when I hiccup.
I’m self-conscious about my involuntarily, squeaky hiccups to begin with. I’ve been to two doctors [...]
My body’s defective. I would like a refund, thankyouverymuch.
I had delicious crabcakes with tartar sauce for lunch.
I just got out of a training session for work and I feel like the epitome of misery. My stomach, why do you not know good food when you see it? :| My plans for the rest of this [...]
Today I accidentally hiccuped and sneezed at the same time and nearly gave myself a nosebleed.
EPIC FAIL, SELF.
Things I Love:
My Japanese Civilization class! (I am such a fake East Asian Studies major.)
The (500) Days of Summer soundtrack. So many great tracks. I’ve always loved The Smiths, Regina Spektor, and Carla Bruni but the movie introduced me to The Temper Trap’s “Sweet Disposition” and Mumm-Ra’s “She’s Got You High”.
My late morning classes. [...]
I’m pretty much setting myself up for a terribly difficult semester.
And while I like challenges, I do not like going crazy from stress because it seems like 3/4 classes require weekly write-ups on top of papers, group projects, and tons of readings. (And they overlap. A lot. I checked and wrote down dates– cue Inner [...]
Dear body,
Anytime you like to stop hating me would be appreciated, thanks.
And for the record, I’m actually not trying to poison you. (It was a freaking salad. What do you want from me?)
No love,
Stacy
An inauspicious start to this semester.
First day of shopping week and registration.
Registration started late but hopefully I did it right and I now have the two PE classes I want. I’m excited about Pilates.
I skinned my knee climbing out of bed today. Le siiiigh.
Andrea and I watched (500) Days of Summer together.
God, I missed my ex-roomie. :)
Also, I’m still madly in love with this movie; it’s just as brilliant the second time around. I absolutely adore the soundtrack.
One of my favorite exchanges– because I’ve always held a fascination for Sid/Nancy’s relationship and The Sex Pistols (thanks to NANA).
Between [...]
ME: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT A DREAM I HAD ABOUT ONE OF YOUR GUY FRIENDS FROM PRINCETON.
ANDREA: … Oh god.
ME: For some reason, I was at an Alexander Wang fashion show. And[insert name here] was modeling for the fall mens collection and I asked him “… why are you here and not at Princeton” [...]
So, I know by now that my skin is extremely sensitive. I will randomly get temporary blisters/welts (for no apparent reason, and it kinda freaks me out) and I always have to wear SPF 15 everyday.
I know that my body is sensitive because I have allergies and I’m asthmatic.
And now, I’m beginning to think that [...]
Dear Sun,
Please come back. I miss you!
Love,
Stacy
I’m desperate to finish something today.
I love seeing all my friends, but I feel this need to create something beautiful (beautiful being awfully subjective) may it be in writing or in art.
Whenever this happens, I always get a bit crazy and a little OCD. That in addition to my [...]
(Credit: boomwizard on LJ according to tumblr)
I will be very sad when it becomes ‘old’ and ‘uncool’ to quote Mean Girls (and I will probably embarrass my future child[ren] when I continue to do so anyway).
I had breakfast with Audra and Olivia and we went grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s so now my mini-fridge is stocked! Ironically enough, I forgot to buy shampoo/conditioner– stuff I originally intended to buy and needed.
A+ self, A+.
I just talked to Avery and I feel somewhat reassured that everyone is probably in the same boat [...]
Quick post before I go to bed…
I dislike the singer for various reasons. I’ve watched and read a few of her interviews and her answers and her persona just bugs me in a way that I can’t articulate properly in words; I just get the general impression that if I knew her personally I’d want [...]
The pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis of the Chinese written language.
Also see: Stacy’s worst nightmare.
What I should be doing : sleeping.
What I am doing: marathoning more of Beck and reading through pages and pages of text (fan opinions of songs/music/characters and hilariously enough, the question “what do you think is the sexiest instrument?”) and remembering exactly why I love this series.
(Also, in my opinion– vocals. Because I’m a music [...]
PLANS FOR TODAY (in no particular order):
Reply to emails.
Pack.
Wander off to do other things.
Panic.
Pack some more.
