G.D. idiots and their lighters!

It pisses me off. Some people should be dragged out in the street and shot (verbatim from one of my family's sayings when we're peeved)

Seriously, check out the pictures. This was done at 4am (heard through the grapevine) and it just makes me mad. Why someone would intentionally try to burn us down is beyond me!


The first two pictures are from one of the 1st floor wings. The bulletin board where you post the announcements for the campus (apparently they burned them all) and there is the floor where it looks like the burning papers must have fallen down and singed the carpet while they smoldered.








The red paper pushed over is another bulletin board that had been covered up to hide the burning marks - UGH.


The pile of magazines is in the front lobby near the Oak front desk and it seems they tried to get the stack set on fire (which is incidentally next to a flammable sofa and a wooden beam within the lobby).






Why can't people respect others and not try to kill us? From what I know (as I was up til 5am) I didn't hear a fire alarm - so the damage and fire scare may not be as bad as I think - but it barely makes me feel better. I'd like to know why someone tried to burn us down - as I've heard over and over again, it only takes about 5 minutes for a whole dorm room to be up in flames.

OMG

k, 1st draft is up and runnin. I now know too much 'bout the internet dialect, or "chat speak". I am going googly eyed, but I *do* have that first draft!!

Listening to: Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads.

Lights are off. Window is open, computer being all glowy and I have my door open behind me. People are hanging out in certain rooms and most are gone for the weekend. Everything is nice and slow - and I have a belly full of hotwings from Pizza Hut :P

My rough draft - VERY rough. I am hoping I knew what I was talking about. It's been about 3 years since I had rhetoric! But, I found articles from my class and other times.

Jeremy came in and teased me about posting pictures of my desk again... i need new material huh? hmmmmmm.....There. My other eye image that washed out. I look very tired... hehe and why my eyes were that green that day, who knows.

Day 1 comes to a close at 1am sharp

Yep, going to bed early... early for me ;-)
I have read through my earlier articles and find I have a lot to say on the subject on "chat speak" or "1337" language, or even the later version influenced and influencing - "txt"ing.

I have tons of links I'll throw into my blog after I have my paper written and will see if I can post that too. It is a very interesting topic for me since I have been there for most every step it has gone through - from the first days of Doom "chat" and mIRC to MSN messanger then to the txt messages on my phone and now learning another set of "chat" rules as I learn to play Guild Wars in the last few weeks.

Composition Test #1

Ah yeah, I am listening to Butthole Surfers, eating Crunch'nMunch, a couple fruit drinks in the fridge - including frappucinos - and some other snacks are around for my grazing pleasure.
Day #1 is going well - I did stay up too late last night, 2:30 after working library and coming home to make sure my computer was up to par after being rewired-and so I was tired when I woke up this morning to check my topic: Chat Speak.

I got up at 9am and e-mailed an RSVP and then did some research for articles on my own computer and printed out some I needed. Took my shower, grabbed D and went to lunch at Wallys. After lunch I walked with him to the Academic buildings and I went to the library from noon - 3pm and he and I walked back after he worked.

By this time, though, I was totally the walking dead. Felt all light and sleepy - so took my normal nap - 'cept it turned into my normal nap+2. I slept until 5:15pm! Ugh.

But, I'm awake and slowly becoming conscious of my surroundings (which, is terrible cuz I haven't washed clothes and I was interrupted doing so yesterday and so clothes are all over my floor) and ready to run to Wally's for dinner and then come back to work the rest of the night. I have a lot of reading to do.




Here's a day-time photo of my computer I took this morning. It now has pink guts!!! hehe It looks good :-) My fairy, however, is buried behind wires and may need to be extracted by gentle means.

Pictures - Yay computer works hhehe

Here are the pictures I have been taking recently. The first is the new and improved computer... glowy as ever and looking good. Can't see the glowy red stuff though, which is too bad. Looks all 3-D now - different.

Also, the other three pictures are from the gorgeous snow storm we had yesterday or day before - can't remember hehe

Pictures are turning out better and better tho - I think.

I am debating

Whether I want to keep that Nadeen blog or not. It just seems to be a waste of space for what little time I'll use it - what's left but a couple months. Perhaps I could make certain posts all in italics within this one to suggest a change in persona - instead of making a whole other space.

It is pretty however.

I brought all my stuff for my thesis today, nothing else but the DVD Airplane. I always have to have that backup plan, don't I?

Also, I and D went to eat and stopped at Blockbuster, they had his new case. That sucker is huge! I feel it has *just* as much bling as mine.... just in a manly way ;) Oh, and N at Asgard told me that she got to hear about my case (I'm famous) and wished she'd been there. I may hafta find something else wrong with it and bring it in hehehe

They need to update their website, I would do it for them if they wanted! For some favors back with my compy.. of course hehehe

You may have noticed

I did revamp my whole website. Call it procrastination, call it cleaning house, call it bored... whatever it is, it is mine and now I am happy. I may mess with it more, but I personally like the cleaner look.

However, I would rather be next door right now so I think I will walk away finally and go seek out D. He keeps popping in here off and on to talk to me but I was so engrossed in the blog that I didn;t pay much attention. And it's getting later, so I need to go snuggle his butt before he goes to bed. He's starting to look like I do at 2am - MY bedtime.

