human hands.

it's weird.

2010-07-05T15:22:00.000-07:00

i'm posting here for the first time since march 12th.

"wow, what a hiatus."

or, "wow. why am i even back here?"

i'll tell you why.

i feel like i need to announce that i've moved my blog.

you can now find me on tumblr.

sashanako.tumblr.com

why did i move? i've had my tumblr since november 2009, but only started actively using it around this march, when i stopped posting here.

at first, i just used my tumblr to follow other tumblrs i enjoyed (mostly those on the CollegeHumor staff), but then i started using it to dump my feelings somewhere fairly secret to the rest of my own world, but still public enough that a select few could know about how i'm feeling.

that doesn't make any sense.

but anyway. whenever i tried to come back here to post, i'd see my last post from mach 12th where i wrote about how wonderful the Sondre Lerche concert was, and then the post from march 11th where i wrote about how happy i was with life.....and with the boy. and like......

i think i'd like to leave it at that. i'd like to leave you all with some really positive posts.

whenever i felt like i needed to write out all of my feelings....almost like a rant, i'd get really bummed out. anyone reading this would be able to see the very sudden "we like each other!" to "yeah....some things happened and we hardly talk to each other anymore." change in my life.

so, i let tumblr see that change. i'm slightly embarrassed about it, but like....maybe tumblr is the right place to let out a little angst. blogger, at least to me, is a place to share happier stuff.

i've grown attached to my tumblr. i've grown attached to the people i've met on it, and the deeper friendships that have been created. a few of my friends and i (mostly JMU kids) have gotten closer because we know that we're the only ones we're confiding to. or something like that. and there are some really crazy "fuckyeah!" tumblrs that i've grown to love.

i'm still going to be checking other blogger updates from here (i am following quite a few people here, after all), but i doubt i'll be posting here anymore.

so. umm......i'll leave it at this.

Modern Nature...

2010-03-12T16:50:00.000-08:00

i found a review about Sondre Lerche's concert at the Maxwell in NJ...

i suppose it was a few days after his concert at the Rock and Roll Hotel in DC (the one i went to with carrie...

and it's perfect.

this part took me back to that crowded room in DC, with all of the adults drinking their PBR, swaying to his music:

Sondre Lerche has a way of being cute that’s a little bit infuriating. Not because it’s tiresome, but because every time he pauses between songs and talks to the crowd, I want to hug him, in the least creepy way possible. He has a way of talking to his fans as if they are his friends....

...he pulls the crowd together, reduces us for a moment to what we really are: people. People in love and people in lust and people confused and people heartbroken—it's evident at the end of his set, when we are all thoroughly spent, and he smiles and introduces one more song, “Modern Nature.” The crowd sings the part of Lillian Samdall, and there’s no better conclusion. We're all for one moment connected to him, to his music, and to each other, and that's pretty awesome.

i loved that part.....the part when we all sang along with him during Modern Nature.

yes, it happened in DC, too. we all sang Lillian Samdall's part. it was quite beautiful.

and made me really happy.

and i'm sure others were really happy at that moment, too.

carrie and i sang along, grinning at each other. it was definitely a great way to start my spring break.

now that i think about it, it happened almost exactly a week ago....sometime after 11PM tonight.

i'm still very happy about it.

cheesy as this may sound, i hope i never forget how i felt while standing in the Rock and Roll Hotel.

lots of good.

2010-03-11T20:12:00.001-08:00

things have been abnormally decent lately.

1. there is a male. he likes me. we're happy.

BUT, in all honesty, i was very surprised. it was all rather sudden. but i'm not complaining. i had a huge crush on him last semester.

i wish i was better about keeping up with this/looking back at twitter was easier. i distinctly remember tweeting something along the lines of "indie-genius-hottie switched his seat in human rights. he's sitting next to me now. hot damn!"

september-sasha must be dying. hahaha~

2. I MET NORWEGIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER SONDRE LERCHE.

LAST FRIDAY. WITH CARRIEBOO.

I AM STILL RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY.

