GOING TO FORTRESS TOMORROW FOR NEW YEARS!!!!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! and on that note, i must be off to pack..... oh dear. packing.

i just found out what i got on two of my finals. I GOT AN A- (80-84%) ON MY GERMAN FINAL AND A B+ (75-79) ON LINEAR ALGEBRA!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! wheeeeeeee! :> i still don't know how i did on the other ones and i'm NOT SAYING ANYTHING until i've got my mark and they can't change it on me. so there. wheeeheheheheh.......

last night Rochelle and i went out to a movie and then to moxie's afterwards. we went out to celebrate both of us now being 18 and to celebrate my FREEDOM FROM FINALS! YAY!!!! we were going to tell the waiter that it was our birthday that day, but we forgot. and by the end of it we weren't all that hungry. at least i sure wasn't. you see, i have looked death in the face and SURVIVED!!!! we got an order of their shanghai noodles (really, really good) and split it between the both of us and in mine i found what looked like a green bean, but without anything in the middle. so i ate it, and it turned out to be a chive, which was fine because i like chives better than i do green beens. anyway, so i go on eating and in pick up what i thought was a chive and pop it in my mouth. at first it just tasted like laundry detergent, then it started to get REALLY spicy. i swallowed it and then it got REEEEEAAAAALLLLY spicy. i have never eaten anything so incredibly spicy in my entire life! and i've eaten tabasco sauce plain before. not to mention one huuuge jalepeno pepper, which wasn't even all that bad. my eye started watering and i couldn't think and my throat felt like it was closing off and i started to shake and i coudln't breath. yikes. i thought i was going to die. well, not ACTUALLY thought i was going to die, but it was the closest i've ever been to actually thinking i was going to die. hooooman it was crazy! so after we were all done eating i asked the waiter what type of pepper it was and he said it was an unane (spelling?) pepper, but i can't seem to find them on the internet, so i have no idea if i'm spelling it wrong or if the kitchen staff was just crazy and doesn't actually know what they're feeding anyone. at any rate, if you are ever presented with one.... DON'T EAT IT UNLESS YOU HAVE ABOUT THREE GALLONS OF MILK HANDY!!! and they looked so innocent too! cause they're just little, like the length of the last two joints on my pinky finger (and remember i have very small pinkies) and it was dark green, and kind of curvy and looked sort of like an eggplant, BUT HOT!!!!!!!! yowza.

in other news, my little kitten Kobe has a cotton ball fettish. we used to have them sitting in a little woven container type thing on the edge of the bathroom sink upstairs, but she would keep knocking them all into the sink and since the tap drips, they would always get soggy. so we moved them to the little wooden box affair on the top of the toilet tank. earlier there was a rather large crash and it turns out, Kobe had so desperately wanted to get at the cotton balls that she ended up knocking the wooden box and all it's contents off the toilet and onto the floor. nothing broke which is good, but i'm slightly worried about her fettish. seems unnatural for a cat to form fettishes.

i saw love actually last night with Rochelle. GOOD MOVIE! it's funny. i rather liked it. makes you wish you had a boyfriend though.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i need to make friends with a computer genius. once again..... AAAAARRRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!

suddenly it smells like burning hair around me. my first thought was actually, "am i spontaneously combusting?"

hali and i discovered the joy of pig latin last night (thanks to her "have a day" poster that she got from a friend as an early Christmas type present) and we spent a good deal of time shouting things in pig latin at each other as we were getting ready for bed. we're dorks, i know.

well, only one exam left. HURRAH! it's calculus on monday. hurrah.. oh well. IT'S MY LAST EXAM AND THEN I'M FREEEEE!!!!!!!! yes. i love it. muahahahahahahaha.

and now to work some more on my book whilst i wait for miss Fiona to finish writing her exam. (my poor little neglected book. siiigh.)

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! LINEAR ALGEBRA EXAM IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO MORE LINEAR ALGEBRA!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
and now i only have physics (which i am avoiding studying for at the moment) and calculus. yay......... at least then i'll be done AND WON'T HAVE TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL UNTIL JANUARY 12TH!!!!!!!!!! AND IT'S NEARLY CHRISTMAS! SOOOO EXCITED. and not just for the present mind you... that's what birthdays are for. although i got slightly jipped this year on the birthday front. hali of course on the other hand got absolutely spoiled rotten. perhaps that is why she has such an ornery disposition.

