The Good Old Days

Guess I should have updated earlier about the short holiday from last weekend. Well in a nut shell; it was more action filled than relaxting.
Friday: Arrival, dinner, drinks and cabaret.
Saturday: Mud bath (at 9am), 3 hours in the spa, rifle shooting, archery, ghost walk
Sunday: Fencing, pedicure, 3 hours in the spa, cycling, murder mystery
Monday: Back massage, facial, hang around, departure.

Back to work on tuesday, which was tiring. It was a pretty uneventful week otherwise. Sadly I don't have too much to look forward these days lol.

I have been calling all over the world ever since I was put on the Cisco Systems project, this includes Saudi Arabia, Russia, South Africa, Western Europe, Pakistan, UK, and so on (obviously the reasonable time zones that can just about fit into UK business hours. So I don't ring to US or Australia).
Anyway so I have encountered a very strange phenomena that tends to occur when I call companies in South Africa. It goes something like this...
I call up
Voice: Hello
Me: Hi may I speak to...
Voice: Yea?
Me: It's Yasmin calling on behalf of Cisco
Voice: OK, hold on.
You hear the person walking away, followed by a woman coughing, in the background there is a TV or radio broadcasting the news (something about Israel and nuclear something, something about Dick Cheney, etc etc...seemingly old news).
Voice (in the background): "There's someone on the phoooone!!"
Then after more TV/Radio background noise, there is a loud high pitched hollering. It sounds a lot like a dog barking or an insane person laughing. It is quite loud, you can't have the receiver too close to your ears (first time I thought they were trying to get rid of me).
The noise subsides, followed by more broadcasting and another "There is someone on the phone, answer the phone" and a woman's voice going "the phone?"
Then a man comes closer and starts arguing with someone in a strange language.
Soon the initial voice returns to the phone and says "Hello?" to which I (first time round) respond "Yes hello?" and the voice retorts "Oh, you're still there" and disappears again. Followed by more background news broadcasting. Needless to say the whole experience is becoming more and more bizarre, so I hang up. A few calls later, the exact same thing happens with another company. Obviously I figure out the whole thing was just a long recording. But why? What is the point? Does somebody ever answer the phone or does this recording just go on and on? Is it some sort of prank to avoid callers? AHH I tried googling it but no luck.

Oh well.

( The bit where I'm complaining )

I feel like I'm letting people down at work, I'm not working at my best. Yes it's boring and I kind of hate one of the projects but then again so do many others. I should really try harder.
Only 2 days left until Sarah and I go on our little spa holiday, am very much looking forward to the massages, mud bath, pedicures, food and other fun stuff.
Have a very tight budget this month with all the various bills that needed paying (deposit, rent) and upcoming bills (phone bill, littlewoods, virgin media, gas and electric, etc etc). October should be better.
Hmmm minus the complaints, this was a slightly pointless entry I suppose! Ah well.

He's done it again. Where does one draw the line?

I'm pretty much settling into the new house. I had a slightly odd de ja vu earlier as I was lying on my bed, like I had been in this room before some time ago. Maybe it was in a dream.
Work is same as always really. I got a lot done today because I was missing on friday, so I did twice the amount of interviews.
This morning I sent in a text message to Galaxy radio which was read out! I'm not gonna bore everyone with the details again seeing as I've announced it to the rest of the world (and facebook) already.
Speaking of facebook, I actually made a call to the company today to complete one of the interviews. Unfortunately the number listed was not recognised, would have been fun!

I am dangerously close to finishing off an entire (140g) dairy milk bar. Ah dear.

I moved house on Friday, it was probably the most stressful thing I have engaged in, in a while. I must have done at least 7-9 trips walking inbetween houses, carting my stuff in bags! Thankfully Cathy helped me on the final trip which finished the move at about 6pm. I was beat. Anyway that's not very exciting (especially getting harrassed by builders everytime I walked up and down the road).
Yesterday I went back to the old house to return the keys to Helena (yes I guess I am a little sad about saying goodbye to the crazy lady). As I turn the corner of the road, I can see her giant red range rover parked outside our house...great she's already there. So much for my plans to double check everything, take down the poster from my room, and look for the virgin media account number. The door of the house is wide open, and there is Helena...chipping away at the hallway wallpaper! Most of the blue paint has been removed, newspaper everywhere, random builders painting parts of other walls. Wow, glad I left in time. She hands me some post that has come for me and takes my keys and water rates money. I don't dare to ask about my poster. I get out of there as fast as I can.
I spent the rest of the day sorting out stuff for the house. In town I get a big sheet for my double bed, two mugs for the kitchen and a bowl and pot pouri for my room (it's "Aqua something" and smells a bit like a bathroom...but that's ok...better than the musky damp smell!!).
Bought groceries, hung around, thieved internet from unsecured networks, watched a legal drama called "Damages" and that's it really.
Work tomorrow...at least it will only be for 4 days because I leave to go on a short holiday on Friday!! :D

