a cool halloweenish short film

this seems appropriate today. not to mention: ILOVEIT.

hope everyone had a successful halloween! what a cool holiday.

numbers

number of days until i see brandon flowers live:
30

number of times i watched the last 3 minutes of this week's parks and rec episode:
5

number of complete strangers on campus who have complemented my tights this semester:
3

number of words i want to speak before 10am:
0

guess what

i'm leaving on may 1st to study abroad!

i'm going to england, france, italy, greece, germany, and austria to study art history.

i wasn't supposed to find out if i was accepted or not until december 15th, 

but i got a "congratulations" email today!

so excited. so so so so so so so excited.

experiments

experiment #1: homemade chocolate ice cream.

1 frozen banana

1/4 c. milk

1 Tbsp. cocoa

as much sugar as you want

blend it up nice.

voila. homemade chocolate ice cream that is pretty good. 

not amazing. but pretty good. i'd make it again.

experiment #2: website sounds.

i'm learning a lot about experimental media.

my professor showed us this cool website.

it's called In B Flat.

you can play any and all of the videos at the same time,

 in any order and they all sound good!

it's cool. i played with it this weekend.

we can't decide what to be for halloween

we had some fun playing dress-up tonight.

love buddies, and my lack thereof.

"...she is an unmarried woman of [nineteen], and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness." -pride and prejudice and zombies

maybe it's just my current relationship status talking, but does it seem like everyone has a love buddy or what!? all the people are getting engaged. all the people are getting married. even all the freshmen are holding hands already. relationships. relationships everywhere.

i'm happy for all you in domestic partnerships, i am. and i am definitely not trying to get married right now. it's just sorta lame when the boy i would hold hands with lives 1,000,000 miles away in central america and i have the empty-mailbox-blues.

the good things today start with "c"

chips ahoy chewy chocolate chip cookies.

club sandwich from blimpie for lunch with dad and sister.

cat bounce!

this screenshot became my desktop picture today...

and one other thing that doesn't start with c.

a missionary friend's description of trying vegemite:

Imagine dropping a dollop of crusty dark chocolate into a pool of tar. Then, retrieve that tarred chocolate with a dirty diaper, throw it into a bucket of salt, and then let it sit on the sidewalk for about three days. That's Vegemite. Don't ever try it. I feel like I should repent cause nothing so foul and profane has ever touched my lips before.

loving him is red

him being zach gilford. aka matt saracen.

i have been listening to RED all day. because taylor swift is wonderful.
as i was listening to "red" while at work, my mind couldn't help but wander to her "ours" music video, which features the one and only matt saracen (and which i watch almost weekly).

though my days of friday night lights marathons are over, i'm not over him yet.

(i really like state of grace and stay stay stay and i knew you were trouble. but they are all SO GOOD).

this is the cutest thing you will see all weekend

11-year-old ryan performing at a primary talent show.
oh, that face. so cute.
i would have liked to see the reactions of all the 11-year-old girls at that talent show...

invisible goldfish

my big sister kylie lives directly across the street from me. 90 steps from her front door to mine. 

which is AWESOME. she's nice to have around.

we have made thursday nights into fun-sister-bonding-eating-justdancing-watchingmovies-nights.

yesterday was in-n-out, the october tradition: corpse bride, and frankenweenie.

guys. frankenweenie.

i command you to go see it. today. skip school. skip work. whatever. 

it was so good. just go watch it.

i went in expecting a pretty good halloween movie.

but it is a FANTASTIC all-the-time movie. well done, tim burton.

i will own frankenweenie the day it comes out. 

and i will probably be watching it and quoting it as much as i do fantastic mr. fox

(that's big, people).

my name, the ambigram

same right side up and upside down. yo.

that's all for now, folks.

a quote

"Human beings become fully alive only when they have something meaningful to push against." 

-my textbook



it was talking about beats in plot to make round characters. but it also is just about life in general, you know?

also, this week has been pretty good so far. i have gotten free donuts two days in a row. success.

what happened last week?

this past week was a blur. i barely remember any specific events that happened. i pack a lot of ish into each day. it's cool, it's college. but this week, i'm hoping to actually remember some of the stuff that happens instead of being a college robot.

last night i had "good night ladies" from the music man stuck in my head. it kept replaying over and over. but instead of the line at the end: "we're going to leave you now," my mind kept saying, "we're going to kill you now." ok... good night, ladies. we're going to kill you now. that's cool.

here's to a better week ahead.

P&P

i have had a lot of homework this semester.

the good news is that some of it has been pretty wacky.

like, adapting a piece of literature to a social media platform.

advice: don't try to make 10 new facebook profiles in one day, or mark zuckerburg will shut you down.

the wall machine saved our bums on this one.