Our oil heat came today — yay!

Edit: But … the stupid pilot light’s out (or something equally annoying). Go figure.

I’m bored and frustrated about my small veins. Attempted to donate plasma today but couldn’t … it’s been five years since I last tried with blood and figured they might have gotten at least a little bigger, but no. Nothing happened when they tied that plastic strap around my upper arm and told me to clench my fist. Two nurses felt both my arms and got nada — why the fuck can’t my veins be normal? At least they gave me a squeeze ball and said to come back in a month. I wonder if it’ll make any difference. Anyway, I decided to do a survey (from Shaune) to stop thinking about it:

Your birth date: July 5, 1984

Your age: 21

Age you wish you were: I don’t know, there’s always something new each year.

Your height: 5′8″

The color of your eyes: Green.

Happy with it: Yeah.

The color of your hair: Brown with darker ends.

Happy with it: At the moment.

Left/right/ambidextrous: Left, though I’m ambidextrous when painting.

Your living arrangement: Roommates at school, my dad at home.

Have any pets: Kitties! Midnight & Mackie at home, Chloe, Jezabelle, and Mosley at school.

What’s your job: Student.

Piercings: None.

Tattoos: None.

Addictions: Hanson, internet, being organized.

Do you speak another language: Not really … can understand/read a bit of Spanish (after 4 years of classes), but can’t speak it to save my life.

Have a favorite quote: It changes.

Deep thoughts about life and you in it …

Do you live in the moment: Sometimes.

Do you consider yourself tolerant of others: Yeah, unless they give me a reason not to.

Do you have any secrets: A few.

Do you hate yourself: It depends on my mood.

Do you like your handwriting: It’s alright.

Do you have any bad habits: Yep … picking at my nails is one.

What is the compliment you get most from people: That I’m too nice or too quiet.

If a movie was made about your life, what would it be called: Don’t know, don’t care.

What’s your biggest fear: Spiders, early death, living alone.

Do you ever pretend to be someone else just to look cool: Uh no.

Are you a loner: Sometimes.

What are your number one priorities in life: Getting through school, earning money, having a semi-decent job, settling down a year or two after college if I’m lucky.

If you were another person, would you be friends with you: Depends on the personality, etc. of the other person.

Are you a daredevil: Yep. If you can go skydiving (and bungee jumping, jet skiing, parasailing, rollercoaster-ing, etc.), there’s no question.

Is there anything you fear or hate about yourself: I get depressed easily and can take things the wrong way … I guess a fear could be the assumption that if you don’t make something of yourself in life, you’re a failure.

Do you think you are emotionally strong: At times.

Is there anything you regret doing/not doing in life: Screwing up at Yorktown sucked, but then again, everything happens for a reason, right?

The most important lesson you’ve learned from life: Just keep swimming.

What do you like the most about your body: That I’m tall.

Do you think you are good looking: Sometimes.

Are you confident: I try to be, but it doesn’t always happen.

Do people know how you feel: Depends on who they are.

Are you perceived wrongly: Those who don’t know me just think I’m a nice, quiet girl who keeps to herself. If they gave me a chance, they’d find out they’re very wrong.

Do you …

Smoke: No.

Do drugs: No.

Read the newspaper: I read The Breeze (JMU newspaper) twice a week.

Pray: No.

Do you go to church: Not unless I have to (like on Easter and Christmas).

Talk to strangers who IM you: Yeah … have to find out where they got my screenname!

Sleep with stuffed animals: No ’cause they always fell off my bed.

Take walks in the rain: If I forget/don’t have my umbrella.

Talk to people even though you hate them: Only if I have to.

Have you ever …

Liked your voice: It’s okay.

Hurt yourself: I guess.

Been out of the country: Yeah, Australia was frickin’ awesome.

Eaten something that made other people sick: Don’t think so.

Been unfaithful: Yeah …

Been in love: Am right now.

Had a medical emergency: When I was really little.

