Daydreams and Wishes

Botheration! Remember that 1-month free Netflix trial I mentioned in my last post? For some reason, it didn't work. I definitely have a charge on my billing account now. I know the free trials only apply to first-time members, but I am a first-time member! Sigh.

And I suppose--since it's late and such--I'll be off to read for a bit before bed.

(Movie recommendations are love!)

Hmm . . . I think I shall update . . .

Friday morning at around 1:00, Richie IMed me saying he was hungry and wanted to get something to eat . . . so he, Sarah, Em, and I went to the Four Seasons diner (its open 24/7) and they got breakfast foods--I got back to my dorm at around 2ish! O.Chem was bad because Blackboard *still* wasn't up, so I couldn't print off the lecture notes beforehand . . . we did more practice problems in Genetics--it took Jess and I about an hour to do one of them (it had several parts), but luckily we're going to finish them up on Monday in class, so we didn't have to do them for homework . . . after Gospel Choir, we went to the "Breathe Step Stomp" step show sponsored by BSU (yay for aliteration!)--'twas rather good, although the music started to get to me after awhile because it was *really* loud (even though we were in the balcony) . . . Erin, Dana, and I watched a few episodes of CSI (Dana has the first and second seasons on DVD) and I caught a rather ironic (yet nifty) image in the final frame of the "Alter Boys" episode . . . then Danielle joined us and we watched The Land Before Time (the first one!) in the Atrium--we were shocked as we watched the credits and learned that the movie was a Spielburg/Lucas collaboration and James Horner did the score (with Diana Ross singing the end title)!

Hardly anything to write about Saturday, since we didn't do anything--I literally did nothing but O.Chem. (and procrastination) the entire day

Today we (the SU Gospel Choir) sang at St. Paul's United Church of Christ (Chris' church)--our Chaplin preached, too, so it was as though SU was taking over the service . . . hehe. We our songs went quite well, which was a very happy thing :) Erin and I didn't really want to go to the caf for lunch, so we made macaroni and cheese, and Dana joined us for lunch . . . I alternatively did O.Chem. and procrastinated . . . and that's about it for this weekend . . .

( A Procrastination Acrostic )

First, I shall finish writing about yesterday, then I shall explain the heading (as if it needed any explanation . . .):

Dana and Danielle went to see the poet at Charlie's in the evening and I was working on homework. Erin invited me over to the suite to watch The Dark Crystal with Dan, Lori, and her. I guess the only way to describe the movie is "amazingly nifty"--Lori, Erin, and I had never seen the movie, and so we kept exclaiming how cute all the odd little creatures were (especially the dog-like ball of fluff) . . . after we finished the movie, we watched the scene where the two main characters try to leave the dog-like ball of fluff as they go on their quest, but it has a temper tantrum: opening it's jaws WIDE, whining, and beating the ground with its two little feet--accompanied by our hysterical laughter. Dan and Lori then went to the "non-alcoholic block party" hosted by the Student Activities Council or something--Erin didn't want to go, so she came to my room and we watched The Empire Strikes Back, which she'd never seen before (*gasp*!) I managed to keep my quotage to a minumun, and only quoted the essential Han/Leia banter ;D Erin said she got me hooked to the SW saga, so we're going to watch Return of the Jedi the weekend after next (fall break is this weekend!). Danielle and Dana came back at 1ish and we all talked about stuff and amused ourselves by looking up how many people there are with common names at SU--hehe.

Today, Dana was performing with the handbell group at Chris' church and Erin decided (this morning) to gather up a bunch of us and go see her. Dana was soo surprised to see Trout, Sarah, Erin, and I sitting there in the pews. Vicky also sat with us. Trout, Erin, Dana, and I went to "lunch" when we came back at around 11:30ish, but since they had mostly brunch-like things, I had a "second breakfast" of scrambled eggs, cocoa, and bagels with strawberrry cream cheese :) . . . then I worked (or tried to work) on the problem set for O.Chem. . . I went to Erin's to make sure I had the right isomers for one of the problems and was introduced to the amazingness that is her friend's website--it includes a section on how to resist squirrels taking over the world and an amazing "practice" AP English test (which is a hilarious parody) . . . I stared at problem 1 for about half an hour trying to figure it out (I'd already done 2 and 3 because the were easy), then decided I was tired and it would probably make more sense after I took a nap. I did, and it made more sense (and Dana helped me a bit) . . . which brings me to now . . . and I think I shall go to dinner . . .

