Ali West
15 May 2008 @ 03:19 pm
Hrm.  
I guess I kind of cheated with my college all nighter, because I ended up sleeping from 7-11 then touching up my draft a bit then heading to school. I watched The Squid and the Whale on the way to school (I love you Althena for your huge harddrive and your movie playing ability) and wrote like, the worst review ever. I'm debating fixing it up a bit and then emailing the better version to my teacher--the thing is, do I lie to her Andrew style or just be honest that I know my first version sucked? lol.

Seeing words that aren't double spaced is weird. I should double space my LJ entry kekekeke.

Now I have until 5 to write my classics paper completely. I want to to be mad for Louis for playin' me hardcore last night because it was honestly like:

Me: Hey Louis can you help me with something. :D
Louis: Sure what do you need help with. :D
Me: This. :D
Louis: Okay. :D
Me: Yeah so I was thinking this but I was hoping you could he--
Louis: ::Disappears :D::

I like the way the :D face looks a lot in this font. Guys I'm a fan of emoticons, I don't know if you knew that.

I feel like I sound really lame in my LJ lately, haha. The fangirling in the Glow in the Dark tour ruined my tone! Only not though. I always sound like a total tard up in hurrr.

Man Pericles is such a douche. I should stop doing what's actually assigned for assignments. Instead of doing my movie review on The Squid and the Whale I should have totally have done it on I Think My Sister's Cute or I Wear My Dad's Socks ( both from Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job! for those not in the know lololol. ) Instead of doing something that is well researched and very well proven throughout my paper, I should've done it on Luke Skywalker's bipolar disorder. Fuck Homer and Pericles.. I'm doin' my shit on Atton and Malak.

I think that should be my new Re-initiation to the Core 4 task for you, Justin. You didn't accomplish.. uhm.... any. You should write a 3-5 page paper on Atton Fel, MLA FORMAT BITCH.

MLA format is actually kind of easy, I wonder why people seem to complain about it so much. Even teachers are like "Guys I know this is lame but just do it."

I can't listen to this song because the name depresses me so bad. Flavor House Atlantic is a hot song and the place Claudio was singin' at in the video looked pretty dope. :(

back to work <3 u lj
 
 
mood: lazy
: Coheed and Cambria - The End Complete I: The Fall of House Atlantic
 
 
Ali West
15 May 2008 @ 04:50 am
I AM A WINNER!!!!!!!  
DEAR LJ,

I AM OFFICIALLY PULLING MY FIRST ALL-NIGHTER IN COLLEGE HISTORY 8D crazy eyyes!! guys I love this face.

Are you guys proud? You shouldn't be. There's this one essay that I was assigned in Aprilish before the break and I started it tonight. It is due tomorrow. I'M AWESOME!

My official school icon is far too cheerful for this post, but I'm glad I have this Dwight failing icon. IT IS APPROPRIATE.

I have spent most of the night rapping and writing out outlines, now I am pumpin' Coheed and Cambria and actually getting some writing done.

Justin, I know I somehow assisted you in getting into Coheed and Cambria even though I never really liked them that much, but I would like to thank YOU for taking my advice, and then spinnin' it back at me because... I need this band in my life.

Sean, I know that that blog is the biggest thing in your career but I'm going to one up that: YOU'VE OFFICIALLY BEEN CITED IN AN ~ACADEMIC PAPER~! Or at least you can tell people that when deep down in your heart of hearts you'll know it's some crummy freshman paper some nerd wrote. XD

YOU WANT IT ALL, BUT DID YOU WANT IT TONIGHT? OOOH! OOOH! *rocks out*

Back to work! I LOVE YOU LJ.
 
 
mood: crazy
: Coheed and Cambria - Justice in Murder
 
 
Ali West
15 May 2008 @ 03:03 am
~INTERNET GAMES~  

thedarememe


The most interesting suggestions I've seen have been like, ridiculous voice posts and the like.

I need to bring 8D into my emoticon vocabulary because I love it. CRAZY EYES~

Also:

Leave a comment and I will:

a) Tell you why I friended you, if I have friended you
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc,
c) Tell you something I like about you,
d) Tell you a memory I have of you,
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
g) In return, you must post this in your LJ.

I think in my LJ history I've done this like a million times but WHO CARES 8D CRAZZY EYES.
 
 
mood: anxious
: Lupe Fiasco - Pim
 
 
Ali West
14 May 2008 @ 09:22 am
GLOW IN THE DARK!  
Was, uhm, the best experience of my life.

So I got out of class at 4:40 and headed to the subway, being really cautious that I didn't run into Mr. Theodoracopoloushgsingsgsldglsdgs because I was totally cutting his class to go to the concert. I told Justin I'd meet up with him about 5:30ish but didn't get in until 6 so I was really nervous and I felt bad that I showed up late. I get off the train and listen to a message from THIS KID telling me that he's not going to be there until 6:30. THIS DUDE! Why can't I ever be the bad friend once? ONCE? Waiting for Justin was a-mazin' though, I watched the hypebeast parade and listened to some guy say "Yo who's sellin Kanye tickets? You got Kanye Tickets? Kanye West tickets?" like about 1000 times. I really wanted to punch him and/or sell Justin's ticket. ACTUALLY The most amazing thing about that guy is that one guy was like "Yeah I got some" And the guy was like "Yo be careful there's alot of cops around here." THAT'S IT.  I was like WOW! He's standing out there to be a nice guy? Kindly stfu guy but props to you.

