When was the last time I updated this!? Hahaha. Currently doing two things: watching the TV in Dan's dorm be boxed up (sadness) and avoiding reading the seminar materials for my upcoming final. I've already read two out of six essays, and they're really easy reads... Just gotta buckle down and read them all. I even have my highlighter handy. At some point I should make a final visit to the dreaded Livingston Art Building and pick up my wooden swing, too. They could have already thrown it away... sigh... Alright, going outside to bike/play frisbee before it gets too dark. I have been a SLOTH recently!! Myurrrr GYABO~~~!!!

I'm really pissed off right now, because I just got an email from my dad requesting that I take down a photo that I have on Facebook. I'll say it here because I'm not ashamed at all, it's a picture of me and Dan kissing. The caption I wrote for it is "D'awwwww". Nothing smutty or untasteful like making out, just a sweet picture of a sweet moment. This is what the email said:

Lori: in FB, your RuTgErS album, your mom and I find picture number 31 (caption D'annnn) to be inappropriate. We do not think young ladies of good reputation should have this type of picture available to the public. If you would remove it, we would be grateful (and you will be too, eventually, when you realize that more and more potential employers look at Facebook and similar sites for info on potential employees).

Oh, look at that! At least I know what he really typed, because I can copy & paste! I'm annoyed that they said my caption was "D'annnn" instead of what it really is, but I'm more annoyed that they think I'd just post something like that without thinking about it. In case you didn't know, I have my Facebook profile on very high privacy settings, and all of my photo albums are friends only. I don't suppose my parents know that you can change who can see each individual photo album, but you can. Again, all of mine are set to friends only, specifically so that people who aren't my chums can't see them.

I happen to really like that picture, and I'm not worried about potential employers seeing it, so it's staying up. Oh, unless said potential employers are affiliated with the government and hacking their way into my private Facebook profile, that is. But then, I wouldn't want to work for them anyway. :)

Edit: I guess this post was a little harsh. Mom & Dad, I'm not really that mad. It's okay. Just know that I know what I'm doing and it'll be fine. ♥

Meme time! I don't usually do these, but this little retrospective looked like fun. I don't really post enough to fill all the months, but here's what you do! Post the first sentence from the first entry of every month in 2008! Wheeee! :D

( Emo throughout the year~! )

It's a strange thing, typing up updates from the bus. My laptop's power is unsurpassable, hahaha! Today is looking to be a great day, fo realz. The fix on my sleeping problems continue to look positive, as I woke up at 11 today with no complaints. Went to get breakfast, now I'm on my way to College Ave, it's beautiful out, yay~

What's been going on with everybody? I'm so excited about Thanksgiving, because aside from the wondeful, home-cooked meal, it means I get to see all of your lovely faces! I miss everyone like balls (weird phrase but it sounds a'ight in person, lol). There's also been somewhat of an ease in classwork, as we prepare/start art finals. Even those are looking to be really fun, and I can't wait to start working more on them! Especially for drawing, ohhh man. JD gabe me a special project just because he really wanted to see me do it. It's pretty epic, and I will tell you that it involves a ten foot piece of paper...

AJES' anime convention, Mokucon, is today, and I'm going to hit that up after Seminar with a bunch of people. Hopefully it's not extremely lame, and I can buy some cheap manga or something. Oh and Peelander-Z! Nothing with them can be lame, hahaha! I'm actually amazed that they're on the guest list, since I've heard of them... Oh well, here's to hoping for something awesome.

Adventures! Yesterday, Dan and I went to the local comic/game store, The Fallout Shelter's, release event for the board game Munchkin Quest! If you've ever played the card game Munchkin by Steve Jackson, then you know how exciting that is. XD There was a Steve Jackson Games rep, decked out with an MQ shirt and knowledge of the rules, guiding us through a demo game, which lasted roughly two hours. It was really fun, and we got promo cards for the Munchkin card game as prizes for playing! Cool, cool. That's all for now, I'm about to go hit up that convention I was talking about! There's a Rock Band tournament, and Smash Brothers Brawl... don't think I'll enter either, but it's cool that there's gaming and vendors and stuff. I saw a really good cosplayer, AJES member! Kinda surprised me! Wooo, yep, all set. TTYL!

