Favorite Holiday Movie

favorite holiday movie

Elf is one of the two Christmas movies that my mom & I try to watch every year in December. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is the other one. I would rank Christmas Vacation higher on the scale of awesomeness, but I don't have a shirt referencing that movie, so this'll do.

Your View Today

my view today

This photo is showing that I didn't go outside today. Actually, I did go outside briefly to help move a curio cabinet out of the garage, but that took 2 minutes and I was back inside again.

Making December memories

Roshni & I are going to do this thing. Good times will be had by all.

Better

I kind of know how to french braid my own hair! I want to learn how to do the side kind. Also, you may notice a hint of blu-ish purple. That is a recent addition.

Election day

In other news, She's The Man is a great movie. It's based on SHAKESPEARE! Come on. Can't get better than that.

badass food pyramid

clutch

I'm not a great writer. I don't claim to be. That's probably why only 5 (if that) people read my blog. I'm bringing this up because I had to take JSU's English Competency Exam on Wednesday. It's required, unfortunately. I will be deeply, deeply surprised if I pass, and to be honest a little disappointed. If I pass, that means the standards that these English teachers are holding JSU students to are ridiculously low. Maybe they don't focus so much on content. I'll surely pass then. Cause I've got grammar on lock. Probably. "Daddy don't mess up on syntax." Dr. G said this Wednesday and it was weird and adorable. He has small children who probably call him 'daddy' so I guess it's okay. If he did not, then I would be less forgiving of his use of  'daddy' in third person.


Here is an enthralling conversation that I had with an anonymous person through my cellular device...
Texter: Why you tell me to find somebody to do it
Me: What?
Texter: You know baby
Me: Maybe you have the wrong number?

You know how I know that this person is a stranger? Because this person is just so awesome with words & I can't think of anybody that I know in real life who is that awesome with words.
Also, see how they used "baby"? I don't get called baby very often. Surprising, I know.
I'm really curious about the subject of the text message. Why did I tell them to find somebody to do it? What is that somebody going to do? My mind automatically assumes a sex thing. How could you expect anything less from me?

Here's a vidya my grandmother made of balloons because she didn't realize it was on video mode.

In sickness

I went to Jenna & Steven's wedding. It was pretty. Here's a picture.

It was a grand occasion.


Now my nose has turned into a leaky faucet. I dread the next few days because I can currently feel how much my body hates me, but I know it can get worse. And in the next few days, it will. I feel guilty for being sick & germy around the old people I have to live with, but what am I supposed to do? I already quarantined myself off into my bedroom, but my lovely, caring grandmother keeps coming to check on me. She is just asking for the germs to invade.

On top of all that, it is 1:49am and I still have 3 art things that I need to finish. I can only foresee finishing one before I pass out & sleep for days. Except I can't sleep for days. If I wasn't such a poor planner, I would put my life on pause & just Rip Van Winkle through the rest of the week, but I can't miss my damn drawing class or else I'll fail. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Funny haha or funny weird?

MJ calls me funny quite often & I always ask which kind. The answer varies.

I like to surround myself with people of a certain sense of humor. People who say things with a touch of irony & you can't actually tell if they're being serious. I can't stand it when a person needs to clarify that they're just kidding. (I know I do that & it's a character flaw.)
Things I think are hilarious:
-Hyperbole.
-twitter.com/ADAMDEVINE
-Poop and fart jokes. I can't help it, I'm like a 5 year old boy.
-youtube.com/badlipreading
-People talking in their sleep.
-This dude in my CS class. For the sake of the story, I'll refer to him as M. The most recent example of his hilariosity was on Wednesday. Dr. G had received a tract(btdubs, I did not know what a tract was until Dr. G explained it.) from a math major in our class & he got into a little bit of a discussion about 4 year olds and salvation and crap like that. Well another dude from the back of the class was like come on, hash it out. & Dr. G was like, should I really? & THEN M goes, "Is it going to be on the test?"



Saw this on the internet;
“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
Sounds promising so I might keep it in mind.

Go read a thesaurus

I'm not very good at jokes!


Read any single one of Justin Bieber's tweets and you'll realize why kids should stay in school. Poor thing can barely communicate. I'm not here to judge the guy because who am I to judge? I can't even spell "opportunity" right, but listen... I do know that "could of" is not real. There is no such thing as "could of." That's not a thing. It is "could've." I promise.


