Can I just not move for a while? thanks.

I'm sick, and my stuff is not going to do itself. A shame, really.

{insert continued emo rant}

On a completely unrelated note...

That's three engineering classes and a program class. Or, if you're boring enough to want to know which, Electronic Devices and Circuits, Digital Electronics, Engineering Design Graphics II, and Linear Data Structures.

Snow!

It's so pretty outside now :)

I just remembered that I have a class in 20 minutes. That's always fun to realize.

Someday I should get a dresser, and a bed, and make my bedroom look like a bedroom instead of a trainwreck. Just sayin'.

I've spent $125 total on tactics arena. Actually not quite, because a bit of that is for my sister's subscription, and she may have paid me back for that once or twice. That's still a lot of money to play an online game.

Yet... I wonder how much money I've spent on candy in the past two years. Probably more than $125. And I don't buy candy very often at all.

TTLB sucks

Apparently over the course of a week, my blog magically ceased to be cool. Pretend for a moment that it was cool before that ;)

I have two large projects due during "dead week" and two more during finals week. One of the ones due this week is done (though I intend to attempt extra credit), and the other is mostly done. It's the group project though, so I'm not entirely certain *how* done it is. All of the hard part is done I think... we just need to whip together a few papers and a powerpoint presentation. Should be fine.

It feels like a long time since I was in these classes. Must pull brain back into school. >_<

Ahhh, home sweet home.

I'm going to spare you all the pain of a "what I did over thanksgiving break" essay. I had to do enough of those in grade school. I'd like to think I'm past that stage. That and I always hated those essays with a passion.

A few highlights though:

* My niece makes the cutest faces and gurgly noises IN THE WORLD.
* Spent lots o' time writing a program instead of playing with baby. Deadline magically got pushed back a week while I wasn't looking. -.-
* Burger King in the airport ripped me off. Big time. As in... $10 for a breakfast "value" meal and an OJ for the sis.
* I need to get Settlers/Seafarers/Starfarers of Catan. Preferably with an expansion set.
* Today was a very good day, in spite of going to bed last night at 1:30 and waking up at 4.
* Best turkey I've ever had in my life. I'm not kidding. I'm going to maul my sister for the recipe.

Sorry about the spaztic nature of this post. You should come talk to me in real life. I may or may not be less crazy there.

Quote of the Month (Year, Decade, etc.) - "Fuck Ada."

I've got a little bit done tonight. Thanks to another "study session" with TJ. These study sessions never end up accomplishing exactly what we want them to per se... but we always get something semi-useful done. For example, today we came up with a brilliant costume idea for next halloween. What is it? Well I guess you'll find out next year ;)

I did, however, make a little progress on my program, which is due in less than a week. No progress was made on Circuit Analysis, which is what we actually got together to study.

We now know a lot more than we previously did on the subject of japanese swords and grenade launchers though. Also, we've schooled eachother in the various arts of computer leetery.

The Internet Hates Me

My php code is *exactly* the same as nathan's old blog. His works. Mine doesn't. That's all there is to it.

I've made cookies today. A lot of cookies. One might even call it a "buttload" of cookies. So if I owe you cookies... you might actually get them now.

If I don't owe you cookies, you might be getting a couple anyways. Depends on whether you come visit me or not ;)

I'm somewhat compulsive about checking my bank balance... somehow I always think money's just going to fall out. It hasn't happened yet, but YOU NEVER KNOW!!

I declare this the day of short paragraphs. It shall be a light and fluffy day.

Actually it's been kind of a crap day, but I can pretend, right?

Exploring gentoo!

I'm quite fond of it so far. Someday I'll be able to take advantage of the things that make it truly awesome.

I need to:
Pack
Find a shuttle service
Solve sudoku
Start the psp project
Finish the mousetrap project
Finish the other project
See people
Not die

I think I got the last one covered. The first shouldn't be too difficult. All the stuff in between makes me a little flustered to think about.

Thus I shall blog about it, and have you all sensibly tell me that it's silly to be flustered, and I need to just take things one at a time (it'll help if you actually tell me how easy and simple they'll be, too), and then I will feel better.

I'm a 46.

Yay for e-mail forwarded personality tests.

