:: Mrs. Rickman's Lembas Shoppe ::

:: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 ::

Just in case anyone still reads this, I've moved. My old computer gave me too much trouble, so I had to switch. Of course now I'm having a much better time, but it's far too hard to up keep two journals.
so sorry, dearest Blogger! It was wonderful while it lasted! Maybe one day you and i can be ruinited. ^__^
:: Kara 10/15/2003 02:21:00 PM [+] ::
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eling Better Every Step of the Way.... [Sep. 17th, 2003|11:55 am]
[ mood | hopeful ]
[ music | japanese techno! ]

continued from post this morning:
So after such a horrible morning, things are looking up for those who keep questioning me (for the terrible morning in question, see previous entry). Anthropology was actually interesting! we had a guy come in and show us slides from Australia, Canada, and Africa of hunters and gatherers where he lived and studied for years on end. Now *That's* what I want to do with my life...
Then I checked my mail and got three things that were wonderful. One: I recieved my global links pairing. It's someone named Nawin, and I wonder if it's a boy or girl and where they are from! I hope they're nice... we get to go to a global links ice-cream social on Saturday as well! how fun!
Also, I recieved my very first hand-written letter, from Jane. ^_^
Third, I recieved a round tin from my aunt! Inside were a bunch of yummy smelling cookies, and letters from each of my cousins! Isn't that sweet? I guess I have some letter writing to do...
Also, there were rice krispies treats at lunch today. Yes, that's right, I fight depression with yummy food! So there! Good thing I live on the 4th floor, eh? ^_^
Urg. Well still have German and health to go. Maybe will take a nice little nap and do some homework and just *Take it easy* for a little while. Jeeze. All this depression is making me tired! Good thing I feel so much better now! I wonder if it's just mood swings ^_^ Alirght, well, I'm gonna get ready for class, have some cookies, and be happy, alright? IT's beautiful outside (Albiet a little hot without the lovely breeze) and sunny. oooo! Maybe this is PMS! (boys didn't need to know that). ^_^


:: Kara 9/17/2003 02:03:00 PM [+] ::
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AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! [Sep. 17th, 2003|09:14 am]
[ mood | depressed ]
[ music | none. music sucks. everything stupidly sucks ]

life sucks ASS. So we have our the first part of my first real college paper due today-- nothing big, bibliography and research stuff. But I'm doing my best to do it right and spend a total of 8 hours in a library and up 'till 2 last night typing and making sure everything is exactly as the proffesseur wants it and exactly in MLA format and such. And this morning. MY ALARM DOESN'T FUCKING GO OFF. I'm so freaked out that i don't even brush my teeth or eat anything, just throw on jeans and a bra and run to class. Which means besides the fact that I have to sit through an entire class worrying about whether she'll accept my paper, i also have to worry about whether my stupid morning breath is bad enough to make the person next to me hate me forever. So I'm late to class. Which means I have to turn in my paper after class. Which means it is late. I don't know how how she will handle it, if she will take off a grade or what, but she DID accept it. I haven't been able to concentrate all day on the stupid unfairness of it all. I hate school. I was even working on getting everything together, doing my homework on the days i got it assigned so i could concentrate on the paper and everything, and obviously it doesn't fucking matter. Stupid paper. Whatever. I'll get over it.

Edit: only 20 minutes later, I feel a little better now. I think it's just that heat of the moment been bothering me for 2 hours but can't do anything about it kind of rant. I got out the tears, and now am distracted. Lets take our usual optimistic outlook, eh? Things honestly can only get better from here on up today.
:: Kara 9/17/2003 02:02:00 PM [+] ::
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Going Downhill [Sep. 16th, 2003|03:20 pm]
[ mood | stressed ]
[ music | new age.... something soothing... despertly needed ]

first of all, this is one of the funniest things I've seen. Watch it for a minute or two ^_^ Check out the other ones by clicking on "Toons" at the top. Some of them are really great. some are stories and will end on their own, some are not, and you have to just stop them by going back to the toon page. Anyhow, check it out!
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/8/
http://weeble.fluent.ltd.uk/toons/21/
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/22/

