Winging It

Marwa: Ugh, I hear you about the whole waking up early for work in the morning. And you have family to look after! Best of luck to you.

Stephanie: Oh God, Supernatural. I watched it faithfully-ish from its premier to the season 5 finale. Can't really bring myself to watch it anymore, but I have much love for the show, Kripke, and the Winchesters. And Bobby. I love me some Bobby.

Alda: Congratulations! \o/ You did it. Now you can go travel Europe as long as no volcanoes decide to go off and ruin your plans.

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Not sure what I'm going to talk about. Next week is our letters to ourselves. Oh! I did enjoy stalking you guys on facebook :P. lol, just kidding.

So, something about me. Well since Alda talked about music, I guess that's a start (btw I did find OK Computer at the record store. It really is a great CD). There's not much to say. My taste in music is pretty indiscriminate. I like a lot of genres. Though I don't like Screamo, I'm iffy about jazz, I'm not fond of punk no matter its pop status, and I have to be in the mood for the various Metals. I grew up musically literate, meaning that I've been able to read music since I was a little Karena. I had played at least five instruments before I entered high school. That was when I gave up playing music (kind of). I gave it up because I wanted to be different from my brother, sibling rivalry and all that. No matter how good I got I would never shine as brightly as my brother in that regard and it was too disappointing to bear. I also gave it up because I wanted to be able to just enjoy a song again. When I heard a song my mind would break it into parts, figure out what time it was in, and see the note pattern in my head. Jazz gave me headaches, just endless up and down up and down, Jesus. I couldn't just listen to a song. I don't have that problem anymore. Sometimes I miss playing music with other people when I see a live performance and all I feel is what I lost and what I will never be. In the end I don't regret my decision.

I've also danced for a while. When I was a kid I did ballet like so many little girls do. Since, I've also done modern dance, hip hop dance, salsa dancing, various other ballroom dances, and had a brief stint with tap dancing when I was in the chorus of a musical in high school. I don't dance much anymore, though I did go out salsa dancing with the girls a few weeks ago. I wouldn't mind picking it up again. I like the challenge and the grace. I think that maybe I would like to try an African dance. This is a link to a great modern dance. Click it!

I like to paint. When I was in elementary school I created a card logo to go on the back of all of the cards I created for my family called "Spoons". My best friend at the time copied me and made one called "Forks". I like painting my cards and still use the "Spoons" logo to this day. I use watercolors. My favorite painter are Monet and Degas. I like impressionism best. I've done artistic photography with hand developing my film and everything, and I've done journalist photography. Both were pretty fun but a pain in the ass in their own unique way. My favorite artist is Derek Hess (<-link), though I can't draw worth a damn.

Writing is something that I like to do, but I'm reluctant to do so because I always get really into it and I just don't have the time anymore. I used to write fanfiction, which is great fun. It still comforts me to read fanfiction when I have a stressful day. I have a bazillion journals that I've been keeping since I was a wee thing. There are several online, some that I'm sure that I have forgotten about.

So, yeah. I guess I'd conclude that this was about how I grew up neck deep in the arts. Whew, I was actually cohesive. Funny that I had such a background, but aspire for a position in government work. Life takes you to some pretty unexpected places.

Graduating, partying and moar.

The reason why I'm posting on Sunday is because I had my graduation Friday and basically just forgot it yesterday - because I was cleaning the house + watching TV and eating leftovers all day. And then I partied again with my graduation hat, which was awesome. My graduation party was so amazing, I got a lot closer to my relatives and went partying downtown with them, which was amazing. I have photos on my camera but I havent imported them yet.

This is me, my best friend and my cousin.

So, I basically had a blast and I love my life. Or something.

I don't really know what to say about myself. I'm not really a TV or movie nerd. I have favorite TV shows, but I would usually choose drawing and hanging out with friends over the big screen. I watch Californication, because damn, these shows are poetry. I also watch Greys Anatomy (and cry a lot!) and Dexter.

My favorite movie is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I don't know how many times I've watched it but I know big parts of it by heart. Honestly, this movie was mindblowing and I see something new every time I watch it, a small detail and jokes you don't notice when you watch it the first time. There are more movies I love, but I haven't watched them as religiously as Scott Pilgrim.

