THANKSGIVING TURKEY GREEN BEANS MASHED POTATOES DARK MEAT WHITE MEAT FAMILY BABY COUSINS TODDLER COUSINS DIRTY SANTA WITH AN INFOMERCIAL THEME (AWESOME—GOT AN AUBURN SNUGGIE YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT) PERCY JACKSON

LATE i knoooooooooooooow but better late than never. Man, you guys, these past few weeks have been so wild. I've gotten into both UAB and Indiana (got the email last night), and I never have to deal with my horrible advisor again. I got my hair cut off for Locks of Love and holy crap it is so short you guys i don't even. I finally got a new laptop to replace that horror of an HP for 75% of what the HP cost in 2006. Thanksgiving was amazing, even though my uncle's wife is a northerner and doesn't properly understand the concept of leftovers, woe. My dad and I had our first spat where I stood up to him and told him not to talk to me the way he does when he's irritated, and he actually—without provocation—apologized to me at dinner the next night. (My dad is many things, but he is not an apologizer.)

It's just—I know my family's not perfect. But there has never been a question in my mind that my parents and my brother love me, and I'm so lucky for that. I only hope they know I love them just as much.

And you guuuuuys, seriously. Y'all have changed my life, I just have to say. Jadey-poo, you're the light of my life and the loudest person I know. You know more about me than anyone else on the planet and you talk to me anyway. You tolerate my driving and my texting and my driving while texting and you leave class so I can tell you things and I just love you so much. You are one of the kindest, sweetest, best people I know. Also I dreamed about your Oblivion character last night. Which I guess kind of negates everything I just said.

Hikki—you were the first friend I made on the internet that I hadn't known in real life first even though it was in a zutara chatroom and the first time i found it i trolled it because i was an internet virgin and thought that kind of thing was cool. You are one of the easiest people in the world to talk to, and honestly, your abuse of me is so bizarrely comforting that I notice when I haven't talked to you in a day or two. Also you have so much stuff for me to do i don't think i'm ever going to catch up

Zippy, you make me smile whenever I talk to you. I still don't know how you sense when I'm having a horrible day, but all I have to do is text you or message you and my day is instantly better. Also, vampires. I can't thank you enough for that sexy, sexy series. also you are exotically foreign and therefore alluring

ichthyosaur, you think so similarly to me sometimes it's completely scary. Sometimes I read your little rants (I seem to recall one about um. notebook paper, maybe? that actually made me doubletake because I'd been thinking about it so recently) and have to check myself because I've thought the exact same thing. Part of the reason I'm so excited about the ReBoot movie is getting to share it with you. <3

ascii_encore, i still think of your stuff in mrs. moore's class sometimes. it's pretty much one of my most enduring memories of high school.

Shay, every time I see you use that icon, I get a little giddy. You make me laugh at the weirdest things and yet you're so intelligent in your expressions; pretty much any time I see a comment with your name attached to it, I know it's worth reading.

Rob, your tolerance in my first RP was pretty awesome. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD and that's all i have to say about that

Case, you're one of the most refreshingly honest people I know. I--i (TEXTUAL STUTTER yeah i did it) use you as a standard for honesty sometimes, tbh. ALSO beststoryever.

( and now that 'basic facts about me' meme that's going around )

oh my jadey you stole my thunder but ANYWAY


I GOT INTO UAB OPTOMETRY!!!

holy hell dying

people in four years i will have my own white coat

i will have a PRESCRIPTION PAD and PENS with my NAME on them



of course i'll also be a hundred thousand dollars in debt but honestly i'm so giddy right now i don't even care



EDIT: lol got waitlisted at southern college pending my fall grades

mmm, those sexy Cs are going to be so worth the wait

EDIT 2 CAUSE I FORGOT: ascii_encore i am going computer shopping tomorrow and taking your list I HAD TO TELL YOU BEFORE I FORGOT

OKAY. SO.

1. Laptop power socket has now completely died. It's not registering the cord at all, and I drained the last of the battery this morning checking my email. I need to remember to check with Dad to see if the Holiday Inn Express we're staying at tomorrow offers a computer to guests. BUT we're computer shopping once we get home from Indiana this weekend, hopefully, so I won't be too long without it.

