I'm not sure if many - or any - of the flist listens to Rihanna, but I like her, even before the whole Chris Brown controversy thing. I've also bought her new CD, and while I love it, I realize it's not made for everyone to enjoy. Anyway, while I doubt she's a genre most of y'all listen to normally, I think this video may cross a few boundaries. It's a pretty unusual one for a pop star. So watch it and tell me what you think.

Russian Roulette - Rihanna - Rated R

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And this one is just For Your Entertainment.

I don't know what was going through my head when I decided to become a chemistry minor. If I had only known how much I would hate organic chemistry this would not have happened.

My many thanks go to hcolleen for creating my lovely new layout for my journal!!!

It's smexy. :) And very Criminal Minds-centric.

So, I thought I'd tell y'all of my excessive TV watching this fall season. Here is a list:
M - House, M.D.
T - V
W - Criminal Minds
R - FlashForward, The Mentalist
F - White Collar
This list has increased by 3 shows since last season. Plus, A&E plays Criminal Minds reruns every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night. And I watch Dexter online. FlashForward and White Collar are new favs. I would recommend both of them to everyone. V is more specific, I think. (As well as not as good.) You've gotta be into the sci fi.

Thinking of which, has ABC always been the cable sci fi station? Because I never realized that so many science fiction shows came on there until I started watching FlashForward and V.

Oh oh oh!!! I have ordered every season of Doctor Who (2005) off amazon. They had this amazing one day sale where each season was only $33. Usually they're each around $70, although now the price is stabilized at $50. But I was SO excited when I saw that. I called up every family member I could think of to pay for it. One of them has already come in. The others were shipped Friday. :DDDDD

I am now completely packed for North Carolina. My train leaves early tomorrow morning. I'm kind of excited; I've never been on an Amtrak, never been to NC, and I've never really stayed with someone that wasn't a close family member for an entire week. Sure, he's my brother, but we really haven't spent much time together, considering we only met 5 years ago when he was just about to enter med school. This shall be an interesting week.

Well happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Yes, this is how late I am with a post for this month. And really a lot went ton that should have been posted but November was extra busy for some reason! I'm glad I didn't set myself up to do NaNoWriMo this year cuz that wouldn't have worked out well at all.

Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes and blueutopiah for the demon duck. :)

My friends and I had a hotel party the day after. Food, movies, music, and alcohol. It was good. avonix007 came down from New Hampshire and paid for the room. So whenever people complained about how loud we were they yelled at him. :) I'm really surprised he wasn't charged extra. Someone - drunk as they wanna be - wasted red liquor on the very white sheets. But it was cool tho. ...Have I ever explained mine and avonix007's relationship to y'all? It's weird. Maybe next post.

I also went to a concert this month at George Washington U near my school. It was Maroon 5!!!! I love them. Or him. Him being Adam, lead singer. He is so sexy. Just too much sexiness in his metrosexual body. And he was just as hot in person as on TV and youtube. I've pretty much been on a Maroon 5 interview/music binge ever since. It was also pretty cheap considering we were on the floor, too. Only $30.

Aaaaand I fangirled. Just a little bit. I won free advanced screening tickets to see New Moon Wednesday night. AND IT WAS GOOOOOOD!!! But then, I like the books. And the first movie wasn't great because it did not stick to the book. This one did. And so I officially love this director. He also did some really cool angles and shots within this film.

School is officially finished for me until after Thanksgiving. I'm taking a week break and going to my brother's in North Carolina. I'm leaving Monday, even though I have class Tuesday, but since I am leaving early I don't have class until December 1st. :D After that, last day of classes is the 3rd, last final is the 16th, and I go home on the 17th.

I am BEYOND ready for this break, too. School is so energy-consuming.

Hm, I also had this dream that will hopefully turn into my NaNo writing for next year. I'll tell y'all about that next post, too, though. Because that dream was so vivid. Smh. I woke up surprised that my mind even came up with this during my sleep.

So, until next time!

