oh people.

simply put, this video makes me laugh.
it's pretty funny/sad all at the same time.
years ago, my gen chem professor at unr showed our class this website:
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
sort of along the same lines... just showing how perhaps people should think a little more about their hysteria?

balance.

this page was a real struggle.
i'm still not sure if it looks just right, but i don't have that *perfect* thing to add to it, so for now... it's good.
the whole simple, uncluttered look is really hard for me to do... i want to fill up that space! but for this page... i wanted to give it a try. :]
and of course, it's rainy and dreary here today, so i couldn't really get a good photo.
ah well.

happy memorial day weekend everyone!
i'm still sick... so i hope to spend the weekend relaxing, doing homework, and feeling better. :]

always a.

[everybody's doing it... and so will i because i am still sick and absolutely cannot sleep.]

here goes:

my name: amy.
four words: astounding. american. analytical. amazing.
state/city: alabama / albuquerque.
boy name: alex.
girl name: alexis.
occupation: analyzer.
something found in a kitchen: appliances.
something you shout: ack!
something you look for in a guy/girl: athletic.
something that is in your room: apple [computer]. animals [stuffed].
place to shop at: anthropologie.
name a band/artist: arcade fire / andy warhol.

ugh.

i don't know what happened to me, but i am so stinking sick today.
luckily, i don't have any classes today, i was just supposed to spend several hours in the lab.
yesterday, i had a sore throat, but it was tolerable. then last night around 10:30 i started feeling really weird. so i went to bed by 11:00, didn't sleep really well, and woke up around 7:00 completely unable to move. i stayed in bed all morning either being freezing cold or burning hot. then i was finally able to make it up the stairs around 2:00 and my dad looked at me and said, "you look awful." my whole body is still hurting. my head hurts. and i'm still freezing cold or burning hot... mostly way too hot though.
so ugh.

and i have homework tonight. i just have to read about 40 pages for my core humanities class and answer 6 study questions, but right now, it seems totally impossible.
hopefully i'll start feeling better soon. :/

el fin.

the end of summer! yikes.
tonight i did a few things to wrap up the summer. i finished watching the last two episodes of season 6 of sex in the city. that means that i finished watching the whole series this summer. [next, i think i might try watching the office. i hear it's fantastic.]
i also did some laundry. it kind of paired nicely with sex in the city... i could pause it to go start a new load and whatnot. it made the whole laundry process much better. :]
i've also gathered some notebooks, found my planner, and planned a little lunch for tomorrow.

it makes me slightly sad that college has become so routine that the excitement of "the first day of school" is essentially gone. most of my professors hardly spend any time going over the syllabus and usually just jump right into the material. so that whole comfortable, adjustment period that used to be the first day of school no longer exists.
i still try to buy school supplies to get excited, but all i really need these days is pens. last year, i bought three 10 packs of notebooks at target for $1 each to stock up. i also have more note cards by now then i will be able to use.
the only exciting thing left is buying my textbooks. and i suppose that's only exciting to me because i don't actually have to pay for them, my parents do. but because of my excitement, i buy them as soon as they go on sale, which was at the beginning of the month.
so yeah. not a whole lot of excitement left. mostly just feeling the stress set in now. :/

oh. and work was crazy today. we have so many boxes of new product and no room for it. so i had a busy day of trying to rearrange things and fit the new stuff. i made some good progress, and it sure did make the day go by faster. still waiting for hambly. i will be so so so excited when it gets here. but i think i'll have to be patient for a while.

anyway. i better get to bed. my first class is at 8:00am. yikes.
i hope everyone had a good weekend. :]

random fun.

so. i met josh freshmen year. i had this 8:00am honors seminar class, and he was in it.
throughout the semester we became pretty good friends.
he plays the guitar and sings. i've watched him play many times at open mic nights and such.
then.
he called the other day to say he had a show at electronic espresso with a full band saturday night.
it's been a while since i've been able to watch him play, so of course i decided to go.
it turns out that two of the members of his band are clint and andy.
ah.
so weird.
so there were a lot of fallon people there that have for some reason decided they don't like me, and i am not someone who should be acknowledged. ha. whatevs. erin, liz, and i went together, and some of josh's other friends were there who i know. so we ended up having a really good time. we were the only ones who really knew the songs, so we were the only ones who were singing along and clapping and just having a genuine good time.
afterwards, liz, erin, and i decided that we wanted to go to seven. it's a little tea bar downtown. pretty fun to just get a pot of tea and hang out. we mentioned it to josh and some of his friends, so they came too. so we had a big pot of tea and there were anywhere from about 12 of us around this big table. i soon realized i was sitting around the table with logan miller and jj billett. how funny. and somehow we got to talking about how we learned each other's names thoughout the night. logan said that he knew my name, and i was curious to know if he actually remembered me, or had just picked it up that night. so i was asking him... and finally, he goes, "no. i remember your name because i got your phone number a while back at a show." HA. so awkward. i had completely forgotten about that.
but it turned out to be a really fun night.
and i think liz might be mildly interested in this boy nate, who is friends with james, but also friends with josh. it's kind of funny because i was hanging out with him last night at james' house, and then again tonight at the show and seven, which are just two completely different crowds of people.

i guess i'm a little sad because i wanted to meet up with james tonight, but he was out with all his friends. i was trying to convince him to hang out with me instead, but it just wasn't woking. ah well. he said he'll bring me lunch tomorrow, so we'll see.

oh. and here's a little video just because we discussed sufjan over tea. he is supposed to make an album for all 50 states and we were just talking about how fabulous the nevada album could be. HA.

darejack #4.

so when i first glanced at nisa's page, i thought the vintage paper was a bunch of finger prints. [ha. that's what happens when i'm not wearing my glasses.] so anyway, i went with that idea for my page. then i just went with the whole identity theme from there. so fun.

i seriously loved working on this page. i've been itching to scrap for a while, but missing my mojo. then this one just came together so easily... i love it when that happens. :] oh. and. i love that whole scenic route collection, i don't even know how many times i've bought those papers... but i never use them. ha. so it was nice to finally use some AND come out with a page that i'm happy with. double yay. :]

ok. off to see if there's anything left of my mojo.

inspired.

i just read heidi swapp's blog... she and her family are moving to china for a year! that seems so totally insane to me. but at the same time, it actually seems inspiring. i'm so interested in traveling, but i know that i want to have a family. i've always sort of thought that it had to be one way or the other. you know what i mean? but if she can do it with 5 children, i think maybe i could do it one day too. and what a totally amazing experience for the kids. wow.

what else... i was really mean to my bank account today. between j. crew, buckle, and banana republic... yikes. and the sad thing is, i only got 3 shirts, one pair of jeans, and one dress. but it is back to school time afterall... so i'm trying to justify my purchases. ha.

oh. and the guy at buckle offered me a job. he's helped me out before, and i guess he's the manager. he said that i really know my jeans well. i was sort of laughing it off until he told me the discount would be 40% off. eeek. i totally want to work there now. he said i could work there as little as 6 hours per week. that's not so bad. but i need to really watch how much i'm piling onto my plate. i want to keep my job at the scrapbook store, and i'm just not sure that adding another part time job on top of all my school stuff is the best idea. still in the back of my mind though. 40% off. ha. :]

otherwise. i need some photos. seriously. i want to scrapbook. i just feel like there's nothing to scrapbook about. ack. well. maybe i'll go look again.

eta: so i found one on my desk and got my darejack done, as you can tell from the post above. i'm a happy girl now. :]