Nerds Don't Need Sleep

It's only Wednesday, and I keep thinking it's the end of the week. I'm so tired I could fall asleep right now, and it's not even 6:30... I keep waking up in the middle of the night thinking it's time for me to get up for class because I'm afraid I'm going to sleep through my class. I used to do that all the time in high school. I would set two alarms, but I don't want to wake up my roommate. I think I need to chill out a little, but I can't help it. I know nothing extremely awful would if I missed class once, but I'm still too terrified to risk it. That's how much of a nerd I am sometimes.
Also lately, I feel sick to my stomach all the time. I honestly think it's the food here because I never feel this sick at home. Our cafeteria is making me want to die. I can't sleep or eat like a normal person right or even socialize. The only thing I can do is my homework, and only after much procrastination. I should be writing a reflection right now, but I'm avoiding by blogging instead. At least my dad is coming this weekend so at least I have something to look forward to. 

No Bowling

Last night, I had a very fun and interesting adventure with my friends. My one friend Natasha and I almost always go out and do something on Friday. So yesterday her idea was to go bowling because her boyfriend in Georgia was going bowling. We invited Brandon to go with us too because we tried to get him to go somewhere with us last time, but we ended up leaving him behind semi by accident. We also decided to invite his roommate, Dennis, who is also our new friend since we play video games in his room all the time. Normally, when we invite Dennis to go somewhere with us he says no, so it was a pretty big deal when he agreed to go with us.
Anyways, we all get on the bus to go bowling, and we had some difficulty figuring it out but not much. We get to the bowling alley after about an hour or so of being on the bus. The guy comes out of the door to ask if we have our ID's. Natasha didn't check to see if the bowling alley was 21 and over before we left. So we walk away and go into Chipotle because Natasha loves it there, and everyone was hungry. We end sitting at Chipotle for an hour and a half before deciding to go to the movies two blocks away. We go to see The Revenant in this really cool theater. The Revenant was two and a half hours long, so we didn't get out of the theater until about 9:30, but we ended up getting back to campus at 10:30. Dennis made fun of The Revenant while we were waiting at the bus stop it was pretty funny even though I did like the movie.
On the bus, Natasha asks this guy to take our picture with her polaroid, and Dennis' face gets covered by the pole, so you can only see part of his face. All in all it was pretty good night. We had a lot of fun even though all our plans fell through, but I suppose that's what made it more fun.

MLK Weekend

Saturday morning, I was woken up by a lockdown instead of an alarm or just on my own. My roommate wasn't here, so I was in my room by myself. I had to, of course, put my blinds down, one set I had to hold in place while letting the blinds down otherwise they fell down. Although no one from the ground can even see into my room. The whole thing kind of freaked me out because I'm not used to having real lockdowns. We just had drills at my high school, nothing ever happened there really. Also I had no idea what the lockdown was for, so that kind of makes it worse. The texts they sent just said that the police were on campus and that was it. I found out later that an armed person was running from the cops through our campus. They arrested him after the lockdown was over.
After lunch that day, my friend and I went downtown so I could a second piercing on my ears. The lady who pierced my ears was sneaky she asked me if I wanted a countdown and I told her no. So right before she was about to pierce my ear she said, "You said no countdown, right," and just as I was about to say right she pierced it.
I decided this weekend that I'm probably going to get a tattoo. I had wanted this one specific tattoo when I was in high school, but my friends hadn't liked it so I had decided against. I told my friends about the tattoo I wanted, and they liked it, so I think I'm going to get it, depending on how much it costs. I would get the F-holes on the violin tattooed on my back to make it look like a human violin. I think it would be cool, and I love the violin, so it works for me. If I don't become a musician, I'll at least always play the violin, so it won't be like I'm getting a tattoo of something that doesn't mean anything to me. 