Honestly though... this is the only one I've ever gotten that I've paid much attention to, and even then, not really a whole lot.

I've taken it three times. The first time I got just above 20 I believe. It was definitely in the 21-30 range... I think I cried. (I was a bit more sensitive then) The second time, I got a 36. That was a couple years ago, I believe. And now I'm a 46. I had a little trouble on the color question, trying to decide between my traditional favorite color and one which I thought perhaps actually appealed to my senses more. If I'd chosen the other, my score would have been 50.

I decided it wasn't worth my time to hunt through my contact list trying to think who might appreciate the forward and who might hate me forever because of it... instead I uploaded it and gave it a pretty blue background and some funky font. You can take it and leave your score in the commentses, should you choose to subject yourself.

If nothing else, I've been intrigued by the change. I know it's been exactly the same test every time I've taken it. Maybe a year from now I'll be either "highly volatile" or "extremely dominant"....

RaRgh!

... figure I've got enough posts titled RaR or Blargh! that I might as well just combine the two.

I'm a slimy mollusc, apparently.

But I'm uncentered. I need to center myself.

Then I need to throw (read: gently place) vash in a far away, non-distracting place, and get some work done.

Coincidence!

Apparently either the ferry internet thing fell through, or the edmonds/kingston never caught on to the fad. However, the WA fer...

OMG STELLA!!!

Okay. So I'm in the middle of writing my blog entry, for posting later in a more internetz friendly place, waiting on the other side of the ferry for my ride, when stellabella showed up and said "BROOKE???" It was awesome.

...ries finally have catering again. They're not well stocked as of yet, but they had some nice hot soups and many drinks, which is really all I was looking for. I got the very last bit of the Ivar's clam chowder.

GAR, I have a song stuck in my head. Rather, I have one section from a song stuck in my head. The words are "you should have seen..." and then it gets mumbly, and all I know is how the tune goes. Tunes are hard to google.

I think it's Muse, but I'm not sure. I shall endeavor to unravel this mystery.

P.S. YYYAAAAAYYY!!! NICKYSAURUS COME VISIT ME! and joe. OMG SO MUCH FUN.

The Blargh: A User-friendly Guide to Not Sucking at Life.

It's been a fantastic weekend. I feel relaxed, and ready to get back into the swing of things. I'm not so overwhelmed anymore, and overall much happier. I can honestly say I got a real vacation this time.

The sermon this morning was on not letting stress, worry, and fear overcome you :P

I want to go skiing.

I am very very happy right now.

Remember this? Well it wasn't permanent. It took a little bit of doing, but he's apparently decided that I'm worth talking to again (or at the very least not worth avoiding), and I'm pleased with this turn of events.

Also, I have a much better understanding now of why the relationship was halted in the first place. This makes me feel a lot better about the whole thing.

It's really good to have that settled. It's a fairly hefty weight off my shoulders. I didn't even know it was still causing me stress, until suddenly it was gone.

Sorry, once again, for being vague. If you want details I'll be happy to share, just ask me personally :)

I think I'm going to take my brittainy shopping in silverdale tomorrow. Yay.

I made it!

I am home, on rather short notice, to visit my dear little sister and other various relatives, and katina, and shayna if at all possible. Katina gets the Best Person of the Year award for driving all the way to Kingston to pick me up after her bedtime, when she has to get up at 4:30 tomorrow to go to work.

Brian also gets props for driving me around on the east side of the water, and for encouraging me to actually try to get home, instead of being sad and bored in Bellingham all weekend. I really did need to get home for a little bit.

I <3 my sister!!

I saw a massive number of umbrellas this morning (around 25... I was counting but I may have missed a few), and I was extremely disappointed. I was like "wtf are those things??"

There was rain, sure. But umbrellas are *totally* unnecessary. It's not like they really help that much anyways. At least not with our kind of rain.

Do not fully grok.

I realized yesterday that I don't own any jackets. Like... at all. I have copious amounts of sweaterage, and a coat (maybe two... can't remember), but not a single thing that I would call a jacket. I think that should change. Next time I go shopping.

Problem 1: I never go shopping.

I am to design and model a case for the PSP, and do a report. This scares me. A lot.

