rihanna

I'm in Indiana and full of stir fry and strawberries. mmm such is life. I realized as I walked down the gangplank to the plane (there must be a better/actual word for that...) that I hadn't told my grandma I was coming, though she probably found out from the more responsible members in my family.

So I gave her a call while the girl behind me listened and sang softly along to her ipod- she was a rap fan, I'd heard many a tune in the line for boarding. I left a message with my gma, telling her I'd arrive in the evening and stay in the middle room, as 'move bitch, get out the way' wafted softly in the background.

I hadn't called Andy to come pick me up, but he did anyhow because he's the best cousin ever. I had about 20 minutes to kill and wasn't hungry, so I went into one of the perfume places. Man I love those. They didn't have my fave scents (calvin klein, summer ; victor & rolf, flowerbomb), and I'm very curious, so I tried on upwards of about 10 scents up and down both forearms. I left 10 minutes later smelling of alcohol and prostitution (including several versions of clinique, happy). I tried to wash it off in a bathroom stall, but just ended up smelling like a whore plus gas station soap.

Then I went to Starbucks. I tested them by asking for an iced tea. Against all odds, they asked me if I wanted it sweetened or unsweetened. They passed. My bitter tea and I descended to baggage claim. Andy picked me up, dinner at the Dick's (see stir fry and strawberries), now I'm at Gma's. more updates later.

corsage

today I did laundry to get ready for a track party we had this afternoon. I folded and sorted it and delivered it to the rooms (this also includes trolling for dirty dishes and overdue library books). Thomas' pile consisted of: 1 t-shirt; 6 pairs of socks.

Prepubescent boys never cease to amaze me.

accordeur chromatique

i dyed my hair brown this weekend. i was tired of blonde (dirty ashy blonde, of course. i walk true). this is what it looks like:

some people (JOHN, WTF) haven't noticed, brooke basically fell out of her chair when she saw me. and she knew it was coming! unfortunately, I spilled quite a bit on my sink and couldn't clean it up. the hardware store was closed on sunday (the day after I dyed it), so I got some acetone from the beauty supply store- this did not help (even after soaking, etc.) the beauty (i.e. CHEMICALS) supply store doesn't sell any chlorine-based solutions, which was my mom's next guess. oh well. my sink and surrounding tile will have natural-looking 100% grey coverage glistening color for the next six weeks. provided we use the conditioner, of course.

brooke and i drove home today. I came back to a house full of the europe-as-a-setting movies I got for my fam to prepare for their trip. They watched (and disliked) 'gigi' and 'death in venice'. I'd also gotten 'a room with a view', and the french connection (yes, I know it's in new york, but i've never seen it and it does have 'french' in the title... plus i want to watch an action movie). pushed by my castilleja liberal arts education, I swooned over 'room with a view' until they would watch it with me.

we must all fall in love with george emerson, even though he's a wierdo. can i get an amen? (maddoxes i'm looking at you on this one)

these streets

crisis averted. will get them out in august probably. love my dentist (seriously how many of you can say that? I CAN- I LOVE HIM). things are going on... going to san francisco tomorrow, probably going to l.a. for the weekend, then i get to INDIANA. i'm worried no one there will like me, and i'll be lonely. i had the same fear before scotland, but God totally took care of that and provided me with a bible study and friends in all of my classes so... indiana will be no problem. further criterion: must love jello salad.

hehe. jello 'salad'...

if i were raised by a dentist i would know these things

as it is, I know about... sciency stuff. and math. but not teeth.

dentist: "are your wisdom teeth giving you any trouble?"
me: "no they're ok, but I do get headaches sometimes" [read: chronicly]
dentist: "hm... yeah that's probably your teeth"

so i thought, if it gets worse I'll take care of it when I get back in August. But today at the beach I had a horrible headache the whole time, the type I've been having all week, that's from my temples down along my jaw. how was i supposed to know that your teeth give you headaches?! i thought they gave you toothaches!

so i called my dentist, and I'm sort of freaking out, and I'm gonna take like 4 naproxen even though i don't know if that will help. and i'm reading this. which makes me freak out a little more. and my head hurts. this is worst day EVER.

peanut butter jelly time

SUMMER MOVIES ARE HERE!!!! this is mostly a record for myself of what i want to see (by release date, of course)

5/18 (TOMORROW)
Shrek the Third

5/24
PIRATES! (also the third)

6/1
Knocked Up (mostly Brooke wants to see this, but if I'm not with her I probably won't)

6/15
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (never saw the first one but SILVER SURFER?! that guy's out of control awesome!)
Nancy Drew (...teehee...)

6/27
Live Free or DIE HARD (a fourth one!! a fourth one!!)

6/29
Evening (never heard of it but if Toni Collette's in it, I'm getting a ticket. probably all by myself)
Ratatouille (yay!)

7/4
TRANSFORMERS. (ZOMG- TRANSFORMERS. John and I will see this simultaneously and call each other and scream for a while. optimus prime... coolest name, coolest transformer)

7/13
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (I don't read the books, the movies are the only way I stay 'current')

7/20
Hairspray (saw it on broadway, now get to see john travolta)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (...adam sandler movie... guilty pleasure...)