I'm more passionate about music. To me, good music is music that makes me change my mood - that touches me in some way. Nowadays I'm listening to The Strokes (as I told earlier), Blood Red Shoes, Arcade Fire, MGMT, and Pink Floyd. My all time favorite band is Radiohead. I love Radiohead. I remember the first time I listened to them, I saw a big picture of Thom Yorke (the lead singer) in the paper and I pointed at him and told my friend "wow. he's weird" because of his lazy eye. She got super offended and told me "it's Radiohead!" and I remember going the next day to a CD store and buying one CD by them - I didn't know which one to get but I found one called OK Computer, which is still my favorite CD. I can't put it into words how much affect buying this CD had to me, more than it looks because my life hasn't really been the easiest to live and music has helped me a whole lot. I understand people who listen to music because it's fun to dance to or that they like the beat - but to me music is a lot more and I won't judge anyone who has a different opinion.

In the future I want to work with art. I want to be a tattoo artist. I'm looking at tatto school in Louisiana, but it's very expensive for me so that wil have to wait a couple of years. I also want to study fine arts or illustration. In the next year I want to study Spanish and I want to be fluent in that language. I also want to study Italian but just for fun.

Are you guys big readers? Because I'm going to start reading again after 8 week exam season I haven't really been able to read anything. Honestly haven't read a book for fun for a really long time, there was this one in December/January.

I'm having a super nostalgic moment right now.
It hurts, but I love having normal problems for a change.
See (read) you tomorrow, Karena! :)

I have watched no less than 5 movies today.

I think it's been five. Meet the Robinsons, The Princess and the Frog, The Interpreter, The Mummy, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

I might have watched another one. But this is what happens when I don't have cable and can't catch up on Supernatural on TNT. Oh well.

I'll be writing my letter to my fifteen year-old self. She needs to learn some things about a boy she'll meet and fall in love with when she's sixteen. And some other important life lessons.

Sarah, where have you been? I might drop her a message on Tumblr to see what's up.

Karena: I'm glad to hear your dog is doing better! Pets are great to have around. My cat, for example, hasn't left my side all day long. It's a little annoying, but I love her.

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So, some things about myself. I did a sort of intro when I started writing here, but I'll just write something like that again. I'll go along with what Karena did and talk about the visual media I love.

I watch a lot of TV, especially shows on the CW. Right now, one of my favorite shows is Supernatural. It's basically about two brother, Dean and Sam Winchester, who fight demons and whatnot. In season 5, they stopped the apocalypse from happening, which didn't sit to well with the angels in heaven. That sort of caused this whole war to start, started by Castiel, who was a season regular (but I couldn't find any pictures of Sam, Dean, and Cas.) It just ended last Friday, and I have to wait until September for new episodes. :(

I also watch a lot of Disney movies, a lot of alien/sci-fi movies, and I adore musicals.

My favorite musical is Phantom of the Opera. It always has been. It has such a timeless story, and I hope I can go see it on Broadway before its run finally ends. In some ways, I can completely relate to the Phantom, and I always hope Christine will pick him in the end, even though I've seen it a hundred times and I know how it will end. To this day, it is the only movie/Broadway production that can make me cry. I always do right at the end, when the Phantom sings "Christine, I love you...". It's heartbreaking, really.

And, of course I love YouTube. I'm not subscribed to too many channels because I can't keep up with too many videos. I only really watch VlogBrothers (and their other channels), Tobuscus (and his second channel, TobyTurner), and JennaMarbles. I keep my YouTube viewing to a minimum, since I spend a lot more time on Tumblr and on Facebook.

kennywood picnic day!!!

ohai guys. I hope everyone is doing well. sarah seems to have disappeared, which is sad, but hopefully she'll be back. all of you can feel free to add me on facebook if you want, my profile pic is my cousin playing with my little brother, who is wearing blue pajamas and looking overly excited about something. hopefully you can find it. anyway, I'm totally exhausted. I spent yesterday Getting Stuff Done TM, and today I spent at kennywood, which is a local amusement park thats super old. I basically chased after a seven year old all day, but it was still lots of fun. I'm going to once again keep this short though, because I have work in the morning and am totally destroyed.