Something I love about small towns: How this town IS the university. There's this little crosswalk that I have to go over on my way to health. There are no stopsigns nor lights here. And yet, the cars ALWAYS stop. ALWAYS. Even if I will stop at the curb and there are three cars waiting behind them, they will always wave me through. And during Freshman week, when we were still trying to find our way around places, like to the lake or the movie theater, I swear we drove down 5 one way streets. Once or twice right in front of a cop, who just looked over and shook her head sadly, and went back to doing whatever it was she was doing. IT was kind of funny that way.
Lesse... I updated a new story to fanfiction for anyone that cares about that stuff. It's a strange little one-shot written when I couldn't sleep at about 1 in the mornig to new-age music during writer's block, so you can imagine.... anyhow, check it out. "All in a Name," under the usual Smike McMerlyn pen name.
Oh, so since I couldn't get a hold of Allison for dinner tonight (we haven't been able to catch eachother all day), I went down by myself where I met my foreign friends Dali, Rie, and Tamaki. We all sat down together and talked for a long time. At one point, Tamaki leaned over, as we were talking about weekends, and how I had gone to see a movie, and asked me if i had ever seen Pirates of the Caribbean. I told her yes. And, without ANY prompt from me, mind you, she said, "oh I love that movie! But I love the actors more! Orlando Bloom.... especially Johnny Depp!" and Rie overheard and said "ooo! Johnny Depp is so cool!" And I didn't even bring the subject up ^_^ It was decided they wanted to watch Chocolat or something. It was so cute! ^_^ I might just ask to bring one or two of them home for Thanksgiving if it can be arranged. They have nowhere to go and said they have "never seen the inside of a real American house." hehe. i love them.

EDIT (9:30 p.m.):
So I ordered a House T-shirt, right? I ordered a large because I figured they were normal shirts and i am not exactly the skinniest person alive. So of course we get them, and they're SUPER CUTE! They say "Missouri Hall, Showering together since 1965" on the front and "why else would we choose truman" on the back... i love it! But of coruse the t-shirts are NOT normal. They are Men's BIG AND TALL shirts. Mine goes BELOW MY FUCKING KNEES! I can't wear it ANYWHERE except to sleep in, and i actually want to WEAR this. IT SUCKS.
So earlier today I didn't feel well... it wasn't a normal not feel well, like a sickness or anything, just... strange. I felt heavy... and off-balance. But then it got better.
Now I feel even stranger. I just spent another 4 hours in the library getting COMPLETELY stressed out, because for the bibliography due tomorrow, we have to have TWO journals, and I can't find any. And I DID look up different subjects from religion and spain and renaissance and golden age and painters nad literature.... there was NOTHING! I was at the point of crying in the middle of the library. Finally I gave up and just choose one... But at this point, I feel like my body is running completely on stress... that it is the only thing keeping it up. It feels like... adrenelyne. REally. It's so strong that my hands are actually shaking, I feel light-headed, everything is in a haze... it could be caffiene, I suppose, but i doubt it. It's NEVER done this before.... i can hardly sit still, my body is physically shaking slightly...and yet i feel very, very tired.My heart is beating and i feel rushed and full of energy yet drained and really, really stressed. I have so much to do... and yet I can barely concentrate on the words on the screen... my finges want to type fast then I can and my words are getting all ahead of eachother..... I guess i need sleep.... i have no clue....

:: Kara 9/17/2003 02:02:00 PM [+] ::
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YOU MUST CHOOSE YOUR LIFE TODAY! [Sep. 15th, 2003|07:02 pm]
[ mood | drained ]
[ music | the BEATLES! LET IT BE! ]

