The Girls Of Rock N' Roll

1. I received and read the 2nd volume of the Courtney Crumrin series. (I've already read the first and third.)
2. I did better on an exam than my previous one.
3. The libray had a book, a DVD and two CD's for me to pick up.
4. I talked with my best friend.
5. Going to see "My Name is Bruce" Wednesday with my best friend and other people in Madison.
6. Had dinner with another close friend.

Good things of Saturday:
1. Saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
2. Mozarella cheese sticks.
3. Bought lots of groceries, including sparkling grape.

Good things of Sunday:
1. Answers!
2. Having good friends who don't pretty up things for you.

1. It wasn't as overwhelming seeing his relatives again for dinner. (Though I mostly hid upstairs.)
2. We browsed Best Buy and I finally got to see what Kohl's is like.
3. We saw "The 40 Year Old Virgin." I started it several years ago (in 2005) in Poland but we weren't able to finish it.
4. I talked to my eldest sister on the phone! Her wedding ceremony for our side of the family is done!
5. I got to lay my hands on Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman in Barnes & Noble, though I have the special limited edition waiting for me, come late December.</b>
6. A friend who got into a car accident isn't terribly injured.

1. Awesome, scrumptious food!
2. Meeting more of Nathaniel's extended family and not being that intimidated.
3. Having my eyebrows tweezed!
4. I learned a new game that doesn't involve drinking or anything sexual.
5. Nathaniel and I watched The Lake House though it has two of his most disliked actors (Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock).
6. A friend sent me a Hallmark E-card to wish me Happy Thanksgiving.
7. Finished The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts and Belle by Cameron Dokey.
8. Nathaniel's mother said she woud like to see pictures of my family. (This was Wednesday night, really, but I still feel happy about it.) :D

Nathaniel and I got to bed pretty late last night. Around 3am, I reckon. So I woke up pretty late Thursday - in fact, Nathaniel woke me up. After eating a scrambled egg, I watched Nathaniel and his family help prep the house. I asked if there was something I could do, and his father said they were fine. Apparently a whole bunch of his relatives were coming, not just the grandpa and the two cousins I had met the previous Thanksgiving and their mother I had met last summer. One of his mother's brother was coming with his wife and their three children. So that's five new people, making a total of fourteen people in the house (including me).

( Thanksgiving )

Nathaniel and I did our own thing after we hung out with his parents and sister a while. I read more of a book, he did whatever. We had a bit of a talk, or maybe I talked and he listened. Mmmm. Well, we I watched The Lake House. Okay, so time paradox present in that movie - not going to get into that. The movie was okay. Not one I would recommend, but I'm glad I managed to get Nathaniel to see it. (He dislikes Keanue Reeves and Sandra Bullock greatly. HEE!) My emotions have been a whole morass of cynicism and romanticism/idealism and homesickness and sentimentalism that I had such mixed feelings about the movie. I've also been tearing up each night. >_<

Is anybody even going to read this all the way through? Heh. I hope to get some shopping done tomorrow (or today, since it's past midnight).

1. Though it kicked my ass, at least the biometrics exam is over.
2. The philosophy quiz ended up being a take-home quiz.
3. FOUR DAY WEEKEND BEGINS!!!
4. Seeing Nathaniel's family again, and meeting more of his relatives tomorrow during Thanksgiving.
5. Being able to sleep in a full/double-size bed instead of the skinny singles/twins at college. (Stupid bed size names.)
BONUS! 6. Finished Fables 11.

Well, the biometrics exam kicked my ass. I really messed up one question worth 20 points (out of 100). I bumped into my TA during lunch and she asked me how it went and told me it was what I initially thought it was, but I second-guessed myself. *cries*

I'm now in Nathaniel's parents' house. His two cousins are here (in the city) as well as their mother. Tonight dinner is only going to be us five, though (he has a sister). That'll be nice. It was a little amusing how quickly people whipped out their laptops, though! Turns out my philosophy quiz is a take-home quiz!! Yay! I'm so glad because I was stressing about having two exams today. Whew! A friend came up to my room after class when I was finishing packing. We talked a bit, reminisced about things. I'll miss having dinner with her (we got almost day together) but it's nice to not have to think too hard about classes and have that constant pressure. Nathaniel's parents' birthdays have passed earlier this month - I feel I should get something for them, but I am uncertain. Maybe I'll ask Nathaniel if he has any ideas.

Being in Madison will make some emailing with someone I communicate with frequently a little hard to do, but I'm not going to worry about that. If I need to talk only of books I've read or not email at all because I can't say anything, then that's what needs to be. I wonder if my parents, sister and her husband have gone yet to the northern state for my eldest sister's wedding preparations. They're 14 hours ahead of me in Central Time, US, and my sister's wedding is November 29th (Saturday). The wedding for her fiance's family is a few weeks later.

Nathainel and his sister and parents are laughing at a joke. It's very heart-warming. :)

1. Lab went okay.
2. I have Fables 11! Also the library had The Pagan Stone for me on hold. There are 57 holds on that book (10 copies) through our inter-library web. It just came out today.
3. mercurychaos received the tie and likes it.
4. I "shoved my boobs" in a friend's face. :P
5. My boyfriend finished his application.

I scored 22 out of 33 right - 66.67%. Not bad for a non-American who's really clueless about economics. :D Click to take the quiz! (I bet I'd score abysmally on a quiz about Malaysia.)

