Curse Your Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal

So I guess I haven’t posted at all this year, but that’s probably going to be the norm for the year. My Anthropology professor decided that we have to have a ton of reading and assignments, despite it being a 100 level class. And I have a scene to act in and a different one to direct. So this weekend I will probably read a bunch of plays and try to memorize my lines. It also means that the week my acting scene is due is the same week that my first ethnography and first Chinese paper are due. For me taking less credits I still have a ton of work. But hopefully I’ll be able to go home more anyway.

Anywho, Kyle and Carlin went to see Beauty and the Beast tonight, which I have no interest in paying ten bucks to see. So I’m in the room, watching Doctor Who. I’m only like four episodes until the end, plus like five specials. I’ve also started watching Firefly too. Although I found out a few spoilers for the movie so I’m in no hurry to get to the end where several people die. (The post title is actually from Firefly).

Did my monologue today. It seemed to go over pretty good. It also helps that this is like my new favorite monologue. And speaking of monologues, One Act auditions are coming up. As much as I would want to, I’m so busy and definitely don’t have the energy for rehearsals on top of everything. Especially since I’m going to be running rehearsals of my own for Directing. That is if I can find a play. I ordered a bunch from the library so hopefully there’ll be at least one good one.

Other than work, there’s pretty much nothing going on. I only have one class this Friday, although we will have directing the next two Fridays. And this class doesn’t start until 3:30, so I get to sleep in and take most of the day off. It’s also Fong’s class, so it goes by super quick. Although the annoying girls from my Russian class are in there, which makes it less enjoyable. Why do girls see the need to loudly talk constantly in class? I really don’t care about every detail of these random people’s lives. Speaking of loud people, the neighbors decided seven am was a great time to start blaring “The Circle of Life.” I don’t mind the choice, but I don’t like being woken up.

Now, When You Do This Without Getting Punched, You’ll Have More Fun

So I decided to read some of my old blog posts and I noticed a common theme in the early ones is how tired I am. My thought is “Past Brittany, you have mono, that is why you are tired.”

Classes were cancelled today. It’s nice because when it started snowing last night everyone was up screaming and throwing snowballs at the window until like 4am. I actually got up and put in my earplugs, which helped a little. I was so tired I was going to skip Russian and just go to Speech and China. We got the text and call at 6:20 am and you could hear everyone on campus start to cheer. Especially our loudish neighbors. They’re not as bad as last year’s neighbors, but we still hear them from time to time. One of the guys and the girls all started to talk really loud and sing annoying songs, but then we heard the other guy get really grumpy that he got woken up. Meanwhile I'm thinking, “At least one of you has a normal sense of time and sleep.”

Me and Carlin slept in late then, since we had been kept up by annoying people. The TV was out, so we decided to watch The Lord of the Rings again. Right now we are on part one of The Two Towers.

To make this day better, all three of my tests for this week have now been pushed to next week. There was also good food today. I had pierogies for lunch and chicken for dinner.

To top it all off, my care package came! And there were homemade brownies included!! My favorite!!

I still have classes tomorrow though. I’m trying to figure out if I can wear my yoga pants under my jeans cause it’s too cold to just wear jeans to class, but I’ll get overheated if I wear tights/leggings and have to put the yoga pants over them.

Hopefully everyone will have calmed down about the snow tonight. I really want sleep. I was really angry last night when I kept being woken up.

I Miss Conversations that Don’t Start With “This Killer Truck”

So I’ve finally got a lull in my workload this week, so I decided I’d actually work on my blog instead of playing Mah Jong. Especially since it’s already midterms and I’ve only posted once this semester. I just seem to be busy with papers or tests or both and when I’m not working I kind of feel like vegging.

Other than the ginormous workload, this semester’s been pretty good. None of my professors make me totally crazy. Some of Andrea’s ideas are a little weird, but I like having a class where we get to move around, so it makes up for it. I really like the Suzuki work; it’s sort of like a mix between dance and martial arts and it’s pretty fun. I’m not so fond of the monologue work. Finding verbs and metaphors for our monologues just doesn’t help me that much.

