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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.

College is awesome. I am so excited about the year ahead, especially after attending my first classes! They seem so amazing! Very small too. Painting: 16 people. Writing: 18 People. Sociology: 50 people.

Things I miss:
*Ryan!
*Friends!
*Water pressure
*Santana Row
*Ryan!
*Homemade food
*Sleeping in
*Snuggling
*Movie nights
*Bon fires
*any modicum of privacy

yes, Ryan is on there three times (he also counts under friends too). psh, I miss him. But he's coming down to visit on Friday! YAAAaaaaay! So excited!


Hmm... I keep switching of between having a lot of fun and being really homesick. Everyone here is a lot more social than me. I can hardly keep up. Maybe I shouldn't've come to such a party school. ...I was really stoked about all the school spirit tho.


Oh! Got my ticket to the Aasif Mandvi thing today! Woohoo!
....and a care package in the mail from mis parientes. I got all mah posters up now! ...and double of all the food things I got at target. All the same brands too. Haha, my parents know me so well!

oh my gosh! Fridayfridayfriday!!!

At USC! Classes start tomorrow. Woohoo!




Christiπ@ Sc@mporriπo

Room: 2305B

My mailbox is empty. MAIL ME THINGS.


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I was so homesick for the first couple days, but I'm over it a bit now. Still missing everyone at home a ton... but functioning.

My walls and shelves are so empty and sad. I really need some decorations. I wanna put up some pics of my friends too.

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USC Spectrum presents
Aasif Mandvi: Life on the Daily Show

Sep. 23, 2009 | 8:00pm

Tickets are $20 for the general public. You can buy them online: here

I'm going to try to get tickets. Especially since it's free for students.

Woo! Exciting!

A list of things to do this summer (as created by me and my friends)

We checked things off as we went, and have about a week to finish up as much as we can

[X] Fire Roasted Hot Pockets!
[X] Bonfire
[X] Beach
[X] Get rid of shorts/shinguard tans
[ ] Vlogging
[ ] Share FootBand with the world
[X] Pool party @ Bittney's
[X] Paint something! (shoes, shirts, bags)
[X] Throw a wild party at Christina's
[x] Pierce ears
[X] Something with water balloons
[X] Picnic (yay food!)
[X] Several pranks involving face paint
[X] String the boys' houses
[ ] Paint party
[X] Run thru sprinklers @ night
[X] Ikea Baby!
[ ] Communism movie
[ ] Over night laser tag
[ ] Paintball
[ ] Make 3-way BFF heart(Pineapple Express)
[X] Swimming
[ ] Get Brittany a BF(/or drunk)
[ ] Make mousepad
[ ] Chevy's style ice cream cone
[X] Barbeque
[x] Limbo
[ ] Play El Lobo tag/duckduck
[X] Hide and go seek
[ ] Six Flags
[ ] Slip N' Slide
[X] Falafel Drive In

RYAN GET OFF MY JOURNAL.









NOW.

I may be the most insecure, self-conscious person ever.



My self-esteem is at an all time low, and I really really wish I would cut it out. Because I seriously cannot be pleasant to be around. Or even bearable.

"Jail is not fun, or so I've heard."
"Funny, I've heard the same rumors"
-Ryan and Daniel

Woo! I'm all rested! It feels grrrrreat! I am way behind on all of my internet duties though. ..but oh well.

Disneyland was great! We rode Thunder Mountain like a bajillion times, and sang really loudly along to the Pirate's song with the rest of our boat on Pirates of the Caribbean, and ate burgers in line for Matterhorn, and played cards in line for Matterhorn when it broke down one night, and sang happy birthday to Jessica with our entire monorail car when the clock struck midnight on her birthday, and took pictures where we pretended to be all barfy on the Tea Cups, and almost got kicked out the hotel pool for looking like hooligans that snuck in.

Back from the Disneyland grad trip with the BFFs. So so so fun. But maaaayn I am exhausted.

I am so glad I put my foot down and told people that today is my day of rest. Like, 3 separate people called yesterday to ask if I was doing anything today. I said YES. SLEEP. Like seeeriously. As much as I enjoy going out with everyone, I haven't had a real night's sleep in over 2 weeks and 9/10 of those nights I'd been out past midnight or later...cause I was always like 'Well... I'm tired but I'll go out and have fun anyways; I can sleep later." Well, it seems like later is never gonna come, so I will have make it for myself.

I am very proud of myself, because I have such intense difficulty saying no to people. PROGRESS! Woo!

So yes, hello again, internet! It's been a while!

Also: Party tomorrow!!!

Graduating today!!

The ceremony looks to be pretty boring. We've already practiced walking into and out of our seats like 4 times on two separate days. I don't know if I can stand that agaaaaaain. Especially since we won't be playing a big game of Catch Phrase while everybody up is walking up for their diplomas. There was a lot of us together for grad practice so it was a very fun game.

..But I'm really excited for Grad Night! Woop!Woop!

Oh, and I realized why I don't have more guys friends (well, non-art guy friends. Gots lotsa those, but this problem doesn't come up). I reeeeeeeally don't care to talk about cars, or sports, or Led Zeppelin. Seeeeriously. They listen to the most boring music in the car, and then get into really deep discussions about engines and point guards. It's nice to have a new(/additional) group of friends though. Not that I don't love my old/original friends. I believe the problem is that I love them too much. We are just so so so incredibly comfortable with each other that often when they come over we end up laying on the living room floor or my bedroom floor just lazing about and enjoying each others' company. Haha, we just don't have to try anymore. Which is awesome, but I do enjoy some new excitement every once and a while.

Beeeach day tomorrow! I'm excited! ...but also totally bummed cause the guys were gonna drive back up to have a bonfire after the bus dropped us back at school at 4. ...But then I remembered I have soccer 4:30 to 6:30. boo. And I can't skip cause Jess and Britt have soccer too and they're not skipping. Ah! I really want to go to soccer, but maaaan that bonfire would rock. THE UNIVERSE CONSPIRES AGAINST ME HAVING GUY FRIENDS.

Also tweetdeck is being a retard and keeps telling me I have 4 new status updates like every two minutes. CUT IT OUT.

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