Recapping Spring Break ( 4.21-4.30ish)

Vacations from school are always weird to me. they're a time when it seems like all you did was sleep and avoid homework, but when you look back you actually did quite a bit of stuff. I don't know, at least i feel that way most of the time. so what did I do over spring break? Let's see...

• 4.21= woke up late recovering from double days at Disneyland with Rachel, sunburn and doing laundry until 3am. Had about an hour and a half to shower, eat lunch, get cash from the ATM and pack my clothes before I had to get to the airport. Such a rush that I made (not on purpose of course) the taxi wait like 10 minutes. (They charge you so much for less than a 10 minute drive they can wait a bit, right?) Then I got to the airport, where I was NOT treated like a terrorist this time (that's a story for another day). Took an hour plane ride to Oakland, went home and threw my stuff down before I went to Berkeley to see Jukebox Stories at Impact Theatre with my blogger friend Prince Gomolvilas. AMAZING show. Both Prince and Brandon are hilarious and they leave you wanting more. :) ha. I got home and listened to Jukebox Stories: The Official Bootleg because it's all AWESOME. Ate some Lavalle's pizza and went home to a house with DUN DUN DUN: NO INTERNET ON MY LAPTOP.
• 4.22= i don't remember, but it ended with eating out w/ my parents and my sister.
• 4.23= once again, i don't remember.
• 4.24= BABYSITTING!!! yay! i missed my kids so much. leila's so cute, and she's not calling me hobbie anymore. now i'm "yeeyah" because she can't say her L's right in order to say "Leah". Jamar got a snake, which i am so creeped out by bringing me to...
• 4.25= more babysitting! they fed the snake and leila was so funny she'd look into the box with the snake eating the mouse and just go..."eww!", and tomas scared me hecka bad coz he grabbed my arm like two seconds after the snake pounced on the mouse, and i messed up my hand fighting with him over it. you'd think he'd learn his lesson because when i messed up my hand i'd scratched him, but he AND jamar started a pillow fight against me and I accidentally hit jamar in the face. then we watched I Am Legend, and we drag raced back to my house.
• 4.26= pizza with my parents. yummy pesto and olives. went to the mall, worked on my fanfic. two chapters done, but i can't post them yet because i have no titles.
  • NOTICE: all that homework I have for Writing 39b has not been touched. see what i mean by sleeping and avoiding homework?
• 4.27= i was supposed to watch the kids, but everyone was sick so i ended up going to vicki's house and playing guitar hero. :) hadn't seen vicki since graduation.
• 4.28= went to SF with Nani and saw the CUTEST hello kitty bag but i didn't but it because it was like $50. then i realized i SHOULD have bought it because it was cuter than half the bags at Disneyland which is what i was going to buy originally anyway. there was this slutty blonde white chick on the bart that made me ashamed to be human. we got on the bart, it was RAINING and GREY outside and she was wearing a mini skirt that barely covered her, her leg all draped over her boyfriend and her butt hanging out. DISGUSTING. worst part is the only seats on the train were right across from her and her boyfriend who were making out half the time and asking hella loud for directions the other half. Orange Barbie doll almost made this guy miss his station too because she didn't know how to get to the Oakland coliseum. dude. it's SIMPLE. there's an entire stop just for it!
• 4.29= went to fremont with livi and jonathan to half price books at like 9pm, bought the BBC version of Sweeney Todd for like $9. it was good. really different than the musical though, darker, more blood and the story's different. Watch them both though.
• OKay so here's where it gets tricky because it's only 2 hours into 4.30, so i have no idea what's going to happen. I'm going to try and predict though...
• 4.30= blogged for hecka long, slept in, went to newpark with my mom because they have a bunch of clothes stores i like and they have target because i need some stuff before i go back to irvine. go visit flea and the kids to say goodbye until june or sooner if i happen to make it back, go home throw all my stuff in my suitcases and head to the airport in order to go BACK to irvine.

wow. either i did a lot, or i had a lot to say about what i did. some other things i feel i should bring up before i go to bed are:

• Enchanted- i've watched it about 4 times over break (because i got the DVD), and i've realized that i want to be Giselle. It seems like so much fun! maan. I want to be a disney princess and sing in order to get all of my animal friends to help clean my room. how AWESOME would that be? plus i'd get to choose between James Marsden and Patrick Dempsy. as we all know, i'm particular to johnny depp, but it'd still be cool, right?
• Hip Hop- I've never realized how much I'm grateful for hip hop and rap music until i get a white girl overload like that incident on bart. we threw on some hip hop music after that and somehow it helped us get regrounded.
• Blogging- I love doing it, but now that I have to do it for writing, i'm hoping it doesn't loose it's appeal.

