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The white wizard approaches.

I am looking in to adding Amsterdam and Morocco onto my schedule in Europe. Morocco would just be a day trip from Spain, Amsterdam I would do instead of Munich (which would mean no Oktoberfest). I'm saddened about not going to Oktoberfest but that would add a CONSIDERABLE amount of money onto my already steep bill for this whole adventure. Plus I've read stuff where you need to reserve a bed in a hostel almost a year in advance, and since that leg of my trip is about 3 months away, I think I am, in a word, screwed. So, plan b: Amsterdam! Which is awesome. I can smoke legally and go see whores in widows on my way to the Anne Frank house.

This week I noticed that I have a considerable amount of white hair growing on the sides of my head. It's rather long so it must have been growing for at least a year. It's also not just, like, a strand here and there, it literally looks like I had white paint on my hand and ran it through my hair. There is a lot of it. Fortunately I'm blonde and my hair is already light, and some of it is like...silvery blonde already, so you can't really tell unless I point it out. And I guess I haven't noticed it in all this time so surely it can't be TOO noticeable? But, still, wtf, I'm 22! :(

Working out is going well, I was talking to a woman I work with last night about working out and mentioned that I'd been running two miles a day for about two weeks, and she said something to the effect of "if you can already see a change in your body after two weeks, that's good!" I had said nothing about noticing any change, so I assume that means that she has noticed, which is good. I'm taking today off, I think, mainly because I'm hungover as shit but also because my legs need a bit of a break.

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Lists of randomness....

So like 14 people on Facebook have done this and I've been tagged and all that stuff so I guess I should do it! Not doing it on Facebook though for a variety of reasons, which are probably all ridiculous so I won't bother sharing them. Mostly to do with certain people seeing it. So Vox it is! Onwards to the 25 random things about me.


1. I have a completely irrational fear of veins. I'm fine with blood and stuff, and have even grown to be alright with getting needles poked in me. But veins themselves freak me the HELL out. I've had a bit of an abnormally bulgy vein on my hand for the past week, and when I went to WebMD to make sure that my symptoms weren't indicative of impending death, I literally started clutching myself for some sort of warped support and I started crying. Wtf! That's never happened before, but then again I usually try to avoid anything that requires me look/feel/read about veins. Hate. Veins.

2. Despite learning to ski when I was in the neighborhood of 5 years old and going up several times a year and taking lessons, I have always been an abysmal skier. I started snowboarding when I was 14 and am a thousand times better at that than I ever even dreamed of being at skiing. Wtf, skiing.

3. I am a HUGE packrat. Anything that has the slightest possibility of re-use is kept. This includes everything from clothes to movie stubs (hey! That midnight showing of Harry Potter might be cool some day).

4. I always feel like a freshman. Maybe it's because I feel short, maybe it's because I have low self esteem, WHO KNOWS, but whenever I walk around campus I never feel like the super awesome elite upperclassman that I am. This might be that several times, I have been asked if I'm a freshman, or "is this your first year up here?" No, ma'am, it is not.

5. I love scars. I feel like they tell a different sort of story of who you are. Some are ridiculous, some are hilarious, some are terrifying. But they're all interesting and help fill in the story of who you are.

6. I was a very rowdy child in elementary school. In first grade I got in trouble for "leading the other kids around on top of the desks, slapping butts and barking like dogs" (my parents' words, as they have retold the story many times). Second grade I got put on a "behavior contract" where I'd get a smily if I was good, and a frowny if I was bad. Third grade I threw dog shit at some boys (subtly was never my thing). Fourth and fifth grade I think I calmed down a bit. My mom thought I had ADD for a while.

7. Despite being born and raised in Colorado, and going to college in the coldest part of the state, I hate cold weather. This hate gets more intense as the winter drags on.

8. I once harbored dreams of being an actress or director or some big awesome amazing Hollywood person. A tiny part of me still does.

9. In honor of the Super Bowl today: I have a complete and total lack of understanding of football. Most sports I know the general rules of, and can even play them (except for crazy shit we don't have here in the US like cricket and handball). Football has been explained to me many many times, and I still have no idea what the game is about.

10. While the "NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOUUUUR" kid is, indeed, hilarious, I always feel a pang of embarrassment when I see it, since I went apeshit and literally screamed when I got the collector's edition of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Christmas one year.

11. I have an irrational attachment to my car. I almost totaled it a few months ago, and I was far more upset about the prospect of never driving my car again than I was about the fact that I could have, you know, been killed.

12. I feel I would love going to school here, and that I would love the town, if it didn't constantly remind me of a certain someone who I maintained an intense and wildly unhealthy relationship with for several years. I'm as over it as I can possibly be while still living here.

13. I would love to just pack up and move to a beach town. The few times I've been to California, Hawaii, even Florida, I feel an odd sense of familiarity and comfort despite never staying there for any length of time.

