friday/saturday

I figured I'd make a separate post about what else happened this weekend. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, a friend of mine had a booth set up for his art stuffs on Thursday. I also went down to hang out with him on Friday after my math class (which I did attend, but sat and read my film book the entire time). Turns out that his friend Riley's girlfriend Jenny (who I met Thursday at the booth) is the girl I sat next to in math on Wednesday and Friday. I didn't realize this, though, until 5 minutes before class was about to end Friday when she turned to me and whispered "Saaaaaam." I did a careful turn in her direction to which she replied, "I thought that was you! I'd been trying to find out all hour cause it looked like your hair, but then I saw you were reading a film book and I knew it!" Haha. So now I have a friend in math! Yay!

I ended up buying the painting called "Baldar." It's pretty sweet. And because I'm like, the coolest person in the SLC, I got a $60 discount. It was only $50 at first but when he and Bobby delivered it to my dorm Saturday morning, he realized that he'd gotten green paint on the body. D: GASP. Not a big deal, but he decided to cut me a break and take off ten bucks. 

My room/suitemates and I went to the Natural History museum after that. It wasn't what I had expected. They advertise having a huge dinosaur collection and all kinds of cool stuff, but it was kind of lame and boring. The most exciting part was probably when we squeezed all four of us into an old school photo booth. The pictures turned out really awfully, but it was only a dollar so no harm. :) Then we rode Trax down to Noodles for lunch, bought some groceries at Smith's, then headed back to the dorms. We had a good amount of hours to kill before our evening festivities kicked off, so I did a couple loads of laundry and read 40-something pages for my film class. THEN...

We went to a Greek frat party! Yeah! But in all actuality, it kind of sucked. When we got there, almost all of the Jungle Joose was gone so we were faced with the option of drinking beer. I passed, stuck to my half cup of Joose, and called it good. Mostly we stood outside and talked to random people and made "friends" (quotations because they were drunk and probably don't remember meeting us) cause the house was packed full of people. It wasn't a bad party, but it kind of sucked to be there and not drinking, haha. But I will not cave and drink beer, yuck.

So that - paired with my previous post - was my weekend. Feel free, dear readers, to leave a comment telling me about yours. I love a good story. :)

facebook hates me

Emily and I went on an photographing adventure downtown today. It was sooooo cute. First we went to the library, where we both got library cards and took pictures of flowers and landscape from the rooftop garden! Then we headed to a place we dubbed as "Dirty Downtown." It's the last stop on the University Trax line and the place we got off at because I'm awful at remembering locations and made us miss the stop for Gateway. It's full of decrepit buildings, homeless people who talk to themselves, and trees with words like "ELVES" and "DORS" carved into them. We walked from DD up to the Gateway which, if you haven't been to Salt Lake City, is this big two-story outdoor mall in downtown SLC. Got a few nice pictures there but we mostly went so we could visit Forever 21. Against my better judgment, I bought two dresses, a cardigan type sweater thing, and two pairs of "panties." (Quotations because I always say underwear but panties is sexier, hahah *wink*). Emily bought a cute dress and some shorts and we agreed that if she wants, she can wear one of the dresses I bought. I tried to find my purchases on the Forever 21 website but I didn't see anything similar, so I'll try to post some pictures on here in the next couple of days if I get a free second. 

As for the title of this post, I'm trying to upload some of the pictures I took today to facebook. But for some reason, it's taking minutes to compress and upload a single picture. And whenever I switch tabs to check on the progress, it freezes Safari. So I've decided that facebook hates me. Cryyyyyy. Maybe it's just my internet connection? *hopeful thinking* Hey, maybe Blogger will be nice and let me upload some pictures on here for everyone to see! Let's try it. Click on the picture to see the better, sexier version. :)

Dirty Downtown.

Gateway.

Garden outside of the library.

Beautiful green grass on the rooftop garden.

