Alias 1-16
Dead Like Me 18-34
27 Dresses 35-00
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 36-39
Shia Lebeouf 40-00
Gone with the Wind 41-00
Six Feet Under 42-00

So, I've been making icons. They're pretty crappy, so don't judge, people.

I am at work in the IMU ramp, and I want to cry. My head hurts like SERIOUSLY bad. So bad that i want to CRY. That never happens. I took 2 tylenol, a vitamin, and when it didn't get any better, one of Vicky's super strength migrane pills. WTF? Why is it still here? So, I caught up on Caliga, thought maybe if I got distracted it would go away. No. still here and I have 4 hours left to work. After this post I will watch Buffy and try and find a position in this awkward chair to be comfortable. All I can say is, THANK MERICFUL ZEUS it isn't busy. Usually there are only 40 spots available, now there are 192. And hardly anyone has come though, since 2, I have had 4 cars.

So, I did the volunteer thing, that was fun. I was in charge of 1 kid for a while and then he left and I was in charge of another. The 1st was an older, more mature kid who had a grasp on everything, pretty much. They threw a carnival like party, and the kids had to do constructive type things to get tickets to play games. So if we saw them compliment someone, or give someone their turn, etc., then we would give them a ticket. So, this kid made me a balloon letter M, which he turned into a hat for me so I could wear it instead of carry it around, and then he painted a smiley face on my hand, and put a tattoo on my wrist of a rose. Cute kid, reminds me of my brother.

Then the second kid arrived, 3 years old, and had just gotten up from a nap. His grandpa was like, "do you want Mallory to hold you?" and the kid looked at me and put out his arms and said, "Hold." It was ADORABLE. Cutest kid there. So, he napped on me for about 20 minutes and then I coaxed him into playing games. He did really good. Then he painted my arm, that was cool. It's just lines up and down my arm, but I like it. He spent like 10 minutes painting, I was surprised.

This other kid though, he was CUTE! He kept trying to go into different rooms the whole time, and when we broke off into different groups of 4, our group had our singing time, he came in and sat down with us and said, "HELLO FRIENDS!!" in the cutest voice EVER!  

So that went really well. I think I am going to keep doing it, it really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

So I am watching Buffy, and I was thinking to myself that I really missed this video I saved to my computer years back of Buffy with Evanescence. So, I tried looking it up on my computer, and it isn't there, but! Lo and behold, I found it on Youtube.

Speaking of Youtube vids, I was trying to explain the genius of the Jimmy Kimmel/Ben Affleck thing, and he just was so insistent that I was saying it wrong. He wouldn't even let me finish a sentence, but I had an idea of what he was saying. So I managed to get out, "Matt Damon" and he was like YES! That's the guy, not stupid Ben Affleck, and I was all 'HA!' There are 2 FREAKING different videos Tommie! So, I told him that he needs to watch the other, because that may arguably be the better one. He is so weird sometimes. We spent most yesterday together, me watching him clear his crap out of the kitchen (he still wasn't done this morning) and watching Jeepers Creepers 2 (sigh. AWFUL movie) and making non-set plans to marathon The Omen movies. :D That totally reminds me of this article I read in an old Entertainment Weekly of a girl who was saying that she grew up in the time of scary/evil children movies, (omen, the shining, etc) and that her mother used to take her to all of them, because she didn't think it was right to keep her from that (she was like... 8) So she grew up thinking that the kid that sat next to her in the first grade was going to turn evil and kill everyone. Hell, she grew up thinking that it was only a matter of time before she died herself.

Me? Same thing. I never had a restriction on any movies until There's Something About Mary, and that came out when I was 15. So, I had already seen every scary movie at that point, because I thought I should since I was born on October 31st. I thought all my stuffed animals were going to kill me (that was remedied by me putting them all in a suitcase in the back of my closet) and that something evil was out to get me. Yeah.... I think that article may have been written by Diablo Cody, but that is probably my availability heuristic kicking in. ::shrugs::

Also? I feel like a big nerd today. I had to run to catch the bus (which happens about once a week) and it was embarrassing. Yeah, I am one of THOSE people. I also stepped in a BIG thing of mud, and got it all over my Pumas. ::sigh::

Well, I should probably go back to watching Buffy. Sorry for the back to back posts, flist.   

So, I slept in 15 minutes today, drove to class and got there early enough to print off my paper for class (since my cartridge is SERIOUSLY empty). THEN, I watched a movie and it is adorable. It is called the postman (in spanish, I don't remember the spanish title) and it has this dorky postman who rides his bike to give 1 man his mail everyday. The one guy gets tons of mail because he is a famous poet, Pablo Neruda, who I have read in my OTHER class. Then I went to said other class where my teacher had bagels and we watched another movie, La lengua de los mariposas (the tongues of the butterflies). Another movie that is very adorable, but I have a feeling I am going to cry in the end. We read the short story already, so I know what happens.