ANYWAY, Justin finally showed up at 6:30 and we headed inside which was a surprisingly easier process then I had anticipated. I figured they're.. y'know... be a line or something, but we pretty much just walked in. The concert was supposed to start at 7:30 ( and it did! ) and it had to be like ..7? when we got to our seats and realized they weren't really that far apart from each other. There was pretty much like.. 100 people scattered around in Madison Square Garden so me and Justin stood by my seat and chatted for a bit, lol. The guy who was like, directing people to their seats passed by us a few times and one time he was even like "I guess you guys haven't seen each other for awhile!" Me and Justin just kind of looked at each other and shrugged like "Well yeah, he's right!" lolz. We also saw a guy who looked exactly like Tommy Hilfiger walk by and once he did we just looked at each other like ".........?" and then he pulled out a newspaper and I was like "...............!?"




Hopefully J will do a write up as well or at laest add a few things to the comments, haha. MAN. It was such a good show.
 
 
mood: satisfied
 
 
Ali West
12 May 2008 @ 05:02 pm
PERFECT SCHEDULE GRANTED.  
kinda.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go:

Monday:
CC 2.2 - Shaping the Modern World - 11:00 - 12:15
CC 1.2 - Introduction to the Study of Art - 12:50 - 2:05
Film 1 - Languge of Film 1 - 2:15 - 5:35

Tuesday:
CC 2.1 - Knowledge, Reality, and Values - 3:40 - 6:10
Eng 18.11 - Introduction to Newswriting - 6:30 - 9:15

WED NES DAY:
CC 2.2 - Shaping the Modern World - 11:00 - 12:15
CC 1.2 - Introduction to the Study of Art - 12:50 - 2:05
Film 61 - Screenwriting 1 - 2:15 - 5:55


y helo thar really long fucking courses. You know, I'm kind of scared of being a Screen Writing major if this is how their courses are, but I'm thinking that it's y'know.. like that so we can actually watch films once in awhile. I also took Psych 3 and it was 3 hours, and it wasn't so bad.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle a 2ish hours philosophy class, but it's a core that's what's making me want to take it/not want to drop it. I think a class will end up being dropped ( they always are ), either CC 2.2, CC 2.11 or Eng 18.11.

This was not easy. I was able to sign up for classes at 3, so like LITERALLY WHEN THE CLOCK STRUCK 3, I went to sign up for courses and it wouldn't let me take Film 61. Film 1 is a prerequisite for Film 61, but you CAN take them at the same time. I called the registrars office and they were like "You can either come straight down here or go to the Film Department to get that fixed. :)" and I was like okay.. so I went down to the Enrollment Services Center and they were like "You have to go to the Film Department :)" and I was like ......................

Ugh, at least I got the classes I wanted. I could have gotten approved and gone through all this then tried to sign up for Film 61 and it coulda been like LOL FULL SORRY DUDE <3. I would have KILLED SOMEONE.  Also! TWO DAYS OFF SUCKA.

ANYWAY I HAVE A CLASS RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY LOLZ SO TTYL <33D 
 
 
mood: relieved
 
 
Ali West
12 May 2008 @ 01:50 am
I HAVE CONSTRUCTED THE PERFECT SCHEDULE.  
Or at least, god, as best as I can make it with this bullshit. I can't believe like... pretty much all film classes are 3 hours. I really liked my 3-hour psychology class but like... I dunno, when I'm trying to make a schedule that is ideal, it's hard to make the pieces fit. Also, INTRODUCTION TO NEWSWRITING ONLY BEING AVALIABLE EVENING/WEEKEND HOURS? what? guys. GUYS. That's not how you do it.

Anyway, since I'm kind of bored, here is my ideal schedule: )

Update tomorrow on the results, obvs. I need to try to plan a Plan B but like, it's going to be tough, what with English 18.11 being so late on tuesday and the film courses being THREE HOURS AND ALSO SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. Seriously, all of them are either 2:14 - 5:35 or 9:30 - 12: something, and.. god, as much as I'd love to trick myself into believing that I have the ability to wake up at 9 and have the attention span for a 3 hour course, I uh, don't.

Anyway, have I discussed how I am a chaphead in LJ before? I don't think so. GUYS. I LOVE CHAPSTICK. I do. I really do. I tried out a new brand today and I'm so happy because I LOVE IT:



It's really good. I got this little pack of Sugar Cookie and Rose Tint ( it was either Sugar Cookie and Rose Tint or Sugar Cookie and Bronze Tint, so... )

It's really good, and the tinted stuff actually isn't awful either!

I'm so happy I got cool new chapstick. Oh life, you and your simple pleasures! <3
 
 
mood: okay
: Mike Doughty - Get Along
 
 
Ali West
11 May 2008 @ 03:06 pm
She said don't, don't let it go to your head  

More Taking Back Sunday in the title, ignore the emoness.