UPDATE: Only a hundred hours later, facebook finally uploaded everything. If you're interested in seeing all my pictures you can click on this text right here and if we're friends, you can view to your heart's delight. If we're not friends, hit me with a request. :)

week summary

Monday

First day of classes! I had French from 10:45-11:35, Math from 11:50-12:40, then my film class from 6-10pm. Nothing was as bad as I had expected. The film class was kind of killer since it was so late at night, though. But it seems to be pretty legit. We sit through a lecture for the first hour, watch a movie for the next two, then finish class with a discussion about the movie. This week's movie was Singin' in the Rain. I actually really enjoyed it. It just sucked that it was so late at night cause I started to get tired and almost fell asleep during the last 30 or so minutes. 

Tuesday

First cycling class! Indoor spinning from 7:30-8:20am. It's freaking ridiculous. My knees were not prepared to do the standing cycling sessions and were killing me throughout the whole 50 minutes. Then I went to French, where I met Creepy Kyle. He's this old guy (I say old cause he has pure gray hair) who is from St. Joseph, MO, which is about an hour away from my hometown, who is also majoring in film. He offered to give me a tour of the film lab after class and because I figured it was safe and I'd have nothing else to do, I accepted. But then he turned out to be really weird and creepy. He introduced me to some heads of the film department and showed me around, but I wanted to bolt the entire time I was around him. I finally escaped, but not soon enough for my liking.

Wednesday

Creepy Kyle struck again. As soon as I got to the OSH building, he found me. Like seriously, I had just put my hand on the door handle to walk in when I hear, "Sam? Is that you!?" and turn around to see him rushing towards me. I offered a simple "yep" and kept walking, which made him harass me even more. He followed me down the hallway, all the while pestering me with questions about why I wasn't being more talkative. Finally I just said, "Look, it's 10am and I'm not feeling anti-social," then I turned down the first flight of stairs I saw. I sat really far away from him in class, but I could feel him watching my every move. :( scared. I had math afterwards again and you'll never guess what we learned! Real numbers and the number line! Yeah! That's what I spent 50 minutes listening to this crazy asian grad student teach us! Fml!

Thursday

Today was a really great day. Started out with some 7:30am cycling then moved on to 10:45am French! I actually creeped on a friend of a friend in the OSH building before class, but no worries. I made a new friend named Chris, who's in my French class and really nice. He was standing outside of the classroom talking to Bobby, so I stopped him as we were walking in and asked if that had been Bobby. He confirmed, we talked about him, then I added him on facebook. Basically besties, right? Well, I got out of class at 11:35 and headed back up to the dorms, then when I realized that no one would be home until 5-ish I headed down to south campus to see an art booth at the Back to School Block Party. Sat with him from 1-5, then Corinne, Emily and I met Rosie for dinner in the HC. THEN WE WENT TO THE TWILIGHT CONCERT AND WATCHED SHE AND HIM! :D I've always loved Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, but holy crap they are great live. Emily and I forced our way pretty close to the front and got an excellent view of the band. :) Then some shit went down with a friend and his new gf, we rode Trax back up to the dorms, and now here I am.. chilling in bed and blogging about my week. I plan to read as much of Brisingr as I can before I go to bed but I'm having such a difficult time getting through it. 

I have math at 11:50am tomorrow but I might skip it... It just depends on my mood tomorrow. It's such an awful class and I don't think I need to be in it, but I guess I'd rather take the easy class than the super difficult, time-consuming one. 

weekend

Let me give you a brief update about what's happened since I last blogged:

Friday

Emily had to go down to south campus for a dance audition early in the morning, so I accompanied Rosie and her friend Cricket to find our classes around campus. All of my buildings seem to be in the same area, so it shouldn't be hard for me to switch classes in the less than ten minutes allotted. When Emily got back from her audition (which went great, she got moved into a higher class), we went to the Heritage Center and had lunch. Then we watched Coco Avant Chanel in our room and went to bed at 8 pm. 

Saturday

We woke up at 8 am - meaning we got 12 hours of much needed rest - then chilled in our room til lunch time in the HC again. Then we trekked down the mountain to south campus to buy our books. I spent $340 on 3 books. >_< Not something I'm happy about. Then we had dinner around 6 with Rosie and some of her friends from the summer classes she attended and headed to some theatre on campus to watch Kick-Ass. I must say, it's a pretty good movie. When I watched it with Rose before leaving Trenton, I didn't really feel it. Then again, I was bored, drinking, and didn't want to be at Tad's house. Anyway, at 10 we went to Target for the after-hours special the U and Target were giving students and got a bunch of free shit and some random supplies for our room. Overall, it was a nice day. 