We had Massage Day in Stage Speech today. It is officially the best thing ever. We got into partners and did head, neck, back, leg, and arm massages. The head massages are awesome. I think it comes from Mom rubbing my head when I was a baby to put me to sleep, but we did it in class and I almost fell asleep. On a side note, when I was walking into class today, I could hear the orchestra warming up. I noticed that I was subconsciously moving my fingers in the correct patterns to play the cello to the warm up. It kind of made me miss playing my cello. I’ll have to practice over winter break I guess.

Carlin’s class has been cancelled for Monday and will probably be canceled on Friday too, so she gets a four day weekend. I’m super jealous. With all this work I’m doing I’ll be glad to finally get a vacation.

We did go to see The Lion King in 3D last weekend. It was amazing. It’s like it was made for 3D before people were really doing movies with 3D in mind. I had forgotten how much I enjoy Lion King, especially since I haven’t seen it since like elementary school. Although now I can see all of the morals and lessons and well, plot, that you are supposed to get from watching it. Before it was more like “cool, lions. Mufasa dies, Simba becomes king,” and that was pretty much that. I put my 3D glasses on my Basset Hound bobble head, so now he can be a hipster.

So I’ll probably head home this weekend. Carlin has a group project this weekend and I have to see Big Love next week, so once again we’re going home on different days. At least her parents will be coming to get her, so it’s not my problem. Last time I went home, I brought up a bunch of winter clothes, since it was really cold up here. Now the weather has decided to be warm, so I don’t really need all the sweaters and stuff yet. Of course, Carlin keeps the room pretty cold, so I don’t really wear shorts either.

On a sort of pointless note, I found this adorable gif and it made me really want to see the pets, so it’ll be nice to go home.

Get In Loser, We’re Going Shopping

 

Dobry vecher! So the first week of school is out of the way and my Blog returns from it’s summer hibernation. It’s been a pretty hectic week with me running back and forth between West and Central.  Especially since it’s super hot up here. It’s killer when I’m all sweaty from Movement already and then have a 20 minute walk across campus. I feel bad for people who sit near me in Geography (like Carlin). It also makes me really sore.

My 300 level classes will definitely be a lot of work. They both have a lot of papers and tests that occur on the same weeks. I already have my research paper for China for the one book that hasn’t come in yet. I still have to find at least three primary sources for it too. Luckily, or unluckily depending on your point of view, other than the book it’s open topic. So I’ll probably do it on military history during one of the dynasties. I’ll know more when I actually get the book.

Geography is easy, luckily. It is a 100 level so it makes sense. The only problem is dumb freshmen. But there’s no papers and just a couple of tests. Stage Movement is pretty good so far too. We did this cool thing about concentrating our chakra, which strengthens our movements and stances. There’s a lot of stuff I can’t do with one arm though. At least Andrea is really understanding. Stage Speech is pretty good too, though we haven’t done much in those classes.

The room is totally set up now. We’ve got everything organized and I’ve even hung up my Chinese lanterns in the window. The door’s also all set up and we’ve already gotten a bunch of compliments, especially our Dr. Who picture. The pic has made us start calling the room the TARDUS. And the bathroom is Narnia. Yes, we are major nerds. We also fangirled over our Lord of the Rings plushies for like 30 minutes after we got them.

So tomorrow we have to go shopping. Carlin needs school supplies and I need clothes for Movement. I’ll also have to do a bunch of reading for Russia. Seegel’s teaching us some Russian in there, so I’ll know a few phrases by the time the course is over. So far I can say: Good Morning, Good Day, Good Afternoon, Moscow, and Can I Have More Vodka? I can also say: Good Morning and You Must Be Very Tired in Japanese. And I can pronounce words in Chinese correctly. I’m getting such a fabulous education. And with things that aren’t the point of the classes. College is awesome.

