aquatic_fishy

At the frat party last night:

Dude 1: IT'S LIKE HOUSE.

Eveyone else: . . .

Dude 2: ...LIKE THE SHOW?

Dude 1: *NODS TOWARD THE DJ PLAYING HOUSE MUSIC*

Everyone else: OHHHHHHHH.


Haha yay House and being on everyone's mind more than house music!

I think I journal a lot less now just because... I have a lot less in general to update you all about. Haha, I lead such a vanilla and plain life. It works for me though.

I went to the Unites States vs. Honduras soccer game yesterday. It was a friendly to warm up for the World Cup. I'll have some pictures up on the FB a bit later. We got creamed 1-3, but it was still a very fun game. The crowd was over 90% Honduras fans, all of which were awesome and crazy enthusiastic. It was nice off campus somewhere other than downtown too; I hadn't done that for a while.

OHMYGOSH GUYS!!! I GOT ON THE BLOG OF UNNECESSARY QUOTATION MARKS!!!! LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME!!

THAT IS MY PHOTO FROM MY JOB. *I* AM CHRISTINA.


CHECK IT OUT. I DEMAND IT.

Just got done with my first art class with Justin Bua.

Prettttty LEGIT.

I am excited for this semester. I think I am going to love this class.

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On a side note, ohmygosh it's been so long since I've legit internetted that I forgot how to do html links. ...All I could remember was that it ended in "/a". ahhh "a href", how I have missed you.

My monitor works again! Oh happy day!

...Now I have the *capacity* to draw!!

Classes for this semester:
**Physics 161 Honors: Mechanics and Thermodynamics
**Physics 200: Energy and Keeping the Motor Running
**Match 126: Calculus II
**Art History 127: Ancient Central and South American Art
**Fine Arts 207: 2D Art for Animators

I've been to all of them except the art one. ...It seems like it's gonna be a tough semester. Interesting though. And it's not like I'm doing anything better.

I'm excited for the art one! I hope it's good. ...I'm not quite sure what to expect.
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When did House amp up the awesome-ometer???? Cause last ep was AWE. SOME.

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Ryan might go to Illinois for undergrad. So that's another 2 years til I'll get to be near him. Unless I go to grad school... Then it's 6.... Poop.
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I wanna get back into drawing. I kept wanting to draw over break, practically everyday. ..But I didn't have my tablet there. ..Now I'm back though, the inspiration comes less easily. Something about being home just makes me want to do all of my stuff... like drawing and LJ and dA.... that college somehow seems to discourage.

Wake up: "NgghhhhGHGHHHHH. I don't want to wake up. *sleep*" OR "PEE. PEE. DON'T WANT TO WAKE UP BUT OH MY BLADDERRR *get up*"

Go to sleep: Everything I did that day and everything I need to do the next, Ryan.

squashed14 has an LJ!! Woohoo! It's like Christmas or something!

Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany Brittany!! Prepare for the lulz. This girl is funny. And now livejournal is up to 57% funnier than previously. BELIEVE IT.


Wheeeeeee!




In other news, today in San Francisco today I went into the smallest bathroom ever. It was actually kind of scary. It was like a very small dimly lit closet someone cut in half and then stuck a john in. I literally had to sit sideways on the toilet cause my knees wouldn't fit regularly.

I always put my eggs in one basket. It saves on basket costs.
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Christmas is fun times (and yes, I almost just spelled 'Christimas... oops there it is again, as "Christina" ...so darn similar to my fingers).

Only one more chocolate to eat on my Trader Joe's advent calendar... which includes a picture of santa's work shop with a cuckoo clock bird that yells "Polly want a potsticker" and the sign counting down the days since a workplace accident. HMM.
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ryan_d_green has an LJ now. And we are mutual friends. How *OFFICIAL*. Love that boy.
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And now the end-o-the-year meme. 1st line from the first entry of every month in 2009.

JANUARY: Writing about depressing stuff on my college apps is depressing me. :( [[or, alternately, "Son, this hurts me more than it hurts you... but I am not putting you down until you promise not to go to art school."]]

FEBRUARY: My 18th B-day is coming up in nearly a month! I almost forgot! ...I have to think of an awesome idea for a party... ahh! but I don't know! So... [Woww I was a bit over eager there.]

MARCH: Back from a 4 mile run in the rain. Plus two GIANT HILLS that KILLED my thigh muscles. It was cold and muddy... but I made it! :D I am very soaking tho.

APRIL: Wow. I feel like such a retard when I reply to someone on dA and I think their comment is from a different journal of mine that it actually is.