2. LAB PRACTICAL TONIGHT AUGH. The lab notebook's done, thank goodness, but I'm still super-shaky on the nerves. Basically the only one I can remember is the acousticofacialis ganglion (firefox recognizes acousticofacialis? huh, cool) because it's just anterior to the otic vesicle, and that's super easy to find. too bad there are like fifteen other ganglia and nerves i still have to memorize :/

3. firefox doesn't recognize acousticofacialis because i'm using internet explorer. because i'm in the library. derp.

4. I got the boy a cheesecake sampler because he likes it. Also a candle. Hopefully that'll make up for not calling him yesterday sigh.

5. yesterday i slept until 4:00 pm, then got up, studied until about 9, got hit with some of the worst cramps i've ever had, dug up advil and slept until midnight. then i woke up, studied for two more hours in the dorm, then went over to the lab until 4. then i went to wal-mart, got the cheesecake, candles, and spaghetti rings and meatballs, then came here to the library around six, six-thirty. i felt like you should know

6. when I got to the library, there was only me and one other guy here, and we were just chillin, you know, and then there was this BANG BANG BANG HEY because someone was stuck in the elevator just behind us! it was super-exciting and we talked to her to keep her calm until the elevator people came. then she came out.

7. please tell me someone out there is as amused as i am that ichigo's pimpcoat doubles as his power barometer. i mean, considering the emphasis kubo puts on his clothing design, i find it absolutely hilarious that his coat ends up being a major plot point. awesome.

Hi all,

For those of you who were not in class, I have decided to delay the midterm until the Monday after the Thanksgiving break. I discussed it with those of you in class today and the consensus was strongly in favor of moving it.

I decided to offer this because I discovered this morning that the students in Vert. Develop. had both a lab final and lab notebook due on Wednesday. While I think students should be able to manage studying for more than one exam, I realize that with assignments such as lab books there's no real way to do all of that ahead of time. I also realize that an increasing number of students in this course are taking both it and Vert. Develop.

I hope that those of you not in Vert. Develop. will also appreciate having more time. I chose not to offer the exam on Friday because too many people skip out on the holidays early and that causes real problems with make-up exams. Monday after the holiday seemed best to me. The exam will cover material since the last exam including our catalog of effector functions, innate and adaptive, through vaccines.

I will adjust the schedule to reflect this and post it later today or tomorrow.

Dr. [Redacted]

have rigged temporary solution.






but i'd thought i'd had it before and it still cut out after a few hours, so no telling how long this will last. but i've got a 16G flash drive that's got all my documents, music, and art on it (217MB remaining, haha), so hopefully any new computer will get off to a good start.

printer drivers are gone, half my software doesn't work anymore, BUT i've got the important stuff. sigh.

also, because raptor1313 asked and maybe people would be interested, it's an hp pavilion dv5000 i got in the summer of 2006. i mean, it's been out of warranty almost three years, so i know it's really time for a replacement, but man. i mean, i take really good care of my electronics, and for stuff to fail through no fault of my own irks me. like i've held up my end of the bargain, can't the manufacturer, you know?

anyway /self-pity

THIS WEEK:

monday:

• vertebrate development: 72-hr chick (PRINT FROM LIBRARY), finish 96-hr chick (lab?), start 6 mm pig, cover sheet for notebook
  
• immunology: GET UNOTES, copy unotes once, read through book pages, first half of learning objectives worksheets
  
• indiana essay: rough draft, email to mom & jade

tuesday:

• boy's birthday! probably call him or something
  
• vertebrate development: finish 6 mm pig, 10 mm pig, review tooth development AHH POWER CORD JUST FLICKERED come on baby hold on another week
  
• immunology: copy unotes 2nd time, second half of learning objectives, CALL JORDAN since the jerk's gotten As on both tests
  
• LAB: look over old frog/starfish slides & notes, try to figure out how to scroll through them without getting a migraine
  
• probably try to get to class somewhere in here
  
• immunology review at 6, try to figure out how to be at two places at once since verte lab's from 5-7
  
• submit finalised indiana essay

wednesday:

• verte & french in am
  
• look over unotes & completed learning objectives before immunology test at 12
  
• IMMUNOLOGY TEST do not fail
  
• study notes for lab practical, final notebook check
  
• LAB PRACTICAL do not fail
  
• LAB NOTEBOOK DUE do not fail
  
• date! :3 also get a cupcake somewhere in there gotta take the boy something
  
• make sure dad got a hotel for thursday night

thursday:

• up early, pack suit and heels!
  