Nadeen on Guild Wars

nadeen, originally uploaded by ayleen_marie.

Meow?

In the works

• Article Review for Troilus and Criseyde
• Laundry
• Mike's Comp Test
• Pay bills
• Write up notes for 2 more articles for thesis
• Thesis chapter for Deanna
• New Blog Template
• New Game
• Sleeeeeeeeep :-)
  

flowers1

flowers1, originally uploaded by ayleen_marie.

Another way in which I took a picture. More green... not sure how to to use the darn camera yet. :P hehe But lovely flowers nonetheless.

flowers2

flowers2, originally uploaded by ayleen_marie.

Trying out different ways to take pictures with my camera. Larger view of my flowers from D.

petals

petals, originally uploaded by ayleen_marie.

D bought me at the auction for $70 and said that was my present. He lied! hehe I came home last night at 9pm and these were waiting for me along with a card. T'was a good V-Day.

The 6 things I am allowed to fear at this moment

1. Not having a job in the summer
2. Not graduating this semester
3. Not finding a place to live
4. Not being hired to teach
5. Not being hired as RHD
6. Getting my Loan bills for first time and being dirt poor and unable to support myself.

The stipulations to this is that I will not allow myself to worry about other fears - I have 6 already and cannot dwell on any others as my head will collapse in on itself and then explode with enough force to send a gale of wind into the neighboring states.

Not finishing my Thesis in time
Not having my Comp tests finished in time
Not getting into PHD program - Came True
Getting into a PHD program and moving away from D, family, and friends

YAY

Ahhhhh... Much better... I missed my WTF!

Im a 10 second star! Ok, maybe 30 seconds

I was just interviewed by KBSU - check it out tonight at 8pm. Im going to try and record it.

argh, nerve wracking!!!!

Tuesday, February 7, 2006
My Interview - bad quality, but I just used my Digital Camera to film it off my VCR hehe. Sorry- I'm not that tech Savvy. And I wiggle way too much when I talk - Look at the hand action! Whoo.

BTW, the sound may be off from the picture, ill hafta figure something else out - at least I have the video of it hehe

Selling Myself on the Market - Wednesday!

That's right! I am going onto the stage and will sell myself at the Oak Hall 14th Annual Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction this Wednesday at 7pm! I am in a relationship - but I figure for charity D could lend me out to whoever buys me :-)

I hope all of you can make it! It's in Oak Hall 2nd floor lounge. Come on out and help us!

My South Park Character - MiniAya

South Park Character Generator

And here's my rendition of Aspen :0)

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RAWR - ASPEN CHECK IT OUT!

Well, it seems the bandwidth was too much for that poor guys' blog and it is now dead. Let us now take a moment and remember the Chewy page as it was.

Oy vey - got nothing done today

It's completely pathetic.. I wake up at 10am, take a shower and beging *thinking* about what I should do for the day and then I crawl back into bed at around noon and wallow in a headache.

Then I make myself get up to go do something and Jer comes in to say he'd like his couch. We go to my house and lo and behold, no keys for the truck so we can't get it. So, we head to the Old School House for art supplies and then back to the dorm. My headache has gone full blown by then and Jer gives me a sinus headache pill that conks me right out. I wake up to three flippin phonecalls but i was never fast enough to get them before they hung up. And then finally by D.

And so we went to eat, I ran off with Aspen for 2nd dinner (hehe i'm a hobbit) and then came to work. At least here, maybe I can get some work done. The library is my secret weapon of defense against lethargy! Love that word.

• E-Mail MCM
• Stop at my places for donations
• Map out Lounge
• Wash Clothes
• Get my Ski'ing stuff rdy (BV 7/7 night! Whoot)
• Talk Aspen into Ski'ing - /puppy dog eyes
  

My Blog Sucks Day

"She turned it into a newt"

"A newt?!"

"......... It got better..."

My blog sucks in some random universe where they cannot tell what is awesomeness and what is suxors, and so I will salute that other universe, parallel universe, cosmic split in the ... cosmos... in which they believe my blog sucks.

Perhaps we need a phrase for this...

Happy Blogsucking Day!

Argh

Well, I joined Facebook - even after saying to everyone I knew that I was never ever going to.. never going to even LOOK at it... and look at me - im already addicted :P Oh the pictures uploading is completely awesome!

I got my car back today - only 550, compared to the 1000+ I was expecting. Apparently along with all my other problems a mouse went and crawled up into a valve and nested there. I guess when I started my car up again, it got sucked up and keeled. poor thing, but what an expensive animal :P But, the people at National Transmition were nice to me and they made my baby work like it never has before! I don't have a "check engine" light on anymore! I've Never seen that before in my '97 Mercury Mystique! That light has been on since I got the car - "It's just a short, nothing wrong with it" is what all the Ford places told me - what a bunch of idiots. They screw me out of my money (long story, short = concerning a burnt out AC/Heater, a recall after being fixed, and lack of refund), say nothing is wrong ... and I promise you, I will not be going to Ford dealers ever again. I can list all the other problems I have had, but there's no point. I found websites with it all listed already - so if you are looking at buying one or fixing one - just take a look at some of the reviews. A few like the car, very few love, and many hate. Personally, it is my baby and she has been everywhere from Texas to here and she is paid for - no payments! And I'd like to keep it that way.