I keep getting headaches that end in vomiting. Sad times, but times you probably didn't need to know about. haha. I am incapable of feeding myself a healthy diet. Rubecca and I eat a lot of sweets. That's how we stay sweet.
I got my hair cut today and I can't decide if it was a good idea. We're back to straight across bangs, but I feel kind of funny about them. It's cool because they'll just grow out in a few weeks anyway. My hair's getting really long overall though, which is cool because I can create more exciting braids the longer it gets. Awesome.
Krista and I visited the "geniuses" at the Apple store to fix her computer. It's case is doing that odd case peeling thing mine did last semester. We walked around the mall and hit up some sweet recession sales. However, I hardly bought anything. I need to work on that.
Also, I need to retract something from my previous entry. An astute reader noticed a falsehood in it. I did not have a "nice chat" with Mr. Wiemer. He pointed out that I should be removed from the premise for not having the proper identification. Duly noted.
In other news, the poll is back by popular demand. Okay, by a demand that wasn't really a demand. It was more of an observation. Polls are hard to come up with, okay? Geeze. :)
I think I'm going to make a list of all of the things I like about the Midwest and being home. It's nice--nicer than I was expecting actually. I am attributing part of its charm to the fact that I'm under less stress that I would be at school, but I can't discount the intrinsic awesomeness of the Midwest as a major factor. I like driving around and being in big spaces. I like seeing kids walk home from school. I like the sun and the fresh air and the squishy, brown grass. I like the old ladies who get their hair done when they've got nowhere to go. I even like SHS a little bit. As much as I hated high school, being out of it does make me a little nostalgic. I am obviously an old lady. But that's cool. I can finally have that blue hair!
Going through my music here is kind of amazing. I am listening to a lot of things that make me feel like I'm 14 again. You couldn't pay me to be 14 again. Looking back I have no idea how I am so normal now. Being home makes me feel like that a lot, though. Coming back into this environment makes me pick up these habits I've abandoned at college. It's kind of weird how my personality has already split so much from what it was this time last year.
My internet is so spotty here. I am excited to return to the ethernet of my dorm room, but not so excited to return to my books.
Sincerely,
Sara
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
I saw stars today.
Oh hello, blog I haven't updated in two weeks. I blame midterms and my uninteresting life.
I am on spring break now. Awesome. My flight home was uneventful. Grandma Statz and Rubecca picked me up at the airport and we went to Red Robin. Yum. However, I got pretty dehydrated from eating so much salt and not enough water. When I woke up from the awesome five hour nap I took when we got home, I threw up like three times and had an awful headache.
Saturday went much better. We went to State Street and I acquired new canvas hightop converse. Now I can alternate between my old lady shoes and my new sweet chucks. Saturday was Pi Day/Rubot's half birthday, so we celebrated with some Chocolate Shoppe. Possibly the greatest ice cream ever. I got French Silk, Rubotics got Horchata and Mum got...something frozen yogurt-y. That night we went to the Tyson's annual St. Patrick's Day party. They throw an excellent party. There was authentic corn(ed) beef and hash, Irish songs and lots of people with Irish-ized nametags on. It's gotten a little awkward for me now that I'm 19 and therefore much older than all of the kids, but much younger than the adults. Plus we don't know a lot of the people anymore, but it was really good to catch up with the people we do know. I had a nice time.
On Sunday we traveled to Dad's house. Teresa made vegan corned beef and I liked it a lot more than I remember liking corned beef back in the day. It was very sweet of her. Kailie and Lily, our step-nieces, were excited to see us. Lily hugged my legs and Kailie gave us a drawing and a high school musical trading card. She warned us not to fight over it. We played with the kids and with Brian, who looked ridiculous because he was freshly shaved. Kailie took my camera around and photographed everything in sight. She told us about this girl at kindergarten who is bullying her and stealing all of her friends. It made me sad. But she'll get through it. She's a rockstar. She made Rubecca and I do choreography to a song she was singing and she kept getting mad at me because I wasn't following along right. I am sure a video of that will appear on the internet and I will be mildly embarrassed at my poor skills, heh.
I ran a lot of errands and ate Taco Bell with Krista. After school I ran into Mr.s Wallner, Dregne and Wiemer while I was rounding up Rubasaurous. We had nice chats. Later I took Rubbbbbbbbby to Krista's house to pet her cats. Really, she only pet Spider, the nice one, because Rosie, the jerk (ruby says hi), gave Krista a nasty bite earlier.
I have more to say, so I might tell you more about the past in the future. Isn't that odd.