• pack for thanksgiving week since i'm not coming back to auburn
  
• drive up to huntsville, pick up dad
  
• drive to bloomington, in
  
• PROJECT RUNWAY FINALE

friday:

• 8:45 interview at indiana!
  
• drive home without seeing any amazing people who may also live in indiana :c
  
• home for thanksgiving.

man i seriously hope i don't have any surprise quizzes in french because i am doing absolutely nothing for that class this week

okay, power cord prolonged the inevitable by oh a week. computer is now officially in its death throes. hopefully getting new one over thanksgiving break because if i have to live the rest of the year in this library i will whine incessantly

Shipment Activity Location Date & Time
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Delivered AUBURN UNIVERSITY AL 36849 11/07/09 5:12am

Processed through Sort ATLANTA GA 30369 11/06/09 1:15am
Facility

Arrived Shipping CARSON CA 90746 11/03/09 10:12pm
Partner Facility

Electronic Shipping HACIENDA HEIGHTS CA 91745 11/03/09 12:04am
Info Received



SO I GO to the mail room this morning and guess what. NO PACKAGE. Not a thing. The mailroom lady knows me 'cause I chat with her pretty often when I get my mail, so she has me come around and get the tracking number from my email so she can call her boss to find out where it is. and of course, the two emails on the top of the stack are from jade and have a subject line of "scarlet woman hobag slut whore streetwalker strumpet coquette lady of the night companion call girl whore"

sigh. and then i leave, power cordless yet.

BUT WAIT. I get an email this afternoon!

[Quark],
I have your package at the mail room.
I am closed for lunch, but you can knock on my door.
Have a Blessed Day.
[Mailroom Lady]

aha AHA

why what is THIS



CAN IT BE



IS IT TRULY THE CORD



IT IS IT ISSSSSSS



HOO

RAH

I AM BACK ONLINE

ALSO WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THERE WAS A NEW SEASON OF LEGEND OF THE SEEKER HMMMMMMM? I ONLY KNEW BECAUSE I ACCIDENTALLY HAPPENED UPON THE NEW EPISODE

My parents had been planning on coming down to Auburn for the homecoming game this weekend for months. Today, it turned out that my dad, who had surgery last Monday, can't come because the surgery won't let him travel. /bitter

Also, the power cord still hasn't come! slowest expedited shipping ever WE ORDERED IT A WEEK AGOOOOOO

LET'S TRACK QUARK'S POWER CORD

Processed through Sort Facility, November 06, 2009, 1:15 am, ATLANTA, GA 30369
Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, November 03, 2009, 10:12 pm, CARSON, CA 90746
Electronic Shipping Info Received, November 03, 2009




Your item was processed through and left our ATLANTA, GA 30369 facility on November 6, 2009. The item is currently in transit to the destination. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.

let me just say

LIES

GAAAAAH MY NEW POWER CORD FOR MY LAPTOP IS TAKING FOREVERRRRR I'VE BEEN WITHOUT MY COMPUTER FIVE DAYS, PEOPLE. FIVE DAYS

Arrived Shipping CARSON CA 90746 11/03/09 10:12pm
Partner Facility
Electronic Shipping HACIENDA HEIGHTS CA 91745 11/03/09 12:04am
Info Received

here shall we track this with a handy map of states' allegiances in the civil war



WAT

man forget this library crap there are PEOPLE here and i have to use my HEADPHONES and i can't watch ANIME and

basically the library is forcing me to pose as a sociable human being and i DON'T LIKE IT



also guys do you ever look at your photobuckets every once in a while and just wonder at yourself?

here is william shakespeare with a surfboard. i don't remember why.



bodacious bard, dude

( here are more things from my photobucket. i remember none of the reasons for which i uploaded them. )
p.s. hey guys show me what's in your photobuckets

laptop's power cord ripped in two yesterday, gonna be out of touch in general until the new one arrives

if you've got to get in touch with me, luculentquark@yahoo.com

otherwise, see you soon

SICK. Coughing and sneezing and draining and gross. Plus I had two tests today. I know at least one other person was as horrified as I was at the vertebrate development test, and only two people finished before the hour was up, so hopefully he'll have a scale for this exam. French went okay, though, I think, although I was so fried from the vertebrate study marathon that I could have written half the thing in English and not realized it.

