best. valentines day. ever.
- posted by mer @ 3:02 AM ~

 
pool toys make excellent sleds.

having said that, OW. i'm going to be really sore tomorrow...
- posted by mer @ 6:07 PM ~

 
there's nothing as fun as dinner with nine of your closest friends :)
- posted by mer @ 12:37 AM ~

 

- posted by mer @ 2:59 AM ~

 
home for an entire month. i miss my apartment and all of my friends already.
- posted by mer @ 9:11 PM ~

 
i always wanted to get my period during exams. it's like two of my favorite things at once.


on the plus side, we just had an excellent beer pong tournament at our place. matt and i won against kelly and molly, then we lost against kelly and molly. then doug and i lost to alex and walter, then doug and i won against kelly and molly. overall, very good night.

it's going to be a bad week starting monday. 3 exams that i need to do well on, that i know i am going to do horribly on. i wish i had a word to describe this semester. 'disastrous' is as close as i can get.

i'm going to double major in math and mining & minerals engineering. i just need to get an appointment with AN advisor (note: not MY advisor, because she is gone until further notice. so instead of making an appointment with my advisor and spending 20 minutes working things out, i get to show up to 332 randolph and hope someone is available, then discuss my academic future. fun stuff). yes, that's right. i'm going to become a math major. it was unintentional. i was just looking for classes to add, and every single math class i looked at i was like 'ooo, that looks interesting!' at some point i realized that i was looking at a 4000 level math class and going 'that looks neat!' so i guess i'm just destined to be a math major. mrs. sorrells would be so proud. i really do want to take chaos theory. and applied combinatorics. and number theory. and numerical analysis. and dynamical systems. and elementary complex analysis. and number theory.

i'm such a math nerd.
- posted by mer @ 1:12 AM ~

 
where was the happy medium? i went from salem where, for all practical purposes, 100% of my friends were female, to how things are now. granted, i love having this many guy friends, but now that i kindof need somewhere to live/someone to live with for next year, my list of female friends is pretty short. ridiculously short. and it's so stupid! you have to know what you'll be doing at the end of august by the beginning of february.

frustration.
- posted by mer @ 3:20 AM ~

 
i hate situations where you absolutely know that something is a horrible idea, but there isn't any way to avoid it. so many things about this week fall into that category. i'm tired of dealing with people. i would love to be able to start completely over and not have anyone who knew me 'before' around to comment on the changes.
- posted by mer @ 2:34 AM ~

 

- posted by mer @ 2:20 AM ~

 
if you're having a bad day/week/life you should:

a) go to a frat party
b) consume lots of alcohol
c) dance with random strangers
d) validate your existence by groping random strangers
e) all of the above



i'm going to have to go with E
- posted by mer @ 1:06 AM ~

 
if i don't do laundry in the next 4 days i will be out of underwear. i hate laundry deadlines!
- posted by mer @ 2:00 PM ~

 
according to my notes, i have not been to either of my geology classes since the 24th of september. whoops. i'm going to try to make it to them tomorrow. we'll see how that goes...
- posted by mer @ 7:54 PM ~

 
things i found on college humor that make me laugh:







- posted by mer @ 10:56 AM ~

 
so i kindof love being one of the guys. even though the walk home at 4:30 in the morning can get a bit chilly.

there is some random guy asleep on our couch right now. he is snoring. no clue who it is...hooray for weekends.
- posted by mer @ 4:39 AM ~

 
best columbus day weekend ever!
like a mini salem reunion...
i really don't like I-81 though. too many trucks, and too many stupid drivers. hooray for only moving 4 miles in an hour of construction traffic.
i already miss you guys..........but it's nice to be back in a real bed again.



random but funny:

- posted by mer @ 12:33 AM ~

 
The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly
neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for
common words. The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly
answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run
over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when
you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish
men.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word
from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one
letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:
1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of
breaking down in the near future.
2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite period.
4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it.
6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
9 Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really
bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a
serious bummer.
10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming
only things that are good for you.
11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.
13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've
accidentally walked through a spider web.
14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your
bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the
fruit you're eating.
16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
- posted by mer @ 1:25 AM ~

 

me with pokey!!
- posted by mer @ 10:13 PM ~

 
bedspins like whoah. mason and nate just left...i kindof like partying on weeknights. and that's not the only thing i kindof like. i'm super-excited about this weekend. i havent been this excited about a weekend since like........ever. and also, i need to like...get the guts to do something. i'm not going to go jen/gabe route and bake for six months. hopefully i won't get shot down...
- posted by mer @ 2:49 AM ~

 
mer498: you sound retarded
Velvetskylark: maybe i m
Velvetskylark: *am



i rest my case.
- posted by mer @ 11:29 PM ~

 
I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "THAT TREE IS FAR AWAY!"


i had one of those moments today.
- posted by mer @ 3:41 AM ~