My ability to force myself to be pessimistic about certain things has somehow gone away from me.

I mean, I don't know. There are conversations I'm dreading, awful situations I can imagine and such, but I can't bring myself to be actively worried. Well, correction, I am kinda worried, but not as much as I think I should be. I do wish that I could somehow skip over those awkward conversations, haha, I wish I could go ahead and do everything and just be like "Hey, ____ I ______ a _____!" Keep it to myself until it's, I dunno, etched in titanium. I feel like when I tell people about this they're going to think it's a bad idea or that I'm crazy. I so am, but, I don't know--if things fall into place, if it actually happens, I think dealing with what ever problems arise *afterwards* will be the easiest part. Hopefully. God, I don't know.

I'm so informing no one about this, though. Ask me what I'm talking about in the comments and I'll cut you, frsrus.

There are pieces of this that don't fit, elements that don't make total sense, possible disastors. But well.. I dunno, I sort of feel like I'm putting a bunch of circles into square slots and feeling really proud of myself afterwards. But at least they're in there, right?

Flik and Odessa looking happily to the horizon feels fitting.


Things I should be much much much more concerned about then this right now: the fact that I kinda want this shirt, the fact that I kinda want to go to a hookah bar, and MY GRADES.
 
 
mood: hopeful
: Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer
 
 
Ali West
07 May 2008 @ 04:13 pm
This all was only wishful thinkin'  
Excuse the title, I am in a Taking Back Sunday mood today.

I have class in about a half an hour and no one's online ( this is kinda weird for this time-a-day :/ ) so I decided to write an LJ post.

I have on Flower today and I keep leaning my chin on my hand and rediscovering how nice my wrist smells. Should perfume names be italized? I mean.. it is a title, no? Hmmmm.

LOL I love libraries. This lady just knocked a candy wrapper off her desk and sucked her teeth at it, then realized I was watching her and quickly got up to throw it in the trashcan that was all of like 3 feet away. Why am I proud of this? I don't know. I have some weirdo power around those around me and that's nice to know.

Anyway, GUYS IT'S SPRING. My campus is fucking beautiful. There's a bunch of cherry blossom trees and it's such a sunny cool day and it's raining pink petals and love love love love. I'd wrote poetry about it if I could/actually wanted to.

I just checked out of my chemistry lab, gave in all my stuff. It's weird. I can't believe this semester is over, that my FIRST YEAR OF COLLEGE (j'christ) is over. I don't feel like I'm ready for this semester to be over, it went all really fast. I need to do all this fucking work that I need to hand in before the semester ends, then finals, packing, moving out of my apartment, ugh ugh ugh ugh. I mean, I'll deal with it, just not without lots and lots of complaint.

Oh well, saturday brings Harry and the Potters, tuesday brings Kanye West.

May won't be so unbearable.
 
 
: Taking Back Sunday - Makedamnsure
 
 
Ali West
04 May 2008 @ 03:56 pm
Lazy Sunday  
So Cheryl is my best friend and she's the KOOLEST. She <3's me I think because she remembers that I took care of her the most the first few days she was here. I woke up this morning because she was rubbing her head against my hand, uhhm cute. Now she's sitting next to me and she is el cute.

I'm so mad at myself for laughing really hard at this chemistry.com commerical every time it comes on, but it's like these two people sitting in a sushi resturant promising each other things about their relationship. It's kinda cute but I lol at this always:

Lady: I promise not to tell anyone that you pluck those eyebrows.
Man: I don't pluck my eyebrows.... *Runs fingers over eyebrows* I manscape.

lololololol.

Apparently today is Star Wars Day? Happy Star Wars Day ya'll! I want to celebrate this really badly somehow. Maybe when I go home tonight I'll watch some, I might write some stuff.

dododododo. I've been working on my research paper lately and augh. ALSO I have this other paper for Classics that is just total bullshit. 5-7 pages on.... nothing. Nothing. I want to hate my classics teacher for not knowing what the fundamental difference between THINKING and WRITING is, but I kinda <3 him so ugh. Whatever. The semester is almost over so it's time to just truck through.

GLOW IN THE DARK TOUR IN 9 DAYS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

How is everyone??

Also: I got this icon game on lock. Having an icon perfectly appropriate for an entry that mentions cats and Star Wars? A+++
 
 
mood: hungry
: Top Chef~
 
 
Ali West
01 May 2008 @ 01:31 pm
Dear Brain,  
I know that I've been listening to Low by Flo Rida at an unhealthy rate these past few days, but the way to get back at me for this is NOT to get World of Yu-Gi-Oh from the American Yu-Gi-Oh soundtrack stuck in my head every waking fucking moment! This is uncool. This is really uncool.

Also, help me finish this damn outline! You're only hurting yourself by being such a douche to me right now. Listen, if I fail english, everyone's gonna think something's wrong with you. YEAH! Take that!

Side note: How do you pronounce Flo Rida anyway? Do you ignore the space and just say Flordia, or is an ebonics version of Flow Rider? Hmmmm...
 
 
mood: frustrated
: Yu-Gi-Oh - World of Yu-Gi-Oh
 
 
Ali West
28 April 2008 @ 03:59 am
so.  
Because I was majorly sick yesterday I ODed on sleep and now I can't sleep at all today. I seriously slept nearly 18-19 hours yesterday so now my body is like "nah you good, let's stay up and do stuff."

