woke up too late

what's up dudes ! i have learned this morning that angel on angel is a vampire, not an angel, and completed my financial aid forms (to possibly get grants !) for going back to school. what a productive morning !

having my mom here is great, though she asks a thousand questions and nothing makes me cagier than people asking me a bunch of questions ! i've tried to keep my temper in check. having christina around is a great buffer because christina is endlessly patient and is like... the most socially intelligent. plus my mom has essentially kidnapped her and calls us 'her girls' and calls her 'my other daughter' now.


me, the old baby

we haven't really done a terrific amount of stuff. yesterday we went to bobby's burger palace, a restaurant on penn's campus owned by bobby flay. i wasn't hungry (annnnnd they don't have veggie burgers anyway, and i already had an upset stomach so i didn't want to eat grilled cheese), but i had a few of christina's sweet potato fries and they were pretty incredible



then we went to the last word (the huge used bookstore in my neighborhood), where i was overwhelmed as usual. i grabbed a nice old library copy of the figure in the shadows by john bellairs



and this YA novel by joyce carol oates called big mouth and ugly girl. i think joyce carol oates is an abysmal writer and i've absolutely hated every adult book i've written by her, but maybe she's... better at writing YA books? i thought i'd give it a shot.



i have tried reading mockingjay a little, but after catching fire, i don't really care anymore? like, the obvious outcome is that peeta will sacrifice himself for katniss, she'll get to live and be with gale, the rebels will win, and life will be hard but the fight will be worth it. disclaimer: please don't tell me i'm wrong if you've already read it cause i'm like 70 pages in. haha.

i alsooooo bought the graveyard book by neil gaiman- i feel sort of lucky that he released an extremely popular novel based on my favorite chapter in a short story book a respectable time before i read the short story book, because it was $3 on amazon !



to counteract all the YA fiction i'm consuming, i also got used copies of shelby foote's the civil war: a narrative because brooke hyped it up so much to me when she was here. my american history to 1865 class actually weirdly stopped short of the actual civil war? so i'm going to slake my thirst with 99239230923 pages about it.



anyway, what else? oh, we went to cvs and then we came home and my mom dyed my hair for me. as a person who has extremely tangly hair and was formerly a CHILD with extremely tangly hair (who lacked the adult shame and instinct to brush it), having my mom comb and mess with my hair was very triggering !!! i was going OW OW OW OW STOP OW OW GODDDDD OW STOP every five seconds. she did a really good job though. i dyed it this color:



but it is not quite purpley art teachery red in real life, because my hair comes out the same shade of auburn no matter what color i dye it.

tonight i'm going to go see dangerbird and red devil in my neighborhood (sans mom) and then come home and hang out with my mom. she's totally a night owl- she stays up until like 3-4am. so much for trying to fix my sleep schedule.

p.s. i took vacation days monday and tuesday to hang out with her so i MAY not update.

my mirrors are black

how's it going dudes ! yesterday was an annoying stressful day at work- i now have one popeye arm from stapling stuff. i guess the event went really well so it was worth it, and my schedule is almost totally clear today.

the most exciting thing about yesterday is that i drank 44 ounces of iced coffee, which probably doubles the amount of iced coffee i've had in my life (i guess triples, i've had it a few times recently), so i was like cornholio after dark last night and couldn't sleep and couldn't stop annoying everyone. i had a wawa iced coffee and an iced mocha from gia pronto.



the iced mocha tasted too much like real, good coffee which isn't something i'm into though. despite being a purist about a lot of really unimportant things, i only like coffee that is made from a lot of sugar and cream and like the air that surrounds a coffee bean.

last night i mostly hung out with christina and tried to get our DVR box working. i was on the phone with stupid comcast for over an hour while the dude ate into the phone and patronized me by making me turn my tv on and off and stuff ! what a butthole. we watched some terrible episodes of SVU and sang songs to each other. generally we put whatever we're doing into whatever song we hear but we're also pretty committed to doing that every chance we get and we end up with a lot of like, really lazy weird unfunny output? last night i had "i'm gonna get you" by bizarre inc. in my head ("WHY WASTE YOUR TIME, YOU KNOW YOU'RE GONNA BE MINE !")



and it resulted in gems like, "why waste your hoagie, you know it's gonna be mine" and "i'm gonna get you pizza, i'm gonna get you yes i am" (my cat is named pizza, if you didn't know, we didn't just stick to food ones).

i cut my bangs which was really stupid- i don't really understand how to do it but i'm in desperate need of a haircut. my bangs are also tricky even for another person because i have two big cowlicks in my bangs and i also don't have depth perception. i ended up with this:


i cropped this cause i thought it looked weirder

what the fuck? haha. i was so proud of myself but now that i looked at that picture, they don't even look close to even. i dyed my hair after that because i had two inches of roots



and it looks pretty good even though i didn't have enough dye for my whole head and kind of haphazardly smushed it all over my head without looking !

oh ! that reminds me. the other night christina and i were (again) watching SVU, and there was a scene where stabler had his shirt off


this is from "bored hunks" magazine

and christina made some appreciative noise, and my response was "HEY BUD !". christina then pointed out to me that the last three times i expressed appreciation for a dude on television, i said:

1) "i bet i could fit my whole fist in his mouth !"
2) "i'd like to see HIM in a pair of shorts"
3) "hey bud !"

something about this indicates to me that maybe i am bad at this? but i tried to think about what i'd say instead and i can't really come up with anything. diet coke break?

tonight i'm going to try to do three things. first, i'd like to attend the west philly knitting group thing at the green line. second, i'd like to see mouse's band play, where ever that may be. third, i'd like to possibly get home in time to raid. we'll see if the third will happen, since i have zero idea about when or where mouse's band is playing. i know it's in west philly though, which is a good start !

p.s. my project for today is moving all my blog images to a second flickr account so i don't risk having them deleted or eventually replaced with a camera phone picture of an "emo teenager" a la tinypic.