Favorite Vines Other Than Green: Red Vines!

So I’m officially done with actual classes for the year; I still have a paper to finish and three tests to take though. That’s pretty much going to be my whole weekend.

Byron told us hos ghost story in Geology yesterday. He was helping a friend cleaning out his aunt’s house and all this weird stuff happened. Like this wedding dress kept showing up in the closet after they threw it out and they heard people walking around and saw a lady in a white dress going through walls. On the last day Byron was there he found the clothes that the aunt had been buried in inside the washing machine. It was a pretty intense story. And that’s pretty much why most of us showed up to class that day, just to hear the story.

Me and Carlin are so sick of dorm food that we’ve been to Taco Bell and the Coffee Corner a ton lately. I wish that they were open better hours on the weekend though, cause I don’t know what we’ll eat for our last weekend up here.

Dramatic episode of Supernatural tonight. I’m so worked up I don’t know when I’ll go to sleep. I’m really excited/nervous for next week’s episode. Hopefully the play will be done in time for me to catch it. Otherwise I’ll have to hopefully watch it online.

I’m so ready for finals to be over. I’m just worn out. And I’ve been concentrating on my paper’s so much that I forgot I have to actually study for my tests. And I have to be up for a final at eight on Monday. How am I supposed to take a test at that early an hour?

So yeah. It’s a short post tonight cause I’ve pretty much done nothing but study. Sorries. And I’m thinking I’ll probably keep posting during the summer too for the heck of it. And I’ll definitely blog during vacation.

And I Ate Nothing But Protein Shakes, Falcon Eggs, and Rocks

So since my Things I’ve Learned in College Post is so amusing, I figured I’d add ten more things on.

1. For your TV to work, you will need a coaxial cable. The people at Wal-Mart do not know what it is, don’t bother asking them. Also, buy it way before move in day. Otherwise you will go to multiple stores and buy the very last one Best Buy has.
2. Every teacher will tell you to buy a textbook plus at least three chapter books. Just buy the chapter books. The teacher will never use the textbook. They just assign it so you will “be prepared” for the lectures.
3. In high school, they tell you attendance isn’t a big deal in college. LIES! If you miss a class, you will get behind. Also, many teachers have you sign in when you get to the class. There’s a few classes that you can get away with skipping, so use those for your sick days.
4. No matter what medication you buy at the beginning of the year, you will end up needing completely different ones by the middle of the semester. I thought basic pain, allergy, and cold meds would be fine. I had to go out and cortisone cream and Benadryl cream a few weeks into the semester.
5. At the beginning of the year, you will tell yourself that you will eat healthy and not drink soda. That will only last about two weeks. Once stress catches up with you, you will eat fried foods and soda in the dining hall and still need a chip and candy stash in the room.
6. When your computer/internet is broken, it is a major crisis. Nothing else matters until it is fixed.
7. Always room with someone you know. Don’t even be suitemates with total strangers. Otherwise you will most likely be paired with an obnoxious whore who will keep you up with loud talking, throwing up, and other bad stuff.
8. You are never to old to take a nap. Especially after an early class. But you will get this weird taste in your mouth that will not go away for hours.
9. When you start feeling sick, drink only Gatorade and orange juice until you feel better. It helps to mix orange juice and guava juice, since it tastes better than plain orange.
10. When living in a tiny dorm room, pick a spot and stay there. There’s not enough room to move around, so we pretty much just move in order to leave the room. Carlin has her chair and I have the bed, which keeps us out of each other’s way.

Let’s Get Moving Into Action

Well it looks like I’m going back to doing a post every night. Not like anything super interesting is going to happen in the next week, since it’s finals week and I’ll mostly be writing papers and doing major cramming.