Had a surgery: Nope.

Ran away from home: No.

Played strip poker: Don’t know how to play poker lol.

Gotten beaten up: No.

Beaten someone up: No.

Been picked on: Who hasn’t?

Been on stage: Unfortunately.

Slept outdoors: Yeah … love camping/hiking, haven’t been in forever.

Pulled an all-nighter: Yeah … and oh what fun nights they were.

Gone one day without food: No.

Talked on the phone all night: My phone wouldn’t last all night.

Slept all day: A few times.

Made out with a stranger: Yeah …

Had sex with a stranger: That’s where I draw the line.

Kissed the same sex: Yep.

Been betrayed: Kind of.

Broken the law: Yeah, like everyone else.

Have you ever killed an animal by accident: No, and I hope I never do … I saw a dead dog (hit by a car) in the gutter on my way to class this morning … it was sad.

On purpose: No.

Told a secret you swore you wouldn’t tell: No.

Stolen anything: Little things.

Been on radio/TV: I’ve been mentioned on my college radio by my ex-roommate who’s a DJ. I was like yay.

Had a nervous breakdown: Maybe.

Clothes and other fashion …

Current shoe brand: New Balance.

Cologne/perfume: None.

Wear hats: Hats suck.

Judge other people by their clothing: A little bit. Like if they’re wearing all pink and have a Vera Bradley bag over one shoulder, I probably won’t talk to them (sorry).

Wear makeup: For special occasions.

Favorite article of clothing: Sweatshirts ’cause they keep me warm.

Are you trendy: Maybe … I have my own style.

Would you rather wear a uniform to school: Um no … had enough of that at Foxcroft.

Friends …

Do you have any gay/lesbian friends: Yep.

Who is your best friend: Brian.

Who’s the one person that knows most about you: Brian.

What’s the best advice that anyone has ever given to you: “Do the right thing.” –my dad (lol)

Do you remember your first love: Yeah, though I don’t want to remember.

Do you consider love a mistake: No — you’re supposed to learn from your mistakes.

What do you find romantic: When someone goes out of their way for you or does little things that make you smile.

Turn-ons …

Turn-on: I like guys who are tall, have a “dark” personality, are computer literate, can appreciate art/design, and are open-minded.

Turn-off: Guys who are obsessed with sports (the screaming-at-the-TV type), short, have no car, only want you for your looks, and drink/party every chance they get.

Have you ever been romantically attracted to someone physically unattractive: I guess?

What is best about the opposite sex: How they take care of you.

What is worst about the opposite sex: How they go back on their word.

Do you read porn: No.

What’s the last present someone gave you: Brian’s mom gave me a Pez cow … ’cause I like cows and they go moo.

What do you dislike most: Annoying people.

Who was the last person …

You wanted to kill: *shrugs*

That you laughed at: My metal professor.

That laughed at you: Maybe Denise.

That turned you on: No comment.

You went shopping with: Myself.

That broke your heart: Brad/Brian.

To disappoint you: Doron … if it really was him who IMed me earlier.

To ask you out: Brian.

To make you cry: Brian.

To brighten up your day: My methodology prfessor … he’s so funny.

That you thought about: Starza ’cause I just read her away message.

You talked to on the phone: Brian.

You talked to in person: Starza.

When was the last time you …

Smiled: When I thanked the nurse at BioLife.

Laughed: Metal class.

Cried: A few weeks ago.

Danced: Long time ago.

Were sarcastic: Don’t remember.

Kissed someone: Sunday night.

Had a nightmare: Don’t remember.

Talked on the phone: Monday.

Listened to the radio: Today.

Watched TV: Yesterday.

Went out: Define “out.”

Were mean: Don’t know.

Sang: Don’t remember.

Saw a movie: Corpse Bride on Sunday.

Said “I love you:” To Brian earlier today.

Missed someone: Right now.

Fought with a family member: Not for a long time.

