The Daily Adventures of Mercat

WOW, late fall weather out of NOWHERE. I did not expect that for another week and a half or two. You know, because in Ohio, you don't get that slow transition into seasons, you get that awkward in-between week whereit's getting progressively colder but still alternating hot-as-hell days, until after a week or so of that it's consistently cooler. BUT NO, repeat CHILLY days out of fucking nowhere. I mean, I understand the concept of cold front, but damn it is chilly. I'm excited because I love fall and I will be able to break out my Troop jacket early, but I don't really own enough pants to make it work.

Ugh, also, so much to do this week. Still bombing hydraulics, I hate it. I'm going to get a C or D in that class. GROSS. Fuck that.

OH GOD THE WEATHER IS AMAZING

I was in a Halloween mood for the past few weeks and now I'm in a CHRISTMAS MOOD just WTF and YAY and OMG STRESS and I have a billion things to blog but I'm soooo busy this week with PoD and Hopewalk and homework and uuuuugh.

BUT. Friday night I'm reserving blog time for myself. And I'm going to watch Shawn of the Dead. This of course all after I go grocery shopping and go home to get clothes for the WTF Are You Wearing Party for SATURDAY omg yay. Can you say tacky Christmas tights + striped socks + swimsuit + nerd scarf + shiny gauntlets + bowler? Oh I think you can. I just need to decide which shoes would be appropriate ;D

IN THE MEANTIME! I am leaving you with this. And now I will commit ritual seppuku with Wastewater homework.



Also, The Beeftrain Incident also made a full-on Mr./Dr. Jones parody (FINALLY, after that short version on College Humor was up forever, but was only like two verses, though I liked the fact it was from Shorty's POV), which makes me excited because I actually have six songs on my non-Williams Indy CD. Actually, non-movie CD, because I don't have stuff like "Wake Up Little Susie" or "Hound Dog" or "Shake, Rattle and Roll" on there either. But I need to.

Also I swear there's other songs that reference Indy that I don't have... and I can't for the life of me recall who the artist was that did Jazz Raiders. Feh...

BUT OMG THE WEATHER, IT'S AMAZING. I loved living in Hawaii but I always completely forget how the fall makes me feel. I can't explain it, it's like I feel like a totally different person, really.

Oh, is anyone else watching Fringe? I don't need to get addicted to another show but it's so awesome and the Dr's combination for his garage lock was 3-1-4-1-5-9 and I LOVE YOU NERD WRITERS, YOU ARE SO AWESOME, SERIOUSLY. :D

Damn, I have been busy lately. Recruitment chair + Hopewalk chair + overly busy POD year + total bitch prof for wastewater = Diane not getting any sleep, yeah?

I have an entire page in my art history notebook full of things I've meant to talk about, just thoughts that strike me about life or me or things in general. I think this happens more in art classes because we're analyzing the art in relation to how people look at life.

And I keep wondering stuff about why I particularly enjoy surrealism and fantasy art as opposed to other movements (perhaps disregarding art nouveau and art deco as those are styles rather than movements?), especially with respect to Yukio Ozaki (my ceramics prof from last semester)'s comments about not crafting, but making art. I don't know, I sort of have a problem with that.

I feel like despite the fact that yesterday was possibly the worst day ever and it fried my brain so much (probably from crying out of frustration? I definitely was >this close< to snapping all day long, so I definitely cried enough), I am still having a good year. Wednesday was an AMAZING day because the weather was cool and GORGEOUS, and we had a little Chaminade meetup which was all nice and emotional and warm fuzzies and that sort of deal. But the weather the most reminded me that for some reason, even as beautiful as Hawaii was, there's something about the fall that I can't grasp or describe that is absolutely perfect. I just get this feeling of perfection when the weather gets that way... It's beautiful. And then yesterday was a total bomb (minus the LHC not blowing shit up, lol) but today I was happy again. I don't know why, because I didn't get to sleep in or anything. But then going home for dinner listening to the radio I just realized that music, especially radio music for some reason, never fails to make me happy. It brings me back to some sort of happy time, I'm not really sure what; I'm consciously reminded of different high school events but it's not that, it's more of a subconscious happiness with a little of that reminiscence thrown in. So, I don't know. Hopefully tomorrow is a good day, too.