14. Black olives are, quite possibly, the absolute best food ever.

15. It's almost embarrassing how intensely I am in to Harry Potter. Those books represent so much to me and are such a deep part of my life and my growing up. I started reading them around when I was 11 or 12, when Harry also started his journey.

16. I often cry at movie trailers and, even worse, commercials.

17. The Beastie Boys are incredibly annoying.

18. I'm going to name all of my future pets after characters in nerdy shit that I love. When I can, I am going to get a black lab puppy and name her Starbuck (after a character on Battlestar Galactica). I also want a weimeraner and will name her Callisto (from Xena). Yes, I am fantastic.

19. My wardrobe pretty much consists of jeans, tshirts and a black hoodie that I wear constantly. I love my checkered Vans, and feel strangely fashionable when I wear them without socks.

20. Speaking of shoes, I wear a women's 11 (or large 10). I'm only 5'5", so yikes!

21. I was raised Christian (baptised, Sunday school, confirmation, etc) but never really believed any of it. I tried to get back to some spirituality when I was a freshman in college, going so far as to join a girl's Bible study and go to various on-campus Christian groups. It didn't work, and always made me feel alienated and alone.

22. Also on religion: I am starting to think that no religion is "right" or "wrong", just that there is something out there and different people need different approaches to faith in order to get there.

23. I am deeply unsettled by the ad for Match.com to the right of this text box as I type, that has a girl who looks about 12 in it. That site's for romantic relationships, not playdates.

24. I really wish I could sing without making people's ears bleed.

25. I cannot get an odd number of hours of sleep, especially 9. I can do 6, I can do 8, 10, 12, but if I get an odd number of hours I will wake up feeling horrible and grumpy. Especially 9. I don't know what it is, but 9 hours of sleep always screws me up.

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A smorgasbord of randomness!

We bought the NIN tickets last night so now it's like 90% sure that we're going, I just need the sweet precious paper in my sweaty hands and then I'll feel safe. Speaking of concerts, Ben just came in and told me that he saw a poster for a Rammstein concert in Plaça Universitat, so of course I went to their site and Herzeleid and neither has anything about a 2006 or 2007 tour anywhere, so I'm not sure wtf it was. But...both Rammstein and NIN concerts while I'm here? The two bands I most want to see live...zomg :o Anyway if anyone hears anything of a random Rammstein tour through Spain, send word my way...

 

I dealt with the government-types today and it went swimmingly. I just said "sí" twice and then "dos, por favor" and got what I wanted in like 5 minutes. Yay! Now onto the next step, which is the last one, thank God. Though evidently the wait there is horrendous, so you have to get there über early (like 5am and it opens at 9am. La-ame!) So that's delightful.

 

Last night Ben and I went and got some coffee and were talking about video games. His brother is going to come visit him in December and bring his Xbox 360, so that's cool because I've never played a 360, and it'd be nice to have some games over here other than like the 4 PSP games I own. I need my gaaaames D: I'm going to go "home" and play the shit out of Daxter, and then when I'm done I'm going to play the shit out of it again. Games here are fucking expensive, hell if I'm paying €60 (which is like $70) for one friggen PSP game.

 Edit: What the hell, since when is there a Lumines 2? Any good?

 

Oh yeah and I quit smoking. I'm not sure if I really ever started, but regardless, I "quit" yesterday. woo?

 

For our grammar class Kinsy and I got paired together to do a project thinger on "our home country/state/town/whatever" so we're going to do Gunnison and the mountains in general. We're going to go eat "shwarma" which I should evidently know what it is, but I don't, and work on the project tomorrow. Should be interesting. We're not all buddy-buddy but we're pretty good, I guess. I'm actually kind of excited to hang out with her casually outside of school or ISA, I think that will give me a better feel for where the relationship stands at the moment.

 

In other news I think I might have encountered my first bit of gay-hate directed my way. Not directly at me, but at me through one of my friends. And, of course, it's the girl I'm living with, heh. I guess Ainslie just said a couple things to Amanda because I was all over this guy one night at a discoteca, and Ainslie basically said something like, "well she was pretty shitfaced, and he did have long hair, so she probably just got confused." Which would be pretty damn funny if I didn't know that she definitely meant it in a mean way. Plus she's commented on it to Amanda several times, and it's just, like, WHY DO YOU FUCKING CARE? Why do -I- fucking care, either? I guess it's easy for someone to say "oh don't let it get to you, if she doesn't like it she can fuck off." But that's a whole shitload lot easier said than done. I'm also somewhat confused because I haven't even told her, the only people I've told are Amanda and some random bartender chick, so she's basically trashing the shit out of me for something that she doesn't even know if it's true or not. I mean, yeah I'm not Posh Spice or anything, but I'm no kd lang either, damnit! Meh I guess this alone doesn't make me upset, what makes me upset is that I know this is just the tip of a potentially very large iceberg. I guess at least life will never be boring, eh?

 

Anyway I'm done. Sorry if you read this far.

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