MAY: What I was doing today: [[picture of jessica on the roof holding up a PROM? sign]]

JUNE: Ay! Ay! Ay! So much to do! AnD FRICKIN FACEBOOK WILL NOT LET ME GET ANY WORK DONE. CAN I JUST NOT DO ANY OF MY FINAL PROJECTS OR ORIENTATION PREPARATIONS AND JUST TALK TO BOYSSS?? PLS PLS.

JULY: So all the drama is resolved!

AUGUST: I am seriously considering going to the doctor. This is getting ridiculous.

SEPTEMBER: How do you tell someone you love them?

OCTOBER: gots stuff to do. ..But I kinda need a de-stress. So I am taking a break to do a meme from knackeredwriter

NOVEMBER: Damnnnn.

DECEMBER: jamba juice elephants pink telephone why is the sky blue is mdf an acceptable material for the construction of doors book eight how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Daaaaang. I realize I'm starting to average 3 entries per month. ...and for november, 2 of those were completely private! Yikes! I gotta pick up the pace here! I am failing.
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College: 5-7 hours of sleep per night. (leaning towards 5, tops 8.5)
Home: 9-11 hours of sleep per night. (leaning towards 11, tops 13)

Meme-ity Meme! (otherwise known as 'procrastination')

Stolen from: mooserevenge

So here's how it works: open your choice of music player and put it on shuffle. Press play. For every question, type the song that's on. And when you go to a new question press the next button. Ready? GO!

Opening credits: Johann Sebastian Bach - 1966 Vln Parita No. 2 D Minor: Courante I AM A CLASSY HO. YES SIR.
Waking up: Laura Pausini - Como si no nos hubieramos amados (As if we had not been in love) ..What a very strange and tormented song to wake up to.
Average day: Baby Bash - Cyclone Ft. T-Pain (Radio Edit) OHHhhhhh HEEEEYYYLLLZ YES. Oh yes, shakin' on every average day.
First date: The Hush Sound - Where We Went Wrong ......Darn.
Falling in love: Ska-p - Mestizaje (Miscegenation)Oooh! Imma get me an ethnic man!
Fight scene: Rick James - She's a Brick House MIGHTAY MIGHTAY. wa-BAM. I think that means I win
Breaking up: Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk Appropriate. 'I used to be love drunk but now I'm hung over. I love you forever. Forever is over.'
Getting back together: Josh Groban - Alla Luce Del Sole (Under the light of the sun)
Secret Lover: The Fratellis - Cigarello !woo!
Life's okay: Andrew Bird - Imitosis Andrew Bird songs all sound like perfect life's okay songs. ...They are sad and say the word and life is awful and flawed... but approaches it all in a 'well that's the way it is, let's accept it' .."We are all basically alone"
Mental breakdown: Gym Class Heroes - Clothes Off Yeah I'll have a mental breakdown and just run nekkid through the rainnN! wheeeeeeEEEeee!
Driving: Demi Lovato - La La Land Yes, because I won't really drive until I am here in La la land.
Learning a lesson: Lucas - Lucas With the Lid Off ????
Deep In Thought: Josh Groban - To Where You Are
Flashback: Sweeney Todd Soundtrack - A Little Priest Ohhh my, what a horrible past! No wonder I blocked that!
Partying: David Archuleta - I'll Be What a downbeat party. Slow dance I suppose.
Happy dance: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Oh What a Night OH MY GOSH THIS TOTALLY *IS* *IS* *IS* MY HAPPY DANCE SONG!!!!
Regretting: Lauryn Hill - Killing Me Softly Apt.
Long night alone: Andrew Bird - First Song
Death Scene: Demi Lovato - Get Back ??? It's a bit late for that
End Credits: Andrew Bird - Heretics "Thank God it's fatal, thank God it's fatal, not shy of fatal." ..that would've been perfect for the one above!

About Fry on Ferguson. SOEXCITING. Also that DM was pretty darn awesome.

It is like the epic fates of epic-ness have aligned to create this show. I love Ferguson sooo much (so funny!!!). And well... Stephen Fry is in his own epic category of epic-ness!! And then Ferguson is always exceeeeedingly awesome when interviewing foreign guests (more than his usual level of intense awesome).

My last hold out is puppets. I love the puppets on the show and I really hope I get to see some on that day.

Ryan prompted me to send an email request. And he is sending one too (because he is awesome).

Here's what I wrote in:

"Hi Craig,

I am coming to see the show on November 4th. You are amazing. Stephen Fry is amazing. The only thing that could possibly make this show more epic would be puppets. Could you please invite the puppets to come that night?

Best wishes,
Christina"

Email craig at: http://www.cbs.com/late_late_show/email/
(I always love the email portion of the show)

Ahahahaaaaa! It's gonna be so much fun!!!