I was going to go to bed early, but the internet happened. Seriously said this to MJ yesterday, "Should I go to sleep and not do my homework or should I just sleep?" Ha. Nope.

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

I'm having one of those moments where I want to e-mail something to explain a thing that I wrote, but if I e-mail again it's verging on spam or crazy person. I just want them to know that I totally know what that word means and I know how to use it properly, even if it doesn't seem like it. Caring is a burden.

I just remembered sarcasm is a thing. Maybe it will be interpreted as sarcasm.

#SORRYSOVAGUE

Hyperbole

You know that Adele song, "Chasing Pavements"? It kind of sounds like she's singing "Should I get up or sleep in like Jason Bateman?"  I was thinking, what if that was really what Adele sang. Then I thought, well that doesn't make sense because how would a person know if Jason Bateman sleeps in a lot. Then I thought, Who cares if a song makes sense? That's called poetic license. Take "Human" by the Killers. My point exactly.

Turns out I didn't have any time this weekend to finish Lord of the Rings. I will try to read it instead. I can usually pick up a book and put it down with no problems. A movie is harder to do that with.

I've been helping Jenner with her wedding stuff, that's pretty much why I couldn't watch it. It feels like she's having a huge birthday party, not like she's getting married. I'm excited. If only I had a +1.

Saw Pitch Perfect last friday. It was the best movie ever. Hyperbole.

Just 4 adorable dudes singing it out.

P.S. How did Sherlock live in the last episode? HOW?

Lots of LOTR references

Guess what my favorite cup is...

I hate being that person who doesn't get references so I'm going to watch it now. Bye.

Getting ready

I have this dress that I'm going to wear for Jenner's wedding & it looks like :

 Well I don't know if you can tell, but the belt that came with it is a very dark brown. It is super hard to find shoes that are a very dark brown. So instead I found these :

I adore these shoes. They encapsulate everything I love about shoes. So I don't really care if the brown is the right brown... I'm going to wear them anyway. A teensy little part of me really wants them to match though because I don't want to look like a huge dork. I mean, I don't mind looking like a huge dork, as long as I'm doing it intentionally.
This could all be easily solved if I could find a new belt to go with the dress. The wedding's on the 13th & I don't think that's enough time.

Emotion

I just had this brilliant idea for my art project. We have to use lines to express certain emotions and one of the emotions that I still have yet to define is trust. I don't even that's the correct definition of an emotion, but that doesn't matter because I still have to draw it anyway. So my idea came to me all of a sudden, as they often do. I was thinking "who is the most trustworthy person I know?" Then I thought, the Doctor! How freaking brilliant of me, right?! I'm using a cropped thumbnail of the Doctor's name in Galifreyan. I'm pretty curious to hear what people are going to say about it at the critique. Because it will irrefutably be the best one.

Grocery shopping

My g&p are in Hawaii this week so I'm left to purchase groceries on my own. I spent most of my time at work this week compiling recipes of things that I definitely want to cook and then I spent some time making out a grocery list because what else am I going to do? (Hint: C++, Drawing 1, Design 1, AmerLit) So I took my sweet time making the list according to the aisles at the grocery store. As many times as I've been to the grocery store, I have never made my lists out this way. It was like an epiphany though. I will never not sort my lists according to aisle ever again. It was the easiest trip to walmart. Also, I saw Jenner & Stavs while I was there so that was an added bonus. I went to Aldi's too & the lady at the checkout counter asked me why I looked so familiar. We couldn't figure out why. She said I probably just have one of those faces. Which I'm beginning to believe is absolutely true. Strangers like to talk to me. I don't know if it's because I rarely shy away from eye contact or if it's because I try to have a smile on my face instead of a stink eye 24/7. It probably is though. Maybe I should stop?

Blah; programming is hard. I really love those moments when you finally get the thing to work. Happened to this guy in class today & it was so hilariously adorable.

One thing that I really miss about having my Papaw here is that I have to kill my own bugs.

Second day of fall

I have this pain in my back on the right side & now I can't take in a deep breath because I have this catch in my right lung. So now I'm sitting here taking these weird shallow breaths. Not to be melodramatic, but am I about to drop dead?

Realized today that I'm kind of rude. I try to be a really sweet person because how can you be mean to people when life is so short, why make it worse, you know? Mostly I'm just really sarcastic & rude.

My aunt's letting me do the desserts for her annual Halloween party & I am so excited. I already have worms and eyeballs on the to-do list.

I wish I lived in my own apartment so I could steal this precious lil kitty cat from my parents.