It's a lazy day. I've just been lying out on the roof for the past hour soaking up some rays. After a while it just got too hot plus it made me sleepy (and seeing as I already slept until 11 today I did not want to run the risk of turning into a complete sloth). Work yesterday was okay. Have to do a short group presentation with some other people next week. Should be interesting - least it's something a bit different.
Watched the film Strange Days yesterday evening which turned out to be pretty good. just my kind of film really. (No I can't be arsed to explain what it is about. If anyone reads this journal they can find out Here

My landlady is in the house at the moment, I can hear her bossing around the carpenter. Poor guy.
Not much else going on in the life of Yaz, especially this weekend. When Helena leaves I shall make me another amazing coffee, maybe a sandwich and try to get something useful done.

I am going to kill the children next door. I am going to roll up a news paper and do what I've been doing to the moths that dare stick one of their eagerly beating lil wings into my room!
Not that I've been using a newspaper...I've been using the "Everything you need to know about Virgin Media" Info guide....the info guide I will be passing onto the housemate that gets the internet account when I leave. Well those moths sure made their mark in this world...or on the back of that guide at least.
Went to Tesco to get junk food (and I can't believe I'm posting even more banal stuff in here) ate 2 chocolate mousse, a bag of crisps. Bought some lunch for tomorrow (YES it's gonna be friday. There's nothing I look forward to more than having a nice long sleep in....ahh)

Did a bit of research for the project, wrote some notes, but been putting it off now since I got back from Tesco. It's difficult as I am looking at things I know absolutely nothing about. Sure the research will help my project a lot, but it's not like I can experience any of it first hand. Well if it can't be accurate, perhaps it will at least be close. Will have to hit the hay soon too so I'd better get on doing something useful.

Work has been a little bit better recently. I exceeded my target by a lot yesterday and somewhat today as well. Was trained on another project which is for the actual company itself. It's a little more interesting and also somewhat more challenging. The database I have to use for it is a complete mess but I'm sure I will get used to it soon. Also had to re-read the power point a few times to remind myself of what to say when various questions or objections arise.

I also have to move house again in a couple weeks so I have been frantically hunting for a place to live, up and down the various property listing sites online. Tomorrow evening after work I will view a 3 bedroom house and will hopefully ask the agent whether he has any more I can look at. I want to get this sorted in so that I can move in on the 3rd of September.

What else? Hmm I don't think I've updated about my 'love life' for a while but that's probably because there isn't much to update. Still feel pretty strongly for my best friend but I don't even really want anything from at him the moment either. (Well I do, but I don't see it happening so there's no point. It's just plain silly now) He's been having a really tough time lately due to illness etc, so I think it's best to just be there for him. Yeah it's all a little confusing and I don't think I've ever disclosed the nitty gritty details on here. Most of it is very old news anyway (like over a year old news...). Trying my best to move on really, just haven't found the right person to do that with yet.

Don't think there is much else going on in my life. Actually yes there is. Got an e-mail from John today (who coordinates postgrad study in the department where I did my undergrad degree), he said ( This! )

So that's definitely good news. Just a matter of being sorted for a year. Fingers crossed I'll finally get allocated a vacancy from the DWP!

Work today was extremely boring, i dialled about 400 numbers, spoke to about 150 of those, got 17 prospects. Yawn.
Now I'm eating chocolates at 71kcal per piece. Yes I'm ingesting pure fat. And loving every bite of it :D