Funny story: something might just be wrong with our airconditioner. Last night it was making HORRIBLE loud, scary noises.... and then it SHOT ICE. That's right, from within the air-conditioner spouted ice-cubes that launched themselves across the room. REally. It scared the SHIT out of me! We turned it off.... We think that rain may have gotten inside, and since hte temperature dropped outside and since we kept it on as it was still hot inside te dorm-rooms, it froze or... something. Anyway, it was frightning. But we have an automatic ice-maker now. ^_^ Just kidding
Tell me, how is it that people can walk up in here, some with only 17 years of life in their pockets to speak of, and know exactly what it is what they want to do for the rest of their damned life? I mean, I have NO CLUE what I want to do at this point, and already they're making "undecided" for more than one or two semesters sound like the worst thing on the planet. But the two things I might be leaning towards I haven't even taken yet! SO STOP PUSHING ME, YOU HEAR?!?! Grrrrr. Stupid classes.
Oooo, so I saw a girl in the cafeteria today who had a Teen Girl Squad hoodie (for those who don't know about this, go to homestarrunner.com and look up StrongBad E-mail)! Isn't that the coolest thing ever?! Apparently she and her friends each chose a character (i.e. The Ugly One, The Cheerleader,etc) from TGS and each made a sweatshirt with their favourite parts from the comic. hehe. isn't that awsome. Some of da old peeps from U. City should definently do that. ^_^
Lets see... today. Well, I was exhausted, but art history was fine as usual. note taking, history, all good except for this horrid paper.... Math sucked as always. Anthro... well, we didn't do too much or get tests back, but we DID HAVE SNICKERDOODLES!!! WHOOOOOOT! and chocolate chip cookies. But really. SNICKERDOODLES! If any of you have never had this cookie, have it NOW. That's an order. They are simple, but hte best cookies in the world. For some reason I always thought it was a jewish thing.... some other girl in my class agreed. Apparantly everyone gets their recipies from their Jewish friends... *smacks lips* I had so many I skipped dinner 'cos they're SO GOOD! Then there was....right, German. Which was... okay. The class is really really boring. I got an okay grade on my quiz, but mostly because I forgot to capatilize all the stupid nouns. Grrr. I WILL remeber. I feel like a fool complaining about how boring and easy that class is and then getting such a so-so grade on a quiz that was easy. *sigh* I still love the language tho.... Then there was health, weight-lifting again... fun/painful as always.
I took a two-hour nap today as I could barely keep my eyes open. I took a LOOOONG HOT shower ^_^ in the big shower with light. Shaved. Feel all clean. Pampered. Still don't know if cleansing or exfoiliating goes first. I helped Kyle print out his paper (i met him at the beginning of the year. he's a sweet kid). Kim is goign out tonight for sororiety stuff, so I get the house to meself. whoot! Auggie may come over.
Lesse, I should prolly get some homework done now so tomorrow I can focus completely on that STUPID art history paper. Might just go to bed early tonight if possible, but that nap prolly screwed me up badly.
Here is a poem I love... I learned the first paragraph from my latin teacher last year. It's very pretty. Here is the whole thing:

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura,
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Tant'è amara che poco è più morte;
ma per trattar del bene ch'i' vi trovai,
dirò dell'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte.

Io non so ben ridir com'i' v'entrai:
tant'era pien di sonno a quel punto
che la verace via abbandonai.

Ma poi ch'i' fui al piè d'un colle giunto,
là dove terminava quella valle,
che m'avea di paura il cor compunto,

guardai in alto, e vidi le sue spalle
vestite già de' raggi del pianeta
che mena dritto altrui per ogni calle.

Allor fu la paura un poco queta,
che nel lago del cor m'era durata
la notte ch'i' passai con tanta pieta.

E come quei che con lena affannata,
uscito fuor dal pelago alla riva,
si volge a l'acqua perigliosa e guata,

così l'animo mio, ch'ancor fuggiva,
si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
che non lasciò già mai persona viva.

Poi ch'èi posato un poco il corpo lasso,
ripresi via per la piaggia diserta,
sì che 'l piè fermo sempre era 'l più basso.

Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta,
una lonza leggera e presta molto,
che di pel maculato era coverta;

e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto,
anzi 'mpediva tanto il mio cammino,
ch'i' fui per ritornar più volte volto.

Temp'era dal principio del mattino,
e 'l sol montava 'n su con quelle stelle
ch'eran con lui quando l'amor divino

mosse di prima quelle cose belle;
sì ch'a bene sperar m'era cagione
di quella fera a la gaetta pelle

l'ora del tempo e la dolce stagione;
ma non sì che paura non mi desse
la vista che m'apparve d'un leone.