Had a serious conversation: Over the weekend.

Got drunk: Umm … when I turned 21?

Okay that was longer than I thought … now it’s time to shower and have dinner and watch Friends and Top Model and convince myself to do homework even though all I wanna do is curl up in a blanket with a cup of tea and forget about everything.

I’m listening to Hanson’s new live album via AOL right now, can’t wait to get the real thing tomorrow, and am feeling a new wave of yay-for-Hanson-ness coming on

Let’s see … according to Hanson.net, the only place around here that’ll have the limited edition is Sam Goody, ’cause Hanson’s being annoying and only releasing the limited edition to select stores (which is weird ’cause everywhere had the limited edition of Underneath when it came out). I dunno, I just hope I can find it — there’s a kind of excitement that comes with buying and listening to a new release on the same day, and I’ll be sad if I have to forgo that. I guess only time will tell …

Edit: Harrisonburg officially doesn’t have the limited edition. I checked Sam Goody, Target, Wal-Mart, and Barnes & Noble, but at least the regular version is readily available. Just ordered the limited one from Amazon.

More subconscious thoughts (i.e., when it says _____, I think _____):

1. Quirk :: Oddity.
2. Crystal :: Stone, gem.
3. Pet Peeve :: Traffic.
4. Cuban :: Cigar.
5. Breasts :: Tissue.
6. Whispers :: Soft, lips.
7. Complicated :: Taking forever to do/figure out.
8. Promise me :: That you’ll stay forever.
9. Murder :: Death, killing.
10. Filament :: A really thin string.

Edit: As of tonight, my newest pet peeve is the coffee machine in Duke. Even though it’s out of cups, it still dispenses the coffee and takes your money … and then you’re screwed ’cause no cup = no coffee. It normally wouldn’t be so bad, but it’s 1 am and I still have to do evil sketches for typography (at 8 am). Grr.

And, per Brian’s request, want an easy way to change & to & in your posts? All you have to do is copy a few lines of javascript into a bookmark, and when you have a textarea with unconverted &, just click your new bookmark and watch the magic happen.

Never thought I’d be saying this, but at the moment I love Harrisonburg. Went downtown (which I try to avoid ’cause all the streets are one way and go in circles) to find a place called “Touch of the Earth” to get an eyebrow ring for my metal project. Luckily I find it on my second round through, get a metered parking place right after they’re free, go into the tiny store that smells of incense and candles, and ask the lady there about eyebrow rings. She shows me what they have and after five minutes of looking I find what I’m looking for (pretend the colored balls are clear):

Know what else? Since the piece was 50% off and I didn’t have the resulting $3 in cash, she let me have it for free as long as I came back later to pay and show her my project So yay.

I’ve also wanted to get my eyebrow pierced for a while, and after all the piercing talk in class and seeing a few options at Touch of the Earth, I wanna do it even more I know Brian probably wouldn’t like it and my dad and brother would be like hell no, but they can just deal since I’m not 16 anymore. Besides, I can always let it close up. What do you think?

Our second project (due today) was to make a shirt with “life” on the front and “death” on the back. Here’s mine:

(a horse … which I also used for the first project lol)

(a bottle of Elmer’s glue)

I was inspired by an episode of Whose Line where they had to think of bad names for racehorses. One of Ryan’s was “come on, Gonna Be Glue!,” so there you go. I think the shirt is more for the show than anything else

*sprays Lysol*

Ew. Mosley (one of Starza’s kitties) just peed on my drawing board for art (luckily there wasn’t anything on it) while I was sitting here. He’s done it a couple times before when I was gone, but while I’m in the room? That’s just gross … his litter box is in the basement, which he does use, so I don’t know why he thinks my room is okay. He doesn’t do anything in Starza’s room or Bevin’s or anywhere else, and it’s starting to annoy me. I love the kitties and hate not letting them in my room (especially with a door that sticks and wobbles when you close it), but that seems to be the only option now *sigh*