Also of note: I just had my very first bowl of ramen of the entire quarter. I forgot how tasty it can be.

So-and-so!! The Ugly One!!

Saw David Keonigsaecker on campus today. It kind of freaked me out. I didn't say hi.

Etec 271, ie. circuit analysis, ie. Physics, is apparently the gauntlet of the EET department. It's the prereq to end all prereqs. If you don't pass that you can't take the rest of the classes, and you get set back a year because it's only offered in the fall. So if I don't pass that class... I guess I'm a cs major :P

Rose is making something that smells really tasty, with mushrooms, which I no longer detest.

<3 my rose.

Blargh!

Haven't much felt like blogging this weekend. Actually what I'd most like to do is just be anti-social for a little bit. Maybe I'll see about going home to sequim this coming weekend.

I wonder if my parents would be home then.

Motivation

So the only issue now is finding transportation down to seattle on the 21st (monday night) and back up on saturday. Greyhound appears to be a cheap and easy way to go. This'll be exciting, I've never done the train thing before. Somehow I think it'll be just as exciting as the bus, subway, and plane things. As in, not very.

My take-home test is taunting me. I'm shielding myself through the cunning use of Oregon Chai. Woot.

Boom Boom Ba - Metisse

Yay! Laundry is actually finally getting done!

I normally have two full loads. This time I had three VERY FULL loads. I'm kind of crossing my fingers hoping that everything gets clean.

Our mousetrap car ran 98'6" in the final races today, beating our record from yesterday of 95'8". We got 2nd for distance out of all the groups from 4 classes (possibly 5... I'm not sure). The 1st place car went 162. It also got the farthest in the tractor pull race, at about 5'6". Apparently it was doing poorly today, because in its earlier races it pulled 7'7". We had to take pictures of the car for our final presentation, so once those get sent to me, you can expect to see the final masterpiece that was *almost* good enough :P

Our apartment "stack" is going to be insane this weekend. Rose's mom and a few of her siblings (just the younger ones I think) are staying at our place this weekend, and Benson has a crew of volunteers for the programming competition that are going to be staying downstairs for the duration. I think Nathan will be hiding the whole weekend. As for myself... I think the only thing to fear is that I'll be tempted away from studying to hang out with people :P

Niece!

I bit the bullet and bought the tickets. I'm officially flying to LA for thanksgiving to see Sydney :)

So yus. That's exciting.

In other news: take-home test for math due monday (very glad I went to that class this morning... huzzah) and mid-term in circuit analysis tomorrow. More cramming for that tonight. Mousetrap races at 3 today and 2 tomorrow. Hopefully we'll do well enough to get into the friday races.

This weekend will be... kind of intense. Starting right about.... now.

Blog addict?

Believe it or not, I don't actually spend that much time making with the bloggering. I'll admit, I do check for comments several times a day. That doesn't actually take up that much *time* though. Mostly because the awesomeness that is quicksilver allows me to hit a few keys and be whisked away to the blargh page which you currently view.

Regardless... if you added up the amount of time I've spent on the continuing saga of brookedom over the years, it would probably be quite sizeable.

Partially I think it's just one more thing to add to the list of things I'm doing, as part of coping with N.A.D.D.

I claim it's a communication tool, but really... how many of you guys who check this regularly can't just talk to me over IM or in real life? Or (heaven forbid) use the phone! Really I'm just an attention whore with an overabundance of scatterbrainedness. Who also unfortunately thinks she's kind of clever.

This post brought to you by the letter "M", and the wisdom of the TJ. The conversation over our circuit analysis books was quite... extensive. It often had very little to do with circuits at all.

RaR

I actually finished work like way ahead of the deadlines this week! I'm not a very good CS major, as Benson and Brian are fond of reminding me. No proper CS major would finish work before the day of the deadline! That's preposterous.

I'm really a big fan of communication. The good, solid, "that dress doesn't look very good on you" type of communication. It's become more and more clear to me in the past month or so that this is a very good type of honesty. Perhaps I'm a weirdo in appreciating bluntness (especially for a girl) but I like it. It lets me know where I stand, without all the guesswork.

That being said, do you like my hair long or short? X-D