http://sardynka144.wrzuta.pl/sr/f/4S8MmIVPo3b/diana_vickers_-_once_manhattan_clique_remix_edit.mp3

http://emotikonek2.wrzuta.pl/sr/f/15NkB4eFdz8/the_midnight_beast_-_ninjas.mp3

I have some kind of compulsion to write something, LISTEN UP.

1. I'm an official Green Terror! I'm going to McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland this fall- the check and forms are right about to be mailed. bought the sweatpants and everything. I'm excited! It feels so much better knowing where I'll be going next year and that I'll be happy there. I'm thinking about a major in English and a minor in art, but we'll see where that goes.
My mom isn't too happy, but I think the idea is growing on her.

2. I'm working on a final art project for my Bible Lit class (long story), and I just realized something. I haven't actually sat down and DRAWN anything for weeks. I've been so stressed about college and busy with school that I just haven't had time ): I feel like all the creativity's been sucked out of me, and I really need to get back into the swing of things...but I can't really think of any ideas.

3. For my senior project, I think I'll be volunteering at the hospital again, either actually doing stuff or shadowing one of the doctors or nurses there. My grandfather (who volunteers there now) says they need people to draw pictures and design brochures and posters for certain units and waiting rooms and whatnot, that sounds like something I'd like doing...

Oh and there are some train stories from my trip to Florida that I need to write down before I forget them....
(long story short, I spent a total of 44 hours on a train, 18 on the way down, 26 on the way up. It was often boring. but fun)

The train ride down to Florida wasn't all that interesting. It was the trip back up to Maryland that was.

It was assigned seating, right? So I was like YES when I got assigned a seat with no one already sitting next to me. I defended that seat to the DEATH, put my food on the tray and my backpack on the seat and everything, making it look like someone was already sitting there.

It's around 11:30, I finally stretch out on the two seats, using my sweatshirt as a pillow, and fall asleep for...idk a good two hours.

Until I hear:
"Um, excuse me..."

I just said OH sorry lemme move my stuff for you, though of course on the inside I was thinking....DAMN.

So later on I'm trying to sleep uncomfortably in my seat, right? I overhear the older black guy behind me (who is drunk and had been giving the other people on the train some trouble earlier) offer the guy in the row across the aisle some brandy. The guy says sure.

Then I suddenly hear:

HEY GIRLFRAND.
(oh god I don't mean this as a racial thing, it's simply the way he said it. struck me as funny.)

.....I'm like....what, me. I sit up and the guy's like, would you like some brandy.
I say no thank you, stressing the "thank". No THANK you.

The guy who had just accepted the brandy had been talking to me earlier, and mentioned to the man that I was only in high school. This didn't phase (faze? uh.) the guy at all, he just went on and insisted that "HIGH SCHOOLAHS DRINK".

All I could say was....well I don't.

So I escaped to the lounge car, where I met Rob.
Rob's pretty cool. He's 21, and was also in Florida for a week. Baseball cap, cut-off jeans, some tattoos with lyrics from a band I can't remember (though he let me listen to them on his ipod, and I can't say the screaming was my style). Recently bought a Mustang, mentioned that his dog Simba had died four days earlier, was fond of getting absolutely smashed, and told the funniest stories I had ever heard. It's amazing the people you meet when you and a handful of other people are all stuck on a train.

I told him I was heading to Baltimore, and he told me about a time he and his dad had gotten lost in Baltimore and wound up in a place where all of the names of places seemed to have the word "gay" in them. And he started getting nervous, when his dad pulled over to ask for directions he was like NO, NO JUST KEEP DRIVING.

Alright, so it's a little homophobic, but the way he put it CRACKED ME UP:
"I thought it was going to be like Dawn of the Dead, and they'd swarm around the car saying join us, JOIN USSSSSS."

This was at around 4 in the morning, mind you. I can't sleep on a moving vehicle. Everything is funnier when you haven't slept for almost a full day.

There were so many stories, I couldn't possibly write them all. But they were really entertaining.

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Now for a MUSIC QUIZ because I need a timewaster.

RULES:
For ten of your favorite bands, post the first song you heard by them, the song that made you fall in love, your all-time favorite song, and your current favorite.

1. A Perfect Circle
First: Magdalena
Love: Passive
All-time: Blue
Current: The Outsider

2. Muse
First: Starlight
Love: Map of the Problematique
All-time: Map of the Problematique
Current: The Small Print or Exo-Politics

3. Radiohead
First: Karma Police
Love: Idioteque
All-time: Idioteque
Current: 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm.)

4. Placebo
First: Infra-Red
Love: Their cover of "Running Up That Hill"
All-time: Oh god I don't know. Blind, Special K, The Bitter End
Current: English Summer Rain, Commercial for Levi

5. Oasis
First: Wonderwall probably
Love: Morning Glory
All-time: Either of those or Live Forever
Current: Falling Down

(I'm not good at coming up with just ONE for each, am I.)

6. Coheed & Cambria
First: Welcome Home
Love: Welcome Home
All-time: Three Evils, The Suffering
Current: The Crowing, 33

7. Mew
First: The Zookeeper's Boy
Love: Special
All-time: Special
Current: Am I Wry? No.

8. Nine Inch Nails
First: Only
Love: The Hand that Feeds
All-time: We're in this Together
Current: Down in it

I'm seriously running out of bands I'm like....really, really into.

