January 2011
I am spending my New Years Eve
on Skype with Miss Annie Graham, Miss Kelly HIlker, and Mr. Tom Dixon. So far, “we” have baked cookies, iced them, bonded in great ways, and they have prohibited me from being alone on this holiday. Woo!
December 2010
My room is 54 degrees
I am shaking violently.
Sometimes I hate Maine.
Sometimes, my brother is a genius.
Like when he single-handedly fixes my technological stuff.
Nicely done, Keegster.
Dear iPod touch,
All I want to do is sync you to iTunes. But you just have to be stubborn and refuse to do so? Really? Why won’t you show up in my devices? Why are you so entirely frustrating? I hate you.
Love, Barat
If it was possible to have a song hug you, well, I...
I used to say that (500) Days of Summer had the best soundtrack that I’d ever heard. I had forgotten about Elizabethtown’s soundtrack.
Sorry, Summer. You’ve been schooled.
40 Tips For Proper English (Also known as 'Why...
Always avoid alliteration.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
Remember to never split an infinitive.
Contractions aren’t necessary.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One should never generalize.
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo...
"Yeah just go ahead and come back to Missouri now...
I’m working on it, Stephen. I’m working on it. :)
Desiree and I just spent an hour going through our facebooks to compile a list of our friends who have become engaged to be married since June of 2010.
If you are a part of the 38 couples that we have accumulated (so far—Dez isn’t done with hers yet), we wish you our deepest congratulations. We’re only portionally bitter…a nice, 40% or so…
While reading a website's top 100 'Bucket List'...
Barat: Number 25 is 'Get to know your neighbors."
Dezi: Who the ruddy hell wants to get to know Terry I'm-going-to-shoot-my-own-dog?
“I don’t really remember high school. High school was this great big blur...”
– Desiree Ellis
Barat: Spell 'bona fide' for me.
Dezi: I...can't. Uh...b-o-n.....e?-f-i-d-e?
Barat: No.
Dezi: Well...puss.
Barat: Spell 'Gryffindor'.
Dezi: G-r-y-f-f-i-n-d-o-r. ....point taken.
“It’s like ‘prowling tiger, hidden dragon.”
– Desiree Ellis
Dezi: Owww, MY GROIN!!
Destiny: I know how to fix that!
Ashley: Do it right now.
Destiny: It involves heating pads.
Discovery of the day:
1.3 GB of my 24.5 GB collection of music comes from Disney soundtracks alone.
…sweet goodness.
Secret Confessions: Christmas Edition
—I told my mum that I LOVED the Kindle she bought me for Christmas. In reality? I feel like by using it that I’m single-handedly killing off the publishing industry.
—I LOVE Pink. (The singer. Not the color.) The only reason this is categorized under ‘Christmas’ is because I’m downloading her newest cd right now.
—Every year, Mum complains because it...
Happy Christmas
Barat: This is the first year that my mother hasn't made me go to bed at like 6. I am exploiting this by setting up camp directly beside the christmas tree. I will stay here all night. Take that, santa.
Bekah: You have, in one fell swoop, reverted back to th status of a five year old.
I have consumed good food. I have laughed with my family. I have written two letters. I have read a book.
I am currently curled up on a couch beside out Christmas tree, where I intend to sleep until morning.
Happy.
I blame the fact that this has been on repeat...
Christmas
has entirely worked its magic on the family. Between my mother and I trying the entirety of her wine collection, or of our combined teasing of Keegan, or of my dogs coming up and attacking me, I don’t know if I can remember a better Christmas Eve.
Plus I spent my morning with the Ellis’. The day has really just been awesome in and of itself.
—Discovery of the day: I cannot...
And after about 3 days, I am more than ready to be back in Missouri.
Barat: You're so great.
Annie: Thank you. I really don't try.
“There’s so much drama in one small little blog…written by one large...”
– Annie Graham
“I feel like I’m an embarrassment to myself and humanity all the time.”
– Annie Graham
“Things sound so much worse when they’re not coming out of my mouth.”
– Annie Graham
“The policemen by my house are beasts. They are beautiful, beautiful men. Being...”
– Annie Graham
I had forgotten about this song until I started...
ATTN: Jenna Guiggey
I love that we have been doing nothing for the past 10 minutes except for liking each other’s most recent tumblr posts.
Come back into my actual world. The virtual world of the internet doesn’t do you justice. :)
“Aside from Pink and maybe Taylor Swift, Katy Perry is the female artist of our...”
– Erik Sjoberg
When I mess up, I don’t do it in small doses. I go all out. I play for keeps.
Tumblr really needs an option where you can make people unfollow you.
According to
the Washington Post, the average American citizen reads 9 books a year.
I hope the break that number by the time my Christmas break is done.
Take that, standard for Americans.
The reason I like Sean Molloy so much is because... →
People
hurt people. There’s no stopping it. What I would love to do is to hand-pick people from Missouri and from Maine and take them to some tranquil little place, away from the ridiculousness.
This flight...
…has four screaming children.
…has me surrounded by asian women who are speaking rapidly in their dialect.
We’ll see whether I have enough willpower to NOT become an alcoholic on this flight.
Favorite new discovery: Apparently, when cockroaches are surrounding my feet, I am able to not scream my face off.
Least favorite new discovery: There are cockroaches in Villa.
Goodbye, UMSL South Campus. I’ll be back in a month.