Palehound

Today, I had a good day. I went to work for only an hour. I got up and went to Music Theory today because we're not having it on Monday. My class that I normally have was cancelled today, so after Music Theory I went back to bed, and then went to work afterwards. A group of my friends and I went to Petco and Fred Meyer's. I navigated us from Petco to Fred Meyer's and then back to campus. It wasn't really that hard because I have a secret app that I didn't tell them about. We also played Super Smash Bros again tonight. We've been quite frequently, and I won most of the time tonight only because Daniel wasn't playing.
Tomorrow my one friend and I are going to get Mexican food after I'm done with work which I'm kind of excite about. I get to eat something from off campus. I don't really like having to eat on campus all the time. The food gets really repetitive, really fast. I can't wait until next year when I don't have to have a meal plan or have to live on campus.
I also recently discovered this band called, Palehound, not a huge fan of the name, but Ellen Kempner is pretty fucking awesome. I love her guitar playing, it's amazing! Also her songs are funny. I can't wait for her to come to Seattle. I think my friend and I are gonna go to her concert. I'm pretty excited because it will be the first concert I've been to in awhile besides the orchestra concert, and the ones we have here on campus.

Vomit and Video Games

Yesterday, my grandma emailed at 2:30 in the morning. I guess I know where I get my insomnia, it must run in the family. She asked me if I had just cashed a check that she had given me in 2010. I told her I had because I just found it in my room when I was cleaning it. I found it before I left for college, but I didn't cash until Christmas Break.
Last Friday, my friend and I were downtown waiting for the bus to get back to campus. While we were standing there this guy runs past us to throw up in the street right in front of us. It was probably the grossest thing ever. My friend said he was drunk because she could smell the booze on his breath. I was lucky enough to not get a whiff that awful scent. Once we got on the bus though, it was packed, probably because it was around 5, so everyone was just getting off work. Although we passed this bar, and it was already full of people at about 4:30. We passed Key Arena, and I caught a glimpse of the new site for KEXP. I'm so excited for it. I'm going to go there once it's finished.
All weekend I ended up playing Super Smash Bros a lot. We played for 3 hours on Friday and Saturday we played it again as well as Game and Wario which was a lot more fun than I was expecting. On Sunday we played Super Smash Bros again. I also played League of Legends Saturday. I was about to go to bed when my friend snapchatted me and asked me to play one game with her and her boyfriend. I sucked miserably, but I haven't played it that much, and I was super tired, and my mouse wasn't working. I have multiple reasonable excuses as to why I suck at video games.

Good Start for 2016

Today is my first day back for winter quarter. I almost didn't get here last night because the weather back home was really bad. It snowed the day before I had to leave, and it was super icy on top of that. I took the train to Seattle from Portland. It was nearly as nice as the trip from Seattle to Portland. I actually had to sit next to someone, and there weren't any tables just those drop down trays that planes have. It felt a lot like a plane to be honest. I really hope my trips in the future will be more like my trip down to Portland. Luckily, the train arrived exactly on time in Seattle because I had to catch the bus 8 minutes after the train was scheduled to arrive to get back to campus. When I went to Portland the train was about 10-15 minutes late because we had to let a freighter pass us before we could get to the station.
I've only had one class so far today, but I still have orchestra and music tech to go to later today. In my 8 AM today this guy said, "hello," but my friend and I couldn't tell if he was talking to us. He just kind of said it to the room, and then looked at us. It was kind of weird. He then sat down a few seats away from us. I also learned that a girl from floor has music tech with me later today which I'm super happy about it. I was really worried I wasn't going to know anyone in that class. It kind of feels like I'm in high school when I'm concerned about who's going to be in my classes and who's not, but it's also not surprising with my levels of anxiety. I think I'll have less anxiety this quarter though because I know more people, and I have almost the same schedule as last quarter since I was taking prerequisites for the classes I have now.
Nine Inch Nails is kind of my new obsession right now which is kind of perfect timing since he has a new album coming out this year. The Head and the Heart should hopefully have an album coming out this year as well as the Lumineers and the Avett Brothers, so I'm super stoked for those too. This year I think is going to be a good year which is what I need, one good year.