Tired Like Woah

I had my first ever full work day today for my internship and I am so tired. I had trouble sleeping last night because someone was yelling outside of my window and it sounding like my brother. Even though it wasn't him, it woke me up immediately from an adrenaline rush to see if someone needed me. I've been napping for the last 1 and 1/2 hours.

Thank you guys for your responses to my last post. We've decided to keep him alive until further notice. With his new meds he's recovering, but it's only temporary and he'll still die soon. His birthday is June first so he'll make it to the old age or 13.

I hope that everyone is doing well this week. I'm going to look for you guys on facebook (you won't find me), I'll send you a message to confirm if it's you. Add me too if you wish. If you don't, no hard feelings.

Sarah, where'd you go? Are you doing alright?

Yes the letters to ourselves being done in the first week of June, which I've determined to be the week after next, that was your idea Stephanie. lol. I'm writing mine to my 16 year old self, but I figured that everyone would write to whatever age they wanted to. I'm a few years older than you guys so 16 was quite a while (6 years) ago for me.

Since we are focusing on getting to know each other by talking about what we are interested in I should start with the most obvious for me. I like visual media. Movies, television, Youtube, theatre. I'm a sucker for a story and interesting character dynamic. I've always been that way. When I was a kid I was a book worm as well, but that has slowed down to somewhat of a halt since I started college. The last book I read for leisure and finished was Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and that was at least two years ago.

I've talked about my television obsession, but not my interest in the others. I love musicals. I will watch any musical (note: I've seen all 3 Highschool Musical movies) though I don't like them all. The last one I saw was Spring Awakening and I didn't like it, but I really like some of the songs. I had a chance to see it with the original cast when I was in New York, but now I'm glad that I didn't waste a ticket on it. The Pajama Game was horrid as well. The first ever musical that I saw was 5 Guys Named Moe on my fondly remembered 7th birthday. I'm not quite as keen on plays. I've forced myself to stay awake through more than a few. Though I recently saw an interpretation of the Glass Menagerie that left me breathless from its brilliance. I can't even tell you how perfect it was.

Movies are great. I have a list of them to watch before I move out of my apartment, so if you know any movies that I absolutely need to see, I'm open for suggestions. I still need to see Momento. I'm a fan of Disney and Pixar, but more so Disney. The artwork on The Princess and the Frog itself was worth the price of admission. Though the Toy Story series is one of the most amazing series that I've seen, animated or not. My favorite Miyazaki is Howl's Moving Castle. I adore Casablanca but have never seen Citizen Kane (it's on my list). I recently saw Bridesmaids with a friend at the theater and laughed so hard that I was hungry after. I also love the Fast and Furious movies (except Tokyo Drift. The acting is too terrible and that's saying something) which surprises some people. But they are so my kind of movie, about family, loyalty, and fast cars. The characters also tend to be multi-racial and bi-lingual with driven, well meaning males and loyal, strong females, which is so close to home that it makes my heart go pitter patter. I bring this up because I saw Fast Five yesterday on a whim and loved it.

Of course there's Youtube. I love Vlogbrothers, of course. I also like WeezyWaiter, DeStorm, Smosh, Freddiew, Whatthebuck, and Joenation amongst others. WillaimSledd was the first "youtuber" that I got into, but he doesn't make videos anymore. Also, have my favorite French duet that plays covers of anime/video game music. <-'tis a link

hope everyone's okay!

I had to check the calendar a couple of times to make sure it was Friday. That's how confused I am about days in exam season - especially because I have a 3-hour exam tomorrow, on a Saturday (PLUS an oral exam).

You guys got me kind of worried this week, hope everything's okay! Karena, I'm so sorry about your dog, your blog made my eyes wet and whatever you and your family chooses to do will be the right decision. I also believe that after death we will go wherever we believe we go. It might sound naïve, but what the heck haha. I wrote an essay las week, the subject was form "Hávamál" which is called in English (according to Wikipedia) "Sayings of the high one" that is Odin (Óðinn) - a god from old norse mythology. The subject was:

Deyr fé,
deyja frændur, 
deyr sjálfur ið sama.
En orðstír
deyr aldregi
hveim er góðan getur.