Rewatch Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad in between panic sessions and packing. (I totally marathoned 9 episodes instead of sleeping. My priorities.)
Watch Taiwanese dramas in between Beck sessions because ohmygod, three weeks of slothitude and the occasional Chinese characters practice session [...]
I should probably post something insightful or witty, but I’m too enamored with the picture below:
Hell yes.
I don’t have high expectations at all.
I-I don’t even.
TIFFANY: So, someone told me that I look like a stoner. Do you think I look like a stoner?
ME: …. WHAT. NO! … WHAT.
and
TIFFANY: Hey, you stretched out my slippers! I can wear them now! Thanks Stacy! :D
ME: … I’m glad I’ve finally found my purpose in life.
TIFFANY: *after walking around* … [...]
Good Things:
Making a work out playlist and titling it “Run Like You’ve Stole Something”.
The adrenaline high you get after running. (Mind you, I hate the actual running part, give me ice skates or a bike any day.) To quote Chris Colfer, “I hate the treadmill. I run like a duck with an enema.” Horrifically [...]
I’m still slowly going through my music collection and adding album art and lyrics. (Just over 5 GB done, another 32 GB or so to go!)
It’s so strange going through my music library and listening to songs I liked back in high school. Obviously, I still like the songs– I kept them for a reason– [...]
It sounds even better in studio– I can’t believe I’m linking to myspace– but you can listen to it here.
I kinda want to have the soloist’s babies. (I have a thing for acapella boys, okay. STOP JUDGING ME.)
I am so cranky right now.
I suppose this is what happens when you have to go to the dentist to get a cavity filled and the entire left side of your mouth is numb for eight hours (she said the novacaine would wear off an hour after the procedure, that was a filthy lie), and [...]
I’m in the process of adding album art and lyrics to my iTunes music collection (I have nearly 8000 songs so um, it’s not easy).
Does anyone else make give overly creative titles for their music playlists?
‘Cause I have [a sampling]:
My Indie Street Cred (Part I and Part II)
Life is my Catwalk
Cheer Up Emo Kid
Crushes: an [...]
It’s so weird rummaging through one’s google docs and coming across snippets of stories that never got written properly.
Example:
The first time David tries to write a love song, Karl falls out of his chair laughing and Chris looks both amused and sympathetic all at once.
“Oh man, thanks Davie,” Karl says, snickering. He’s still on the [...]
I can be a rather ridiculous person.
And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
I like too many things, over-analyze things that do not need to be over-analyze, but I’m also a really chill person.
However, I do know that when I get obsessed with something (not in a creepy stalker way but in a “[insert [...]
I really want a Snuggie.
But I refuse to buy one for myself.
… Well, I’m turning 20 in two weeks.
Operation Be Blatantly Obvious About Wanting a Snuggie For Your Birthday initializes… now.
I really like Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad , right?
It’s heart-warming and sweet, and a fantastic coming-of-age manga/anime. (I’ve only really followed the anime. Scanlations were slow so I never finished the manga.) The Engrish is unintentionally hilarious in the original anime, but the characters grew on me and in case you haven’t noticed I really [...]
Watched Pulp Fiction instead of sleeping.
Quentin Tarantino is a genius and I’m all for gratuitously violent movies, but I think I may wait a couple of days before going through the rest of his stuff. I still haven’t seen Kill Bill (either one)!
Maria keeps reccing his movies and we tend to like the same things [...]
I rewatched a few Glee episodes. I can’t believe we have to wait until April for new episodes!
Finn: Why do I always have to be the bigger man?
Me: BECAUSE YOU’RE EIGHT FEET TALL FRANKENTEEN.
And this is why I can’t have nice things. And why I usually have a brain-to-mouth filter.
I was cleaning out my HD and stumbled across some original fiction pieces from high school. Not my work, but other students’. I was a judge for an original fiction writing contest for one of the 10th grade English classes because I won the same contest when I was a sophomore.
In any case, I scanned [...]
While I was trying to find this music video (my favorite ASKG song) on youtube, I came across random guitar and bass covers.
And damn, this is pretty damn hardcore, not going to lie.
Now I really want to watch more of Beck. Not sure if I can take the unintentionally hilarious Engrish this time around though, [...]