Sunday

I woke up at 7 am this morning to the sound of a million fire alarms going off. Apparently one of the rooms at the other end of our hall had experienced a fire, so our whole building had to be evacuated. So we stood outside for an hour or so, waiting for the firefighters to deem it safe for us to enter again. There was so much water damage done to that end of the hall from the sprinklers. Anyway, Emily and I couldn't go back to sleep so we made some coffee and tea (respectively) and talked until we had to get ready for lunch with Rosie and Corinne. We went to some bakery that had a bunch of different salads, soups, sandwiches, and pastas and it was really quite yummy and filling. Then Corinne had to go to her Mormon church, so the rest of us came back to the dorms for a bit. Emily and I once again trekked down the mountain to look for her classes and time how long it would take for her to walk in between each one. Walking back up to the dorms wasn't as miserable as yesterday, even though it was just as hot, but only because we weren't carrying heavy bags of textbooks with us. Now we're basically chilling for a couple hours until the barbecue we're going to at the HC at 5. :)

We start classes tomorrow and I'm getting pretty nervous. I have two 50 minute classes in the morning then my 4 hours film class at night. Ugh. I have a feeling it's going to be awful. 

wow

I haven't blogged in quite some time and I apologize profusely. You all have my deepest, most sincere apologies. I've been busy trying to get ready for college and moving out to Salt Lake City and in my spare time between doing that and working, I tried to hang out with Rose as much as humanly possible. I think we succeeded. Oh, I also went to Branson, MO, and Des Moines, IA, last week. So I've been busy! Anyway, I'm all moved into SLC and I'm pretty pumped about it. I drove 16 hours straight yesterday and got into the city around 6 pm, where I checked into the first hotel I saw and crashed hard. Actually, I took a long, hot bath then walked around downtown to find some food. THEN I crashed. It was my first time ever sleeping on a Tempur-Pedic and I absolutely loved it. I'm definitely going to own one someday. 

I haven't done much of anything today. Arrived at the college right before 9 am, where I proceeded to stand in line at the wrong tent for 40 minutes. Then I stood at the right line for about 40 more minutes. Then I walked around inside of my building for countless amounts of time trying to find my room. It was awful. I had on my fully-packed backpack and was carrying two bags, so by the time I finally found my room I was dying. Then I had to get this big cart thing to wheel all of my stuff up to my room and that was also hell. Pushing a cart with over a hundred pounds of clothes and random shit up a mountain in hot weather... not a good situation. I was all sweaty and so attractive by the time I had transferred everything to my room. I was probably done with that by 11:30 or 12, so I made my bed and set up camp for the next year. And I must admit, my half of the room looks pretty attractive. My roommate Emily also did a fine job, but this is my blog and I'm really conceited like Tiffany so she doesn't matter, only I do. Just kidding. Speaking of Emily.. she seems pretty cool. I went to dinner with her family a few hours ago and they all seem like such nice people. We went to a Greek restaurant not far from the college called Aristo's and it was wonderful. I'd never had Greek before, but I would definitely like to go back. She seems kind of soft spoken and shy, but I think we'll get along well. I also met one of my suitemates, Rosie, tonight. She's basically the opposite of Emily: loud, bouncy, swearing. Haha. Corinne will be moving in on Saturday, which I think will be fun. Maybe the four of us can go out for lunch or something cute like that. Ahaha, look at me making friends! This isn't something that happens every day, kids. ;)

I think that's all I have to say for now.. I'm ready for college to start. I don't have anything planned for tomorrow except to go get a resident sticker for my parking pass and to harass the financial aid office to accept my loan already. I'll try to blog every chance I get but it may not be as often as before. College is not high school! I have to actually try to study and get good grades. Ahh! 

warped

was so damn hot.

Ready for some pictures of my epic sunburn?

Yep. That's what happens when you're standing in 100+ degree weather for 12 hours.

warped is tomorrow

I'm really excited. :D My sixth and final year going to Bonner Springs' Warped Tour!