I played You Have To Burn the Rope like 3 times. very constructive evening if I do say meself.

My nose is all stuffffyyyy. This is awfulx1000.

Things I want when I grow up:
-A refridgerator with an ice machine
-Some minor pride in the life I'm currently leading
-A cat with either a silly RP name (Rhys, Varo, Kirei..) or a funny proper oldtimey name (Jefferson, Theodore, Rutherford). The only exception is a female black cat named Lucky. GUYS I'M CLEVER.
-A dingy Brooklyn apartment that gets some decent natural lighting during the day that's in probably just an okay neighborhood (low rent oh ya) but way close to a bus stop/subway station
-A job that pays enough of a salary (or at least enough financial responsiblity and good sense) that I'd be able to get one of those "autofill" metro cards without being afraid of one day suddenly overdrafting my account or guilty about going to Starbucks.. lykalot.

Upcoming anniversaries that I should remember but will not seem very important to everyone else and will infact invoke a few eyerolls:
[info]nuriko_chan - May 05th, 7 years
[info]j_a_s_sw_rp - June 07th, 3 years ( 3 years for real are you kidding me?? whoooa )
Mandalorian War RP - May 28rd, 1 year

I'm getting more lax about referencing/posting j_a_s_sw_rp stuff in here although I like... don't want anyone to read it, like ever. haha. Oh well. I'm proud of the layout! Though.. uhm, the colors look better on my screen but the fonts looked way better on Sarah's and that's really pissing me off. oh well. saraaaahhhh make a header. I need a new desktop anyway haha *whinewhine*

Also important:
Last day of classes - May 14th!!!
FUCKIN' GLOW IN THE DARK TOUR - May 13th!!

Wait what!? Lol how are those so close? AMAZING. TWO DAYS BACK TO BACK A++++ WOULD EXPERIENCE AGAIN.

Here's another list I liked like to make,

Funny jokes/things to refer to:
-Circle yes or no love notes.
-Bad rap songs
-Talking in eBay speak ( see above )
-Justin's complex sexual orientation
-Adding improper slang to a sentence to up the lulz

Uhm I don't even know. There's more to that I know. Some weirdo reference you can always pull out of your back pocket and will always add like 2x more funny to a statement. 

Guys i'm honestly tired and this is uncool. I'm gonna go try to lay down I think.

I keep thinking of how Sarah would sing X Gonna Give It To Ya and subconsciously use her Henry Plainview ( it is Henry, iTunes agrees. Unless this is his brother's track or whatever..hold up....DAMN you're right I'm dumb) Daniel Plainview voice while doing so. I'm loling.

I'm mad Penny Arcade! is a way more recongizable site and makes like a ton of money but isn't really on the ball. Half the time it's like noon and the comic is up but the write up is still last weeks or whatever. The New White Ninja has been up since like 2, this fine monday morning. Not saying Penny Arcade! should OD like this, but when your webcomic is big enough that you can run a convention you need to do a little better then that methinks. Maybe no one cares because it's PA! But I care because it *is* Penny Arcade! I mean damn yo.

With that said New White Ninja is lololololz: http://whiteninjacomics.com/comics.shtml Speaking of white ninja comics I'm so so mad that I didn't get this one right away since I would have loled heartily. Instead Louis ( or was it Sarah? ) explained it to me and I was like OOOOOOHH that's clever and hilarious, I wish I could have gotten that on my own.

yeah i'm done now. I'm gonna play you have to burn the rope s'more then try that sleepin thing again.

I need to start training myself to type wednesday like wednesda instead of wensday. wednesday. wednesday wednesday wednesday wednesday wed nes day. I did it with definitely so I think it will work out. definitely definitely definitely wednesday wednesday wednesday wednesday

yeah i'm out night folks

Edit:

So I didn't go to sleep but the random anniversaries made me try to pinpoint some other things. I know I called out Sarah specifically the date I added her onto my LJ but ended up deleting most of my early LJ entries when I broke up with, uhm.. CHRIS! and then got together with Shane. These were not relationships that you could actually, uhm, call relationships, buttt....

So yeah I don't exactly remember when I met her but it's lolz to me that it was by mistake ( I knew a friend of hers who introduced me to a Sarah that was not my current Sarah but I left her on my flist anyway ), but I went digging in her old entries to see when my first comment was. I found it here where I state "I have to agree with her. That movie sucked.." in response to some girl's comment about the movie A.I. I continued on with some confidence that maybe younger!me was not nearly as lame as I thought, but uhh, I followed a few entries later with this gem: "Dorothy is the coolest!! Wahoo! Bitchy Gundam Women are the greatest!! I say Une and Dorothy should rule the world!! MUHAHAHAHAH!!!" Not that ever word typed there wasn't the truth but damn little me... you were so lame.

