More Random Crap

I stole this from Peter Staley, who definitely doesn't read my blog. But I occasionally read his. I promise not to post an excessive amount of these giant-ass internet memes, but really I'm sick of facebook notes.

Start at the very beginning, what’s your name?
Liza, or Lize, or Za, or Zazu, or Lizandbeans (rhymes with "rice and beans" in a spanish accent), or Monobear, all depending on who you ask. technically though it's Elizabeth.

Do you own a pair of skinny jeans?
i think i own one...yeah i wear them with my furry winter boots

If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?
spy on people, and confuse the fuck out of everyone by throwing things, making things "hover," etc.

Does the person you like, like you back?
ehh. probably not, but i'm pessimistic and probably shouldn't rule out the possibility

What did you do last night?
went to dinner with Charly and her sister/dad, chilled at her house, switched my havermail over to google apps, went to bed

Has anybody ever given you butterflies?
yep

Are you your mum’s favorite child? 

i'd hope so...although debatable about whether she actually loves me more than our dog. (just kidding. i hope.)

Are you happy with the way things are going?
well im not the biggest fan of my job, but money's a plus. or the timing of this cold. really i just want to be back at school for customs week. but overall, yes.

Did you wake up in the middle of the night last night?
more like it took me forever and a half to fall asleep cause my nose kept being indecisive about whether or not it wanted to be stuffed up.

Sleep on your back or stomach?
both? more likely stomach. or side. i toss and turn a lot.

What were you doing before this survey?
reading Pete's blog

Do you tend to rip the paper off water bottles?
nope. anyway it bothers me too much how the part of the label where the glue is sticks and you can't get it off completely.

How long does it take for you to fall asleep at night?
too long. half an hour +, unless i'm super tired

It’s Friday night, where are you usually?
getting dinner with friends and then chilling at someone's house

What movie is in your DVD player?
none

If you could move away, no questions asked, where would you move?
i'd run away to live in Josh and Alex's apartment for the rest of the summer. does that count?

What’s the greatest thing that happened to you today?
advil cured my sore throat!

Have you ever felt like you weren’t good enough?
on occasion

What’s going on tomorrow night?
dont know yet - me and fairleigh will have to figure something out!

Do you know a lot of people with the same phone as you?
oh hey Aubree :P i know a few.

Is your hair curly or straight right now?
wavy/curly

What do you really think of Starbucks Coffee?
overpriced but delicious

Does anyone love you? 

yep :)

Want to be taller or shorter?
neither

What are you listening to?
people talking, myself typing. i kind of like the sound of typing on these keyboards.

When was the last time you really laughed? 

hmmm. i don't remember. this should be remedied.

Do you listen to music every day? 

basically

Last song you heard? 

something on the radio that i didn't know / don't remember

Is the last person that you had a conversation with a male or a female?
female

What’s the last thing you said out loud?
"i'm on it" (referring to increasing my intake of viatmin C before traveling for a week)

How was your day? 

so far, pretty dull

Describe how you feel right now in three words: 

sick, bored, excited!

If someone asked you what you wanted, what would you say?
not to have this cold!

Has a girl sat on your bed before?
omg i thought that said head. WHAT?! but yes, to the actual question.

Plans for Saturday?
bus to NYC to see two of my favorite people!!! (if you see this don't feel left out - i have a lot of favorite people and if you're reading my blog then you're probably one of them)

Who was the last person besides yourself to touch something on your face?
i have no idea.

What was your dream about last night?
aww i dont remember :(

Do you have a reason to smile right now? 

yes!

Where were you at 9 am this morning?
walking through the marketplace to get to work

Everything happens for a reason?
nope.

Day 25 - Your Day, In Great Detail

wooo self-centered rambling! well since not much of today has passed yet, i'll provide you with a detailed account of my past 24 hours. i know you can't wait because it will be thrilling.

actually, my past 24 hours has been fairly average. but i am a sheep that blogs about whatever this 30-day thinggy tells me to blog about. so here is a day in the life of Liza.

