j'y pense et puis j'oublie

Mrs. McGlinchey: [of lab procedure] "Don't wear jewelry, tie your hair back, don't wear any loose or dangling clothing..."
Leslie: "So you're saying I should come in wearing a tight bodysuit? I don't believe it. I think you just want to see me in Spandex."

So people who have paid attention to my journal for a while might remember that I have this weird thing with getting really shaky when speaking/performing in public. It's especially annoying during our orchestra concerts, because it gets so bad that I can't even hold my bow properly and my fingering gets all messed up. The most annoying thing is that I don't actually feel nervous-- it's purely a physical reaction. I don't even know.

So this past Sunday, we had a concert. Guess what?

No shaking.

Thank you, Lexapro!

We're going out for Japanese food tonight to celebrate my sister's birthday! (The people who run the tables are ~*firebenders*~, too; it's a hibachi restaurant.) My mom is frantically cleaning the house because a bunch of people are coming over tonight-- it STILL looks pretty bad, but more like "as to be expected from a home with three slobs and a million animals" than "OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THIS".

... raserei_hojo, I owe you tags like woah. DX I WILL GET TO THEM TODAY, I PROMISE.

Thanks to Norry I now have a Google Wave account (and... am still trying to figure out how it works, haha), and at the moment I have eight invitations to give away. If anyone on my flist wants one, let me know I'll shoot one off to you!

(ALSO: this is unrelated, but JOIN PLURK. It's like IMing only at lot easier to keep up with.)

Neil: "What was Shakespeare's inspiration for A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
Miss Bavier: "No one really knows."
Neal: "... Did they have opium in his time?"

I went to my sister's Spanish play today. It was weird walking past Madame's room. It was also weird being confronted by a janitor when we went up to wander around the second floor afterward (... no one ever used to have a problem with students hanging around after hours; that's my only excuse). I also stuck my head in a classroom door and shouted the name of one of my sister's friends who was in there, and even though it *looked* like people weren't really doing anything but bumming around Jenny maintains that she thought they were in the middle of something. I'm hoping she was wrong, though, because even though no one actually takes those skits seriously I'd still feel bad if some people got theirs interrupted by some random girl walking by and yelling "SONJA PAPE!" at them.

Anyway. The obvious real reason for this entry:

( Snip! )

Aren't my shoes awesome?

Mr. Zottoli: "It's fun to say 'Vagina Monologues'!"

This is literally all I've been doing for the past two weeks:

- reading
- watching TV/movies
- using the computer

I've been out of the house twice to go get blood drawn at the doctor's, but that's it. 8| I AM. SO BORED. Hopefully I'll be going back to school next week, but if the mono test comes back positive they'll want me to stay out longer. As it is, the doctor recommended that I only go for half days for at least ten days after I start going back. I hope my teachers don't flip out.

ANYWAY. In other news, I've been marathoning Dexter online and am currently in the middle of 4x07. I LOVE IT, and I have some theories about something but I don't want to get into it here because I don't feel like spoiler-cutting, so ask in the comments if you really care to know.

AND LASTLY, AS PROMISED, my list of excellent kids' books for lovesnotwisely (the ones that are starred are especially amazing):

( I read kidlit too much but I don't care )

Kaitlin: "Any ideas for what intramural sports we could add?"
Dan: "Ultimite frisbee."
Leslie: "Football!"
Marshall: "Killer tag. With knives."

So I watched The Day After Tomorrow yesterday. I wasn't really expecting much, but I love disaster movies so I thought I'd give it a go. The first half-hour or so was really jumpy and choppy, but then it settled down a bit, and really, it was much better than I had expected storytelling- and writing-wise. I thought the ending in particular was very well done.

The only part I thought was really hokey was the wolf attack; that was pretty dumb. But all in all, it was actually a fairly solid film. I don't even have to classify it as a guilty pleasure!

- Why does Firefox keep freezing
- Why am I so addicted to Unicreatures
- ... Why am I thinking about this instead of working on my French project with Abbey and Gianna 8|

A random OOC-note conversation with Yue led me to start digging for more dissections of Martha Stout's A Sociopath Next Door. I know I've seen some critical analysis by actual professionals that is absolutely AMAZING, but tonight I'm kind of tired, so I really didn't look much farther than Amazon.com (SO REPUTABLE, I KNOW). But I did find one review that pretty much sums up ALL of my feelings on the subject:

( Cut because no one cares, Iddy. )

( Edit because lol another one; NOBODY BUT ME IS ACTUALLY GOING TO READ THIS HAHAHA )

( OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS what am I even doing )

( And idk this one's also interesting; SERIOUSLY, IGNORE ME )

EXACTLY THIS. All of this. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT.

Mr. LaForce: [reading the program notes for "Rise of the Firebird"] "The firebird, also known as the phoenix, bursts into flames and is reborn from its own ashes, stronger and more powerful than before."
Doug: "I can do that."
Mr. LaForce: "I know, wouldn't it be cool if I just burst into flames on the podium after the song?"
Maddie: "The longest recorded time of someone doing that is thirty-four seconds."
Taylor: "You mean people actually record how long it takes for someone to spontaneously combust?"
Maddie: "No, set themselves on fire."
Taylor: "People set themselves on fire?"
Maddie: "For a living."
Doug: "I do that."

They had these neat wall-decorating things at the campus store; you just stick them on, and they peel off really easily whenever you want to take them down. Impulse buys are win.

( OOPS, ALMOST FORGOT TO CUT )