Lol, I love it when there are people in our A6 lounge. It's not often, because if people are awake past 2AM they're usually in the main piano lounge. But I came back from College Ave and Ebi was trying to study, while Ben was avoiding his room because his roommate was messing around with his girlfriend... and Suzanne was just chilling with them, in her down comforter for some reason. We had a really good two hours of chatting and making hilarious racial comments about Ebi. (I know, I know, that's terrible... but he knew we were joking around and took it well.)

Lately I've been kinda down, as you might have discovered from my Facebook status updates, but it's all better now. I sorted a lot of things out with certain people, and to make a long story short I'm all happy-jolly like usual now. I think bubble tea for the past two nights really helped! Unfortunately, I's Cafe closed temporarily while they're moving to their own corner location, so Noodle Gourmet is the only place to get bubble tea. It's reallly not as bad as I made it out to be. The watermelon flavor that I got the first time is truly vomit-worthy, though. But last night I had Taro Latte Slush with tapioca, and it was sooooooo good!! I want another one right now. Maybe I'll drag the seminar crew with me downtown to get my fix, lol. Not that I'm addicted or anything.

So I got to class about an hour early today, only to find the previous class still in session. Apparently they had an exam or something. I watched an episode of Pushing Daisies (still trying to catch up) and now, ten minutes before class, everyone is packed into the lobby area waiting for their exam to be over. Kinda wish I had left my headphones in so I could watch more Pushing Daisiiiiiies. It's seriously the best show ever. The characters are all so fantastic! Olive Snook is my favorite, and I actually don't like Chuck very much.

Been hanging out with Dan more as of late. For a while I kind of neglected him, and hung out at Demarest (a special-interest arts dorm) instead of going all the way to Busch campus. And schoolwork was killing me for a few weeks, so that didn't help. Now I'm just about back on track with my art projects, and excited about the new assignments we got yesterday. One is a stenciling project, and I really want to see my design on a shirt or something, and in Drawing our final project is whatever we want it to be! I'm so excited about that one. I made a small-scale draft of it that I'm in the process of coloring. Thanks again, Gale, for the awesome Niji water brush! I use it all the time, since I'm too lazy to walk all the way across the room to the sink. XD I'll be asking Santa for a larger brush size this year, though.

Omg, five minutes until class, unless they're super slow with the exam. I'm so bored. And it's getting hot in here, all these people... with that, I'm out! Calling Anna tonight, for super fun catch-up times! :D

Later:
Class is boring. I was wrong to think that it would save me from boredom. Very, very wrong. But I'm going back to paying attention now. XD

I actually wrote this on September 21st, but since there was no Internet I couldn't post it. And thus proceeded to forget about it.

It's been a while, hasn't it? I've been caught up with a gazillion things, and art midterms were death. I seriously pulled two all-nighters to get stuff done for drawing and artmaking. On a lighter note, I've been getting to know the post office quite well. I check my mail on Tuesdays and Thursdays, since I have a class (feminist practices) right by the student center. And I send out a bit of mail, too! I love sitting down to write cute letters to mah peeps in other states (and countries, ala Gillian). I got a postcard from her, with this gigantic text reading TORONTO on the front. One of her professors went to Rutgers! Heheheh. It's a small world.

Since the last post, I've acquired a lesbian stalker, but that's another story for another day. Needless to say, she scares the hell out of me and I wish she lived further away. So I wouldn't run into her at the dining hall. Or in Dan's dorm. Or on the bus. Uwahhh...

Oh! If you didn't know, I revamped SL a couple weeks ago. Updates every week! I love it now, it's my baby. Online portfolio, I guess, until I get a real domain name later on in my life.

To tell the truth, I'm sitting in class right now. Today we're talking about queer people, queer politics, etc. I got to class about 45 minutes early to do the readings, but there's no Internet in here! I was all worried about not being prepared, but talking to other early people (a surprising amount), no one else read the articles or even planned to. XD It's sad, but most of the class is spent with the professor asking questions and a few of the same people responding. Today during attendance she broke it down, saying, "I don't even know what you look like, sitting so far away!" to the slackers in the back rows. Hahaha. I'm a pretty good student, reading the articles 95% of the time and speaking up in class as much as I can.