It's translated:
Cattle die,
kinsmen die
the self must also die;
I know one thing
which never dies:
the reputation of each dead man.

Also, Marwa, I hope you're okay and I know it sometimes helps talking about it. You're welcome to talk to me (email/skype/whatever) whenever you want, I'm an okay listener. Anyways, just take care of yourself.

I also hope (wow, many "I hope"s in this post) that Sarah and Stephanie forgot because they were having too much fun with their lives rather than having a crappy week like the rest of us!

But lets not drown ourselves in sadness and melancholy. Currently I'm putting together playlist for my birthday party. Procrastinating. That's fun. I had oral English exam today, it went great! I didn't expect it but I drew an awesome short story and a good poem to interpret/explain. I can't wait to start reading again, something not obligatory. I'm making a list of literature to read and paintings to paint.

I got a graduation dress. It's light blue. Had someone told me when I was, say, 15 I'd be graduating in a light blue dress, blue tights with blonde hair I'd laugh. I was a darker character when I was younger, I think I was friendly even though my friends I met when I started college thought I was some hardcore chick when they first saw me. I love speaking with them about our first impression of each other, I supposedly was (according to them) too cool for them (what the fuck? haha!) and they thought I was way more hardcore than I was (am). They were the opposites, I really misjudged them, I thought they were mean and unfriendly. They aren't mean and they're friendly (not super inviting, but very nice and I love them). My first year of college I sat on a table with a girl with dreads (I recognized her from my old school) and then I only hung out with two guys, who were obvious metalheads with longer hair than mine. I just realized how I (and the people around me) judged much from appearance in the olden days. It grows off I think (mostly), kids are the worst.

I send my best thoughts to you guys, hope you'll have a great weekend (it's a command, not a wish) HUGS!

- Alda

Posting late, my internet was out all day yesterday, so bear with me.

I don't really have much to talk about. This week's been uneventful, really. My ex's ex (aka the girl he left me for) is coming into town tomorrow, and I'm pissed off. She broke up with him before the semester ended, and so he cancelled on me to go see her. So, that's fun. I'm getting coffee with him next Saturday.

Also, the world's supposed to end tomorrow? I think that's bullshit, but hey, people actually believe it.

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I'm all for posting letters the first week of June (was I the one to even come up with that?). I guess we can discuss the specifics of them next week, or are we just writing them to whatever age we feel our younger self needed it? That sentence looks wrong...

Anyway, it looks like it's been a hard week for all of us. Karena, I hope all is well with your dog. I know what it's like to have a dog have a ruptured tumor. My dog, Daisy, died in 2008 from something similar, and from what it sounds like, she spent her last days a lot like yours did. It's hard losing a pet, especially one that you've had for a long time. My thoughts are with your family.

Marwa, I also hope things improve for you. You're welcome to add me on Facebook (facebook.com/lightningxflute) if you want to talk about it.

another short post

sorry guys, but I've got a lot of personal stuff going on right now, and any post I write right now will be no fun, trust me. so imma just say hi, hope you are all having a good week, and hopefully I'll have a proper post next week. if you want details, email me.

The Waiting is the Hard Part

First: Yes to the 1st week of June for the letters. Agreed to talking about ourselves more, but I'm a bit emotional today so I'm afraid it'll have to wait until next week for me. Instead, prose. I do like to write as a hobby sometimes, so there's that. It's one of the reasons I like John. Game recognizes game.

So one of my dogs is sick. Today I went home to look after him, completely against my plans to watch NCIS all Monday long. But my mother called me early enough to wake me up and for me to not function properly for a conversation. She told me that I should go home today to see my dog, Sparky, because the vet was coming tomorrow and I might not see him again. To which I responded, "Uhhhhh." I had made plans on going home and seeing him sometime later in the week. She said that she would call back later to see if I would change my plans for the day. She never did. I went home anyway.

