Hello beautiful ladies, It been months since a post. W. t. eeeff? End of third year is coming closer and closer. That means jb having to create a new album next year for normal activity year 4! ah! Can't believe i'm going home for the summer. It's very strange to me still. I just have the sinking feeling that something is going to go wrong. After finals we should all do something. I don't have anything fancy to report at all. How unfortunate and uncool.
I agree with JB, we haven't posted in a while. For me its been pretty quiet. I got home about two days ago and so far its been good. My sister had to be a star child and make my mother a kitchen table for christmas :-O. I was soo bored at home back home because no one was there. I was going insane and downloaded nancy drew games. I got pretty nerdy locking myself in the room with the cat trying to solve puzzles then peeking at the online walk throughs because I suck. I don't understand how you were supposed to get that!
So I called JB and told her we should do a gift exchange among us girls. I think that could be nice like last year.
So did anyone get anything that you have to pretend to like because its like from a grandma or you just pretend and go ...."ooo wow i love it......" -----scribbles ;-)
So, I've noticed that there hasn't been any posts lately and this has made me sad. Well to be honest I've had nothing to blog about...since nothing really exciting has happened to me in a long while lol. At this point, Fall quarter is over and we are all (presumably) enjoying our Winter break. I'm sure I'd be enjoying it a lot more if it weren't raining. I'm cool with rain in general...but it's been DAYS now. UGH!! I wish it would stop, but from what weather.com tells me...it will continue to rain through Wednesday. Because of the rain, I haven't been going out very long or very often and have been forced to seek other forms of entertainment. I've been reading Hans Christian Andersen stories, jamming to Queen songs non-stop with my lil bro, trying to calm my dog down (she's been freaking out cuz of the rain), watching lots of movies on Netflix, and plan to write a Minesweeper game.
I've also noticed that we don't have very many pictures. Pictures we'd like to keep, I mean. I know we're all really busy, but we have to find more time to go on adventures!
Ah, Halloween. This year there were tricks, treats, and plenty of screaming...I think the screaming was the best part to be honest. Oh jeez, if I could bottle up that moment in time I would(although NCN might not be too happy about that). In fact, we had a little too much fun, which is why we are all up right now trying to finish work that should have been done ages ago. In my case anyway; I'm sure that even if JukeBox had worked all weekend she still wouldn't be done. Regardless, here we are burning the midnight oil. Except me. Obviously. I decided to take a small break from pulling my hair out trying to figure out my proposal for Spanish class and blog it up. I should really start doing this more often, otherwise it's all going to pile up on me and I'll have to write super long posts to cover all the excitement.
SO...the bare bones of this weekend go like this: FRIDAY NIGHT-A USC party in the heart of the ghetto with friendly acquaintances Book Guy, Trekkie, and their frat. Of course NCN and JB went, looking fabulous in their costumes. Fairly kick ass they were too, with NCN totally smokin' in a flapper outfit and JB looking super classy as Christine Daaé. She even found a Phantom at the party to complete the outfit(it was, funnily enough, Trekkie). From what I hear the night was a blast, and included everything from taco trucks to getting police help to break into their car. The car which was their ride that is. In the words of NCN or JB(I don't remember which) "It was the first legit college party we've ever been to." Which might be kind of sad considering we're third years but I think it's just a testament to how awesome the night was.
SATURDAY-After attempting all day to get some damn work done and failing miserably we three walked over to the Boys' place to hang out. Only one of them was there, and we started to watch a movie called Se7en as he washed his dishes. Before we could even get halfway through I had to go to work, so I hauled ass trying not to be late with the other three trailing behind(we had picked up a Scribbler by then). On our way back to the residence halls we had our first scare: who do we see across the street but MUTUAL FRIEND, GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. Thanks to some quick thinking and a walk through Family Housing we managed to avoid what would have been the most awkward and time consuming confrontation ever. I did not have time for that shit, which is why I didn't mind so much skulking like a creeper in the Family Housing streets. Work was unproductive as far getting any of my assignments done, but I got free food. Afterword NCN and Scribbles picked me and we mosied on down to Monte Carlo night, ready to enjoy all the fake gambling and free food it had to offer. Let me just say, there were plenty of first years around which means there were plenty of young, dumb, overly excited kids strutting about dressed like skanks and super heroes. We people-watched, then called it a night.