:: Kara 9/17/2003 02:00:00 PM [+] ::
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[ mood | crazy ]
[ music | Pirates and Conan's Anniversary Show ]

alright, if i don't give a backstory, no-one will ever get this story... i'm gonna slow down and take this slowly ^_^
In 6th grade I found a fantasy series called RuneSword that had been written in the 80's and was out of print. I loved them. And being ME, I liked the underappreciated character, which happened to be an Elf named Endril (hence my name ^_^). I wrote my very first fanfiction about this, before I really knew what fanfiction was.
SO, after all these years I'd pretty much forgotten about it all (despite the 12 composition notebooks that I still have), until Keith last night mentioned that he knew a friend whose name online was ALSO endril. Which I have never heard of in my life. I always assumed I was the only person who had ever read these books. Of course, looking back, he probably an RPG person, not books, but the POINT is that it got me thinking again about Runesword and Endril. So I looked up "Endril" on google. I found this site:
http://www.claytonemery.com/runesword.html
It is The Story Behind RuneSword, where the author who wrote one of the books talks about he characters, and ESPECIALLY about Endril. And at the bottom, it said "e-mail questions or comments." So I gathered up my stupid courage and wrote an e-mail. I figured what the hell, he'll never write back anyway ^_^ But just a half hour ago or so, I recieved this letter:

Kara,

Don't apologize. Your comments are exactly the sort of thing I like to
read. One of my biggest pleasures in life is sitting down with a good
book, and by writing good books, I try to get some of that back. To
hear that people really do take my books to heart is terrific! I'm so
pleased you identified with the character Endril. I was given only a
bare bones description of him, but knowing that he was an elven
outcast, it was easy to picture him as melancholy, longing for home,
and occasionally snappish when asked about his homeland or pestered
with dumb "human" questions. Endril would even have been of two minds
hanging with the other outcasts, since they were much like him, but
still not like him.

And I'm glad to see you were writing stories about the character.
That's a great way to stretch the mind and to spend more time with a
pleasant "friend". I think it's great.

So, yes, thanks very much for writing. Authors need to hear it, and I
appreciate it.

Clayton Emery


EEEEEEEEEEEE! ISN'T THAT THE MOST AWSOME THING YOU'VE EVER HEARD?!?!?!?! WHOA! i'm all happy and stuff. Who knew, eh?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:: Kara 9/14/2003 09:52:00 PM [+] ::
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11:30 am - Johnny Depp is hot even without his eyes....bone structure, you know.
Wheeeeee! I suppose I should simply carry on with the usual writing bit and tell you about last night. Which was awsome. And Johnny-Depptastic. *Grins*
JESSE's GOT HIMSELF A GIRL AND I WANNA MAKE HER MINE! I WISH I HAD JESSE'S GIRL!

So, I woke up pretty late considering how late i had been up the night before doing... oh right, the anime club. Which was awsome, because I know very little about Anime when it all comes down to it, so I had no clue what series we were watching. But that doesn't matter 'cos I do NOW! We watched Scrapped Princess (AWSOME!), Lain (also awsome), Samurai Deeper Kyo, and Last Exile. One of these was stupid, and I can't remember which one it was, but the other three i really liked. THEN we watched Nurato (Also super cool *giggles* hehe. "Super" Sensei rocked). Then they brought us McDonalds. ^_^ Of course it was only midnight or so, so we (meaning Allison,Denni, and myself) all went back to Keith and Josh's room to watch MORE anime! Whooot!
Yesterday (right, we were talking about yesterday, weren't we?)I spent 4 hours researching in the library. GRRRR. Stupid library. Apparently there aren't all that many resources on Murillo and I'm wondering if i should change... but who knows if i really got anything worthwhile done. It's hard to tell. Then I ate dinner with Todd (Who I met at Prism, and he's super awsome) and Allison, Alison, and Breanna. We had a REALLY good time just sitting at the table talking and we laughed a whole lot. We found Denni in the hall and we brought everyone up to my room.We lost Breanna along the way somewhere... Then we capered in the halls because we couldn't decide what to watch/where to watch it. Firt I believe we watched Queer as Folk in Allison's room. We all LOVE Todd (Who will be henceforth known as SCARLET, got it?), and then we decided to go see ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO. hehe.Which I will tlak about later after finishing my night here. Anyhow, so we came back from that really hyper, and were going to do something else. But we couldn't decide on what to watch where. We all ran up to Scarlet's room (well, actually, we were elevator happy last night! WHEEEEEE!), but his roomate was watchign a movie. So we rode down to my floor and MY roomate was still there, but she was gonna leave. So we all went down to Auggie's room. Denni had left to do... something, but was coming back, but then we decided to watch BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (which is the funniest damn movie ever! Okay, for whoever grew up watching HOOK, you know, with RObin Williams? RUFIO is in But I'm a CHeerleader! RUFIO!!! HAHAHAHA!), which Scarlet owns. So we left this message for Dennie on the board telling her we were capering through the halls from me and Johnny Depp. So we all rode BACK up to Scarlet's room, and he got the tape for us. Then we rode back to Auggie's room, but realised that her VHS has no tracking. So we rode back up to MY room and then we saw Keith wanting to know if I wanted to watch some more anime. I told him to come watch with us! And I forced him, so he called down Josh, and we were all gonna watch but then the boys started playing around on my computer and... doing things to it. Networking it or something. Who knows! But anyhow, they did that for awhile and we all sat around and talked (there were 7 people all crammed into my little two-person room). Then FINALLY we remembered the movie and watched that. It was awsome.
Then Auggie, Alison, and Denni and I went back up to Keith and Josh's room where we all watched anime until 4:30 and the morning and lived happily ever after! Hurrah!

