chocolate.stain:

oh wow.

2008-02-04T00:03:00.000-08:00

Since I started school, I have had absolutely no time to write, aside from the random scribbling in my journal. And, yes, the journal is more important than the blog. Sorry, guys! I like my privacy. To be honest, I thought that this blog would be finished once I moved to Los Angeles, and I even considered moving this over to WordPress after hearing some advice from a friend. This was back in late

no riot.

2007-11-07T13:12:00.000-08:00

I guess there wasn't a riot at USC after all. Protesting, yes (plenty), but no gassing or rubber bullets of any kind.Well, I guess it's back to studying (read: procrastinating) for me. Ugh. I wish I wasn't here right now, but at home nursing a cup of hot mint tea for my stomach. I think I've caught something nasty.I'm considering switching to WordPress. A friend told me that it was easier to

emo (excluding the gobs of dark eye goop).

2007-11-04T01:02:00.000-07:00

I've been feeling so unmotivated lately. I can't really say that it's me being especially busy with the first semester of school (although that's definitely part of it), or me being depressed, or there being something seriously wrong with my life (as in...having the plague, losing a digit to frostbite, etc.) that's coloring everything a sorry shade of blue, but I just can't seem to bring myself

why, trojans, why?

2007-10-17T15:32:00.000-07:00

Ann Coulter's coming to speak at USC after being invited by a student Republican group over yonder.Something tells me that it's not going to fly well with the rest of the tolerant, thinking, feeling, rational student population. I won't be surprised if the whole fray (assuming that there is one, after she plasters the crowd with remarks like these) ends up on television.Hooray!!!At least some

eddie izzard...

2007-10-07T21:04:00.000-07:00

is funny."Cake or death?""Uh, death please. No, no-- I meant 'cake'!...and then the 'Learning French' one is funny, too.We just finished studying Stonehenge in Art a couple weeks back..."Before Stonehenge, there was Woodhenge and Strawhenge..."

ugh.

2007-10-06T23:56:00.001-07:00

Only eighty-one views of this blog? I don't expect a whole lot of people to look at it, but...that's still quite pitiful."Dance like no one's watching" is starting to take on a new meaning.

i saw eternity the other night...

2007-10-06T22:39:00.000-07:00

I've done it again-- I've gone nearly a month without posting anything or warning you, and next thing you know, it'll become a nasty habit that'll be up there with biting my nails and obsessively brushing my teeth when I get nervous (yes, I do that, but it's only when I'm really nervous and happen to be near a sink, I guess). I've been so busy with school and adjusting to post-high school life

venn diagrams.

2007-09-15T01:17:00.000-07:00

I was looking for some free music to download (legally, thank you), and, well, I didn't intend to stay up until 1:18 a.m.-- I swore off staying up late for no reason once the academic year started-- but one thing led to another...and then my friend sent me this.Even if you belong to the GOP, you gotta laugh. And if you don't, your funny bone must be broken and your inner fourth grader a very sad

a new favorite.

2007-09-14T18:47:00.000-07:00

I love this columnist's writing!I found it while reading an archived article on Newsweek about Zachary Fox, the former EIC of the Daily Trojan who dared to fight against Michael Jackson--the Vice President of Student Affairs, not the popstar--and for the newspaper's right to be a student newspaper, not a university newspaper.(A Really Long Parenthetical Sidenote: There really wasn't much about

fictionpress, urbis and other things.

2007-09-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

FictionPress (FP) and Urbis are two websites where one can create their own profile, upload their own poetry, short stories, and other writings, and exchange critiques with other authors about their work. This is where the similarities between the two websites end.Both of them I have been using for awhile, but I think I like FP a lot better for a couple of reasons: there seem to be better stories

ad honorem.

2007-09-11T21:45:00.000-07:00

In honor of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2gI'm always going to remember those people and the planes and that day...because "they", for once, weren't "them" in "that city over there". Oh no, no, no, no. "They" were "us". And some part of "us" must have died with them...What about you? What do you remember?

hellerr.

2007-08-29T00:36:00.000-07:00

I have returned!And I am feeling too hot to think or write or do much of anything besides thinking about walking downstairs to get a glass of cold, crisp ice water and weighing the pros (COLD ICE WATER) against the cons (the exothermic reactions within the mitochondria in my body will give off enough energy to raise my internal body temperature by a smidgen of a degree, which is...unacceptable),

an 'au revoir' in perspective.

2007-08-17T22:02:00.001-07:00

Yet again, I'm sorry to say that I will be gone for a few days. I don't expect to post anything for at least a week.I promise I won't take another month-long hiatus, though. :]Oh, but before I leave, I have to get this off of my chest after reading about this in The Crisis the other day. I can't find the article from the magazine online, but it basically ridiculed Virgina's decision to issue a

in the arms of an angel.

2007-08-17T01:01:00.000-07:00

Here's another YouTube video I really love that someone just found for me. A friend of mine turned me on to Josh Groban awhile back, and I've liked him, his voice and his hair ever since. Here he is with Sarah MacLaughlin at one of the Live 8 Concerts (Philadelphia, PA). "In The Arms of an Angel". How appropriate for Live 8. I hope you aren't getting tired of seeing these! I'll try not to make it

mighty contraception!

