mercredi 14 décembre 2011

Food... and its complete and utter relevance to a university student.

Food.

...food

Food.


The past three days have really been food-intensive for me. First, Anaïk and I have our wine, cheese, and baguette night. The following day, Rachel and I are talking about cooking and our different food backgrounds, which then evolves into food-porn, a term that Socorro and others have never heard (crazy, right?). Yesterday (well, turning into this morning), we brought the rest of the bread in our rooms, what cheese we had, and made a little French bread-and-cheese pow-wow in the middle of the commons block.

There is always the joke that a university student will either eat anything or just scrounge for free food at every corner... and that is pretty true. Except, recently it has become that I will scrounge for any good food. I think my friends and I are becoming cheap food snobs. And you know what? I am fine with that.

The one thing I am looking forward to is cooking, is a kitchen. Christmas break, I foresee it now, will be filled with smells and steam of all sorts from the stove, the oven constantly going. I cannot tell you how many times I have uttered the phrase, "boy, I cannot wait until next year. I mean, a kitchen!" I hear people griping about how there is no meal plan, that they will need to feed themselves. I cannot imagine it any other way, I am dying for a stove now.

Honestly, I am forgetting where this post was going since the idea of food just kind of caught me off-guard. Hell, I am done with my exams, I feel pretty great. In the meantime, here are some shots that I took of raspberries, my favourite berry by far barr none.

Gosh, I could have a relationship with raspberries.

UPDATE: OH! Remember why I wrote this...
Every time I eat, my friends make a comment on how much I consume, like a vacuum. I swear, I am like a bottomless pit. Back when I had a schedule, every morning I would get up, visit the caf, load up my tray with a waffle, some fruit, a yoghourt, juice x2, a danish, and some scrambled eggs. That was my breakfast, and I was content. But, I would go through the line and look around to see trays with maybe one danish, some fruit, a yoghourt here and there. Sometimes there would be a person with like two plates, but that was rare. Then, I would come through with several plates, a bowl or two, and a couple of cups. I would feel so judged. And the reason for that story is this gif:
Yes, I am Patrick Star.

jeudi 8 décembre 2011

Maybe I should do laundry?

I currently have amassed quite a pile of dirty clothes. It is quite impressive.

Actually, both my roommate's and my side have devolved into essentially a pile of crap. My desk is barely a working surface, playing host to piles of dirty dishes; his has never been in use. Bathilda, my impressive new piece a furniture sits alongside my bed under several unidentified articles of clothing. I officially cannot get into my bottom drawer where my underwear and socks sit, but that is ok because I do not have anymore clean socks.

As a result, the amount of times I have changed clothes in the past week is disturbingly little. My toes are on the verge of frostbite, though are doing surprisingly well while walking in my flip flops because I would prefer to not go sockless with my converse. I finally took out the recycling, but that took a good two weeks and for the amount of bottles, containers, and paper products to overflow under my desk chair and my under-bed nook.

I may actually do laundry and some cleaning today, but that will be only after my roommate wakes up, which could be hours from now. It being 15:11 right now, he has almost slept a good twelve hours, which is little for him, unfortunately. I am looking forward to being able to blast ('blast' being a relative term describing the dull volume at which I listen to my relatively chill music) my music, clean up my room, put things away, and maybe start on that overdue, extra French paper I promised my professor.

In the meantime, I probably will stick with updating my blog, maybe watch a movie in about a half hour, if not continue watching Misfits or call Socorro over to watch Supernatural* with me. For my friends' sake, I hope that Sebastian, the roommate, wakes soon so I can finally get going on my day, though my expectations stay low.

That is it for now, off to my adventure-filled day...

*Supernatural is actually a pretty good television show. I started watching it because they were filming on campus, which kind of rocks. Apparently they do a lot of filming up here in "Hollywood North", already noticed Gas Town as a background for one of the scenes.

UPDATE: It is 18:01, and the roommate has left the room.

F.I.N.A.L.S.

Studying in Anaïk's room for French, we both cried out rhetorically,
"When did French get this hard?!"
It seems as though it was super simple and fun throughout the year, then BAAM, the day before, it gets crazy, insanely difficult.

P.S. As for the title, it means:
F***, I Never Actually Learned [this] Shit.

Ramblings...

When I was a kid going down highway 74, I swear I saw an Onyx on one of the cement pillars that line the highway. It was when I was about the age of either eight or ten, I cannot remember exactly, but I am, or at least was, completely certain that, while looking out the window, I saw an Onyx, the Pokémon, on a small cement pillar.

