Mainly.

Today has just been full of crises. I feel like my stomach's going to knot up and my hair will all turn gray (it's already getting started). But, for now, I was able to figure something good out.

First of all, it turns out two of my finals were at the same time today. No problem, I arranged with my French professor to take that final with the other class next Tuesday, and rushed to my FYS final and feel like I did pretty well. But still, that stressed me out quite a bit, and I figured that I could spend this afternoon cooling down. I bought myself a blended mocha and sat down....

Only to see that Zach, the guy who is giving me a ride to TX, which was SUPPOSED to happen in a week, thought that we were going at Wednesday. Which would mean I wouldn't be able to get home at all, which had been the original plan. So we exchanged messages, and then talked on the phone, and then met face to face to figure this shit out. I made MAJOR concessions (he was unwilling to make ANY at all, despite the fact that I'm splitting with him for gas to go a place he would have gone anyway, which equals about fifty that I'm paying myself) and instead, we're going to spend most of this weekend with my parents so I can at least see them a little this summer, and then we're leaving next Tuesday instead of Wednesday, going back to my house and staying the night, and leaving Herrin for Dallas Wednesday morning. I should be down in Cedar Hill with Charlene by Wednesday night (he claims it's a 12-hour drive). Called Charlene, and she's mainly okay with it, only they kind of have to smuggle me past security onto campus, so we're meeting at IHop, which is totally cool because I haven't had any IHop since free pancake day, and then I just had pancakes (go figure). But this does make my time with my parents a little rushed, and I'm really sorry for that. I really love them and they're paying for a lot of my shit, and it seems ungrateful of me not to want to spend extra time with them. Also, now I'm afraid that this whole tense situation, which involved me almost collapsing from stress while trying to figure out a way around this big problem, we're going to be kind of uncomfortable with each other, which will really suck if we have to be in a car together for roughly eighteen hours over the next week. Oh well, at least we have the same musical tastes, and we can spend most of it chilling to music in his car. I'll just stay up super late and sleep while he drives and hope that's cool with him.

But yeah, I called my parents and they're cool, and Charlene and she's cool, and the only thing I have to do is skip my Creative Writing "final" on Wednesday, which was just going to be us turning in our scenes and then casting them and reading them aloud. Thankfully, I already had mine read aloud in class Tuesday (it was AWESOME. it was slash, and everyone got uber uncomfortable. if I had more time, I'd describe it now. just trust me that it was amazing) so it's not like I'll be missing that experience. I just won't be able to hear my friends' plays read aloud. Maybe I'll get some of them to email them to me.

Now, handling the after-shocks. I'm just glad everything's been handled.

O.o They got me....

I took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! ""Wants interesting and exciting things to happen i..." Click here to read the rest of the results.

I've had this sudden rush of music lately. I've written four really good songs I can play well, and a fifth which I can't play well yet, but I'm working on it. Not to mention I've been learning to play some Chopin, which is crazy complex for me, but I'm doing pretty well. Def not professional, but you know how it is.


Anyway, my new songs... the beginnings of a second album, perhaps?

The Third Degree- Very piano-driven, kind of dark. Reminds me of a thunderstorm, but one of those rumbly ones, not the crashy ones.
End of the Line- I think is going to be a hidden track somewhere. It's very simple, but I think it has the potential to be very beautiful.
Reach- I wrote this about a month ago and am still in the honeymoon stage of my love for it. I think it might be one of the most fluid songs I've ever written. Its lyrics are kind of different from the sort of thing I usually do, but I definitely like how it's turned out.
Powerless- The musical interlude is going to keep me from getting a demo recorded on this one for a while, I'm sure. But lyrically, this is the closest to home that I've managed to write in a while. I feel the music really emobodies what it means.
Ganymede- This one is going to be really fun. The lyrics are very mythology, but the music is kind of bluesy, and my voice gets to do a bunch of cool kid tricks. It comes from listening to a playlist consisting of Regina Spektor and Dave Matthews Band for like half a day.


