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juldeaMondays are so eventful. There have only been 2 calls to the help line (well, 1 message and 1 call) and yet I have kept busy since I got here at 11 (4 hours ago). Part of that busy-ness is, of course, reading everyone's livejournals from over the weekend. Then there's catching up on webcomics, figuring out the caloric density of tabouli (the batch I made has 250 calories per cup, wow! Maybe I should cut down on the amount of oil used...), balancing my checkbook, and all sorts of other stuff.
I got an email from Alloy, the cool clothing store that goldbug gets/got catalogs from, and I went to their site to order myself a free catalog. I ended up browsing their online store for a while. There is a pair of convertible pants that I am dying for on sale, but as I've said before, no new clothes until I've stopped shrinking. I could take a plunge and buy a size 9, but what if I end up a 7? Or what if I buy a 7 and end up a 9? I figure those are the only two reasonable possibilities - 5 is crazily small in my head, even though my mom and sister look normal and wear 1-3s. *shakes head*
Anyway, since I wanted to see what I currently am, I took the Alloy size chart and measured myself. The measuring myself was the fun part, since I'm at work and don't have a tape measurer... I grabbed one of the extension cords from the other (unused) computer in the office and used it to mark off the lengths around myself, then counted up the lengths down the cord using my 6" ruler. I'm a 11 bust-waist with 13 hips at the moment. All cool.
There is only one week of summer school left. This seems quite amazing to me. Where did the summer go? I hope I will be able to make the most of my 3 free weeks before the fall semester starts. I hope my computer is back before then...
It occurs to me that I'm not writing much about anything that anyone else, besides me, cares about. Or at least nothing that inspires comments. Oh well, this is my boring life. :)
This weekend I watched two movies (FF: The Spirits Within and Cats & Dogs), two episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Samson vs. the Vampire Women and Master Ninja 2), and 8 episodes of The X-Files. Brian has the DVDs of the entire first (and second, I believe) season of The X-Files. I hope to see them all before the summer is out, even if I have to watch them on my computer when Randen (who is babysitting Karen's PS2) leaves town.
Oh! This will be of interest to people (I hope)... I finally (yes after a year and a half) finished "moving in" to my apartment, meaning: all of my posters/pictures/printouts are up on walls and all of my pretties (candles, incense holders, figurines, photos, etc) are displayed accordingly. The living room gained the following: a Phantom Menace poster, a Queen Amidala poster, a poster of M42 (the Orion Nebula), a tye-dyed Pink Floyd wall hanging, 2 M.C. Escher posters, 2 greeting-card sized lemur photos and a flyer for the movie Fierce Creatures featuring a lemur, pictures from the movies The Usual Suspects, Casablanca, Army of Darkness, and Mononoke Hime, 8 bumper stickers, and a few printouts or photocopies of pictures/books that are important to me. The hallway gained a Keroppi poster and a King George and the Ducky poster. The kitchen gained a No Smoking sign and a Cookie Monster "Got Milk?" poster. The bathroom gained 3 Scott Mutter photo-montages. My bedroom gained a wall dedicated to pictures of friends (a large section dedicated to the Guys in California, including Troy's beautiful painting of Stonehenge and my "do not open until the disappearance of troy wood" envelope; and a smaller section dedicated to Edmond), my large poster of quotes about "what is love?" and a small poster of a famous painting of a man being knighted, and.... THE WALL OF ASTRONOMY. The wall opposite my bed is, from about 3-4 feet off of the floor all the way up to the ceiling, bounded by the window on the left and the corner on the right, covered with pictures cut out of astronomy magazine. It's a very very beautiful collage of star clusters, dust clouds, nebulae, planets, moons, meteors, comets, and all sorts of other pretty sky-things. I will get a picture up when my computer gets back. :)
Can't say much about my pretty things other than I found a large silver frame being unused that the picture Jason and I took at the Boston Museum of Science fits in, almost perfectly (I had to trim the sides). So now we have a proper picture sitting on my dresser. :) Oh, and my living room now houses my Galileo thermometer, and my lava lamp sits on the corner of my dresser. I think it is dead, though, it works okay for a while but if it is on for longer than an hour all of the lava accumulates on the bottom in a big lump and doesn't go anywhere. I know I can get just another lamp from Spencer's or somewhere and keep the same base, so I will probably do that when the opportunity comes.