By the way, September 11th totally snuck up on me, as did Talk Like a Pirate Day. So I watched a History Channel special which made me cry, which I'm glad it did because it kind of helps me realize how big that was, which I don't think I understood at the time. I mean, being an emotional person, I was upset and it was obviously devastating, but I didn't understand the impact. I forgot my cousin's aunt worked at the Pentagon, and I didn't really comprehend, I don't think, that this was the first attack ever on American soil. (Blah blah blah Pearl Harbor HAWAII WAS NOT A STATE THEN) BUT. Yeah. Despite the fact that everyone hates that it gets used politically as an excuse for everything, I'm glad people still take the time to teach everyone and remind everyone what it means.

And now, I think I'm going to go listen to For the Fallen, and wish I had our original recording of because I think there was more passion in it, but I need to post a recording of it or something, because it's an amazing song written by a local composer about 9/11. Anyway, yeah.

And life goes on.

Quick post before I check my email; today was more Fall than Christmas, which was good, but I'm still not in a very good mood. I feel like I'm in gradeschool (home for the summer? sitting around reading? mowing? I dunno) and combined with feeling like fall (jeans, sweatshirts) and smelling like Ohio and I guess just the whole "coming home" feeling, I'm hoping it's either jetlag or hormones or somethign because I just opened up all my packages waiting for me (hat!!! ring!!!) and I wasn't very excited.

BUT.

I just checked my facebook to sync myself up with the countdown. It's sort of "ten days" as a nice round number but really its NINE DAYS AND ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR UNTIL I AM IN A THEATRE WATCHING INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. Ohhhhh yeeeeeesssss. I am a little more excited now. =D

Back to post more later.

After such a shite day yesterday (I wrote more later on my own about how crappy it was, even!), today is going spectacularly. It's a bit too cold for my tastes at the moment, but that's because I am in love with fall. It's my favorite season, and combined with winter, and the holidays, this is my favorite time of year! I am just reminded of my favorites: the warm but cool days, marching band competitions, halloween, costumes, hot chocolate, the feeling of a new sweatshirt, pumpkin pie, thanksgiving, christmas even... it's all just so wonderful.

Plus I found out one of the lunch ladies here is Tim/Andy/Luke Gorman's mom! It's such a small world, lol. So we talked for a while and it was awesome. It's nice to talk to the food staff; they kind of new me since I worked in KU over the summer, but more than that I just think not that many people take the time to talk to them. Plus they are really sweet, and Jeff always gives me an overflowing carton of popcorn chicken when I get it, lol.

And I am excited, I have an idea for a new facebook photo! My purple fedora combined with my mini cans of Candy Corn Jones Soda inspired me (so you can probably guess where that's going, lol...).

Plus I had a pretty cool dream last night, and I thought it was Tuesday for about a half an hour after I woke up... only to remember it's THURSDAY! And I'm that much closer to the weekend and going to a marching band competition! Once I get my work done today, it will be really nice. =^n.n^=

Did I mention how beautiful today was? I love fall. The cold-but-not-freezing temperatures are simply AMAZING. And today was one of those days. It was too bad that the clouds came out after my classes, I had wanted to sit in the sun. And now when the softball game is going on, I'm studying for physics... *sigh* Hopefully the weather stays this way for a while. =^n.n^= I want to go hiking!

So I was required for my engineering workshop to take a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test. It's actually pretty cool. (here's the basic test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm ...the real thing is like 3000 questions or something. Crazy.) Anyway, I just wanted to kind of self-reflect on my breakdown, which is INFJ.

( cut so I don't kill your friends page... )



IN OTHER NEWS... I am excited for fall! It is probably my favorite season, what with being able to wear warmy comfy clothes or shorts if you so desire. Cool but not freezing. Plus Halloween... I love Halloween. Dressing up is always tons of fun. I'm already looking at costumes. =^n.n^= And I've also been in a very Christmasy and Thanksgivingy mood due to this fall happiness.

Hm, I don't know if I mentioned it in my other post, but they accepted our Gold Award papers yet! I don't know if it's official until the stupid ceremony next year, though, but... whatever, I am happy. No more Elvis for me, though! Dear lord. Born January 9, 1935, died August 16th, 1977... I think that's right. See? I know too much. IF I KNOW HIS BIRTH AND DEATHDATES... yes, we were inundated with Elvis. Blech. Not that he was bad-- we were excited to start! Just not anymore. Not for a good long time.

=^n.n^= I am also in a very Aloha mood, but I think you knew that.