(here lies the lost blog that I didn't like.)
To do list:
1. Must finish Short Story!!! (due last Friday...ha I'm pulling a Rachel.)
2. Get haircut.

So...I've had a pretty good two weekends, with the weeks in between going by as fast as possible, which is as much "good" as I can attribute to them. Last weekend, I went to see my first NC-17 movie, La Mala Educacion (yeah i just checked Rachel's blog for the spelling of that). And I can definitively say that I will never again look upon Gael Garcia Bernal in the same way again.
After that, went to a party at Rachel's Coop. (There could be a lot of description here, but the time for that has passed.) Let's just say...vodka punch, keg beer, dancing, and...Rachel has the latino tang. good enough? also random asian guys vaguely looking down on my drinking habits and asking whether I normally hang out with Asians. More on this later. If you know me, you know what kind of rant will ensue.

When I got out of class on Friday of this weekend, me and Aaron went to Dog Almighty.
(Which is this awesome hand-dipped corndog, hot dogs, chili, Frito pie place which is also vegetarian if you want it to be...you have to go if you're within a 100 mile radius of Austin. It's at 6701 Burnet Road, at the "Historic Farmer's Market.)
A frito pie and two games of foosball later, I ended up playing 3 hours straight of Grand Theft Auto while Aaron fell asleep on the couch next to me.
Saturday, my parents came up, and my sister ended up getting a mini ipod with my student discount. Then at night me and Aaron went to the Ska is Dead concert at the Flamingo Cantina. The night was freezing, the music was loud, the people were ska-tentious, and I got a new shirt.

2/11/05 Went over to Elissa's, drank 1 wine spritzer and 1 gin and juice, got 0% tipsy or drunk. But had 100% fun, as we watched Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, and laughed hilariously at everything that we could hear over my hacking, cat-allergy induced coughs. This time, no random knocking coming from the washer and dryer closet drove us out into the cold wet night to wait for a guy to come bail us out and look in the closet for us.

2/12/05 Chilled with Aaron most of the day, was supposed to study but took a 2.5 hour nap instead with him on his creaky futon. Then cram-studied physics while he went to get groceries for our Valentine's Day substitute feast. Made heart-shaped brownies and played Grand Theft Auto San Andreas like an amateur for hours. (Note: I finally got laid by my ghetto-ass girlfriend today...if any of you play, you know what I'm talkin' bout...that bitch is nasty!!)

2/13/05 Studied physics, then had an indecision-fest with Aaron and Jimmy which ended up with us at Chili's at 10 o' clock at night.

2/18/05 (I'm skipping a few days to prevent your boredom) Ate at Chili's again with Aaron to make up for the last time, where me and Jimmy convinced him he wanted country fried steak instead of what he really wanted, cajun chicken pasta. Then went to Umi's Sushi Bar to have dessert. Urg. My stomach still hurts from over-fulldom.
Watched The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which was an awesome movie, even better than Willow, though similar in genre. hmm...now I'm feeling like seeing Willow again. That's one of the things I'll always remember Julia Mosele for, she showed Willow in French class, which was the first time I'd ever seen it.

Today the weather was so summery that I had to break out the Jack Johnson.

p.s. I love my mini-Ipod! It's pink and looks like a little burp (hence it's name Burp). And it's the closest thing to getting music permanently IV'd into my bloodstream.

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I've been obsessed with my "The Early Years: 1996-1998" soundtrack lately. I was working on compiling all these songs and making them into a cd, except now it's gotten out of control, and will probably end up being a 3-volume cd set... so have patience Elissa, your copy is coming.



Here are the songs I have so far:

1. Backwater, The Meat Puppets
2. Buddy Holly, Weezer
3. Mighty K.C., For Squirrels
4. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?, R.E.M.
5. Far Behind, Candlebox
6. Lump, Presidents of the U.S.A.
7. Kitty, Presidents of the U.S.A.
8. Peaches, Presidents of the U.S.A.
9. Friends of P., The Rentals
10. Undone (The Sweater Song), Weezer
11. Say it Ain't So, Weezer
12. Mother, Mother, Tracey Bonham
13. Cumbersome, 7 Mary 3
14. everything zen, Bush
15. Glycerine, Bush
16. Comedown, Bush
17. Dumb, Nirvana
18. Lake of Fire, Nirvana
19. Man Who Sold the World, Nirvana
20. Hook, Blues Traveler
21. One Week, Barenaked Ladies (this one's purely for Elissa)
22. Greedy Fly, Bush
23. Yellow Ledbetter, Pearl Jam
24. Fell On Black Days, Soundgarden
25. Sick of Myself, Matthew Sweet
26. Banditos, The Replacements
27. I Hate My Generation, Cracker
28. In the Meantime, Spacehog
29. The Freshman, The Verve Pipe
30. Interstate Love Song, Stone Temple Pilots
31. Love Roller Coaster, Red Hot Chili Peppers
32. Trigger Happy Jack, Poe
33. Today, Smashing Pumpkins
34. Perfect, Smashing Pumpkins
35. The Sweetest Thing, U2
36. King of the Kerb, Echobelly
37. Somebody's Crying, Chris Isaak

I still have to put all of these in sequential order, and I'm also sure I'm missing a bunch. It's not going to be the most complete inventory of songs, but the songs I decide on will define my youth. ha. well.

Oh wait, and then there's that wierd kick I went on with Rachel in 7th grade--infatuation music. More specifically, Nathan Cornett infatuation music.

1. Strawberry Wine, Deana Carter
2. When You Say Nothing At All, Alison Krauss
3. Baby, Now That I've Found You, Alison Krauss
4. Shake The Sugar Tree, Pam Tillis

Yeah, come to think of it, nothing much came out of that infatuation except embarassment.

Ok so, the delayed big news: Aaron and I got engaged over Christmas! Yeah pretty much everyone who reads this already knows, so this is pretty much just for the record.

"I taste your breath in my veins / like waves, vibrations / It's coming up again / Let me climb inside you / Caress your fevered tongue / Spread my wings around you / And we can slide..."

-- Echobelly, "Nobody Like You"

P.S. I'm dying of busydom.

"You better own up to your turds or they might get mad at you and refuse to come out."

(quote for the day)



Yeah, I've been saving this post as a draft for a while, just to remind myself that a couple of awesome things happened on this momentous day...

1. I was in MCAT verbal class, and we had to read some passages and answer questions on them, basically like SAT stuff... So, while I was reading one of these passages, I got this feeling of familiarity from the way it was written--I didn't pay much attention to it, till we finished, and the teacher asked, "So can anyone guess who wrote this passage?" Immediately, I was, like, "Stephen King?" And I was right. It was awesome.

2. A guy from my Erotic 18th Century class e-mailed me and told me the prof. said my paper was really good and to please send him a copy for reference.

Basically, I kicked literature ass today.



However, it is now seven days after that day, and I can tell you, despite how superior I felt, I paid for it the next day. I found out that the prof. only thought my ideas were good, not so much the writing, even though I got the highest grade in the class for the assignment. And MCAT classes have been kicking my ass ever since.