So first day at new job today...induction was fine (funny enough one of the clients the company has had is the company my dad currently works for. Small world). I then got to listen in on someone's calls to get a feel for what I'd be doing. Then there was a half an hour office meeting before lunch time (which is held every Monday) where prizes and awards were given out for work done during the previous week (who knows maybe if I'm good enough I'll get some of those chocs/beer/wine lol). During lunch I made an effort to socialise with some of the other telemarketers who were quite friendly and welcoming. Then I was trained and got started on my calls. It's very simple but also very repetitive - all I have to do is ring up various companies and ask them if they use a credit reference agency. If they don't- thanks bye. If they do then I just need to ask them who the person in their company is in charge of managing credit, which agency they use and when it is due for renewal. Simples.
The company also has a girl's football team...which I may join (if I get me some trainers), why not! They seem to do quite a lot of other fun socials judging from the lil laser tag and go kart clippings on the notice boards. Might be interesting staying with them for a little while at least.
Right now I'm very tired and my head is aching a lot. Am craving a coffee though and need to get some work done on a project. Yawnn

...because the sun shines directly into my room this time of day, making it very very hot. I guess I could sit on my roof and do something productive.
So something very "Yasmin" happened earlier. I downloaded the entire discography of The Slackers, whom I used to listen to occasionally when I was younger (in fact I got the idea when I was reading through this journal and looking at the "listening to" sections in some posts). It's ska/reggae, pretty funky music, though a lot of it sounds alike. Anyway the song I particularly used to love was "Certain Girl" of which there are billions of versions by billions of artists. I maintain that the version by the Slackers is by far the best. Anyway so I start listening to the discography, flicking through some of the other favourites but cannot find Certain Girl for the life of me. Surely a discography would cover any song ever made by them? Apparently not. Certain Girl was a bonus track on one of their albums. Gutted. So I search the entire internet including youtube, google and what not to find this track. Finally I get on Amazon and pay £0.79 to download this song.
Worth it.

In other news, went for a quick grocery shop. It's very hot outside but lovely, in fact that roof idea is sounding more and more appealing. All I need now is a nice cold cocktail and a deck chair.
Can't wait for the Spa holiday in september. For some awesome photos of the place, see cut:

( Be jealous, be very jealous )

So I spent a great deal of yesterday and today re-reading my entire livejournal (skipping occasional parts). It was definitely interesting. Some posts made me laugh either because they were genuinely funny or silly and meaningless in some ways. Other posts were so immature they made me cringe. Some posts were sad and depressing, not to mention inducing a sense of nostalgia. The experiences depicted in most posts were unique and I regret not having kep some sort of chronolgy of the last 3 years that I spent here at university. It would have been nice to be able to reflect on even the most menial and meaningless of events. Anyway I decided to compile a small list of excerpts that I found particularly amusing from what I've read in this journal:

Posted on 9th April, 2005:
Yesterday was 'Yasmin is stupid day'! Everything went fine all day until I got to PE class. We were playing racket sports (badminton in this case) so yea Im playing against Lara and suddenly I get this damn cramp in my second toe on my right foot. SO I can't even stand, Mr Noon says 'youre dehydrated. you dont have enough potassium in your diet..' bla bla (Im never dehydrated!! what the hell...and I eat plenty of potassium/magnesium rich food...grr) so me goes to water fountain...*drink* *drink*
goes to weightroom, yea sit on the rower for 10 mins (geezus Im so unfit...I could only row 1756m in 10 minutes...well ok i took a break a few times for a few seconds)
go back to play badminton, get a cramp in second toe on my LEFT foot (lol) which lasted longer and almost didnt go away. Then went back to the weightroom. Hell Im so weak I can't lift more than 15kg with the arm pull thing (the first thingy on the right when you enter the room) So anyways.
I go home yea dinner, yea some tv, then watching 'absolutely fabolous' with my mom while making cards and I CUT MYSELF WITH A SCISSOR!! Who is dumb enough to cut themselves with a scissor?? nobody, nuh-uh except...me (whilst cleaning the blade but its not even that sharp so yeaa I went to get a bandaid and almost got a heart attack cuz my dad was in his underwear in the bathroom


Posted 10th May, 2005
When I walked home from the sbahn (around 18:30) this huge dog starts barking at me. On the other side of the road a tiny puppy barks back
Oh Lord, thank you for sending me a puppy to my rescue


Posting date unknown
Sibling are cool
Sis: You know there should be an opposite to a microwave, something that cools food down, like a cooler-wave
Me: you mean like a fridge?

Posting date unknown
Interesting:
Mom: Can you check Dad's shoe size on one of his shoes?
Me: yeah its 43, he has small feet for a guy
Mom: That's not the only thing thats small...