I leave for Memphis tomorrow for my first optometry school interview at Southern College on Friday. Honestly, I can't think too much about it or I get squitchy, so anyway, there it is.

I'm supposed to have my third date with the guy tonight, but I'm feeling so nasty I don't know if I want to breathe on him. :( I'm gonna take a nap, though, and see if I feel better tonight.

(11:03:50 AM) quark: i'm so sick
(11:03:52 AM) quark: it's so gross
(11:03:55 AM) quark: cough cough
(11:04:02 AM) dustin: that blows
(11:04:03 AM) dustin: you should
(11:04:08 AM) dustin: not go to class
(11:04:10 AM) dustin: order pizza
(11:04:18 AM) dustin: and watch blazing saddles
(11:04:22 AM) quark: mmm
(11:04:25 AM) quark: that sounds kind of um
(11:04:26 AM) dustin: under covers
(11:04:27 AM) quark: amazing
(11:04:37 AM) dustin: so yes
(11:04:45 AM) dustin: skip class, eat pizza in bed, and watch a movie

twist my arm there, kid.

ALSO a conversation I had with my mother over texts last week during the class I'm skipping today:

Quark: BORED
Mom: haha SHOPPING
Quark: FOR WHAT
Mom: STEAK POTATOES OATMEAL
Quark: WHY OATMEAL NOBODY LIKES IT
Mom: HIGH IN FIBER
Quark: GROSS BUY GRANOLA BARS INSTEAD
Mom: OKAY
Quark: hahahahah i love you so much
Mom: <3

i love my mother's capslock

SO I am now officially back on Tokyo time as I went to bed this morning at 6:30 (dawn), and woke up at 5:30 this afternoon. I missed both choir and my research hours. Uggggggh i HATE it when this happens because the only real solution is to just stay up all night tonight and then treat all my classes tomorrow as if they're normal. Which means I don't get to go to bed until like seven tomorrow siiiiiiiiiiiiigh but I brought it on myself.

( ANYWAY DATE POST )

so my um thingum

is coming to pick me up?










date

I AM BACK FROM TENNESSEE. It was a glorious trip and we won and it was SUPER EXCITING and I met a boy through a mutual friend, whom I had doubts about because a) we met at a football game and b) he is pretty cute and also intelligent

and today the boy facebook messaged me and we chatted for a while and my darlings Zippy and Jade kindly talked me through my HELP ME CRISIS MODE phase and then zippy linked me to puppy videos which calmed and cheered me immensely <3 <3 <3333

( ANYWAY PICTURES: )


anyway it was a pretty awesome trip is what i'm saying

( ZIPPY GAVE ME A BIRTHDAY BALLOON )

GUYS IT SMELLS LIKE CHRISTMAS OUTSIDE MY WINDOW and it is making me so unbearably happy. I wish it would hurry up and be Halloween so I could add my Christmas music list back to my iPod.

Leaving tomorrow for Tennessee! I should have internet in the house we're staying at, but in case I don't, h-have a good weekend? WAR EAGLE vols suck

BLEACH MOVIE hurry uuuuuuup YOU ARE TAUNTING ME WITH YOUR UNSUBBEDNESS

AND NOW, A MEME:

Tagged by shes_unreal omg guys richtext is HARD i don't remember how to do ANY of this but i don't want to code all the bolding

First: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

Second: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

I REFUSE. YOU MAY DO THIS MEME ONLY IF YOU WISH BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IN FOLLOWING THE ORDERS OF ANONYMOUS MEME-MAKERS boy. that'll show them. her. it.

Tagging: SORRY TOO BUSY FLAUNTING INVISIBLE INTERNET AUTHORITIES

ugh how do you do stupid lj-cuts in rich text THERE IT IS
( I FOUND IT hooray )

I AM WROTH.

First round of tests is over; I got two Bs in French and Immunology and a FIGGITY FRICKERING 64 in vertebrate development. UUUUUUUUUGH and the problem is really, really dumb mistakes on my part (e.g. writing spermiogenesis for spermatogenesis), mostly due to me putting off studying until the night before. BUT. Plus side is that I am definitely capable of doing his tests. I just need to actually study more thoroughly. AASLKDFHLASKDFH

I've decided to accept the Indiana interview. My advisor basically told me to not shut that door prematurely, so I might as well make a weekend trip out of it. siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

guys i am full of the doldrums

SO trip to Tennessee is definitely happening this weekend. that--that is exciting and a fun thing.

