12.07.2009

Yes, I'm Worried.

Kyle and Dani just spent twenty minutes whacking each other on the head with empty water bottles, laughing like little girls.

I fear finals' week just might be the death of all of us.

MLIA swag??? YUUS.

I know you want to buy me a present.

Eh? Eh?

Come on, do it.

http://295774.spreadshirt.com/

My average life will then be complete.

"Actually, it wasn't Christmas. It was May day."

About once a year, at varying times and intervals, I have the same realization: I love my name.

Holly.

It's like when you're really tired and random thoughts are just rolling through your head, and you realize that some certain word just feels good. Has just the perfect feeling to it; that it's just one cool word. (Example, linguini, serendipity, felicity, tortuga.) This is how I feel about my name.

Perhaps this is because I've been named the same thing all eighteen and a half years of my life and it's just grown on me, but perhaps its because it's just darn awesome. I mean, it works with my personality, does it not? It has just the right amount of letters, and the balance of the shape of letters when you look at it written, if you really want to be weird and get into it, is just perfect. Not many girl names start with the letter H, anyways. Hannah, Heather... none of them end in a y. Or a olly.

What else ends in olly? JOLLY.

Exactly.

(FACT: I also have similar realizations about my nose, eyes, and the way my middle finger curves slightly outward.)

12.05.2009

Oh, Swiffer...

Oh, white glove, how we all are not looking forward to thee...

What is white glove, you might ask? Every college student's nightmare, after finals. What's worse? White glove and Finals Week ARE THE SAME WEEK. Nightmares have thus been awarded. White glove is end of the semester-moving out clean check. Perfection is expected.

Although, we sort of started today. Kind of. The hour long meeting was semi-inspiring, seeing as you can't walk around our apartment in socks and not have to wash them after a few hours. (This is not because we don't clean regularly. This is because we have boatloads of people, especially boys, over everyday for hours. Boys, somehow, seem to track in all the dirt from campus.)

And you know what I found? MAGIC ERASERS ARE GOD'S GIFT TO COLLEGE STUDENTS. Instant gratification. They are so, so amazing. I felt like giggling. Sharpie on the door? (and yes, that was my fault) PRESTO! It's gone! What would have taken you ages with Ajax and a spunge and over-exerted arm muscles just to dull the mark is GONE in five easy strokes!!!

Amazingly? I enjoyed my two hours of cleaning today. Hm. Strange.

12.04.2009

Sleep Patterns

FACT: When in a rut, or not feeling well, or anything else negative is getting me down and I just need something to change, I sleep backwards. You know, with my head at the foot of the bed, my feet at the head.

And you know what? It never fails at making things better.

Call me easily impressed, but it makes life more interesting.

Nothing of Consequence

Today, I ate a fried egg on a bagel with jelly. Dad, you've taught me well.

Camie and I are now listening old 80's love songs. It reminds me of stake dances, with "Don't want to miss a thing..." Aerosmith? I think so.

Hey, and what about this Justin Beaver kid? Cause he's like, thirteen, right? I'm so out of it here at college! We don't have tv, and I rarely keep up with things going on in the world when it means I have to sort through stuff on the computer...

Speaking of my computer, it's on BIG MODE again. I coaxed it down for SUPER BIG MODE to just big mode. It's distracting. How can I write my homework when the letters are huge? It knocks off my concentration. I think that's a good enough excuse to put off my assignment until Monday... Gosh, I love Tuesday/Thursday classes! four days to do homework? UM, YUSSS.

12.03.2009

FACT: Today was interesting

Guess who's listening to the Newsies? I am!

Fact: Today, Dirty Pop by Nsync came on in my car. I was quite impressed with myself that I knew all words... especially since I didn't when I was younger.

Fact: Today, when driving a packload of people home from Craigos, the Backstreet Boys came on. We pulled over and had a dance/belting party. I regret nothing.

Fact: Today, I saw the Muppets redo Bohemian Rhapsody. On youtube, but still. I stil don't know what to think.

Fact: Today, when looking at Stephanie Lovett's pictures on Facebook, I happened to accidentally click on Stephanie's boob. I felt extremely awkward, looked away, and continued to write her a note of apology. I hope she understands.

12.02.2009

All Better

(okay, I just found a different video on the book site, that was the "book trailer" for the last one, and it was WAAAAAY better. I'm going to pretend that this was the movie trailer instead. Gemma wasn't ugly, and even though every other character was completely off, I felt better. If you screw over the main character, you're lost. No hope in overcoming. I feel much more satisfied with life now, and maybe I can go find myself one, instead of obsessing over books. Sigh.)

(You should probably read the entry before this one first, so this makes sense)

A Great and Terrible TRAGEDY?

After successfully re-re-re-re-reading (I'm not sure anymore how many times I've read it, but I know it's been at least two years since I last did) one of my favorite books of all time, A Great and Terrible Beauty, I went onto the official website. After looking around, unimpressed, for a while, I find an interesting link to youtube. And what did I find? THE MOVIE TRAILER.

Naturally, I heard a rumor a long time ago that it was being made into a movie. (The first one, seeing as it's part of a trilogy.) But I didn't really take it to heart. Of course, I imagined what it would be like, who would play each part... all that good stuff. And then I forgot.

Until today.

The trailer is good. Confusing, really confusing, and doesn't let on to any sort of plot, or characterization, or anything, really, but a fleeting montauge of pictures of deeply emotioned teenage girls in a Victorian era setting to a rather cool soundtrack. But seeing it appear, some tiny scenes of it just like I'd imagined it in my mind, was fun.

But now that my excitement is fading, seeing as the movie isn't coming out until "Winter 2010," and that Kartik is WAAAAAAAAY too old and not handsome enough, I'm quite sad. A movie is only going to ruin the story. I'm never going to be able to see the characters in my mind just like I'd imagined them in the first place ever again. Which saddens me deeply. It's Harry Potter all over again.

But what completely ticks me off? GEMMA'S UGLY. Sure, she's redheaded, but that doesn't have to make her look COMPLETLY washed out and... ugh. SO ugly. ANN is the ugly one, duh. Gemma is pretty in a mysterious way. And Felicity, at least the one I thought was Felicity, didn't look vain and controlling enough. Fee is one of my favorite characters, and if they don't get it right, I'm going to scream.

But the fact that Gemma's so... UGLY and not what I imagined her to be AT ALL... is ticking me off.

THEY SHOULDN'T MAKE THE COVERS OF BOOKS SO MISLEADING, BECAUSE WHEN THEY MAKE MOVIES AND THE ACTORS DON'T EVEN LOOK THE SAME NATIONALTIY, LET ALONE THE SAME GENDER, IT RUINS OUR HOPES AND DREAMS.

Okay, maybe not our hopes and dreams, but it totally messes up the little screenplay in our mind, and if we have to second-guess the stories we've entertained ourselves with, then what else are we going to start second-guess?

Exactly.

12.01.2009

Frosty

Today, I got to walk to class in the snow today!

An epically awesome beginning to an awesome class. (I don't know if I should say epically awesome class, because, although it is really a good class, it's always a good class, so today it wasn't so epically.)

It was sooooooo cool. The snow, I mean. The snow was so cool.