I am going to admit something. I watch American Idol. I ignored it for three seasons and, somehow, I just got sucked into this season. My roommates and I don’t like Scott at all. We don’t think he’s the greatest singer and there is something that’s… not right about him. He seems like he’s got a bad attitude. When he was in the bottom two and the other person was voted off, he didn’t console them or shake hands or anything. He just walked away. How the hell is he still on the show?! He’s what Wendy was in Project Runway for this American Idol. Towards the end, you’re watching and saying “What are you still doing on this show? The people eliminated before you were so much more talented than you.” I do not know who I want to win. Probably Vonzell or Bo. I would say Carrie, but she’s really not that fun to watch onstage. She kind of just… stands there sometimes.
And as for LOST, OH MY HECK DOES SAYID SHOOT LOCKE? and what the fuck is in that hatch?! and whyyyyy are they playing the new episodes when we’re out of school?! it’s more fun to watch with my roommates than alone!
“new” layout coming soon.
i really want to go to the art gallery reception today. some christian organization on campus is protesting over some piece of art. from what i’ve heard, one of the seniors (graphic design or illustration) made an image of a priest putting his hand on a child’s shoulder… next to it or above it says “god loves everyone”. according to the person who was talking about it, the poster that advertises the artist has “God loves everyone”, but the actual piece just has a bible verse on it. i’ve passed by the posters a couple of times. i think it’s cropped so that you can’t see the head of the priest, but you can tell it’s a priest. i never actually noticed what it said on the poster.
I love it when these people get so pissed off over art. Remember that piece with the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung?
HEY YOU. DOES THE ONE-ENTRY LAYOUT OF THIS SITE BOTHER YOU? WOULD YOU RATHER SEE ONE BLOG ENTRY ON THIS PAGE OR A FEW ENTRIES ON THIS PAGE?
I have a new layout planned, but i’m not sure if i should change the entire layout or just add another skin. the new layout has a sidebar and i am kind of finding it useless, but i can display more than one blog entry with it.
please comment.
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I like to walk barefoot on the paths that take you from the academic buildings to the apartments. I usually do this when I’m walking alone and no one else is around the path. My shoes either hurt me, are falling apart, or are so dainty that, if I walked at my normal pace, they’d fall apart. (I also like walking on the concrete.)
Anyway, it was so nice out that I decided to skip, run, be… stupid and girly, and enjoy the fact that I was outside and snot was NOT spraying out of my nose every 10 seconds. And then I saw someone walking in my direction. I couldn’t continue doing what I was doing, but I didn’t want to stop either. Stopping completely would signal to the person that I didn’t want anyone to see me and that I was embarrassed, yet continuing would make me seem crazy. So I just stopped skipping and continued walking with my sandals in my hand.
I passed by the guy and noticed he was singing or rapping some song to himself. I didn’t feel so bad after that. I usually think those people are nuts. It’s always some obscure song which makes the person seem like he or she is talking to himself or herself. Maybe if they sang an overplayed pop song that everyone knows, I wouldn’t feel that way. Actually, I take that back. If some bulky 6′2″ guy walked by me singing Britney Spears’ “I’m a Slave 4 U” or something, I’d probably think he was nuts. and then I’d run away.
This is my Graphic Design I poster.
Some kid that I never talk to came around to my side of the aisle to see it. He was doing a Poe poster so it doesn’t really matter what mine looks like. He should be looking at what other Poe people came up with. I managed to look at what the other Monsters of the Deep kid was doing. I have to admit that sneeking a peek at his project was a bit like cheating. You can’t help it sometimes. I want to know what people are making and I want to know if it’s better than what I came up with.
In other news, my dad is in the Philippines right now. He decided to vacation there this month since I want to stay in the US and work this summer. If you have been to the Philippines during this time, you know that it’s “summer” there. Today, he is going swimming with my relatives and his girlfriend’s family at a resort. He told me that when he arrived there it was 65 degrees. A few days later it was really really hot out.
[You can't tell, but I am scowling right now.]
Update: 4/12
i think the worst part of my allergies has started. my nose is constantly running. i am sneezing every 5 or so seconds and my roommates have stopped saying all forms of “God Bless You.” For a while, they started to bless me in Yiddish and Hebrew because I told them that i eventually get annoyed with “God Bless You”. I carried a giant tissue box and bottle of water with me to photography today. I think the same will happen when I go to take my Poisonous and Venomous Animals exam at 2:30.