This has turned into a superlong journal entry, I hope no one minds. I think I will end it now because 1) I should be learning more linear algebra, and 2) I really really have to go to the bathroom.
I got an email from Alloy, the cool clothing store that goldbug gets/got catalogs from, and I went to their site to order myself a free catalog. I ended up browsing their online store for a while. There is a pair of convertible pants that I am dying for on sale, but as I've said before, no new clothes until I've stopped shrinking. I could take a plunge and buy a size 9, but what if I end up a 7? Or what if I buy a 7 and end up a 9? I figure those are the only two reasonable possibilities - 5 is crazily small in my head, even though my mom and sister look normal and wear 1-3s. *shakes head*
Anyway, since I wanted to see what I currently am, I took the Alloy size chart and measured myself. The measuring myself was the fun part, since I'm at work and don't have a tape measurer... I grabbed one of the extension cords from the other (unused) computer in the office and used it to mark off the lengths around myself, then counted up the lengths down the cord using my 6" ruler. I'm a 11 bust-waist with 13 hips at the moment. All cool.
There is only one week of summer school left. This seems quite amazing to me. Where did the summer go? I hope I will be able to make the most of my 3 free weeks before the fall semester starts. I hope my computer is back before then...
It occurs to me that I'm not writing much about anything that anyone else, besides me, cares about. Or at least nothing that inspires comments. Oh well, this is my boring life. :)
This weekend I watched two movies (FF: The Spirits Within and Cats & Dogs), two episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Samson vs. the Vampire Women and Master Ninja 2), and 8 episodes of The X-Files. Brian has the DVDs of the entire first (and second, I believe) season of The X-Files. I hope to see them all before the summer is out, even if I have to watch them on my computer when Randen (who is babysitting Karen's PS2) leaves town.
Oh! This will be of interest to people (I hope)... I finally (yes after a year and a half) finished "moving in" to my apartment, meaning: all of my posters/pictures/printouts are up on walls and all of my pretties (candles, incense holders, figurines, photos, etc) are displayed accordingly. The living room gained the following: a Phantom Menace poster, a Queen Amidala poster, a poster of M42 (the Orion Nebula), a tye-dyed Pink Floyd wall hanging, 2 M.C. Escher posters, 2 greeting-card sized lemur photos and a flyer for the movie Fierce Creatures featuring a lemur, pictures from the movies The Usual Suspects, Casablanca, Army of Darkness, and Mononoke Hime, 8 bumper stickers, and a few printouts or photocopies of pictures/books that are important to me. The hallway gained a Keroppi poster and a King George and the Ducky poster. The kitchen gained a No Smoking sign and a Cookie Monster "Got Milk?" poster. The bathroom gained 3 Scott Mutter photo-montages. My bedroom gained a wall dedicated to pictures of friends (a large section dedicated to the Guys in California, including Troy's beautiful painting of Stonehenge and my "do not open until the disappearance of troy wood" envelope; and a smaller section dedicated to Edmond), my large poster of quotes about "what is love?" and a small poster of a famous painting of a man being knighted, and.... THE WALL OF ASTRONOMY. The wall opposite my bed is, from about 3-4 feet off of the floor all the way up to the ceiling, bounded by the window on the left and the corner on the right, covered with pictures cut out of astronomy magazine. It's a very very beautiful collage of star clusters, dust clouds, nebulae, planets, moons, meteors, comets, and all sorts of other pretty sky-things. I will get a picture up when my computer gets back. :)
Can't say much about my pretty things other than I found a large silver frame being unused that the picture Jason and I took at the Boston Museum of Science fits in, almost perfectly (I had to trim the sides). So now we have a proper picture sitting on my dresser. :) Oh, and my living room now houses my Galileo thermometer, and my lava lamp sits on the corner of my dresser. I think it is dead, though, it works okay for a while but if it is on for longer than an hour all of the lava accumulates on the bottom in a big lump and doesn't go anywhere. I know I can get just another lamp from Spencer's or somewhere and keep the same base, so I will probably do that when the opportunity comes.
This has turned into a superlong journal entry, I hope no one minds. I think I will end it now because 1) I should be learning more linear algebra, and 2) I really really have to go to the bathroom.