Music throw down

Just a random collection of my favorite songs.
These are songs that I almost want to stay in the car & listen to, even if I'm parked and ready to get out.

    How can you resist a song that sings, "you're my sweetheart"? Awww.

    They have lovely British accents. This is one of their older songs, but still.

    This is actually playing on popular radio stations now! I'm so proud. Glee probably helped, but they are just so good, they would have done it on their own. I feel like Darren Criss's character on glee gets to sing all the cool "indie"(I don't know if this is actually an indie band) songs, which is super awesome & I applaud the song picker-outer on Glee.

   I like to imagine they are avid youtube vloggers and they're singing "take my keys, take my Flip, take it all."

    All of the emotions. Makes me want to get drunk & fight somebody. In a good way, of course.

Love Sameer. He's a sexy beast. The rest of Young the Giant are pretty sweet, too. Is it wrong for me to love when bands do unexpected covers? If it's wrong, I don't want to be right.

    Somebody's very clumsy...

& saving the best for last...

   2 Walk the Moon songs! (: I genuinely love every song off their self-titled album. These two are just the ones that I know all the words to. Most of the songs are upbeat and easily danced to, with the exception being Iscariot, which I guess you could still dance to, but probably in a different way than the others. I know they'll be stupid famous, like Justin Bieber famous. Just you wait. Anyway, I can't wait to see them in November!

Turns out

My partner in CS is really really nice. Kind of a sweetheart, actually. It happened to be the guy that I already sit next to in class. Maybe the partnership won't be so bad after all.


Things that Dr. G says a lot:
- "If you don't like [...], we can't be friends"
- "What else?" (This reminds me a lot of Keith because she does the same thing)
- "Crap" & "stuff"
- "[...] is a different kind of beast"

well

unfortuately, my laptop's charging mechanism has committed suicide and thereby makes my laptop unuseable so this blog is being painstakingly written via tabby. please note the lack of capitalization.

i've been in class for three weeks now and i've only skipped once so i'd say this semester is off to a right good start. i've been dealt a surprisingly good hand this time around. my art professors fit so perfectly in the quirky art teacher stereotype, it's hilarious. i like them a lot. definitely tenfold better than the art class i almost took in highschool. there's a really cute guy in my drawing class. he did this funny thing in class the other day. we were supposed to bring in a shoe with laces so we could draw it. most people brought an extra shoe with them(like myself), while he just took the shoe that he was wearing off. i don't know why that struck me as amusing, but it did. 

there's a girl in that same drawing class who has asked me twice now if i thought the professor would mind if we went to the restroom. both times i said that i didn't think so & she still proceeded to ask him if she could go to the bathroom. like, whaaat?

my design class is full of some characters. i do sit by some pretty cool people though. the girl that i sit by is so awesome. i hope that i never have to do a group project with her so she won't start hating me. group projects are the worst. 

which brings me to dr. g's class. he's assigning us partners on monday & i'm super not looking forward to it. i get a weird vibe from some of the people in there. i mean, i know it's obvious that i'm his favorite, but... hahahahaha okay only joking. i really am nervous about group projects though. for one thing, the survey he's using to partner us asked for gpa & the grade of our last cs class. what if it pairs all the dumb kids together or if it pairs a dumb kid with a smart kid. i'm definitely a dumb kid in this equation, but i think whoever i'm paired with will think i have the upperhand since i hand dr. g's class before, when, in reality, that is totally not the case. it's all very daunting. there's this guy in class who asks a ton of questions that probably irk dr. g, but i love that he asks so many. right now, i actually get what dr. g is teaching(at least i think i do), but i know there is going to come a time when i'll be super lost & hopefully question guy will still be there asking questions. dr. g is still super good looking, by the way. hard to believe he's 35. most days after class, i usually am like "hey listen to this funny thing dr. g said today" to my jefe & she is usually not amused. she still hates his guts. she is a pro at holding grudges. (since this is the internet & there's always a chance she'll read this , P... don't be offended by my silly ramblings, i've grown to love you dearly & i respect your oddities, being like the cool kids is overrated)

on to english. or american lit, i should say. my professor in there is such a sweetheart. he continues to be excited about the puritans even though a third of the class are on their laptops, scrolling through pinterest. another third are doing that texting under the desk thing like we used to do in highschool. lame. i don't want to be the only one to laugh at his lit related jokes, but i usually am. 

not much else going on, really.