The tumor on his front leg had been licked into an injury too grotesque for me to, in good conscience, describe to you ladies. His skull seemed to tremble under my fingers as I scratched between his ears in my usual greeting. After I got situated I laid down with him, half on the cool tile by the front door and half on one of the many rugs/mats laid down to help him walk around the house, our heads on his hair covered comforter. I tried to pet the pain tremors out of his body, and the panic I felt reminded me of the time I came home to find blood all over his face and the tip of his ear missing. It also brought to mind what my mother told me the vet said about putting our dog down. He said that we'd know when to do it. Was this it?

I cooked freezer burned beef and combined it with leftover rice from week old Chinese for him to eat and kept up a constant supply of water. He started to look better. I'm actually proud of myself. It's good to know that I can be helpful in a situation like this.

My family all came home at the same time, relieving me of dog watching duty, but this seemed to be the most anguishing part of the ordeal. Now, my dog is not clean. He's been sick for a while and he is not a small dog. No way to wash him. Touching him left greasy dirt on the pads of my fingers, but I always washed my hands after petting him. Every time I petted my dog, I knew that this would be the last chances for me to do so and maybe the best comfort that I could give him for the remainder of his life. Whenever I heard the faucet running, I knew that my family member felt the same as I did and felt uncomfortable that I knew that. My hands are so dry from washing them as much as I did that they sound more like paper rubbing together than skin. Running faucets are starting to make me feel irrationally nervous.

My mother's steady gaze looked so uncertain when she asked me, "when the vet comes tomorrow and he asks if we should put him down, what should I say?" I thought of the moment I had first seeing him and feeling the pain ripple through his body. I also thought of his return to normalcy after food and water and after my brother sat with him in front of the house watching the sun go down. I never wanted to put him down out of our convenience, because we were tired of taking care of a dying dog. It must be because it would be what is best for the dog. For Sparky.

I answered her with a resolute, "I don't know". I hated leaving her to the decision because I knew that for once she didn't want to be the one who had to make the decision so I said, "Whatever you say, it will be right." It was the truth. Whichever way this goes tomorrow, it will be the right way. Not because of the truly immense faith that I have in my mother, but because of my doggy Sparkey who is both dying and alive.

is it Saturday yet?

Alright, so I got back from a lovely weekend (given the weekend started Thursday) in the country. I went on Thursday to my father's summer house in the country. I went alone and then my dad and his girlfriend came to see me on Friday (yesterday). I did a lot of studying, it was nice going out of the city to have some time off. Past 6 weeks have been hard, I have finished 10 exams and this is exactly what I needed. I was just there, blasting music, reading English poetry and short stories, taking walks, giving the horses candies (and discovering I have slight horse-allergy, not much though) and totally ignoring the dead bird in the front yard, I didn't know what to do so I went all "daaaddyy, see, the bird! :(" when he came. We watched concert on the TV, showing the opening of a new musical-conference-thingie house in Iceland. Also spent a few hours drawing, haven't done that in a while.

Exams still and I'm going strong. Can't wait for 27 may, that's the day I'll graduate and finally, freedom. The freedom kickstarts on may 24th though, when I finish my last exam, oral Icelandic, dundundun!! Then it's just funfunfun, I've already been invited for a party every weekend in June and the last in May, which is awesome. My 20th birthday will be on June 7th, so Sarah, don't forget to wish me happy birthday in your Tuesday blog! I'm going to rent a bar to celebrate and invite al my friends and buy lots of beer for the guests. You guys are invited, if you're willing to travel to Iceland by that time or if you happen to be here (HAH! It would be kinda cool though).

Listening to The Strokes's new album, Angles, and waiting for dinner. I recommend it, The Strokes that is, not waiting for dinner. Home-made pizza, nom, so hungry. I have boy problems, or you know, just problems in general.

Damn you, Americans, I can't talk to you about Eurovision! It's Eurovision, it's a song contest and each country has its representative (fu, this computer doesn't put red lines under wrong-spelt words, so sorry if I write something weird that doesn't make sense/words that don't exist). It is a lot of fun and a lot of really really bad songs, fashion from 1997 (some countries are just way behind), bad hair (honestly, the 80's called and wants its hair back) and beer, lots of beer. No beer for me though, because I have to study (/annoyed). It's the mood that's good, the music is usually terrible.

