It has been raining here all day.
Which means that I've had rather a lot of time to think. And that's never good.
I spent a lot of time thinking about things that I've learned in my life-- especially the really odd things. So, today I bring you a list of (non)vital information for a rainy day.
* If you put thirty-five candles on a cake and light them all, you will set off the fire alarm and the fire department will come and shut down your opening night party.
* Nothing good can ever come from being in a Waffle House after midnight.
* It's a bad idea to wear a tank top and sandals on a late night walk in October.
* There's a song for everything. I mean everything.
* Some people should never have coffee.
* If you play a character that is stoned in a show, you will be remembered as "The Girl Who Was Stoned" or "Pot Girl."
* It's awkward when it's one of your professors who remembers you as "The Girl Who Was Stoned."
* Whenever people come to your apartment, there is a risk that they will fall asleep on your living room furniture.
* There's also a risk that your guests will break your dishes.
* There's always someone geekier than you are.
*Making a good grade in a foreign language class means nothing. Unless it's Japanese.
* Taco Bell is a brilliant idea.
* The bread at Olive Garden is not to be fooled around with.
* Hot dogs are made out of nasty.
* Kids shows will never be as good as they were when you were a kid.
* Calvin and Hobbes is still cool.
* It's always funny when friends who are drunk fall on their faces.
* Even people who love to read rarely have the chance to read for pleasure during the school year.
* It's far easier to sit in a coffee shop and talk for hours than it should be.
* Innuendo is everywhere.
* An hour spent watching YouTube videos is an hour well spent.
* Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Sierra Mist, Dr Pepper and Lemonade (sometimes) combine to make fruit punch.
* Adding "bitch" to the end of a statement makes it more authoritative.
* Carrying a wedding dress across campus will earn you a lot of strange looks.
* The word "epic" no longer has any meaning.
* The Wii is a dangerous thing.
* It is possible to injure yourself with a butter knife.
* The best stuff in the world hides in five dollar movie bins.
* Staying up all night with friends is, and ought to be, a regular occurrence.
I hope you're able to find some wisdom for a rainy day on this list. Or some random crap that got you to giggle. Either one.
Well, not really.
My apologies for my lack of content lately--I moved back to school a couple of weeks ago, classes have started, so on so forth, busy busy.
So here's an update on what I've been up to while I've been...not updating this blog.
Like I said, I've moved in to my apartment (which I'm sharing with my darling roommate from last year--thank God we didn't kill each other last year). The place looks beautiful: in the mid-afternoon, the sun comes in through the curtains in the living room, and the whole front room of the apartment is gold. I pretty much love it.
My classes have started. My Spanish teacher is still waiting on her visa (which doesn't bode well for me, but whatever). The freshmen are all bigger than I am.
I have my first audition in a week. It's for The Sugar Bean Sisters, which I know nothing about, but that's half the fun, right?
And I've been writing lately. Some of you (well, only Colby, really) have asked what I'm working on. There's a short story contest with a deadline coming up in November; I've been pulling together something for that. And I've signed up for NaNoWriMo (I'm gonna die...). We'll see how all of that goes--I might post bits of the story here, after the deadline, of course.
So that's what I've been doing the past few weeks. What have you been up to?
My summer at home is about to end: I move back to my school in about a week. And that'll mean course work and shows and all that sort of thing.Anyway, I know I've let this blog slide this month-- there's been other stuff on my mind and, honestly, there hasn't been much worth blogging about. But I do have a couple of posts planned. They should be up soon. Ish. I haven't been blogging, but I have been writing a little bit on something or other every day (except Sundays). If I come up with anything worthwhile, I might post some of it on here.That said, I hope everyone's having a great summer-- even if it is almost over.
June might be a bit early to start hording furniture and such for an August move, but that's not stopping me from doing it.I'm setting aside Saturdays to hit local yard sales-- there's been some luck with that already: my folks and I found a nice table and four chairs for $25. Thriftiness is a real issue with all of this. Tori and I can't swim in our big vault of gold like Scrooge McDuck, so we have to furnish our apartment on a budget. Which means that our place will be a fine example of Great American Left-Overs. It's surprising how everything's coming together, though. Nothing we have so far is particularly fancy and I doubt that we'd be able to go to some antiques expert and find out that the dresser we pulled out of my parents' garage is now worth millions of dollars, but the stuff we have is charming in its own odd way.I guess this experience isn't uncommon-- first apartments are probably supposed to have that vaguely confused here-and-there look. But it's a first for me. I've never had a place of my own to furnish as I please (er... within the budget).It's kinda nice, even if everything does have to be second-hand (and sometimes third- or fourth-hand).
So, after much drama, my roommate and I have an apartment for next school year.
Her dad had been giving us a hard time about getting one-- apparently we're incapable of taking care of ourselves without the supervision of a dorm staff. He seemed to be under the impression that, as soon as we got our own place, we'd fall into a life of debauchery.
But that's all behind us now. We've signed a lease and paid a deposit; it looks like we're set, for the time being, at least.
And with that, the school year is wrapping up. I finished the last of my classes today and my last play of the year was last night (and went very well, all things considered); all that's left is finals. Well, that, and moving out (which is going to quite an experience, I think... I can't quite believe the amount of useless stuff I've accumulated over the past few months).
When I leave for the summer, I'll be going home to an 8-5 job and life with my parents (which isn't bad, but it won't allow for the kind of freedom that I've become accustomed to). It'll be different; I'm sure of that.
But, then, variety is the spice of life, right?
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