trouble is

ok, as many of you know, i have been having a profanity-load of trouble with my computer program. ok, so only jessalyn knows, and that's because i whine about it a lot.

so today i go to office hours, because i can't figure it out. and i've been looking it over for like 2 straight days, can't figure it out. And what do you know but the t.a. isn't there. so i sat on the cold hard floor of the 3rd floor of s.a.l. waiting for him. after 45 minutes (and a REALLY cold butt) i was feeling pretty defeated.

BUT as i was leaving... thinking about the incompatible pointer types that had seemingly defeated me... I FIGURED IT OUT!!! So i ran back into s.a.l., went into the computer lab- AND I FIGURED IT OUT!!! but here's the thing, is when you change a little bit of code you have to go through the whole thing again changing stuff. so it's been like 30 minutes or so of coding and compiling. it was very anticlimactic. but it is done!!

my new shoes are also anticlimactic. i wasn't feeling too hot after my calc midterm this morning, so i looked at my shoes, like, "make me happy!!" and- what do you know- they're like, "um we're just shoes" i was like, "but! but! i have been tracking you online for like a week and a half! i'm really excited about you!" and they're like, "you are such a loser"


lessons of the day: I AM THOR, CONQUERER OF ALL THINGS UNIX. and... shoes alone can't make you happy.

apollo creed

i went to my first j.e.p. yesterday. first for this year. it's at st. vincent's. there's some SERIOUS nunnery going on there at 23rd and fig. for reals. but it's pretty awesome.

i stay at a daycare program for kids. daycare sounds like they're young, it's just an afterschool program for kids where they do their homework and have people (like me) help them if they want. it's like 1st-8th grade, i think.

i was helping one 8th grader, he had to correct his test. As in, write out the question and explain why the answer he chose was wrong, and why the correct one is the correct answer. ahhhh tedious homework... anyhow, here was his question (paraphrased):

What is one example of something that came from Roman civilization and was passed on to later European culture?
a. city-states
b. geometry
c. the latin language
d. direct democray

(the correct answer is c). So he was like, "i don't get it". I showed him that the question itself has two criteria. one, that the answer came from roman civilization, second that it was present in later european culture. i told him that the correct answer would satisfy both conditions presented by the question.

i've lost that lovin'/ability to talk to kids feelin'


CARLY SAYS HI!!!

last names

remember that time you ordered chucks online and they sent you the confirmation email that had the u.p.s. tracking i.d., so you checked ups.com every 30 minutes to track the progress of your package? remember that?


e.t.a. is september 29th.

the big goodbye

i walked left out of my door. down the staircase. turned left. walked about 15 yards. turned left up another staircase, and soon found myself in scouter (and marcus') apartment. playing the star trek: the next generation drinking game!!

HECK YES.

now don't get me wrong- i don't support under-age drinking (which is why i brought my own cream soda), but this game- i'm telling you- INCREDIBLE! like, 9 whole pages of rules. each character has specific actions and dialogue.

the one that really killed us was downing a glass when data said a contraction. or, drink twice when wesley saves the day and no one thanks him. or when captain picard is awkward around women or children. SO QUALITY!

tally ho

i wake up: -1000 million points

i decide to go back to sleep, i can miss calc: +100 million points

panic attack- what if he talks about the midterm?!?: -10000 points

so i end up going to class: - infinity

he definitely DOES NOT talk about the midterm: -5923 points

and my one calc friend (and study buddy) isn't in class: -932 points

so i download a game on my cell phone: +389 points

IT'S FREAKIN FROGGER!: +100 bjillion points

except... frogger's not as fun on a cell phone as it is on a computer: -2 points

kacie calls me to put money in her meter: -12 points

i have some tuna helper (like hamburger helper... but tuna!): +392 points

i go to materials science: + .54 x 10 (to the 2) points

i put more money in kacie's parking meter: -10 points

kacie says i can take her care grocery shopping: +482 points

but... she didn't leave her clicker, so the car alarm goes off every time i try to open the door: -999 points

and all these people look at me and get angry!: -2931 points

hungry and alone, i go back inside: -329 points

but not hungry for long. i have a sandwich: +301 points

i learn how to play a new song on the guitar. it's a worship song by third day: +201 points

kacie gets home. i mope about the car: -19 points

she says she'll take me to ralph's before she leaves: +831 points

i read some get fuzzy while i'm waiting: +10000 million points!!

we go to ralph's. get this, using my ralph's card, i saved more than i spent! holy crap! i'm amazing: +38102 points

TUTORING: +24 points

now i'm home, i have to shower some time before i go see chicken's play (dead end): +391 points




