Current Mood: ahhhhhhhhhh Current Music: The Rolling Stones.. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild wiiiiiiiiiiiiiild horses couldn't drag me awaaaaaaaaaay
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone had a good one. I also hope no one did anything stupid like drunken driving. Seriously people. It's totally fucked up to do that kind of thing. Plus, I care about you, so please don't do it.
Now for past resolutions and present resolutions!
1. FINALLY clean my room at home. Nope. I really could have tried harder to remember this one =( This summer I meant to clean the whole thing but I started working and never stopped...
2. Don't spend too much money (on myself), try to save more money I think I was fairly successful with this one.
3. Don't take people or things for granted I tried, but I always think I can do better with this kind of thing.
4. No soda (with high fructose corn syrup), more milk There were a few times when I had a sip of soda, but I was pretty good with this overall. No cavities =D
5. Improve physical appearance through exercise, generally good
eating habits, and dressing better. Exercise, no check. Generally good eating habits, check. Dressing better, check.. minus? Hmm. I didn't remember that my resolution was to exercise. Dammit, I hate exercising. I already walk a lot and do the hyper-run-around thing occasionally... I guess overall my physical appearance has improved a lot, however I could still use to stop wearing my ratty mule/clogs/slip on shoes and my fake-enstocks that I've had for about 6 years and look like they've been dead for a while now and I'm just humiliating them at this point. Ugh, but they're so easy to put on! Well, at least people have stopped asking me what high school I go to or looking surprised when I say I'm a senior in college. Maybe it's the granny loafers I wear =P
Hmm, this year, I think I was better with the resolutions than in past years. Success!
And for this year...
1. Keep up efforts to improve physical appearance and wellbeing through generally good eating habits, dressing well, and at least making an attempt to formally exercise. 2. Work less, school much more. This summer and past semester has really made me stressed out (over lack of time and lack of time spent with people) and I think that a lot of my friends just assume that I'm busy and my worst fear is that I've become phased out =( Please say it ain't so =( 3. Don't spend too much money on myself. 4. Bowl a turkey. At some point. Preferably in league. While I'm at it, improve my average by at least 10 points. 5. Don't take people/things for granted. 6. Clean my room. I am never going to stop using this as a resolution... 7. REMEMBER these resolutions.
Ok I hope I really do remember that last one. And the rest. Dang.
Current Mood: super Current Music: tv from the other room
Christmas was pretty good. Busy, but good. I spent a lot of the weekend at work, but it was more fun than writing grants, plus my boss was really thoughtful and gave me a gift certificate to Giffords and two tickets to a movie theater for my efforts. I think I will bring a tub of sorbet for him or something.
I still haven't done my laundry since I got home =P
When I came home for break, I was really happy to not have to worry about school for another month. I guess that's what's going to happen when I graduate. I don't know why, but I really missed home. I can't believe I almost let myself work on Christmas day... It was nice to stay home that day. Also nice to have time to open loots =P
Notable loots list: -Vera Bradley bags -Red purse -Tan wristlet -The Planets by Dava Sobel (Longitude was really good! Very cool book. It's like a biography of John Harrison) -Coat -Happy fragrance set (yaaaaaaaay old school favorite!) -Fleece blankey -200 gb hard drive so I can finally stop worrying about losing all my crap being as my laptop is going to die on me any second -Moolah, always nice.. SO very poor right now =(
AUGH I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner. I was looking for a job to do over winter break and I completely didn't think about applying to be a gift wrapper at the mall until three days ago. I wonder if it even pays well. Then again, I need any income greater than $0. I'm pretty awesome at wrapping gifts if I do say so myself...
Current Mood: ARG Current Music: Wilco "Reservations"
So I'm in CVS today and I get a call from a number I don't recognize.
Person on the other line: Hey (like he recognizes me) Me: Hey.. who are you calling for? POTOL: Is this (someone's name that's not mine)? Me: No, this is Tammy, I think you have the wrong number. POTOL: Oh, who? Me: Tammy; you have the wrong number POTOL: Well Tammy, you sound like you have a sexy voice Me: I'd appreciate it if you didn't say that. POTOL: HA, shut the fuck up
At which point I hang up
Why do douchebags like this think they can objectify people and say things that are inappropriate to someone they don't know? Maybe he was joking, but I should HAVE the right to answer my own freaking phone without this happening to me. If it makes me uncomfortable, I don't care what anyone has to say about it supposedly being a compliment. He also didn't have to tell me to shut the fuck up. I was not rude to him. I never do the "hey, wrong number" thing and just hang up, leaving the person bewildered and confused. FUCK people like this.
Current Mood: stiff and ache-y, but THANK YOU SIBYLLE!! Current Music: Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi Cab
So yesterday in all my hustle and bustle to get back to campus, I didn't fold my laundry and forgot about my corduroy pants. Now they're all wrinkly and I don't think I could wear them =( Two things... 1. Can you iron corduroy pants? a. Does anyone have an iron I can borrow?
and...
2. Is it wrong to throw my cords in with someone else's laundry in the laundry room for 15 min, then take them out before the person gets there?
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Because all of you want to hear about my totally weird dream last night...
Peter called a bunch of people to go clubbing (!?) and to "get ready" I decided to dance like Milli Vanilli.
Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Counting Crows "Hanginaround"
Today, I lived the life of my roommate who interns at an elementary school part of the week. I chaperoned a field trip to see an IMAX movie at the Air and Space Museum for my workplace's after school program for grades K through 5. The kids were really fun and delightful, but... short on attention, but that's to be expected I guess. They sassed each other and the chaperones the entire bus ride there and every adult present tried their best to get them to sit down and stop yelling. I sat next to two boys, one of which had a Naruto head band thinger
that he showed me and called his "karate band." He asked if he could
bring it into the museum and I said "Sure, as long as you don't do
karate in there..." At which point both boys cracked up and gave me a
funny look. As we left Anacostia, heading towards downtown DC through a dark tunnel, all the kids screamed and I wondered if I did the same kind of thing when I was their age =P
The movie we watched was Magnificent Desolation, a 3-D movie about the moon. After much difficulty, we got all the kids into the imax theater and spent about 10 minutes telling them to stop talking and sit down. The lights dimmed and the first 3-D image appeared on the screen. It grew larger as it began to fly towards the audience. Some kids shrieked in fright while others "OOOOOH"ed and giggled in wonderment. It occured to me then that most of them had probably never seen an IMAX movie before, let alone a 3-D one. I hadn't really thought about how lucky I was to have my first 3-d imax movie experience in Disney World (Michael Jackson's Moonwalker) when I was 5. Watching the children watch the movie was like experiencing watching a 3-D IMAX movie for the first time all over again. Nearly every kid tried to reach out and grab the image. There were quite a few scared kids who wanted a lap to sit on. One girl asked me if we were really on the moon and I smiled and shook my head. I wasn't really sure about how to explain to her about the two different projectors and the polarized glasses...
After the movie, we piled back onto the buses, this time with more chaos since groups got separated as did children from their belongings. Even though they were rowdier than before and got into more fights, I was still smiling because the way the all cheered at the end of the movie and the way a few of them insisted to me that we should rewind it and watch it over again made me happy for them that they had fun today.
