! Cambridgeland, the tourist trap

Ok, so I'm at Harvard.
I'm not going to give you an overview of the whole experience right now, since you'll be picking things up as I post. I'll just say as background information that I really like it here, I've made  some really good friends, and things are looking up.
Now, there are a few unexpected things here that I find interesting. First off, I haven't had any classes yet. I won't even start until Wednesday. Orientation is loooooong. And a little useless--we have a ton of time to kill, so I've been just hanging around with people a lot.
I can honestly say that the most annoying thing about Harvard is the tourism. It's ridiculous. My dorm is right next to the John Harvard statue, and there's a group of people out there with fanny packs and cameras literally every time I walk out my door to go eat. It's gorgeous out there, and it's my school; I mean, all of Harvard Yard is surrounded by freshman-only dorms, so this is my lawn right now and there are always people all over the place! I'll get used to it, and I know it's uncharitable but I just sort of want them to go away.
Other than that? Yeah, it's awesome.
L

* - this is why i hate white people...and why i posted my previous post, the one directly below this one

i touched upon this topic in my first post, and in another post a few posts ago. the topic i am referring to is the fact that people say and do racist things when i pass them in the hall, or on the streets. just the other day i had a couple change the side of the street they were walking on when they saw me coming towards them. im so very tired of this. check out the video link in my post below. its a comedy sketch by a group called Reckless Tortuga. its funny but at the same time i cant help but be a bit angry and a bit sad, bc this stuff happens to me all the time

-obama's fault-
s0m3blackguy

* - this is why i hate white people...and elevators...and purses...and society as we know it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfjLfyXYlA

i blame obama.

-sick as a dog (never really got what that expression means...still dont)-
s0m3blackguy

^_^ In which I go to college

I'm all unpacked. My roommate is apparently an upperclassman and therefore will not be here until Sunday... I think I illegally lofted my bed... My bed was set up as a top bunk with the other bed across the room... so i just used to like it was bunked... I'm not sure that its safe, but hey. If my RA tells me to rearrange my room I will, just not tonight... And if I don't like it I might rearrange it anyway. Climbing onto my desk to get into bed is... not the best.

I have rediscovered the fact that I am HIGHLY anti-social... hence me sitting in my room typing to all of you guys instead of being out in the hall talking to people. ---I love this desk. It is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! I never knew that I would absolutely ADORE having one of those desk wall add on thingamagigs... you know what I'm talking about right? Well its awesome having a place that is NOT my desk space to place my pictures, some books and a flashlight =) ---Well I'm mostly excited about having a place to store and display my pic of Austin, a framed poem, and my lobster <3 =)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYWAAAAAAAAAAAYS I spent the day with high school friends who DON'T go here, and then ate a VERY late dinner with a friend of mine who DOES go here. I know... just showing how anti-social I am... again.

Oh well. I like it here, but I just want classes to start. I'm not interested in all this make friends mumbo jumbo... which is pretty bad, I know. But... I think that I'll make the friends I really want to in my classes... not on my floor.

ciao for now

* - this is why i hate white people...and starting school again

ok. so even though im in college now, even though i dont have to deal with the shithole that was my school, i dont want to go back to school. i have become accustomed to the late hours of fun that is the summer night, and the summer days where we sit around and have the time of our lives. those days however have come to an end. goodbye summer of 2010...we knew you well, and you will be treasured always along with the memories that we made with you.


-feeling rather nostalgic-
s0m3blackguy

P.S: summer coming to a close = obama's fault

^_^ In which I laugh... a lot

So I'm over my boyfriend's house, to see him for the last time before I go to college tomorrow. And his best friend calls... =D This makes me laugh. <3

ciao for now (aka he is off the phone)

night, yall ;)

* - this is why i hate black people....and rock band/guitar hero

They're coming out with an actual stringed guitar controller for these games to make it more realistic....i shit you not. they also have a control with alllllll these little buttons instead of strings but you have to know actual chords and shit to use it. now i play guitar..i LOVE guitar...but this? well there can only be two outcomes....1: these guitar hero "experts" actually get a run for their money, from the "real deal" or 2: the end of life as we now know it.... me? i'm actually hoping for the ever present choice 3: in which i take a blunt object and hit the nearest guitar hero playing "im a musician" wannabe dumbass in the head with it......repeatedly....worst thing about this? i cant blame obama for it. i blame the retarded gamers that play this shit.