[rob wilco]: what are you putting in the vcr? a pop-tart?
[bucky katt]: techinically it's a pastry swirl.
[satchel pooch]: there's a pop-tart movie? super!
[rob]: you can't toast a pop-tart in the vcr, bucky.
[bucky]: you sound pretty sure for a guy who just walked in.
[rob]: let's just say i have the benefit of hindsight.
[bucky]: well, congratulations to you and your magical butt.
[satchel]: i am soooo confused right now.

i like sneaky better

today i vountarily gave a dozen diddy riese cookies away.

the holy spirit must be moving in me!


rationalization: they were for a.g.o., and i would have eaten them all myself tonight while doing materials science or something.

buck

i am experienced. today, during materials science lab, i sat next to a monster. i think the best way to describe him is... a sedated gengis khan (spelling?). I have now known true fear, such that i felt between the hours of 1 and 3 this afternoon in PCE 103. i'm recovering.


p.s. i don't know how i feel about the 3-2's imminent closure. i'm sort of happy (and dreaming of a target in its place!! or a trader joe's!!)... but still. no 3-2? where am i going to get huge bags of shady corn flakes? ok i just answered my own question. bye, 3-2.

one less infidel

i forgot to post this, ben (chernikoff) called me on friday to see if i'll be a co-worker reference for his border's application!

i felt so special. and all the time i was at the gym, i was thinking about all the wonderful things i get to say about ben if they call me and ask!

he works well with other, but has enough initiative to tackle things on his own. he also dresses like someone who would work in a bookstore (i.e. not preppy). plus, he's approachable and won't make you feel stupid for asking where the danielle steel are (or so i imagine... i've never been in that situation, so i don't know for sure). so exciting!



on a completely different note, i am tired of being hassled by the police whenever i go to my apartment. the emmy's completely ignored those affected by the awards show. now only did they not inform us, they refuse to let us access our cars, and won't let us even walk on shrine ave. tonight, i was coming home from the library, sort of late, and they wouldn't let me walk to my apartment on shrine! i was like, "you know, it's really late. i don't much feel like walking over to hoover. no one's here anymore! i can even see my apartment!" (that's a lie, i can't actually see my apartment, i can see the building next to it.) but i still had to go around.

I think if they'd at least told us, then we'd treat it all as something we just have to deal with instead of an attack, which is what it feels like. their entire ignorance of the shrine neighbors shows a blatant rudeness and lack of respect for us. i hope i can fight the man all by my onesy, petitions take too long.

where did i go right

today it was switching between America's Next Top Model MARATHON and Ghostbusters II. my life is on the up and up.


[Elaine]: According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen.
[Peter Venkman]: Valentine's day. Bummer.

reasons for which everything is coming up roses

#1: i love my bible study. the girls and the content, like how it runs and stuff.

#2: afterwards, we get to go over to a.g.o. for worship nights!

#3: belair is awesome and everybody give you hugs.

#4: we have a skinny mirror in our apartment so every day when i leave for class i think i look SO hot... which i do...

#5: i am a computer programming prodigy. for reals. i have an innate ability or something! my t.a. doesn't think so, but i know it's true...

#6: i'm taking a class called "japanese brush painting"!!!!



yeah it is all that awesome. it makes up for the first 2 weeks of school, which were unreal (in a bad way).

*le sigh*

everything is coming up roses for the illustrious lindy lois. everything apart from school. just to clarify.


but still that counts!

"Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" (The Flaming Lips)

I was waiting on a moment
but the moment never came
all the billion other moments
were just slipping on away

I must have been tripping
(were just slipping on away)
just ego tripping

I was wanting you to love me
but your love it never came
all the other love around me
was just wasting on away

I must have been tripping
(was just wasting on away)
just ego tripping


am i the only one who thinks this song, especially the title, is incredibly profound? i love it.

mr. mitchell

as many of you know, a balloon (like, the ones you tie and make animals with) can look very phallic. we did a demonstration in chem in which the temperature of the balloon decreased, leading to a decrease in volume. our prof, foolishly, refererenced this as "shrinkage". and we all giggled.


then, while discussing the Gay-Lussac experiment (also has to go with gas volume), some guy behind me goes "huh-huh... GAY."




i tell ya... that engineering gender ratio...

JOHN LOCKE (for fun and profit)

they only govern by the consent of the governed... WHAT?


To keity@conquesthousing.com
Subject: Reminders about Shrine Events
Hi Keity,

My name is Lindy, I'm a tenant in Habitat Soo Zee. As you obviously know, some of the Conquest buildings are directly across from or very near to the Shrine Auditorium. This means that when events are going on at the Shrine, tenants at many of these locations are unable to leave or enter their apartment buildings via car, because many streets (today- 32nd, Shrine, and Royal) are blocked off.