I think it was a combination of a tumblr post and watching the music video for "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root that brought back that memory. It is weird, looking back I keep thinking that "no, it could not have been. There is complete logical fallacy beyond just the thought of a Pokémon on the side of my road." I keep thinking that it would have been too large for the pillar or the face would not have been right or something. Any way, now, I am seriously doubting what I saw.

But then, I remember back to a couple months, even years, after I saw what I thought I saw, and, with complete clarity, I know that I knew that I saw Onyx. I was 100% certain. Now, this may just be the kid in me thinking that, but any how, I believe that...no, I do not know what I believe.

I never told my mum about this, as far I can recall. I know I did not tell her in that drive down. I do not know what it was, maybe just the beginning of my individualistic personality showing, the beginnings of me keeping to my own thoughts and ideas. I feel as though that I could have seen an Onyx that day if only my mum had pulled over, yet there goes my brain, again, thinking too much.

Of course I did not see an Onyx, nor, later, did I see the Dark Tower from my Digimon series as we drove down Vista Chino one afternoon. It is probably just my imagination running wild from things I was watching on the television, but what is to say it should not? Maybe seeing those things, regardless of their tangibility, was a good thing, allowing my imagination to get the better of me. I mean, hell, where would society be if great minds had no imagination?

...or maybe I should start studying for my History final. Sitting in my dark room for hours is never good for my health, but, what the hell, I will be back in the warm Coachella Valley soon when I can get a shitload of exercice outside in the sun.

jeudi 1 décembre 2011

I think I may have gone mental...

I am talking to Hannah on Facebook when I realise (with her help) how funny/bizarre this conversation/our conversations are. Here are some of the highlights:


  • Il y a 12 minutes
    David Danos
    • oh ahaha
    • internet went ouy
    • needed you to know I drooled lettuce at least.
    • I was hungry, left, replied, lost connection.
    • I AM SO LONELY
    • ^me going crazy

  • Il y a 11 minutes
    Hannah Tarver-Saunders
    • ommggg you really are :)

  • Il y a 11 minutes
    David Danos
    • IT IS SO COLD HERE
    • I HAVE FOUR PARAGRAPHS AND ZERO MOTIVATIONS

  • Il y a 11 minutes
    David Danos
    • MY SHIRT IS TOO SMALL
    • KEEP GIVING ME DRAFTS ON MAH BACK
    • (and then there is some random guy who creeped into our room, and he is AWKWARDING ME OUT!)

        • Il y a 11 minutes
          David Danos
          • So I put the lettuce in my mouth, and the lettuce was all like,
          • "No! Get me out!"
          • And I was like,
          • "STAY THE **** IN THERE! I HUNGER!"
          • Then it ran away. To my lap.
          • In response, I angrily threw the lettuce bits into the wrap paper.
            • Shit, the mother is calling.
            • *hides*

          • Il y a 9 minutes
            Hannah Tarver-Saunders
            • hahahahahahahahahah
            • can you PLEASE write on your blog
            • in your state
            • RIGHT NOW
            • and explain the whole lettuce thing
            • cause it is hilarious

          • Il y a 9 minutes
            David Danos
            • So, Frances was all like, "I am no wimp, I can stay awake all night!" to Emmet. And then she ran to her room to take a nap.

          • Il y a 8 minutes
            Hannah Tarver-Saunders
            • say hi to mommy danos :)
            • hah random? thats funny though :P

          • Il y a 8 minutes
            David Danos
            • No, I do not want to talk to the mother. I am in financial crisis! I am SO DISORGANISED!
    • But good news, it is snowing in the desert.



      UPDATE: Financial crisis just means that I have not looked into my finances in a while and need to do that ASAP, but it is not so much a crisis of the finances but a crisis of the me-being-mental. That is all. I love you mum!

      UPDATE UPDATE: This was my attempt at copying and pasting from Facebook. Err...

      UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: Just after I posted this, I ran into Elysse and Hannah. Elysse had a package with loads of tape. We all tried to get it open. I used my teeth. Next thing I hear is "I am judging you" from Matt, who happened to be on the stairs. Pictures of our attempt to open the box will be up soon.

Waking up

Last night roommate planned to be up by 09:30, I by 07:30.
Flash forward to this morning to when I roll over, look at my clock, notice it is 09:15, and get out of bed.

That is ok, because roommate still woke up two hours later than me.

This is the nature of our relationship, especially considering what time we were planning this: 03:45 last night.

Hello University, good bye sleep.