Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Mood: Blah
Music: Soundgarden - Blow Up the Outside World

So umm...I was walking out of the science building after Genetics today. I opened the door and it smacked into a girl. *blush*

Cindy blabbed at 12:06 a.m. |

Saturday, November 29, 2003
Mood: Sore
Music: Ben Folds - The Luckiest

I'm back! Expect a long entry, folks. You have been warned. So anywho, I'm guessing most of you just want to know the answer to last time's "music pictionary". Here it is:
The Beatles - Across the Universe.
It was based on the opening lyric "Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup." Cool points for Dram, woohoo! Happy now? :P

Anywho, Atlanta rocked. The trips there and back sucked.

So let's start with the trip there. On my connecting flight to Houston, I sat back and read Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" to pass the time. I started to feel a little sleepy, so I tucked my book away into my bag, reclined my seat, and put myself in for a nice nap. Just while I was dreamily drifting to sleep, a wail pierces through the air. My eyes snapped open and I glanced across the aisle....it's a little kid freaking out. Ugh. So I'm thinking "Alright, so the kid's kinda scared...I guess it's for a good a reason" Then someone - I couldn't tell if it was another kid or if it was a cooing mother - started singing like this: "wawaWAwaWAwaWAwawawaWAwa". Teeth. Gritting. About five minutes into listening to this crazy duet, a baby a couple of rows ahead of me decides to join this psychotic symphony and starts screaming at the top of his lungs. So now I'm hearing: "WAAAAAHHHH*sob*WAHH-wawaWAwawaWA-WAAAAAAH*sniff*WAHHH-wawa-WAHHH!!" Christ, what was this, the mile-high daycare center??? All this continued for the ENTIRE duration of the flight. Needless to say, that particular leg of the flight was a little less than comfortable...*grumble*.

Fast forward to Thanksgiving Day. Holy crap, I ate like a fat goddess that day. So everyone gets a turkey on Thanksgiving Day, right? My family got a huge birdzilla turkey, and in addition to that...AN ENTIRE ROAST PIG. That's right....a whole freakin' porker sitting on the table....probably a vegetarian's nightmare, but hell, I'm FAR from being a veggie. :) As my cousin Daren put it, "there's always a Thanksgiving feast, but for some reason it doesn't REALLY seem like a feast until there's a slaughtered pig on the table". After all the food, it was just good fun with the family. Great food, even greater family...what more could a girl want on Thanksgiving? :)

Anywho...eventually we come to the sad day that I had to leave and come back to Austin. Before I say anything, I should mention that I had packed all of my things into a little tug-along luggage thingie. Small container, but it had a lot of stuff in it, so it was pretty heavy. Anywho, the plane landed in Austin, and I carefully take my luggage out of the overhead bin. I give it a light kick to get it to tilt onto the wheels, pull up on the handlebar, and....the entire handlebar came off. Oh. Crap. I sighed in disbelief, took a deep breath, and carried my luggage by hand. I caught a bus to take me back to UT campus, and I got off at a stop that's on the far side of campus from my apartment. Why did I do such a stupid thing as to get off at a stop all the way on the other side of campus from my apartment? I planned on taking the West Campus bus route after the Airport Route, because there's a West Campus bus stop right across from my apartment. Yay for laziness! So anywho, I drag my luggage from the Airport Route bus stop to the nearest West Campus bus stop. I look at the posted bus schedule, and I notice that today's date was marked in white. Uh...what's white mean? My finger follows down to the color legend...my eyes widened. OH. SHIT. There it was..White = NO BUS SERVICE. It's Saturday....no one that I knew was back from Thanksgiving Break yet...which meant that I couldn't call anyone for a ride home. Oh crap...crap crapcrapcrap. I thought about flagging down a campus cop to give me a ride home, but none drove by for me to flag down...geez, whatever happened to patrolling campus, people?!?! I gave a heavy sigh of resignation, lifted up my luggage, and I started huffing along the 1.2 mile trail to get home. About 30 minutes later, with lots of breaks to stop and catch my breath, I was back home in my apartment. I feel like an angry gorilla came in and pummeled my neck and back while making me carry sacks of bananas for it. OUch. Anywho, I've got a feeling that I'll be telling this story to my grandkids someday. :P

*poke*...you still awake and alive there? This entry's over!! YAY!! I toldja it was long. And if you've actually read the whole entry down to here, then uh...thanks for letting me take away 15 minutes of your life that you'll never get back. *grin*

Cindy blabbed at 10:54 p.m. |

Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Mood: Chipper
Music: Soundgarden - Blow Up the Outside World

'allo everyone. So Deran and I get kinda bored in Genetics sometimes....so we end up playing "Music pictionary":

Note: It says "Dixie" on the cup

Cool points to anyone who can name what song that crappy drawing is supposed to represent!! (Dram, I'm expecting you to know this!) I'll tell the answer the next time I make a post. Either that you can ask me if it's REALLY going to eat at you. :)

