My first maxed out title! Mostly thanks to Sarah doing the Ruins of Salajajdfdsfjdf for me. Okay so I cheated just a tad but the other 99% was all Ghada, baby.

Mood: happy

  You know what's awesome? Electricity. I love that stuff.

  Also the AC, the fan, the microwave, being able to open the fridge whenever I want, and not having to listen to a generator.

  Oh, and my PS2, because I finally got to watch Persepolis, which I got via Netflix yesterday. It's a very good movie and it's on my to-buy list now.

  Yesterday the weather was just "meh" all day since we were in the eye all day long, and then all lulled into a false sense of security I drove over to Keith's house and got stuck. I kept waiting for the weather to get better, but it kept getting worse and worse. Around 10:30 I finally said to hell with it and drove home. It was an interesting experience, that's for sure... but I got home okay.

Mood: sleepy

  ... so you know how this morning I was all "cool beans, we're in the eye of the storm!" Well... we're still in the eye of the storm. Because the storm... has stopped. According to weather.com, it is totally stationary. It's just chillin'.

  So hopefully work will be slow again tomorrow. :D

Mood: lethargic

• Whoohoo! I'm in the eye of a tropical storm right now! How sweet is that. It's not as cool as I'd imagined -- it's just kind of bleh and overcast still, but how cool is it still to be like YES I AM IN THE EYE.
  
  My parents got today off again so I'm going over to Sarah's to play Guild Wars all day. Thank god. Listening to dad obsessively rip paper out in the front room is already driving me insane. I just closed my door and I can still hear the paper-ripping. T____T
  
  Apparently the storm is predicted to get out over the ocean and then turn back around and rain on us some more, so I am really hoping that Thursday and Friday are hella shitty outside and rainy and will prevent the great masses of back-to-school shoppers from pouring into Staples in a great deluge. Yesterday was more like a Saturday than a Tuesday; it was nice. :)



• Someone dropped one of the classes I wanted to take so I dropped the crappy class I had randomly selected and snapped up the good one!! It changed my schedule to Monday-Tuesday instead of Monday-Wednesday buuut who cares; I'm just happy I don't have to take Database Management Systems. I can buy my books now! Woohoo!

Mood: okay

  Aww man, my parents both get the day off because of tropical storm-ness but I still have to go to work. :/

  See Amanda whine. Whine, Amanda, whine.

Mood: gloomy

  Boooo. Krysti has gone home. I tried to convince her that she needed to stay forever, but she didn't listen.

  And boooo. I lost the fight for class registration. I got one of the ones I wanted, but in the .5 seconds that registration opened, I lost ALL OF THE OTHER OPTIONS for the second. There were tons of "core classes" left, but for your first semester you can only take one, so I couldn't pick another of those. So I just kind of had to pick one at random. Nice. Real nice.

Mood: listless
Music: No Reservations

  There are so many random thoughts running around in my head, and also I love lists.

• Tried to return purse at Target. No go, even though I had unexpired receipt. They said you can return it if it's dying from one-two weeks of use, but not two months. :/ And everyone I've talked to has said there's absolutely no way to fix it. I looked at other purses in Target, but none are as awesome as this one... it's so perfect with its inside big enough to hold a library book, two side pockets perfect for cellphone and keys, and little secret inside area perfect for all my first aid needs. Sigh.



• Dropped by work to pick up my 8-GB-for-$27-jump-drive and to say goodbye to Anthony (awesome coworker), who is leaving for Texas tomorrow. :(



• Does anyone know how to turn off those fucking "snap" previews that are all over LJ? They piss me off to no end. I always right click to open a link in a new tab, and as soon as I put my mouse over the link the snap thing pops up and I have to try a million times before I can finally do what I'm trying to do. I hate those things so much.



• Sometimes I feel that I should be more articulate in my LJ. A lot of time my posts are just rambles and outbursts, pretty much direct from the Mind of Amanda. A lot of you guys on my flist write these beautifully-written journal entries that are lovely to read. And now I'm reading Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book which makes journaling a work of art. She can write some the bitchiest things ever about people and it's beautiful.



• 4 days till Krysti comes! :D

Mood: busy

  I am so close to finishing the Amanda Saves the Internet Project, but I don't think I'll have it done before Krysti gets here since I only have three more days (two days off and one work day) to work on it. :( I think I may definitely have it done before school starts on the 25th though. :3

  After that I am so playing Guild Wars for a million hours until I am sick of it.

  I have to go to Target today and see if I can return my wonderful new purse as it's ripping everywhere. :( :(

Mood: anxious

  One more day of work until my weekend. Yaaay! And then one more day of work after that and Krysti will be here!

  It seems like at least once every day this week I've pissed someone off due to copyright. I mentally cringe every time I see that stupid copyright symbol, or every time I see someone unroll a caricature (I've had like three of those recently, and every time the person pretty much wanted to beat me in the head when I told them that since it was signed, it was technically protected by copyright).

  "Oh no, I know the artist/the photographer, he/she told me I could copy this!" He/she could have easily written us a letter and you can just as easily ask him to. I'm not going to take your word for it, dammit. YOU COULD BE A STING OPERATION. DX

  No, it's not because I don't want to copy it. Believe me, I'd love to have been able to copy it in the first place so you wouldn't be standing here glaring at me with eyes filled with hate. It's not because I'm being lazy or because I'm just a big jerk. IT IS AGAINT THE LAW. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT.

Mood: relaxed
Music: Deep Space 9

  Okay, so you know Wiki-Hopping, where you look at a wiki article and then go crazy and waste your entire night learning about totally awesome stuff.

  Was listening to an iTunes playlist and a peking opera song "Red Bright Heart" came up, and it is awesome but bad quality and short, so I was thinking "should look to see if it's on YouTube."

  Well, it's not, but this was pretty much my YouTube train of "thought." I thought it was pretty interesting how I went from looking for peking opera to central asian music to western chinese music to bellydance and then back to Chinese music. Because I'm weird and yes this is what happens when I get bored on the internet.

• Kazakhstan Kazakh, "Akjaik" (from this I slowly moved east onto China's ethnic groups)


• Xinjiang Uyghur Dance


• Xinjiang Uyghur Folk Song
  • Yalla Habibi (a brief and random detour to awesome Arabic music as usual)
• Goddess with Frangrance and Beautiful Sound


• Song Zuying (man if this doesn't look like a travel ad I don't know what does. COME VISIT THE AMAZING ETHNIC GROUP! THIS ONE HAS GONDOLAS!)
  
• 56 Ethnic Groups of China


• 12 Girls Band - The Best Guzheng Solo Never Seen


• Paean of Beethoven (keep watching, it starts out weird but is eventually amazing

Music: lots of random stuff on Youtube