However, it is very difficult for tenants to know exactly when and which streets will be blocked off. Is there any way for Conquest to obtain this information and inform tenants about these street closings? I know that USC university housing puts up flyers in their buildings to remind students about Shrine events, so it can be done!


Thank you very much,

[me]

To rmesger@lippingroup.com
Subject: Informing Shrine Neighbors about the Emmy Awards
Hi Lippin Group,

My name is Lindy, I'm a student at USC. I live in an apartment across the street from the Shrine Auditorium, and was extremely inconvenienced today when I was unable to leave my apartment. All of the streets around my apartment (parts of 32nd, Royal, Shrine) have been blocked off because of the awards tonight. I understand that blocking off streets is the only way to let the Awards run smoothly, but those affected by these street closings need to have prior knowledge.

Luckily for you, many of the buildings affected by the street closings are owned either by USC Housing or Conquest Housing (www.conquesthousing.com)- it may be easier to contact those managements directly who in turn can inform their tenants. You could also have a representative walk around to the different houses/apartments to let us know. And of course, you could rent all of us free limos for next weekend so we are able to run errands and see friends even though we can't get out of our respective garages.

Of course, this weekend is just a practice for us for next weekend when the full-blown Emmy Awards happen. We will be better prepared next Sunday, and hopefully we will be better informed.

Thank you very much.



[me]

I'm such a badass. for reals.

shrine

they're filming something for the emmy's. cool

32ND, SHRINE, AND ROYAL ARE COMPLETELY BLOCKED OFF. NOT COOL.

no one can get in or out. i mean, i can on foot. but cars? what would we have done if we had to drive rachel and her friends to the train station?

I'm sending Conquest Housing a strongly (but constructively!) worded email. Then, when I'm feeling assertive, I'll do some m.s. and feel completely stupid.

... and then joe called.

do not panic

this is just a test... to see if the crap spam comments happen again... *crosses fingers*

steric numbers

progress report: I dropped my clicker today in m.s. and he picked it up for me. hopefully it wasn't because i looked hopeless and stupid or something.


i'm naming him MBBIMS. Most Beautiful Boy In Materials Science.


*swoon*



but i do wish i had a better acronym.

longing for ellendale

dearest maddy and carly (and joe and caitlin, too):

I do want to come to your apartment. I want to grace the sidewalks of ellendale. I do. promise. but, given the current situation, any free time is spent catching up on work. which, if all goes according to plan, I will all be caught up on by the beginning of next week (i.e. I study and read and write all this weekend).

Now, I already promised my friend in calc that we'd go to disneyland when i was all caught up with my work. BUT I WILL COME TO ELLENDALE FIRST!! what say you about... hmm... monday is ultimate, tuesday is bible study, wednesday is belair, thursday is womens practice- NEXT FRIDAY?

you see how it is? life is hard. but i will escape somehow and come to ellendale. PROMISE. PINKY SWEAR.



love and kisses,
me

dr. pepper

last night I was walking home. it was around 10, I was taking jefferson (to shrine... to 32nd... whatever). so, not the safest way, but i was like, "it's only 10 p.m. whatever"

THEN some guy drives up next to me and he was like, "need a ride baby doll?" AND I HONESTLY DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

which is wierd. i think normally i'd be like, "no thank you, please leave me alone" and hope he isn't armed or something.

but last night, i wanted to be like, "didn't you get the memo? i'm a frumpy engineering girl now! totally out of your league. immune to your crap advances! leave me and my chem book be." I think I should be untouchable, as horny late night drive-by pickups go.

nacimiento

#1: i am uncool. plain and simple. i realized that i am a frumpy engineering girl. and... i'm not too bothered by it. i guess the truth does set you free. but don't worry, i'll still shower and stuff

#2: since i have 2 weeks of school to make up... I have 5 chapters of chem to read, 3 of computer science (but don't let that fool you- it's still 100 pages), 6 chapters fo my broadway musical class. and i'm always behind in math. i had a little paper due today, i was graciously excused from the first problem set and quiz in chem (thank you prof goo!!), and my first program is due on friday. AGH!


and, of course, my bike was stolen. which was like this evil cherry on top of my evil 2 weeks sundae. i saw kacie the day my bike was stolen and she was like, "hi lindy!" and i started crying. true story. then i failed a math quiz. also a true story.



i feel like job... except i'm definitely failing.


this is a pretty downer post... but i can't think of anything good that's happened lately. except a new pair of jeans. i like them.