AND I THOUGHT I WAS ALREADY REALLY HAPPY ABOUT MATT.

it was quite an adventure to get to the concert. and then sondre didn't start his set until 11PM. and then i met him after midnight. BUT we still had to walk back to Union station. oh lord. Washington, D.C. at night is not like Harrisonburg at night. hahaha~

got my knee stuck in a metro train door (turns out they don't reopen like an elevator door. thankfully, people on the platform got the door open!! and then carrie was able to board the train. not getting separated from carrie/my kneecap, FTW!!)

and we didn't get home until 3AM. BUT IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT. :D

3. it's spring break. been chilling with friends and family all week.

got a new cell phone. had my old hunk of junk since august 2007. i'm content with my new one. still getting used to it.

saw Alice with my parents, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs with sara & mish....

went to the National Zoo with sara, mish, and matthew yesterday....

and i guess i'm just spending the last 2.5 days of break finishing up things? maybe?

i think i might just play it by ear. like i usually do.

urrrr......

2010-02-23T13:39:00.000-08:00

the last few days have, on average, sucked.

simply sucked.

i guess starting with sunday.

saturday night was pretty fantastic.

well, fantastic at the time.

as in, "oh hey, i'm going to drink a third of a bottle of 99 peaches BY MYSELF and go to a band party."

it was fun.

got straight boy action for the first time in a long time.

sunday morning, couldn't remember shit.

it's tuesday and i'm still filling in memories.

I'M NOT THAT PERSON. BUT I AM. I HATE IT.

there were some good points and bad points in the long ass story, which i will not type out completely.

all i can say is that it was probably a good thing i threw up.

still have straight boy's hoodie. and people are talking about me.

turns out i drunkenly picked the wrong person.

we all do dumb things.

anyway, i got a lot of crap about it the next day (though there are people that support me because HI WE'RE IN COLLEGE. i love those people)

monday i had two exams (one in french, one in statistics)...

cried a lot on sunday about that (and getting judged)...

they didn't go THAT badly in my mind, but that's what i thought about the exam i took in my american lit class two weeks ago.

and i got a D on it.

so my tuesday morning was FANtastic.

i'm an ENGLISH major. why is there a D at the top of my GENERAL EDUCATION AMERICAN LIT exam!?!?!?

anyway, i felt like an epic fail all day.

BUT. i got an A- on my education exam which i took the same day as the american lit exam.

so.

we win some, we lose some.

i get drunk and have fun.

i get drunk and get reprimanded.

dark and light.

oh goodness.

i'm never drinking as much as i did this past weekend ever again.

speaking of weekend....seeing Twelfth Night at the American Shakespeare Center this weekend with some of my English major girls.

i'm REALLY excited!! :)

we're going to have a great nerdy time. it's going to be so awesome! hahaha

until then, i'll keep reminding myself that everything blows over.

nervous.

2010-02-08T18:40:00.000-08:00

i'm so terribly nervous.

my internship app for a certain newsy-radioy place needs to go out this week.

it's terrifying.

but somehow (oh hi, copious amounts of class-cancelling snow!), i managed to crank out some writing....

writing that is apparently pretty good.

i really have no confidence in anything i write. :/

anyway, here is a poem i wrote earlier this week.

enjoy.

***

coffee break

by Sasha Duran

inside the college library’s starbucks

on a sunday afternoon,

the venture club is seated

around the large round table in the back corner,

with their eco-friendly water bottles,

dusty backpacks, and muddy shoes,

sipping on tall frappuccinos

and discussing their upcoming hiking trip

to the mountains surrounding the campus,

not knowing

that a blizzard is on its way.

exhausted, frantic looking students are

rapidly tap-tapping away on their laptops

at their own little tables lining the wall.

sipping,

typing,

sipping some more of that venti americano

with a triple shot of espresso.

four skinny, blonde,

fake-sun-baked girls with shrill voices

are sitting in cozy patterned armchairs,

delighting in gossip from the previous night’s parties,

and half-caf-no-whip-extra-caramel cinnamon dolce lattes,

skinny vanilla lattes with whip and a shot of caramel,
caramel macchiatos with extra whip and even more caramel,

and caramel apple spices.

it’s a wonder

the chairs haven’t broken yet

under the weight of all that caramel.

at various tables,

lovers gaze into the eyes of their better halves over tiny cups of espresso,

old friends catch up over tea,

and new friends get to know each other better over croissants,

while two strangers meet in line trying to decide

what exactly it is they desire

to spend

their four dollars on.

happiness.

