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sorry guys
i've been hardcore blogging over on my tumblr site. it's really short-form entires. not much analysis... 

this Obeserver Article describes tumblr beautifully: 
"In addition to providing a platform for short-form blogging, Tumblr also has built-in community elements that, Mr. Karp argues, make it more user-friendly. For example, Tumblr bloggers can “follow” other bloggers—akin to adding someone as a friend on a social networking site—and those users’ posts show up in a kind of RSS feed on a Tumblr blogger’s dashboard, which is like a control room. Users can also re-blog other Tumblr users’ posts with one click.

And so Mr. Karp sees Tumblr as embodying a new kind of content curation, a community that affords its users access to a world of text and links and video and photos that have been carefully selected by other users whose taste they feel an affinity for...

Tumblr is meant both to give its users another way to cut through the Internet din (“On Digg, for every decent link there are thousands that are just crappy, and you have to do this meaningless action of just clicking on a stupid button,” said Mr. Karp), and to actually represent its users on the Web by allowing them to create an identity that Facebook and MySpace and all the other social networking and blogging sites out there can’t." 

as someone who Diggs, tumbles, flickrs, and facebooks i feel like i can really relate to the idea. it's really simple and clean. it's too bad they're gonna have to figure out to make money off of it one day, but until then all is well :-D

.. also, MLK weekend has been crazy. thursday-tonight. that's 4 days of abuse to my body. eep. maybe mexico next week isn't the BEST idea 

break is over. today was my last day at "the navy" as the rocker boys prefer to call it. so to celebrate i bought MORE stuff. yeah. like it's all gonna fit in my bags to go to Tucson :-(
So.. because you care and all, i will now recap all the stuff i've bought (in chronological order)
1 scoop neck graphic tee
1 black leather wristlet/wallet
2 performance fleece(-es?)
1 pair of flats
1 all-over-print hoodie
1 pair of flanner pj pants
3 pairs of mens boxers (for dad and brother)
1 pair of men's pj pants
1 HUGE long puffy coat with fut-trimmed hood
1 pair of skinny jeans
1 pencil skirt
1 black trapeze dress
1 pair of METALLIC (yes. as in shiny) white jeans
3 ribbed tank tops
1 cashmere men's sweater (for my dad)
1 pair of metallic flip flops
and.. last but not least
1 men's cardigan (for me)

estimated normal retail price: 650-ish dollars
estimated price i paid: $142.60 or so

and i haven't been writing in here due to always updating my Tumble blog.. which i am obsessed with, to say the least. It makes an LJ friend page-like thing.. only it makes it into an RSS feed, with a ton of awesome people, and integrates flickr. i love it. alla1.tumblr.com .check it.

also: can't wait to back to tucson in a few days

over break i got an internship with the US Department of State and I'll be working in Arlington, VA all summer long.. which is good to know. unfortunately that means i have to stay in the US :-( and not study abroad .. double :-( but whatever.
i've already started reading Wonkette and the other DC gossip blogs! it's gonna be awesome!

... i worked an 8 hour shift at work today. but it wasn't all that bad. Despite having the fattest of fat days, i rocked my new Joe's Jeans and my TriBlend deep V. i thought it was as flattering as any of my clothing could get.. short of rocking a college/high school hoodie (which, apparently, is acceptable?! in retail?! ... whatever)

anyway, and a woman came up to me asking me for help with jeans.. which was an issue since Old Navy jeans don't fit me well... and i have no desire to ever own any (except the brightly colored skinny jeans, of course). And then she saw my Joe's ... ID'd them as such and told me that it was her favorite brand too. This pretty much made my day because a) it only affirms my belief that people DO care and pay attention, hereby making all the money/effort put into finding and buying the jeans worth it. b) she thought they looked good on me and c) i thought i looked shitty, and it was nice to hear that i didn't ... and d) i only spent $30 on them at Buffalo, and they retail for much, much more

also: disneyland was AMAZING. work is NOT.

since i decided to be all.. goal-oriented.. this year, i figure now's as good a time as any to revisit my goals for the school year and see where i'm at in regard to them....

