Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing.

( sittin' at the lab assistant desk. I am exhausted as all hell. )

Ummm I don't know what else to do right now. I feel like there is a lot of necessary writing and thinking ahead of me.

Extremely boring weekend behind me, extremely busy week ahead of me.
Sleepy.
I drink things like lemonade or tea when I'm sleepy because for some reason I think it will wake me right up and make me think of happy things.
Instead I just remain tired. Woooo! Time to beast this 10-page story. . .

Started a WordPress blog like I said about writing and the writing process. I think so far that it's helping! Check it out! Please?

I had a long conversation with this guy Matt at IT today about social networking. He's super into Twitter and his smartphone and I'm just like "drrrrrrrrrrrr" drooling over here as shit like that slowly rots my brain. I spend too much time on Facebook as it is and the last thing I need is more social networking. I like talking to people face-to-face. I like saying "hello" to you. But sometimes I succumb--that's why I end up on Facebook half the time. Plus, people are just notoriously hard to speak to nowadays. And I'll never understand it. I have a very small-town mentality about these sorts of things. If we want to exchange ideas we should be reading at least detailed, well-thought-out things, if not sitting in the same room and talking to one another. Even when Kim and I Tweeted our road trip we methodically constructed every single update for maximum conveyance of information and tonality (sounds complicated, but we're "writers").

Bottom line: I'm old-fashioned. I keep blogs. If I keep the WordPress up I'll have three blogs. I think that's about as technologically advanced as I can get.

Plus I can't afford a smartphone. Suck it.

So much work to do today. Plus gotta PH-ify the Sabres game tonight. I'm putting it all off by listening to music and being useless. I would have put it off by opening my new bank account but I can't pick up my massive refund check yet so that will have to wait a few days.

My schedule on Tuesday is basically slightly insane:

• class 8-9:45
  
• class 12-1:45
  
• class 4-5:45
  
• work 6-midnight
  
• lucky I have time to eat
  

I love my LiveJournal and all but I've been thinking of abandoning the writing aspect of it for awhile now and maybe having a "real" blog on WordPress or something (oh noes). Of course I would keep it around for the communities/my friends page. But in terms of myself as a "writerly" person. . .I have three ten-to-twenty page stories I have to write this semester and I feel like I'm in a stagnant writing place. I need something to get my brain going. Thoughtsssss?

My sore throat that I had over break decided to just. . .come the fuck on over. . .and now I am a useless blob that cannot eat, drink, or really speak. I'm sure I didn't help it all by ignoring everything and going to a party for castle kids at Tiffany's apartment in Allston. I managed to drink two beers and a shooter of vodka and sort-of-eat a brownie. Hung out with friends, enjoyed the last Green Line inbound train of the night, vaguely remember the train getting covered in some girl's vomit. Amazing.

Currently looking for somewhere to live off-campus next semester. Unnhhh. Scary. Expensive. Fucking awesome too, though.

Blahhhhhh.
At least tomorrow's Sunday.
And we can destroy the Red Wings.
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Currently: procrastinating.
However, my obvious workload is making me more aware, and thus I time-manage.
Sort of?

New plans: food time, get my American Lit on. This semester is either going to be wonderful or tragic. . .

I'm going to pick. . .now. . .as a good time to start LiveJournaling again. I don't know why. It's my second day of classes (classes now over) and I should be reading the fuckton of shit I'm supposed to be reading for tomorrow.

Being back in Boston has been: odd, happy, busy, overwhelming, sleepy, chilly, cozy, awkward, fun, glorious. I do really love this city and I love my ridiculous school.

I got a job at the Emerson IT department working in the computer lab, supposedly to start next week! Fun times. I need the fucking money of course, too. I apparently overdrew by 40 cents this morning buying a coffee so that I could survive American Lit (which was awesome by the way).

I have: the aforementioned American Lit, Intermediate Fiction, British Lit (which will probably try to roll me like a corpse), and Honors. I have a lot to do for both classes before tomorrow and I will fucking get it done. I have all of my classes except for American Lit on Tuesday and Thursday which makes every day fairly busy for me I think. Hopefully it keeps me on my toes and I learn eventually to STAY THE FUCK AWAKE.

I see people I like, I do things I like, I will make shit happen. Even with this headache I've had for almost 24 hours. I will be victorious.

Back to reading. . .love.

I have had zero time/energy for the Internet lately, which has been freeing. I've been at Panera and trying to see everybody and enjoy my holiday. I will resume LiveJournaling in 2010, which seemingly makes more sense than doing it right now because I have to be up in 6-ish hours for work. My laptop screen is busted. I had to get a new phone. Life is crazy. That sort of business. Pens are on a three-game losing streak which is kind of sad, but they will survive. Bedtime now. . .Panera awaits. Wooo!

