I just logged into LJ and saw the secrets weren't up. o_O Sorry, guys! Dunno where today's mod is.

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you know what I hate most about living in chicago/wisconsin?

is that winter, or at least November-May, is the perfect amount of time to forget just how easily the sun can go from fun to weapon.

I got like, the worst sunburn I've gotten in a few good years on Sunday.

This sunburn was epic. I couldn't lay down or shrug for three days. The only way I got to sleep was by mixing a careful cocktail of ibuprofen and extra strength tylenol. I was thisclose from whipping out the few big guns I had, too.

That's why I skipped the gym all week too, lol. At first I thought it was a bad excuse, but I was mostly healed and this morning it still burned like a motherfucker.

I'm peeling all over the place now, too. I feel like there's a villain in some sci-fi who I can compare myself to, but I can't remember. Wasn't there a villain in something that was shedding skin all over the place? The Basilisk? lol no. Maybe I'm thinking of Goldmember. My skin is falling off like Goldmember, but I'm not keeping it in a little gold cigarette case or anything.

But it itches so bad now :( I guess that's a good sign. Itching usually means healing, right? Unless it's sexually transmitted.

Ugh, but I just went to the bathroom to take a look at myself. So. Fucking. Nasty. My back looks like someone packed up a bunch of tomatoes in bubble wrap.

If I were in Gattaca they'd know I was fake. I'm leaving traces of myself everywhere I go.

Okay. Gross entry. Sorry. I need to be more careful with the treacherous sun-god. Next time he may unleash a plague on my ass.

I've been at work for about half an hour already and done absolutely nothing. Zero. Nada. I've not even opened a document. I think we're gonna have our weekly dessert thing soon though! Yummy food awaits me!

Oh hey, you know what I love? Squeezing water out of clothes. Like, twisting them up and watching the water drain out of them. I couldn't even explain why, it's just one of my favorite things ever.

My financial aid office just gave me a bit of a panic attack today with like "URGENT read this NOW!" email about loans and shit. And then a second one all "please disregard :) :)" and I was just like grraaarrrr as if I didn't have enough to worry about. Speaking of money, you guys, I don't know if I'll have enough to make it to Philly in August. Imma try! But uh, I can't guarantee anything. (This is because I just emptied out my bank account to pay back my parents.)

In bandom news, I'm sure most people have heard already that the longest Gerard Way has gone without showering was two weeks. When I first saw it, I was like oh hey, not that bad. But then everyone else was basically like "OMG GROSS" and I admit, I was a bit surprised. Really? You must all think I'm pretty disgusting. WHATEVER. I would still totally have dirty unwashed sex with G. Way. (Frank can stand over us with a bottle of Febreze and watch and spray occasionally or whatever.)

I feel like rambling at you all forever because my brain voice just won't shut up today it seems, but I'm afraid it will all be boring. :( But you should talk to meeeeee!

Summer in the City

2008

Maroons Go Green

 

Noontime Noise Wednesdays

July 2 – August 20

Hutchinson Courtyard, 12pm-1pm

Featuring DJ Issues, Music Themes, Dance Performances and Sand Art

Shakes and Shakespeare Series

Pericles presented by the Dean’s Men in 4 parts (7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13)

Free Shakes Every Week

*Limited Quantities, First Come, First Served

 

Movies in the Courtyard

Hutchinson Courtyard, 8pm

July 17: “Super Bad”, Rated “R”

July 31: “The Big Lebowski”, Rated “R”

August 14: “Iron Man”, Rated

August 28: “Indiana Jones” (2008), Rated

Get a group together and come out for a movie on us. You bring a blanket,

 friends, and maybe some food, and we will provide the show!

 

Summer Pub Nights

July 10 & August 21

Ida Noyes, The Pub, 5pm -7pm

Free Food and Beverages, While Supplies Last!!

Enjoy happy hour at the pub with free pizza and beverages while they last!

Feel free to stick around afterward and enjoy a night out with your friends!

 

Discount Tickets Available

Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in Hutchinson Courtyard from 12 pm-1pm

AMC Movie Passes: $6 & $7.50, available all summer long

Chicago White Sox v. Rangers: $ 10.50, July 21^st

Six Flags Great America: $35 tickets good until September 30, 2008,

there will be a special bus trip with the option of going to Gurnee Mills Outlet Mall July 24^th for $40

Wicked: $20, August 7^th show

Second City: $18, August 18^th, a group bus is included in the ticket price

 

studentactivities.uchicago.edu

Heeeeeey flist. How are you? Me, I'm pretty wet myself. Yeah, that's right. WET. I just walked about ten blocks or so from the bus stop to my apartment in the pouring rain. Like, the serious lightning and thunder overhead, streets flooded, drenched in seconds kind of pouring. The whole great big shebang.

So now, I'm chilling in a towel on my couch after managing to leave wet footprints all over the front hallway and my soaking clothes on the bathroom floor. The good news is my camera still works. The bad news is that my phone is pretty fucking dead. It is no more. Ex-phone, etc etc.