I talked to my sister a few hours ago - my mom called me. They made it safely back home, and they're staying in a hotel because my parents' house doesn't have air-conditioning and my brother-in-law sweats buckets. He's definitely of a winter country! They're tired, but it sounds like it's going well. I wonder when they'll meet my eldest sister, if they haven't already. I forgot to ask them, as well as asking them to explain to her about the UPS delivery snafu. :-(

1. My middle sister and her husband landed safely and I got to talk to her.
2. Two pre-orders, one made in August, have shipped and will arrive tomorrow.
3. I finally finished The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson. It's been in my room for months. I also managed to start and finish two other books today.
4. I bought some beautiful cards and Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb at the bookstore.
5. I have candy incoming, if it's remembered.

1. I found out I don't have philosophy class Monday (though it is because my professor had a family emergency, which is bad).
2. I didn't talk to someone on Saturday (not that we were ignoring each other, but I slept through her call) so we had dinner together Sunday and caught up and leaned on each other's shoulders.
3. I had an exasperating, but amusing conversation with someone in the library.
4. I went to Cub. I have pads now. Yay! And new lotions.
5. I got 8/10 for my solo biometrics presentation on Friday.

1. The professor's whose museum-studies focus group study I helped with was awesome nice and I liked helping her.


2. I watched "Day Watch" with Nathaniel.


3. I have more songs by The Misfits from Jem and the Holograms TV series.


4. My period started but the good part is at least I won't have it during Thanksgiving and my pap smear appointment the week after.


5. I saw more episodes of Jem.

Stolen from mercurychaos:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"He had failed to heed the order because he'd been stunned by the spiteful light in Bent's eyes." (North & South; John Jakes)

I finally got this book today. After searching for it for two weeks because I dreamt about it. It's been ages since I've seen the miniseries... which I've somehow inspired my mother to buy? Ah well, it's good anyway. Randy's never seen it.

This means, of course, that I've spent all day reading it, and that I must find the other two books in the trilogy as soon as possible. I'm enjoying it, though I wish the bastard Bent (mentioned earlier) would die really quickly... but since Mom had me look it up on IMDB, I know he's in the third book, which means he won't fucking die. He's an ass. Oh well. I threw the book, though, which was kind of funny for everybody.

It's the closest book because I haven't really stopped carrying it around. :D

Someone who knows of my depression suggested this exercise several months ago. It's basically listing 5 things you're grateful for each day/night. She got the idea from a community on LJ called 5gratitudes. I looked up "gratitude" as an interest on LJ and several communities came up, including the aforementioned one, and 5_gratitudes which isn't as membered, daily_gratitude which is good if you're hard-press to think of/look for 5 things a day and thinkpositive30 which is where you think of one positive thing a day for 30 days (and of course you're welcome to do it longer). According to this last community's info page, "it takes 21 days to change a habit." Agree or not, I suppose this is something that I should think about, especially with these past hard days/weeks where my emotions have become severely depressed and thoughts have been of self-harm, though I haven't gone back to that stage after September. *knocks on wood*

I guess I'll try to think of 5 things today, without my usual qualifying comments.

1. I saw "Twilight" tonight with my boyfriend and a good friend. (See below for my review.) Not a favorite/great movie, but it was good to lose myself in fluff and the occasional snarky remarks.
2. The Christmas gift for my brother-in-law arrived in the mail today.
3. The library had more books and CD's on hold for me that I requested.
4. I wrote and finished a poem after the one I started several weeks ago stalled and died on me.
5. Some confusion was cleared up directly with someone on AIM about a tense moment Wednesday night.

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Nathaniel and a friend of mine (and myself, of course) went to watch Twilight tonight. I gotta say I was surprised Nathaniel readily agreed! Neither of them have read the book, but I've read all four. I'm not a diehard fan of them, or that big a fan, actually. I used to believe in that kind of love when you meet someone you're going to be with forever, you just know and anybody before them was just inconsequential, or they didn't even exist. But now, with the relationships I've been through, I think it's harder work than a lot of YA books show it to be, or even grown up romance novels. I do think there's an initial connection between someone I eventually end up in a relationshp with and myself, but I don't expect myself to be swept off my feet all the time, or somehow know that person so well so quickl I'm intuitive around them and practically a mind-reader. (This in part because I'm not really that intuitive/perceptive with anybody!)

( Thoughts )

So my laptop gave up the ghost... the power cord caught fire in my hand, so I decided it'd be beneficial to throw that part away. I don't know when it'll be back, so I'm not sure when I'll be back. I still have access to computers, thank god, through the school. I'm at home right now, came back to LS yesterday for the Twilight midnight premiere and decided it wasn't worth it to go back to warrensburg for two classes.

The movie was good. It was packed in there. I was really impressed, though, but they left a lot out. I understand why they did, but some of it... I was actually looking forward to. We made tshirts (Team Edward, Team Emmett, Team Jasper) and they were pretty much the coolest shirts there. :) There were a lot of shirts, too. There was like this 55 year old woman wearing an I ♥ Edward shirt, which was funny. We cracked up.

There were a lot of teenyboppers.

We slept for 4 hours here at home before the girls had to get up and go back to class. They both live in an easterly direction. :)

HOLY CRAP there is this SLU page that lets you view your application status online and they mailed me something today, but they won't say what it is. I'm so scared that finally it all boiled over and I literally started crying on the phone with my mom. How lame. I'm terrified... what am I going to do if this goes badly? I can't not go to law school. It's my life now, and I don't have many options.

If I get a letter from either of them, I'll log on and write it up. Until then... really sorry I'm not gonna be around as regularly as I'd like.