It seems I have made it home entirely in one piece! This continues to happen on a regular basis. I am pleased.

Of course, today had to be the toughest travel day I've had in a while. I got less sleep and woke up earlier than I had all week in the interests of making checkout time and catching a flight, and then the lines at the airport were nothing short of astronomical. I've never been in line that long for security at LAX - forty-five minutes. It usually takes ten. I made it to my gate ten minutes before my flight started boarding. Oh, holiday travel.

On top of everything, because Starbucks makes inedible scones (you'd think I would have learned by now - go for the cheese platter) and my drink was too hot to drink up until right when we arrived at the airport, at which point I left it with my roomie because I couldn't take drinks through security (though if I'd known security was going to be so fsdljsd long that grande caramel apple spice would totally have gone with me), I had nothing to eat for several hours aside from a small bag of cheez-its, an even smaller bag of peanuts, and a cup of cranapple juice. Thank you for feeding me, Southwest - it turned out to be my only food until the wine tasting.

Yeah, my parents picked me up and then we went to a small wine-tasting in Denver. I don't get it either.

This explains why I didn't get home until after six. After pizza (FOOD GLOURIOUS FOOD) and a bit of TV, my mom informed me that:

1) I have to get up early tomorrow to help bake, because
2) We are having a small Christmas party tomorrow night, at which
3) My brother and his girlfriend will be present, and
4) I am more than welcome to hang out with said brother and said girlfriend and another of my brother's friends in the basement.

Me: And when were you going to tell me all this?

Mom: Now?

It's a lot funnier when I say it.

So evidently I am expected to chat with Anna skfdajfg Rachel tomorrow. That's a real nice thing to learn upon arrival. And my mother wonders why I spend so much time on AIM. 8D

BUT.

Hell yeah home! Hell yeah dogs! Hell yeah kitty! Hell yeah fully-stocked refrigerator and pantry! Hell yeah Colorado! Hell yeah friends whom I haven't seen in forever! Hell yeah no more school for three weeks!

I'd say the positives far outweigh the negatives here. :Db

OH YES. I too have ten of those paid account gift certificates to give out! Who wants? :D

And I am also considering picking up one of those new-fangled next-gen Pokemon games. I ask you, flist, which one?

Tags: family, home, romance fail, video games
Current Location: A14 B
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Wavin' Flag - K'naan

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Tags: finals
Current Location: A14 B
Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Sixteen Tons - Artist Unknown

Lit Theory final.

Thirty minutes.

Appropriate icon.

See you all on the other side.

Tags: finals
Current Location: TAC 180
Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Lit Theory final in...three hours. Should be interesting, to say the least. At least it's only 15% of my grade, unlike the 40% that was the giant paper of death last week.

Incidentally, I hope people are not still holding things hostage over that paper. *slooooooow eyebrow* ...nah, y'all know I love you. |D

Word to the wise: if you intend to use your iPod for three hours, make sure it's charged first. I'm staring at the little sliver of battery mine has left and just hoping. |D

MY WOOT SHIRT HAS A HOLE IN IT D: That awesome Night Owl shirt that I got from the Random Shirt sale? Quarter-sized hole in the seam. I emailed Woot my problem and my size, and they're going to send me another random shirt. I suppose this means I take Night Owl home and take a needle and thread to it. Of course, from the glass-half-full viewpoint, I got two shirts for seven bucks. I am still saddened about the hole, though. >:

My other two shirts did come in, though, just in time for me to wash them and wear them at home over Christmas break. Given they are Christmas shirts, I figured this was an awesome thing. :Db

And I cannot bloody wait for RiffTrax tonight. Hopefully I can get a good amount of packing done before then.

Finally! nalina is having a:

GIANT CHRISTMAS SALE OF AWESOME!

Know someone who loves art or freaking fantastic jewelry? Check this sale out! nalina makes all sorts of awesome and beautiful stuffs - I've bought several pieces from her and they get compliments every time I wear them. Very high quality, very good pricing, very pretty. :3 Go check it out!

Tags: finals, friends
Current Location: TAC 180
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Last episode of the semester! Per usual you can find it here, and as always:

PLEASE LISTEN~! ♥

Tags: randomizer
Current Location: A14 B
Current Mood: content

GUESS WHO KILLED THEIR STAGE DANCE FINAL

GUESS WHO KILLED IT

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YEAH BABY

Seriously, I think I flubbed choreography all of twice? In six dances? And they were small things that the video didn't catch, so. Huzzah. I'd call that a success. :D

...yes, there is video if anybody is desperate to see it. I'll figure out how to get all 457 MB of it up somewhere.

While we're talking about finals, the Intro to Acting final yesterday went just fine. I managed to convince everybody that I was completely out of my tree, which, given that the goal of the monologue was to convince people I was not crazy despite my subject material, was hilarious. I believe I'm looking at a solid A in both of those classes, huzzah huzzah. Now I have to study for and pass Lit Theory, my only written final, tomorrow.

In other news, SodaHead still hasn't gotten back to me despite the fact that I called them yesterday (rrrgh) and DEX told me Monday that they want me to get a pre-employment drug screening at least a week before they hire me. Okay, sure, cool. They also want me to go to a specific clinic in Oxnard, forty-five minutes away, to do it. Okay, not cool. Guess who just sent an email to get tomorrow's shift covered and is rolling her rear out of bed extra early to travel for a nearly two hour long round trip?

Swear to God, my roomie is a saint for taking me all these places. Definitely getting myself a car for next semester, even if I have to drag Chupathingy up here myself.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Watch for a new Randomizer tonight! We're going into the studio soon's my work shift is over for the last episode of the semester. That'll be up later~

Speaking of music, indulge my curiousity, flist: who all uses iTunes? I should like to know. |D

Tags: classes, college, finals, internship, roommate
Current Location: TAC 180
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: It's Been A Bad Day - REM

Finals week starts today. My first final is in thirty minutes.

