welcome to my soul

My new hair

2009-11-11T19:35:58Z

It's a lot shorter. And darker. And if you look close, there is blue in it too.
Don't mind the crappy photo. I was trying to look cool, and took it with my phone.
Also, it hasn't been washed in about a day, hence the grease. Sorry.

phantmgreeneyes @ 2009-11-08T22:31:00

2009-11-09T04:32:42Z

The Bad:
- I put off writing my English paper until 9:00 because of a haircut appointment and Buffy. And Kate's mini-party.
-I am so tired.
-I just started a new book that I want to read instead of writing my paper

The Good:
-My hair now has blue streaks in it.
-Its also the darkest its ever been.
-Its also pretty damn short

Someone feel like writing a paper for me? I'll bake you cookies!

Question of the day:

2009-11-04T04:56:28Z

If you were to die tomorrow (which, please don't), what tattoo would you want me to get to symbolize you?
"I wouldn't want you to get one" is not an acceptable answer.

MLIA.

2009-11-02T23:46:20Z

I was in Duram Hall this afternoon checking out some registration stuff when I ran into my student advisor Scott. He'd read my complain-y tweet about how i was sad I didn't get any Halloween candy since we didn't go trick-or-treating, and said he'd bring me some.
When I saw him in the hall he goes! "Oh! Ariel! I have candy for you!" and then in an evil voice, "Come to my office, little girl."

I have the coolest advisor EVER.
Thanks for the candy, Scott! It will be consumed during Buffy tonight.

phantmgreeneyes @ 2009-11-01T20:00:00

2009-11-02T02:03:50Z

I realized today that I am sort of uncomfortable around men. Oh, not men in general. But like men my age. The only two I seem to be okay around are Max and Josh. Everyone else just freaks me out.
I think it's probably because I haven't had many experiences with men romantically, and I go to an all women's college where the only men I see are teachers and other girls' boyfriends in the cafeteria.

This bothers me, but I am not entirely sure what to do about it.

Halloween = fun times

2009-11-01T18:59:03Z

-I didn't go trick-or-treating this year, sadly. But I went to Matt and Dave's party for a bit! Which was awesome. Heather and I went as twin time travelers, and our hair looked totally cute. I will try and post a pic once people start posting 'em on Facebook.

-I feel like I didn't eat near enough candy this year. I had like 4 pieces. I remember when I was younger I'd get a whole pillowcase full! Maybe I should take advantage of Wallgreen's cheap candy sale?

-I decided not to do NaNoWriMo this year. /tear I really want to, but I don't have the time. I might to an improvised NNWM during January when I have more time. We'll see.

-My back hurts. That is all.

Back to homework!

Writer's Block: Seeing stars

2009-10-27T12:08:39Z

Which character from any film, television show, or book would you most like to take on a date and why?

Submitted By blue_mariposa88

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Michael Moskovitz from the Princess Diaries series!! He is a nerd, he's in a band, and he's totally hot. And nice. And I want one.
It was a toss-up between him and Mal Reynolds from Firefly, but I'm gonna have to go with him. Someone else can take Mal.

phantmgreeneyes @ 2009-10-26T22:39:00

2009-10-27T03:44:11Z

I totally forgot that I was covering Jeanna's shift at work tonight, and ended up being 25 minutes late. Fuuuuuuuuuuuck. Here's hoping Belinda doesn't totally kill me tomorrow.
A whole bunch of things at work are down, so now there is nothing for me to do. Crap. And on top of it, I didn't get to see Castle tonight, and it's the episode where he dresses like Mal!! No spoilers people, I will have to watch tomorrow.

I so do not want to get up for Gaelic tomorrow. Screw it. And tutorial. I have to see how I did on my test. Hopefully well!!
And other than that, there is nothing interesting to report.

Oh, except I went to Old Chicago tonight with hug_me_and_die to try the Trick-or-Tini, which I thought Kels told me last year tasted like Candy Corn. Except that it didn't. It tasted like an orange julious with alcohol in it. And while Orange Julious's are delicious, they are not as good as candy corn. I was kind of disappointed. If anyone knows where I can get a candy corn flavored martini, please let me know! I may hug you.

challenge!