YAAAAY!!

Look at the AWESOME puzzle-card I got from Stacey (specialcamper)!!!!

It really is a cheerful card. And lookit that fishy! LEGIT. ...Love the giraffe too! And the turtle! And ah! All of them!!


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I put it together and then mounted the finished puzzle on yellow paper so I could put it on my wall with my Disneyland buttons I got yesterday. Happy Birthday Bethany Norton (because there is a girl Bethany Norton who people announce they are anytime they do anything stupid... she was not actually at Disneyland with us) and Just Married. ...Just because!

Thank you thank you Stacey!!! You are one darn awesome girl!

Going home this weekend really only made me more sad. A lot more sad.

I was so excited about college before I went. I don't know when I became such a wet blanket. I wish I wasn't so unhappy at USC. ...I don't really think being somewhere else would be any better... I mean, sometimes I like to think it would... but anywhere away from home, leaving my friends, would be the same. ...And being closer to home would just mean that I would be home every weekend, adjusting even less. Being this far away is good for me in the end I am sure. I am being forced to become independent. I cannot live at home forever.

I have developed a sort of hate for L.A. though, which is awful... since I live there [here now, since my plane has landed since I've started this journal]. ...I just hate what it stands for. No friends, distant family, unhappiness.

I feel really awful about dumping all my sadness on other people too. On Ryan, on my family. Seeing them should be a happy time, and they shouldn't have to hang out with this mopey, sniffly, snotty, unhappy person. College just doesn't seem like its for me.

I have no friends and this upsets me. Especially seeing everyone else having made best friends forverr and laughing and joking and being really close. Seeing people all around here doing that, and hearing about that sort of thing with my old friends at their colleges. And well, I can't really blame people for not befriending me. *I* wouldn't like me if I met me.

I fail. College is not for me.


Sorry again, for moping at you all. I should be a happier person.

Livejournal, I would just like to say, you guys are awesome, and supportive, and I love you all.

I gots stuff to do. ..But I kinda need a de-stress. So I am taking a break to do a meme from knackeredwriter

Are you in a good mood right now? No, I haven't slept since sometime in early June (not counting maybe one, two days tops over the summer), I had to leave my boy (which always stings a bit), I had to leave home (which also stings a bit), and I just found out my dad and brother aren't going to be in the country for Christma and that my Oma is very very sick with an enlarged heart, and my mom is already booking plane tickets to go see her before it is too late. ....Oh and I have my first college midterm tomorrow and it is INTIMIDATING and for a reeeeally hard class.

woops, I didn't mean to go on and on so long. But yeah, a lot of things going against me right now... I don't feel actually too, too bad though, more a sort of numb acceptance of it all. ..and a focus on all the studying I have to do.


Do you need to say anything to someone? Yes.

What made you mad today? Nothing, really. Slightly irritated that my feet got cold and I couldn't find my socks while I was in bed this morning (Ryan's bed in his chilly outside room. He was sadly inside sleeping on the couch though. ...Instead of in there keeping my toes warm, haha)

Are you available? As available as tickets for this week's Cal game [Read: absolutely not available at all].

Will you be in a relationship in four months? Yes.

Do you hate it when people smoke around you? Yes, it's smelly.

Will your next kiss be a mistake? Nope, unless it was ill advised public display of affection. ..but sometimes, these things can't be helped.

Where is the shirt you are wearing from? It's from my grandma... so I'm gonna say.. Mervyns. The one from earlier was H&M, which I love.

Do you mind being cold? In general I don't mind temperature, but I mind cold much more than hot. Especially when it comes to my toes.

Are you afraid of falling in love? Haha, no. It's quite lovely. ...Much before it happened, I couldn't've been afraid of it, because you can't be afraid of things you don't believe exist.

Have you held hands with anybody in the past week? Ryan, over the weekend. Because I quite enjoy hand-holding. And he has nice hands.

Do you have a friend you can tell stuff to & you're sure they won't tell anyone? Yes, but it would have to be over the phone or through textual means.

Did you go out or stay in last night? I.... went out to stay in. At 8am I went out to San Jose so that I could stay with Ryan all night. His mom cooked yummy pasta (yay homecooked food!) and we watched Sleepless in Seattle and stayed up until like 2am.

What is something you really want right now, be honest? SLEEP. (I agree with Jackee on this one)

Are you okay with making a total fool of yourself? Fro sho, it's practically my philosophy in life.

What was the first thing you did this morning? had cold feet and an urgent need to pee. I proceeded to use the restroom and get socks.