Karena, I see. Wish I could have Sambuca with you!

Sarah, the ocean for the first time :O? What took you so long, girl.

Stephanie, I agree with doing it the first week of June, next week I'll be extremely busy studying for a exam I have barely any time to study for so it wouldn't turn out good and the week after that I'M GRADUATING COLLEGE! Can't wait to put that damn hat on.

Marwa, I definitely agree with you. I think we should try to get each other better. :)

Putting new drawings on facebook.com/aldaart (and tumblr) on Monday. Btw, feel free to add me on facebook if you want to, it's facebook.com/aldalilja, I won't bite.

And don't forget to smile! C:

Hi guys! I second (or third, or whatever) the vote to do the letter to a younger self soon.

So I sort of forgot it was Wednesday yesterday just kidding, two days ago, but I couldn’t post yesterday. Sorry about that guys. So… did you all see the animation they had on google the other day? The one of a woman dancing and tracing the letters? That was designed by Ryan Woodward. I highly recommend you all go check out his youtube channel, particularly this video (click that, its a link!).

In other news, we still don’t have an actual blog title. I’m starting to think that we should just give up lol.

Lastly, I feel like even though we've had a blog together for a few weeks (well, not Sarah and Stephanie) I don't really know anything about you guys. Can we do a week where we talk about what we spend our time doing, our favorite things to do, things like that?

anyway, watch the vid, totally worth it. and I'll try to be on time next week. :D

So, I'm Posting Twice Today

Later on, I sorta do have a bit more, well, controversial topic I want to discuss. Maybe.

Anyway.

Alda: Another thumbs-up for the letter to our past selves. Should we gauge it by year. For example, ourselves, say, five years ago. Or three years ago. I have a lot to write to my naive 14- or 17-year old self, so maybe the first week of June we can write them?

Karena: Babyproofing is pretty simple, really. You just have to make sure there's no sharp edges that they can hurt themselves on. But this baby isn't walking (or even crawling) yet, so I just have to make sure the house is clean and my dog doesn't bother her much. But she's not here yet. Jess' mom has been watching her, but my brother's hanging out with Cody on Friday so we'll see. I hope I still get a chance to watch her.

Sarah: So, I guess that answers you. No cuteness yet. Also, I'm so jealous of your family time! My entire family lives in New Jersey, and so I never get to see them. I've been saving to fly up and see them, but something for college always comes up first. Hope you're having fun!

So, one of my best friends is back in town for the summer! I'm heading over her house later, and I'm so excited. I haven't seen her in over a month, and I love spending time over her house. Summer has officially arrived here in SW Florida, and I really plan to make the most of it before I go back to university in the fall. I have a lot of things to do, some good, some bad. With any luck, I might get my boyfriend back, but it's all depending on him. Fingers crossed.

Trying to Refuse to Sleep (and failing)

Sorry for the lateness folks. I didn't have access to my computer all day (shocked!). I'm also nearing the end of this chunk of school and drowning beneath ever increasing piles of homework and exams to study for. My motivation to sleep is teetering on the edge of falling out the window. Until I realize I can't even stay awake enough to read YourPants threads.

Family time this weekend was completely awesome! Kayaking/being-out-on-the-ocean-for-the-first-time was great, peaceful, and a lot less scary than I expected it to be. Went into a little cave and the waves while coming out even scared our blond beach!guy tour guide a bit. Exciting! And then I got taken out to dinner like 4 nights in a row. Relatives on vacation are fun.

Marwa - Any plans for the summer? Not to detract from your delightful bunch of nothing to do...

Stephanie - House successfully baby-proofed and baby-occupied? Cuteness?

Alda - Yes, the letter to our past selves sounds awesome, though I agree with Karena - can we wait a couple weeks so I have enough time to make it good?

Karena - :) Call me Sarah. That was just me trying to sound cool and quirky. Also, didn't mean to sound completely obsessed with tv; that was just the after-effects of a lengthy tumblr session. But I would always love a geek-out partner.