2010-01-31T18:01:00.001-08:00

i'm lacking it.

i've just been in this super weird funk as of late, and......

well.

it sucks.

because of this funk, i have:

-not yet finished my internship apps

-decided to not pursue KKPsi this semester (despite having rushed it)

-not been sleeping or eating well

-been generally unhappy (despite being surrounded by people who really care about me)

the one thing bothering me the most about this funk is that last point.

i am kind of bummed about KKPsi, but it's better that i decide not to do it this semester.

i want to fully enjoy the process of becoming a "brother" (it's a co-ed music frat)....this semester is already too chaotic for me to fully enjoy it.

anyway, that last point......

i am surrounded by people who love and care about me, but like.....

that only makes me a little happy.

i'm glad i have them, but i'm not 100% happy with myself.

i'm 100% thankful and glad i have them.

i just don't 100% like myself.

this is probably just a seasonal thing.

winter sucks.

oh my goodness.

2010-01-27T19:39:00.000-08:00

really really really quick post, because i'm in the middle of reading Benjamin Franklin's biography for American Literature.

(i really prefer early British Literature to early American Literature. i'm sick of historic documents and religious nuts, and Ben Franklin, even though he's a cool guy. it's just REALLY long. i'd rather read Chaucer.)

ANYWAY.

DaveyDanceBlog.

i just need the world to know.....

I LOVE IT.

for some reason, "All Nighter '09: DaveyDanceBlog #64" has been marked as not viewed.....

UNTIL TONIGHT.

HOLY CRAP.

WHERE HAS HE BEEN ALL MY LIFE!?!?!?!

soulmates?

dancing like a nut in public?

tight pants?

nerdy?

YES.

PLEASE.

LOVE.

i haven't been this excited in a very long time.

here is #64.

DaveyDanceBlog -64- NYC Union Square from Pheasant Plucker on Vimeo.

more Ben Franklin time.

i want to be as cool as Davey from now on.

a few things...

2010-01-20T13:02:00.000-08:00

that have made me laugh on this really dark and dreary day.

1. middle of last week, i went to the band office to turn in my money/RSVP for the MRD Ball. i went with amanda, we turned our stuff in together. i even said hello to Connie (the secretary)! this past weekend, i turned in andrea's form with her money (which was actually my money. girl needs to pay me back. haha)....

i got an email from Connie today saying that i didn't pay. actually, there were almost 30 other names on that list, along with mine. everyone is like "wtf." right now.

my reaction: HAHAHAHA. OH GOODNESS. THEY WOULD.

i laughed a lot. it really shouldn't be that funny, but it is to me (the irony is killing me).

but yeah, i called Connie, was like "i turned it in with Amanda and i paid for Andrea...."

she looked them up, saw they paid, i told her that i had my money in an envelope folded with my RSVP....she said she'd be on the lookout for it (she didn't separate the money and forms....KKPsi did.) and marked me down as PAID, since i had witnesses.

i'm going to visit her tomorrow morning just to confirm. :]

it would happen to me. hahaha~

2. "you look a little too happy about skew." - my stats professor.

i was picturing a certain music major (codename: Squidward) shirtless during class.

luckily, i can sometimes be quick on my feet, and my professor has a sense of humor.

"i get it! skewed to the right means skinny on the right! skew. skinny. skew. skinny!"

but yeah. Squidward with his shirt off.....the only reason why i miss marching band. (but not the only reason why i miss hot weather. it's ass cold today AND dreary, AND we're under ANOTHER winter storm advisory. freaking a.)

3. my MRD Ball dress is beautimous. i'm very happy about it and very excited for friday evening.