WOOO, things are great! I actually have downtime... this is weird. Actually, I should be working on the insane drawing homework J.D. gave me (my drawing instructor), but the Internet was calling, lol. He gives individualized homework, and mine is sooooo tediious. Phil, a friend of mine, was apparently drawing too "tightly" so his homework is to do five drawings in five minutes. WAH!! But he didn't know what to say for me so he told me to just finish the drawing of bottles that we started in class. Photorealistic bottles. I have so much more to shaaaade! And did I mention it has to be in pen!? And he won't let me use crosshatching because he hates it. So I have to use the pen (trusty Bic brand!) to make tiny little strokes extremely close to each other... it freaking looks like pencil marks. Maybe I should just use pencil and tell him it's pen. XD *cries*

Yeah, okay, the more I think about it the more freaked out I am that I won't finish by a decent hour. I've only shaded 1.5 bottles out of the 8 in the still life, and it took two hours -__-. BAH!! Referring back to the start of this post, looks like things aren't so great after all. But I'm going to Knight Time Productions soon, a film production club! It's only the second meeting, but it seems like it'll be fun once the projects start going and I can fulfill my dreams of being an actress. XD

Grace, I need your address too! Anybody who wants a cute letter once in a while, send it my way~

...But close. I'm so busy!!! I barely have time to waste on Facebook! Even now, I should be working on the painting, 2 other projects, and 5 drawings that I need for class tomorrow. Art classes = epic fail, time eaters. That being said, I finally got supplies! The super-important things I need for the next few classes, anyway... Dan's parents took me and him to his brother's engagement party in another part of Jersey, and luckily they were able and willing to drive me to the Pearl Paint outlet afterwards. I'm so grateful; I was getting sick of borrowing everyone else's supplies. SO GRATEFUL. (Dan, thank them again for me, please!!) So aside from the crazy workload, crazy Drawing Fundamentals teacher, and missing a class on Friday because I was sure it started at seven (it didn't), things have been pretty rad.

Talked to Meg a bit on the phone because she has pretty big issues to worry about, haven't called Andrew back (probably not going to because I resolved it online, lol), and I've gotta call Anna soon!! So many people to talk to, so little time... Is everyone else this busy? It can't be just me. I miss you guys! ♥

Oh, and mom, I ended up putting together the lamp you sent. I was going to start painting around 8, and thought it's a little dark, so since I have this lamp, why not set it up? It looks cool, and fits nicely by my closet. Problem is... I NEED LIGHTBULBS. It didn't come with lightbulbs. (Fail.) I guess I'll be hitting up the general store sometime this week. I'll use my RU Express card. (The one you put $50 on.) And I put up the extension rod and curtain thing, which also looks cool. The rod was terrible though, it's kinda bent and I think I broke it by pulling on it instead of getting a screwdriver and unscrewing this little spring... but oh well. I don't have a screwdriver anyway. The chair cushion is really nice! A little smelly, but it'll go away in a few days. Thanks for the merch, Momma! :D

Today was a nice, slow day. I woke up and spent an hour or so finishing up a special drawing of Roy for Anna. I bet you're surprised I'm actually doing it, hahaha! I know, so am I. Got a bunch of reference pictures and everything. I haven't drawn for a while; it feels good to put pencil to paper. Then I scanned it, started coloring it... and all of a sudden it was dinner time. We had Pad Thai, which I don't like very much contrary to my heritage. For some reason main dishes that are supposed to be sweet just disgust me. But this time it wasn't all that bad, since Mom used a new spice, giving it a nice kick. (Gale, moments after taking a bite: "AHHHHHHH! ...IT'S SPICY! D:<") Good times.

Thirty-minute walk with Komi-kins, Gale, and Mom, which was fun but I ended up missing the first five minutes of the new Avatar episode. BOO HOO HOO, Gale, how could you!? I said home before EIGHT! XD

I also missed a bit because during a commercial I was flipping channels... that was dumb. It was a really good part, too, when Katara... hmm, maybe y'alls haven't seen it. Well she was doing something really cool/bad/intense and I'm going to watch it online because I feel the need to. Dan invited me out to Reston Town Center for dessert, so we went to La Madeleine and got delicious things. I had a lemon tart. Yum!! I didn't know the treats there were so pricey, so... I'm sorry, Dan... We need jobs.