2009-10-25T22:11:21Z

Hey happy people. As you may (or may not) have noticed, I just updated my icons.
I have 4 spots left, and I'm not feeling any of the ones I have stored over on Photobucket.
Your challenge is.... LEAVE ME AN ICON!!
Your favorite. Or just one you happen to particularly like. if I like it too, I will use it, and then every time I post with the icon, you can think "oh yeah! I totally gave her that one!"

Ready? Go!

phantmgreeneyes @ 2009-10-20T21:22:00

2009-10-21T02:27:33Z

Today has been so loong!! Class/tutorial, homework, class homework, work, now more homework. I am counting down the minutes until I can go to bed. I've been dying for a nap ALL DAY and have been very good about getting homework done instead. After this paper edit, I'll be all caught up on homework! Woot!

I spent 4 hours updating ILL at work today, but on the plus side I got a lot further into my Sorcerer's Stone audio book, which I love. Another hour of it is dedicated to tomorrow, when I WILL be working out after class. Even if I just walk around the track. My body will enter that gym and move! I've been slacking off cause I've been sick but I am feeling better-ish now so its time!

Also: Apparently you need 2 masters degrees to get a decent job as a librarian in any sort of an educational setting. At least 1 in any other setting, but 2 is encouraged. 2 MASTERS DEGREES?!? What the hell? Now I am DEFINITELY applying to the St. Kate's MLIS program.

Also also: I'm hungry. Someone teleport over some snacks please.

Love,
Ariel

Glub.

2009-10-17T22:51:18Z

Am feeling rather ill today, world. I believe I may have hacked a hole in my lungs. I finally got my asthma meds from my dad yesterday, so now I can actually breathe. (I attribute my sluggishness yesterday to the lack of oxygen my brain was receiving. Asthma sucks.)

I managed to polish of some homework at work tonight, so tonight Kate and I can watch The Proposal. And I can watch Merlin.
Also, I started watching LOST again! I'm 4 episodes into season 3. TV, you are such a marvelous past time.

Don't worry dear readers. Once I am back on my feet an am at minimal risk of having an asthma attack, I will keep working out like a machine. Probably Monday I will hit up the gym, though I don't know if my routine will be as vigorous as the past week's. Depends on how I am feeling. But I will definitely go! And maybe tomorrow, too! Who knows!

I wish I had more time.

2009-10-16T00:25:05Z

I am pretty sure I'm getting sick. I'm exhausted (of course, when am I not?) My throat hurts. I've been hacking all day.
I would like nothing more right now than to lie in bed and catch up on all the many TV shows I don't have time to watch this semester.
I have limited myself to: Glee, Bones, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Castle, and Stargate: Universe.
But what about Fringe? Dollhouse? Chuck? Reaper?

Then there are new shows I want to start, and reruns of shows I have never seen before.
Dawson's Creek, for instance. Remember when I really got into season 1 of Dawsons Creek? I was talking to Jeanna at work tonight, and now I want to start season 3, because that's the season Joey and Pacey fall in love.
(Season 1 = Dawson and Joey fall in love. Season 2 = Dawson and Joey break up. Season 3 = Joey and Pacey fall in love.)

See? I wanna watch! I'll just skip season 2. Too emo anyway. But waaaaaah!! Someone find me time. Where I can just sit there with my hot chocolate and blankets and watch TV. Please? Maybe I'll do that this weekend. When I'm not working. Or going home.

Also: I just found out that the senior seminar I want to take conflicts with the Harry Potter class that I was so desperately excited about for next semester. Phoo. Just, phoo.

Weight loss goal edit

2009-10-14T16:20:35Z

All right kids, a lot of you commented that going from 210 to 140 would be HELLA HARD, and you are totally right.
So here's the plan.

My ultimate goal is 140. Right now, I'm going to shoot for 190, then after that we'll adjust the plan a bit.

Also, thanks for the overflow of well wishes! You guys totally rock. After my Women Detectives class, I'm gonna hit up the gym with my audiobook of Sorcerer's Stone and a plan to kick ass.
Updates as they come.