4. i can play a scale on the flute!! learned B flat and C on monday night, the rest of the scale yesterday. i'm excited. maybe i'll try to get a practice room tonight or tomorrow afternoon for a little piano or flute time. (apparently we're not allowed to play in the dorms....even though our resident music major is allowed to.....and that the kids downstairs can blast their music as loud as they like. doesn't make sense, but whatev.) my pinky kind of hurts though. amanda's flute has open holes, so playing is a little harder....i'm doing pretty okay though!

5. "Vampire Weekend Lands First No. 1 Album"

that's all for today. :]

i think ur a contra.

2010-01-15T12:29:00.001-08:00

and i think i fail at keeping up with this.

fall semester ended fairly well.

grades were only so-so, but i had a lot of fun.

[i'm writing this for my own health.]

i was really missing marching band up until yesterday.

we had rehearsal from 7-9 for the governor's parade tomorrow....

and we have rehearsal again from 5-7 today....

yeah.

i'm hella out of shape.

and still just as awkward as ever.

but....Vampire Weekend put out a new album earlier this week, so i've been pretty content.

i can't stop listening to it.

maybe i'll try really hard to keep up with this semester,

but with a lack of marching band,

my life is pretty boring.

i really should have recorded everything from last semester.

ahh, oh well.

what to do until rehearsal......?

fall semester

2009-10-19T20:31:00.000-07:00

has been pretty okay so far.

i was having massive panic attacks during band camp (back in august)....

but now, as time continues, i realize these things that i have to do are not going to kill me.

they're only assignments.

however, this has made me a terrible procrastinator.

oh wait, i've always been a really terrible procrastinator.

anyway.

i can spin rifle now.

it gave me a lot of grief back during the first few weeks of the 2009 MRD season, but now i'm okay.

by grief, i mean mental breakdowns.

oh jesus. haha

i've definitely been more outgoing this semester.

this is good and bad at the same time.

never drink with MRDs you've only known for a few hours...

that bus ride back from Liberty....it was pretty awful*.

BUT that's probably the only awful* thing that's happened. hahaha

*awful = awfully awkward.

there have been crushes on baritones, aptly nicknamed Squidward.

there have been broken hearts....and i'm partially responsible.

it sucks when you set up your friends....only for it to end really really really terribly.

there have been sleepovers with drunk friends, of the same and opposite gender.

sleepovers = literally sleep-overs. we crash, we oversleep. the end.

but now people are like "......you two?"

and i have to defend myself.

it's an emotional "affair"....nothing physical.

i won't let myself develop a crush on him.

we'll see how long i can keep that up.

and this blog, for that matter.

let's see....

new york, new york!

2009-06-08T19:22:00.000-07:00

"a hell of a town,
the Bronx is up and the Battery's down.
the People ride in a hole in the ground.
New York, New York --
it's a hell of a town!"

spent the weekend in NYC.

i think i briefly mentioned this before...natalie randomly called me up and asked if i wanted to go.

HECK YEAH.

so friday morning, we woke up early and went to D.C. to catch a "DC2NY" bus in front of this cute little commuter café....

there was a lot of traffic, but now that i think about it, it might have just been a drawbridge.

about an hour into the trip....i guess we were less than 20 miles out of Baltimore....

we stopped.

because the windshield wipers broke.

(it was down pouring. ridiculously.)

except that the bus driver was just like "pit stop! be back in 20 minutes!"

at noon he told us that we would have to wait for another bus...there was one with 10 seats on it for those who had to be in the city immediately.

that one came after about maybe 40 minutes? 45?

our bus came after that.

but not until 2PM.

we waited 2 hours.

unlucky for me & matthew, we didn't think about leaving the bus to get lunch until the bus arrived.

so we gave up on eating. haha

we played SIMS3 for a while, though.