-so pissed that i couldnt blame obama for this shit-
s0m3blackguy

^_^ In which I've spent most of the day crying

Why do humans cry? Who designed the human body and decided... HMMMMM... when humans are sad beyond expressible words fluid should secrete from the eyes and nasal cavities... THAT MAKES SENSE ON WHAT PLANET!?!?!?

I've spent every moment today in which I haven't by crying singing. Even when I was cleaning cat cages this morning I was singing. Honestly cats are pretty good audience. They don't boo you offstage and they are funny to sing to because I find I shift keys to match their meows if they choose to meow.

So all in all rough day. Yesterday's band practice was awesome though. Off to voice lesson in 20 minutes or so...


ciao <3

^_^ In which I had an epiphany

The only guarantee we have in life is laundry.

! A shout-out to Marty

I'm posting on the NLC instead of SAu because I knew you'd appreciate it, Martin.
I just picked up Blink's self-titled album.
I'm sort of in love.
The thing with the music I actually like--the punkish-alternativeish-delicious stuff--is that I can't choreograph to it. That's really weird for me. As soon as anything but my music comes on, I start dancing in my head. It's just a reaction, but Alkaline Trio? Rise Against? Sum 41? Nothing happens. I can't dance to it.
And guess what? I can dance to this, my kind of dance, the actual kind, not headbanging or "oh look at me, I'm totally trashed and having vertical sex with someone I don't know". It's kind of ballet and kind of modern and a little bit of jazz and it's making me super happy right now.
That's my happy moment of the day. I think I'll make this a regular thing during my facebook exile =)

Also, I'd like to share that there are boxes ALL OVER my room. This really isn't a problem except for the fact that I could barely get by my furniture and out the door without walking straight into very hard wooden objects.
Something's going to get broken. I think it might be my leg.
Pray for me.

MP

* - this be why i hate white people arrrrgghhh!!!!!.....but why i love pirates

Pirates didnt give a crap about what race you were, as long as you could swab the deck, shoot a gun, and swing a sword. I'm getting SO DAMN TIRED of racist comments from people as i WALK..not run, or jog, or drive by, oh no!...as i WALK by them. This country needs to get itself together, or its just gonna start falling apart by the seams....and im not gonna fucking help duct tape this shit back together.

-about to bust a cap in someones ass-
s0m3blackguy

! Going up?

I'm thinking of ways I can use the elevator in my dorm to its full potential.
(My favorite thing about this group: I don't have to justify statements like that.)
NLC HQ is kind of growing on me, honestly. I've always wanted to have one little corner of the world that belongs to us, even if I'm sort of the only one who recognizes it. I also thought it would be a good place for: reading sessions, studying, chess matches, poker tournaments, writing novels, sketching, learning a new language, stretching, yoga, meditation, typing, painting toenails, folding origami, sewing, napping, palm reading, praying, jumprope (depending on the size), and, you know, going up and down between floors. Any suggestions are more than welcome, so please leave them in the comments [in my pants (nerdjokes nerdjokes nerdjokes)] Am I going to be known as the weird chick who hangs out in the elevator? Maybe. Should I care about what other people think if I legitimately want to go hang out in the elevator? No, probably not.

Also, I'm taking a facebook vacation. You people are welcome into the bubble and know how to reach me.

Have a lovely lifeless day, as I'm sure I will since I'm going to go chill with Anni.
*hearts*
MP

^_^ In which I become fascinated with Wicca and its jewelry

The title really says it all. I've spent that past hour bouncing between cleaning, reading, researching Wicca, and sorting through shirts and books and things, trying to figure out what I'm bringing with me to college. I don't believe I have a bookshelf provided at UNH, so I'm trying to be as logical as I can be about the book situation... yeah... I think you can imagine how that is turning out... In regards to the Wicca. I am not particularly religious, and haven't been for many, many years. That doesn't mean I don't pray every time I see an ambulance drive by, I was raised a Catholic and for the most part, still am. But I like a lot of the little things in Wicca. For example. An anklet with bells is worn to remind you that every step is sacred and to choose your footing and your path wisely. I like that. Not that you need to wear said anklet, though I think the anklet would be cool, but being told to remember that every step is sacred, that, my friends I like. However, I am very weird, and I am incredibly and painfully aware of that fact.

