Yay! I'm home now...felt so strange at first, like I was dreaming... ..but now? ..I feel like I should be going off to school come Monday morning...it's weird.
But all the same, very, very nice...
Had a great evening just here at home..talked with my brother some...hung out with merani-chan for a few hours, just talking and whatever...Brian came over for a bit (yay! *laugh*)...talked to Daf on the phone a bit...and will get to see everyone tomorrow!!! ^_^
...Daf, and Laur, and Blake......gonna be a great day. *smile*
(Forecast for tomorrow: despite the potential for clouds and possibly showers, major glompage is definitely in the near future... ^_^)

..I *do* miss Lawrence, tho...this cpu down here? ..I don't care if matantis *did* overclock it - it randomly restarted on me when I was in the middle of a conversation with Megs! >_< (..told her I think I'd tried to do more than the system could handle...she said this cpu's just not used to my demands like Lawrence is...Lawrence can go longer without needing to reboot...gah..we're so horrible. *giggles*) (Also miss Mackie and Larry-kun...Dad picked me up, I wasn't about to explain their presence in my closet, so they're spending the weekend together on their own... ..I've decided I need a webcam for when I'm gone. ^~_~^ ...gah, sorry, it's 2am, and I've been talking to Meg for like, an hour or so...this's just what happens...*giggles*)

 
W0000000000000000007!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Electrical Storm" vid was just on mtv2.
Saw it *ALL*.
*crazy huge psycho grin*

..my roomate must *really* think I'm a head-case now...I gasped, was like, WHERE'STHEREMOTEWHERE'STHEREMOTE?!!?!??! Turned it up, and just stood there in front of the tv, eyes wide, drinking in every tiny detail..lips moving gently with the lyrics (but not singing - would've hidden the wonderful sound already in the air), hands clasped, heel involuntarily pounding out the rhythm..

I'm such a dork. *g*
...and so impossibly in love with this band...*smile*

 
Ok. Linkage time. ^_^

This...I think is something one could watch only out of sick fascination..just...*strange*.......

New Manic Street Preachers vid streaming here....good stuff. Was listening to them again the other day... haven't much of an opinion on the vid yet, tho it seems pretty good...song's nice, tho. (They're from Wales..song or two of theirs was once on WBER, I think, 's how I must've picked up on them... "If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next" I think was the first I heard...or another one that I can't remember the title to just now..*g*

And go read this.
*blows overlarge raspberry in the general direction of mtv*

 
DUUUUUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FINALLY JUST SAW THE "ELECTRICAL STORM" VIDEO ON TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..was sitting here typing, listening to this Swedish rock band (Blindside..they're pretty good..on P.O.D.'s record label, which's cool), and suddenly, I thought I heard Bono singing..paused my song, I'm like, DUDE, that's "Electrical Storm"! Where's it coming from!? Rushed out into the hall, listened - was from Britt's room. Rapped on the door, then just burst in. The video was *on tv*!!!!! *squee!!!* I was like, "It's on, it's on!!!" she's like, "Yeah, I know, I thought you'd seen it?!" "Nonono, on the computer, but not tv!" I crouched down (fell to my knees, more like *g*), brought my hands up to my mouth..*laugh* was every archetype of the girl in complete wonder. *smile* ..and it was really just the last thirty seconds or so, but...*oh*......just getting to see my band on tv like that...*huge smile*...

And now that it's in a countdown, it *will* get played. ^_^

(Britt promised to call me next time it's on again. *g*)

 
We say "tired" funny. Think about it. It should be "TIE-red". But we don't say that. We say "TIE-yerd".
That's..just..weird.

And accents. How did those *happen*? ..like, I know now, we pick it up from the people around us..but how did people in different places start pronouncing things funny? Was it just that one of the people who was there first developed a particular way of speaking, like, just, their personal style of speech that we all have, but the few people first there all developed their own kinda group-style..and then it just became more and more exaggerated over time?

How/why *do* accents come about? Is it some outgrowth of the climate or something, maybe? Like, just in the sounds made..I think "r"s, you have to put more air behind, expel more heat..they don't say "r"s a lot in England, it's colder there? ..I've no idea..it's all very strange..