Anywho, I'm catching a plane to Atlanta tomorrow...gonna go for a Thanksgiving family get together. And I don't care what people say, family reunions rock. Well, in my family they do. :) Stuff your face on Thursday and thank God/Buddha/Allah/whatever that you're able to be sitting in such a state of gluttonous bliss. In the meantime, I'll see you guys in a week. :)

Cindy blabbed at 10:38 p.m. |

Saturday, November 22, 2003
Mood: Giddy
Music: Phantom Planet - Lonely Day

Band of the Year: Phantom Planet

I just got back from seeing them live. They freakin' blew me away....they're absolutely AMAZING live. 3 reasons why they rock:

1. They've got great music
2. The lead singer's dead sexy
3. They put on a f*ckin' AWESOME show....the lead singer was HANGING FROM THE CEILING when they were playing their last number

I think I've said enough. Everyone go listen to their "The Guest" album...you won't regret it. :)

Cindy blabbed at 01:37 a.m. |

Friday, November 21, 2003
Mood: Mellow
Music: Weezer - Island in the Sun

So after lamenting to Ben about my lost piano playing days, I took a trip to the music building today to see what I had left in me. I get off at the 5th floor, and whoa....a whole hallway with soundproof rooms with pianos in them! Nyahaha...that's pretty freakin' cool. :) So I found an open room and closed the door behind me. I sat down at the bench, and randomly tapped a note.

That note didn't just ring throughout the room. It freakin' BELLOWED. I was getting giddy already. :)

I pulled out my folder of sheet music and chose a Chopin nocturne. I stretched my fingers out and began to play.

Chopin - 1
Cindy - 0

Holy crap, I can't play this anymore! I didn't want to believe that I'd just let 10 years of piano lessons go to waste, so I pulled out an impromptu.

Chopin - 2
Cindy - 0

Uh...ok...the Minute Waltz?

Chopin - 3
Cindy - TKO

Oy vey. This happened over and over again, with a whole bunch of other dead European men. These dudes have no mercy. Cindy got owned. *sob*

Bleh....ok, so playing the piano isn't like riding a bike. But it doesn't mean I didn't enjoy plunking out a few tunes today. It's just time for me to get back in practice. :)

Cindy blabbed at 05:27 p.m. |

Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Mood: Sleepy
Music: Ella Fitzgerald - Misty

My friend Jerry IM-ed me today with this:

Jerry**** (11:49:47 PM): on ur blog the gloves look like hands that got chopped off
Jerry**** (11:49:50 PM): u should add blood

Uhh...thanks? :)

Haha, anywho, I've got an organic chemistry exam on Thursday, and I really need to study. Which means that this calls for drastic measures. I'm going to pull the plug on my internet until the day of the exam. So don't call the cops when I don't grace your presence on the internet...I'm just studying for ochem. Either that or I'm trying to see how many pages of my orgo textbook can fit in my mouth before I choke and die. Arrivederci!

Cindy blabbed at 01:24 a.m. |

Monday, November 17, 2003
Mood: Devious
Music: Amelie OST - La Valse d'Amelie (orchestral)

Yay! A new winter edition of Cindy's blog! And I've even got a wintery song up at the top too. Yes, I know it's called "St. Patrick's Day", but just listen to the lyrics, huh? I was going to wait until temperatures got colder around here, but then I remembered that I'm in Texas where it'd have to be an act of God if I ended up wearing anything more than tank top. Meh.

So anywho....I was eating lunch today and I saw Arnold's gubernatorial inauguration on TV. I started thinking about how Bill Clinton gets one hookup and he gets into deep crap, but Ahhnold is taped doing drugs, is accused of groping several women, and is quoted in Oui magazine for talking about his experience in group sex, and he STILL gets elected for governor. Then I thought "Holy crap, if I were superstar, I could get away with anything!!" Sooo...I've got a plan in the works.

Step 1: Find your audience
So all the 12-year-old teeny-boppers are taken by the likes of Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. All the little kids are taken by Pokemon and Barney, and all the older people are taken by Martha Stewart and uh...Peter Jennings? Anywho, I've decided to cater to the forgotten people in the US population: the nerds.

Step 2: Make Yourself Known
I guess the next step would mean that I'd have to get myself out to the public now. Best way to do that is to redo my little Halloween shindig and be declared "World's Sexiest Nerd". Then I'll do some interviews with some magazines, where I'll talk about random crap and throw in the words "processor", "CPU", "motherboard" and "overclock" every now and then. (Ex. "Oh, I've always wanted to go to Italy. Did I mention that motherboards are cool? ATHLON PROCESSORS ALL THE WAY!!")

Step 3: Make People Love you!
Smile. Be nice to your fans. Give free stuff now and then, like those crappy AOL CD's that flood our mailboxes.

Bwahahaha....and there you have it. If I can pull this off, I'll be on my way to world domination. I could run off to Italy, eat all the food without paying, go to the San Diego zoo and steal that adorable little baby panda, and drink all the Starbucks coffee that I want!! AND NO ONE WOULD CARE!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

*ahem*...now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to run off to autograph my stack of crappy AOL CD's. :D

Cindy blabbed at 04:52 p.m. |