BLEACH MOVIE. YOU ARE TAKING FOREVER. i know you aren't released until the 30th and then it'll take ages more to be subbed but. i've been waiting. so. long. /whine

my toenails are freshly painted to match my new camera (replacing the one destroyed during the west virginia game's monsoon)

( ICON MEME! )

This week continues its bizarre ups and downs.

1: (UP) You may remember my parking rant way back at the beginning of the semester. Well, I got an email yesterday!

Quark,

A handful of spaces continue to remain open in the Stadium deck so we ran another lottery for those Quad residents who applied for RQ parking and were not selected in the first lottery. Your name has been selected and if you still wish to obtain an RQ permit, please say so by replying to this email by Thursday, September 24.
If you don't wish obtain an RQ permit, I would appreciate a reply to that effect by this Thursday as well.

Regards,

[redacted]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS /O/ \O\ /O/ \O/ SO MUCH so I am BACK in the close parking. PLUS she said that they only selected six people TOTAL this second time around, wow

2: (UP) I have scheduled an interview with UAB optometry for November 13. i--i just--

C: (DOWN) I went for my research hours today and Dr. Rashotte wasn't there, and nobody in the lab could either figure out what I was doing or what the next step was supposed to be. It's like they forget that this is my first time ever working in a lab. One of them asked me if I had my lab notebook with me; NO, because no one ever TOLD me I had to keep one! So now I've got to get one and start it AND go back tomorrow somehow after choir and pray that Dr. Rashotte will be there to tell me what to do. SO FRUSTRATING too, 'cause it makes me feel like the idiot keeping the rest of the lab back. /sigh /woe

IV: (DOWN) Some friends and I are going to the Tennessee game (an away game) next weekend. One of the girls is actually another girl's friend, and she is incredibly depressing and pessimistic and negative and just generally unpleasant to be around, and for a while we thought she wasn't going to be coming. BUT yesterday, I found out that not only is she coming, SHE'S DRIVING. /sigh /SIGH

FIVE: (DOWN) French is sucking like a sucking thing. I do every single day's worth of homework except Monday's since I had that Vertebrate test, and of course that's the day he chooses to have people turn in what they did.

Let n=6; n: (UP) PROJECT RUNWAY PARTY TOMORROW. I will let tim gunn soothe away this week with his vocabulary and snappy dressing

Today has SUCKED, and the sucking will continue until after lab tonight.

First vertebrate development test this morning--once again, felt totally awesome going in, felt totally awesome through the first three pages, hit the chicken embryo questions and shot out of the sky like a flaming turd. Then French Conversation, and I HATE HATE HATE this professor, whom I actually had waaaay back in 2007 for Topics in Culture and Literature. He's sand-in-the-shorts level irritating in general, but he rockets on up to cheese-grating-my-arms-off-would-be-less-chafing when he starts talking about things of which he has no actual knowledge.

Today--okay, look. It's a 3000 level French class. Half the people in here just meet the very minimum knowledge required to hold a basic conversation. And when you try to get us talking on any topic and spend ten minutes describing every possible tangent a student could have discussed—without opening the floor to students—don't act so mortally offended when you finally deign to let us speak and there's nothing left to say.

I swear he does this every single class. Today we were trying to talk about organisation as a concept, and he basically lectured on the subject (possible to be too organised? of course! but not enough is not good. it's the most important when you're working for school, but it can be bad if you end up with a list on your mind all the time of the things you have to do and on and on and ON) until he couldn't think of anything else to say. And then he wants us to talk? YOU'VE LEFT US NOTHING TO SAY BUT YES OR NO.

But what really buttered my biscuit today was that he said (mid-disappointed-speech on how we don't care enough about the class) that look at any other classes; if you're in music and you don't practice three hours a day, they kick you out of the program. They don't care. They'll say pft, he doesn't care, and they'll kick you right out.

WHICH IS TOTAL. CRAP. I'M IN THE MUSIC PROGRAM. I KNOW. And what GETS my GOAT is that he's pronouncing this as absolute fact! As if he knows firsthand! When anybody in the music program could completely tell him otherwise! And nobody can say a frickin' thing, because he's docked students' grades for disagreeing with him before.

I wish I could just drop the dumb course, but—surprise surprise—Auburn doesn't offer enough classes to get a minor without it, and I can't afford to study abroad.