~Mythy/Lily/Michelle

hmm . . . I think I should update . . . hehe. *Points at icon* Look, it's one of my new ones! :D . . . Let's see, where did I leave off? Ah, yes, Friday (the 13th--dun dun dun): After the "flooding" of the lab on Thursday, nothing really exciting (or horrible) happened on Friday. 'Twas actually rather slow at the lab, if I recall correctly . . . my mom and I were going to go to the movie theatre to see The Princess Diaries, but then we remembered that the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics were on and watched them with my dad. My dad and I *loved* the introduction, where James Earl Jones' distinctive voice was narrating about Ancient Greece with the theme from Jurassic Park in the background---go John Williams!! [sidenote--I wonder what he would have thought if at the time he wrote his Olympic themes for the '72 and '96 Games he would have known that they would become the "unofficial" themes for all following Games? . . . . ok, that was a rather confusing sentence, and I think I confused myself too] Of course, since 'twas Friday night and I didn't have to get up early on Sat, I stayed up rather late and read fanfiction . . . *looks sheapish* (is that even spelled right? *ponders*)

Saturday was fun, as I had my birthday party with my Wellsboro friends. Sarah, Karen, and G-Girl came for pizza and movies--Low-C came for about 15 minutes during her lunch break right after everyone else came and we talked for a little bit on my porch. She didn't have my present wrapped yet, but she gave me a pretty circlet-thingy from the Laurel Festival as a sort of birthday hat/crown :). I let Sarah, Karen, and G-Girl pick out one of my CDs to listen to while we ate (more like demolished . . . we also had help from Alexander) our pizza--'twas a unanimous vote for Norah Jones because that was the only CD they recognised (as the rest of my CD collection is various soundtracks, John Williams scores, Enya, Sarah Brightman, and Josh *waves flags for film scores and crossover*) We talked about fun times in elementary and middle school while listening to my CD of randomness--I hadn't realised how much I missed talking with them . . . At around 4 or so (they'd come over at 1ish) we hopped into Sarah's truck and headed to Video King to rent something. We didn't find anything we really wanted to watch, but G-Girl had brought her copy of The Reduced Shakespeare Company's "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare", which was hilarious! 'Tis a 90-minute video featuring three actors presenting Shakespeare's entire works in front of a live audience . . . they don't actually act all of the plays though--they do all the histories as one (Amer.) football game and merge the comedies into a "mega-play" type thing . . . I'd recommend it ('twould be great for a SU movie night if we can find a copy--I bet the library might have one) . . .

( excitement on Main St. and why I like tea )

I think this entry's gone on long enough, but I have just one more thing--I'm contemplating changing my default icon to this:
           Any thoughts?
Oh, and if anyone was wondering, I only used an lj-cut because this post was really long without it and I didn't want to take up so much space on your Friends pages . . .
~Mythy/Lily/Michelle :D

Wow . . . I haven't really written a real entry on here in awhile . . . this week was crazy--I had sooo much stuff due!