IT'S RIDICULOUS! i love it. :P

we got stuck in other ridiculous amounts traffic in Jersey.

a little after 6PM, we finally reached the city.

we left at 9:30AM...

we were supposed to get there at around 2PM.

wow.

but all was good!

we drove past Herald Square

(i geeked out like crazy. i think i'm allowed to, considering i got to march in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade last fall. haha)

and then got off the bus and into Penn Station.

we rode for such a long long time (about 40 minutes) to Riverdale.

ben picked us up and drove us to the apartment (yes! thank you! it was still raining...)

his parents' "library" apartment (they don't have room in their house for their books) is in such a posh area.

good lord.

the houses in the area are like multi-million-dollar CASTLES.

i want to live there.

we ordered chinese food, played more SIMS3....

and drank a lot.

it was a good time.

we played a drinking game with the pilot episode of "The Office".

whenever Michael Scott laughs at his own joke, Jim looks at the camera, Angela gets mad, Dwight says "assistant to the regional manager" (or something of that ilk), or a prank is pulled, then you drink.

we ran out really fast. :P

on saturday, we woke up, went to breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts (YESSSS!!!), and hopped back on the train.

the Bronx needs to be not so far from Times Square.

i will talk about this again later. haha

we walked around Times Square for a little while, looked at the newly blocked off areas, saw a high school drama troupe pretend to be bronze statues ('twas awesome) and saw the naked cowboy.

then stopped in Toys 'R' Us for a bit.

then stared walking off in the direction of SoHo.

we eventually made it back to Herald Square, where we stopped at Macy's (after i freaked out some more about the parade)

Macy's is AMAZING.

i mean, yeah, in NoVA there are 8 Macy's stores, and even more in the entire D.C. area....

but the one in NYC is AMAZING.

we looked around, then started our journey to SoHO again.

we walked almost all the way to the Flatiron Building, then hopped on another train.

got off in SoHo.

AND IMMEDIATELY WENT TO UNIQLO.

i have been obsessed with UNIQLO since i was 9, and have been wearing it since even longer before that.

we must have spent like an hour...or maybe an hour-and-a-half there.

ben & natalie walked around trying to make conversation with the employees....

only to ask them later "so, would you consider yourself a hipster?"

BAHAHAHAHA.

oh god, i wish i could work at UNIQLO.

it's got an entirely different feel in NYC than in Japan.

in Japan it's all over the place.

it's like Old Navy or GAP or even Target.

everyone owns something from UNIQLO....everyone is women, men, children, teens, elderly, babies, whoever!

in NYC, it's the ONLY store in the U.S. and is like.....

perfect for hipsters?

funny. :P

usually when i go, i come out with at least one massive bag.

this time i only bought a t-shirt & a linen scarf (b/c mom says we're going back later this summer to buy clothes for jeremy...starting 7th grade is a big deal!)

matthew bought so much stuff!

i'm glad he enjoys it as much as i do. i think i've taught him well. :)

we had a snack at the SoHo Café (how appropriate.)

and then hopped back on the train and went to Williamsburg!!!!!

(we almost had to derail our Williamsburg plans because matthew & i spotted TOPSHOP a little too late. oh well, next time!)

WILLIAMSBURG IS INTERESTING TO SAY THE LEAST.

that is all.

haha.

"look at this fucking hipster." was uttered many times.

there were these two really awesome "German" ones.

we're not sure if they were really Germans with thick accents when speaking English, or if they were just being "ironic".

either way, they were talking about denim and cut off shorts and it was HILARIOUS.

ben is remarkable.

he's the youngest out of all of us, but manages to pass as a 25 year old (at 18), so he went and bought us Pabst.

Pabst: the beer of hipsters.

hahaha

so here is where i start freaking out some more:

i think i might have seen Annamarie Tendler leaving the station we were entering.

she passed me on the stairs.

who is this?

she is the designer of Court & Plume.

I LOVE HER HEADPIECES.

but i wasn't 100% sure it was her, so....

i really wish apparition was real, because it would make life SO MUCH easier.

there is a lot involved in trying to get from Williamsburg to the Bronx....

it takes a lot of time.

time we didn't have.

eventually we got back to the apartment and decided to leave again at 6:45PM to get back to the station by 7PM, so that we could get to Times Square by 7:30....