24 hours ago i was still asleep. i had woken up at 6:30 as usual, told my dad that i was taking a sick day because my throat felt like shit and i wanted to get better in time for my trip which was in two days, sent an email to the lawyers in the office, chugged water, popped a zicam, and went back to bed. that extra 5.5 hours of sleep was the most beautiful thing ever.

after waking up, i chugged more water, popped another zicam (in case you're confused, zicam is a medicine you take every 3 hours to supposedly shorten your cold), and spent about 2 hours on facebook chat talking to Josh. then i ate grapenuts with fruit for breakfast, which was about the only thing that seemed appetizing at the time, and then spent a few more hours on facebook/facebook chat talking to Josh and Neelima. also during this time i packed my suitcase for my week-long trip, which took me all of about 5 minutes. i think i'm a freak when it comes to packing.

i also worked on a certain friendship bracelet (which is coming along beautifully by the way), texted Sarah in a futile attempt to make plans, and...well really i did nothing yesterday morning/afternoon. whatever, i was sick. oh - i drank more water. a lot of water. and popped zicam. now i'm starting to sound like a drug addict...i swear i don't have like 4 different medicines in my purse right now.

and i found out that Argentina legalized gay marriage! yayyyyy Argentina!

then at around 6:30 i drove to Charly's and her dad took us and her sister out to dinner. which was kind of cheating, as my mom pointed out, because i had taken a sick day so i wasn't supposed to be social. oh well. then plans failed with both Sarah and Neelima so i chilled at Charly's for a bit after dinner and then went home. Then I attempted to switch my haverford email account from squirrelmail/thunderbird over to gmail, which was only a slight headache, but i finished before 11. i should've just gone to bed, but now i have a shiny new google apps account and everything is set up. i am probably more excited about this than i should be.

this morning i woke up at 6:30 (gross), drank water, popped zicam, got ready, and went to work. oh and i stopped at CVS to get advil, which apparently works wonders on a sore throat. now i'm multitasking by assigning documents file numbers while surfing facebook and further setting up my new haverapps account. and blogging. the end!

Continuation of Whatever Tickes My Fancy

My Belief-O-Matic results:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (99%)
3. Liberal Quakers (90%)
4. New Age (85%)
5. Secular Humanism (84%)
6. Mahayana Buddhism (77%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (77%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (75%)
9. Taoism (68%)
10. Reform Judaism (59%)
11. Nontheist (57%)
12. New Thought (50%)
13. Scientology (50%)
14. Jainism (47%)
15. Sikhism (47%)
16. Baha'i Faith (46%)
17. Hinduism (46%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (46%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (41%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (33%)
21. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (30%)
22. Seventh Day Adventist (25%)
23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (24%)
24. Islam (24%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (20%)
26. Roman Catholic (20%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (13%)

interesting...

Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

I'm excited! I'm excited about many things. Mostly I'm really excited for this coming week, which I'm taking off work to go on a haverfriends-extravaganza trip. I get to see people I miss so much!

Itinerary:
Saturday - Fairleigh and I take busses to New York City and meet up with Erica
Sunday/Monday - NYC with Fairleigh and Erica, staying at Erica's
Tuesday - Fairleigh and I take a bus to Baltimore
Wednesday - Baltimore with Fairleigh
Thursday - Drive to Haverford; stay over in Alex and Josh's apartment, hopefully see Lizzy/Kelley/Ryan at some point
Friday - Stay at Haverford for awhile, then drive back to Fairleigh's in Baltimore
Saturday - I fly home

So Freakin Excited!!!!! Now that I have skype and have been video chatting with people more often, I'm starting to miss everyone even more than I already did. You don't see someone's face from talking to them on meebo or facebook chat, so I think seeing people's smiles and hearing their voices has made me miss them more. But I'll actually see people soon! Granted, I'm only seeing a few haverpeople, and thus there are many others I miss terribly whom I will not be seeing until August. But it's a start, and I'm still super pumped.

I'm also excited about customs! Freshmen get their rooms and lists go out so soon!!! Like, hopefully this week, but if not then beginning of next. I'm excited to find out who my babies are and to send them postcards and letters; I'm excited to meet them and move in and move them in and decorate the hall and share the place I love so much with new people. Granted I'm also slightly nervous. What will they be like? What will their issues be? (And there will likely be issues, but unfortunately I can't elaborate.) Will my hall be close or will it not be cohesive because that's just how it is? But Abby told me once that no matter how nervous I am about starting the year, all of them are 1000x more nervous, which is so true. I have a year of college under my belt, and they don't even know how to get between Gummere and the DC yet.

Plus I'm excited for other people! There are exciting things going on in people's lives right now, and it makes me super happy.

So in summary: yay!!! :D

Day 23 - A Youtube Video

How am I supposed to choose just one?! Ok, here's a cool one of a sand artist. She's actually really ridiculous, so I'm pretty sure it's worth eight and a half minutes of your life. Enjoy!

