:: Dear Joan ::

:: Friday, September 30, 2005 ::

Dear Joan,

It is somewhat ... bleak ... to begin the chronicle of my experience of "higher education" with words tainted by a foul mood. But I am pretty pissed tonight.

Move in: (There is something poetic about a blinking cursor. But I am not a poet. Someone please inform me.) I'm here. Things are fine. It wasn't a hard transition at all.

I felt lonely after my parents left after their visit the following wednesday.

Westwood: A nice neighborhood. I love the westwood riteaid into eternity. I hate being sick outside the security of my own home. It peels back a thick level of security to leave nearly sheer vulnerability(v). Add to this two (v=2x) guys (f(g)=2g) who I barely know (f(g)=2g^i) one of whom I would like to be friends with (f(g)=r(2g^i)) and one whom I think is rather cute (f(g)=r(2g^i)^c).

I would not recommend correcting my mathematics.

The first days of school: Boring. Sucking of the hope and the life. My general education cluster ta was not encouraging. My astro 3 ta BARELY speaks english. Why the FUCK is my family paying 20k a year for me to struggle to understand a ta? I have not yet been to women's studies. I will drop it on monday night if I am not admitted.

I am waitlisted for ge clstr 60a.

The social life: I have met a few people, made a few tenuous extensions of the curling tendril of friendship ivy.

You do not appreciate what you have lost until it is well and truly gone.

The campus: To state the obvious, it's physical size is, well, large. It also reasonably attractive. There is, however, an unfortunately sizeable number of square feet blanketed in lush grass, which is dutifully mown seemingly daily. Wildfires yesterday caused the campus to be enveloped in pungent smoke.

I have been having trouble breathing today.


Many like to joke about internet journals being a place where there authors bitch and whine about their days. I bought Anansi Boys.

My MnM's will not last forever.


I need to invent my own "Penis Showing Game".

:: 8:26 PM [+] ::


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Dear Joan,

Holy crap, what a night. :) More later.

((when I am not le tired))

:: 1:56 AM [+] ::


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Dear Joan,

I am packing up my computer.

And slowly going insane.

Talk to you all in (probably) 24hrs.

:: 1:38 PM [+] ::


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Dear Joan,

And now, for an update on Jess' relationship with 'pop' culture.

Things I am so freakishly excited for:

Corpse Bride- Comes out this weekend. No one to see it with yet. Sean?

MirrorMask- Limited release in theatres 9/30. No idea if locating the LA theatre is reasonably attainable for me. No one to see it with yet. Sean?

?? ((Landmark Nuart Theatre Los Angeles, CA)) ??

Anansi Boys- CAME OUT YESTERDAY HOLY SHIFCK! AND I DIDNT KNO!! Well... I knew it was coming out sometime around the time I move in.. But I wasn't following as raptly as I should have been. A thousand apologies, Mr Gaiman. My leige. Sir. Note to self: procure copy.

Neil Gaiman's Anasi Boys book signing tour- Don't know where these places are. No one to go with yet. Sean?

Saturday, October 1, 7:00 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES
Vroman’s
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
626-449-5320

Sunday, October 2 2:00 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES
NEIL GAIMAN in conversation with Heidi McDonald
(2:00-2:45pm)
Book Signing afterwards at Golden Apple Comics booth (ticketed signing limited to 1 hour)
West Hollywood Book Festival -- West Hollywood Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd. (across the street from the Pacific Design Center)
West Hollywood, CA
323-848-6515

http://www.weho.org/download/index.cfm?fuseaction=download&cid=3670


Things I am freakishly excited for, but don't happen for a while:

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe- In theatres Decemeber 9th. Hopefully by then I will have other people to accost & drag to the movies with me, so poor Sean will not be subjected to all of my obsessions.

Underworld: Evolution- In theatres January 2006. OMG HAWT. Maybe Renee will be in town then. Or I will go and drool by my lonesome.

Other Stuff

I am still packing up my life, perhaps 43% complete. I actually have no idea how far along I am. I did succeed in installing the printer software and drivers, so that's something.

What am I going to put my clothes in???

:: 1:12 PM [+] ::


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Dear Joan,

I, Jessica, have attended my first college football game. And UCLA won. :D Squee!

It was hot. And sweaty. And there were lots of shirtless males. And yes, I even saw some with the letters "U", "C", "L", and "A" painted on them.

I have also now come into possession of my "den" t shirt. Ehxcellent.

I must say that the student section is: spirited, profane, combative, regularly hostile to outsiders and occaisionally experiences conflict within.

The cheers of the day ranged from "fuck the rednecks/inbreds" to "bullshit" to "take off that re-ed shirt/hat" to the good old fashioned Bruin "8 clap".

I now have the 8 clap down, but am still mystified as to the pattern of the finger pointing during kick off.

Sadly, the UCLA band was sucking it up... they had like. 25 people there max. You'd think for the OK game they would have conscripted more people. The OK band had at least 2x that many, and sounded like it too.

In other news, my family completed the trek from Pasadena to campus in an effort to view a dorm room in de neve plaza once more, and as luck would have it (running into the RDA coming out of my hall as well as all of the rooms being open) we got to see my actual room. Ehxcellent.

Its small. And stuff.

Righto. Off to buy a desk drawer organizer and some shampoo.

:: 2:49 PM [+] ::


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Dear Joan,

The posting has slowed to a murky trickle, yes I know.

The eagle has landed, I am now playing world of warcraft nightly on my brand spankin' new alienware computer. And it is tasty. Yes it is.

I had some trouble initially, getting the beast set up, since the moniter folk / alienware sent me the wrong kind of adapter to plug the moniter into the video card. Not only did they send me the wrong kind of adapter, but it was also a broken one. Soh. You can see why I would be having troubles. 3 days, 40$, 4 different computer store visits, 1 customer service call, 3 tech support calls, and an item return later, I have the correct adapter, which I will be able to return for my monies next week when the one Alienware is sending me gets here.

I have officially ceased to work at the UPS store and it is quite nice. I get lots of stuff done at home in the morning/afternoon and then I get to play WoW. Numnum.

On Sunday my mother and I went for a brief foray to the MissionViejo center of commerical and consumer pursuits, where we procured much color coordinating bedding / dorm swag. Yay for House Beautiful who makes things easy and has entire lines in pre coordinated shizat. I am now the proud owner of the soft-fuzziest blanket in the world. :D

My cat is adorable. And I love her.

:: 12:42 PM [+] ::


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Dear Joan,

Wee-ll.. I just cleansed my bathroom of an evil that has plagued it for several weeks, namely, an ever growing pile of paraphenilia ranging from eyelash curlers to prescription dermatology products to my brothers frightening array of razors.

Now I converse with Seanislaus and contemplate my plans for a shower and world domination.

My computer shipped for real this time and will arrive on friday.

I went shopping with the "maternus maximus" as Michael would put it on friday and made several acquisitions in the name of university living. We procured some underbed storage units (*bows to the rubbermaid*), a recepticle in which to deposit rubbish, a bed lamp unit, a polar avian known as the penguin, some clothing for the aforementioned bed (in relation to the lamp), as well as several possibilities for a duvet cover. I shall post pictures in the soonafter so as to poll the general populace as to which is most serenely attractive.

Alas, I must leave you now, for il faut que je prenne une douche et que je donne manger a mon frere avant qu'il est trop tard.

:: 5:30 PM [+] ::


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