So I spent this weekend utterly exhausting myself in care of children who will forget me in a few days' time. I got no work done whatsoever, was harried from 6am to midnight including mealtimes, and witnessed a lifetime's worth of spit and tantrums.

...Okay, I admit it, I fell in love. :|

( ramble ramble )

And in conclusion, I think this entry and this weekend have completely exhausted my tolerance for children. It's all well and good having cute little kids to hold and to hug for a weekend, and already the whole time there was kind of this feeling of ahh-get-it-away-from-me. Can you imagine having to deal with one, constantly, for however many years it takes for them to learn to fold their own damn laundry? Yeah.

I should call my mom soon.

I had absolutely no inspiration for the prompt this week, but I'm tired of missing week 1, and I'm not going to come up with anything better in the scant minutes I have before we leave, so I decided to just whip this up and post it. Please enjoy, lololol.



For Brigit's Flame prompt: cue.

( one day I'll write something good. I promise. )

( this life thing )

Right, I finally gave in and got into Glee! About two weeks ago, actually.



The fandom is kicking, yo. Not like "kicking ass". Just kicking. Like an annoying fetus. I'm not sure why Puck/Kurt is such a popular pairing, but after watching some interviews, I am of the conclusion that Mark Salling is awesome. Seriously, have you seen the 10 cool things interview? Mark's favorite thing is corvids. Corvids. "That's the classification of birds that includes crows, ravens, magpies, and jays..." I also can't stop watching Dianna Agron interviews. She's so pretty, and she seems so sweet. Absolutely lovely cast, even if the plot of the show is essentially... a soap opera in high school.

This entry is such a disjointed mess, I'm kind of embarrassed. It's just that I have all these fragments of entries-that-I-meant-to-post floating around my head, and squeezing them all out at the same time is never pretty. No.

On the bright side, I just cleaned my room today. I like having a clean room.

This week is ridiculous. I keep scheduling and rescheduling all my events and deadlines: not looking for free time, or even time to write, just places to squeeze in work between all the class and meetings and wtf shopping for decorations for an event that I'm not even attending.

Life is pretty good.

Today was just the best day ever. Must sleep soon, but I just wanted to store these feelings in this entry box before I lose them: the way you slowly flow down from a 12-hour rush of adrenaline into a drift of content exhaustion. The way your eyes close and your mouth turns up.

Solving puzzles for twelve straight hours was so much more fun than I could ever have expected. We stole a practice room in the music building and just did puzzles straight from noon to midnight. I have no idea how I maintained such a high level of energy for a half a day when I can barely keep it up for two hours doing actual schoolwork, but I was so pumped the whole time, and the puzzles were so much fun. There was an xkcd one, and a Portal one, and my team was wonderful and I think I did a pretty good job contributing. I think if you give me little positive reinforcement like "CORRECT", I can just go on working forever. We came in 3rd place at our school (2nd place beat us by three minutes!!!), and I took home a nice Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate as a prize, probably sell it on eBay or something.

After that, I went over to Forbes to visit some of my old high school friends, some of whom were visiting for marching band. It was like a huge reunion (of five people), and I had such a blast. I feel like so much more of a human being around these people. I think if people at Princeton could see me hanging out with WP folks, they would be amazed. I don't know. I thought I had low self-esteem back then, but looking back, I was pretty comfortable with myself, or at least my position in the scheme of things. I just felt so much more relaxed, so much happier in this company than with so many others. This whole entry is probably not too coherent, but I haven't enjoyed myself this much in a very long time.