So then I got gas, went to the post office and mailed the security deposit for the new apartment, came home and am watching Buffy till I go to work at 2. Pretty easy day. Tomorrow should be good too, I have basically nothing due then either.

So Sam was over the other night. Pretty much, he came to IC to do a project with a friend for some Youth Rally or something, I've no idea. Then I tried to set up the computer they brought which was my dad's, but my dad has some weird internet things, I couldn't get it. So I left them, got lunch and went to work where I had the most interesting encounter with a foriegn indian guy. He walked up to my window and was like,

guy: I used my card to get in, because I was distracted by Michael Jackson. Am I going to get in trouble?
me: Ummm.... what lot is the card for? Did you take a ticket?
guy: no I didn't, I have a permit for lot 8. It is Michael's fault. I was too busy listening to him, that I used my card instead of taking a ticket. What should I do?
me: *calls office, consults with them* Umm, drive your car around and then repark, so that we don't get confused with this later.
guy: Ok. ::does this::

later-

Guy pulls up again BLARING micheal jackson.
guy: See? He distracts me...


hehe. Reminded me of Three Kings when the guy is talking to Mark Wahlberg and he is talking of Michael Jackson.

so, then I got off work, called Sam and he was driving to the mall in Coralville to drop girl off with her dad. So, I get a ride home from Tommie(who works there as a driver) and wait and wait and wait for Sam. Around 8 he calls and says he is lost. So I give him directions and 20 minutes later, he comes. After we get foods we watched Interview with the Vampire, where I described everything that was wrong in the movie, and how it should be, how vampires were created and so on and so forth. Then we were going to play the Alias PS2 game, (hey, shut up! that's our thing, we LOVE it.) but we got tired and decided to watch the last 2 episodes of the second season instead. Then we went to bed and he ended up leaving around 8 to go to church in Dport around 9. Yikes! So he brought me tea from Starbucks since he works there. I don't really like coffee, so he is insistent that I try the tea, which I already loved. ::grins:: So I told him he should come up again in the summer, maybe bring Caleb, my youngest brother, and we can do the same/wander around. I have 2 couches, one a love seat, which is PERFECT sized for my younger brother.


Ah. I'm rambling. Also listening to Restless suite from Buffy. ::grins at dream_mancer  :: Awesome song.

NEW KITCHEN IN A WEEK!!!!!! Now I just have to bring EVERYthing in there in my room. (That's mine anyway. the rest goes in Tommie's room.)

Here we go with the procratinating again... I am posting AND watching the Buffy musical. Then I will full on get to it and then listen to the soundtrack while studying. I just can't seem to motivate myself when I know I will probably not do so well. I guess it helps that the teacher likes me. I had her before, and she knows I don't like to participate( I do when I feel able).

So now I am going to expand on the voicepost I did last week when I talked about the awards thing my brother got into. So he is one of 100 or so out of the country that got it, and he gets to go to Washington D.C. for the awards banquet/show and gets $1000. So the fam and I are all going. Anyway, there is a committee that decides who are the top 5 people. Guess who is on this committee? Richard freaking Dreyfus, You know, JAWS? Amazing.


Here is  where I get to be the proud sister: He is Valedectorian He was the creator of a group that fundraised for Habitat for Humanity, 2 years in a row, they raised A LOT of money. He is in EVERY play, works at Starbucks and Wallaces (a plant store), and is in a lot of extra curriculars.  He applied to a lot of scholarships and  colleges (including Yale. Yep, my brother applied to Yale) and it sucks cause even though all of that, he might not get a lot. St. Thomas is only going to pay for half, and even that will be more than what it takes for me to go to Iowa. He might get the Rotary, which I think is 50,000. (It really is too bad we are not 1/16 irish or anything like that. I think we are 1/32. Damnit. He/me could have gotten something off of that). Still, if he gets accepted at Yale, he will get a full ride, because our family is 'too poor'. So besides the boasting that I will do, my parents won't have to pay! Yay! (they are having a hard time because of all the medical bills).