BTW, Johnny Depp won sexiest man of the year from People magazine again this year. :)

A little story before I get to the important part of this post:
I was in my school's cafeteria a few days ago, in the quesadilla line. There was this girl in front of me waiting on her quesadillas to finish being heated on the grill and a guy behind me who was having his burrito made by the one worker currently behind the counter. Why did this girl think it was okay to speak to this man, trying to get his attention, like this: "Hey. Hey! My quesadillas done? Hey, can you get my quesadillas!" And when he continued to ignore her rude ass, she says, "Man, they gon' burn!" The other guy who was working there returned at this time and placated her, and her food wasn't even finished! This just stuck out with me because she was so excessively rude. Like this man wasn't human! Just because he works in your cafeteria does not make him beneath you.

Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I must tell about the amazingness that was our homecoming week. Yes, unlike most other colleges, our homecoming celebration lasts for an entire week or more. It started Friday the 16th and ended Saturday the 24th with our homecoming game. Throughout that week we had events including a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, International Dance showcase, Gospel concert (with Kurt Carr), Poetry Cipher, Comedy show, Celebrity Basketball game (with Pooch Hall and Omarion, amongst others), Fashion Show, R&B Show (with Musiq Soulchild and this great singer Laura Izibor), Homecoming Parade (with Taraji P. Henson as grand marshall), the game, and the Greek Step show (with Columbus Short as guest judge).

If y'all remember from last year when I said my step team won the competition, that started back up this year because we got to be the opening act for the homecoming Greek step show! The show theme was music throughout the years and our personal performance was a Michael Jackson tribute. It turned out really good, especially considering we had to put together a show in less than 3 months. Our ResFest show was still better though.

( 5 min homecoming show )

( Our ResFest performance, since I realized I never posted it. Circus themed )

As fun as homecoming was, I was more than glad when it ended. It was just so much work and energy doing those practices on top of classes like Organic Chemistry and Statistics. But it was a great time, and I'll def miss being around all those girls so often. I didn't believe them when the former members told us that during freshmen year. 

So anyway, it's Halloween time now. One of the best times of the year! And it looks like this one will be a bit better than last year's. We're actually going to some parties and a haunted house. Today was our on campus Halloween party so I got to don my Halloween cosplay/costume.

( I'm Nana Osaki :D )

 YAY! I now have a new mood theme, thanks to audiopineapple creating a Criminal Minds one focusing on Derek Morgan's (Shemar Moore's) sexiness. I've been waiting a long time for this. It will go great with the background hcolleen is making that will undoubtedly be amazing! 

:D

 If you had the choice to attend any British university, which would you choose and why?

I'll explain after I get a few answers, but it's for this scholarship I'm applying for.

The Mary-Sue Generator from blossomwitch .

Mary-Sue Name: Delari Foxworth
Eye Color: Smokey Azure
Hair Color: Shadowed Bronze
Signature Scent: Midnight Lillies
Paranormal Power: Teleportation
Specialize Skill: Photojournalist
Distinguishing Mark: Sexy Foreign Accent
Relationship to Major Character: Buffy's Long-lost Twin


And this from aquakittie:

My LiveJournal Sitcom
NyteKit's comb (PAX, 4:30): NyteKit (Ben Stiller) auditions for a movie starring opposite blossomwitch (Dennis Miller). In the next town over, suite_vix (Joan Cusack) tries to seduce bnrita (Roy Rogers) at a hotel. The next day, dongpeiyen1000 (Dolph Lundgren) plays chess against miskaymar (Rachael Leigh Cook), who doesn't know how. At the same time, mhmartini (Gary Coleman) takes sjisatsu (Rachel Blanchard) bowling. Later that day, mika_starlight (Jimmy Smits) teaches blueutopiah (Michael Jordan) about banana slugs. TV-G.
What's Your LiveJournal Sitcom? (by rfreebern)

I got quite the fucked up last night. Some friends and I hung out and played this drinking game. It was fun, as was the early feeling of drunkenness, but the latter throwing up bit was not. I really need to learn to eat before drinking.

But Saturday wasn't a complete waste. I participated in the DC AIDS walk that morning. It was a nice 3 mile (5K, for those outside of the States) walk. It started at 9, I was finished by 10. I'm definitely going to jog that thing next year. Still, it was for a good cause and was actually kind of fun.