9. Tool
First: Parabola
Love: Parabola
All-time:....Parabola
Current: Vicarious, Sober

10. The Mars Volta
First: Inertiatic ESP
Love: Inertiatic ESP
All-time: That one.
Current: Eriatarka

Mostly music- and England-related, for some reason.

So after they had already told me the vacation would be impossible, my grandparents mentioned to my mom a little while ago that we'll be staying in a flat in London for a week this summer, and I'm bringing a friend along. Holy shit #1.

So I was looking up things we could do other than the usual touristy things...and it turns out OASIS is going to be playing in Edinburgh while we'll be there (holy shit #2), so I got all excited and pitched the idea to the grandparents...

Because of my AMAZING POWERS OF GEOGRAPHY I didn't realize that Edinburgh is actually way north, in Scotland, more than 400 miles away from London. FUCK. Still an amazing trip though.

So after some brooding I accepted that the concert is out of the question...

Though I did hear Muse is touring in the fall....that would be #3 I forgot how AMAZING they were after buying BH&R when it came out and then ignoring them for a good few years. If they come anywhere near Baltimore or D.C. I will shit a brick.

Oh, the other thing I found out about that was going on, this time in Surrey...

Top Gear is doing a recording on the same day Oasis will be playing. Except you have to be 18 or older to go, and the party has to be half male, half female. They say this is to avoid having a bunch of car nerds show up but still ):

ffff I LOVE TOP GEAR I wish I could explain why, I don't care that much for the cars and things (which is kind of what it's all about) but ohhh wow it's hilarious and Richard is adorable. I'm such a dork.

There was going to be a third thing....YES new Placebo album coming out June 8th, day before I graduate from high school. Get excited. for both (8

And those are my obsessive ramblings for the day....night. WHAT it's 1:20 am. I drank so much coffee I stopped caring how much sleep I got....and I'm waking up eeeaarly to take a shower later, oh tomorrow will be FUN.

Peace, sorry if the coffee and lack of sleep make me sound like an idiot.

BUT LIFE WILL BE PRETTY FANTASTIC. As long as I can survive this semester.

....

ALSO I DREW A CHAMELEON.

I don't know what just reminded me of this, but I was on the Light Rail on the way downtown, and at one of the stops, someone had scribbled something on the wall.

It just said
'sometimes I feel stupid'

I think I need to go back and get a picture of that.

And edit: What do you know, somebody already did.

http://autonomy-is-freedom.deviantart.com/art/Sometimes-I-Feel-Stupid-110539110

WELLLLLLL for the first time this winter it's finally snowing |'D -JOYYYYYY- ftw they said it's only supposed to be an inch tonight and less tomorrow, BUTSTILL it's pitiful but somuch better than it's been so far XD
.....I HATE SUNDAYS.
-boredtodeath- Mrf.

I don't want to go back to schoool either, they say there's going to be ice storms or something tomorrow but my school wouldn't close for a hurricane |D;

ANNNNNNND....I'm not looking forward to facing my art teacher, who sent me an email bugging me about a self-portrait (late) that I need to turn in by Tuesday....I really...just....don't want to do it. I CAN'T. Or this project (of the same thing, in charcoal) we're doing in class. There's no way I can pass this useless next semester and I really wish I could switch to theatre appreciation or something like that because YAKNOWWHAT I could at least knock out an Arts credit instead of wasting my time with this.
.....rant over.

Anyway.
....kaylolso I saw Maneshi's DA journal thing yesterday about dreams, and I was like WHYY I can NEVER remember my dreams...and then I remembered the one I had last night, three of them, I'll just post the last, weirdest one because the other ones are stupid XD

Kayso.
I’m sitting on this thing in some sort of ride that looks like my neighborhood, except everything is decked out in Halloween stuff, the side across the street from me has creepy trees and spiderwebs and all that, but my side of the street is like SUPERBRIGHT and neon pink and green and jungle-y with light-up flamingos and stuff. So I’m sitting there with some guy friend of mine and Sachi from SROA (NO idea why o.o) and...we just go through, and at the very end of the ride it's this room that looks like an alleyway and it dumps you out into this huge garbage bin and I flip over and I’m sitting in this big yellow garbage...mashing thing on my back and I see the words LEG CRUSHER written on it, so I’m like WTFWTFWTF but the lady controlling the ride (she's really old and wearing like, these funny glasses and pink stuff) is all...IT’S OKAY (: We just do that to scare people. I realize I’m lying in a pile of garbage bags in this thing so the three of us start taking them out and putting them on a conveyor belt...that’s all I remember XD
Lmao, that's exactly what I jotted down right when I woke up, so it's like one huge sentence.

....ouuuu....you know what really annoys me?
This person asks me for a commision slot on Subeta and OFCOURSE being the pushover I am, I'm all yeahsure (:
So we clear up payment and crap and the same person sent me an smail this MORNING asking how it was coming along, and this way after I told them I had exams all week and wasn't exactly online every second |D;....eh. I know I'm a procrastinator though, I still have stuff to finish.

Um, my mom talked to my dad and he's setting up a paypal account for me, even after we got a PO box the other day xD So my commisions and stuff are pretty much completely out in the open, but I guess it doesn't really bother me.

....I'm going nowhere with this ee;

CAN'T YOU TELL I'M STILL BORED.
SOMEONE AMUSE ME.
-invades youtube-