2 days...

...and here it is.  I've been drawing a lot recently (check my Facebook Album), but i think this is my favorite one so far:

Yay!

-Leah

$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 1)

So I just got back on Sunday from camping at Clear Lake, and me and my cousin Hobz decided to make a camping survival guide. She’s drawing the pictures, so they’re still under construction, but I figure until I type up all the survival tips I’ll just run this in installments.
So here we go, and in no particular order:
$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 1)

• No matter what time of the day it is, if you’re in line for the shower you will hear very awkward things. The standards are: the male and female couple showering together, male only showering and moaning, and the ever popular screaming child and demanding parent.
  
• It doesn’t matter how many quarters you use to shower. You’ll be dirty again in five minutes anyway.
  
• Cheese in a can may sound disgusting, but pair it with some crackers and you have one of the best beach snacks ever.
  
• Board games are cool again! But once you’re out of the woods they become lame again.
  
• No one goes to bed until the campfire burns out, otherwise you run the risk of setting all of Northern California ablaze.
  
• Big fish always show up when no one else is watching. You may seem like the ‘boy-who-cried-wolf’, but you saw a giant fish and no one else did! So shut up and stop bragging!
  
• No matter your race, you turn into a redneck hillbilly when your camping because you get excited about “going to town!”.
• Personal hygiene goes down the tubes. If you loose your toothpaste, you can go without brushing your teeth for days: just pop in a piece of gum! Your hair tangles into knots and children’s faces turn grey. Just remember that skunk will always smell worse than you without deodorant.
  
• It’s easy to have a staring contest with a deer, but if you blink they will run.
  
• No matter how much time you think you have left in the shower, your quarters will always run out when you suds up for the second time.

That’s all for this issue of our camping survival guide. Stay tuned for our next edition which will help with things like mosquitos, marshmallows and those fuzzy woodland creatures!
Love ya!

-Leah

Oh Disneyland, You Price Gouging B****...

Well we all know that Disneyland, although the happiest place on earth, is also the MOST EXPENSIVE.  

Conversation A:

Me: omgosh.  never again

Mark: the public service announcement?
Me: no, i finished watching that like 45 minutes ago

I should mention that I was watching "The Secret Life Of The American Teenager" (waay too long of a title for a tv show, if you ask me.) on ABC

 Family.  Normally I steer clear of ABC Family because it's the second coming of The Disney Channel and we all know that Disney is just a huge money hungry corporation...which leads me back to the topic at hand...

Me: so i bought a popcorn bucket thing at Disneyland coz it had pirates on it...haha

Yes, we all know about my obsession with pirates.  Not surprising.  Oh, I should also mention 

that this was an AIM conversation.  Continue...

Mark: wtf? ok

Me: so it's like $5.50
Mark: DAYUMN
Me: i just made popcorn and only 1 bag fit in it and it was overflowing
Mark: all that 4 some small cardboard w/ a pirate logo on it?
Me: no, a plastic bucket. ><
Mark: ummm missin the point here kid
Me: point being
Mark: it's still 5.50 4 a piece of plastic w/ art on it
Me: yeah, $5.50 for a plastic bucket full of popcorn which only holds one microwave bag of popcorn
Mark: go0d deal? i don't think so
Me: well i like the bucket
Me: but that's expensive!

Yes.  Those price gouging bastards sell about the same amount of popcorn in a microwave bag, inside a pretty bucket for like 50 Million times the price!

But then again, I like their popcorn better than even the movie theatres.  They must sprinkle it with Pixie Dust.

Oh Disneyland, you may be the happiest place on earth but you are a cruel, cruel mistress who loves to inflict deadly pain upon my wallet.

CURSE YOU!

-Leah

Ah Dorm Life...part 6

So I'm realizing that even though there's only a week left in the dorms you don't quite get the feeling that it's over until things come full circle.  

All those posts I wrote at the beginning about light sleepers, whiny ANTM phone calls, they still apply.  I mean, don't get me wrong, i love college.  I like the freedom and all that shit, but at this point i really just want to go home.  I want to be able to do what i want and not have to worry about a desk lamp being too bright, or having to get dressed in the dark or hearing that goddamned intake of air and movement of a pillow covering a face if i flip a page in a book.  I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous.

yes.  people say things.  people get stressed and say things they don't mean, and they realize it and are sorry, but it's a two way street, genius.  

yell at me, talk shit and send text messages like you're a playground bully wanting to steal milk money, but if the goal is to make me cry, to give me a "reality check", why don't you look in the mirror?

Anytime a conversation ends with the phrase "i hope this is a reality check for you" They don't really mean it.  what they're really saying is "i want to look badass, so i'm going to try and make you think.  i'm the bigger person, fuck you."

and this whole free speech thing? yeah, it doesn't really exist.  it's getting to the point these days where you have to even cross examine the thoughts in your head because there's so much shit to 'avoid'.  you can't rant without it crossing the line to "talking shit".  people get angry, they get frustrated and they have the right to express that.  people have the right to want to chill out after a hard day and when that's taken away they have a right to get upset about it.

dorms are...ugh.  three people who are polar opposites are NOT meant to share a 50 foot room and get along without wanting to kill each other.

as i said before it's come full circle.

happy end of freshman year, leah.

ugh.

p.s.  If you're really that upset about people talking shit, go back to high school.  that excuse and that reason to be angry is childish, and so is the silent treatment.  people get mad, they say things, end of story.  get over it.

Best Music Video Ever...

...I just rediscovered it.


So if New Kids On The Block (NKOTB) can have a reunion, can't *Nsync? I want my  *Nsync reunion!! Waah! haha.

-Leah

Amy Adams on SNL...

I thought her monologue would start the flow of Enchanted jokes, but no....something better. haha.

so cute! I love it. :)

-Leah

Well Today...

Has not been good.
I texted flea to see how Leila was because she turns two today, and guess what.
Leila's in the hospital. I wanted to catch a flight back, but i don't think i'd be able to. now i see why going to college hours away from home isn't the best thing to do. She's going to be okay I hope. Flea said that they ran a bunch of tests and she's mildy dehydrated, and there's a possibility that she could have measels. I don't know where you get measels from, but i'm just hoping for the best with everything.
That's the serious stuff.
onto the not so serious UCI stuff:
I'm not really sure about my Drama 30c class. It's going to be fun, and nathan's awesome, but it's the other people in there i'm worried about. We'll see.
Writing 39b, I'm actually in the classroom now. I thought it was at 3:00, but it isn't until 3:30. I think I'm going to fail the quiz because I didn't understand one gorram page of Lysis and Nicomachean Ethics doesn't make since to me because of the way it's phrased and how it sort of just rambles and trails off.
Faak. We'll see what happens. I still wish I was reading Sin City like jennifer instead of Plato and Aristotle. NOT FAIR.


-Leah

Maan, Oh Maan...

writing 39B is killing me and i don't even start the class officially until 3pm today.

all i want to do is sleep!

at least i have one thing to look forward to:

SWEENEY TODD COMES ON DVD TODAY!!!

-Leah

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