Loving this project so far guys! Nothing like a collab to force a habit.

Quick Reponse Timez

I think that the letter to our x-year old selves is a great idea Alda! But can we wait untill next week for it? I really need to study for a final I have tomorrow morning. You can start off on Friday if you want.

Sarah: Welcome! \o/ Though I'm going to have to insist that you decide on what you want us to call you, Sarah or Watson. ;) I like TV shows too! I've seen all of White Collar, Supernatural, and Bones. Though Supernatural has been Dead To Me since the start of the end of the 6th season so I guess that I haven't seen them all. Bones and White Collar are in my top 5 shows to watch right now. I was going to say that I've only seen two episodes of Doctor Who, but then I remembered a summer in which I watched every episode of the 10th Doctor. Strange. You'd think that wouldn't be something that someone wouldn't forget. I'll have to geek out on TV shows in another post though. Glad to have you aboard.

Marwa: Totally jealous that you're finished with the semester. Also, lazy Marwa is lazy. I'm really starting to like that about you. :)

Stephanie: How does one babyproof a house? *is completely ignorant*

Alda: That was actually just lemonade because I'm nervous to put a picture of myself drinking alcohol on the internet, but before that I was drinking vodka with lemon (left over lemon made the shot of lemonade). I've never had sambuca before, but when my summer starts I promise to try it.

Now if you will excuse me, I have to brush up on Comparable Worth Theory and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act.

last nite

Greetings, Sarah (and Stephanie if I didn't already say it!)
and Karena, what are you drinking? C: It looks like Sambuca, which in alda says "summer time!"

Stop speaking of your summer-doing-nothing-jarijari stuff! I just finished my 8th exam, 6 to go and I'm going crazy. Literally just had a breakdown yesterday. 

I don't remember what I was going to write about, but it definitely was something extremely interesting and fun to read. Sorry, it left my head. I started this blog in another computer but then it froze and I'm writing on my brother's computer now.

Damn, it's been a long time since we had blog every day of one week (of course I mean Mon-Fri)! I think it was... the first week? I don't think there was a full second week.

My teeth hurt. Bohoo.
Sorry for the shortie, too hungry and tired for a blog.


Have a nice weekend everybody, looking forward to Monday reading!(Honestly, just happy for every day that passes, that means that I'm getting closer to finishing my exams/college)

I think we should sometime make a letter to your x-year-old selves, can we? It would be great theme.
Brb, getting my moles checked!

I seriously just woke up about an hour ago. It's currently...4:27 pm here in Florida. Cody called last night and said that he won't be bringing Jada over until Monday, so I have a few more days to babyproof my home.

I don't really have too much to post about today. This has been a rather uneventful week, actually.

Oh, and to say it for all of us, Happy Birthday Hank Green!

Helen Hunt finally saw the Helen Hunt song today, and I don't think there could be a better birthday present for him than that.

SUMMER BREAK Y'ALL!!!!

yeah, as soon as this is done, i'm going to go continue with what i was doing earlier; namely, napping and doing nothing. and enjoying every moment of it of course!

welcome sarah btw! I just finished my second year of college too. glad you are now aboard the rather empty ship that is The [insert title here] Initiative to Save Marwa's Eyes. I, btw, am Marwa. and yeah, im pretty sure we're all girls. anyway, I have a whole lot of nothing to do, bye!

This is me. Hi!

Hi girls! (I'm under the impression that we are all females. Please correct me if I'm wrong.) I'm your new Tuesday. This is cool. I've never become part of an already formed collab. I feel privileged. Now, I know it isn't Tuesday, but I'm only a day late, I only found out yesterday, and I thought I'd get the intro out of the way so that next week can be my first proper post.

 As most 'this is me' posts I make devolve into a list of random facts about myself, I think I'll just give up and make this one officially a list. Be warned, it may be a tad on the lengthy side.