Day 22 - A Website

Although there are infinite blogworthy websites out there, I think the most notable might be The Cheezburger Network. It's just awesome. It also keeps me very entertained for hours on end, especially when I should be doing other things such as writing papers or generally having a life.

My personal favorites are Fail Blog, Failbook, Happy Chair is Happy, There I Fixed It, Daily Squee, Engrish Funny, and GraphJam, although I have yet to thoroughly explore all of them. I also have to credit Monday Thru Friday for keeping me entertained this summer :P (If you haven't seen pictures of my office monsters and darts, they're in my Summer 2010 facebook album.)

Since I hopefully just created a procrastination moster in anyone who has decided to click all these links, happy browsing! :)

Day 21 - A Recipe

I really wish I were better at cooking/baking than I am. But that's what you get for living in a house where you can't actually get to the oven...So here's my friend Deb's recipe for cookie dough cupcakes, because they're amazing. It's really easy - you use cake mix for the cupcakes, but you only fill up the cupcake pan thinggies halfway, then you put one cookie's worth of easy-bake cookie dough in the middle, and the cupcake bakes around it. It's DIVINE. also Deb says she hasn't found a frosting that works with it yet, and they're amazing even without frosting. I think vanilla would work fine. Yummmm :D

Day 20 - A Hobby of Yours

I've recently become even more obsessed with friendship bracelet making. How old am I? 12. I also seem to be at summer camp.

But for real, this can be a dangerous website for people like me who have the tendency to quickly become obsessed with crafts. (Or maybe it's just me.) (Side note: I knitted upwards of 14 scarves for friends and teachers during my senior year of high school.) Anyway, the site has patterns for thin bracelets, thick bracelets, even bracelets with letters and words. So far I've only made 3 and I'm on my 4th, and I think I'm winding down. But either way, making friendship bracelets has been a hobby of mine since, well, summer camp. They've just recently jumped to a new level of coolness.

Bonus for people who actually read my blog: Find a bracelet pattern on that site that's 10 strings or fewer, let me know what colors you want it in, and I'll make it for you. (Offer expires August 25, 2010, although if you ask me nicely I'll probably do it after that anyway.)

Since I conveniently happen to have taken pictures of the last couple of bracelets I made:






Also, for your amusement, I just came across this video. Despite what I may say about my summer job, thankfully I have not quite reached this point.

Day 19 - A Talent of Yours

Making playlists and mix CDs. I know, it's silly and random. I like making playlists for roadtrips and events or even just for sitting out on the green or driving late at night, and they usually go well with the energy level and the people involved. People have told me that they like the playlist we're listening to or that they love the CD I made them and listen to it all the time, so I guess it's a sort of talent. Plus I really like doing it, which makes it all the better. :)

Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

wooo freewrite! although once again i'm not sure what to write about. well Lindsay Lohan is in jail. supposedly. poor Lindsay...she was so cute as 8-year-old twins. well it's 9:30 in the morning and i can't think of anything to write about. i'm excited that i'm on day 2 of a 3-day work week - monday was a holiday and i'm taking friday off to go to Martha's Vineyard with people (we'll see how that goes...fun? relaxing? complete and total dramatic chaos?). clearly my thoughts are really exciting and blog-worthy right now. ummm...have a photo!

Day 17 - An Art Piece (Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Etc.)

First of all, photos are art pieces too. But there have already been a lot of photos, so I'll find something else.

This isn't really a painting, drawing, or sculpture - it's more of an etc. It's a mosaic installation on South Street in Philadelphia called the Magic Gardens, and I think it's a really cool place. Plus it was all done by one guy, which is really just incredible. I love to go there and just sit on this bench in one corner and stare at it all.

A couple of pictures I've taken there:

Day 16.5 - Ramble

Edit: I'm taking this post down and reposting it as a facebook note. I can monitor the privacy settings on that, but I'm not sure how on this. Sorry!

Day 16 - A Song That Makes You Cry (Or Nearly)

Prayer of the Children by Kurt Bestor. It's so moving, and so sad. I don't even remember which conflict or situation it was written for, but it just makes me think of war and violence and genocide and all those unbelievably shitty things that people - children - have to go through. Take a listen; see what I mean.

Day 15 - A Fanfic

I really don't read fanfics. So here is something better:

Day 14 - A Non-Fictional Book

Hmmm...I don't read that much nonfiction outside of class. I can't really think of anything...

This one's for you, Alex. :)