So, I went up to the local university to see a famous person put on a lecture... only to find that the lecture had been canceled because they famous person got sick. I had somewhere in the vicinity of an hour before the Japanese discussion group I was going to. I needed to come up with ways to spend time. Thus, I present to you

How To Enjoy Yourself At The Local University When You Know No One, Have No Money, And Are Not A Student

1. Make sure you really have no money. If you have any, go to the café. If you have only a little, go to the pastry place. Get food. Enjoy food. If you have any leftover food—
2. Feed a squirrel. Bonus points if said squirrel sticks around and waits for more food, and approaches you. Even more points if he gets his friends.
3. Go to the library and research the first thing you see for no more than three minutes. Take notes. Book: Wagner and Nietzche. Page: 34. "This essay, written in July 1864, was supposed to outline
Wagner's political stance after his participation in the Dresden Uprising." FASCINATING.
4. Use the public access computers in the library.
5. Inwardly fume about the students using all the public access computers in the library.
6. Look in vain for an empty table.
8. Ride the elevators.
9. Pretend to make a phone call for the sake of sitting in the soundproof booth.
10. Ride the elevators.
11. Look for a place to charge your phone.
12. Turn riding the elevators into a game. How To Play: Board an elevator on ground floor and ride to the top. Switch elevators whenever someone enters. Pick floors at random, or at age-significant points (like 21 for drinking, 18 for voting, 16 for driving.)
12a. Hide in bookshelves after switching off of an elevator with some people, and then switching onto
a new elevator with the same people.
13. Never let on that you are playing a game. Always look completely business-like.
14. Pretend to take notes on work.
15. Pretend to take notes on the people around you.
16. Take notes on the people around you. Three blue shirts, all different shades. Two water bottles at one table, with two water fountains about ten feet away. No ironic "be green" shirts, though.
17. Count the bikes outside the library: nineteen.
18. Assess the birds and squirrels outside the library: twittery and adorable.

How many of these did I do?



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ALL OF THE ABOVE. Except the second one, I ate all my food, sorry squirrels.

What.
Is up.
My friends.

That's meant to be, "What's up, friends?" but typed like that, it doesn't sound right. I'm not gonna fix it though. So! I finished all my summer work. HALLELUJAH. As for school this year, let's do a quick run down, shall we?

So, I've been studying Japanese a lot more lately, and a lot of why I haven't posted is that I've been posting on Lang-8. Which, by the way, is so fun. And is addictive as all hell. Ahem.

We're reading The Metamorphosis in English. It's... well, really funny. I know it's this story of how things get worse and worse, but the way it's written, some of it stands out as funny. Some of it is certainly very depressing, but a lot of it is a bit funny. I just imagine this giant person-bug and am all like, "Heeheeheee." This is really not a good reaction, is it? Let's see, what else. Oh! I reverted to a geek this summer. I watched the new Evangelion movie and saw two short TV series. But guys! It's fun! This is probably no excuse. ... that aside, I'm still going to watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

And, in closing, I drew Cathy and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, and went COMPLETELY overboard with brushes and things. In the end, I got this over the top picture:



OH! One more thing! I biked to school today and it was fun! Who knew!

Today the song lyric that is resonating with me is from that new song, and it goes, "over the line, can't define what I'm after." That's where I'm at right now. I think the song is called "Shattered" or "Turn the Car Around" or something.

I think I'll go down to the university tomorrow and read some Hawthorne and possibly biology. Mostly I just need a change of scenery really badly. I'm looking forward to the Hawthorne short stories, though. Rappacini's Daughter was such a good movie! And I'll feel more honest about knowing the story once I've read the actual book.

Also, I hear that in the Hollywood movie of the Scarlet Letter, Hester sweeps Dimmesdale up into a cart pulled by horses and they go riding off into the sunset? Uh bwuh what now? I... I don't know if I would've loved or hated the book if it ended like that. I like how it ends well enough. Pearl is my favorite character by far. (I'm not sure if I can write an essay about her though. Hrm.) Also, at the ending, I was thinking, "Oh, Hawthorne, be careful! Your sexism is showing!" I guess a guy in the 1800s can only be so feminist before he draws a line.

US History today was CELL-PHONE SMASHING FUN! :D Seriously, my history teacher took the cell phone of a kid who was texting, and said, "Do you know what I think we should do with these?" And then he hurled it at the ground and it shattered into about fifty pieces. In the end, it was all a prank, because the kid had gotten a new phone and had agreed that the teacher should do that to his old one, but the kid did act for a while like he didn't know what was going on, and it was funny. He had his eyes all bugged and was yelling "That was a $260 phone!" And then he just held the screen, which had broken off, and sort of looked at it all plaintively. Lots of fun.

Guys guys guess what guys? I can make cake in a coffee mug! No really, it's true!

( I can prove it, too! See, I have a recipe and everything :3 )

These cakes are very easy and quick to make and they are fun and make very little mess. Basically, you should just make one for yourself. Right now. When I experimented with making a cake using lemon and cinnamon, the result was AMAZING. It tasted like a crepe, sort of, but that's probably because we always put lemon juice and cinnamon on our crepes. >.>

But, yeah, it tastes amazing and it is a lot of fun. I hope everyone gets a chance to make one. Props to hannahstuff for posting the recipe in the first place.