/wraths forever




also looooooooooooooooool at my blog from two years ago. take a gander at THAT pretentious crap and FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF.

o-omg so exhausted

vs. west virginia today, and the chamber choir was supposed to sing god bless america and the star-spangled banner in a special pregame presentation, so we all arrived in our dresses and tuxes and, most importantly, heels, at 5:15 (pregame started at 6:30). But around 6:00, it started just pouring torrentially (i heard later we got 4+ inches in one hour), so kickoff was postponed an hour to 7:45. all this time we're standing under the tunnel, and there is absolutely nowhere to sit because the ground is soooooooooaked and where it's not soaked, it's filthy and of course we're all gussied up, too.

the worst part was that there were two drain spouts that emptied out down there, and the cement dipped down into basically a well. the military guys were standing there with their flags to present colors, and the water came up over the top of their boots. it was--it was pretty wet, is the thing i'm trying to get across here

well, around 7:15, they decided that there was no way we were going to have time for pregame at all, much less special presentations, so they sent us all up to the stands without having sung at all. luckily, by this time the rain had mostly stopped, except the stands were so wet i couldn't walk in my heels, and i ended up having to do one of the most horrible things i could imagine.

i had to walk through an 87,451-person stadium, and then a stadium bathroom, in my bare feet.

I KNOW. IT'S HORRIFYING. BUT I HAD NO CHOICE.

ANYWAY i finally found my people and settled into the stands to watch the game, which was a rocketing rollercoaster of terror and exhilaration, depending on how poorly we were playing, but the important thing is that we came out on top.

the one...dim spot, i guess, is that i'd given my camera to my brother so he could record our performance for my parents, and he'd given it to a friend to hold because the friend had a waterproof pocket. except as it turns out, the pocket actually collected water. and as of ten minutes ago when i talked to my brother, the camera was not turning on. his phone is also not working, due to the same misrepresented pocket-waterproof-ness.

anyway, the thing to take away is that i've been on my feet for seven hours, too many of them in heels, and now i am going to bed.

guuuuh

war damn eagle

I have caught something that is making me super dizzy. Like, it's a challenge to sit up straight right now because I keep leaning to the left.

I have a email from Indiana University inviting me for an interview for optometry school. I have 10 business days to respond, and I really don't know what I'm going to do, since Indiana is...very far away from Alabama. Do I really want to spend the money on a plane ticket for my last-resort school? Ugh. Postponing thought on this until no longer dizzy.

And now, have a conversation in which I trolled myself.

SCENE: QUARK steps into the SHOWER. QUARK has just RETURNED from an IMMUNOLOGY EXAM for which she pulled an ALL-NIGHTER. QUARK has not SLEPT in 26 HOURS.

QUARK: (while showering) Huh. I forgot my razor in the sink in my room. Oh well, I'll just wear jeans tomorrow.
A subconscious DARK QUARK EMERGES. The VIEWER can tell it is DARK because it is DRESSED in BLACK LEATHER and FISHNETS and has GLOWING RED DEVIL HORNS. Also, a CAPTION emerges labeled DARK QUARK, so, well, THERE'S THAT.
DARK QUARK GLARES EVILLY: What if you posted about this to LJ and someone asked why there's a sink in your room and not the bathroom?
QUARK: Well, I'd just tell them I have one of the wheelchair-accessible rooms and those are set up with the sink in the bedroom, not the bathroom.
DARK QUARK: But why do you have a wheelchair-accessible room? You don't exactly qualify.
QUARK begins to get FLUSTERED: Well, they're reserved at first for handicapped people? But if there aren't any who need the room, they open them up as singles for regular dorm residents?
DARK QUARK NARROWS EYES: Maybe I think you're selfish. You shouldn't have even considered taking it.
QUARK: BUT BUT BUT I'm a senior in the dorms! I've wanted a single room for three years! I had three freshman roommates!
DARK QUARK: There's no excuse. I hope you're happy, since somewhere, there's someone with a broken foot struggling up three flights of stairs because YOU were too selfish to give up your room. AND BESIDES, "wheelchair-accessible" is ablist language! What were you thinking?
QUARK, HORRIFIED: But that's what the brochure calls it! Look! And it is wheelchair-accessible! There's chair space under the sink and everything!
DARK QUARK GASPS and SHAKES HEAD, then, as it has CLEARLY WON the ARGUMENT, VANISHES as "TIME IS ON MY SIDE" PLAYS QUIETLY IN BACKGROUND.
QUARK WILTS and FINISHES SHOWER in DEJECTED MISERY. Once DRY, QUARK FLOPS on BED and DREAMS of TINY SHEEP on CRUTCHES, desperately STRUGGLING over the FENCE, until ONE BY ONE, they COLLAPSE against the FENCE and SOB.