Hali confuses me to no end. she's doing a lip sync to "another one bites the dust" by queen, and i returned the cd that it's on the other day and she found out this morning and freaked out because she needs it TODAY so that they can practice, so i told her to just burn it off the computer, because i saved it there the other day. and she went ballistic (again) and said that she didn't have time, and then proceeded to rant and rave about how she needed it. so i went and turned the computer on for her, and if it hadn't frozen i would have started converting the song so that she'd be able to burn it. i went and told her to just eat her breakfast in front of the computer and then burn the song and eat at the same time, but noooooooooooo she ALWAYS eats her breakfast and makes her lunch at the same time. after this she once again stormed off, muttering about how she needed the song today. well Hali... MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE TWO MINUTES TO BURN THE SONG THEN INSTEAD OF JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT IT! she also complained that she didn't have enough time to get it done, but hey, that's only because it takes you an hour and a half to get ready in the morning! so maybe you should speed it up a little bit then. sheesh. i think she just likes hearing the sound of her own voice when she's in a huff. nonono, i'll just complain about it instead of doing something about it. i think everyone else should have to do it for me. no, that's alright, i much prefer to simply yell at everyone who comes near me with logical solutions to my problem than listen to them. she is so weird. when she gets angry there is absolutely no thought process that happens. more just a desire to rant and rave and get nothing done. she needs different ways to vent her anger i think.

FINALS ARE DUUUUUUUUUMMBB!!!!!! and my book is starting to feel neglected. without a deadline to spur me on, i never write anymore. very sad. i am however over 51000 words! yay. and will probably, and very unfortunately, stay there for just a while longer until i can finish with my rather nasty bout of finals (DOOOOOOOOOOOM) and then i'll be able to lounge about and do nothing and write and all the other things that unproportionally large amouts of homework tend to restrict. like drawing... ahhh, to draw. i haven't drawn ANYTHING since before the summer. at least. it's so sad. i'm almost worried to try and finish my mermaid drawing, because by now i'll be so rusty that it'll look terrible. perhaps i'll just draw something else, and then hope that the gaps between whatever else i draw and the next time i pick up a pencil are less than 6 months apart.

lately i have been giving my left eye a lot of trouble. perhaps it is having sympathy pain/accidents for my mum, who just had laser eye surgery on her left eye...... again. she's had to get quite a few touchups because they haven't been working so very hot. at any rate, i have pulled no less than THREE monstrously long cat hairs out of my eye which had been winding and twisting around causing all sorts of PAIN. then today i was talking to my friend Jessica on msn and she said to have fun studying for my exams and such and since you can't be overly sarcastic across msn, i made a lovely face at the computer, and sort of squinted my left eye, but i did something funny and the bottom lid turned itself inside out and i stabbed myself in the eye with all my eyelashes. not so fun.

and i have another blister on my tongue. DO NOT ASK ME HOW I GOT A BLISTER ON MY TONGUE! i have no idea. i've only just recovered from a different one and they HURT! PAIN... AND LOTS OF IT!! you try making up stories for a two year old when you can hardly talk. ok, now you do five and then i'll..... ow.

oh my it's been a while since i last saw this page. so sorry to have kept my entire 2 devout readers in complete bordem, but well, there are finals rearing their ugly heads and i needed some practice with my whip.

i've actually got it all figured out, what i'm going to review when. although i would rather we didn't have finals, just give us the month off and let it be at that. :>

(and my mother is rubbing one of the window things that stick to the glass on her hair, because these ones don't stick very well, and she's trying to static it to the window.)

for a while now i've wanted to work on a cruise ship as a waitress or something, because i love the open water and such, but i've just recently found out that there are actually cruise ships which are pirate ships!!!!!!! and they're just like regular cruise ships that go way out into open water and travel around. although i suspect that it wouldn't have an onboard swimming pool. (that's ok, just make them walk the plank! hahaha..) so i'm going to go and work on a pirate ship someday. and just live there. and be a pirate. 'twill be so much fun. :> i shall write you all postcards.

i have also discovered that Christmas trees are a hazard around me. especially when they have lots of loose needles. our tree has a rather wavy trunk, and as such, it's very hard to get it to look straight from all angles, so i've been crawling around the bottom of the tree tightening this and that and i always end up finding pine needles in my hair later on. it's quite annoying. once i actually got an entire ornament stuck to my head and pulled it off the tree and walked around with it for a couple steps before it fell off. luckily it wasn't breakable. when we go to jamiaca in february, i'm going to be finding sand in my hair for years! oh my.

it was actually kind of funny, on the last day of gymnastic classes, a couple of the girls i coach asked how i brush my hair, and i told them that i didn't, and they were so completely stunned and amazed that you could get away without brushing your hair. (but i mean come on, i have dreads.... did they honestly think that i tried to comb my hair? i'd have brushes and combs stuck in there for months. also yikes.)

and now this little shorty (who is on the smallish side of tiny and kind of lacking in perpendicular) is going to go and have a shower. perhaps i will be able to get some of the pine needles out of my hair too. hurrah!

