Happy Halloween! I'm Staying In...

Hello my boo-tiful ghosts,

I'm going to make this post a short one because I have a paper to write, and then another one to outline because I need to write it tomorrow. So I'm just going to do a quick re-cap from Thursday to today.

Sandy Days Ahead

So I kind of forgot it is/was Monday (depending on your time zone) because my classes were canceled thanks to Hurricane Sandy.  That's okay though!  I'll come up with something great.

Hurricane incoming!

Hey, I'm back! It's been a while since I posted, and I have a lot to tell you. I'm still feeling a bit drained after the last few weeks with all the homework, tests, and whatnot, but I'm going to start forgetting if I don't post now.

At least I still have my personality.

I'm writing this on Thursday night with the intent of time-delaying the post for Friday, because I'm hopping on a bus at 10:30 tomorrow morning and I don't want to have to worry about writing a post between the end of my morning class (8:50) and then. So if you're reading this and it's not Friday yet, well, chalk that up to my technological savvy.

Its not my day...

But I couldn't control myself.

What I Did With My October Break

Let's talk about my trip to D.C., shall we?

The sky, like a bashful youth kissed for the first time, blushed with a peach-pink light.

Right now it's 11:05 PM and I don't think I can write a satisfying post in the time before Tuesday ends and Wednesday takes over so I'm not going to.  Maybe I'll update it tomorrow when I have free time, who knows.  I've been really busy these past few weeks so maybe not.  I know I sound like a broken record, but if you were here in Berkeley you would know that I am quite stressed out with all the stuff I have to do. Until Thanksgiving I'll be in a perpetual state of work so I might not have any good posts if any at all. I realize how disappointing this might be to all of you, but I need to take care of my life before I worry about documenting it.  A baby cared for that no one knows about is better than a dead baby with a birth certificate.  That is precisely the analogy I thought about, and if that doesn't reveal my sanity level right now, I don't know what will.  For the few... wait will I even see any of you at Thanksgiving?  You guys are so lame, why must you be so awesome that I miss you so.  Hope you're enjoying life.

Jason

And his voice had iron in it.

Berkeley people who know of Kvothe. Jason, Kevin, Morgan. I am angry at all of you because you are not currently enrolled in the class that your college is offering right now that is focused on comparing The Name of the Wind and A Game of Thrones.

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The Irony of a Homebody IR Major

Yoodle doodle doo.  This song is on Pandora (Mumford & Sons station) while I am writing this.  It sounds nice, so listen to it if you want.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?

I have intentionally taken the lives of exactly 111 living creatures in the last twenty-one hours. Why, how, and from whom, you ask? Patience, lads and lasses. Patience.

MINECRAFT!

HEY GUYS I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING EVER BUT WATCH THIS VIDEO ANYWAY OKAY BYE BYE NIGHT NIGHT.

Busy Having Fun

Hey suckers ,

I'm currently in D.C. being an adventurer. And since I plan on continuing this adventure right now and throughout the break, I am sort of too busy to write about it currently. And last week was super lame because all I was doing was studying and doing work for my mid-terms.
So.
I'll either come back here in a few days to update you and then do another one next wednesday on different information.
Or just have this be a lame post and then do a real one next week.
I haven't decided yet.

Cheers,

Nicole

A little late but well meaning (:

This is me and the guy I wish I was with every day.

Hey guys.  Sorry this is late.  I got in late and very tired from Chicago yesterday, and was greeted by a pile of homework I wasn’t fully aware I had.  I won’t go into more detail, because I know you guys know that I’m committed to TMDW and that this is important to me.

That said, it is 11:45 EST, so this blog will primarily be a travel blog about my adventures with Devin in Chicago.  Expect pictures and sleepy commentary.

A time of reflection

Four score and seven years ago

I have a race this afternoon. It's in Burlington. My parents will be there. I'm hanging out with them for Fall Break (Jason so mad it funny). We have Monday and Tuesday off. I'm tired. I have a race later today, and I think I'm going to skip my class at 11:15 because I'd rather sleep. It'll be the first class I've skipped this semester. Actually, I'd rather sleep that write this blog post. I'll just make it quick.

HEY KIDS

It's almost fall break!  Enjoy this vidya.

The Worst Post Ever. (Seriously, your eyes will bleed.)

Hello movers and shakers. This is probably going to be a short, horrible post because this is the week before midterms (which are on Monday and Tuesday of next week) and all of my professors seem to be in competition with each other to win the contest of  "Who can give the most work to Nicole?". Prepare for poorly written thoughts and descriptions about the week.

Guest Appearance

This is my friend Joe.

Fall Break Adventures Forthcoming

Hey, fellow bloggers and internet stalkers (not an exhaustive list of people who will be reading this—hey to all of you, too).

Road Trip!

Hey guys,
I'm writing this on my phone right now, so it won't be too long. I'm on a road trip with my pledge class over our four day weekend. We'll be heading to other chapters of ADPhi and hopefully studying up about the fraternity along the way.

I had my first hell week, which was mostly self-induced. On Saturday, I did a puzzle hunt held by an IT company called Palantir, and a team of us at ADPhi competed for around 6 or 7 hours. Then I watched Shaun of the Dead for the first time. Great Saturday.
Sunday, I got up around 6 to go to Maker Faire in New York. The event is hosted by a magazine called Make, which is all about cool DIY projects people do, and the Faire was a chance to see a whole bunch of this stuff up close. A lot of the projects involved using Arduino processors in cool ways, like a Linux tablet, a keyboard/motion tracking mouse glove, and 3D printers. This, as you might imagine, took up a significant portion of my Sunday.
Now what was happening with my homework during all this time? I had an essay due and first bio test to study for on Monday, and psets due Tuesday and Thursday. Nothing started by the time I began working on Sunday, 10pm.
Lessons learned: start psets at least a day before they're due; don't try to learn the material the night before the pset is due because you've skipping lecture; playing pool is not an efficient way to learn material; interesting things happen when you go out for pizza at 3 am.
Next week, I'll hopefully have some cool stories about pledge road trip!

The Fire of Scorching Wind

Whazzup. This week had some good parts and some bad parts, but mostly it had average parts, like all weeks do. We cans start with a good part. It's first chronologically anyway.

WHO IS RICH?!

Hey guys I feel really really bad about not posting so then today I was like "I'll make a video then everyone will love me right?!" but then my brain was like "HEY RICH REMEMBER THAT COLLEGE YOU'RE IN AND PAYING A SHITTON OF MONEY FOR THAT'S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD PROBABLY DO FOR REALZOS".  So then I was like okay then brain we'll do our work but then we're gonna feel bad about not posting our blog post again and my brain said "HEY DUDE BRO LISTEN NO IT'LL BE FINE YOU'LL JUST STAY UP LATE AND POST AFTER YOU DRINK SOME COFFEEEEEEEEEE AND YOU'LL BE FINE!" So that's where I am right now.  Right there.  Okay let's go!

No one ever writes songs mentioning October. I'll change that.

It's sort of rainy here. There are so many puddles to...

Such Sweet Nothing

I like this song.  I can find meaning in it.  I can find meaning in a lot of songs though.  Hmm.

Unfortunately I won't be writing much in this post because I incurred quite a serious burn that has impeded my typing ability.  A picture of it is beyond the jump if you think you can stomach it.  It's pretty nasty.  Until next week when I hopefully regain function, au revior.

Jason

I watched Hercules this week but this post was too long to talk about that.

Hey guys!

My first time at the White House since coming to AU.  This is not me.