So yeah, I'm really excited about all of those. Not to mention, Adam is finally getting some stuff done on Believes in Fairies, including (apparently) some bass recording today, and some drum stuff, with any luck, within the week. I'll definitely let you guys know when that's going to be available.

Today in my intercultural communications class, we learned about gestures. I loved the Japanese gesture to signify that something/someone is homosexual so much that I figured I'd share.




Yeah I pretty much love it. I think I used it 20 times at lunch today.

Spring break is pretty much over. Ick.

I have two research papers due sometime over the next week, and only two half-research papers written. And I do NOT feel motivated to finish either one.

Fuck.

This week has been stellar. Seriously. And I thought today would suck, but it was amazing. Dropped Charlene off at the airport, which was sad, but we'll see each other really soon. Then I came home and slept for 5 hours, at which point my father wanted to see if I had died. Hadn't. So we had a kind-of birthday party, since I'll be at UE for my actual birthday. We all watched a movie. The only problem was how VERY little work I got done on my papers. I should be doing them now, actually, but I'm pretty much just talking to Charlene and then switching over to the window that has my paper and just STARING at it.


Wish me luck.

CANNOT wait until Spring Break. Charlene's going to come up, and it will be epic.

I'm trying to compose a pirate-y song for my sister's cartoon, but it's supposed to be whimsical, and I'm finding that kind of difficult. With any luck, it'll come to me.

Anyway, I have stuffs to do. But love you guys!

<3

Foreman and Thirteen.

Nikki and DL.

Molly and Micah.

Barack Obama and Rachel Cochran.

ADD: Seal and Heidi Klum. (thanks Brittany ^_^)

Aaaaand the new inductees....




XD

(*just for fun, not intended to be racist. although black guys ARE hot, so if anything it's kind of racist against the white boys....)

comment if you want to see the questions.

1. Haha Charlene! Or maybe Zach. Or Keith and Vee.
2. Meh my dad.
3. Charlene!
4. def me and Charlene.
5. uummmm nobody?
6. Charlene. or Jessica.
7. Ian, but I swiftly hijacked it. and Charlene.
8. Charlene is pretty much heavyweight champion of that right now.
9. idk... I don't think anybody really does unless I ask them to
10. Charlene, Zach, Annie, Jessica, Bekah, Anita.
11. Charlene and Jessica.
12. Charlene, Kelly, and Bekah.
13. Charlene of course! And Mary Renault.
14. Darren Hayes. That man is an inspiration.
15. Charlene or my parents.
16. Hillary or David.
17. Charlene! Or Matt! Awww I want to so bad!
18. Charlene, duh.
19. Jessica always has something new for me.
20. um idk
21. Charlene's ^_^
22. for what?
23. Charlene and Angela Chase.
24. um Lara Fabian.
25. ... me? My uncle Matt when it's dire.
26. haha all my friends!
27. everybody. XD

To pick up possible Valentines like JUST before Valentine's day. My guitarist/bassist Kevin and I have been hanging out a lot lately and I think I really do like him. ^_^ He's very sweet and INCREDIBLY good looking. He has a really strange sense of humor, but than again... so do I. And he's really unafraid to be himself around me, which is usually the problem with guys. The only thing is that he's good friends with LOTS of girls, so I had better not turn out to be the jealous type. Which, with my history, would... make sense if I were a little jealous sometimes, but I really don't think I am.

Anyway, our band rocks, and I still rock, and Adam's still working on producing the album. So more news on that as it comes.

So my Margins of the Moon characters have been invading my daydream time in class... I've drawn sketches of them all the way around my margins (teehee!). Although in fairness most are of Amash, who could just as easily be Mohinder, from Heroes OR from Chronos Anima. So I guess the combined awesomeness of all three things Sendhil Ramamurthy is involved with in my brain lends me to phaze out everything but his handsome, chiseled face.

I'm hopefully going to be in Rockport this summer, so long as it's a pretty sure thing I can get a job down there. Can anyone tell me how the job market is? ^_^

Album is also being worked on. It's going to kick ass.

Much appreciated,
Rachela