Whenever we talk, we talk for an hour (like this Sunday). He told me that he still uses the schedule I made for him freshman year. pretty much, I made him a schedule his freshman year of what classes to take for all four years. He followed it, all except one, Honors Physics, because he wanted to take Honors Chem instead. So, I told him to acknowledge me in his book if he ever writes one. I seriously wish someone would have done that for me. It would have been great. So I was touched. That was pretty cool, he looks up to me and stuff. I mean, I always felt like a loser for going to Scott and not trying hard enough in school. My parents kinda just sat back, but with Sam they actually helped and pushed along. No idea why. Like they go to all his school functions, but they never went to mine. I know I was only a cheerleader, but still. So when I actually started trying (around junior year, when I realized that grades were important), it was too late. I mean, my older brother never went to college, he works as a manager at KFC and pretty much hates himself for not doing it, so I feel like I went farther, but I could have been better. That's a lot of the reason I want to go to grad school. Mostly because I don't want to end up as a case worker for the rest of my days, hating the world for all the horrible things I see, and a tiny part to show my parents that I CAN DO IT. They don't think I will. Which is pretty much fuel in the fire, but maybe they know that. Maybe this is all reverse psychology... arseholes. Seriously? The method you used on Sam is MUCH BETTER. I know, I have parental issues. They love my brother more, and this is total middle child crap going on. I fear they are going to do the same to Caleb, who is youngest. Hopefully not, hopefully they pull the Sam stuff on him. It would work out better.


So then I told him that he should send all the colleges that he applied to (and the scholarships) word of this latest award. I mean, it is pretty prestigious. I'm sure that will help.

Can't wait till May. MEIWEI!!!! My favorite restaurant EVER!!!!! Plus I get to use the metro and see museums and art galleries. I will totally save money and buy some cool Rodin stuff at the Rodin Museum. hehe wait... that's in Philly. hehe


Wow. This was meant to be a SAM YAY!! post. Not a wallow in self pity post. Gah. I never EVER see those coming.

And can I comment on how weird it is to say graduation? I feel like the commencement speaker is going to turn into a giant snake or something....

Am on to season 5 of Buffy. Guess what I saw? This is Andrew as the vampire Cyrus. hehehe. It is from the Harmony episode of the 5th season, 5x02. Oh, I laugh.

I had a really bad dream with Riley Finn in it last night. Like awful. He was really creepy. I knew I never liked him.

So I am in the 5th season of Buffy, and Dawn is in it now. Ugh. It's like they tried really hard to make her as annoying as they possibly could. I hate Michelle Tractenberg because of this. Although her role as a skanky Britney Spears-ish singer on Six Feet Under kinda made me like her a little. It was pretty interesting.

And can I say WOOT! It is like 50 degrees out. We have the windows open and everything. (I opened Tommie's widows to air out his room. Hopefully it helps.)

So I have a midterm this week, another one next week, and I am sorta worried about them. They are kinda hard to study for, because they are kinda unclear. So tonight I am going to read all the Spanish poetry that we've had so far, do whatever I have do for escritura creativa, and maybe a scene between Lavender and Simone.

ugh. Just made soup. I thought I bought Chicken Noodle, but apparently I bought some disgusting vomit looking creamy crap. I made it, tasted it, and almost got sick myself. So I threw it outside, since we don't have garbage disposal (I am not kidding when I say it looked like vomit. Someone is going to think someone got sick all over the snow), and I looked in Tommie's cabinet, and he also had a weird variation of Chicken Noodle, although it was more of what I wanted, so I made it. It's okay. I just wish they would label them correctly. How am I supposed to know creamy is different from homestyle or whatever is the other kind? What's wrong with the normal kind? Why can't people be happy with that? ::sigh:: Am sick of buying stuff and figuring out it is not what I meant to buy.

Sorry for the soup rant. I am just a little grossed out by Campbell's today.

ok, frak this. How long have I been looking on Youtube for a compilation of all Kara/Leoben scenes? Forever. No luck. At all. All I frakking want is the scene where they kiss. That's IT. But no. Everyone has to add some lame song to it, and completely ruin it.

So I have to actually download the entire episode. ::sigh::

And the cylons. Now that I know, I feel better. I can wait until April 4th. No big.

Here is a cute vid I found. Not a bad song either.

And I LOVE the icon that I have uploaded with Kara saying "This is the work that I have to do". LOVE. It completely fits. Go Buffy and BSG mixing!!!!
I would have used that, but the urge to put up Kara/Leoben was too strong. Crap. I think I have fallen for the wrong pairing. ::cringes at Jess' glare::

Watching Buffy. First I showed V the awesomeness that was the 4th season features of VM. She laughed. ::nods:: It was awesome.
Then we watched Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered. Xander's walk down the hall with all the girls drooling is my favorite part ever. And my dad's. (yes, I got my dad to watch Buffy season 1-4. He won't watch more because of Wil becoming a lez. He also watches Lost, Alias, VM, and SPN. I may get him into the Office, but he is very religious... so it may not happen. ::shrugs::) 
We are watching Passion now, and then the last 2 episodes of the 2nd season so I can play with Dan's swords. No metaphor there. I'm gonna play with his samurai swords. He is out of town, so I can do this all I want. ::nods::

And maybe I will get V into Big Lebowski. She kinda needs to so she can get half the jokes in VM. And half the things I say.

So here is a kitty pic V found. hehe.
 

I love when people use psych terms that only a handful of people will get. It makes me feel smart. Especially when I use these terms and people are like, what?