TO SEE HAIR!!!!

however, we didn't leave until i started freaking out at 6:55PM....

we got to Times Square at 7:54.

nat, matt, ben & i sprinted from 42nd & 7th to 44th & 8th.

LITERALLY SPRINTED.

it was like in a movie.

mostly because it was so crowded and natalie kept shouting things like

"THREE MINUTES!!"

"TWO MINUTES!!"

etc.

at 8PM (when the show was supposed to start), we got stuck at the crosswalk.

we got to the theatre at like 8:01PM....

BUT it wasn't too late.

people were still in line at will call.

people including

KRISTEN CHENOWETH.

KRISTEN FREAKING CHENOWETH.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I FREAKED OUT???!!

i'm a huge Wicked and Pushing Daisies fan.

i almost peed my pants.

literally.

my heart started pumping EVEN MORE.

you would think that after sprinting, you wouldn't be able to take anymore excitement.....hahaha

it was magical.

our seats were in the third row from the back (luckily they were the four on the aisle...i had the actual aisle seat)

but they weren't bad.

you could basically see everything, and the cast members loved climbing all the way to the back.

they messed with us so much.

IT WAS AWESOME.

they chit chatted with me & matthew a bit, played with my hair, waved at us, sat on us, it was.....

just spectacular. ♥

speaking of being able to see everything.....

you know the scene where everyone is naked?

yeah.

you could see everything from the third row from the back on the second floor mezzanine.

EVERYTHING.

at the end of the show, after the cast bowed and the whole theatre turned into a dance party,

CLAUDE CAME UP TO THE MEZZANINE AND TOLD PEOPLE TO COME DOWN.

NATALIE, MATTHEW, BEN AND I DANCED.

WE DANCED ON THE STAGE.

WE DANCED ON THE STAGE WITH THE ENTIRE COMPANY OF "HAIR".

WE DANCED ON THE STAGE WITH THE ENTIRE COMPANY OF "HAIR" IN FRONT OF EVERYONE IN THE THEATRE.

HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN SAY THEY DID THAT!?

well, only anyone who decided to go down to the stage during a performance.

which is not everyone.

if you can believe it....

IT WAS THE BEST FEELING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

Claude touched my shoulder.

Berger gave me a hug.

everyone was excited.

it was W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L.

best moment of my life.

i fell asleep on the train.

haha.

we partook in more shenanigans.

i read his father's books.

he has a very very very old copy of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense.

and many many many books about Shakespeare and all of his works (ben's father is a Shakespearian lit professor at Fordham)

we woke up too late on sunday, so we had to skip Central Park and go straight to Penn Station.

you would think we would learn that if it takes 40 minutes to get to Penn from Riverdale, we would leave earlier than we should but.....

anyway, we cut it really close again.

we showed up at the bus stop at 2PM exactly.

luckily, the bus waits 15 minutes before the actual departure.

hahahaha~

this time the trip went without a hitch.

the guy sitting natalie was very attractive, albeit hilarious to watch while he slept. (you had to be there)

ahh....

i'm glad that it was a super awesome super fun trip.

i can't wait to go again.

it might be about time...

2009-06-02T17:55:00.000-07:00

that i post again.

so the last three weeks of the semester went well,

and the first three weeks of summer vacation have been quiet and relaxing, though albeit boring.

my finals went well enough.

my grades ended up being

Japanese 320: A

Human Life-Span Development Psychology: A

British Literature 2: A-

U.S. Government: B+

Health & Wellness: B+

sadly, my GPA went down by 0.07 to 3.71....

which I SHOULD NOT BE WORRIED ABOUT. haha

the shenanigans which took place in the Mill the last time i wrote ended awkwardly.

but the shenanigans from the weekend before final exams were spectacular.

i wish i had noticed how awesome my acquaintances were before the last week of classes.

summer is going alright i think.

i really need a job.

too bad seasonal isn't happening with most companies this year. :[

D.C. last week with my Yacht Club friends was super exciting and fun....

but i got severe sun poisoning and ended up throwing up a lot when i got home.

all is well now.

i recently bought a new dress from H&M.

it's cream and looks like something from the 1950's or maybe like something Chuck would wear in "Pushing Daisies". :]

i also got gold wedge heel Sperry Top-Siders.

they're fantastic.

going to NYC this weekend with nat & matt.

woo! for spur of the moment decisions!

more later.