1. do well in school  - check! at least 5 A's... still waiting on my Russian grade to be posted
2. apply for/figure out my study abroad situation AND plan a sweet [eastern] European travel adventure for whomever wants to come with me in July... (which better be Alfie and maybe Sasha... .... still not done. but i think Alfie is on board. Speaking of, i think that Lilly Allen song makes his name so much cooler.
3. apply to become an RA. not doing it last year is my one poor decision of college so far .. CHECK
4. don't lose touch with the people who don't live on campus. aka Becca, Em and Kate, Mollie, and the like ... definitely a CHECK
5. lose weight  .. well i haven't GAINED any weight.... and all my stuff still fits...
6. develop a better style of dressing. more polished/trendy. i guess lauren really inspired me this summer... check-ish. i'm ALOT less slobby. i wear boots. i dress up to class. i accessorize - but there's alot of room for improvement
7. visit Colorado to stay at Nate's (see image below), and see damien and the rest of the CO people - CHECK
8. visit Southern California to see Kim, Sandy, and Brad - not yet. but i WILL. i mean i'll be in So Cal on Monday - but i won't be there to visit people...
9. have a BOMB winter break .. work in progress
10. feel socially included and happy - i REALLY didn't most of the semester. but i think i did towards the end. i just had to realized that 3N was not gonna be my one source of friends. the happiness thing was also difficult. particularly with that thing that happened in the beginning of the semester. but now all is well - i just needed time to figure everything out.
11. party enough, but not as intensely as this summer - check. i always knew who i could party with and when. the trick was balancing it with my schoolwork, which went well.
12. stop having meaningless hookups/super-causal relationships and maybe engage in something longer than 2 weeks, lol. i think i got all that ridiculous shit out of my system in the last year. MAYBE i'm ready to have a legitimate boyfriend. i think... yeah, i am.   -- ok. has not happened. i guess i haven't had random hookups, which is good. but still no boy :-(
13. stay extracurricular-ly involved  - check check and CHECK! i am waaaay too involved in waaaaay too many activities. sometimes when i'm filling out an application, i forget some of my activities and have to look it up on my own facebook profile. wow. but i like them. i'm with some cool people.
14. become better at time management- check. Excel 2007 + I are tight. My weekly calendar (in 1/2 hour time periods) also helps me ward off inconvenient situations in my dorm room
15. have as much, if not more fun than last year! - eeh. i could work on this. i really started to enjoy the year once November started, but before that I was kinna miserable. i don't know if i would equate it to last year -yet. I was crazier then - less class, less responsibility, less body fat - it was interesting.

so far so good. just when i thought i was losing grip on everything, i managed to keep it all together. on top of that i didn't ruin any freindships (that i know of) and met a ton of new people and spent time with people about whom i genuinely care (nate, damien, katie, kelly, SG Dizzle,) while trying not to step on many toes. i loved a few of my professors, i loved my boss, my advisers for things, friends, family etc.

i think that 's it for now. just got a  job at Old Navy. not sure if i like it - even a little bit. not sure how i feel about the people or the clothes. it's a different perspective for sure. and i make more than my brother, who works at Best Buy, so whatever. But I woke up in the 6 o'clock hour today to get ready, which is just outlandish. now time to work out and sleep.   

5 out of 6 classes done!
it's so liberating that i can't even compare it to any other time this semester - except maybe the very beginning. which was also when i partied alot. I guess that's just how it goes. my level of stress is inversely proportional to the amount i party. :-D and come to think of, that's a good. thing

so i finished my POL 407 paper ... 17 minutes before i had to go to work. so then .. you know.. i still had to get dressed, run over to (and find) Kim's office, get some Core salad for lunch, and run over to Hopi for a six hour shift. as for when i get out of here - i'll probably go to the rec, eat, and um... watch TV and sleep.
is that what people do when they don't have ANY extracurricular/school commitments whatsoever? cause i wouldn't know. in any way shape or form


So Dead Day Eve i went out with mollie, which was more interesting than i had anticipated. Chris said he'd maybe call me, but i assumed he wouldn't and he did not. so i went to Uni Heights, we partied, it was fun. this hot, well dressed (and conservative) sober boy named Cody drove me home. then i drunk IMed w/ Dan for an hour or so

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dead day the CC and I went out to dinner at Terra Cotta. it was... alright. and as amazing as CC time usually is. Becca pointed something really interesting out on the ride home - it was a really bad environment last year... which i kinna internalized and didn't worry about so much. but it was unhealthy. 2 girls with serious eating disorders.1 maybe. me (the girl who gained 20 lbs) and then em and kate. but it was enjoyable. expensive - as always.


... i have so many single female friends .. and none of us have boys that take us out. so we just go out all the time to expensive restaurants. i guess it's a good thing that I have a job, or there is no way on earth i could afford this

then friday night i went to an Ugly Sweater/Holiday party, it was SO much fun. Adrienne and i were straight-up ridiculous. it was at Jason's house. too bad no PAD people showed up, so i only knew the people who lived on the 2nd floor in PSP last year. o well. delicious drinks
 
  

Then we came back to PSP and hung out in the rec room for a while. Saturday i went out with chris. we saw the Goldden Compass. Then i went to Guadelajara Grill with Megan, Rae, Jill, Marisa and Amanda. Amazing Mexican Food! Sunday I worked, went to see the Nutcracker at Centennial Hall with other residents. It was cool only cause i organized the entire thing. I also wore a new silk dress. fashionable but COLD. Then we came back and made pancakes for the entire hall. deliciousness ensued. .. and only THEN (circa 9) did i start my POL 407 final. good choices. alot of fun. :-D

ah, life. all of the sudden it got so NOT sucky

i was walking back from Gila yesterday at midnight. it was lightly drizzling, but the ground was clearly showing the remnants of the evening’s rain. and as i walked, in my new black leather wedge boots and the awesome pink blazer, i couldn’t help but be reminded of those 4 awesome hours in DC last spring. Looking up at the sky - with the drizzle lightly hitting my face, the world kind of seemed alright. nothing was TOO out of control. 

hopping (leaping) over the river-like streams of water along campus walkways, i was reminded of why i love it here: it’s December and highs are in the 60’s. the campus is beautiful, and most of the people aren’t too shabby. our football team may have lost to ASU (again) but whatever.  Anyway - it put things in perspective. considering i just wrote 50 pages on why U of A is awesome and such….

so much to do. not enough time. and OH YEAH.. what? i have school work too. :-(  it's too much. but lesson learned. never will i ever do this to myself again at least not until the memory of this semester fades