SUNDAY-Even though today was actually Halloween everyone was way too partied out to care. The kids at the Res Hall all gave me weird looks while I was working, like I had missed the memo on when Halloween was actually celebrated. This was probably because I was dressed as a Canadian for my whole shift and kept asking them if they "need help, eh?" Needless to say Halloween started Thursday night and ended at around 3 am Sunday morning, for most people. Once again the day proved fruitless as far getting any school work done, but that is honestly to be expected by now. The real excitement started after we ate our poor man's spaghetti, cooked up in a jiffy and seasoned with dreams of better food. It was delicious. We three roommates had a somewhat profound conversation about who believes and ghosts and who believes in aliens as we watched America's Most Haunted Places on the Travel Channel. Scribbles eventually came over with her Guy and we watched The Orphanage. That was a scary movie, and also very, very sad. Still scary, but sad. Given that we all had work to do, and that NCN's best gay/guy friend came over we decided to stay up and do work. Which is when the best thing of the weekend happened.
THE SCARE: I have taken it upon myself to document our normal activity as much as possible, because you never know what you might miss. Being that it's technically still Halloween until I fall asleep, I decided to take one last picture to complete the weekend. I got one of JukeBox in the middle of programming and went on my merry way to capture NCN in the act of doing something normal. The only light is coming from NCN's room on that side of the apartment and so the bathroom is fairly dark. I walk normally to other side from JB's room and see NCN at the sink washing her hands. I stand there for a good 7 to 10 seconds and then take a picture, flash on...NCN SCREAMS HER HEAD OFF TURNS AROUND TRIES TO RUN GETS CAUGHT ON THE MAT FALLS TO THE FLOOR. It was literally the scariest, funniest shit that happened all weekend, and maybe even in all of my life. The best part is, I managed to take a picture of the sheer terror that NCN went through, and it is perhaps the best damn thing ever captured on film.
1. we had that big ole talk about the new "la otra" and we all came to the ignoring conclusion because I hate being in relationships where all there is is take take take and no give.
2. I am hurting inside. I feel like someone put a blender in my and pressed liquefy. I am so nervous because he and I are fighting again because of our different personalities mostly tipped off from the fact that I bought some stuff by where my sister lives and asked him if he could help me pick it up. I am scared that I am becoming a burden on him and he feels like I am always relying on him and stuff... we are on a break right now. I really need you guys right now. can you I come over tomorrow. I just need hugs. I don't want to lose him and he doesnt want to lose me but he says he wants to get focused on school first because he starts on wednesday. I am only human...
Sooooo...in the time since school has begun a lot of normal shit has gone down. Some of it good, some of it bad, but all of it was equally important in the lives of us who are part of the Normal Activity. A few highlights include, but are certainly not limited to:
1) The first party of the year: JukeBox and NCN both went out the first Friday of school, with very mixed results. Some fun was had, but the next morning brought them back to the apartment with many a tale to tell and not all with happy endings either. 2)The Intervention: The Intervention which we all knew had to happen happened. It was satisfying at the time, we all thought our Mutual Friend understood that her life was going in a bad direction, that her ego was way overinflated, that her obsessive nature would lead her down a dark and terrible path, and that she was being an altogether fairly awful person. In the weeks since, there has been a regression in personality adjustment, and I for one am annoyed at the wasted effort. 3)The Second Party: NCN attended this party alone because poor JB was dying of some strange cold( which she might have picked up from me then passed on to NCN). She stated the day after that it was incredibly fun, even though Mutual Friend displayed some extremely idiotic behavior such as acting drunk when she totally wasn't, hitting on boys who didn't know any better, and being loudly and obnoxiously rude to hosts of the two parties they attended that night. But what else is new, right? 4)The Kickback: This one was out of the blue. Like completely. I came back from a meeting at work around 12:30 am last Wednesday/Thursday to find an empty apartment, with only a note to eat any food I might find from JB and NCN. Needless to say I texted JB to see where my roommates were, only to receive a slightly tipsy text back stating they were at a kickback. I think they got back from that one at around 4 am, because I seem to remember them walking back into the apartment. But that might have been a dream. The next day we all had to up by 7:30 am, and let me tell you JukeBox was NOT happy. They might think a little harder the next time a spur of the moment party is offered to them. LOL 5) OH YEAH! The Social Network: We watched the free premiere of the Facebook movie the night it came out, and I think JB picked up some nifty programming tips( ie "drink a shot every 10 lines of code"), while NCN and I fawned over the twins who aren't really twins at all. The Boys went as well and we got some fairly awesome NA recorded that night.