FIVE THINGS

2009-04-17T13:43:00.001-07:00

that are awesome.

to me.

1) on wednesday night, while waiting for our cookies to be delivered to the dorm, i was stopped by an upperclassman who lives downstairs. she told me that a friend of hers that i had only met in passing a few nights prior had told her that she thought i was beautiful.

no one i don't know has ever said i was beautiful. actually, i cannot remember the last time anyone has ever said i was beautiful.

cute, maybe, but not beautiful.

i'm really happy. :]

2) alex, one of my favorite baristas at Starbucks, approached me yesterday when he was on his break to ask me how i was and that it's strange that he doesn't see me come in for a cup of coffee anymore.

he misses me? haha~

3) my psychology professor played "To Be Surprised" by Sondre Lerche at the beginning of class yesterday after i sent her a nice email about cherry blossoms and about the song.

she never takes requests. she said the photos i sent her were beautiful. yay!

4) at around 12:15 today, while trying to decide where to go for lunch, a streaker ran past me and two of my friends, then sprinted around the Quad. today also happened to be Choices day, where the students who have been accepted into James Madison come to see the campus with their parents and learn more about the school than on a normal campus tour.

there were three tours in progress on the quad at the time of the streaking.

it was glorious. we all applauded him.

5) my little brother called me just now to tell me that he had won a photo contest. first place in his division. he's going on to districts.

the photo was of the two of us the morning of my high school graduation. he wore his fencing garb, including mask, and struck a pose that looked like he was attacking the camera. i wore a cream colored dress with polka dots, and rested my elbow on his shoulder, as if he was my shoulder rest.

he wrote a little thing to go with the photo that was along the lines of "since my sister spent last summer studying abroad, and since she is in college now, i don't get to see her very often. i miss her."

OMG. HE REALLY DOES LIKE ME AFTER ALL!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

custom sneaker photo shoot at ISAT.

then partaking in shenanigans tonight at the Mill.

then my little glimmer of hope comes down for the guard clinic tomorrow!

fun weekend! :]

21 days until summer starts!

oops?

2009-04-14T14:33:00.000-07:00

yeah, so i haven't been really using this lately, have i?

been a little over a week now...

and you know, some awesome little things happened.

now i regret not writing them down, because i can't remember.

oh well.

let's see, the one thing that was super awesome (so far) for today....

i had an awesome tomato, spinach, basil, and provolone panini for a late lunch.

yes.

OH.

wait, one funny thing just came to mind.

this past weekend, most of the campus went home for Easter, so our main dining hall was practically empty.

one of my dearest friends stopped by my table to say "bye!" on her way out.

while she was waving and walking away, she turned and--too late--she ran right into a supporting column.

i leapt out of my seat and tackled her in a hug on the floor.

the 13 other people in that section of the dining hall were all shocked into laughter.

i think the two of us were laughing the hardest, though.

and one last thing that has put me in a good mood lately:

"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try"

-Marianne Moore

-S

Sakura Matsuri, D.C.?

2009-04-04T19:28:00.001-07:00

i'm so tired.

but happy.

DC was awesome today.

the weather was amazing (albeit super windy).

the cherry blossoms were beautiful.

i absolutely love spring time!!

unfortunately i did not get to see Okinawa sanshin/drumming or Kawashima Ai...

or Carrieboo.

she got to DC as i was leaving. :[

we decided to take a break from the outdoor crowds to go to the Museum of Natural History....

where there were indoor crowds.

there was a guy who had an awesome hat (and sense of fashion).

i ran into him three times in the ocean exhibit.

i loved his hat.

i should have said something.

oh well.

the crowds were nuts.

there was a pig and a tiny dog wearing mini yukatas.

wow.

there's more, but i'm so tired.