Also also: I am going to avoid scales for like a month, and then at the end of the month weigh myself and see the difference. Otherwise I will obsess over why my scale needle isn't moving every single day.

Ariel's new quest

2009-10-14T02:16:42Z

I feel like maybe trying to lose some weight. I have no idea how hard it is, or even if I can do it (hasn't worked so far - of course, I haven't tried very hard so far) but I want to. I just dropped $150 on a shiny new iPod nano (ITS GREEN!) so that I could listen to music and audio books without my iPod dying every 25 minutes, so this shall be my motivation. That, and I want to fit into a cute costume for con next year. And just in general.

So I'll track it on here!

Current weight: 210
(I think. There is no scale at school.)
Weight goal: 140

I know it's a lot, but another woman on my LJ totally did it and now she looks awesome. So I believe that it can happen! It's just going to take a lot of work, and I'm not used to working on my body.

Here goes!!
(I should come up with a theme song for this journey. Suggestions?)

I could be falling in love...

2009-10-12T17:55:17Z

And this is why I want to marry a singer. <3

Book review - One for the Money

2009-10-10T17:41:24Z

One for the Money
Janet Evanovich

Honestly? I didn't like it. I know everyone raves about Evanovich, ahd she's hit the best seller list like a billion times, but this book just didn't do it for me. I started reading it for my chick lit/romance book club (whee!) and got about half way through before I realized I really wasn't interested in this character!

Stephanie Plum, the female lead, wasn't necessarily poorly created. She was rather realistic, could stand on her own two feet, knew what it was like to not have any groceries in her fridge. She's been screwed over by a man, had an annoying mother, and was all too aware of the fact that finding a job is next to impossible right now.

But then she became a bounty hunter? (A.k.a someone who goes out and picks up people who miss their court dates.) I don't think so. That's a pretty extreme job for someone who's never done it before. Which, I guess, is proved since she is constantly throwing herself into dangerous situations and almost getting her ass kicked, then being saved by former lover Joe Morelli who is the one guy she's looking for.

I just didn't care about Stephanie. I didn't care about all the things she was trying to do, all the people she met. The only semi-interesting thing I could enjoy was the sexual tension between Stephanie and Joe, and even that wasn't nearly as good as it should have been. I've read better. Roarke and Eve in the Eve Dallas mysteries? Yes please.

pinkplasticlove had suggested switching the book club book to Undomestic Goddess by Sophia Kinsella, which is actually really good. (I've already read it, but I wouldn't mind reading it again.) I am in favor of this.

This book got 2 out of 5 stars.

Fairweather fan.

2009-10-07T22:11:02Z

I've had a very fun time pretending to be a Twins fan this week. Last night, I covered Kate's shift for about an hour while she finished off the Twins game that went into extra innings, and while I was there me and Anna (the other girl I was working with - she's awesome) watched a live website and totally ignored work, even though our boss was there. It was freaking awesome.
The best part was neither of us care about baseball otherwise.

Kate and I are watching the game now, and will probably do so for the rest of the night. It's really fun to be into the game! I would never actually pay a lot of money to see a game though.

GO TWINS!!

Writer's Block: Sick day

2009-10-06T01:29:55Z

When you get sick, do you prefer to go it alone or be doted upon by a friend, partner, or parent? Do you usually go to work or school or stay home?

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Hahaha, I would LOVE to stay at home and have someone wait on me hand and foot. That never actually happens though, so I either a)go to classes anyway and hack my lungs out or b) sleep. A lot. And whine.

An Ode to Julia Quinn

2009-10-05T20:59:37Z

Oh, Julia Quinn, how I love you.
I love how you make me proud to be a romance reader/writer.
I love the way your romances are never really straight forward. And never do you use the words "heaving bosoms."
I love how all your covers are normal, unassuming ones with objects, but then on the inside you've got the traditional man-clutching-woman picture, just because sometimes its fun to look at it and laugh.

Most importantly, I love the fact that when I started to read your books, I couldn't stop. I started binge reading for the first time in a long time, and it felt damn good.