now for Once Upon A Time in Mexico

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It was.... confusing. REally confusing. And kinda funny. But we did realise one thing. Johnny Depp will look hot forever. Because even without eyes, Johnny Depp has such awsome bone facial sturcture that you almost hate him! Well, no, you can't hate him. But it's hillarious 'cos he walking around blind as a bat wtih blood running down his face, and you STILL notice how pretty he is. Silly depp. Anyhow, everyone in that movie wears Michael Jackson outfits. Antonio Banderas plays the guitar angstily. Johnny Depp is awsome. He has little children as his guide, and shoots things. Everything is awsome. Nothing makes sense.


ALRIGHT, NO MORE SPOILERS! Anyhow, i'm tired, but i was woken up by roomate, so I suppose i'm up now for good. At least until i fall down dead. *sigh* i have homework to do today. I have no choice but to do it. Stupid homework.

:: Kara 9/14/2003 12:26:00 PM [+] ::
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Reasons why life sucks:

*John Ritter Died. He wasn't very old. I love John Ritter! And Johnny Cash died too*

a) I feel like shit because
b) I have a cold and/or allergies and my throat and head hurts and my eyes itch
c) I have run out of my second Kleenex supply
d) I tired as I stayed up until 1:30 trying to study for anthropology which
e) I still don't think I know the material really well and am freaking out
f) Had to get up at 6:30
g) am freezing as I have no sweatshirts
h) had to walk in the rain
I) couldn't find my umbrella in the dark, or my keys for that matter
j) I just failed my first math test, and most of it was stupid mistakes, so of course I feel like a freakin' idiot
k) and this means that I can;t make ANY more bad test grades because I can only grop one
l) I'm starving because I am running out of breakfast food and don't have time to go down in the mornings and
m) have no car to go to Walmart for which to buy me food
n) have no time for a nap because i have a choice first between studying and sleeping, and then l have a choice between eating and sleeping. I'll eat 'cos i haven't all day.
o) my room is messy and i need to do laundry but I'm SOO tired
p) I have part of an art history paper due Wednesday which means a weeked alone in the library which means...
q) I won't see my friends/get to see Once Upon a TIme in Mexic/ got to lake
r) My stupid allergy medicine isn't working.... except that i'm out of it, which could just be sleep.
s) I have chills
t) almost all of my pencils ran out during my anthro test and i couldn't come up with an answer to a question
u) I couldn't think of what the second classifing system that was used, and i had one, erased it, put something else, and NOW i find out it was probably right the first time! ARG!
v) I won't be able to go to a movie anyhow because I DON'T HAVE A CAR!

EDIT: okay, so it's later in the day, and I feel a little better, at least mentally ^_^ I think this morning was just a TEENSY bit stressful and overwhelming. My decongestant has finally kicked in, so i;m not as sniffly, but still stangely cold and really tired. BUT no longer strangely depressed, so that's all good. Plus I got a package from Ada of a German Dictionary, with a cute little note ^_^ That always makes me happy, so i sent him a letter back. Also, German was boring BORING, but I knew the correct grammar and my book didn't. hehehehe.
But here was the last reason why i was pissed off. It's kinda funny too ^_^ :


z) STUPID FUKCING BLOGGER ERASED MY POST AND REPLACED IT WITH SOME-ONE ELSES!!!!!!!!!!! I DID NOT WRITE THIS!!! WHERE IS THE REST OF MY LIST?!?! (this appeared on my blog strangely after my post got erased. I wonder who it belongs toooo?)


federick say i haolian when i ask ppl abt EWS. Wth. Canot ask meh. Jus bcuz he scored lower den me, den he nt happy. Duh. He said dat its a disgrace to lose me. Waliew! ....... I noe lah, i chi speaking, SO? Doesnt mean i duno hw to WRITE. Damn. And the stupid guys use their fingers to piak me. Attack me fr both side. BIG BAD BULLIES. ARGHHHH... Misfortune to be in this class..haha...