-S

sakura hira hira?

2009-04-03T20:19:00.000-07:00

after skipping out on the last twenty minutes of my British lit class, i went home.

the weather kind of improved today!

ryan and i ate lunch outside while admiring the beauty of the noontime weather...

but that was only around for a little while.

started getting really windy/cloudy...

but it cleared up when kay and i got dropped off at the metro station.

mom made korean bbq for dinner while dad told us his sailing stories.

then we had mango cake and chamomile tea.

and decided on the spot to drive into D.C. to see the cherry blossoms at night.

so beautiful!

we ended up driving around the city for like an hour.

and by the city, i mean the mall area....

like the nice governmentaly area.

we hopped out of the car and ran around by the tidal basin.

it was SUPER windy.

the trees danced.

then we drove around some more and ran into the WJLA7/News CH8 truck!

AWESOME!

jeremy decided to hop out of the car after we pulled over so he could mess up the camera guy's shot.

kay and i hopped out and chased him around.

good times.

it's so beautiful at night.

festival tomorrow!

-S

11:31 PM, Zane Showker Hall?

2009-04-02T20:31:00.000-07:00

it's 11:31, and i am sitting in Showker doing basically nothing.

and it's awesome.

i laughed so much today.

i woke up and did nothing but watch collegehumor vids, then went to lunch with some of my upperclassmen friends....

Matt kept doing his Batman voice...i almost choked on my baked ziti.

sometimes he needs to pay attention to TPO...time, place, occasion.

i don't want to hear about his roommate's shaving adventures while i'm eating.

psych was interesting as always.

went to dinner at Texas Road House for Cristal's b-day dinner.

we ate too much bread.

but the bread is awesome.

so it's okay. :]

and now i'm here.

Miri attempted to teach us how to do the "Gee"(?) dance.

i failed.

now we're watching youtube vids on the big screen.

(we're in a classroom.)

this is kinda awesome.

going home tomorrow for the Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C.

it better not rain on saturday!!

-S

where am i running?

2009-04-01T20:46:00.000-07:00

today was actually a fairly boring/gloomy/uneventful day...

i can't really think of anything particularly happy or interesting to mention...

well, okay, at lunch Courtney told us this story of an incredibly embarrassing moment in NYC last Thanksgiving....

the best line out of the whole story:

"The Thai food was delicious, but it had a vague aftertaste of shame."

i love it when she tells stories.

actually, this evening wasn't all that bad.

Cristal, Patrick and i went to dinner, just the three of us...

lately, they've been the only two people i've been really close to (well, and Erin too.)

so yeah, those three.

FLOC was fun, as always, despite missing most of the society as Winterguard went to Ohio for worlds!

i hope they do well!

at UREC i read James Joyce's "Araby" while on the bikes, then ran/walked for a mile.

i don't feel so hot right now, BUT

a very good looking friend of a friend ran into me and gave me an awesome smile.

his smiles are always awesome...and see, they're totally genuine.

it's not like a fake smile that you might give to acquaintances you don't know too well.

(well, it's not always fake. i'm a master at fake smiles. muahaha.)

i think i'll end here.

-S

5 minutes of bliss?

2009-03-31T18:38:00.000-07:00

Today my psychology professor gave us an interesting idea.

It's not a new idea, but it's kind of interesting.

"Spend 5 minutes writing about something that surprised you, made you laugh, or just generally put you in a good mood today."

Hmm...

So, I think I'll use this to do so.

The weather was really nice today. I like it when there is just the right number of people just sitting out on the Quad...not too empty, but not too crowded.

There was a guy out there today who had the BEST Chucks ever. He got up and started walking ahead of me...I was so distracted by his shoes that I walked into someone. The Chucks had this interesting orange, yellow, and brown swirl pattern on them....I wouldn't be surprised if he had painted them himself.

I love it when I can find creativity or uniqueness at JMU.

I'm so sick of North Face jackets and UGGS. (there's a reason why they're called UGGS...)

Maybe spring will finally bring out some newness in the fashion here.

-S