Icon has never been more appropriate.

Tags: finals
Current Location: A14 B
Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Macarena - Los Del Rio

Ohhhhh today was awesome. Church this morning was nice (even though an alarm mishap meant my roomie and I had twenty minutes to get ready beforehand), and the Pepperdine basketball game afterwards was also fun. I love going to athletic events - need to do more of them, in fact - and in an effort to get students to attend this game, which is right before formals, they were giving out free pie, free coffee/coffee drinks made to order (think portable Starbucks), and free ten-minute massages. Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the freebies, then thoroughly enjoyed the game. I love going to games - it gives me an excuse to get excited and yell like a crazy person. All that stress has to go somewhere! 8D

Cut short my time at the game in order to go to Jane Austen improv.

Yes, you read that right. It was an improv comedy show - an entire improv play in the style of Jane Austen. I absolutely loved it. Highlights included a brooding character with a penchant but not an aptitude for jokes (though the joke about bananas and "ap-peel-ing" came up more than once) and playing a card game called "'Round the Maybe." A maybe is evidently a small goat-like creature. Make of this what you will - we all highly enjoyed it. XDb

This was followed by dinner at an authentic Polish restaurant at the insistence suggestion of orelle_peredhil. I will dream about those potato pancakes.

And now I am here, working on my monologue analysis. I have to come up with long- and short-term background for the character delivering the monologue, who doesn't have a name, let alone any of that stuff. Sound familiar, anyone? XD

Tonight is the free breakfast (probably not going), my SLA's little get together (probably am going), and the return of the five-minute "rave" in front of the library (definitely going). Wonder how long it'll take Public Safety to break this one up. Either way, good times. :Db

Tags: college, comedy, friends, homework
Current Location: A14 B
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: C'est La Vie - Bob Seger

I had a pretty chill Saturday. Huzzah for sleeping in until eleven and not caring about it. I was highly pleased with that development. I still have stuff to do, but it's not OMG PRESSING like the paper was, so I should be alright. I still need to do script analysis and monologue work for Monday, though.

I have discovered it's pretty much impossible to practice that monologue anywhere. I mean, let me just give you the first paragraph:

"I understand school shootings. I mean, I don't say, 'Hey, great idea! Let's all solve our problems with violence!' But I do understand the feeling of wanting to kill everyone in my school, or at least a select few to set an example. You can only be spit on so many times. The great thing is, nowadays everyone's so scared of guns I probably won't even have to shoot anyone."

She then starts talking about why sociopaths are better than psychopaths and how God's going to be making up for the fact that she had a lousy prom for the rest of her life. Obviously this is not a highly stable individual speaking here. That, and the fact that the monologue is going to be performed near top volume and a bit off kilter, means I haven't got a place to practice it the way I'm going to perform it - not if I want to avoid scaring the hell out of people and a call to Public Safety's emergency line. Should be very interesting come performance time Monday morning.

Still having epic and fantastic issues with stage dance class and videos, huzzah huzzah. I also managed to be double-booked again tomorrow night without even knowing it: Sigma Tau Delta event and Gamma Phi officer transitioning, which I only today found out would be tomorrow. *rubs forehead* Sigma Tau Delta was there first and won out. I have no idea how the hell this keeps happening. ._.

At least the PIT show tonight was epic. Pepperdine Improv Troupe is just fantastic, and tonight was no exception. We had a pretty small audience - weather sucked and people were studying, I guess - and the suggestions got interesting. My favorite was:

"Okay, what's something fun to do on a weekend?"

"Lady Gaga."

That wound up being a very interesting skit, I tell you what. Since it was holiday themed, we had some great sketches, including a mini-musical entitled "Candy Cane" and a sketch about workers in a poinsettia factory. This included one worker complaining about another, who "has a huge afro" and "started hiding poinsettias in his afro, so now the boss wants us all to grow afros and put poinsettias in them. Thinks it'll look festive."

aviekokyre, I thought of you and Derek. |Db

And then there was Brawl to be had with amorsinseramada and lynxgriffin because they are awesome. I even won a few rounds, which does not usually happen. Yay self~

Life gets busy again tomorrow - better go prep for that. By prep, I of course mean sleep. |Db

bouncy_erbear, we totally need to plan awkward moments. |Db

Tags: friends, homework, lawl, roommate, sorority
Current Location: A14 B
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Flag in the Ground (Symphonic Version) - Sonata Arctica

Figure I should jump on the Disney bandwagon and do my own review of The Princess and the Frog.

Spoilers behind the cut, of course.

( tl;dr: A++, WILL WATCH AGAIN. MULTIPLE TIMES. )

Judging from the reactions in the audience and on my flist, I'd call the movie a rollicking success. The sheer number of small children in the theater made it that much better, and they were a fantastic audience: gasping and laughing in all the right places and even applauding after a musical number or two, which made me grin like a moron because kids nowadays appreciate art! *A* Disney has succeeded in the age-old tradition of scaring the everloving hell out of the audience before making everything better - dead silence after "Friends on the Other Side." Kids were absolutely terrified of the crazy voodoo man. Who says the new generation is desensitized? And the small child chatter about how awesome the movie was and what their favorite part was and who their favorite character was and repeating all the funny lines...oh Disney, you've done it again. I haven't heard post-movie chatter like that since Atlantis, and goodness knows that was a good long while ago.

Let's top this off with the Wheel of Morality. What is the lesson that we should learn from The Princess and the Frog?

( I count five. )

Rules to live by, I think.

Definitely going to see this again. :Db

Tags: movie, yay
Current Location: A14 B
Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Ist Das Gut! (XXX Mix) - Rammstein & TATU