TWO MORE DAYS OF CLASSES LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

physics was very enlightening today... we learned how to open a door!!!! (i'm serious.) you see, we were learning about torque and that if you want to open a door with the smallest amount of force (always a good thing) then you have to push the door PERPENDICULAR to the door as far away from the rotational point as possible so as to get the most TORQUE! it was just like sesame street.. today's physics class is brought to you by the greek letter tau (which is the symbol for torque hence the reason today's lecture was sponsered by tau.)

it's a good thing there are only three more days of classes, because the stupid fat masturbating man (SFMM) has decided that he simply must sit where melissa and i always sit. so we had to move today because i was definitely not going to sit anywhere within a 12 4/9 foot radius of him. yuck. and i have also decided that SFMM is not a good acronym for him. from now on, he shall be known as the SPAM man (Stupid Pudgy (although he is definitely more fat than pudgy) Always Masturbating man). yes, i think that will do nicely.

i invented a liscence plate game. i'm sure it already exists somewhere, but for me, i invented it. (when i was younger i thought i had made up the tune Scotland the Brave, because i was always humming it, but could never remember hearing it anywhere. quite interesting.) anyway, so my game goes, you look at the letters on the liscence plate and you have to come up with a word that uses all three letters and if you can even get them in the right order, all the better. and if you get it so that the first letter of the three is the first letter of your word, and the last letter is the last letter of your word, then you get bonus points. i'm actually quite good at it. although it's easier to come up with german words for liscence plates that have z's in them. there aren't too many english words with z's whereas german is just chock full of them. for example: Herzeleid, which means sorrow (or litterally, heart sorrow. herz is heart, leid is sorrow or grief.. you get the point. germans and their compound nouns. hoooooooboy! such as... der Donaudampfschiffahrtskapitän, which means "the captain of the steamship which is journeying down the Danube" crazy. or according to the online translator, it means, Danube steam-ship navigation captain. so i'm not entirely sure which one is right. probably i'm closer because all of those online translators are a wee bit dodgy.

finals are coming up veeeeeery soon, and i have but one word to say to all of that.... GAK!

boys are disgusting. especially the one that felt compelled to sit next to me in chem, who spent THE ENTIRE lecture with his hands DOWN HIS PANTS! it was so gross! and now you're going to be thinking that i was looking or something, which i wasn't, because you see, the desks are VERY CLOSE together, and i was on his left, and since they're mostly right-handed desks, the left side is open, SO THERE WAS NOTHING TO BLOCK ANY SORT OF PERIFRIAL VISION SIGHTINGS! and unfortunately i have rather good perifrial vision, which made it a very, very gross 50 minutes. i cringed the few times that he moved his left hand out of his crotch area to scratch his face or something because since the desks are so close, his hand would always come near to me and i was very afraid he was going to touch me with it. ewwwwwwwww. so nasty.

boys are dumb AND gross. throw rocks at them.

i bought some movies today from cash converters. i love that place! so great. that's where i got my new violin. AND I HAVE A CALLUS ON MY RING FINGER FROM PLAYING NOW!!!!! now that i play enough to start getting calluses.....

anyway, i bought angela's ashes, what dreams may come and the astronaut's wife. i meant to get jakob the liar too, but somehow i ended up putting it back and not getting it. very sad indeed. they were a little low on movies actually. on the bottom shelf they had to start putting them with the fronts showing, instead of just the side. crazy. i think it's because it's winter and so people stay indoors more and everyone has forgotten what books are, so people are looking for other ways to mindlessly entertain their poor apathetic brains. THEY SHOULD WRITE A NOVEL IN A MONTH! that'd get the creative juices flowing.

chem is stupid. not so much the actual chem itself, but the fact that my computer keeps FREEZING and the whole tutorial thingy is on the internet and my computer is DUMB and SLOW and i have a calculus quiz tomorrow..... yuck. i can't do calc tonight. i've already tried. it's just no good. nothing will come of doing calc. so i believe i am going to go and watch angela's ashes instead. (a good use of my time if i do say so myself.)