Thursday, December 13

 
random thought for the night:
the world is so peaceful when you are wearing earplugs. i really like it.

random story for the night:
yesterday morning the university had a huge sale. they only do it once a semester, so it is a pretty big deal. it gets very crowded in there. so i was down there looking through jackets for my dad, and i leaned my skateboard up against a table full of sweatshirts. some woman coming around a corner stubbed her toe on it - i saw her coming toward it too late and i couldn't save her. i immediately apologized, expecting her to say, "it's okay" since she didn't even hit it hard enough to knock it down or anything. i mean, it looked like no big deal. instead, this GROWN WOMAN (i mean she was probably somebody's mom or something!) KICKS my skateboard over, then turns and glares at me! right in the middle of the store! it was so weird!

random quote for the night:
"my head will never be the same again."
before i fall asleep i just want to say that i am in a state of euphoria after seeing hey mercedes in concert tonight. they are amazing. i love that band so much. in between shows i miss them like the sun misses the flower in winter (anyone to get that quote and let me know wins a million bucks and/or a secret prize.)

good night, neverland.
posted by from shannon at 12:36 AM

Wednesday, December 12

 
i ride my skateboard to campus every day, which is a few blocks from my apartment. i skate in the bike lane on the wrong side of the street, so traffic is coming toward me. sometimes i have this weird thought that i could trip up and fall off my skateboard, as sometimes happens to people on skateboards, only i'd land in the street. and then i wonder if people ever really die that way. it makes my trip to school a lot more adventurous.


posted by from shannon at 4:02 PM

Tuesday, December 11

 
if you were there for me during the nasty brain tumor scare - if you cheered when t.s.s. turned out to be just a nasty rumor - have i got bad news for you. i think i have mono, or else carbon monoxide poisoning. they are two different things, right?. either way, again, i am screwed.

life is funny sometimes.
posted by from shannon at 6:02 PM

Monday, December 10

 
from author and usc faculty aimee bender's "an invisible sign of my own":

"numbers are friends for me, more or less. it doesn't mean the same to you, does it - 3,844? for you it's just a three and an eight and a four and a four. but i say, 'hi! 62 squared.'" -mathematician wim klein

ha.
posted by from shannon at 9:31 PM

Sunday, December 9

 
let the good-byes begin... my good friend ryan came over tonight to hang out and, ulitimately, say good-bye since we probably won't see each other again before i leave for italy. ryan was my best friend during my time in verona two summers ago, so we spent a lot of time reminiscing about that trip. and he gave me a present: a 10,000 lira bill he had lying around from when he was in italy again this past summer. that reminded me that i have 29,000 lira i forgot to exchange after verona. score! so we decided to figure out the exchange rate to american dollars and discovered that i am unexpectedly $18 richer. then we shared a good laugh at the expense of stupid italians because they are all billionaires under their current monetary system. fools.

so other things that happened recently - friday - busy and especially tiring after all of the freshman-helping and cart-wheelie-popping of the previous day. of note, i got free pizza and cried (two separate events) as i bid all of my helenes friends farewell at installation tea. but it's okay, it's not unusual for helenes to cry at our formal events. must be all the estrogen in the air. also, had a nifty slumber party with my two girlfriends later that night. even got to share a (sofa) bed with one of them - yesssss.

okay, still can't remember what i did thursday night. have no clue. if you know, please mail me and let me know. especially if you have my bra.

posted by from shannon at 8:49 PM

 
today i make my triumphant return to blogging after a three-day hiatus in which i was vanquishing the world from evil and defending all that is pure and true.

actually i've just been having a very busy few days, and all the tiredness from my week of paper-writing and group-projecting finally caught up to me, making me too sleepy to blog. so, let's pull out my handy-dandy m.c. escher day planner and reflect upon where these past three days have taken us...

(wayne and garth finger thing)

thursday - up before dawn for your favorite day of the year and mine, midyear orientation. for those of you who don't know, i worked this past summer as an orientation advisor for usc, and my contract requires that i do these nifty little midyear-o's (that's orientation office lingo for midyear orientation) for spring admits (orientation lingo for people who have been admitted for the spring semester.) though it was highly disorganized because the new girls they hired to run it are incompetent (which is why janelle and i are going to apply next year, because we are the obvious best choices and then we will rock the house), it was a long, but very fun, day of tours, talking to freshmens and reminiscing with old o.a.'s (orientation office lingo for orientation advisors.)

best of all, however, is this little tidbit: i got to drive the cart. that might sound stupid to some of you, but it was like a dream come true for me. the orientation office always rents one of those golf cart-esque thingamabobbers (this one seats up to six and has a flatbed back so we can carry stuff on it) that we use to zoom our stuff around campus. all summer a bunch of us begged to drive it, but they wouldn't let us because technically you're supposed to have taken a defensive driving course (since this thing goes from 0 to 15 in a matter of seconds.) my bosses wickedly teased me a couple of times this summer, making me think they'd let me drive it, only to snatch the keys from my naive young fingers the moment i eagerly wiggled in behind the steering wheel. but they finally let me drive it for real on thursday! and i got to drive it like three times, too! i took it on joy rides all over campus, honking at kids and playing chicken with bikers.

that cart was so choice.

i can't remember anything that happened on thursday night, however. i feel like i did something, but i have no idea what. maybe it will come back to me later. i am forced to conclude that my narcolepsy (we think i have a very slight case, it's true) took over once again, so god only knows what happened to my sleeping body that night. i'm going to try to solve this puzzling puzzle, but when i come back i'll tell some more stories about my spectacular weekend.
posted by from shannon at 11:21 AM