8/3
The Bourne Ultimatum (gee, all these trilogies are coming to an end)

8/17
Superbad (saw a preview for it before seeing 'Hot Fuzz' with John again... looks wonderfully horribly funny and has george michael from 'arrested development'!)

8/24
Mr. Bean's Holiday (mr. bean movie!!!)


what will i actually see?
pirates, die hard, transformers, maybe harry potter. anything my cousins will go see with me (movies alone = pathetic, although I have never done it. i'm just guessing)

gone to california

ok, this must not happen anymore.

"hi, I'm a patient of dr. iverson, I'd like to schedule an appointment."
"alright, can you hold okay thank you"
"yes, i-"
ELEVATOR MUSIC

but friends, what if i COULDN'T hold? what if my house is burning down and I need to schedule my dentist appointment RIGHT NOW? what if I don't like elevator music? basically i don't like being told what to do.

lollipop

so... classes for fall... how i love web registration.

taking for sure:

Mechop- no I don't understand what 'mechoptronics' is but it's apparently a lab class with weekly lab reports and lots of work (3 units)
Design Theory and Methodology- very excited for this class (3 units)
Mech. Engineering Problems- not sure how this will turn out (3 units)
Mechanical Design- very technical, taking it for the fabulous prof (3 units)
Intermediate Microeconomics- for my minor (4 units)


friends, this is 16 units, which means I have 2 more to play around with. and therein lies the problem! I can take

yoga (1 unit) + individual instruction guitar (1 unit)

OR

fundamentals of music theory- I should know this by now, but I don't. I need to actually learn it before I go much further in guitar (2 units)

OR

a cultural guide to los angeles- you learn about l.a. and art, I think there's field trips too! (2 units)

OR

120 D guitar class- last one in series, so after this I could either repeat it or take individual instruction (2 units)

OR

a voice class?

OR

a piano class?



I JUST CAN'T DECIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

on an oxnard beach

Happy Mother's Day!! (can't figure out the embeded u.r.l. for this, sorry)


We took a few days driving home from sc. We left friday afternoon (we = me, tom, dad, nanny, papaw) and drove up to oxnard. we spent the night on mcgrath state beach (we took the r.v. which I hate. the bugs die on the front, which is gross). very cold. Next day we drove up to san luis obispo and had lunch, then back-tracked to morro bay (probably one of my favorite places) and spent the night there right next to the beach, which was very beautiful. also very cold.

today we drove through pase robles and stopped in salinas for lunch and the steinbeck center. drove home to find the dinner my mom had made and the flowers greg got for her (very pretty). she bought herself a wii- she's wanted one since they came out. now we're boxing (i'm blogging). yay!

whole almonds

[getting on the 110 south to pick up grandparents from the airport. we got on at 39th so you can go directly into the carpool lane]
mom: (looking at rest of single-driving freeway) "... suckas...."


[at the cheesecake factory]
john: "we should go to 21 choices, they have white chocolate reese's there."
me: "white chocolate reese's are gross and 21 choices is a bunch of commies"
john: "then it would be 1 CHOICES!"
me: "THE STATE CHOOSES!"


[also at the cheesecake factory, talking about how much I dislike the r.v.]
me: "bugs die on the front."
mom: "lindy, bugs die on the front of maserati's"
me: "but their deaths are very fast and very sexy."


what else? went to the getty, very good exhibit on oudry. small, but well done. I enjoyed it. it was smoggy (maybe from the griffith park fire, too?) so a south and west views were bad. Tomorrow I'm getting up at like 5 a.m. to reserve seats for John's graduation. 5 a.m. you ask? baby I'm in it to win it.

the ritz

FINALS IS OVER!!! commence incorrect conjugation of verbs.

i went to a fancy dinner thing tonight at town and gown for the architectural guild. i was at superior getting milk when my mom texted that there was an extra seat (although we all sat at different tables). I skipped on home, put on my dress from the invite, and showed up looking out of place at a business attire dinner. for architects. oh well, i made small and awkward talk with the people (all middle aged men) at my table. and i got a free and delicious dinner. woot!

now my mom's here, we're watching american idol. MELINDA MUST WIN.

feels like falling

strength of materials was... rough... but I totally owned my fluid mechanics test today! Although, to be fair, it was *very* easy. I would say, only half as hard as the regular tests, which was surprising.

except for... cheater kid. He was in the row in front of mine on the right, next to the wall. In addition to the test and the formula sheet and different charts the teacher gave us, c.k. had his notes and all the previous tests. And as he went through the test, he referred frequently to them. friends, this is cheating. and even after years of learning not to take candy from strangers, and to let a grown-up know if something's wrong... i didn't know what to do.

I didn't want to be a bitch or a tattle-tale (i'm 20 years old! can i even be a 'tattle-tale' now, or is 'whistle-blower'?), but I was so upset! I think if I were sitting next to him, i could just pass him a "stop it, you fiend" note. I WANT HIM TO FAIL! I WANT HIM TO FEEL MY ACADEMIC WRATH!!! I wanted the t.a. to see his cheatery and immediately fail him and send him away.

But I turned in my test and left. what was I supposed to do?

downtown

tonight a group of us went to see spiderman 3 at the arclight (some theatres on sunset blvd in hollywood). tobey maguire was in our theatre. so sometimes living in l.a. is awesome.

fairytale

finals = death