Posted 13th January, 2006
Mom: "My sister always makes fun of me. She made fun of my mukluks boots and said they look like Alaskan shoes because of the fur. When I told her they're in fashion she bought a pair herself. one day she went out to eat at a restaurant and a dog started humping her shoe! She sat there all evening and this dog was humping that shoe!!"

Posted 1st Febuary, 2006
Back in fifth grade, my teacher used to make us write a 'Journal', I dug it out today, hilarious what an 11 year old is concerned with. Here are some snippets 8with the original spelling and grammar mistakes included)

August 27/1998
My Family

My Family is not very big.
In my family are only 4 people.
My father is soon 39 years old.
He works by Silicon Graphics.
Yvonne is my sister, she is 9.
I am 11.
My birthday is 22 June.
My Daddy plays very often computer.
Mom often looks television.

August 28/1998
Fiesta
In Spain every year ther is a fiest.
It is called fiesta.
By fiesta time every evening people are going trouh the streets.
on afternoon ther is a parade with a queen of fiesta
Every evening we looked fore fireworks.

September 1/1998

Good Weather
When it is nice wether outside i go outside.
Sometimes when it is really hot i stay inside. I read. I now that i and my mother dont like winter.
In augaust where lots of shooting stars in the sky. As we where in spain my father often saw some. I asked him often wat he had wished, but he always said he had forget it.

Teacher: "What would you wish for when you see a shooting star?"
Response: "That i dont get sick anymore and that my parents get 100 years old and that everything in this world would be fair"

September 2/1998
My Collections
I collect a much.
I collect stickers, i have a sticker album.
I collect postcards, but I dont have much of them.
I collect also pencils.
I like to collect pictures I made.
When i begin to collect something new i collect and play with it until i found something new.

September 3/1998
In Oberhausen
We went ones to Oberhausen.
It is by Nordheim Westfalen
When we got ther we went to a large shoppingcenter. When we got ther my mother first wanted to by Amarikan food stuff.

Spetember 8/1998
Things that arent fair
1. It is not fair if i tell someone a secret and he/she is telling everyone
2. To much ore to little homework
3. I hate when boys laugf at the girls
4. it is not fair that boys push the girls
5. I dont like math
6. It is not fair that we have so little Art
7. At home it is something not fair. I told my sister i like a boy from class and she told it my mom
8. I hate to say it but its not fair that the 6-9 graders have later schoolend
9. Boys are stupid. That is what is bothering every girl.
10. It is not fair that in the Elementryschool i had no friends
11. It is not fair my sister gets 5 marks and i 6 marks a week

Can't say today is the most exciting day of the week really. Have a lot of thinking to do, about moving, about money, about jobs and what I wanna do. It's all a little chaotic at the moment.
I sort of had plans today too, at least I thought about them in my mind. I wanted to clean up my room (which I did a bit, but probably not enough) and throw away more old things I need (though I think I may have exhausted that last time I moved...I'm pretty sure I could fit all my belongings into a shopping cart at the moment...and push it around town like a hobo. I might as well.).
Sarah is visiting Brum today to go out to Snobs (bleh) with some friends. Might see her for a brief hello, can't say I am feeling the utmost sociable today.
Been watching the occasional films as per usual, nothing too exciting really. Not a lot I want to see at the moment (thought I am looking forward to Inglorious Basterds coming out...).
My lucky sister is working in House of Fraser at the moment, meaning she gets a 20% discount soon...might visit her sometime end of September or after. Obviously to see her....not just to shop... Hehe.
Did a little more work on my "project", it's all very fragmented and scattered at the moment, kind of like my thoughts. But it feels good that I am actually sticking with it at the moment and I really do hope I manage to complete it. It would be a huge achievement for me.
Had a look at my payslips from the last 5-6 weeks and can't believe the amount of tax I had to pay. I think the amount of taxes amount to about a week and a half worth of pay. Ridiculous. That reminds me of more things that need sorting out. Once I have moved and settled in I need to open a savings account and sort out insurance. Argh at this point I'd rather extend my contract in this house for another year because I really don't want to handle the stress of having to move again and sorting out deposits, first rent and so on and so on. It's just plain bad for my health lol!
I probably should have looked at more houses today but just didn't feel like it, weather is amazing though. Guess I could have sat on my roof and sunbathed but am not in the mood.
Hmm grouchy. I'd better head off.