I’m almost totally registered for classes for the Fall semester. I’m still waiting to hear back from Joan to see if I can take her WWI class. The only problem with that is I will have 15 minutes to get from Stage Movement to the Great War, so I will be running across campus twice a week. I also will have very little time off so I don’t know when I’ll have time for a job or IP except on Fridays. So next year will be real fun, but at least I’ll be getting my credits in. Me and Carlin are also both taking a Geography class at the same time, so that’ll be nice.

Today was my last day of US History. We pretty much had the very condensed version of the Vietnam War and the typical idiotic questions from my classmates. I know everyone always says, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question,” but they’re wrong. There are lots of stupid questions, especially by people in my two history classes. Mostly when the ask the professor to explain what he or she just explained. Now I know I’m smarter than most of my classmates, (not bragging, it’s true), but with some of these questions I’m like “Really? How did you make it into college? How do you even walk upright?” Luckily, I’m done with my 100 level courses so for the rest of my History classes I’ll be with the majors and more serious students hopefully.

I technically don’t have any more Geology lectures either. Byron said that if we want to review for the final to come in on Thursday. I wouldn’t go, but he said he might finish his ghost story. I need to know how it ends cause it is scary.

I got to have sushi for lunch again. It’s not the greatest, but it beats dining hall food. Which, by the way, has reached a new low. Carlin went to Holmes for lunch and the menu said chicken sandwich. So she gets one and it turns out the chicken sandwich is two chicken fingers on a hamburger bun. They’re not even giving us real food anymore, just the same old chicken tenders they have everyday! We ended up walking to the UC for Taco Bell and Subway, we’re so sick of the dining hall food. I now have one week to spend $90 on food. I figure I’ll stock up on drinks from the vending machine if I have to.

Me and Carlin are mostly excited today because Supernatural has been renewed for another season. Aaron Silco got her started watched it and now I’m hooked on it too. It gives us something to look forward to each week. But that’s pretty much the only high point of our weeks. Especially this week, which is pretty much filled with cramming, papers, and cleaning. I’m not looking forward to cleaning this place. Hopefully people won’t hog the vacuums all week like they did before spring break. It doesn’t help that Carlin’s got a big project for her Young Adult Lit class, so she’s got paper and eraser shavings everywhere.

Tomorrow’s my final for Costuming and none of us really now what’s going to be on the test. Hopefully it’s mostly common sense stuff, cause we didn’t really learn that much. And I have my last IP on Friday for Props, but I doubt they’ll be much to do. By now most of the other Props IP kids will have already cleaned everything. On Monday they were running stuff to the dumpster. For Electrics IP on Monday it was just me, Chris, and Hapcic since all the other people bailed or ditched. At least I sort of knew what I was doing, so I kind of felt useful. We had to steal all the Carpentry boys to help us change soft goods though. It’s hard for me because we have to hold the pole to keep it in weight and I have to stand on my toes to reach it. It was really a pain in the butt when we had to move the scrim because we can’t let it touch the floor. Luckily, Chris is super nice so he had me hold the scrim while he tied it on. I’m definitely going to miss Chris, Justin, and Kristen in Electrics cause they were all really nice and totally understanding about my dislike of heights. I’m actually mostly over my fear of heights in a theatre space. I can go up on the catwalk and use the genie, but I cannot do ladders yet. They’re just too shaky and involve having balance, which I do not posses. Kristen is about as tall as I am, so she taught me all these tricks about being short in Electrics, like how to balance the light with your feet on the catwalk so it’s easier to adjust it without leaning over the edge. And Justin always made a big deal of saying how good I did something even if it was a pointless task like taping up cables. At one point on Monday, I had to vacuum up all these metal shavings from the new rigging poles. I quickly learned that when you vacuum metal shavings, tiny bits of metal will come flying at you and gives you tiny metal splinters. It was not fun.

I’m really nervous for my Western Civ final cause I can hardly write notes, much less three in class essays. My plan is to use my heating pad up until the final, then steal Carlin’s oatmeal heating pad to use during the final. Hopefully that will help since my arm always feels better with heat.