I am seeing Weezer next month with my roommates at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. I was really lucky. Tickets from ticketmaster sold out really fast. There was a 50-ticket limit. People are kicking up a fuss at the Weezer messageboards. I feel kind of bad for the kids who skipped school today just for tickets and those who were planning to see Weezer for the first time. This’ll be my third time seeing Weezer (first time for my roommates)… and I haven’t really been keeping up with Weezer since Maladroit came out. A few b-sides and live songs that I found actually sparked my interest in them again.
Besides the whole 50-ticket limit thing, it bothers me that Ticketmaster charges you for all this extra bullcrap. There’s the service charge, which I can understand (Ticketmaster needs to make some money too), but then there’s also the order processing charge. ?!?!?! They just seem to add on these charges when they know that tickets are going to sell out quickly. I’m not surprised if they charge you in the future just for going to their website or if they charge you each time you refresh the page. The Velvet Revolver tickets I bought a while ago had a $4.50 service charge and no order processing. Weezer had an $8.45 service charge for each ticket (i bought four tickets) and $4.35 order processing charge.
Sigh. At least I only paid $156 for four tickets instead of $160 for two tickets. Anyway, I’m excited about the show now. Crazy stories emerged from the last weezer shows I was at. We ran over one of my cousin’s friends at my first Weezer show.
P.S. I admit that I feel like screaming “HAHA SUCKERS!” at those unfortunate people who didn’t get tickets. A few years ago something like that happened to me with Strokes tickets. I didn’t realize so many people wanted tickets too. My aunt actually made hotel reservations in New York. We were supposed to go to the concert and stay in New York for an extra day for my birthday. Concert never happened, but we ended up going to New York anyway.
Spring, for me, officially starts when I start sneezing like crazy. My eyes turn pink from rubbing them. I have to pick off the “sleepies” before I can open my eyes. Sleepies? The discharge that forms and dries at the corners of your eyes. I produce so much of it in the spring that I have to pick it off of my eyelashes just to open my eyes in the morning. Gross, huh?
My allergies were much worse when I was younger. The teachers would open up the windows because their fat asses couldn’t take the heat. In comes the breeze, in comes the pollen, in comes Death. The nurse couldn’t give us any medicine. All she could provide us with was an ice pack (and some crackers). I’d practically plaster the pack to my face to make the itching go away. Of course, those things only stay cold for 30 to 45 minutes… and then I’d have to suffer through more math with snot dripping down my nose and with my eyes watering every 5 seconds.
I did a great job with picking my college. Stockton College… right in the middle of the FUCKING NEW JERSEY PINE BARRENS, also known as “Allergy Sufferer Hell”.
(p.s. updated the music blog)
You’re awesome and I love Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, but once this art history paper is finished, I am SO over you. The twenty dollar book about you that I bought? Going right on the shelf with all the rest of the books that I only read once. That special exhibition on you in Philadelphia? Totally not going to it!
P.S. Your Paranoiac Critical method is just too weird and cool to fathom… and I totally want that Lobster Phone.
(open letters to dead painters are stupid)
I had to change my graphic design poster project completely. A lot of people in my class seem to want to make a poster for The Picture of Dorian Grey, Edgar Allen Poe, or A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Since I am snobby and don’t want mine to be “another dorian grey poster”, I am now making a poster for an exhibition of deep sea creatures. I had to look up pictures-a-plenty of these creatures, and if I ever came across one of those anglerfish (which is extremely unlikely because of its habitat), I’d wet myself. Those are creepy!
Random facts: Male anglerfish are about 20 times smaller than the female. (So I’m guessing the anglerfish in Finding Nemo was a girl.) I am not sure if this is true for all species of anglerfish, but the males are parasitic and usually spend the most of their lives fused to the female. When they’re mature, they release their sperm into the female’s blood.
I would totally hate to be a female anglerfish.
I have no way to connect this next part to the female fish facts, so I’ll just say it. I finally bought The DaVinci Code today. I’ve been wanting to read it for a while now. I found the illustrated version at COSTCO for 15 dollars less than the price at Borders. It turns out, I didn’t really need the illustrations for the artwork. A lot of the paintings, painters, and architecture terms that were mentioned were things I learned in art history this year. Overall, I really enjoyed the book. I would summarize it, but you’ve probably heard the story already. If you haven’t, I wouldn’t want to ruin it for you. It’s not exactly “ruining”, but I hate giving parts of a story away.
