Last Post from Spain!

It’s been a fairly introspective day, but I’m writing this after eating a big steak and drinking red wine (room service). I’m currently sitting in my hotel room bed and knowing that I’m way too lazy and relaxed to do a proper blog entry. So, a quick summary:
• Got all teary saying goodbye to my roommates. They’re all really good people and I’m lucky to have gotten to know them. I will miss them A LOT. It's weird saying goodbye to people that you've come to love in a way while wondering whether or not you'll ever see them again.
• Thought about how one’s life can totally change in one day.
• Listened to some music on the bus to Barcelona that made me think a lot about the fact that I’m starting completely over, from a blank slate. Had my first very brief moment of terror. Started listening to Lady Sovereign to get out of that mood (was getting teary eyed again on the bus).
• Bus was full of Danish high school students. They are SO blonde! All of them!
• Got to hotel, room was tiny, no bathtub, poor internet connection. Complained, got new, MUCH huger room with tub and better internet connection.
• Took first bath in five months (I’ve been showering). Realized that I kind of like baths better in theory than in practice.
• Had a steak for room service and about to go to bed. It’s only 9:40, but I have to get up at 4 a.m., travel all day, and then party with my friends.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life. Holy shit!

I Can't Stop Cruising Websites

For dogs to adopt, that is.

Here is today's obsessision:



Isn't he the cutest little snugglebutt you've ever seen?

Unfortunately, I'm homeless and by the time I have a job and then a home, I'm sure he'll be taken. I can only hope that an equally adorable specimen will appear by that point.

In other news, talked to my best friend today and I am contemplating taking a little trip to Miami to see her before I get a job. On the one hand I feel like it's a bit irresponsible to go on vacation while you're supposed to be looking for a job. On the other hand, I GoogleEarthed her address and she has a pool, is really close to the beach, it's in the mid- to high 70s there, who knows when I'll next have time for a vacation, and she might move away for grad school. Oh, and once I have a job, home, and dog, well, I'll need a dog sitter!

Who Are You??

Ok, I just found out that people (or person) from my soon-to-be/kind-of-already ex-department read this blog, which is kind of weird (but I don't mind). I guess I didn't think that that blog post about me dropping out of school would actually be any sort of announcement. Anyway, I also have various tracking devices on this blog (don't worry, it doesn't tell me which individuals look at it, but it does give me your IP address [which is kind of useless because you can't track IP addresses with much specificity]) and I see that people in Java and Australia and Quito read my blog (Quito, you read it regularly!)! Some blogs I read on a regular basis mentioned that a few weeks ago was National Delurking Week. I have no idea if this is something they just made up and they're blog friends, so they all said it or what, but this is MY Delurking Week. Add a comment, fess up to who you are, I promise I won't change the content of this blog. Unless maybe you're my parents. But give me an idea of my audience please. And if you have a website, make sure to include that. Thanks!

p.s. I just woke up, so I'm not holding myself responsible for how well (or poorly) this post is written.
p.p.s. For those of you who look at this blog by clicking the link on my myspace: I'm setting the myspace to private as soon as I start looking for a job, so if you like this blog and you're not one of my myspace friends, copy down the link for future reference.

The Funniest Two Sentences I've Read on the Internet in Months

Taken totally out of context:

"Men can get a general idea of a girl's endowments before unveiling them, but penises are the Kinder Egg element of the human body. As you'll remember, cracking open one of those yellow capsules could yield something fun and useful, or shitty and pathetic."

(written by a man, by the way)

Source

Addition: It's been brought to my attention that not everyone knows what a Kinder Egg is, thereby stripping this post of all its humor. So, for those of you who've never seen one:

Another update: Got the picture up and found this blog entry on Kinder Eggs (includes pix). By the way, I'm pretty sure the "Kinder" is "children" in German and has nothing do with the egg being nicer than others.

Haunted Apartment?

I almost forgot to tell you all that I possibly stayed in a haunted apartment in Barcelona. Or maybe just a haunted room. Anyway, the first night I noticed that the overhead light would flicker on occasionally. Just a sort of soft glow. I attributed it to the crazy weather outside (strange magnetic fields?? I have no idea). Anyway, thinking this way made me feel better about the maybe ghost in my room. The next night, there was no crazy weather and the light still glowed occasionally. Surprisingly, I was fine with it. Usually the thought of ghosts scares the bejeezus out of me, but I was ok.

When I was in ninth grade, my parents were out of town for the weekend and my brother was living in Germany. I was home alone and went over to my best friend's to watch the ghost scene in Three Men and a Baby. I returned home after having seen the ghost. At some point I realized that there was no way I was going to be getting any sleep in my big empty house, so I rode my bike over to my friend's. She probably thought I was overreacting a little, but let me sleep on her floor. That wasn't good enough because I still kept imagining/dreaming that that little ghost boy was going to get me. So I got into her bed with her, but even that wasn't good enough. I had nightmares until she let me sleep between her and the wall. Finally I was safe now that I had my Lindsay protective shield. (Thanks, Lindsay!)

So, I'm pretty proud of myself for being able to mind over matter myself into staying in that room all that time.