Did anyone else here hate middle school as much as I did? I was just looking at my diary from when I was twelve...God damn...middle schoolers are vicious. I really should have shot up the place...

-Cinnamon Strudel Muffin
-Radish (Large)
-Piece of Toast
-Multivitamin
-Shot of Southern Comfort

The past couple years I've been trying to get the annual self indulgent internet test out of the way in one big masterbatory pseudo-science swoop, so here it is:
 

>Be happy being alone-Fail

>Don't fall into romantic love for at least year or so-Boy, that lasted like two months

>Have casual sex, for once. Try not to get AIDS-Also, fail. Luckily monogamy usually prevents AIDS.

>Keep in touch with old friends. Keep in touch with old friends-Kinda working on it

>Answer the phone...but what if they are collections?

>Answer e-mails

>Make new friends

>Don't be with people that habitually make me unhappy, even if it's unintentional

>Don't be anyones charity case-Except the government's or if you are tipsy.

>Leave the fucking house...seriously-It comes and goes

>Limit internet surf-age-FAIL

>Reduce gamer callous, it is not half as sexy as I would think-Also fail in the sense that it is more of an internet callous now

>Read...Read-Every time I sit down to read I feel guilty that it isn't a textbook

>Write...Write-I'm here aren't I?

>Swim- Not enough to my liking

>Be more open but don't lose my own opinions-Yay for being dogmatic!

>Get a new place, alone-Never the less I am pretty pleased with my living situation

>Go to UW by next fall, do well

>Don't rush, realize some things will happen unassisted-Fail, but it is wavering

>Find a cheap darkroom, get back into analog...but buy a digital camera for convenience and posterity (yes, i'm a sell out). Be comfortable with my rusty darkrooms skills and build upon them-Fail

>Did I mention leave the house and make new friends?

>Stop picking at my face-still working on it

>Gain weight-Now, how do I get my new found fat to go where I want?

>Enjoy my young adulthood and living in Seattle. I'm doing a terrible job so far-I've definately impoved, but have a ways to go. Perhaps I'll figure it out before I am into my mid-adulthood

>Be hedonistic without being guilty-Slight improvement

>Get back into philosophy without being preachy-Oops

>Quit this hellish job and get a better one. 3 in the morning is too fucking early, not matter how broke you are-Fuck yes. Although, in retrospect, I wasn't as broke as I thought.

>Plan big-Hows attempting (most likely in vain) throw away my youth at med school big?

>Travel, even if it's just interstate. Make friends worth traveling with-I kinda need a car for this

>Get out of collections-If by that you mean get into more debt then I win!

>"he's gone and I don't care"...repeat

>Figure out something to do with his fucking cat or accept the bastard as my own-Good luck ma and dad!

>Give my self a fucking pat on the back for once...I'm doing pretty well for twenty-I could be doing a bit better

>Be outgoing but not clingy and not less? judgmental

>B e L e s s D e p e n d e n t-Eh...

>Be spontaneous-That is a superfail. Oh well

>Remember most of these problems are not new and some will not change-Given how little I've been able to mark off, I would have to agree with you..early 2008 Sara.

>Throw myself off of cliff or get in car accident or something of that nature, out of spontaneity-It was more like spontaneity acted upon me and I lost.

>Learn to spell-Fail! If anything it got worse. Curse you, in-browser spellcheck!

>Curse less. It hasn't been very becoming since middle schoolFail

>Learn to speak and speak comfortably

>Ask for help and not feel like I've pissed myself

>Be smart-ish again-I can only say I've been -ish

>Limit masturbation, intellectually and literally-I would not shake my hand if I were you.

>Stop feeling the need to 1up anyone, you have nothing to prove and people will still like you either way-It comes and goes

>Be a better person for myself

You know, reading back over this I can imagine that it would seem that I'm disappointed that I haven't improved in the ways I'd like to. It's more that my goals have changed. I'll figure it all out eventually...

I had to share:

-Endosymbiotic theory: The true everlasting love between a early prokaryotes and mitochondria.

-The parasitic Indian Pipe plant: It's a plant that is completely white (no chlorophyll) and completely dependent on other plants. When picked, it turns completely black within an hour or so and looks like it's been burnt. Very Gothic.

-Autism might be be determined by which parents x-chromosome was donated when a zygote was first formed. This might imply that our genes are imprinted based off of who they came from (and not just the genotype). Kinda mindblowing...if you are into that sorta thing (I am, *snort*).

-Dictyosteliida slime molds = Tiny individual organisms that, on occasion, aggregate together to form into a "slug like creature" that can move around as one and shoot out a weird tentacle thing called a "fruiting body" that has a bud on the end that spurts out spores = horrifying/arousing?

I'm also TA'ing a clinical physiology lab, also awesome.

Bill Nye was right, Science is cool.

Current Location: Nerd, Nerd, Nerd, Hur, Hur, Hur
Current Mood: ecstatic

Instead of looking at recklessly-fast moving concrete rushing under you
and questioning the control you have over the situation
and whether or not you caused it

look at the horizon and assume that it was intentional

The world is big and lonely.
I really want to travel.
I should write more.
I got back into the lazy, self indulgent funk that I was in before, but now I just feel more guilty for it.
My new years resolution was only slightly resolved but...such is life?
I keep telling myself, I'm young, I have time, but it doesn't make me feel any less restless.
...yup

Current Mood: boooooo

( Pictures from a week with my folks (please god, kill me) and my brothers adorable young family (yes, I have a brother) in the woods/beach. )

Good times...

*sigh*

storms a brewin'

Current Mood: disappointed

Oh, to be young.

Current Mood: pleased

In Nathan Strong's America...

tiny planes will be embedded in all beards.

Ever the revolutionary, he promises universalized beards for all.

Vote Nathan Strong: "May god save your soul if you aren't on his side."

Current Mood: bored

[14:50] impostermolester: sounds like a hoot
[14:50] pseudonymoniker: yes, owls...
[14:50] pseudonymoniker: many of them
[14:50] impostermolester: flocking in a murder
[14:50] pseudonymoniker: yes
[14:51] pseudonymoniker: murder...owls..many of them...
[14:51] impostermolester: with lazer beams
[14:51] pseudonymoniker: that too
[14:51] impostermolester: the day of the owl is upon us! OvO
[14:51] pseudonymoniker: REPENT!

Current Mood: chipper

The following is a dramatization of my Tuesday as done by the cast of Baby Geniuses 2 translated into language more appropriate for livejournal
>"Hey ma, I just got accepted into the UW!"
>"Thats cool...
...
...
your aunt has super cancer...for serious."
>"Oh...Yay college?"
>"No...go die."

(Okay...the last line was completely fabricated but, you get the idea)

Current Mood: Iamthemoderncharliebrown

uhh

Current Mood: drunkwarlordbabykillersindrag