Thinking back at this I realize I'm still a 19 year old girl with fangirlish tendancies ( a problem I'm trying to deal with but have to admit to ) but there's this whole like, world of fanism that I have amazingly avoided. That yaoi shit was nothing I was ever into, and I have too much respect for myself to become one of those women in their 30's writing fanfictions about Jim and Pam having a baby and saying "that's what she said" sarcasticly back and forth to each other, because it's apparently only funny when they do it.

No amount of digging around will show me when I became friends with Louis, since we met in a chatroom one day and continued talking somehow. I think my LJ memories will show me when we started dating and when we broke up, though my LJ mems are not a pile I feel like digging around through right now.

Me and Justin didn't really become friends until me and Louis broke up, at least that's how I remember it. How fucking shady does our relationship sound when I explain it like that? Oh well, haha.

Andrew and I became friends January 24th 1989, at least I got that one down. Or wait.. oh shit. Drew you hated me when I was born, didn't you? FUCK. When did you start liking me?

Tracking down when I became friends with Mike is as simple as looking when my 6th grade year started and maybe adding a week...

next time I meet someone I'm gonna be like "YO WHAT DAY IS IT? I gotta know for our anniversary." ....They will promptly stop talking to me. A+
 
 
mood: groggy
: Threads of Fate - Finale ~Rue~
 
 
Ali West
27 April 2008 @ 03:56 pm
ugh.  
So you know how they say you shouldn't use anti-bacterial stuff because it gets rid of all the good bacteria on your hands too and makes you get sick quicker? Well, uhm. It didn't take me very long. I'm sitting here and my nose is all stuffy and I have a fever and it blows. I hope I feel better by tomorrow, or, well, tuesday, really. I don't feel so awful that I won't leave the house but I can't help but think that, oh, hm, if I miss english one more time I auto-fail and when I learned that I was like "Oh, I'm gonna end up getting sick and I'm going to be stuck going." Turnabout is apparently fairplay. I'm not sure if that's appropriate there but Sarah honestly said that phrase like 5 times this week, so now I feel like Michael Scott with the "when in rome." haha.

The rest of the trip was nice. Wensday she had to go to work but that was okay, I woke up way earlier then her most days so keeping myself busy was something that I was used to. I ate dinner with Mr. Tremblay and talked to her sister and watched a Top Chef marathon instead of reading, Sarah came home and we watched the new Top Chef and then some stuff on the Food Network. Justin came online and we RPed and it was awesome.

Thursday was uneventful but nice. Watched The Office, it was lolz. I'm glad 30 Rock is on after The Office now, I've always wanted to watch it but not enough to actually put in the effort to go out of my way to do so--now that it's merely a matter of leaving the TV on and having a long enough attention span, it works out. I have some complaints about The Office, and have for awhile now--but not as like, just merely a viewer but a fan. The show is still funny and I <3 it for that, but I mean, some character-y development stuff and things like that are things that bother me but I still feel lame complaining about, since it's a comedy. Here's the tl;dr version: cocaine seems like a dark subject even for a show like The Office, and the writers should have let some of their season 4 plotstuff drag into season 5 so there could have been a slow build up of Toby's creepiness and a full episode of Dunder Mifflin Infinitiy's failure, I weep for Jan Levison and what they could possibly be doing to Ryan.

Friday was uneventful except that Mr and Mrs. Tremblay decided to take us out for dinner which was nice. We drove down to the beach to some lobster place where I got clam chowder that tasted mysteriously like miso soup and calamari that was good but didn't hold it's heat well--though it usually doesn't. I watched Sarah and her parents eat lobster and I'd be lying if I said I didn't lose my appetite a little. On the way home we listened to Demitri Martin which was lolz but I always feel like I'm missing out on something when I'm listening to comedy CDs, since mannerisms make me lol more then words sometimes. Also also.. omg. most amazing thing ever. We stopped at a Rite Aid for some cough drops for myself and gum for Sarah ( y helo thar start of my cold ), I paid with my debit card and it asked me for my SECRET CODE. WHAT. I seriously swiped my card and it was like "please type in SECRET CODE and press enter." lololololol. It was amazing. We went home and watched Degrassi and the episode was actually good. omg, Tobster, you are not even in the opening credits anymore but you still have enough self-confidence to turn down hotties? Go you, for srus, go you. I took the quiz and I am apparently not quite good enough for Toby, WTF. Fuck that.

Saturday we woke up and I packed really quickly ( Sarah I think I left one of my headbands and a comb at your place ) and then got on the train to go. My sickness grew slowly through the day. I got on the train and thought I was just still sleeply. Got into Boston and eyerolled at the subway map.. I woulda apperciated the challange on getting to South Station, guys. Actually! There was a bit of difficulty because South Station is the most inappropriate name ever. How the fuck is that South???? They should have called it Middle Station, though I guess that wouldn't have had as much as a ring to it. When I got to South Station my grogginess turned into a major headache so I got a pretzle and waited online for the bus, got on at 4 and called Louis once we were moving to tell him I was getting in late. Fell asleep and woke up and felt AWFUL. I became "That Lady" on the bus by mumbling to myself about how I was going to throw up and didn't want to. :( I was going to buy some queasy pops when I got into NY ( thank god for watching Unwrapped! the night before that had a segment on them, lol ) but when I got into NY I didn't feel quite so nauseous but I just wanted to get home so I headed straight to Brooklyn then to bed.