//end insane randomness (for now *g*)

 
Oh. And Laur? Meant to ask you...when'd I say I didn't like Linus? *is confused* ..I don't remember anything like that...
..I mean, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown! made me a lot more partial to Charlie Brown, not so much Linus, but that was pretty much just in the context of the play...tho Schroeder is still just *cool* (from play or otherwise). ^_^

 
*re-reads entry from 1978*
Oog. Sorry for how wanna-be-pretentious that all sounded...was trying to be all writerly like Laur, but, uh...it didn't work so well. ^^;

*g*

Oh. So, yeah. B'sides all that? Had my whole world crumble around me today.
Teacher for applied musicianship? Yeah. On hearing me sing one of the melodies today?
He said I have a very nice soprano voice. I should be a soprano. Mezzo, anyway.

O_O

$^#&*)(^$#&(^!!^#&*!~~~~!
*throws a fit*
$^#&*)%#*^)*&$#^&!~~~~!

>_<#

I..am...an...ALTO!!!!! I sang frickin' TENOR in the senior song, for crying out loud!!!
..gahhhh...
But he's all like, someone probably told you one day you should be an alto, so you went along with it. But most women are really mezzos. You have a very nice soprano-voice, if you developed it a little more.
...actually, one of the first things that went thru my head was, dude, maybe Goodling *wasn't* on crack after all - he had me as a mezzo my sophomore year, and the nyssma solo he'd given me had some higher notes..and all the things he tried to teach me to do with my voice..
..and that's the thing, my singing voice could be very, very different...if I kept with my "Goodling-voice". But..it didn't feel like it was *mine*, was the thing. So...I dunno. Meh. Am not really content with my singing any which way, tho..I wanna be Bono, dangit! *wry grin*

 
..my God.....this is unbelievable...

"On September 6, 2002, Manuel García, an activist from the Guatemalan indigenous rights organization CONAVIGUA,disappeared while traveling near his community in Zacualpa, El Quiché. His body was later found exhibiting signs of horrific torture: he had been decapitated and his ears, nose, and eyes cut out."

...
...he and his collegues had been exhuming mass graves of people killed in civil war, trying to seek justice for those killed...

Take Action

 
That was interesting...just felt I was in "another time, another place"...

I was walking back to my dorm from written theory, where I'd tried to keep myself amused by lazily working on a new fic, where Larry and Bono are, like me, entertaining themselves rather than the teacher's lectures. The air is chilly again this morning, I've got my worn denim jacket on overtop of a tan three-quarter sleeve. Have my headphones on, turned up to volume level 19, j-rock pounding in my ears, as I step into the warm sunlight, then into the cold shade of a building. I come around a corner, habitually looking to see if there's anyone sitting on the front steps. There are two, both guys, sitting with their backs to the brick building. I notice one has curly blond hair...and as I come around, I glance over to see if it is him...
His nose is slightly turned up. I start to smile, and now can see his glasses. I keep watching out of the corner of my eye as I walk past, and see the smoke whitening the space around his mouth, curling gently in the cold air.
I try to hold back a grin as I continue walking, but I give up, and leave the rest of the world to wonder why I'm smiling at nothing. It's *Adam*!
And I stride towards my dorm, music up so loud I can't hear anything else, and though the music is from the wrong decade and in the wrong language...
...I suddenly feel like I'm in 1978. That was Adam Clayton I just passed, the blond curls of hair and cloudy curls of smoke. This campus isn't in New York, it's someplace else, Trinity in Dublin, maybe. My denim jacket is a solid weight on my shoulders, and the U2 pins on it bear not the logos of the Elevation Tour, but the logo Larry drew (though the one with "rebel" written across the British flag remains the same). My bell-bottomed jeans occasionally slap lightly against my leather boots, as I swagger confidently in the direction of my dorm, my music all that I can hear...