Oh hey, friends list! Take this here personality quiz: Jung Personality Test and tell me what you got. I'm and INTJ. It's a pretty good one.

((Gah! Lj cut is being such an ass!!))

( Meme thing going around )

And I tag aquakittie , bnrita , dongpeiyen1000 , firefox1490 , and mhmartini

College has decidedly taken over my life since it began. And right after I've been saying I was going to do better about posting, too. But at least I'm not alone. sekahyyh and mika_starlight  seem to be in my same position.

I'm not gonna bore y'all with the school bull. That'd just be wrong. But my friends and I did go to a hookah bar for the first time last weekend. That was a nice experience. And my friends who smoke say that's just a buzzed feeling compared to being high. Makes me want to make the comparison myself.

We got a mango flavored one. bnrita  was funny, though. She didn't want to try it at first, but once she did and got to feeling it she didn't want to pass the tube around! We were all feeling real chill by the time we left that place. Walking was good and awkward for the first two minutes after being in there for about 3 hours.

And, of course, I had to look up the affects after getting back. Found out it's as bad as smoking 100 cigarettes. But I'd still do it again.

After we left the hookah bar a friend of mine came out to me and two of my other friends. She realized she was bisexual this year, but was afraid to tell us. She actually believed we would see her differently! And the thing is, we already figured that she was either gay or bi. But she had stopped hanging with us for awhile, perhaps with that being part of the reason.

I think she feels better since she's told us and we - obviously! - didn't judge her for it.

That's about all for now. If I get back online soon enough, the next post may be a political one. About Obama's healthcare reform and all that, but right now I don't feel like it. So later til whenever!


EDIT: Did any of you see that assholery Kanye West pulled at the VMA's?

Quote of the day: "All this alpha male posturing...You two really should just fuck each other...and let me watch." - "True Blood" Queen Vampire

( Also, a few back pics from the Green Day concert )

I love floor-seating.

I really needed to talk to someone about this mass levitation thing, but none of the Criss Angel groups were active, so it's forced upon you.

I'm not a huge magic or illusionist fan or anything, but I like Criss Angel. Sure he sometimes goes overboard with the stage presence thing (I mean the breathing. Come on!) but he is entertaining. I watch his show whenever I catch it, but I've been faithfully tuning in for The Five Lives of Criss Angel series this month. And so of course I was going to watch for the mass levitation demonstration tonight!

He gets down to it - the promise to levitate some viewers at home. So I decide why the hell not. Let's see if this works. I do what he says - stand up, breathe deep, close eyes, and drift. And it is this really funny feeling. Almost like I guess what it would feel like to be lighter than air. 

I did not levitate, but my arms certainly did. Of their own accord. And I think that might be what caused me to mess up. My arms started doing their own thing, floating as if held by balloons and everything, and it FREAKED ME OUT. So the rest of the time, I'm here freaking out while trying not to freak out so I can still levitate, and my head is all confused and I'm pretty much no longer calm. But the feeling of just my arms following his direction was amazing! And I'm going to find the damn video online and watch it again tomorrow and see what happens. (Would turn it on now but I have class in the morning.)

Now, I know people say levitation, walking on water, and all the other things Criss pulls are impossible, but I don't see how so. It's just mind over matter, right? Eastern cultures do that all the time. Perhaps we Westerners are just behind in the game. 

Why not believe in something beyond our imaginations?

I might be late but I haven't been online for a bit now.

Is it sad that even now, a week later, I'm still slighlty amped from that Green Day concert? I just went to their website for the first time since and I got all giddy again. I'm just sitting here thinking, 'I can't believe I saw them in concert!' And when I was there, when they first came on, I was thinking, 'I can't believe I'm here to see them in concert!'

Lol It's sad!

EDIT: And you know what I really forgot to mention? That Brad Pitt was at the concert. Yep, him and two of the kids were seated in the first level above the floor.