Holy shit guys, the dude who's making my Domino's order right now is named ANDERSON. What a cool name. He's been taking along time to make my shit though.. Anderson get on the fucking ball.

Anyway yeps, here was my third and final installment about my by New Hampshire trip. Now to wait for mah pizza and take a shower. See ya'll!


EDIT: HOLD UP!!!1 Was The When in Rome thing an Office quote or an Anchorman thing?? Early Michael wasn't that dumb so it was totally a Ron Burgandy thing.. omg omg omg omg. Did Michael Scott make an amazing Anchorman reference or are they just dumbing him down THAT MUCH or recycling jokes?
 
 
mood: sick
: There Will Be Blood - Prospectors Arrive
 
 
Ali West
23 April 2008 @ 02:30 pm
I am the one that they follow; I am the only that they march with  
Hiya folks! Updating from New Hampshire again. Sarah is asleep and I'm sitting here with my real best bud, Loki. He is cute and fluffy and I love him even if he doesn't have a neck.

It's really hot in here. As in temperture... not like.... yeah.

Anyway, trip has gone well so far! Just been chillin' for the most part.

Monday we went to the mall an I bought two headbands. This is one, I can't find the other one on the website but I want this. Haha, neither of these are the most attractive headbands in the world but I kind've enjoy wearing them and I have to buy them partly on principle... Justin and Sarah know why. Sarah also bought me some soap so she could get a pretty bag for cheap. Thanks Sarah! Sarah also bought this DS game that Miles Edgeworth is in that is not Phoenix Wright. I was like whatttt? There may or may not be a bug in it according to Drew who heard it from Sean, but ah well.

Yesterday we went into Boston! Boston is el pretty and it was SUCH a nice day out, omg. We went to Tokyo and some fancy food store and IHOP OMG and some cool yarn place and walked past a bunch of furniture places and a fancy 7-11 and to that park with the swan boats and Filene's Basement and Borders and Prudential Center and Stone Cold Creamery and it was very nice! Lots walkin'.

Yesterday I had a huge breakthrough in my Star Wars nerdiness. HUGE. Okay, August/Septemberish I was in the Border's in Penn Station looking through books, I think I was waiting for Louis to call so we could chill. Anyway, so I saw this that day and opened it up and saw a bunch of different company names and shit and I was like WTF. Companies?? Companies who make weapons??? Who makes up fake Star Wars Companies and then even further, writes about them in a damn book? With that I decided I was not quite so nerdy for something like that and put it down. I saw it again yesterday and now I. want. it. so. BAD. omg. T_T What is wrong with me? So... so much, that is what. I also really want this. Dear world, I am a nerd, and I am ashamed. THOUGH, to be honest, I want to know more about Star Wars weapons and the force for the sake of Acaia and Helena not being total dumbasses about shit they should know. IF ONLY there was a book on the Republic. :( Sorry Kirei.

At night we came home and Sarah tried to be a make-up sales person and sucked at it, LOL. I was kinda hoping she wouldn't but she so did and it was hilarious.

Sarah is still asleep! Today she has to work so I will be alone for a bit. :( It's okay because I brought a library with me but still. :( :( :(

Anyway. My arms feel kinda weird and I LOVE THIS SONG. This song and Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well II: Fear Through The Eyes of Madness are both good ass songs. The C&C song was the one I was listening to before now, so, ya.

ALSO. Charles is SUCH A DOUCHEBAG. It needs to be said again since new things have happened in this situation, but still. ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.

( Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you again [info]tscheese  for this icon. :) )
 
 
: Lupe Fiasco - Put You On Game
 
 
Ali West
18 April 2008 @ 10:49 pm
En Route Trails.  
So, guys, I'm in New Hampshire! I came up to visit [info]thelastsong's dog, Loki. I guess hanging out with her too will be alright I guess, but I'm really here for good ol' Lokes.

The thing is is that I am not a person who sees 7 AM very often. I am a nerdy college student and my earliest class is at 3:00 PM. Well, my earliest class really is 9ish Monday and thursday but I don't go because my teacher doesn't count attendance yadda yadda ANYWAY. So I got up at 7 today and headed to Port Authority and when I got there it was lame as hell. I had to wait there for an hour and it was lame and my feet hurt. This is not a unique Port Authority experience, this story is only to explain what follows.

SO I was tired and kinda cranky and wanted to get on the bus and make the time pass quicker so I began writing a LJ entry while I was waiting on the line. Here is that entry:

"I'm writing an LJ entry here on the line for the bus on my phone. My feet really hurt and I'm tired but I can't sit on the floor 'cause it's filthy so I'm typing in my phone it is.

okay first of all I got to say Port Authority is a bunch of cuntbags. I went over to this innocent looking vending machine to maybe see if I could purchase some skittles. About 90 cents in hand, surely enough for a bag of candy, I approach with delight. I get up there and they're charging 1.25!! For candy!!! ALL OF IT! What kind of crap is that? Ugh. I texted Sarah about this to say I want blood but what I really want is some fucking skittles

There's this lady sitting on the floor next to me filing her nails and I swear I'm going to puke on her. I dunno, Filing your nails creeps me out and she's dong it all fast and nasty and I don't even know. I'm always afraid I'll shave off my finger. Why does no one fear this? I guess because you'd feel it hit your skin. Still though, still.