LOVE SARA
I am on spring break now. Awesome. My flight home was uneventful. Grandma Statz and Rubecca picked me up at the airport and we went to Red Robin. Yum. However, I got pretty dehydrated from eating so much salt and not enough water. When I woke up from the awesome five hour nap I took when we got home, I threw up like three times and had an awful headache.
Saturday went much better. We went to State Street and I acquired new canvas hightop converse. Now I can alternate between my old lady shoes and my new sweet chucks. Saturday was Pi Day/Rubot's half birthday, so we celebrated with some Chocolate Shoppe. Possibly the greatest ice cream ever. I got French Silk, Rubotics got Horchata and Mum got...something frozen yogurt-y. That night we went to the Tyson's annual St. Patrick's Day party. They throw an excellent party. There was authentic corn(ed) beef and hash, Irish songs and lots of people with Irish-ized nametags on. It's gotten a little awkward for me now that I'm 19 and therefore much older than all of the kids, but much younger than the adults. Plus we don't know a lot of the people anymore, but it was really good to catch up with the people we do know. I had a nice time.
On Sunday we traveled to Dad's house. Teresa made vegan corned beef and I liked it a lot more than I remember liking corned beef back in the day. It was very sweet of her. Kailie and Lily, our step-nieces, were excited to see us. Lily hugged my legs and Kailie gave us a drawing and a high school musical trading card. She warned us not to fight over it. We played with the kids and with Brian, who looked ridiculous because he was freshly shaved. Kailie took my camera around and photographed everything in sight. She told us about this girl at kindergarten who is bullying her and stealing all of her friends. It made me sad. But she'll get through it. She's a rockstar. She made Rubecca and I do choreography to a song she was singing and she kept getting mad at me because I wasn't following along right. I am sure a video of that will appear on the internet and I will be mildly embarrassed at my poor skills, heh.
I ran a lot of errands and ate Taco Bell with Krista. After school I ran into Mr.s Wallner, Dregne and Wiemer while I was rounding up Rubasaurous. We had nice chats. Later I took Rubbbbbbbbby to Krista's house to pet her cats. Really, she only pet Spider, the nice one, because Rosie, the jerk (ruby says hi), gave Krista a nasty bite earlier.
I have more to say, so I might tell you more about the past in the future. Isn't that odd.
LOVE SARA
Monday, March 2, 2009
hold up / wait a minute / put a little love in it
We're supposed to get 6-12 inches of snow today. On the way to breakfast, my Californian friend Sruthi exclaimed that there were like five inches of snow on the ground. It was more like one and a half or two. It was really cute.
Sadly, my lab was not canceled. But my lab rotation for HSPP, my research seminar, only lasted 10 minutes because the CO2 dispenser was out. Lunch was really good today. They had macaroni and vegan chicken fingers. Amazing! I haven't enjoyed eating in a long time. I should have stuck to a cappuccino because the aftertaste from this cafe white mocha is sickly sweet.
I have far too much homework tonight (entirely my fault), but I am looking forward to our weekly calculus problem set par-tay on the amazing couch in Lewis Parlor. Awesome.
There, a mundane update. But there is snow. Photos later, perhaps.
xoxo,
sjw
Sadly, my lab was not canceled. But my lab rotation for HSPP, my research seminar, only lasted 10 minutes because the CO2 dispenser was out. Lunch was really good today. They had macaroni and vegan chicken fingers. Amazing! I haven't enjoyed eating in a long time. I should have stuck to a cappuccino because the aftertaste from this cafe white mocha is sickly sweet.
I have far too much homework tonight (entirely my fault), but I am looking forward to our weekly calculus problem set par-tay on the amazing couch in Lewis Parlor. Awesome.
There, a mundane update. But there is snow. Photos later, perhaps.
xoxo,
sjw
Sunday, March 1, 2009
lean on, sheena
I really needed this weekend. It has been one of those weekends that reinforces your faith in humanity. Well, I probably can't equate my life outlook with humanity, but it's the internet, so I will do what I please.
After a depressing conversation with two of my floormates on Thursday night, my unhappiness with Barnard had reached a new high. Friday wasn't much better, unless you consider crying in your professor's office hours for no apparent reason a hallmark of decent. Which you should do because it is horrifyingly embarrassing. Apparently I am more stressed out than I thought, because his comments on my paper were not what set me off.
Anyway, with that kind of start, I was not looking forward to this weekend. I was not looking forward to anything except perhaps being dead. But duty called and I found myself watching the women lose to Harvard. After the game I attended the first half of EXPOSED, the black heritage month fashion show/cultural event of the season. lol. It started 45 minutes late. Seriously, what the fuck?