I made an account on Xanga yesterday--same basic user name as here, except 'tis capitalised like my FoJG boardname: LilyofShalott. Don't worry--I'm not leaving you! It's just that all of my SU friends (except Erin, Vicky, Sara, and Chris [who never updates ;)] and friends from home have Xangas and I couldn't comment on them. All I have is my profile page (with a nice big picture of Josh in a suit--THUD) explaining that I'm only my account to comment on my friends' pages . . . . and I have a link to my lj--so my friends will actually read (and comment on) it ;)

Today was soo much fun! 'Twas such a beautiful day + all the magnolias are blooming on campus (and I have one right outside my window!) :D . . .I'm in SAVE (Students Advocating the Value of the Environment . . . or something) here at SU, and we had our EnviroFair at the mall today!! Basically, we had a bunch of tables set up with the various environmental organisations on campus, such as Green SU, GeoClub, etc. We had two SAVE tables, one for info and the other for kids to make crafts. I was in charge of the "God's eyes," which are made by crossing two sticks (popsicle sticks are usually used, but we made them with twigs) and then wrapping multi-coloured yarn around them.(that's a really bad explaination of what they look like . . . you've probably made them before, though . . . )It was so much fun helping the kids make their crafts---and I made about four for myself! Other crafts  included pinecone bird feeders, murels made out of beans, and the ever-popular natural sand art + potato planters. Not all the fun was at the mall though--on the way there, Steph, Nate, and I were laughing hysterically at the most random stuff---notably Nates "The BIG Thing of Chocolate" (huge tin of chocolate) and a random neon green kiddie chair in the middle of the highway!! You know you're tired when . . . hahaha

I went back to Smith at 5ish (I'd been EnviroFair-ing since 10am!) and sat and talked w/ Sara for a little. She has "My Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" written in Sharpie on her neon green CD walkman---that made me happy ('tis a Simon & Garfunkel song).
BR>Sarah, Benny, and I ordered Domino's delivery and ate it in Benny and Richie's room (of course)---yay for pineapple pizza! Yum. We watched Jeopardy and then the end of the Stargate movie, which was actually kind of cool . . . does anyone know if John Williams scored that movie? If he didn't, the person who did must admire him a lot----some parts sounded like something from Star Wars or Indy. Benny was on his computer and Sarah and I took naps . . . yup--we stole Benny and Richie's beds. Sarah left to get changed for a beach party she was going to, and woke me up as she and Benny were about to leave at 10--I had slept for an hour!! Hehe

I watched the Acadamy Awards yesterday w/ Sara . . . after I watched the "Pure Imagination" scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which was on at the same time (it's my favourite scene in the entire movie, ok?). There was much squee-age as RotK won every award it was nominated for, including Best Song, which Sara and I argued over: she thought it should be the song from The Triplets of Belleville and I thought it should be "Into the West" from RotK. While I did think "Belleville Rendez-Vous" was interesting and entertaining, I think "Into the West" is quite a lovely song . . . Finding Nemo won Best Animated Picture--Huzzah!--although that wasn't much of a surprise . . . Sara and I were saddened that PotC didn't win any awards, especially Johnny Depp for Best Actor . . . I was freaked out by the uncanny resemblance between Jude Law and my biology professor (except Dr. Richard doesn't have the odd hair thing) . . . we laughed when they kept on showing the LotR section, especially all the hobbit (you know, I really don't know how to spell this word . . . ) shots . . . 11 for 11 for RotK!! HUZZAH!! That makes it the 3rd movie to win that many Oscars, along with Ben Hur and Titanic--I wonder what my dad thinks of that: he always is saying that Ben Hur deserved every award it won, and while Titanic was an ok movie, it didn't deserve that many---I know he liked RotK when I went to see it with him twice . . . To conclude, yay for LotR, PotC, and Finding Nemo . . . and don't forget to thank your local kiwi . . . plus, all the koalas are a bit envious---they're fuzzy too ;)

I think I have inherited my dad's love of soundtracks . . . he has many of the original records too, esp. John Williams scores: Star Wars trilogy, ET, Close Encounters, Superman, etc . . . we always try to guess the composer when we watch movies . . . yesterday when I was watching Braveheart with Chris, Erin, and Dana, I correctly identified the soundtrack as a James Horner score (John Williams is easy to identify as well) . . . and decided to add it to my list of desired soundtracks

List of Desired Soundtracks:

Lord of the Rings  trilogy

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Pirates of the Carribbean (sp?)

Braveheart