I actually have alot of things. EYES. Guys I have such a thing with eyes. They're so nasty and delicate and shit and there's so many things that can happen to you. I hate birds of prey for this reason, anything bigger then a pidgeon is going to fuck your shit up. Ew. Once when I was little I was laying on my bed putting on sunglasses please don't ask me why because I do not know, and I swear to god I poked my eye and felt the edge of the thing go through it. Obviously I was not really feeling that because I am not blind in one eye but yeah. You know... Recalling this, I was kind of fascinated and confused at the time but recalling it now I just gavce myself the skeeves so bad. The whole side of my faces hurts. This lady is polishing her nails now and it smells like chemicular crap. I'm going to murder this lady. I'll write interesting LG entries from prison I promise love u guise xoxoxo

I didn't actually murder anyone I just sat down. I also just realized there's some lady with a baby on line. Which means....there may be some lady with a baby ON THE BUS. This is bad news, I shall keep you posted."


There it is! ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC ALI THOUGHTS.

The baby on the bus ended up not being a problem, I read a chapter of Killing Monsters then went to sleep. The weirdest thing happen when I woke up though, the guy who was sitting next to me was gone and I couldn't figure out why at first. Once I got outta my sleepiness I figured "Oh, okay, he must be at the bathroom." Then. THEN. He returns. With a banana!!!!! Where the fuck do you get a Banana on the bus, I thought to myself. Why would you bring said Banana to the bathroom!? It was so weird to me, so so very weird to me.

Also so, I figured out where he got the banana from right? He apparently had a friend that was in the back of the bus. They had a whole fruit trade goin' on! This guy comes back with a banana and then this dude comes up asking for grapes! I don'/t know, it was kinda amazing to me. The amazing part about this is that they were talking about this apple this guy had and it was funny to me since it was just delivered in a really funny way. I can't remember exactly what he said.

Okay so this apple was so not funny like 5 minutes after this humous conversation because this dude bit into his apple and got APPLE JUICE ALL OVER MY FACE. It just squirted out. How did that happen?? I don't even know. I was stunned at first, I thouight I got hit with a squirt gun. Then I was like... this Wall Street Journal reading, early 40ish guy does not have a squirt gun. I glanced over and saw his apple and was just... impressed...confused... violated. It was amazing.

Anyway pizza is here and I wanna eat so. TRIP WENT WELL. Will update on trip more later. bai
 
 
mood: hungry
 
 
Ali West
16 April 2008 @ 11:46 pm
Living woes  
A few days ago LJ's writer's block thing was "What do you love about where you live?," which made me think that I should write a bit about my apartment situation now and how I feel about it now.

In December I was asked to move out in May by Anna because ( too explain this in as few words as possible... ) Charles is a douchebag. At the time it was an understandable request but one that I still sort of grumbled over, since I had no idea what I was going to do and all other options I could think of at the time were just awful. Living with a complete stranger or sleeping on my parents couch and living out of a suitcase all summer/next semester/indefinately? Augh. Ughughugh.

Anyway, so, yeah. It is April now and May is fast approaching, bringing two amazing concerts ( :D :D ), finals ( D: ) and my departure from this apartment. I'm kind of torn about how I feel about this. I complain about this apartment alot and it would be an understatement for me to say that I'm not really all that inlove with Starrett City. Charles' douchebaggery was grown to point where even I can't stand it ( but I think that may not be a change in him so much as that he's now taken up a common area in the apartment and it's become something that I also have to deal with, not just Anna ) and I have to say I'm glad to have an escape route. I didn't really have an exit plan when I came here since I never thought it'd be so soon. I don't hate it here. I have a really nice view, it's easy to get home from here by car so I don't have to pay for the train, the 82 runs up by Justin and there's an easy, just kinda long, way to get to school as well. I also like Anna, we get along well, and it's nice to have someone to talk to despite how often I keep to myself.

But I guess it's not that I'm so much attached to Apt 11D itself, but I don't want to leave Brooklyn. I like it alot here, I feel like I could live here the rest of my life. It's cheap and lowkey and I actually like, fucking live in the hood, but I do really like it here. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm young and I'm enjoying my independance, but having access to Manhattan without paying Manhattan rental prices is an A++ would live there again to me. I'm married to the East Coast now, I had my chance to escape when deciding colleges, but after living here for 11 years there's too many reasons to stay (5 very important reasons, and some other intenal issues that I didn't want to have to work out while also dealing with the highschool/college transition).

My living situation worries have cooled lately, or at least.. found new form, as a new prospect is on the horizon involving [info]quantumblaze. Should I be being as blunt about this? I feel like I'm going to jinx things. I want this to happen but I keep telling myself that it won't, but I so want it to. There are alot of things that are make me kind of nervous, though. I'm really afraid Austin is going to hate me. But I dunno, an apartment in a nice area that's close to my school, living with someone who I know isn't at least a total weirdo or a stranger and not living with my mother? Austin can hate me all he wants, haha.