1. My name is Sarah, but I'm trying to get people to call me Watson because it's a lot nerdycooler.
2. I was born and raised in Southern California, but I spent three years of my life in London, from age 10-13.
3. I'll be 19 in less than a month, and I'm finishing up my second year of University.
4. I am an electrical engineering major, with a minor in music. I am a science and math nerd, and I've been playing the piano since I was four. I also like ASL.
5. I found the vlogbrothers/nerdfighteria/thelargerworldoftheinternet approximately a year ago. I was an extremely sheltered child.
6. I LOVE reading, and I used to gobble down a dozen books in a week or less, but since I've gotten to college, that's dramatically decreased. First, there's no good libraries within bus distance, and second, I've discovered there are so many more ways to procrastinate.
7. My favorite tv show is Doctor Who. I love to fangirl over it. Like, a lot. If you've never watched it, I have some very helpful* websites. If you don't like it, I won't hate you, I'll just forever be confused about that part of our relationship.
8. I also like Sherlock, Supernatural, Merlin, Burn Notice, White Collar, Big Bang Theory, Bones, Chuck, and several others.
9. I was never allowed to read Harry Potter when I was young. I am now rectifying that - on the fourth one currently.
10. My music tastes are also similarly affected by my sheltered upbringing, but so far the only genre I really don't like is stuff on the heavy metal side. I listen to MiLo, ALL CAPS, Hank Green, and Chameleon Circuit.
11. I like and play a lot of video games, just not obsessively. Also, I don't have any kind of console here in college.
12. I'm not girly - I don't care that much about clothes, jewelry, gossip, shoes, makeup, etc. I do, however, like to embroider, knit, and do other crafts.
13. I am a LOT more shy and socially awkward than this post suggests. That's kinda why I'm trying to get connected with nerdfighteria in as many ways as possible.

*read - not so legal :)

I'm not sure if you had a specific goal for this blog or a weekly theme or anything - haven't yet had time to read through all the posts. Let me know if I should be blogging about anything specific. That being said, I'm really looking forward to this blog and getting to know you all! Here's the obligatory list of places you can find me on the internet: - please don't feel like you have to follow/subscribe.


http://www.youtube.com/user/Tea0mango - Not really much on here yet.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSonicNerds - I'm Thursday.
http://twitter.com/SarahplusTea
http://dailybooth.com/SarahplusTea
http://pausetherealworld.blogspot.com/ - infrequent updates
http://tolerateaworldofdemons.tumblr.com/ - Doctor Who pics and anything else that catches my eye

Introspective

Greetings Stephanie! Glad to have you aboard. My mother's from Tampa, so that's the only part of Florida that I'm familiar with. Also, as a nerdfighter (I assume) you are awesome. That's not an opinion. That's a fact. :)

The electric violin is such a cool instrument! I watched the looping part of the video too because I like to see how things are made. I live behind the scenes features on DVD's (also, word to the wise, don't listen to DVD commentary if it was done by the director. Take my word for it, it's not worth it [unless that director is also an actor]. I may have just saved you from dying from boredom).

So I've been a tad introspective today. There's not much room in me for much more than school work and NCIS at the moment, but the circumstance gives me a bit of wiggle room for introspection. So my roommate told me last night that Osama bin Laden was dead and to turn on the news, which I immediately did. My first, second, third, and fourth thoughts were as follows:

1) OMG OMG OMG
2) I wonder if they're going to mention this on NCIS. They have to. Navy SEALS. bin Laden. Come on. But it's going to be a while before they start shooting episodes again. I wonder when they'll mention it.
3) I wonder who else was killed in the raid. Nameless casualties with sad families (There were 4 casualties by the way. One accomplice, two Curriers, and one woman used as a human shield).
4) Everyone seems so happy.

So here I am torn, a bit, about the whole concept of being glad that another person is dead. I understand mourning and anger, but being happy about murder makes my stomach churn. It seems to affirm the cruelty that humanity is capable of. I know that the man who was killed was known to many as a murderer and all sorts of horrible things and justice and what-not. But the celebration of it all forces me to also accept the cruelty that is within myself and it's a bit unsettling

That being said, it warms my heart to see my country happy. It makes me wonder what I will be willing to accept or turn an eye away from in order to see who/what means most to me happy. My humanity may give me some pause, but I will not lose a wink of sleep over the loss of that terrorist murderer. The bastard is dead. Na Zdorovie.