Do you forgive and forget? Yes, because I have found people who don't hold grudges keep friends much longer.

What don’t you leave the house without? USC Card. That thing is my life. I can't do anything without it.

Do you believe in love? Truly. Very much, very much. No doubts.

Do you get distracted easily? I procastinate. ...but once I'm into something it's hard to distract me. ...especially from things that bother me.

What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? [censored]

Your thoughts of long distance relationships? Not quite as nice as short distance relationships. Some frustration and heartache. ..But worth it.

Think of the person you'd like to be with most right now, when did you last see them? Noon this morning, in the park by the freeway before I left for LA again.

Is there someone that knows everything or mostly everything about you? Umm no one knows everything. Ryan is getting himself pretty darn close. And second only to him come LiveJournal, haha.

What were you doing at 8 this morning? Eating toast at Ryan's house with him and his little brother. Blueberry jam!

maaaaaah. I don't wanna write my essssssay. bleeeaaaaahhh. pfft.

...Apparently, I'm just going to makes sounds at you all instead.

I am considering buying my suitemates' love. What can I buy them all? hm hm. Box-o-donuts for the suite every time Ryan arrives? Fresh flowers? Something for the bathroom? ...We've lost the chance at first impressions, so there's a lot of uphill ground to make up. hmff. Nevertheless. I. WILL. MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Can't buy me loo-oooooove. ...for less than $200 a month.


Ryan got me a cacuts!!! Woohoo! It's so cute! I loveloveLOVE it! It was originally going to be named Dexter (after the serial killer), but it doesn't really look like a Dexter... and it's a succulent so it doesn't have those deadly spines... so I have instead decided to name it Neil Cactus Harris (NCH for short). WHY am I naming my cactus??? Who knows. Who knows.

First Painting 1 project finished!

We had to make nine 2"x2" squares based on 2" squares from our paint tables (to show sort of... a 'history' of the room)
A Table!:


Here is my set-up:


And here is my finished painting. Don't ask me why upper right corner looks so darn repulsive. I don't know. ...Everything else, I can tolerate though. Tho, I'd say I only really like 4 or 5 of them. I've missed painting with acrylics. Dearly. I enjoy it so much. ..though my back hurts from it, hmph.



The real challenge was getting the squares to look significantly varied. ...Especially since a lot of tables ended up with a sort of muted brown.

Here are some poorly photographed doodles from during my college endeavors. Gotta stay awake somehow. (But really, all of my classes are really interesting, but sometimes I am really sleepy and I need to doodle to stay focused)


'R' for Ryan... 'Z' for sleepy... and 'M' because it is a fun letter to draw on lined paper.

AND: A bonus Dinocorn! ..drawn with a laptop touchpad. Quite beautiful.

First real essay of the year. ....And I have gotten back into Twitter. Do not kid yourselves, there is definitely a correlation.

Twitter is glorious and magical in it's ability to provide for me a platform to shout my complaints into the world. ...and my small victories when they occur and I need someone to celebrate with me.

Happy 2nd Month Anniversary! ...ish (the exact dates are blurry, so maybe this is late... or maybe it is early... depending on your reference point)

You'll probably see this because you are nosy. ...but if not, I guess I'll have to send you a link on FB.

[[I still want my cactus for my dorm room, haha]]

You make me happy. You are awesome. I miss you. And I wish you were here so I could tell you, in person, all these things and more.

The actress who plays Catalina from My Name is Earl is in my Improv class!!!



I walked in and was like... wow.. that girl looks a *lot* like Catalina from Earl. ..But then I was all, nahhh, it's prolly just some pretty Freshman that sort of looks like her. I heard her talk and it sounded a bit like her... but she didn't have her put-on accent from the show or anything tho, so I couldn't really decipher much more. Well, she read out her journal entry in class and it talked about her being an older woman in a college class and referenced herself as a professional actress. So I was pretty sure by then, but I spent the rest of the class wondering if the Nadine who was sending me 'energy' and to whom I was sending 'energy' was really the famous actress from My Name is Earl (which apparently no one at this school watches...). Well, I went straight on IMDB as soon as I got back from class... and IT IS TOTALLY HER. hahahaha weird.

Haha,and it's extra weird cause I totally used to have a girl-crush on Catalina. heehee, harmless, harmless

Oh USC and your quaint star power. I hear Lil Romeo is a real jerk around campus, and that he only got on the Basketball team here because his friend got recruited and would only join if Romeo could go and play for USC too. Gossip around town is also that Zac Efron is enrolled here too, but I don't think anyone's ever actually seen him around. I also heard Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle is our age now, and goes here. This one I know least about tho... I just heard it.