Anyway, beyond that I totally should be doing school work right now. I need a haircut and new clothes and a new best friend (though how can I say someone I haven't spoken to in like 3 weeks is my best friend?) and for this semester to be fucking over already, for real. SPRING, guys, CHANGE! It's gotta happen. I was so about to add a blurp about Dionysus after that! GO CLASSICS for being the only class I know I'm not failing, oh yeah! *fistpound*
 
 
mood: nauseated
: Justin Timberlake - Until the End of Time
 
 
Ali West
15 April 2008 @ 11:18 pm
Scandalous Scholastics! Or no.. really.. just scholastics.  
So about forever and a day ago, [info]solidlizzie  asked: How's school in general? Do you have a major? I'm curious to hear about what you're shooting for in the future.

Since I'm obligated by the law of memes, and I was kinda planning on writing about school tonight anyway....

I'm inlove with Brooklyn College again, because it's spring and everything on campus is blooming, and it's this little green field in somehow in the middle of Flatbush Junction and.. hearts. I've always liked the school; I complain about CUNY but it cheap, small, the campus is still pretty, the library is still way pretty, and I know--or at least I feel as if--I'm getting a good education, and that's good enough for me.

The problem this semester hasn't been Brooklyn College, it's been me. And it's been sucking really bad. My first semester I was all gung-ho about college and doing well, but now it's my second semester and the appeal has kind of warn off a bit. I don't want to fail and I've done enough to get me by, I just.. sort of don't care if I don't do well, either. The fact that I don't have a major is a big factor in this, I'm just going through the motions right now but I'm not actually working for anything. This combined with the fact that this semester is made up entirely of bullshit core classes? Lesigh.

I have to figure out a major. I really do. It's something I totally feel like I should have already done, even though I guess technically it shouldn't be a huge deal, but it is for me. I entered college thinking I'd be a psych major, which I'd love to do since I love learning about it, but I don't really want a career in psychology. I don't know.. I don't have like, a dream job, and things I could do to be working towards said dream but end up doing something kinda like it but not exactly. I should just major in something interesting, somethng that I like and can do well in and hope things will fall into place, but I can't. I don't know, I have my own weirdo false perceptions on how this all works that I.. know are false but I just can't get over. I wish I had a passion for something.. I really wish I did but I don't, and well. augh.

Next semester I won't just be taking core classes, hopefully it'll be better.

ANYWAY. More exciting news, I FINISHED APOLLO JUSTICE AND I ~LOVED~ IT. Almost so much so that I really hope they hold off on Ace Prosecutor for a bit and make a new Apollo Justice game.. Did I just type that? I think I did. It was so good though. omfg. Some minor complaints, as there always is, but well.... Phoenix > Apollo / Maya < Trucy / I could never choose between Ema and Gumshoe, really / and well... Edgeworth < Klavier. I'M SORRY. I'm sorry okay? IT'S TRUE. ;_; I heart Edgey.. I do. Klavier was awesome and he also wasn't a total asshole to Apollo which is so what I was expecting, especially after the results of the first case. Business in the courtroom was business but outside he wasn't a douche and I really liked that dynamic.

I need to add some Apollo Justice gifs to my moodtheme, though it might be getting a big overhal soon. I might make a new layout soon but I dunno, I don't want to get rid of this one so quickly either.. I'll probably keep it for the summer.

Anyway, I'm ending this for a list for my own benefit and for his as well...

Things I need to discuss immediately with Justin:
1. This
2. This
3. The conversation that needs to spring from this

Using my LJ for actual.. journal.. purposes.. is weird! Though there may be an entry soon about my housing woes. Hope you're all doing okay!
 
 
mood: thoughtful
: Phoenix Wright - CADENZA - The Steel Samurai
 
 
Ali West
08 April 2008 @ 08:29 pm
Uh, this should be good.  
Go to www. urbandictionary. com, and type in your answer to each question in the search box. Only use the first page.



 
 
mood: nauseated
: Badly Drawn Boy - This Is That New Song
 
 
Ali West
07 April 2008 @ 11:14 pm
This might be fun.  
We all have things about our friends that make us slightly envious. Not in a bad way, but in a "Wow! I wish I had that person's hair, eyes, talents, money, skills, relationship, inner beauty, whatever."

So tell me what about me makes you envy me, then post this in your LJ and see what makes me envious of you!

This is a weird meme.
 
 
mood: curious
 
 
Ali West
07 April 2008 @ 12:35 am
Passing the time!  
Surevyyyy )
 
 
mood: bored
: Yu-Gi-Oh - Heard of the Cards
 
 
Ali West
26 March 2008 @ 06:21 pm
Hm.  
Does anyone want any White Ninja Comics icons? It just occured to me that I made a bunch that I never used. ( I have a bunch that I Do use, though. )




Man, so awesome. Thank you [info]blackmage137  for introducing it to me~ lol

Anyway! Sarah's here so I've just been hanging out. As you saw Easter was awesome! The whole week has been awesome, actually.

More later when there's actually things to write.
 
 
mood: okay