The scenes were pretty good, and the dance/walking was excellent. However, the clothes were pretty ugly and they didn't even give all of the models clothes. Some people had to just wear their own. :( The designers were not Columbia students, but all of the models were. Two of my floormates were super hot models in the show. Top Model fierce to the max.
I left at intermission because it was already midnight. I played a very amusing game of Apples to Apples in which Anne Frank was equated with Hitler and it totally made sense. haha. Long story.
Saturday I slept until 10:45am. Amazing! I studied a bit and then went to the basketball game. It was actually really fun. The women lost to Dartmouth by one point. It was a real heartbreaker.
Saturday night we dressed up as sneaky ninjas to take an adventure. We had codenames. Jaclyn was Panther, Elizabeth was Black Rabbit and we never decided on a codename for me. Some of my suggestions were Rotting Flesh and Frostbite. Um, they didn't go over well. I was having a hard time thinking of something black and deadly, yet unexpected.
We met up with a few more friends who didn't have very good ninja costumes and ran around Columbia. We went into the tunnels and had quite an excellent adventure. I'm not sure how much I should write about it on here, haha. But I will say that seeing the seedy underbelly of Columbia and feeling like I was about to die several times was envigorating. I felt connected to the university community in a way that I never have before. I am pretty sure I would hate college if it weren't for my friends in the band. :)
After teaching I toured a few of the dorms today. I am super excited about housing. Most of the dorms are really nice. As long as I don't get stuck in Hewitt or Elliot, I will be a happy kid. If I get Hewitt or Elliot, I am considering a cardboard box on College Walk. That would be cool.
We are supposed to get 8-12 inches by 6pm tomorrow. I wish I had classes that would get cancelled, haha. But I think most of my profs live in Morningside Heights. Damn.
I am sorry that I don't update that much during the week. But I can't imagine you are really curious about how my E&M homework is going.
Luyang commented that I actually sounded happy today. It's a start.
Allow me to kiss your hand, your most favored*
Sara Jean Ines de la Cruz
*from Sor Juana, haha
After a depressing conversation with two of my floormates on Thursday night, my unhappiness with Barnard had reached a new high. Friday wasn't much better, unless you consider crying in your professor's office hours for no apparent reason a hallmark of decent. Which you should do because it is horrifyingly embarrassing. Apparently I am more stressed out than I thought, because his comments on my paper were not what set me off.
Anyway, with that kind of start, I was not looking forward to this weekend. I was not looking forward to anything except perhaps being dead. But duty called and I found myself watching the women lose to Harvard. After the game I attended the first half of EXPOSED, the black heritage month fashion show/cultural event of the season. lol. It started 45 minutes late. Seriously, what the fuck?
The scenes were pretty good, and the dance/walking was excellent. However, the clothes were pretty ugly and they didn't even give all of the models clothes. Some people had to just wear their own. :( The designers were not Columbia students, but all of the models were. Two of my floormates were super hot models in the show. Top Model fierce to the max.
I left at intermission because it was already midnight. I played a very amusing game of Apples to Apples in which Anne Frank was equated with Hitler and it totally made sense. haha. Long story.
Saturday I slept until 10:45am. Amazing! I studied a bit and then went to the basketball game. It was actually really fun. The women lost to Dartmouth by one point. It was a real heartbreaker.
Saturday night we dressed up as sneaky ninjas to take an adventure. We had codenames. Jaclyn was Panther, Elizabeth was Black Rabbit and we never decided on a codename for me. Some of my suggestions were Rotting Flesh and Frostbite. Um, they didn't go over well. I was having a hard time thinking of something black and deadly, yet unexpected.
We met up with a few more friends who didn't have very good ninja costumes and ran around Columbia. We went into the tunnels and had quite an excellent adventure. I'm not sure how much I should write about it on here, haha. But I will say that seeing the seedy underbelly of Columbia and feeling like I was about to die several times was envigorating. I felt connected to the university community in a way that I never have before. I am pretty sure I would hate college if it weren't for my friends in the band. :)
After teaching I toured a few of the dorms today. I am super excited about housing. Most of the dorms are really nice. As long as I don't get stuck in Hewitt or Elliot, I will be a happy kid. If I get Hewitt or Elliot, I am considering a cardboard box on College Walk. That would be cool.
We are supposed to get 8-12 inches by 6pm tomorrow. I wish I had classes that would get cancelled, haha. But I think most of my profs live in Morningside Heights. Damn.
I am sorry that I don't update that much during the week. But I can't imagine you are really curious about how my E&M homework is going.
Luyang commented that I actually sounded happy today. It's a start.
Allow me to kiss your hand, your most favored*
Sara Jean Ines de la Cruz
*from Sor Juana, haha
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