Went climbing todae.... Jiawen was like asking me, "Y u alwayz go climb? Very fun meh?" ..I mean this is my interest lorz. One man's poison can be another man's meat *smting lidat*... rgt? heh. If i dun enjoy climbing, i wldnt even be bothered to commit myself to go every wed and fri. Cld have stayed hme and ZZZz like nobody's biz. :p

Bouldered for quite sometime jus now. Now my fingers feel so sore and painful :( ...Arms aching. GeEz. but of cos, it was fun lahz. My left knee got 2 small blue black, right knee got 4 small, 1

and there it stops. strange, no? Anyhow, maybe I will take it easy tongith and sleep and be with some friends, just to calm down my system, and work all weekend like a good girl. Ja! off to german!
:: Kara 9/12/2003 10:01:00 AM [+] ::
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DAMN STUPID BLOGGER ERASING MY POSTS!

anyhow, one awsome thing to talk about. Allison and I went to a Prism meeting tonight in an effort to be more active on campus. Prism (in case you don;t understand the refrence here) is the Gay/Straigh/Lesbian/Bi/transgendered group. I have a feeling Allison and I were one of the few straight people there...^_^ ANyhow, we played some "Get to know you games" and I met some people over Buffy and Will & Grace conversations. Anyhow, I met two really cool boys, one named todd, and awsome girl named Amanda. ANyhow, we stood around and talked for awhile nad then went back to Todd's room to watch some of a movie and talk some more. It was there I realised everyone prolly just assumed i was gay, so i had to let them down gently ^_^ I was an "in the closet straight!" I hope they weren't too put off... But I told them all my thoughts as we had some deep conversations about how I believe love is all dependent on who you meet. Girl or guy, its all the right person, and love has to be right with any sex ^_^ So ANYWAY, Amanda and I talked a lot about Gay Eye for the Straight Guy (she may or may not be gay, as i didn't ask and its not my business, btu we DID talk about how hot Jai and Kyan were, so you never know, but then again who cares!). ANyhow, I left early because I have an anthropology test tomorrow (STUPID TEST!), but I had such a great time. If anyone hadn't noticed, I've been a little anxious about this making new friends issues, so I have finally started meeting other people I can really hang out with and such. SO! That's my day! Gotta go study!


:: Kara 9/11/2003 09:56:00 PM [+] ::
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hey, i found this quiz on TWC. It's actually kind of interesting. It's all about what sides of your brain you use and what kind of learner are you (visual, audio, etc). I thought some of the questions were a little iffy, but after reading my results, it sounds a lot like me! What do you guys think? Let's see me results:

Your Brain Usage Profile

Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 22%
Right : 77%

Kara , you are strongly right-hemisphere dominant with balanced preference for auditory and visual modes of processing, a very effective mix for creativity and spontanaiety while being amenable to direction and focus.

With this combination you are likely a very impatient learner. On the one hand, you deal with large abstractions while you must frequently reduce your processing to one dimensional channels. Fortunately, you also have the attributes of a visual learner so that simultaneous processing is also available to you.

In a similar vein, your right hemisphere gives you an abstract orientation that you are able to link to the organizational and sequen- tial resources of the auditory learner.

You are more passionate than most and have the capacity to be very persuasive. You can detect a great deal by listening to others and this, combined with your intuitive capabilities, would tend to make you an excellent friend.

You are less reflective about yourself or your motivations, unless forced to be. Your tendency is to respond simultaneously to people and avoid a need to have expectations or demands.

Overall, your organization and planning are flexible, and you are successful in "winging it" with sufficient verbal sophistication to blend with your spontaneity and creativity. You will experience discomfort only when situations become too organized or rigid and find yourself wanting to either flee or challenge them.

