This journal is still mostly friends only. My newer posts, for now, are public, but all older posts still remain friends only. Past icon posts will remain public, and all future icon posts will be in contraire_icons.

Last night I got to see Flight of the Conchords in the 4th row (I'm still amazed that I was able to get tickets so amazingly close). I had a -perfect- view of Jemaine the entire time. I was literally right in front of him (but four rows back). I could see every little facial expression perfectly which made it even more funny. :) I was only able to go to the early show (I wanted to stay for the late show but didn't get tickets). Anyway, here's a review of the pure awesomeness that is Flight of the Conchords live.

( Behind a cut because I'm going to make it really long because I don't want to forget anything :) Also, I've got some pretty big (but quite blurry) pictures! )

A little over two weeks ago now, my Gateway laptop crashed. I was playing The Sims 2 and the screen just went black. No matter what I did, the screen stayed black. I even hooked it up to a monitor, but nothing showed up on the screen. When I restarted the computer, the CD/DVD drive would start spinning but that was it (none of those other noises it made upon turning on). I took it to Best Buy to see Geek Squad and they said that the motherboard was shot. I'm just pissed because even though I have an external harddrive, I hadn't backed up a lot of folders (school papers, pictures and icons and such). The guy from Geek Squad (who looked a lot like Simon Pegg) said they can transfer the files from my harddrive to my external HD for 100 bucks. I should do that eventually (just not now because I'm a little strapped for cash and I still don't have a job :x).

Since my laptop was going on 3 years old, I just decided to get an old one since I had money left from my school refund (which was actually a lot because I withdrew from housing for this semester). I bought a Macbook. :) I'd been dying to get one for ages and I figured this was a great chance to get one. I got the 13" aluminum Macbook (the cheaper one sans backlit keyboard). I absolutely love it. I've had it for just over two weeks (I got it on Tuesday two weeks ago) and I'm pretty used to most of the major differences now.

Oh, and Saturday I get to see Flight of the Conchords in Philly! I'll be at the early show. It's my first time ever getting to see them live so I'm so excited. Plus, my seats are in the 4TH ROW. I'm probably going to take my sister's digital camera with me (since it's much better than mine) to take tons of hopefully amazing pictures. :D I'll try and update about it on Sunday, but I don't know for sure since I have a huge presentation to prepare for Historiography on Monday. :( Boo.

I got 4th row center (well, just off to the left of center) tickets to see Flight of the Conchords in Philly on April 18th (the early show).

I'm so flippin excited. Also, weird enough, on April 19th last year was when I saw the Kids in the Hall.

After a year of everything being terrible, something great finally happens. :)

Apologies for neglecting LJ since I got back from vacation. Between vacation, work and personal issues, I've been too exhausted to really post or anything. I haven't even gotten around to finishing writing about the trip (which was amazing, btw). =X So yeah. I'm going to try and be around more now. I want to make some more icons soon, too, but I haven't had much of a chance to lately. I'll get around to it, maybe this weekend?

Also, before I go, I just need to brag say that I got a new phone: the Samsung Blackjack 2. =) It's amazing and definitely way more than I need, but I figured what the hell. My mother and sister each got one so I'll get it, too.

Oh, and Tuesday I'll be going to another taping of the Daily Show. I'll definitely write all about that. =) Alright, I'm heading off to bed (I have to get up at 7 every week day now, boo). Cheers.

I just got my grades for last semester. Somehow I managed to pull off a B in Physics. I'm shocked (but totally happy)! My test & quiz averages were low C's. I guess I did pretty well on the final. The extra credit paper really helped out a lot, too. My GPA is 3.25 now, which is a lower than I want it to be but I think I'll be able to get it up next semester.

Also, there's now only three weeks until the cruise! :D I spent last night looking at pictures that people had posted on flickr of the ship that I'm going on. I get so giddy just thinking about it.

I'm off to bed now. I'm tired from playing around with Wii Fit all day.

There's just about 22 days until I go on my next cruise. I can't wait. I haven't been on a cruise since 2004 so I'm really excited (I love cruises). It leaves from Brooklyn. The last cruise I went on left out of Bayonne in north Jersey but we could still see NYC. I hope that this one will be even more amazing when we first leave. Also, this time my room has a balcony! Last time, we had a room on the 4th deck of the ship (the last deck for passenger cabins) with only a porthole window, so this will definitely be an upgrade. This time we're on the 10th deck, which is nice because I like being higher up. Last time, there were a couple of really rough days at sea and it was a little frightening to see the waves hitting our window in our cabin.

We haven't been to any of the places that we're stopping at on this cruise yet (last time we had already been to Grand Cayman & Ocho Rios, Jamaica). We're going to Bermuda, San Juan, PR, St. Thomas and Grand Turk. I really can't wait. Also, I'm excited that I'll be able to legally drink in all of our stops! XD I still can't on the ship (although on some you can when you're 18), but that's no big deal.

Alright, I'm going to try to get to sleep now. I've been trying to fix my sleeping schedule lately.

I had my last final today. Also, I moved out and am now back home until September. =) I'm so happy because honestly, I really hated this year. I thought finally going to college and getting out of high school would make me feel less depressed all of the time. It's pretty dumb, I know. I just felt my anxiety and depression skyrocket. I'm glad that it's done with. If next fall semester doesn't get any better I might transfer to TCNJ or somewhere else (Rutgers? IDK).

Tomorrow and this weekend, however, aren't going to be so great since I just have to do laundry, clean and put away all of my crap, which will seriously take forever.

Alright, nothing else to say, I just needed to say how happy I feel at the moment. I hope it lasts through at least the weekend, hah.

EDIT: OMG, I finally figured out how to make mini-movie icons. Yesss.

Schweet. =) And yes, that is Dave Foley in drag, haha.

I'm now officially half way through with my finals. It feels good to say that. I just have my World Civ one tomorrow afternoon and then Social Issues Thursday night. I'm anticipating that both will be easier than the other finals, but I'm still going to study a lot.

Also, as a weird observation, there's some plant or flower that's starting to bloom all around campus that smells like a combination of bleach and corn. It's freaking weird. It seriously smells like someone dumped a ton of corn into a bucket of bleach (well, at least how I imagine it would smell like, since I've never smelled it before, haha). It makes me nauseous whenever I'm outside.

( ramblings of a political nature.. )

Finals start tomorrow. I have my physics final tomorrow at 11:30, which I'm totally not looking forward to. I need to do really well on it because I only have a C right now. I wrote a paper for extra credit, which my prof said would help a lot if you did it, so hopefully I can at least end up with a B for the semester (or even B-, I just can't get a C). It's totally my fault, too, because it was a big lecture class where he never took attendance so I missed like 8. I didn't miss any exams/quizzes at least. =\

Today was a good day though because we went to the Palisades Mall, which is a huuuuge 4 story mall like 15 minutes away from my school. I got a lot of clothes for the cruise we're going on in June. My parents came up and took a lot of my stuff home so there's less to worry about on Thursday.

However, I'm exhausted. On Saturday, I got about 2 hours of sleep because I had to get up early to go to my cousin's confirmation (which turned out really nice). I got back home and took a five hour nap until 10:30pm. I was up from 10:30 until about 6:30 tonight, when I took a 3 hour nap. I'm so annoyed at how fucked up my sleeping schedule is. I was trying to fall asleep for an hour before this, but I got so frustrated that I'm just like, fuck it, I'll go online. And that's why I'm updating now, hah.

I'm starting to actually feel tired now so I'm going to try to fall asleep again =\