So I'm finally doing my update about the Green Day concert. I would've updated sooner but, as i told blueutopiahI've been working like crazy and have been too tired to type stuff up. But since I'm free now (yesterday was my last day) I can. :)

But actually, before I get to the concert, I have to tell you about the crazy friend of mine who bought her $50 ticket and DIDN'T GO. Yes, did not go. You see, she went to visit her boyfriend in Michigan about 6 weeks ago, but she was only supposed to stay for one week. Yet as time went on, she continued to say, 'oh, I'm coming back Sunday. I'm coming back Sunday.' Five Sundays have come and gone and she's still in Michigan. My other two friends and I assumed she would be back in time for the concert, if nothing else, because she and I were supposed to go while the other two chilled at my papa's house in NO. But since she didn't, please believe her ticket did not go to waste. My girl Jaisi went in place of her FOR FREE, since the ticket was already paid for.

Anyway, back to last Friday. The girls and I drove to NO - with me doing the actual driving - and arrived with about two hours to spare before the gates opened up. Jaisi and I changed and she got to be my makeup doll since she never wears makeup and I wanted her to wear some eyeshadow and liner. We went to The Arena and got hit on by these two black guys who were working traffic because we were probably the only black people they had seen arriving for the concert. It was funny, though, because they then asked us if we were coming back next week for the Lil Wayne concert and we were like...no. We like him, but not his crowd. Don't wanna die, thanks!

We get checked in with our tickets by about 7:30. The concert doesn't start til 8. But did I mention we had floor tickets? Because we did. So of course we wanted to get there early so we could be close to the stage. Which we were! Really close, like maybe 5 feet from the part of the stage that stuck out farthest into the crowd.

Their opening act was this band Kaiser Chiefs. I'd only heard one of their songs previously, but they were pretty good. I can't say I'm a fan now but they put on a great show! We got a bit extra, too, because it was their last show with Green Day so of course there were antics. Tre' Cool toilet papered them while they were on stage and the rest of the Green Day band and crew were pretty much running amok on the stage during one of the songs.

And then The Band came out! And played for 3 freakin hours straight!!! (Well worth my 50 bucks.) It was a wonderful mixture of songs, too. Like 6 or 7 from the new album, half of American Idiot, and a bunch of the old favs. I personally was too excited when they played King for A Day. That song is hilarious. In case you haven't heard it, it's about a boy dressing up in girl's clothing and saying there's nothing wrong with it. A "G.I. Joe in pantyhose." So you know the performance for it had to be lol funny. Oh, they also did a personal tribute for NO, When the Saints Come Marching In since our football team is the Saints.
 
Their entire show was on point, too. Some pyrotechnics, amazing background images on the big screen, and like the best crowd interaction I've seen. At least 6 kids actually got called up on stage to either sing, play, or - for one lucky 8 year old - to be "saved" by Billie Joe during the song East Jesus Nowhere and have her name placed in the song.

And the crowd was just like they said, a mix of all ages, from literally 2 to at least 50 years old. The 2 year old baby thing was a bit much in my eyes. Sure, show your kid music you like and everything, but don't bring a baby to this loud ass concert with all these people moshing and stage diving for 4 hours! To be fair, this fam did bring their 8-year-old daughter as well. Their decision to buy those tickets for them, I guess. There was also this cool guy we were standing next to who was an old Green Day fan. He started gettin down when the played the old hits like She, Brain Stew and Basket Case. He was cool peeps.

So yeah, in case you missed it, I loved this freakin concert. And will be seeing them again as soon as I possibly can. Not only were Green Day amazing! But the atmosphere was great, except for the necessary douchebags, of course. And if they play that long at all their shows, I will gladly dish out that $50. ...Well, more than 50, since you know I had to buy a shirt.

( Pics from before the concert. The other are on my phone and I have to transfer them to the comp since cameras weren't allowed. They'll be up soon as I can. )

EDIT 8/15 10:57pm: Can't believe I forgot to mention this but on top of the crazy concert, Green Day also super soaked the floor audience (where I was) and launched t-shirts to the audience on the 1st and 2nd levels. Not to mention a GIANT PINK RABBIT started out their show by chugging two beers. It was hilarious! Just thought about how fun those parts were because I was reading an article...

Let y'all know how the concert went after. And of course some pictures will be posted. :)

Later!