You may be disorganized with piles of stuff laying everywhere. Unlike the more visually oriented person, however, you have a hard time relocating whatever you place unless you verbally state to yourself where you are putting something and then remind yourself what you are looking for when you go to retrieve it

Take the quiz yourself at: http://www.mindmedia.com/brainworks/first-paragraph.jsp

:: Kara 9/10/2003 11:10:00 PM [+] ::
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CRAP. I lost my post AGAIN! so there, people. anyhow, i just got back from playing pool with some peeps. that was awsome.
Also... you know what, forget it. It's too hard to rewrite all these stupid posts.
:: Kara 9/10/2003 09:15:00 PM [+] ::
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music: Damien Rice. This music is awsome. And British.
mood: Tired and stressed.

oooooo. i'm so sore!! It hurts to move my arms.... i guess weight lifting is doing SOMETHING, eh? Anyhow, what a day. This week is NOT off to such a good start. Jeeze, is it really only Tuesday?! Anyhow, I totally forgot i had a health quiz today! Completely and utterly forgot. I was a little more focused on, say, other homework like anthropology papers and stuff. grrrrr. I think it turned out somewhat alright, but i guess i've got to get back into focus a little bit. It's just i have SO much work to do and it's depressing that that's what i spend most of my time doing, so i get really un-motivated about it all. Tomorrow I have a math quiz. Or test. I'm not sure there are "quizes" in college. But I'm having trouble with it. I would go to the math tutoring session tonight (and I prolly will), but hte problem is i don't really have one specific question. I just want to know how do DO it. Period. *grumbles*
Anyhow, back to health, our teacher is pretty neat as health teachers go, from what i've heard from other people. Last week, we were learning about stress, and she was teaching us about a certain type of relaxation, but she let us try it! IT was all... new age-y and stuff. We all sat there with our eyes closed rolling our heads back and forth and breathing. Today we were learning about healthy relationships and she pulls out a DAVE BERRY article! How super awsome is that? It was really funny, too.
Since I've been having a bad day, I'm going to shamelessly give some Lets-Make-Me-Feel-Good news. I got an e-mail today from a yahoo PotC fanfiction group. It pretty much said it was a group promoting well-written fanfiction that wants to steer away from the usual HORRID Mary Sues and the "Girls from other universe dropped in and fall in love" story types. It said that if i was getting the e-mail, someone had read my fanfiction, thought it was really good, and nominated me for membership!? Isn't that great! Hehehe. One thing is that they are a non-slash group. NOw, I don't 'exactly' write slash. Not really, anyway. But I do write things that leave the final decision up to the reader; they could take it as either slash or friendship, depending on them. Oh well ^_^ This made me feel really good, in case anyone cares.
Lesse. I had Brocolli cheese soup today. It was so-so. I miss the Bread Company. Oh well, the food hasn't been very good here lately anyway.
Oh right! Last night, Jennifer, Allison, Alison, Berry, another boy i don't know very well, and I all went down to the student union around 10 or so and played pool for an hour ^_^ I'm really, really bad. But that's alright! Allison and I only got through two games while the other group got through maybe 4. But Berry was trying to teach me how to hold my cue.... er, wait, stick? Whatever that thing is called. He was trying (and very laughingly) to show me how to hold it right. EVentually by time we left (around 11 or so) I was getting a little better. Not much tho. ^_^ Anyhow, it was nice to do something different for once, and homework was making me sick. So that was a lot of fun.
Here's a thought. I've been giving actual consideration to the whole Rush thing. I mean, i am NOT your typical sororeity type of girl. And I don't WANT to be. But i keep thinking about social-wise what i do now, and it's very low-scale. I have a few friends, a couple who i am becoming fairly close to. But i still wish I could meet more people. Girls AND boys. And i think that a sororeity could give me those options of new friends. Now, i'm not talking about the normal sororeities. There is one in particular that is the "performance" sororeity, which focuses mainly on the arts, but actually has people in it who are bio majors and stuff. The people i know who have spoken about being in it/or interested are really nice too. Anyhow, this will MOST LIKELY never happen, but if it ever does, just giving ample warning. I have NOT gone insane ^_^ Anyway, there's rush every semester, and i'll be damned if i'm gonna do it now 'cos i have too much homework to work on. Plus, it's hardly been one month since i've gotten here, and there's time, right? ^_^
AUggie introduced me to this cool online thing called Nation States where you make your own nation and decide on issues and stuff. You can make your people super free or torture them, it doesn't matter! Isn't that awsome!? Well, I'm actually gonna go do homework now *Gasp!* so farewell!

:: Kara 9/09/2003 05:36:00 PM [+] ::
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