Sorry for the lack of updates. Being at home and realizing how insane/gross my room is has made me insane. I love you Fayette County. I will update about some aspect of my existence soon. I mean, I know no one is reading particularly, I'm mostly apologizing to myself. LIFE. HELLO.

( meme city--actually contains interesting bits about my life, too. Promise. )

I'm getting so excited to go home and have Christmas and hockey and family. My desires are simple, honestly.

So I'm ridiculously behind on like. . .everything. . .but that's okay. Final papers are (sort of) getting done. I've been spending most of my time working on the litmag, trying to be a human being, being homesick, and working on Honors stuff. I had a nice, relaxing weekend at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria though! It was basically just a beach and there's not much interesting about that, though it was a beautiful one, and a Facebook album is available for your consumption.

I have to do a whopping five days of this meme because my life has been hard:
( fjksdlfjsdlkf )

Now. . .onward!

So, most of the sophomore class of Emerson is supposed to be registering at 2PM and the website is down. Our website is pretty much always bitching out. It's fly. I also have to write another travel piece. I haven't been doing much traveling lately so I'm fjldksfjsldk.

( days 11 and 12 )

( lol failing at life. . .more 30 days meme )

I got Chinese tonight and then sat in the Voorburcht lounge and watched old TV episodes that I had on my iTunes. FUN NIGHT. I wanted to go to Aachen today but it was rainy and I wasn't in the best of moods for traveling. Oh well. We'll see what happens this coming weekend. . .Canary Islands maybe. :)

First of all, it's American Thanksgiving, so a very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Woohoo!

Also, my semester here at the castle is getting closer and closer to being over and I'm getting a little sad about it. . .though I am excited as fuck to go home where shit isn't expensive, and see my family.

My classes have gone well! Not perfectly but well. Honors has been kind of a wash. . .I've learned some things but I also occasionally have been to the class while intoxicated (thanks American Night) and find some of the information to be tedious. But it's Honors. Doing well means money, please and thank you.

My workshops are vastly, vastly different. My fiction workshop is with Denya and the assignments have been generally confusing. . .so I just write, and tend to do pretty damn good. Mostly because Denya doesn't give bad grades and while she will be condescending and awkward during workshop she also forces us to spend far too much time on "stuff we like." Praise is good and all, but. . .damn. My other workshop (travel writing) is with Chetwynd and I find it to be much more helpful, generally, just because Chetwynd actually puts his energetic personality into being critical. Some of the criticism is great and some of it is a matter of taste, but I've quite enjoyed it. The guy is fucking unreal. But I've said that before.

European Lit basically taught me the formulaic nature of dystopia. And we watched a cool German movie today called The Wave. So I'm pretty happy.

Friends went to Vienna and Barcelona and I couldn't go along with anybody. Quin went to Amsterdam with her friends. I think on Saturday I'll go to Aachen. Fun? Fun! Maybe Canary Islands next week, though! It will be warm in Las Palmas.

I'm exhausted. I'm going to eat biscuits and jam because that's all I have and tomorrow I can go to the store for food. Oh tiny Dutch village. . .of course if this were America and I had my car and I were hungry there would be Eat'n Park. OH GOD I shouldn't talk about how much I miss Eat'n Park. Waugh.

I think that's plenty of my ranting for right now. . .woooooo.

Even falling behind on the shit I'm not obligated to do that usually takes up most of my time. . .

( 30 days meme, days 05 and 06 )
And I totally meant to write more when I posted this, but shit is happening, so I'll write about LIFE later.

I have two days of this shit to do. . .

( 30 days meme, days 03 and 04 )

Aaaand now it is time to pull a 5-page paper out of my ass before 2:30! GO!

I have so many things to do today/tomorrow/the next day that it's horrifying. I have to e-mail people in Boston to talk about scheduling and I've been putting that off, too. This is the tough part, isn't it? I don't have finals really so I have to go through hell at some point. Oh Emerson.

( 30 days meme - Day 02 → Your favorite movie )

Woohoo! Weekend at the castle. Last night I went out for shawarma (shoarma?) with Peter and Tiernan, and later we played Settlers of Catan and had delicious "Huiswijn Rood" and €5 port (for delicious read "horrifying"). Now I have an assload of work to do for the weekend. But. . .I'm going to waste some more time. And do this meme! So that at least I'll have something to post for awhile. . .

( 30 days meme )

Okay, so, I love Nicole on ANTM and all, and I loved that when she won she was all, "I'm a dork and I'm America's Next Top Model!" and was all cute and shit, but really. . .Laura was robbed. Or perhaps it's for the best because Laura is like, an actual human being and that show is absurd and wrong, but STILL.

. . .nothing much going on. Weekend at the castle. Blahblahblah. Trying to figure out what classes I'm taking next semester, trying to figure out my life. It's fun, I promise.