In other news, Austin gave me a gorgeous amber necklace on Friday. Its the first piece of jewelry gotten me he's me. He's also the first boy to buy me jewelry that was not only something I found pretty, but was also my style. Its asymmetrical, its simple, its amber, its sterling silver. He just nailed my favorite type of jewelry on the head. ^_^ So... I'm happy. Its as if instead of randomly going into a jewelry store and buying me something within budget that looked shiny, he took the time to figure out what I would like... which is a first, for me. ^_^


over and out, ciao <3

P.S. Are the fish STUPID? I click in front of their damn noses and the ones ACROSS THE square get it...

♪ Trying...

to feed only the white fish is difficult.

I can't believe summer's winding down already. I've been out of school since everyone else began April vacation which is pretty fuckin ridiculous in itself... Time flies as we all know. When's everyone moving into their schools now anyway? I move in the 5th and start classes the 7th. I wish I had more to say and more time to say it, but there's a sun outside today and i gotta be in it.

Deuces.

^_^ In which I kicked butt as Kirby in Mario Party

Is there such a thing as official third wheel? Well if there is, then I am the official third wheel of my friend K and Bob's relationship. Every time they chill I get invited over, which works out really well... O_o I supply enough nerdiness for Bob and enough feminism and boys suck for K. Anyways... we play Mario Party and I am officially killer as Kirby, and... well... Playing as Peach is more for the ridiculous factor that one of her attacks is choking poor little toad. And Peach vs. King Kong is HILARIOUS! I don't think I need to say who won that match...

Still listening to Billy Joel obsessively.

Purchased two German charts yesterday at the NHTI bookstore (K needed books for classes, and I migrated to the German section).

Also... has anyone on here played MassEffect 2? I'm interested in the game, but my xbox died three weeks ago so, more specifically, the computer version of MassEffect 2? (Mac version?)

Random News (not that the above wasn't)

~Finally read the 7th Harry Potter book for the first time, it twas really good.

~Started "This is All- the Pillow Book of Cordelia Ken" put it down at page 200 or so, it has a good story, but its set up as if the author let his two year old cut and past the thing together with no rules. You'll be in the middle of a sentence and suddenly next page new story! And the sentence you were reading completes itself and continue 5 pages later.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

~Started "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" IT IS AMAZING! Also, I have the DVD in Swedish with English subtitles, which is also AWESOME! However, be warned, there are two (arguably 3) rape scenes... and they are not meant to be entertaining, they are violent, and rather scary-- its a feministic female empowerment film, hence why it is depicted as rape should be... as horrifying. The rape scenes in the book are also horrifying... though the third one leaves you with a rather smug look on your face... Isn't revenge sweet?

~Anyways--- over and out, BYE!

* - this is why i hate white people...with an exception to Lauren Covalucci our beloved MP

She gave me my own fish box, with a bunch of black fish and one white fish....all is now right with the world...wait no, this just in! i stubbed my toe=obama's fault

-had to get that bit of obama in there-
s0m3blackguy

* - this is why i hate white people...but i love the little fish box on the NLC 2.0 page

Ok, so i have literally spent the last 15 or so minutes feeding the fish on the page...sad i know. however i made it challenging. i decided to try and only feed the black colored fish, all the other ones can go starve.

- sitting in his room and eating chicken selects while listening to blink-182 for the 3456787654 time today-
s0m3blackguy

P.S: i noticed that in my last post i didnt blame obama for anything so now i have to do double the damage - 1: global warming=obama's fault, 2: hitler=obama's fault...thank you that is all
-longest and by far the stupidest post yet-
s0m3blackguy

! Nothing has changed, but now I...