Okay, that's all. Lots to say, too much maybe. oh well. Until tomorrow, or whenever. I'll be in irvine next time i blog with no MonaRonaDona virus blocking my way and making me shift computer windows around in order to see.

Later.

-Leah

Disneyland perplexes me...

So me and Rachel went to Disneyland (YAY!) twice last week, and we still cannot figure out why there is a Sweeney Todd diorama inside one of the gift shops.

Even stranger still is that he looks like a twisted version of Commodore James Norrington (A.k.a Jack Davenport.)

Oh Disney.  Why are you so confusing?

-Solia

Stupid College...

gorram college.  Homework over spring break was supposed to END in HIGH SCHOOL.

So, to summarize, here are the tasks that you must complete *before* we

meet for our first class on Tuesday, April 1st.

--Read Plato’s Lysis and Book 8 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics—pp 1-50

in Pakaluk’s Other Selves.

--Read the Introduction to the Student Guide to Writing

--Write two blogs in the Writing Studio

--Read and print out the Course Syllabus and the “Writing Studio Help”

sheet. Sign the forms in the syllabus and bring them with you on the first

day of class.

--Read all of the course information that I disseminate through

e-mail—course syllabi, writing studio information, etc. Check your e-mail

frequently.

--If you receive an e-mail from me asking you to do so, be prepared to

define a glossary term in class and give an example from Plato and

Aristotle or to give a headnote presentation. (Details will follow.)

--And try to enjoy your Spring Break.

BULLSHIT.

-Leah

Further Proof I'm Exhausted...

I'm sitting in a bio lecture right now, and i went to my desktop to open up the next lecture.

i read my powerpoint icon wrong 

 "lec18 diab c.ppt"

and i'm like "why are we having a lecture on diablo cody?"

8am & 9am classes and rehearsals do not mix.

-Leah

p.s. :  the lecture was actually on diabetes.  i don't know what the c stands for.

i'm tired...

of hearing about headshots, monologues and songs.

and not having any days to sleep in.

-Leah

Ah Dorm Life...part 5

In Aldea we have just entered into this wonderful little game called assasins.

I have managed to fly under the radar most days, but i have suffered a near death experience.

it is driving me insane.

if i remain alive until monday, i will post again then.

-Leah

Ah, Dorm Life...Part 4

It's Amazing. it's 11:00 and there are no crazy drunk people running up and down the halls screaming.

Then again it is only the second week of the quarter.

I have already had to adjust to many things.

1) all morning classes- Now, morning classes may not sound that bad, but it is. I have alternating 9am and 8am classes as opposed to last quarter where 2 days a week my classes didn't start till 3 and i was out all night. I'm still a semi-night owl, but I'm getting better about actually going to bed.

2) bio- 'nuff said.

3) spending more money on textbooks, and hocking old ones for cold medicine and rolling stone magazine. (see Ah, Dorm Life...The Broke Edition)

4) lots and lots of memorization in drama.

Overall, the amount of reading this quarter is ridiculous, but I have to admit, either people here have wised up to that fact, or i'm just too tired to notice people screaming anymore.

-Leah

Just A Peek Into My itunes: The Procrastination Edition

I'm depressed over bio, so i figured I'd procrastinate some more and peruse my itunes. It must be the lack of sleep or the cold medicine that's making me use the word "peruse". Whatever. I'm in college. Here's another brief peek into the wonderful and exotic (okay, well maybe not exotic) world of my itunes.

25 Random Songs From My ipod

1. Little Bunny Foo Foo – The Moldy Peaches
2. Blue Jay Way- Secret Machines
3. Dilemma f. Kelly Rowland- Nelly
4. Wasted Years- Maroon 5
5. Jorge Regula- The Moldy Peaches
6. Love Hurts- Nazareth
7. Trynna Find A Way- Nelly Furtado
8. Do what u do- Pink
9. What’s this?- danny elfman
10. XR2- M.I.A
11. Only Hope- Mandy Moore
12. Get Smart Theme Song
13. Superfrog (it’s not easy being green)- elves gone wild
14. What’s the worst that could happen?- Brandon Patton
15. I have seen- Zero 7
16. I’ll Make A Man Out Of You- Mulan
17. That’ll Be The Day- Buddy Holly
18. Black Mamba- The RZA & Ol’ Dirty Bastard
19. Vindicated- Dashboard Confessional
20. All I Need- Radiohead
21. Our Love- Rhett Miller
22. Summer Love- Set the mood (prelude) – Justin Timberlake
23. It’s So Easy- Willy DeVille
24. Don’t look down- BBMaK
25. Greyhound Bus- The Moldy Peaches

Bio is...

a bitch. and it's only the first week.


shit.