I think pretty much everything has a logical and scientific explanation. The only thing is we may not have found the explanation for everything, nor are we yet capable of understanding everything around us. Of course it is interesting and fascinating to think there is a world beyond the physical one around us, that there are mysterys and phenomenas that cannot be explained (such as what happens after we die? Is there life beyond our own plant/universe? Is there a power superior to our own? etc etc etc). I don't believe in most of these mystical theories and find it all the more fascinating when science takes it upon itself to explain them. For example, many years ago I read an article about a scientific experiment to determine the existence of the soul. It involved recently deceased bodies and equipemnt to detect magnetic force fields around them. Indeed some energy was detected around the bodies, whether this can be referred to as the "soul" or remainder of the consciousness is questionable, but interesting nonetheless.
Let's not forget research into the "God particle", and studies aimed at comprehending how the belief systems came about to begin with (one study in an Issue of the New Scientist explained that it is both genetic and human nature to believe in a higher force).
I guess we should remember that the bulk of these studies are founded on theories and assumptions and cannot be taken at face value. I do believe everything can be explained but I dont believe everything HAS been explained. However I look forward to finding out.

...in the life of Helena, the nutty landlady's antics. Today the carpenter showed up at 9 o'clock to exchange our old doors for "new" ones (mine was the priority because it had no lock to begin with). Because Helena didn't show up, he started working on my door but soon realised she was needed. The doors were not new, they looked like scrap wood and all were too narrow to fit in the downstairs frame.
After a phone call, she turns up with an additional door (my housemate and I are starting to wonder where she has been getting all these doors to the point where we guessed she either is some sort of bizarre door hustler, or she has made a door herself out of the tree she cut down the other week). Not to mention when the semi-attractive carpenter asked me this morning if he "got me out of bed" (I was in my Pjs and glasses) I misunderstood him...and flushed a bit. Haha.

Aside from the mystery of the origin of the doors, not a lot has happened this morning. It's a lovely sunny day and I was planning on visiting my friend Gurps in Leamington today. However I still have a bit of a migraine, so thought it best to stay in for a bit longer. Fun times.

I may have a wander in the sun later on and collect the post from my previous address, there's bound to be a pretty sizeable stack!

5 minutes later:
Helena just locked me and herself in my room to ensure the lock was functioning properly. Scariest 10 seconds of my life.

( Later in the Day )

...since my last post, and something ridiculous like a year since the one before that. When did blogging go out of style? Maybe it didn't and I just got bored of it like I got bored of myspace and various other internet-socialising. (Maybe I just got a life....or a Facebook account).
Life has been turbulent as always. I haven't had a permanent home for 3 years now and I am moving again end of August...hopefully for a longer period of time. I have just finished working in a call centre for 6 weeks. Initially I thought it would be the most rubbish job anyone could possibly have, but surprisingly I had quite a bit of fun doing it. My job was to call retailers and buyers at the German electronics chain stores (Media Markt, Saturn, Expert basically the equivalents to Comet and PC World in the UK) and ask them their opinions about Philips products. Some conversations were highly amusing (one respondent asked me whether I'm not appalled by the ugly Samsung exteriors...seeing as I'm a women...and should like pretty things. Nice). as were the names. Of course I cannot disclose all this in public, but lets say I had the occasional giggle in my opening lines (I believe on respondent's name literally translated meant "Mr Gross-man").

Soooo the last few days have been a drag. Because it is the end of the project with barely any interviews left to do, there are few contacts left in the system - which means I sat around from 9-5 on tuesday swivelling around in my chair because my computer said "no interviews left for you...log out?"....yes rejected by a PC screen...this is what it's come to! So while swivelling and wishing I had brought my Sudoku book, or my codewords book, or my crosswords book, or my word search book (yes I was anticipating boredom when I bought the entire tesco puzzlebook collection) I became so desperate I bought a Pukka Pad from tesco in my break...so I would be able to DOODLE on larger pages than the little notebook I used for interview transcripts!! Anyway luckily some work was found, I got to monitor previous calls and grade them (fun..listening to my own voice and judging how well I dealt with the respondent and if I "build enough rapport"...yeah.).
Yesterday I helped on a different language project. I translated an introduction for a questionnaire done on behalf of GE and PII Pipeline Solutions (yeah I have no clue either who they are or what they do...PII that is...not General Electric). Someone else did the interview, I then got to transcribe and translate it. The highlight of that was the English translation for a technical term called "Mulche"...which apparently means "pigs" in English. I hope research wont fire me for putting the translation down as "we had to get through the pigs in order to complete our evaluation..." or something like that.
Sooo new call centre, new company on Monday. Might stay there for a few months until I figure out what else to do with my life right now.

