Day 365 (for real this time)

The reason I wanted to wait to make my final post is because I have an announcement..... I have a new roommate :)

For now, her name is Tippi, though we're thinking of renaming her, especially since she doesn't know her own name yet. Deciding on a name might take awhile since my roommate and I have opposite tastes in kitty names. I want something like Athena or Zuri, and my roommate's pick is Truffle. Figures. It doesn't really matter though what she's called because after all the drama, she's home.

I started this blog as a form of therapy, a personal project to make myself feel better. Though that part of it didn't really work out it was a good experience. I think the problem of it was, it caused more stress knowing I had to write something new every day. I'm hoping with Tippi or Athena or Zuri or *sigh* Truffle that it's going to be more love than stress. I've never owned a cat before, so this will certainly be a new experience but I'm looking forward to it. 

I'm not sure what I'll be doing from here on out in terms of blogging, or if I'll even continue at all. But I just want to say it's been great and thanks for reading :)

Day 365

So today is supposed to be the last day of this blog, but I've had a really crappy day so it's going to be tomorrow.... shhhhhhhh

Day 364

So tonight, my roommate and I watched Her and I must say it was really strange at times, but really good. If you don't want spoilers, don't read ahead.

All you really need to know to read this blog post is that Theodore, the guy in the poster, falls in love with his artificially intelligent operating system. She falls in love with him back and they actually have this adorable relationship. The thing that got me was that a lot of people will think their relationship is weird, but halfway through the movie I realized their relationship wasn't much different than Sam and I's right now. Sure, there's an actual, physical person on the other end of our Facetime calls, but most of the time it's just phone calls and sending each other pictures and sharing things we find on the Internet. It's not like Samantha (the operating system voiced by the oh so sexy sounding Scarlet Johansson) doesn't have real human feelings. It's literally just like them being long distance.... Just for forever.

I don't want to ruin the end of the movie, but despite the hilarious and heartwarming beginning, if you're looking for a happy ending, you're not gonna find it. It's not like Samantha someone switches her conscious into a human-like body and can physically be with him, which is kind of what I was hoping for the entire movie. It'd be a little weird, sure, but definitely not any stranger than some of the other things that go down in this movie. 

Overall, great movie, go see it :)

Day 363

Last night, the boys upstairs were so loud that I spent the night waiting with my roommate for the cops to show up. It was rather ridiculous and by the time I could finally go write, I passed out asleep.

Today was incredibly unproductive, which I'm hoping to make up for tomorrow. My goal is to not leave my apartment and get my to-do list done. We'll see how that goes.

I wish I had something interesting going on in my life right now but I don't. The fiancé is gone, classes just started, no work drama. *sigh* hopefully things will get exciting soon.

Day 361

My favorite/most interesting TIL (Today I Learned)s from Reddit today:

TIL that a survey conducted in two southern provinces of Afghanistan found that 92% of respondents had never heard of the events of 9/11

TIL Keiko, the orca who starred in Free Willy was released in the wild in July of 2002 after being in captivity for 23 years. A few weeks after his release, he showed up at a Norwegian fjord in hopes of seeking human contact and would even give children rides on his back.

TIL Will Smith actually was born in West Philadelphia

TIL of Lydia Fairchild, a woman from the UK whose ovaries carried the genetics of her sister and whose naturally-conceived children were, therefore, genetically not her own.

TIL Phillip V of Spain was made King of Spain without knowing how to speak spanish

Day 360

So my "new roommate" showed up today. Why are there air quotes you ask? Oh, because she's not moving in. My old roommate was in such a rush to get out of our apartment that she misled the girl into thinking it was a one bedroom apartment. In case you're not familiar with my apartment, there's actually four bedrooms. Not even close. Luckily no papers were signed yet because with her situation, there's no way these apartments would work for her. We have no idea what's going to happen now but it's real messy. *sigh* of course. I was hoping New Roommate would stay because she has a kitty but alas, it wasn't meant to be.

Days 358 and 359

I didn't write yesterday because at about 8:30 I got struck by a massive headache, the kind where you have to turn all the lights off and make everything silent. I think I was dehydrated so I'm working on drinking more.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about all of my classes yet. Japanese is of course the same, but I don't quite know with my other classes. My upper level anthropology course is A LOT of reading, which I'm hoping won't make me hate the class as a whole. My other anthropology class, the sexuality one still sounds really interesting but I did my first reading and it was a whole lot of science. Gateway seems like it's going to be a lot of fun based on the projects EXCEPT the group project. I have this awful feeling that I'm gonna get screwed. We'll see.