So thanks, Julia. You really rock my socks off.

is sore

2009-10-05T00:52:06Z

I spent all day at the Renaissance Festival with my sister and some of her friends. And I may have spent over $200 buying myself a complete outfit for fest. Just because.
Seriously! What is with me and all this money spending? First Mary Kay make-up, now this! Gah! I don't even feel remorseful. I just think "man! Now I have something cool to wear for halloween!" WTF, self. Way to spend your entire pay check on costumes.

Tonight I need to a) work, and b) frantically write a 3-4 page paper that's due tomorrow morning, which I haven't started yet. Fail.
I miss you all! And I really want to fall asleep. Headachy, tired, and still have 3 hours of work left. Blech.

NaNoWriMo

2009-10-01T04:02:01Z

I really want to participate this year, guys. God knows how I will fit in 4 pages of writing per night along with my busy schedule, but I am definitely going to try.

Is anyone on my f-list gonna attempt it? Because we can totally be support buddies!
Also, I didn't do it last year and really wish I had

Hello library!

2009-10-01T01:23:39Z

Today was actually a pretty good day! Got through the looming GSJ, finished a (very crappy) paper on Nancy Drew (HATE HER!) and then just generally chilled. Went out to lupper with mom (woo, Chatterbox and their squash garlic pizza!) Afterwards walked to Barnes and Nobel with Kate and quoted A Very Potter Musical the whole time. We're watching it again on Friday. This will make viewing #4ish.
I decided just to buy a copy of The Girl With the Drago Tattoo, since it is so popular and will probably be checked out of every library ever. Here's hoping it's good!

Then I came home and read! Did I mention I love reading? Because I really do. Not the new book, but another Julia Quinn I picked up. I figure I'll have the whole Bridgerton series finished by the end of the month.

Ready for some awesome library fun? I'm ignoring the fact taht I have a gaelic test tomorrow, and instead am going to chillax for the rest of the night. Awesome? Yes.

LOVE!!

I wanna be a supermodel.

2009-09-27T21:05:10Z

I borrowed a manga series from pinkplasticlove called Charming Junkie, and its SO GOOD!! Read the first 5 volumes she gave me, and had to find the rest online because I couldn't await! (And can't afford to buy manga at $10 a pop.)
It;'s about a girl who is a model, who meets another model who is actually a boy pretending to be a girl. And now I really want to be a model. /grins
The costumes. The posing. The stories people can tell with photographs. I LOVE IT!!

Anyone up for a photo shoot?

Book love.

2009-09-25T15:22:12Z

I have had an overwhelming love of reading this month. Most especially novels by Julia Quinn. Yeah, they're romance novels. I adore them. Bite me.
I've joined another book club in addition to the one I'm already in, that is going to read primarily chick lit and romance novels. Why? Because we love them!! It was pinkplasticlove 's idea, but I am so pysched about it. If anyone lives in MN and is interested in joining, let me know! We would love to have you!

I can't decide, though, whether or not to go to B&N and buy the first book for the club, and I guess all the books for book club. I am torn between wanting to own books, loving to buy them, and my frugality (is that a word?) which tells me "You work in a library! Just order them there!" But on the other hand, I really really like owning books. I want to have a huge collection some day. /whimpers Oh the choices.

I just picked up Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, in addition to everything I need to read for various book clubs and classes. Haven't read anything by her since Ella Enchanted, way back in junior high.

Off to read more Nancy Drew! (For class. Blech.) Love!

"That's what she said. In Gaelic."

2009-09-22T20:48:12Z

This semester is seriously kicking my ass, and it's only like the second week. /whines
Tuesdays now I found out I have 3 hours of gaelic. 3! And I don't like it to begin with. So I am ready for bed by the time noon rolls around, but still have class and work to deal with. :(

On the bright side, my fall show line up (consisting of How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, and Castle... at least for Monday nights) started last night and it was ADORABLE! Mondays = win.

I have to dash off to work here in a mo', but I thought I would bid all you f-listers a warm hello, since I haven't gotten around to posting much. Assuming I don't pass out from exhaustion by the time 8 o'clock rolls around and I can finally go home, I will see you all later!