With SILENCE other than the TINY SOBBING SHEEP, PAN OUT & FADE TO BLACK.

FIN.



/sigh

Reading Rainbow airs its final show this Friday.

...

fff

ffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

WHAT. This show taught me how to tie a trick knot. This show taught me about blue screens (watching LeVar Burton "climb a mountain" in "driving snow" was one of the best memories of my childhood). This show gave me my first lesson in perspective painting when they had a guy paint a window frame with gardens stretching into it.

Ugh, I feel like Mr. Rogers is dying all over again. So long, LeVar. Thanks for climbing the mountains.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

It is time for football.

That is all.



(p.s., chizik haters can go eat a foot because 13-0 this season, I'M JUST SAYING)

Flist, today I want to talk about boys. Specifically, a boy and the end of things.

To be honest, I was debating about posting this 'cause it's so soppily melodramatic, but I'm sure I've alluded to him before, and my neuroses demand a completed story, so here you go.

The bare facts of the situation: I met this guy freshman year and thought he was pretty awesome. Very funny, cute in a puppyish sort of way, and more than tall enough for me. We had mutual friends freshman year and choir together sophomore year, so we got to know each other a little, but it was just friendship for me until spring break of my junior year, this past March, when we and our mutual friends went to Gulf Shores together. It was a lot of fun, and I really started liking him then, but by then I'd had to drop out of choir due to a scheduling conflict and we didn't have classes together anymore. Nothing happened.

Cut to this year. We all move in, I'm back in choir with him, and the year's looking very promising. One night a couple weeks ago, he came by the dorm I live in, but his friends weren't available, so he came to my room and we talked for almost three hours, primarily about relationships. However, a good deal of it was also about the physical aspect of relationships, including what he thought girls liked and that on his first date as a college student, his date took her shirt off. He also mentioned that he had no intentions of waiting until marriage for sex and that he wished he'd experimented more in high school. At the end of the night he unsnapped my bra, but it was done in a very joking manner and he didn't try anything afterwards, and it had come on top of a very emotional conversation, and I let it slide.

This should have been a clue to me, but I'd liked him so long and the conversation dwelled so briefly on the physical stuff that I didn't really think much of it until last Friday. I went to go see his room (he's an RA, so he's got a suite and I wanted to see the differences), and without saying so many words, he asked if I was interested in being friends with benefits.

I don't want to dwell too much on my reaction since I've been thinking about it all week, but this is not the kind of person I am at all. I know I don't talk about it much, but I'm very religious. I'm not having sex until I get married. I really don't even want to fool around too much. To be honest, I've only ever wanted to kiss a total of three guys in my life. This guy was one of them until Friday.

I really was just so shocked by him even suggesting it that I couldn't react as I would have if I'd had any inkling he would ask this. I know I nixed the idea pretty firmly, but it's just...it makes me really sad. I really, really liked this guy, and this completely changed my perception of him. I really thought he was going to ask me out on a date, and instead he just wants that? I want someone who has the same values I do, and he just...doesn't.

The most awkward thing is that he's come to my room twice since then "just to hang out." The first time, he didn't stay long, and the second time I was sitting on my bed and he drew up my computer chair right next to me, and I honestly started to feel a little trapped. I texted my mom to call me and she rescued me, but it was still just so uncomfortable. Jade called me afterwards and said something I thought was very wise: for me, the guy I liked for ages turned out to be someone other than who I thought he was; for him, he just propositioned a girl and although she said no, she's still pretty fun to be around so let's hang out.

It's just...really disappointing and frustrating. I don't know why I seem to be such a poor judge of character. But I'm trying not to dwell on it. It was such a big thing for me, though, that I felt like I shouldn't pretend it didn't happen.

Pentacene.

IBM Research in Zurich, using an atomic force microscope, has taken the first-ever picture of a single molecule.

Source: MIT Technology Review

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!!!! DO YOU REALIZE HOW SMALL THAT IS. THIS IS SO. FREAKING AWESOME. I DON'T EVEN.