2007-08-15T11:49:00.001-07:00

I wish we could have watched videos like these back in sex ed. I found this one on Sex, Etc. as part of their "Am I Taboo?" contest.I present..."MIGHTY CONTRACEPTION"!

smaller biotches and gigantic backsides.

2007-08-14T02:12:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry I haven't written anything in so very long. I've been taking a sabbatical.Hah. I'm not old enough to take a sabbatical. It's more of a mental vacation, really. To tell the truth, there isn't much going on. In a couple of weeks-- once school starts, that is-- I hope that I'll have a bit more interesting things to blog about. At the moment, I'm having a heck of a time searching for

a good cause.

2007-07-17T15:30:00.000-07:00

In a psychology class I had to take not too long ago, I was required to join a massive volunteer computing project called BOINC--short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Basically, the idle time on your computer is used by an online network to find cure diseases, study global warming, make contact with exterrestrial life forms and other types of scientific research.Depending

wicked cool.

2007-07-14T10:47:00.000-07:00

I just found out I'm going to go see Wicked!!!! Yes!!! Maybe I'll meet Idina Menzel-- who knows!*looks at website*...It doesn't look like it's the original broadway cast performing at the Pantages BUT I am still extremely, extremely excited.And I still have yet to read the book. Oh, I am so behind.Pink goes well with green, doesn't it?Wicked website:http://www.wickedthemusical.com/

transformers?

2007-07-11T18:59:00.000-07:00

wonder if Transformers will be good...and if Harry Potter will be even better.Adios.

getaway to san diego: part one.

2007-07-11T16:17:00.001-07:00

I completely forgot my family and I were supposed to go to San Diego for a couple of days. I've been there numerous times, since I have family in the area, but I have never seen the city in the same way I did this past weekend.I was feeling envious (just a little :] ) of my friends going to UCSD and San Diego State because they have access to SO MUCH STUFF that it is a little overwhelming to

impossible is nothing...except this quiz...

2007-07-08T00:25:00.000-07:00

You must try this quiz. It is absolutely ridiculous.Play The Impossible QuizNotice how the background music is the White Stripes' "Icky Thump" (I'm 99 percent positive) Let me know when you're on the LAST QUESTION...and tell me the answer!

in retrospect: seven more...

2007-07-07T22:04:00.000-07:00

I meant to post this on 7-7-07, but it never materialized...Still, if you get tired of listening to emo every five seconds on the radio, read on. Ha. Two posts in one day? I must be getting pretty good at this whole self-motivation thing-- which is quite an accomplishment, considering I am on vacation for two and a half whole months.The interview went well. It was at a law firm downtown on the

7-7-07

2007-07-07T07:28:00.000-07:00

Seven. What comes to your mind when you think of the number seven, eh?If you're thirsty: 7-up.If you're feeling exotic: The Dance of the Seven Veils.If you're watching a classic movie...or a remake of a classic movie: Everything...007.If you're looking to study abroad...into grad school: seven Years in Tibet.If you're me at the moment: Guess who woke up at seven a.m.?If you're a recent high

back in action.

2007-07-06T21:52:00.000-07:00

Once again, I have put off blogging for nearly--no, OVER-- three months. I don't know what has gotten into me. I do the same thing with my journal, even though it seems much more convenient to open up a book, find a pen, and scribble random thoughts (well, give me credit for doing a little more than scribbling), than to open up my laptop, wait for the thing to power up and the WiFi connection to

yesss--!

2007-04-08T14:54:00.000-07:00

Oh wow, I haven't updated in a long time, now have I?By the way...I GOT INTO USC!Now I just have to find a way to pay for it without going broke. Oh joy, right?:D

cute + worried = irony

2007-03-10T13:16:00.000-08:00

A friend showed me this.Oh, the irony.Can Penguins Fly?Add to My Profile | More VideosIn the meantime, I still have no idea what to wear for prom. I'm not exactly fixated on it, but 1) it's still a fairly big deal, as I don't think my family is doing a debutante ball-type thing for me and 2) I like shiny, pretty, fluffy dresses. ♥Arrgh. It's just the money I gotta worry about. And, at this rate

grey matters

2007-03-09T23:23:00.000-08:00

The best things I've seen out of the college recruiting mail I've been getting for the past three or so years have been on two Caltech posters that are currently hanging on my door.What?? They're just very pretty...The two nuggets of truth I found in snail-mail spam?1) Grey matters.and2) Curiosity seeks.It would take a blog and a half to explain how these nuggets in spam (you know...that sounds

the frog princess

2007-03-09T21:23:00.000-08:00

And so I am surprised and somewhat delighted about this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17524865/?GT1=9145 This is the first Disney movie with an African-American princess in it…The Frog Princess is scheduled to be released around 2009, and is set in New Orleans. What ever took Disney so damn long to come up with a Disney Princess