Anyway, after dessert Dan suggested checking out the ground-fountain! The one near GRACE, where pillars of water go shooting up in a sequence. It's really pretty at night, since there are lights under each pillar of water. I didn't expect there to be many other people around, but there were! Everyone was just watching the fountain; it was really peaceful and nice. Everyone was also waiting for someone to run around in them... Heheheh. Dan really wanted to. First we watched a big group of wannabe-gangsters run through it. One of them was like, "I'm not scared, yo!" but you could tell that he definitely didn't want to get wet at all. XD

They left, and somewhere along the line Dan and I ended up getting soaked. ♥ Coolest thing ever to do in that fountain is to wait for the pillars to come up, and then attack someone with it by sticking your hand in the middle of the flow!! You can aim it towards your opponent and everything. Maybe it only felt cool, and we looked like idiots... But it was awesome. So we had an epic battle of who can get who, which brings me to my main story...

There's one sequence (it goes through four or so) where one half of the pumps all go up while the others are dormant, and then switches, so it goes back and forth in a cute way for a while. Picture this: Dan, commander of Half 1, and Lori, commander of Half 2. While the user's water was dormant, they got attacked by the other side's superiority! When Dan's side went up and I was being splashed like there was no tomorrow, I had the coolest idea. I was going to bend down, then raise my arms in conquest when my side came up! "It's gonna look soooooo cool!" I thought. Dan's water receded. He panicked. I bent down to the ground, in the midst of all my soldiers, and then LIFTED MY ARMS TO THE HEAVENS!!!

...Too bad the sequence was over. Dan started cracking up, not to mention the audience of other fountain-enjoyers; I looked like a total idiot. XD

Hahaha! Check out the title of this post! To be read as, "I have a retarded obsession". But look how I incorporated "I have", "Avatar", and "retarded"!! Ohohoho, I'm so clever... Really, if I were a character on the show, I'd be a female version of Sokka hands down. Bwahaha. Updating tonight because I just watched four episodes, from "The Painted Lady" to "The Avatar and the Firelord". Holy craaaaaap. Why is this show SO. DAMN. GOOD!? I really didn't want to stop watching. But it's getting late, and like I said earlier, I'm not staying up too late anymore! I have to have energy for swimming tomorrow! So anyway... "The Beach" was definitely my favorite episode so far. I love seeing what the Fire Nation peeps do when they're trying out being "normal". Hahaha, and when... Hm. Okay, thuper thpoilers ahead; it's a cut. Don't read if you don't want everything ruined! (Hahaha, Dan. Don't do it. DON'T CLICK IT. ...I SAID DON'T CLICK IT, DAMMIT!)

( Look at meeee, I'm Ty Lee and I can stand on my hands! ...CIRCUS FREAK. )

Hee hee hee, that's enough of my musings. I'm probably just gonna boot up the laptop when I wake up and watch the rest of Season 3. On a final note... I love Zuko I love Zuko I love Zuko I love Zuko! Prinzzzzzukoooooo! Which explains my icon. Do you like it? Ahahaha! :D

Holy crap, I just started watching Avatar again. I hadn't seen any of the Fire Nation/3rd season episodes yet, and the next season is out July 14th! Hohohoho, I just finished Chapter 1: The Awakening, and already I know I'll be attached to the computer screen until the final scene. It's soooooooo good. This is mostly for Maylene, I reckon, but guess what? I cried when Katara was crying to her dad about him and Aang leaving. And I cried even more when Aang destroyed his glider... I feel so bad for Aang, feeling like he's gotta do it all on his own. WAIT AND OMG WHAT WAS WITH THAT MAI/ZUKO KISS!? Good lord, this show. Is whack. Muahaha, just thought I'd share. Anna, if you haven't seen the 3rd season yet, you now have something to do during your downtime in Maine! I can't wait to see the next episode... but alas, I must sleep now. Been staying up too late recently, thus waking up after noon... boo. No more of that! Avatar Avatar Avaturrrrr

I'm just waiting for Dan to be done vacuuming his house so we can go to Panera and Crystalis. I'm thinking there will be many cute bracelets at Crystalis for me to choose from, as a little something for Lillian at her bat mitzvah tomorrow. I'm so excited!! Oh my gosh, yeah. I almost forgot that it's been two months. Updates on life:
○ I graduated, and got a nice amount of gift money, which I will soon deposit into my brand-spankin'-new bank account.
○ My curfew has been eliminated, and the amount of fun I've been having has gone up drastically, in proportion to the fact.
○ I got my learner's permit!
○ Jeanine and I are now friends.
Everything is going swimmingly! I love summer so far! Two more months, kekeke. We're going to the beach sometime, yay. Dan's here! See you later, my little livejournal~!