 
Wai~~~~~!!!!!
Daffy!!!! They *make* Poptart shirts!!!!!!!!!!
..not *quite* like Adam's...and I'm not sure these're official U2 merch, but still. It's *great*. *G*
(They've a Popstar one, too, that's not bad.. but PopTart's still better. *g*)

 
...remembered some of the other things I was gonna say last night, but...meh. maybe some other time. a lot of it was just..trying to figure out what goes on inside my head, and that's pretty much just a hopeless task anyway. *wry grin*

But...
*contented sigh* I really am perfectly content at the moment. *smile*

Going home this weekend!!!! ^_^ ..and I never quite expected to be this excited about it, but I am. *g* ..get to see merani-chan (whether this's good or bad... ...j/k, imouto-chan! *laugh*), my cat, Daf, Laur, Blake... *smile*

Had a wonderful talk with Blake this morning/afternoon...was too lazy to get out of bed, so stayed there and read webcomics and talked to Blake for a few hours. Was very nice...talked about all kinds of stuff...he let me ramble in U2ness..and wasn't scared by stuff like, y'know, me being highly amused by the storm sewer cover I walked across just as Bono sang "storm" in "Electrical Storm" the other day! - "you're a fan.. thats not bad"..*smile* ...and about leaving home and school and friends, moving on...and wanting to stay there..and all sorts of things.....*this* is what I missed all last year, we never really had a chance to just *talk* in school much.....

Ended up having a crazy long, but very nice, talk with Calypso, as well... ...yes, you read that right. *laugh* ...but it's good...cos we're cool now.....I had no trouble at all talking to him, hanging out with him for a few hours.....whatever it was that had me pissed off seems to have gone...*relieved smile*

Called Daffy, to talk for a bit...(again, Daffy-kun, gomen if I got you in any sort of trouble for calling so late! ..but I thought you might need a call...)

Ok. ...was thinking earlier...it's been about a month or so, now, right? Time for a recap (and catch-up on some stuff I forgot to put on here).

Ananda's Review...
...of campus-life, so far =^_^=

Most Frightening Experiences:
* the night two ambulances came by here, took a girl out...
* the night that one girl was terribly, terribly drunk...to the point where she couldn't even tell you where her mouth was...as I went by, she was moaning that she was going to die (she didn't, have seen her since..)
..but the one that wins?..
* heading into the shower yesterday afternoon..and once I got in, hearing two voices - one female, one male, coming from the shower in the corner
o_O;;; (note: this could have been worse...at least it was conversation I was hearing, and not other sounds... -_-;;; )

Most Annoying Things:
* having to spend $2 or so every time I wanna do laundry
* having to walk relatively long distances to get food
* constantly smelling smoke in the hallway

Best Experiences:
* Amnesty Int'l
* finding Dream Out Loud..and realising I can *go*..and can get others into it, too
* Josh and the U2 records. ^_^

Just Generally *Nice* Things:
* my nice, comfy, blue, bed and pillows
* having Lawrence, tv, music, everything, easily accessable..from said comfy bed and pillows
* finding people who actually *know* who U2 are, *like* David Bowie, etc... ^_^

 
...I miss you guys, I really do...
...Daf, Laur, Zinni...Heather, too, to a lesser degree...all those times we stayed up all night just *talking*...I remember one night, over at Zinni's...we were sitting there, talking about religion, and what we believed, and what we had such a hard time believing..and I don't think I remeber any of it verbatim anymore...but I remember we were crying that night.....there were some times, spent with you guys, that I was as happy as I've *ever* been (U2 concerts included *smile*).
...and you're right, Laur...it will change...has already, to a degree......but it doesn't have to *end*.
That's just the thing - M*A*S*H didn't have the internet. We do. *smile*
...and once you guys get to college (I know, scary, yet..), you'll most likely have fast 'net connections...and no parents (or siblings! *g*) over yer shoulders to keep you off aim or anything you want. ^_^ (Trust me, this is unbelievably *wonderful*.)

...but you're right, Laur...we could all end up so very far apart (yer comment about me being as Bono as I want and ending up in Africa made me smile, tho *g*)......scares the shit outta me to say it, but..we *are* gonna grow up. We probably are already, and just aren't really seeing it quite yet. (I'm wondering if you'll think I have that "college-student air" about me when I come home next weekend, Laur..*half-smile*) But..that's just it...it's always so gradual, that you don't even realise it...(thank God, otherwise there's no way we could deal with it! ..even this way, it's hard..)
..but now I've lost whatever else I'd wanted to say...as usual, Laur said it all, and much more concisely and better than I ever could. *smile*


*is listening to theme songs from Weiß Kreuz*..seem to fit, tho I don't remember the translations.....

..but it's Bono (as usual), who's really got it right:

"Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you?
I don't know, which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time is comin' 'round
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye."
- "Kite", U2