-Leah

Oh, Crazy Hamlet Guy...

This would have made your class so much more interesting.

-Leah

Ah, Dorm Life: The Broke Edition

So it's a new quarter here at UCI, and all of us broke college students have to buy books.  So I sold the only books I had.

From the $45 I had spent on books, all I got when I sold them back was $5.50.  

I've been sick since the last day of break, and being broke on top of that I decided when I went to buy some day/nyquil I'd buy the store brand instead.

So I did.  And it cost as much as I got back from selling my books.

Awful.

I sold my books for cold medicine.

I despise the money-sucking venture that is the college system

-Leah

Boredom Strikes Again!

Me and Cesar were typing with only one half of the keyboard and I have invented a new tongue twister. haha.

"Sad Ed was fed red feed."

I needed to put it down or I'd forget it.

-Leah

We Are...

...dangerously close to a new chapter in my fanfic being posted.  

(Click HERE or Have Faith In Destiny In the "Other Cool Blogs" section)

-Leah

Just A peek into my itunes.

I love ipod myspace surveys because it shows me what a wide range of music i have in my itunes library. i found one that just said to list the first 129 songs on shuffle, so here you go. a peek into my itunes.

129 Random Songs on your computer, MP3, or iPod
1.:	I have seen- Zero 7
2.:	Cruella DeVil
3.:	Don't Let Go- Weezer
4.:	Harajuku Girls- Gwen Stefani
5.:	Numb- Linkin Park
6.:	You Can Stay, But No Suki Suki- Brandon Patton
7.:	Clean- Incubus
8.:	Scars- Papa Roach
9.:	Brave- JLo
10.:	Here We Go- Nsync
11.:	amor y dulzura- cafe tacuba
12.:	The muppet's show theme
13.:	life is like a musical- outkast
14.:	light and day- the polyphonic spree
15.:	new- no doubt
16.:	Baat Meri Suniye To Zara- Abishek Bachan & Aishwayria rai
17.:	burn the witch- queens of the stone age
18.:	The Twilight Zone theme
19.:	upside down- A-teens
20.:	Main Titles (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride)- Danny Elfman
21.:	Hey Baby- No Doubt
22.:	possibilities- weezer
23.:	positive- legally blonde the musical
24.:	Bonnie Portmore- lucinda williams
25.:	No Such Thing- john Mayer
26.:	Under The Water (deep dish underpressure remix) - Bjork
27.:	Rules and REgulations- Rufus Wainwright
28.:	Hot as Ice- britney Spears
29.:	Mission: Impossible- Lalo schifrin
30.:	(oh no) what you got- justin timberlake & timbaland
31.:	SOS (rescue me)- Rihanna
32.:	sundown- veruca salt
33.:	lithium- nirvana
34.:	everybody's everything- santana
35.:	augustus gloop- danny elfman
36.:	shooting star- elliot smith
37.:	stay now- jem
38.:	etiquette lesson- danny elfman
39.:	Get mine, Get yours- christina aguilera
40.:	no one else- weezer
41.:	material girl- madonna
42.:	cherish- madonna
43.:	pretty woman- shah rukh khan
44.:	army of me- bjork
45.:	you will you won't- the zutons
46.:	the day and the time (f. gustavo cerati) -shakira
47.:	enjoy- bjork
48.:	what the world needs now is love- the carpenters
49.:	easy tonight- five for fighting
50.:	overture/and all that jazz- catherine zeta jones, renee zelweger and tay diggs
51.:	take it from here- justin timberlake f. pharrell williams
52.:	la bamba- richie valens
53.:	no one mourns the wicked- wicked
54.:	lo imprescindible- shakira
55.:	gaa re mann- kavita krishnamurthy, alka yagnik, sudesh bhosle
56.:	don't look away- joshua radin
57.:	on the line- various
58.:	as the water- john williams
59.:	hello, i love you- the doors
60.:	you're beautiful (interlude)- outkast
61.:	wind it up- gwen stefani
62.:	aristocats theme song- maurice chevalle
63.:	what we had- handsome furs
64.:	life without drugs is tough- the super secret project
65.:	the train (f. scar & sleepy brown)- outkast
66.:	mad world- gary jules
67.:	the denial twist- the white stripes