I'm in my room right now thinking about all the stuff I have to get done before next Tuesday. It's a lot. The whole packing thing has to happen eventually, and that should be interesting, since it will involve arguing with my mother over everything I put in a suitcase. For the record, I overpack because you never know when you're going to need something, and I'd rather carry around something I'm not using than wish I had brought something that would have been helpful. I do pack well though. It's fun to defy the laws of physics and stuff half my life into one suitcase. Compact, yes. Suitcases just end up feeling like bricks. Good thing I have a damn ELEVATOR. That might end up being my favorite part of the dorm I'm in. I'll set up NLC HQ in there or something.

So I'm not worried about packing clothes and food and miscellaneous shit. That should be easy enough to find room for. It's my books I'm worried about. I don't go anywhere significant without them. Every summer, coming up to the house, I would pack at least a shelf's worth. And bringing the bare essentials to live in a place for a year means that I'm gong to be filling the bookcase they give me prreeeeety quickly. I have no problem with this. The books can take my bed. I'll sleep on the floor. I'm just going to have to do a little bit of yelling to get them in the car and in my room, especially considering that my mother's useless item quota for me already seems to have been filled by Gerry.

Wish me luck. But the words are coming with me--no surrender.

^_^ In which I fall in love with German

I'm officially on a Billy Joel kick. If you guys don't know who that is, then shame on you, and download some of his stuff. I mean talk about talent. The guy was amazing.

-- for the record--- I didn't really know who he was until Austin got me into him... however, as sad as that is, I am going to try to spread the love of Billy Joel as much as I can! =)

Not really a fan of his daughter though, Alexa Ray Joel? Something like that. She's just... =/ She seems to want more media coverage for being her than for her music and that just urks me.

Another thing I am on is Germany kick... When I first started singing in German I HATED it! However, the more you work with it, the more you realize its incredibly similar to English. They are both Germanic languages and though we like to think we don't spit when we talk, if you work to get all the fricative consonants in English correct, we spit quite a bit. And... my mom made the mistake of showing me a full immersion program for German in Vermont that has a special program for singers. I think I'm going to apply. If I get in, that's a month of next summer spent learning German and singing in Vermont... honestly... that sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me. And then I can work with the UNH study abroad department to go study music for a year in Germany or Austria at one of their many conservatories.... I mean... I like this idea!

Austin is on vacation. Current contact level is zero, contact on the one day prior to him leaving for the woods where technology does not exist was very low. *sighs* I'm glad school is starting soon so I can bury myself in school work and not think about anything but Music, writing, psychology and lots more music! Until Christmas time of course... uggg...

Christmas should be Christmas with my father this year.... But, do I really need to continue following the divorce paper split guidelines now that I'm 18? O_o

Oh well. Ciao <3

* - this is why i hate white people...but i love me some hippie girls

What is it about hippie girls that makes me so attracted to them? i mean come on, sure most of them are attractive and calm, and kind......damn i just answered my own question and have no reason to even continue this rant of a blog.....

-posting it anyway bizsnitches!!!!!-
s0m3blackguy

* - this is why i hate white people.....and gary oak

Ok, so im playing pokemon, minding my own business...and then all of a sudden that pea-brained snot of a pokemon trainer Gary Oak comes out of nowhere and challenges me to a battle. Half of my party is either poisoned, at a pathetic level or unconcious. But noooooooo!!!!!!! to Gary MotherF**king Oak that doesnt matter at all!! So you know what happens? He beats the living crap out of me...worst part is i have to beat him to progress farther in the game. So guess what i have to do now? i can blame two people for this, 1: Professor Oak for giving his little shite of a grandson a pokedex and 2: Obama.

-Extreme Anger...I CHOOSE YOU!!!!!!!-
s0m3blackguy

* - this is why i hate white people...and every other race just as much

Ok, so since im adopted my parents are white. Needless to say i'm severely lacking in their skin pigment. So when i go out to the store with my mom i constantly receive some of the strangest looks ever just because im walking with a middle aged white woman. I can only blame one person for these stares.....Obama.

-still alive-
s0m3blackguy