( Everything else in the life of Yas )

There are so many different kinds of entries. Who would think each entry could belong into some sort of category. When I read through older journal entries I discover a pattern.

1. Writing in 2nd person. "I hate you. You stink. you you you" when obviously adressing someone. In unfortunate circumstances the "dedication" becomes rather obvious and in some cases leaves blog readers tres confused.

2. The "writing down random lyrics from random songs that either portray the way the writer is feeling or try to evoke some form of reaction". This is self explanatory

3. The "look at how eloquent I am" post. Normally this may consist of copying and pasting any form of written work, posting while drunk or plain trying to hard. (I found a number of these in my journal. Tis amusing. sometimes..)

4. The pointless entry. You post in your blog for no reason. Your life is boring, you have nothing to tell, no lyrics to flood friends pages with so you post something along the lines of "man. Dunno why Im posting this. Nothing much is new. Same ol same ol. Yesterday I had breakfast, dinner and lunch. Oddly enough I did the same thing the day before. Now its raining. Oh man. Now I will have lunch and I bet you, dear readers, Im gonna have dinner later!!!!!!!!"

5. The EXCITING NEWS post. This is one of the few types that can be worth reading. often characterised by bold and large writing

6. The picture post. Can be interesting. But in many cases leads to "0 comments" or "yeah. cool pics"

7. the entry that starts with "wow I havent written in ages.." and either trying to squeeze the last 6 months into one post or completely ignoring the matter and continuing with whatever boring occurrences of that particular day.

8. The Review post. book, films, songs, friends...you get it.

9. The gossip post. Often characterised by using names and people that none of the readers know or care about. Though sometimes evoking a "gasp" and "he/she DID NOT" comments include "wait who is so and so?" and "boys/girls suck" (that one always works)

10. The boast post. "I got top scores" "everybody loves me" yadda yadda. Admittedly theres a few of these in my journal too. but hey who doesnt want a bit of recognition from time to time?

11. The questionnaire post. This is a sub-category of the pointless entry. You are posting just for the sake of posting. So that YOUR entry will appear on your friends pages as if to say "hellooo guess who came along to the party too?". Questionnaire posts are a great boredom combatting technique. Dont knock em!

12. the list post. ehh yeah self explanatory again

13. the joke post. This is when you attempt to entertain your friends with a joke, funny picture, maybe a personal embarrassing experience, etc. These can be quite useful too.

14. The top secret post. You know, the one you let your close friends read and then you "private" it. Sometimes it will go straight to private as a reminder to self of any nature (a la "dont do this again" or "never forget...")

15. The honest post. Pouring your heart out or throwing a fit. It can be dangerous if the wrong people read it. A risk you gotta take with journal-ing


Im not trying to be funny. Really. Maybe this is a list post. Or a look how eloquent post. Or maybe just a plain pointless post. Who knows.

I started work yesterday. I managed to successfully translate a german 73 page document (yes technical stuff). I did this from home but might be heading down to the office sometime next week. What else, I think I already moaned on about the essays and stuff.

Thursday I was at a CivSoc pubquiz (note this is about the 6th civil engineering social Ive been to. Im seriously thinking of joining CivSoc next year just because it might just pay off...) and my team came in last!! We each received a wonderful spatula for that lol. Oh wells.

Speaking of Civsoc-ers...actually I wont bother to moan about that either. Im single and being single is good. right?

So my flight turns out to be at 3 something tomorrow instead of 9 like I originally thought. It kinda sucks in a way, because that means I wont be back at uni until about 6ish but oh well. Since microeconomics is over I onloy have one lecture monday morning and the rest of the day off (which I will probally be spending at Tesco this monday, hahaha)
I also packed most my stuff, still have to squeeze in some laundry which is drying currently. My mom gave me 2 bread mixes, a bread form, austrian mustard and jalapenos (and a flueorescent condom). yayness. Unfortunately I cant take a ball-dress like I originally inteded for the Social Sciences & Engineering Ball in March so Ill either not go or buy a new dress (the latter could be costly as the ball is already about 40 pounds as is. but its a major event. probally the best one of the year. Oh decisions decisions).

Also I discovered that my coat DOES have pockets but on the inside. hallelujah because Id hate to put my wallet in a rucksack. Annnd what else. Nothing I suppose.
Adios