I'm going to postpone the freakout, however, and tell you all about the lovely evening I spent with pre_emptive and pandoraiam at shoemaster's place watching The Black Parade Is Dead DVD. I reached the following conclusions:

- My Chemical Romance is a band full of beautiful people
- Toro's shirt during the Hoboken show was a portrait of the Wentz-Iero spawn.
- Gerard Way is gorgeous.
- Gerard Way is possessed on stage.
- Gerard Way's hands have a mind of their own.
- My favorite threesome is me/Gerard. Just the two of us.
- There needs to be more Gerard/Gerard fanfic.
- Raise the roof.

Ray Toro: into watersports.

housematehorror
Horror stories from the world of shared living spaces. EEK!

Hey, guys. First, a question: if you're in the USA, how are you celebrating July 4th? Secondly, enjoy the secrets. =)

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I'm reading Twilight at work.

It's guilty pleasure reading.

It's just harlequin romance with a touch of fantasy and high school drama to spice things up.

Just guilty pleasure reading.

But still pleasurable.

I don't know why I never got into harlequin romances. They always entertain me. They're great. I need to read more crap.

ANYWAY

I get the hate.

I also get the love.

I don't know where I stand yet.

Let's wait and see if this ever stops being an episode of The O.C.

so I'm making myself a picspam for cheery times!

( smiles! )

Now I feel a lot better! :D

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The aliens didn't bother me. The fact that Indiana Jones could apply for medicare didn't bother me. Shia LeBouf as a Jewish greaser and Cate Blanchette as a dominatrix Communist didn't bother me. What bothered me was that crazy John Hurt (who is good at playing crazy but even better at playing creepy) did all the work. And strung Indiana along. What is an Indiana Jones movie if he's not even being an archeologist?

AND WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THE JANITOR FROM SCRUBS AND CHARLES WIDMORE WERE IN THIS MOVIE?? IN THE SAME SCENE, NO LESS!

WALL-E: The first 5 minutes of this movie comprise the bleakest, most depressing dystopia I've ever seen.

The next 30 minutes are one of the most heart-wrenching, gut-busting, haunting character studies I have ever seen.

The next hour is entertaining at best, and sort of weird...

...but I will say that I never expected a robot love story and a social commentary on the decline of American civilization to go together in one movie.

I am in a funk.

dwseason4
A journal where the alternative fourth season of the TV show Doctor Who is being written.

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Keep youself smiling at the little things with some funny comics.

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A community for everyone who loves bicycles, motorbikes, and more.

Those of you who have graduated, how do you feel about the University of Chicago asking you for money every.single.month?  Especially considering that you're still paying off student loan debt? 

i mean, i suppose it's inevitable, and yes, i want to give money, but i'm a graduate student.  i'm still paying off debt incurred from tuition.  They email me so often that my current university marks the messages as spam.

All in all, i'm just disappointed that they have chosen to ask so often and in such a quasi-insulting way.  i know that their guilt-tripping technique is efficacious - heck, i recently donated $50 (that i really don't have) because i felt guilty for not supporting my alma mater enough.  Their emails often imply that if you're not forking over the dough, you don't care about the university or its future.  At the same time, sometimes it's difficult to take the guilt-tripping seriously.  i do earmark my giving if only to be sure that it doesn't fund another plasma TV for the Reynolds Club.

i guess i just find their capital campaign lacking in both class & grace.  In my view, it's unChicago.   i thought the University was better than this.

Thoughts?  Am i just too sensitive?

1. WALL-E
2. Ratatouille
3. Finding Nemo
4. The Incredibles
5. Monsters Inc
6. A Bug's Life
7. Toy Story
8. Toy Story 2
9. Cars

Cars, by all rights, should have been awful - I think it's a testament to Pixar that it was still good. I'm convinced that it was the price Pixar paid for the chance to make Ratatouille and WALL-E.

Also, the short before WALL-E is a huge success. It's hard to overstate the satisfaction one derives from it.
With all the bad luck sauce Pixar keeps putting in its films, it's surprising they keep turning out so well.

Last night, shoemaster and I went to see Drive By on their current tour at Reggie's (whose sound is still iffy, but whatever). You guys, they are so awesome! They were really good and their stage presence was pretty fantastic. If you saw them opening for MCR and weren't impressed, I strongly urge you to give them another chance. They are so precious!

Also, Todd is kind of tiny and cute and reminds me of Frank Iero. :D

Oh, and I just noticed that there is a sewer in the middle of the stage. Is that normal for stages? Because I thought it was kind of weird.

One of the opening bands is called Girl In a Coma (yes, after that song by The Smiths), and they were really good! They're an all girl band and they're really energetic and entertaining to watch on stage and I really enjoyed their music and bought their CD.

After the show, I decided to kidnap shoemaster and bring her to my lair, where she and kalpurna and I all then sat around on our laptops and laughed and they wouldn't eat my homemade French fries ;___; and then we decided to make a love meme which I see a lot of people are participating in, and it makes me so happy, you guys! I love reading all the comments everyone is giving each other. And of course, I love all the comments I've gotten so far. I was definitely not expecting that many. &you guys; Anyway, if you haven't already, you should put your name in so I can go be creepy at you. :D

Other things of interest lately are of course Ray Toro's secret baby, and Gerard with scruff. I can't really decide which one is weirder.

*smoooches*