I had a thought today, as I composed an email to my lovely sister. 
When we converse, we converse in retardospeek.

So now I'm stuck asking myself, "When did this happen!?" 
"And why did I notice it just now!?" XD

Lol, sorry I never finished that post... and I don't really intend to now, either. Hahaha. So Atlanta was great, Anna and I had a lot of fun tearing up the Joh-jah Dohmmmm~
Well not really. I felt awfully confined most of the time, you know, seeing how we didn't go anywhere other than
a) the Georgia Dome
b) the hotel
c) the aquarium, or
d) Olympic Centennial Park for the team party.
So it wasn't even like being in Atlanta at all, lol. I guess hotels here aren't as nice, though. Oh yeah, the hotel was awesome. Imagine walking into the lobby, looking up, and not being able to see the roof of the building. Almost a vagina-like shape to the tiers, the layers and layers of floors; it was incredible. My favorite part of the entire trip, I'm pretty sure, was the day when our team had nothing planned and therefore had many hours to spend at the hotel. (Good thing it was so legit.) We got there at like 6PM, lol. So Anna and I decided to order Chinese from the Golden Buddha in town, that being a whole adventure in itself*, and had a grand little buffet in front of the TV set!
Seriously, she dragged the desk to the foot of the bed, we laid the $30 of deliciousness across our new table, and watched Hannah Montana. We ate enough for about five people. It was great. XD

*Called the number in the Yellow Pages:
"We don' deriver to Peachtree! Onry ten mires around Buckhead! You call wrong number!"
"Oh, I see... okay, then. Sorry."

Ordered General Tso's chicken:
"What the hell? This isn't General Tso's! This is kung pao!"
"No wonder the deliveryman ran off so suddenly... didn't even wait for a tip..."
"And what the heck are these?? Crab rangoon?"
"I think it's to compensate for the lack of General Tso's..."
"Damn Golden Buddha."

I just found out via Anna (Gale's friend Anna, not Popo Anna) that tsukareta means I'm tired/exhausted. Nemui desu. (I feel sleepy). I stayed up pretty late packing, since I did nothing all day... It was fun doing nothing productive, though. Too bad that after the fact, I remembered all the things I told myself I'd do when I got home, that I promptly did not do. Instead, I watched movie trailers on that Apple site with lots of movie trailers. I want to see the second Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie; the first was great and mom and I were crying like babies by the end. I'll come back during 4th period, time for a practice test in Comparative...

RRRRRGH
BE HAPPY BE HAPPY BE HAPPY!
BE HAPPY BE HAPPY BE HAPPY!
IT'S SO HARD THESE DAYS
TO BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!
RRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

Why do I have this terrible sense of foreboding about New York? It could be the rain.
I just have this feeling that everything will go wrong, and everyone will be pissed off (then again... what's new?) and I won't have any fun. Bollocks, though, since I always have fun on Robotics trips. Whatever this feeling is, I hope it leaves me soon. Possess some other body, spirit! I'm going to enjoy myself, dammit! Rain, rain, rain, never stops~

Sarah stops me in the hallway after school today, saying, "Lori! Did you hear from Pratt yet?" to which I freaked out because apparently acceptance letters came in today (her mom called her at school with the news). Anna then mentioned that Sarah also got a $15,000 grant scholarship. OMG. I'm so jealous. Not that I really want to go to Pratt too badly, but still... I haven't been rejected by any colleges yet. And I'd like to be able to say that I got in to what's possibly the most famous art school in the nation with a scholarship, too. GAH, $15,000?! Oh, Sarah... 

Why is Ted reading this. 

So, today didn't go as planned. It was much sweeter in my mind.

I fucking hate this. As I walked home from Andrew's tonight, wiping tears of frustration from my cheeks, I ripped my heart out and flung it into the street. I asked myself, "Why do you need him so much?" and I told myself, "Because he's the only one who can make you laugh so much that you cry, and cry so much that you laugh."

I started laughing.