68.:	99 luftballons- nena
69.:	hamesha tumko chaha- aishwayria rai & shah rukh khan
70.:	what's going on...- saif ali khan & preity zinta
71.:	i am john- loney, dear
72.:	forever lost- the magic numbers
73.:	the treason of isengard- howard shore
74.:	living in your letters- dashboard confessional
75.:	heaven- los lonely boys
76.:	talk show host- radiohead
77.:	just a little bit- maria mena
78.:	hand me down world- the who
79.:	do you want to know a secret- the beatles
80.:	les cactus- vanessa paradis
81.:	unpretty- tlc
82.:	institutionalized- suicidal tendencies
83.:	you send me flying (cherry)- Amy Winehouse
84.:	green finch and linnet bird- Jayne Wisner
85.:	冷井情深 - 夢喃 Mona
86.:	Baby it's you- smith
87.:	baby boy- beyonce f. sean paul
88.:	dracula's wedding (f. kelis)- andre 3000
89.:	what's left of the flag- Flogging Molly
90.:	intro- Outkast
91.:	this is halloween- danny elfman
92.:	the ballad of sweeney todd- 2005 broadway revival cast
93.:	burndt jamb- weezer
94.:	salaam namaste- saif ali khan & preity zinta
95.:	zorro (1957 tv theme)
96.:	i turn to you- christina aguilera
97.:	fired up (the unit theme)
98.:	what u see (is what u get)- britney spears
99.:	love for sale- ella fitzgerald
100.:	heaven on earth- britney spears
101.:	park city is not L.A.- brandon patton
102.:	happy- ashanti
103.:	up is down- hans zimmer
104.:	think about it, think about it- flight of the conchords
105.:	baby girl- nelly furtado
106.:	here comes my baby- cat stevens
107.:	ace in the hole- ella fitzgerald
108.:	mirror mirror- m2m
109.:	look at us (daddy dj remix)
110.:	shadow on the sun- audioslave
111.:	beautiful world- colin hay
112.:	the voice within- christina aguilera
113.:	the park- jan a.p kaczmarek
114.:	Friends Forever- Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke & the scrubs cast
115.:	let's do it (let's fall in love)- ella fitzgerald
116.:	fresh off the boat- nelly furtado
117.:	foolish love- rufus wainwright
118.:	my everything- 98 degrees
119.:	all together now- the beatles
120.:	heart shaped box- nirvana
121.:	pardon me- incubus
122.:	jigga what/faint- linkin park & Jay-Z
123.:	cat's in the cradle- cat stevens
124.:	going to school- john williams
125.:	world town- M.I.A
126.:	most girls- pink
127.:	truly madly deeply- savage garden
128.:	give it away- zero 7
129.:	i wonder- the willowz That doesn't even begin to highlight the weird stuff i have in my library.  maybe i'll do this again in a couple of weeks... -Leah

4 Vicious Tigers, 3 Still Alive, 2 Injured People & 1 Unlucky Dead Guy

Ah, Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo.


How does that even happen?!

-Leah

I Never Realized That...

Disney is so fucked up.

Now, I never saw The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I was a kid, and I haven't seen it to this day, but the song creeps me out...and the lecherous priest is even scarier.

-Leah

My Family Portrait...

maan I love them.

-Leah

DDR

I love Jamar.

-Leah

Wait...

In less than 28 hours Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opens in theaters.

Being a bleeder, and already noticing the BUTCHERING of "God, That's Good" and the re-writes in "Poor Thing" (those being the most noticible) It's got me wondering if

 (SPOILER AHEAD)

(highlight it below)  

If Sweeney's going to Die at all.  I'm almost positive that Mrs. Lovett still gets thrown in the oven, but unlike the broadway show, the new soundtrack doesn't include the part where Toby kills Sweeney.

(END SPOILER)

If that doesn't happen, I will officially loathe hollywood.

-Leah

All-Nighter Cuisine

Dasani water: $6.00 a case.

Two Starbucks Venti Hot Brewed Coffees: $2

Mint Double Stuff Oreos: $3

Feeling Sick To Your Stomach, Delirious and Ready To Die: Priceless.

-Leah