Any real information and details will probably have to come from NCN and JB, since I wasn't at most of these events due to my highly anti-social nature. Better step it up ladies and start blogging those stories. This is really just a general overview of the exciting times we've had this Fall quarter at lovely UCR.
Now, to the point of this blog post( I know right? You thought I was done and I've just now begun). For the last week or so I have been STARVING. The loss of a meal plan has hit me fairly hard, as well as the increase in all the food offered at the dorms. I honestly don't know how NCN and JB did it last year. But anyway, I've been wasting away from lack of food, specifically bread and the almighty Cup of Noodles, without which most college students cannot survive. Today we finally decided to go grocery shopping again...to be honest, I sort of finagled the whole thing, by practically dragging the other two with me to Rite Aid so I could buy myself some soap. I mean, I honestly needed soap, how else was I to wash myself? And really, FOOD 4 LESS is right across the street so how could we pass up the chance for food? Anyway, I hope NCN and JB will forgive me for being so annoying about my starvation. I swear, I'll shut about it now that there's bread in the apartment. The real excitement begins on our trip back to campus. We stopped by Jack in the Box because eff healthy living, we were craving some damn tacos. Which we promptly acquired. As soon as we leave this fine fast food establishment we see the number 1 bus go off down the street. Slightly discouraged at the thought of waiting, we decide to walk to down the street towards campus to the next bus stop. I voted against the one in front of Rite Aid due to the prolific amount of street walking women to be found there at all hours of the day, often times in the company of their good friend Mr Crack Pipe. Little did we know that it is nearly impossible to avoid the ladies of the night when it is already night. As we waited for the bus, for ALMOST AN HOUR, we saw no less than two of these particular kinds of women trying to drum up some business to no avail. JukeBox in particular was made very, very uncomfortable by the fact that one of the "ladies" kept walking past us "looking for a good time". If only you could have seen the look of terror on her poor innocent face; it was pretty funny. Just as I was despairing of never seeing the bus again JukeBox made a remark that was quite out of character "Wanna bet on who'll get picked up first? Us or the crack whore?" and then not even a minute later bus 16 came to deliver us of our misery at the bus stop. Only to leave us in agony to wait for the trolley to our building. Thankfully there were a variety of people passing the trolley stop for us to admire or laugh at, as the situation warranted. Overall our trip to buy what was originally just soap and bread ended after nearly 4 hours, nearly 3 of which were just us getting back to the apartment. That is what I call some fine Normal Activity. I've spent enough time dawdling on here I guess. My carpal tunnel is acting up so I better do my reading. A warning to those of you who think of venturing down University Avenue after dark: don't.
All in all this has been an interesting summer. I'm actually really glad I went to summer school or else I would have gotten really bored much sooner than I did. But it's been rejuvenating. Now I'm ready to get back to work and to the freedoms I don't really have at home. =) I know this is going to sound really cheesy (Damnit NCN you're starting to rub off your cheesiness on me lol) but I have a feeling this is going to be the best year yet.
"English -- Who needs that? I'm never going to England!"
If I could have any ringtone right now it would be the main guitar riff to this song. I'd be impatiently waiting for my phone to ring just so I could jam to it. haha.
